The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 14:00 EST

I've been patiently yet anxiously dreading this moment. It is the end of Stranger Things. This is the show that started back in 2016. We get to watch these teenagers fighting supernatural forces. Now it's beginning its fifth and final season this week on Netflix. On Commotion, I talked to some of the smartest TV critics I know about all things, Stranger Things, and about how this show transformed the way that we watch television.

For this episode and more, you can find and follow Commotion with me, Alameen Abdul Mahmoud, on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Ottawa and Alberta have signed a massive energy deal. The agreement eliminates a federal emissions cap on the oil and gas sector and offers Alberta political support for building a pipeline to the West Coast. David Thurton reports.

Signed it in, look up. Okay, that's it. My work's done. Daniel Smith and Mark Carney signing a memorandum of understanding on energy. It commits the Alberta Premier and the Prime Minister to building large transmission lines between British Columbia and Saskatchewan thousands of megawatts of AI computing power and the world's largest carbon capture utilization storage project. And more controversially, one or more privately financed bitumen pipelines.

At the core of the agreement, a priority to have, a pipeline to Asia. The agreement states the pipeline and the carbon capture project must proceed together. If one doesn't, the other doesn't. Ottawa agreed to remove the oil and gas emissions cap and to suspend net zero electricity rules pending new agreement on industrial carbon pricing. David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. The Quebec government has tabled a bill putting more limits on religious practices in public.

It bans prayer spaces in universities and prohibits post-secondary students from covering their faces while at school. The bill also adds daycare workers to the list of public servants banned from wearing religious symbols like hijabs, and it prohibits public institutions from exclusively offering menus based on a religious tradition like kosher or halal. The suspect accused of critically injuring two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., had ties to U.S. intelligence. Ramanula Lackinwal entered the U.S. in 2021 under a program for Africa, who assisted American troops in Afghanistan. Officials say he worked for a partner force of the CIA.

The U.S. attorney for D.C. says Lackenwall drove all the way from Washington State with the intent to commit a crime. Janine Piro says the suspect faces charges of assault with the intent to kill. This was not just an attack. It was a direct challenge to law and order in our nation's capital. My message to the individual who committed these acts is you pick up. the wrong target, the wrong city, and the wrong country. And you'll be sorry. Immigration officials say they're now reviewing all asylum cases approved under the Biden administration. Smoldering debris and collapsed scaffolding are complicating rescue efforts at the fire that's

consumed several Hong Kong apartment towers. At least 83 people are dead and hundreds of others remain unaccounted for. The exact cause of the inferno is still unknown. Patrick Foke reports. As night fell the second day after the fire at the Wang Feng quarter state broke out, firefighters were still putting out flames inside the building blocks. Authorities say the blaze has been brought under control, but hundreds of residents remain missing. Rescuers are pushing through to reach the remaining units. Meanwhile, those unable to return to their homes are spending another night in temporary shelters.

One person named Jiang said she didn't expect us to last so long. She says some of the people she knows that the estate have nothing left but the clothes they're wearing. Police have arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter. They worked for a company involved in the renovations on the buildings. Out officials say gross negligence may be to blame for the rapid spread of the blaze. Authorities are carrying out inspections at other buildings under renovation to see a bamboo scaffolding and mesh materials meet fire retardant standards. Patrick Falk, the CBC News, Hong Kong.

France is launching a new voluntary military program. President Emmanuel Macron says it will train thousands of volunteers aged 18 and 19 starting next year. They'll be paid to serve for 10 months in France and in its overseas territories but will not take part in military operations abroad. After that, they'll become part of the Army Reserve. The program is part of France's response to Russian military aggression. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.