The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 15:00 EST

Hi there, Steve Patterson here, host of the debaters, the show where Canada's funniest comedians compete for your laughter. This week's episode is right on cue, is pool superior to darts? Two sharpshooting debaters are taking this one on, so listen wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. We begin in Calgary. Great day for Alberta. It's a great day for Canada. That's Prime Minister Mark Carney, right before signing a memorandum of understanding with the province. It lays out how Ottawa will facilitate the construction of a pipeline from Alberta's

oil patch to BC's northern coast. At the core of the agreement, of course, is a priority to have a pipeline to Asia. That's going to make Canada stronger, more independent, more resilient, more sustainable, because the way we're going to do that is, in combination with the Pathways project, which will be the largest carbon capture project in the world. The agreement stresses that the pipeline will be privately constructed and financed and lays out the intention for indigenous co-ownership. Ottawa has also agreed to suspend a proposed oil and gas emissions cap. Still, both governments say they are committed to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Meanwhile, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs says it's calling the energy deal deeply irresponsible. It says the deal was negotiated without

the involvement of coastal First Nations and it's calling on the federal government to clarify its intentions on the federal tanker ban. The Quebec provincial government has tabled a bill that would limit praying in public and expand the ban on public servants wearing religious symbols. Religious and civil liberties groups are calling it an attack on minorities. Alison Northcott has the details. The Quebec government tabled Bill 9 in the National Assembly this morning, saying it will reinforce religious neutrality in Quebec.

We are simply moving from. forward slowly. Jean-François-Roberge is Quebec's minister responsible for secularism. Because we think that when the state is neutral, Quebecers are free. The bill expands on previous legislation, which banned some public sector workers from wearing religious symbols. That rule now applies to any newly hired public daycare workers, too. Those already employed are exempt. Maria English, who runs five daycares, is worried about the impact on staffing. A religious symbol is not determined how you will be.

be with the children. So it will take away some very nurturing educators. The bill will also ban prayer rooms at colleges and universities and forbid religious practices in public spaces like parks unless municipal permission is granted. Alison Northcott, CBC News, Montreal. A former grade 8 teacher from Port Hope, Ontario, who pleaded guilty to sex crimes, has been sentenced to four years in prison. 41-year-old Kelly Ann Jennings pleaded guilty earlier this month to six charges involving three boys. The charges included child luring, invitation to sexual touching, and making child sexual abuse and exploitation material.

Additional charges, including sexual assault, were stayed at the Crown's request. And U.S. officials say the man accused of shooting two National Guard members in D.C. had ties to the CIA. The suspect originally from Afghanistan served in an elite counterterrorism unit in that country than had the backing of U.S. intelligence. Rafi Bucci Kenyan shares more. These are dedicated service members. Janine Puro, the U.S. Attorney for D.C., informing a country on Thanksgiving holiday, two of its National Guard, will be unable to celebrate. They have undergone surgery.

We pray for their well-being. Piero says the shooting victims are Sarah Bextram and Andrew Wolfe, 20 and 24 years old, enlisted less than a day ago. She says the suspect, Ramanula Lakanwell, lives in Washington State on the West Coast and alleges he drove across the country with, plans for an attack. FBI director, Cash Patel, says investigators have searched his home. We will not stop until we interview anyone and everyone associated with the subject. Official Sala Kanwal is an Afghan migrant who moved to the states four years ago under the

Biden administration's special measures for Afghans who helped the U.S. military during the war. U.S. media have reported he obtained his asylum status this year. Rafi Bucan. On CBC News, Washington. And that is the world this hour. For news any time, you can always visit our website, cbcnews.ca.ca. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilvery.