The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 16:00 EST

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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 has more. Signed it in, we'll cut. 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 cover their faces while at school. The bill also adds daycare workers to the list of public servants ban from wearing religious symbols like hijabs, and it prohibits public institutions from exclusively offering menus based on a religious tradition, like kosher or halal.

A former grade 8 teacher in Ontario has been sentenced to four years in prison for sex crimes against her students. Kelly Ann Jennings pleaded guilty earlier this month after admitting to sending explicit images to teenage boys. Thomas Degg has more. Officers in Coortha Lakes, Ontario immediately took Kellyanne Jennings into custody and ushered her out of the courtroom. Just moments after a judge handed her a four-year sentence, saying the impact of having a child perform sexual acts on camera for the gratification of an adult is severe. Jennings admitted she used Snapchat to send nude pictures and videos of herself to three of her former students in

2023 when the boys were 14 or 15 years old. She then demanded they sent her explicit images and two of the victims agreed. The 41-year-old was suspended at first, then fired earlier this month from her teaching job in Port Hope, east of Toronto,

after pleading guilty to six charges including invitation to sexual touching. One victim's mother said the emotional scars of this abuse will follow my son for the rest of his life. Thomas Daggle, CBC News, Toronto. The suspect accused of critically injuring two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., had ties to U.S. intelligence. Ramanula La Canwa entered the U.S. in 2021 under a program for Afghans 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 Lacanwal 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 picked the wrong target, the wrong city, and the wrong country, and you will be sorry. Immigration officials say they're now reviewing all asylum cases approved under the Biden

administration. More than 80 people are now confirmed dead in Hong Kong. Kong following the most devastating fire in the city in decades. The inside layout is very compact because the scaffolding is collapsed. Deputy Director of Fire Services, Ka Wing Wang, says the operation is difficult and slow going. He says temperatures are still too high to access all floors of the buildings, but firefighters have rescued some of those trapped inside. Hundreds of other people remain missing. Officials accused the company in charge of building renovations of violating

safety codes. And that is the world this hour. From CBC News, I'm Kate McGilfrey.