The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: November 27, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/11/27 at 17:00 EST

You may have heard of the sex cult nexium and the famous actress who went to prison for her involvement, Alison Mack. But she's never told her side of the story, until now. People assume that I'm like this pervert. My name is Natalie Robamed, and in my new podcast, I talked to Alison to try to understand how she went from TV actor to cult member and what she thinks of it all now. How do you feel about having been involved in bringing sexual trauma at other people? I mean, I don't even know how to answer that question. Alison, after nexium from CBC's on cover, is available now, wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey.

We begin in Calgary. That's Prime Minister Mark Carney right before signing a memorandum of understanding with the province. It offers Ottawa's political support for the construction of a pipeline from Alberta's oil patch to the BC Northern Coast. The agreement stresses that the pipeline will be privately condemned. instructed and financed and financed and lays out the intention for indigenous co-ownership. Ottawa has also agreed to suspend a proposed oil and gas emissions cap. That rollback of environmental protections has already cost Mark Carney a cabinet member.

CBC News has learned that the current Minister of Canadian Identity and former Environment Minister, Stephen Gilbo, is quitting his cabinet post. He'll stay on as a Liberal MP. Gilbo was a proponent of strong environmental regulations in the Trudeau government and a frequent target of criticism by Alberta's Premier. There's also strong reaction to this coming from British Columbia. Premier David Eby points out that BC has the most nation-building projects identified so far. He says he's worried the pipeline proposal will divert attention from stronger projects that are ready to go.

We need to make sure that this project doesn't become an energy vampire. With all of the variables that have yet to be fulfilled, no proponent, no root, no money, no First Nation support, that it cannot draw limited federal resources away from the real projects. The Union of BC Indian Chiefs is also calling the energy deal, quote, deeply irresponsible. It says the deal was negotiated

without the involvement of coastal First Nations. US 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 that had the backing of U.S. intelligence. Rafi Bucci Canyon reports.

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. Puro 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 Lacanwal, 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. Officials say La Conwall 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 Wichikan, on CBC News, Washington. 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 still remain unaccounted for.

The exact cause of the inferno is still unknown. Patrick Folk reports. As night fell the second day after the fire at the Wang Fung Court of 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 this 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, and 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 sea of bamboo scaffolding and mesh materials meet fire retardant standards. Patrick Falk for CBCC News, Hong Kong. That is the world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We have paid every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilvery.