World Report - November 16: Sunday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

The 112th annual Grey Cup goes down tonight in Winnipeg. RCMP issue shelter-in-place order after guns were taken in northern Alberta robbery.Zelensky vows energy sector overhaul after $100m corruption scandal.People in Chile vote in presidential election.Tens of thousands rally in Manila over corruption scandal that implicates top Philippine officials.Dive team in Lake Ontario makes extraordinary discovery of century-old ship wreck.

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This is World Report. Good morning, I'm John Northcott. Well, it is game day in Canada. The 112th annual Grey Cup goes down tonight in Winnipeg. The city's getting ready. The Montreal Alouettes are taking on the Saskatchewan Rough Riders. The CBC's Gavin Axelrod takes us there. Paul Joscoe and Jimmy Curry are on a mission.

Get tickets to the Grey Cup for free. or well below face value. We've been coming to Grey Cups since 2008, and we come without tickets, and I have this sign, and we always seem to get tickets. They're hoping to see the big game between the Saskatchewan Rough Riders and Montreal Alouettes in Winnipeg. Saskatchewan is looking to win its first Grey Cup since 2013. Riders fan Dan Petroski wants to see his team win the CFL's biggest prize

on the home turf of the rival Winnipeg Blue Bombers. That would be awesome, because we wanted to come here for the Grey Cup. in Winnipeg, and we will win in their town. Go, owls, go! Go! Go! Owls! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Alouettes fan Matheson Walker hopes, his team will win the Grey Cup for the second time in three years. You know, the CFL writers, I think they all picked Saskatchewan to win. Just like two years ago, they all picked Winnipeg to win, and the Alts pulled through. So I think the owls do well with a bit of adversity, and I think that's really going to fuel them up.

Some other potential adversity, quarterback Davis-Alexander has been dealing with a nagging hamstring injury. He says he's good to go. That's good news for Montreal because he's never lost a CFL game he's played. Manitoba, the host province, is also hoping to catch in on the festivities. Great Cup Week is estimated to bring in $90 million. Gavin Axelrod, CBC News, Winnipeg. We have an update regarding the dangerous persons alert in northern Alberta. The shelter-in-place order for peerless trout First Nation has been lifted. RCMP say they believe the three armed suspects have left the immediate

area, this following an extensive search overnight. The three individuals are wanted in connection with a robbery at a business on Friday where multiple firearms were stolen. After that robbery, the suspect shot at a civilian in the area. Police located the suspects last night, but they fled on foot near Peerless Trout First Nation. Suspects are still considered armed and dangerous. To Ukraine, where President Vladimir Zelensky is struggling to contain a major corruption scandal, He's promising to overhaul state-owned energy companies after anti-corruption officials found over $100 million was stolen through war profiteering. Some of those implicated have close ties to Zelensky. Julia Chapman reports.

President Zelensky says Ukraine needs to be resilient this winter. With every Russian strike on a power plant, that becomes more difficult. The Ukrainian leader says he's struck a deal with Greece, to import gas, which will help to compensate for losses. But the country faces internal challenges, too. A corruption scandal in the energy sector was uncovered this week, leaving Ukraine reeling. The country's anti-corruption office says a group of senior officials took kickbacks from energy contracts. It alleges that a hundred million US dollars was stolen and laundered. Andrew Rusulus is a fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He says the scandal is demoral.

liberalizing Ukrainians. People are saying, what's this all about? What are we fighting about? People are just putting money in their pockets. Zelensky says a reset of state-owned energy companies is underway, including new management and full audits. But there are concerns about the impact the scandal will have on support for Ukraine. Inesovson is a Ukrainian opposition MP. It does raise questions about how the donors and the partners will deal with Ukrainian authorities and what conditionalities that might place on providing further support to fame. Zelensky is working to reassure his allies

and shore up some of that support. Julia Chapman, CBC News, London. People in Chile are heading to the polls for a pivotal presidential election today where for the first time in decades, voting is mandatory. It's a change that's expected to throw major uncertainty into the race that's shaping up to be a left-right showdown.

Marie Armel-la-Fouré reports from Santiago. This voter says Jeanette Harrah is his choice for president. Hara is a communist candidate representing a coalition on the left. Her main rivals are not one, but two populist candidates on the far right. In this battle between extremes, the main issues are the same. So across the board, there seems to be a consensus that crime and immigration are a challenge that needs to be dealt with. Robert Funk teaches political science at the University of Chile. He says voters and candidates have linked the rise in illegal immigration

to the rise in violent crimes. Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Caste has campaigned on a program of law and order. He told his supporters this week that the changes Chile so desperately needs will begin on Sunday night. Hava responded that the left are not the ones promoting hate, and she mocked her rival for hiding behind a protective glass screen during his rallies. The country's obsession with crime is in part more perception than reality, according to Funk. The types of crime are what have changed dramatically.

We are now much more exposed to drug gangs. While international drug gangs and organized crime have gained a foothold in Chile, statistics show the overall crime rate is down, but that perception is slowing foreign investment in the country and is expected to weigh heavily on voters' minds. Marie Armel Laforay, for CBC News, Santiago. A massive rally taking place today in the Philippines capital, tens of thousands of people taken to the streets of Manila

demanding government accountability over allegations of corruption. It involves the country's flood control projects and allegations of high-level politicians receiving kickbacks to secure lucrative contracts. Reporter Dave Grunabom joins us now from Manila. Dave, let's talk about. about these allegations at the center of all of this? Well, it's come out in hearings and the ongoing investigation that lawmakers have earmarked money into the national budget for flood control

projects and then steered those projects towards particular private contractors who've been paying off the lawmakers. But in addition to that, the people are supposed to be monitoring these projects to make sure they're done appropriately. Often engineers in the Department of Public Works or highways department, they've been getting paid off to look the other way. So what you end up having happen here is that you've got some projects according to investigators that have been marked as complete are nowhere near complete. Others are substandard and some project market is complete are not even started. We've got ghost projects. And those are some of the many reasons why so people are furious about this because we're talking about, according to investigators,

billions of dollars siphoned off for flood control projects to line the pockets of dirty people according to new investigators. So, Dave, how does this all play out in terms of the country's leadership? Well, you've got the two rival camps at the top. The president, Ferdinard Marcos Jr., up against his vice president, Sarah Duterte, the daughter of Ferdinandar Marcos Jr.'s predecessor, Roder Duterte. And what Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s camp is trying to do is they're trying to keep the focus on everyone connected to this scheme, to this scandal.

Anyone who's aligned with Sarah Duterte, they're trying to keep, the focus on them. And then you've got the reverse with the Duterte can. Anyone who's connected to the scandal that's aligned or been an ally of Fernando Marcos Jr. They're trying to keep the focus on those people. You've got these two sides trying to battle out in this information war, which side is going to come out on top and pull the public opinion down the road is really hard to say at this point. Dave Grunabom speaking to us from Manila. Dave, thanks.

Thank you. And finally, a dive team in Ontario has made an. extraordinary discovery. While searching for one century old wreck, they found a much older one resting about 100 meters down in Lake Ontario. Colin Butler reports. I don't think anyone has ever been on it. That's veteran exploration diver Heisen Chack talking about the discovery, a ship frozen in time resting silently, 100 meters below in Lake Ontario. I think we are the first group, and that joy was just overwhelming. The mystery began in 2017, when a fiber optic cable survey between Buffalo and Toronto spotted an unusually large object.

That caught the attention of Trent University Professor James Connolly. He thought it might be the Rapid City, a two-masted schooner built in 1884 and lost in 1917. But when Chack surfaced, Connolly says the images told a different story. This is different than what we thought it was. This is something else. Rope rigging, an early non-patent winless design, both mask, still standing top masks intact. All hints this vessel could predate the rapid city by decades. A rare link to a period of shipbuilding where technology changed rapidly and record keeping was poor. For now, it rests in silence near Toronto, a rare time capsule just waiting to tell its story. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario.

And that is the latest national and international news from World Report News. including more on Colin's story on that shipwreck cbcnews.ca.ca. I'm John Northcott. This is CBC News.