Your World Tonight - 112th Grey Cup, U.S.-Venezuela tensions, TB outbreak in Edmonton, and more

Episode Date: November 16, 2025

It's the biggest night in Canadian football - as more than 30,000 fans watch the Saskatchewan Roughriders take on the Montreal Alouettes in the CFL's 112th Grey Cup. You'll hear about the rivalry between the two teams, as well as the CFL's recent rule changes and Prime Minister Mark Carney's appearance at the game.Also: The arrival of the U.S. military's largest aircraft carrier in the Caribbean is raising questions about whether military action is being planned against Venezuela. It comes after months of U.S. strikes on small boats, which the Trump administration has accused of transporting drugs. But it's also being seen as putting pressure on Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro.And: Health officials in Edmonton say they're dealing with a tuberculosis outbreak - mostly affecting homeless people in the inner city. Alberta officials say at least three people considered part of the outbreak have the same TB strain. You'll hear about the warnings from experts and the call for more resources.Plus: Protests in the Philippines, Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Donald Trump, An ancient shipwreck found in Lake Ontario, and more

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Let's go Rhinos. We want the great crowd. Go, owls, go! Go! It's game on in Winnipeg. Thousands of football fans pack a sold-out stadium for the CFL's Gray Cup. No bombers on the field, but it's still a battle between blue and green. Welcome to your world. tonight. I'm Karen Howerlock also on the podcast, making big waves near Venezuela. A massive aircraft carrier adds to the U.S. military threat against the country. And when you're in a position where you have to

think about your food, you have to think about your mental health, living with TB and trying to get rid of that, it exacerbates everything in your life. A new threat from an old disease. Health experts in Edmonton warn of tuberculosis amid a growing number of homeless people. It's the biggest night in Canadian football And what a night it is in Winnipeg, Almost no wind and a balmy minus two As more than 30,000 fans Watch the Saskatchewan Ruff riders take on the Montreal Alouettes

in the CFL's 112th Grey Cup. The CBC's Karen Pauls is in the stands tonight. Karen, talk about the rivalry for us. Well, the Saskatchewan Rough Riders are one win away from ending an agonizing championship drought. It's been 12 years since the team last played for and won a Grey Cup. But this year, they have a savvy veteran quarterback, Trevor Harris, who led them to a league best record. He's been on two Grey Cup winning teams already, but this is his first as a starter, and he has something to prove. Now, Harris is up against a confident young Elouette's quarterback.

Davis Alexander has not lost a game he started in the CFL. He's hoping to lead Montreal to its second grade cup in three years. Now, he is injured, a tweaked hamstring, had to miss 11 games this season, but Karen, he swears he's good to go. Well, there's been some drama off the field, though, controversy over some rule changes. What can you tell us about that? Yeah, in September, the league's new commissioners, Stuart Johnston, announced a series of changes that will take place over the next two years.

The changes include shortening the field and the end zones, moving the goalposts to the back of the end zone, and eliminating one of the quirkiest rules in the CFL known as the Rouge. It's a single point awarded when the ball is kicked wide of the goalposts and goes out the back at the end zone. And as you can imagine, there's been some pushback. Take a listen. not happy at all with the changes.

I think we're talking about an issue of survivability. I think we need to be different. We need to be unique and distinguish ourselves different than our American counterparts. What makes us special? And Karen, today is the last day the game will be played under the current rules before those changes take effect. Now, Prime Minister Carney is at the game tonight. He had a couple of other events in Winnipeg today,

and there was some hope he might make an announcement about another nation-building project. What happened? Right, while the Prime Minister and his Northern Affairs Minister have both said there would be some kind of an announcement for Churchill Plus. It's a project to upgrade Canada's only Arctic Deepwater port connected by rail. Now, Ottawa did say it will pay for a feasibility study on ice breakers and ice tugs at the Port of Churchill. Here's Carney before a meeting with Premier Wab Canoe at the Manitoba Legislature. And, you know, nothing more important than Port of Churchill in everything that that brings. together opportunities from energy, agriculture, critical minerals, and beyond.

Manitoba also announced it has committed another $51 million that will be used for improvements to the rail line up to the port and for storage and loading of critical minerals in potash and other port improvements. So today's announcements bring the total federal provincial investment to Churchill Plus over the next five years to more than $262 million. Carney is now watching the Grey Cup with the CFL Commissioner and then he'll head to Ottawa for a big vote on his budget tomorrow. Karen? All right, big day in Winnipeg. Thanks, Karen.

You're welcome. Karen Paul's reporting from the Grey Cup in Winnipeg. Well, that budget vote, Karen mentioned, will be a crucial test of Carney's minority government. With less than a day to go, it's still not clear if the Liberals have enough votes to pass budget 2025 and avoid a winter election. J.P. Tasker reports. We're also going to throw a few long balls, right? I'm trying to extend the football metaphor.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is out west selling his budget and taking in this year's great cup with Manitoba Premier Wob Canoe. You know, the ball is in your hands when it comes to the economy, building up the true north strong and free. On Monday, the ball will be in the opposition's hands. If enough MPs vote against Carney's first budget, Canadians could be headed to the polls. The reality of the situation is, is that this is a minority parliament. Right now, the liberals are in the red zone. Just two seats shy of a majority, they don't yet have the support to hold off an election. Mark Garrison is the party's whip. He's responsible for wrangling the votes on this confidence motion. I will make sure that all of our votes are there,

and I leave it up to others to have those negotiations. Patty Heidew, Canada's jobs minister, is urging all MPs to line up behind a budget that includes more money for housing and infrastructure and a major cash injection for the military. What I'm saying to members opposite is that let's get this over the line and stand with Canadians during this difficult time. Polls suggest most Canadians don't want an election so soon after the last one. Still, the Blackhebecois say they are a firm no on this budget. And conservative leader Pierre Pauliev says his party can't prop up a document that piles on,

more debt. A hundred percent of our MPs oppose the costly Carney credit card budget that is going to drive up the cost of food, housing, and living for Canadians. All of them are opposed, but will every conservative MP show up to vote? Sources tell CBC News the party doesn't want an election right now. Some Tories could abstain helping the government survive. New Democrats are considering a similar strategy. There may be some, and not just in the NDP, as we know, who may be suddenly unable to manage their remote voting app. No one knows. In the end, it could come down to a single vote, that of Green Party leader Elizabeth May. And I'm still talking to ministers and representatives from the Prime Minister's office and others to see what could we do before tomorrow afternoon to affect

my vote, because right now I'm a no. While the consensus on Parliament Hill is that the government should be able to narrowly survive this budget vote. Anything can happen. Don't forget about 1979. Joe Clark's progressive conservative government miscalculated. Opposition MPs toppled that year's budget, an election was called, and Clark lost. Carney doesn't want that to be his fate this time around. J.P. Tasker, CBC News, Ottawa. Donald Trump is attacking one of his closest Republican allies. Outspoken Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. Green says she's being targeted because she wants the Epstein files released, and that's a problem for the U.S. President that just won't go away.

Katie Simpson reports from Washington. His remarks, of course, have been hurtful. Marjorie Taylor Green, the Republican Congresswoman from Georgia, is pleading with Donald Trump to stop his attacks, saying his words put her life in danger. On social media, the president called her a traitor, wacky, and a ranting lunatic. Uncetic. Insults hurled her way, she says, because she wants the Epstein files released. Unfortunately, it has all come down to the Epstein files, and that is shocking. Green had been one of Trump's most loyal and vocal supporters, once a conspiracy theorist,

known for using incendiary rhetoric, but now that Green's on the receiving end of the vitriol, she's vowing to change her ways. I would like to say humbly, I'm sorry for taking part in the toxic politics. It's very bad for our country. Trump says Green is the angry one, and that because he didn't support her ambitions to run for higher office, like Senate or governor, she's lashing out. The fight is surprising and dividing the MAGA movement, and it taps into the core dissatisfaction among some Trump voters about the lack of transparency around the Epstein files.

I don't care about it, released or not. What I think you should do, if you're going to do it, then you have to go into Epstein's friends. Trump was named hundreds of times in emails from Epstein's estate, recently released by Congress, renewing calls for transparency. Trump has since ordered his attorney general to investigate links between Epstein and Democrats, a probe specifically targeting his political opponents. Republican Congressman Thomas Massey fears Trump is only doing this to stop the release of any new information.

If they have ongoing investigations in certain, areas, those documents can't be released. So this might be a big smokescreen, these investigations, to open a bunch of them as a last-ditch effort to prevent the release of the Epstein files. Lawmakers in the House of Representatives will hold a vote Tuesday on a bill that compels authorities to release everything they have on Epstein. While the White House wants it to fail, all Democrats and possibly dozens of Republicans are expected to support it, including Congressman Don Bacon. Let's rip the Band-Aid off and get it done. I wish the President realized that.

The more the White House pushes back on this, it just looks bad, right? The bill is expected to pass in the House but will likely stall in the Senate, meaning it won't go anywhere. Though it ensures this issue remains front and center as Trump struggles to move past it. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. The U.N. Security Council will vote tomorrow on a U.S. resolution backing Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza. Washington says the plan would set up a two-year transitional governing body and launch an international stabilization force to help secure borders and demilitarize the Gaza Strip. The draft also mentions a possible future Palestinian state. Meanwhile Russia has put forward

its own draft, it describes as a balanced counter-proposal. The arrival in the Caribbean of the U.S. military's largest aircraft carrier is raising questions about whether their military action is being planned against Venezuela. The warship's presence comes after months of U.S. strikes on small boats accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs. The military escalation is officially described as an anti-narcotics mission, but it's also being seen as putting the squeeze on Venezuela's authoritarian president, Nicholas Maduro.

Journalist Cody Weddell has more from Bogota. us people. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro singing John Lennon's peace anthem imagine at a political rally. A not-so-subtle message directed at U.S. President Donald Trump and the American people. But Washington doesn't appear ready to live life in peace with Maduro. On Tuesday, the USS Gerald Ford, the U.S. Navy's most advanced warship, arrived in the region. With it, 15,000 sailors and marines are now stationed in the Caribbean. But I have it at 80-20 that some kind of action will take place.

James' story served as the ambassador for Venezuela during the first Trump administration. He believes U.S. forces will soon conduct some type of airstrike against targets in Venezuelan territory. I think the policy is regime change. I don't think this is a policy of counter-narcotics. Certainly these are resources that are entirely too powerful to prosecute. just counter-narcotics strategy. The Trump administration has framed its campaign as a counter-narcotics operation and destroyed 22 boats that were allegedly carrying drugs.

We've made a lot of progress with Venezuela in terms of stopping drugs for pouring in. But Washington has also designated Maduro as a drug trafficker himself, leading many to believe he may soon become a target. I think that ideally somebody close to Maduro will show him the door. There are three options there. He goes into eggs. aisle. He's extradited to the United States or he's sent off the planet in some other way, right? But I think the policy approach of the administration probably hinges on somebody close to Maduro taking an action. If the United States does decide to remove Maduro, what might happen

next remains uncertain. The government in Caracas has suggested the country could enter a civil war. Do they want another Gaza in South America? Maduro recently said, a board. Ward Air Force One this week, Trump said he had almost made a decision about how to proceed. I sort of have made up my mind. I mean, I can't tell you what it would be, but I sort of made up. Elias Ferrer runs a investor research advisory in Venezuela. He says in the country, there's also an expectation that action is imminent. There is a feeling that something is going to happen, and it's a bit like religious in a way,

like, oh, you know, there's something out there that's going to happen. It's kind of like out of our control. Venezuelans for now only left to imagine what comes next. Cody Weddle for CBC News, Bogota. Still ahead, it was a shock found way down deep at the bottom of a great lake, a shipwreck, unlike any other pristine, and with an ancient story to tell. Coming up, the experts examined just how old the wreck is and what it could say. about its creators. Public anger over a corruption scandal

has been spilling into the streets across the Philippines. Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting and calling for accountability after the discovery that thousands of flood control projects were either substandard, incomplete, or simply did not exist.

Freelance reporter Dave Grunabom has the story. Shouts of jail the corrupt as hundreds of protesters march in a rally on Friday night. Just days after back-to-back typhoons battered the Philippines, the demonstrators take to the streets over a scandal known as floodgate, which involves failed flood control projects across the archipelago. The protesters range from business owners to blue-collar workers. Jamil Virchisalva, a hotel accountant, says people across the spectrum are furious about their tax dollars being abused.

We are very angry. We cannot define the level of frustration that we have. The country's finance minister says more than $2.8 billion may have been skinned from flood control projects during the past three years. Activists say billions more were stolen before that. Government investigators say many of the projects marked as complete were either not finished, built substandard, or in some cases not even started, so-called. ghost projects. It's not going to fly anymore. The people have awoken. Adriana Chu is fed up with

crooked officials and private contractors lining their pockets with dirty deals. We want more transparency in our government. We want the people who have stolen and gained from these corrupt practices to actually return the money that they've stolen and for them to go to jail. It's simple justice. A flood control project was supposedly built in Cazon City's at Polonio-Sampson neighborhood. But after the scandal broke, inspectors could not find any trace of it. That means residents like Joanne Felisario have to deal with flooding several times a year. She says floodwaters and mud have ruined her furniture and appliances requiring a long cleanup. Sometimes it takes two days. Our things cannot be used anymore, so we just throw them away.

Raymond Deera says sometimes floodwaters almost reach the ceiling of his home's ground floor. Every year it's getting worse, the flood. Deera says his family and neighbors, are paying the price for others' greed. I want full accountability and some politicians to be in jail. Political analysts Cleaver Gwalius says ongoing investigations and public hearings have revealed who's getting some of the payoffs. Lawmakers who have the power and the authority to put this in the national budget, and primarily they are in punaivans with destruction companies.

and another actor would be those in the government, those who are in the public works and highways department. Even before this issue erupted several months ago, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was locked in a bitter feud with the country's vice president, Sarah Duterte, the daughter of Marcos predecessor Rodrigo Duterte, who was in power when there were also alleged ghost flood control projects. Argyllia says each of these two rival camps are looking for ways to have him blamed for the scandal on the other. So you see that both camps are playing the issue, right, to gain public support. Many protesters say there's corruption across the board, and they will not rest until they see accountability. Dave Grenoval for CBC News, Manila.

31 years ago, Mexico was rocked by a political assassination. A presidential candidate named Luis Donaldo Colosio was gunned down at a campaign. Pain stop. The aftershocks of his murder are still being felt today. Now, the government of President Claudia Sheenbaum has reopened the case. Jorge Barrera reports. Angel Rodriguez-Avila expertly sears thin cuts of pork and beef at the El Caliphi de Leon Taco Stan, the first in Mexico to receive a Michelin star. On the wall hangs a framed sketch portrait of Luis Donaldo Colossio,

whose 1994 assassination, while a presidential kid. candidate changed the course of Mexico's political history. Colossio was once a frequent client here, says Rodriguez Abilah. He treated us like equals. Colossio's death occupies the same space in the Mexican consciousness as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy does in the United States. And like the Kennedy case, the official story of what happened has been challenged from the start. Now the government of Mexican President Claudia Seambaum is pursuing the theory that a second shooter was involved in the assassination.

Federal authorities arrested a former intelligence officer on November 8 named Jorge Antonio Sanchez Ortega in connection with the three-decade-old murder. Colosio's investigation has been mishandled over the years, says Laura Sanchez-Lay, a Mexican journalist who has written a book about the case. It's been corrupted. The official story says Colosio was killed by 23-year-old Mario Aborto, who was acting alone when he hit Colosio with two gunshots on March 23rd, 1994. During a campaign rally in Tijuana, he was convicted and remains in prison. Now authorities say that Sanchez Ortega may also be involved. He's been arrested on suspicion of aggravated homicide, the alleged second shooter.

Sanchez Ortega was detained in the release in 1994, shortly after Colossio's death, and he's been questioning each of the four investigations launched into the case, Sanchez-Lay says. Inaki Blanco was part of a special probe into Colosio's case that ended in the year 2000. He says there is no evidence linking Sanchez-Ortiga to the killing. Sanchez-Otega was never near Colossio during the assassination, says Blanco, a former state prosecutor. In these types of cases, when politics confronts the law, politics regularly triumphs to the detriment of justice, he says. A judge ordered Sanchez-Ortiga's continued detention on Saturday. Jorge Bergera, CBC News, Mexico City.

Police are searching for three suspects in connection to an armed, robbery in northern Alberta. RCMP say the suspects stole multiple firearms Saturday afternoon from a business near Red Earth Creek, about 350 kilometers northwest of Edmonton. At least one person in the area was reportedly shot at. The suspects were later located north of Peerless Trout First Nation and fled into the woods.

Residents of the First Nation were put under a shelter-in-place order overnight, which has now been lifted. RCMP say the suspects are still considered to be armed and dangerous. Health officials in Edmonton say they're dealing with a tuberculosis outbreak, mostly affecting the city's homeless population. Alberta officials say at least three people, considered part of the outbreak, have the same TB strain. Sam Sampson has more now on the warning from experts and the call for more resources.

It was 10 days in the hospital, and then the follow-up treatment after the first, fact, it actually got worse before it got better. Edmonton social worker Andre Tenneo doesn't know when he contracted tuberculosis, but he's been living with chronic pain and health issues since his diagnosis last summer. The bacteria affected his lungs, stomach, colon, and even parts of his spine. The medication is so intrusive. You need to be watched. You need to follow and comply to a lot of the health regimes that they want you to do. That's why he's concerned about an outbreak in Alberta's capital, mostly affecting the homeless population.

you're in a position where you have to think about your food, you have to think about your mental health, you have to think, how do I get to appointments, how do I do this, to compound with now living with TB and trying to get rid of that, it exacerbates everything in your life. Alberta health officials declared a TB outbreak in Edmonton's inner city in October. At the time, two people were diagnosed with the same strain, suggesting local transmission. A November memo to emergency departments asks frontline workers to test patients who've had a cough for more than two weeks and are experiencing homelessness. There have been many more TV cases in Edmonton's inner city this year than we typically see. Ryan Cooper is the medical

director of Alberta's TB program. He says most cases in Alberta contract the illness while in other countries. His team is still investigating this complex outbreak, but Cooper wonders if an increase in Edmonton's homeless population could be a factor. More than 300% increase in the homeless population. And I think that underlying socially determined of health is driving this reactivation of TB in Edmonton. Ensuring adequate nutrition, adequate housing will be extremely helpful in preventing TB disease and individuals

and will also reduce the risk of spread amongst vulnerable populations. The province says it's working with inner city shelters to get people screened, and helped. Right now, experts say there's a low risk of the general public contracting TB, including Robin Harrison, who treats Alberta patients as an adult infectious diseases specialist. She says, however, TB can be insidious. And then what's really unique about this bacteria that can make outbreak investigation tricky, actually, is that you might breathe it in and be infected, but not actually manifest disease in predictable days ahead. It might be within a year or two or even over a lifetime.

She says one way people can make health care workers' lives easier is to get vaccinated for the flu and COVID-19, so screeners can rule those illnesses out in symptomatic patients. Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton. searching for a century-old shipwreck under the surface of Lake Ontario, they found something much older and rarer, a pristine vessel that likely predates Canadian Confederation. As Colin Butler reports,

the relic could open a window on a poorly understood period of shipbuilding history. And when we saw that, we were like overjoy. Heisenchak remembers the moment well. The veteran diver was 100 meters below the surface of Lake Ontario when the lights cut through the gloom and uncovered a ghost from a long forgotten era. It took us a few moments to calm ourselves down because it's overwhelming, finding a pristine wreck that is only one piece.

A rarity in the Great Lakes, where most wrecks collapse under quagga mussels are crushed by storms, anchors, or human interference. Remarkably, this one has survived near Toronto's watery doorstep. There's a lot of shipping that goes back and forth, but it somehow managed to escape any damage. Trent University archaeology professor James Connolly says the wreck was first spotted in 2017 during a fiber optic cable survey between Buffalo and Toronto. Large and unusual, it appeared as a shadow no one could identify.

Connolly hoped it might be a pristine ship, possibly the Rapid City, a century-old schooner long lost to Lake Ontario. This is different than what we thought it was. This is something else. This is something far stranger and maybe far old. Boulder, on it, rope rigging, a rounded bow, an early, windless design. Both masks still upright, top masks intact. The dive team thinks it could date back to the first half of the 19th century,

a period of Great Lakes shipbuilding that's poorly understood. Well, it's not that we know so little about it, but we have so rare examples. Charles Beaker is a professor at Indiana University. He's been researching and preserving Great Lakes shipwrecks for over 40 years. If this truly turns out diagnostically for the artifacts to give it a terminus pulse quim of pre-U.S. Civil War, that's rare. Pre-1850 Great Lakes ships rarely survived. Most sank in storms, rotted away, or were scrapped. Few records remain. I'm most excited if it turns out this is older. I don't want to diminish value because it's a great example. The dive team will return to the wreck next season.

Wood samples will allow them to pinpoint the year it grew. For now, the ship waits beneath the waves near Toronto, silent, intact, guarding secrets. We're only beginning to understand. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. All I want for Christmas is you... It seems the Christmas season. is starting earlier than ever, at least if the music charts are to be believed.

This 1994 track by Mariah Carey has already cracked the Billboard Top 100 this year, as well as the Canadian Hot 100, suggesting some people are already getting into the holiday spirit. The song's continued popularity is no surprise. It first entered the charts in 2000, and has been a top 40 hit every year since 2012, picking at number one every year since 2019. Typically, holiday songs don't start gaining steam until later in November following American Thanksgiving. But the Yuletide Juggernaut is hitting the charts this week

after taking off back on Halloween. According to Billboard, nearly a million people. in the U.S. streamed All I Want for Christmas is You from October 31st to November 6th and it's not the only modern carol seeing an unseasonable boost in popularity. Last Christmas

I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away. Hot on Mariah's heels, Wham's 1984 hit Last Christmas. Also re-entering the Billboard Hot 100 this week at number 43. So if you're one of the many people out there feeling extra festive this year,

we'll leave you tonight with a little more of Mariah Carey, and all I want for Christmas is you. This has been your world tonight for Sunday, November 16th. I'm Karen Hower Luck. Good night. Oh, I don't want a lot for Christmas. This is all I'm asking for. I just want to see my baby.

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