Your World Tonight - G20 summit, COP30 reaches a deal, Alberta avoids healthcare worker strike, and more

Episode Date: November 22, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in South Africa this weekend meeting with world leaders and delegates at the G20 summit. Carney is hoping to expand Canada's trade ties beyond the United States, Trump boycotted the summit and didn't send any representatives. But there were pressing geopolitical issues, mainly Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Also: The COP30 climate conference in Brazil has concluded with a deal, but only after bitter disagreements over fossil fuels. The end of the conference was delayed as countries wrangled over what would be included in the agreement - leaving some disappointed.And: The union representing Alberta hospital workers and the province have narrowly avoided a strike. Both sides reached a tentative agreement just before the deadline. The strike would have seen 16,000 workers, including licensed practical nurses and health care aides, walk off the job.Plus: B.C. grizzly attack update, ER wait times, 'Toy Story' turns 30, and more.

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As I sometimes say, Ukraine should be at the table, not on the table. What is tabled? The U.S. plan to end Russia's war on Ukraine. At the G20, world leaders, including Mark Carney, say it needs more work. And with the U.S. president absent from the summit, Canada aims to boost. trade with partners other than its neighbor. This is your world tonight. I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Also on the podcast, climate

compromises and disappointments. The COP 30 conference ends in a deal, barely, and The bears have been breaking into homes and they go on porches where there's dog food or cat food, and that's a huge problem

risk for people. Family and community members of the bear attack victims in BC, say bear encounters are increasing, and so are the calls to change a ban on hunting them. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in South Africa this weekend, meeting with world leaders and delegates at the G20 summit. Carney is hoping to expand Canada's trade ties beyond the United States, which is sitting out this summit.

But there were also pressing geopolitical issues, including Russia's invasion of of Ukraine. Karina Roman is at the G20 summit in Johannesburg. Karina, Ukraine became the focus for many of the leaders at the G20. Can you tell us about that? Yeah, a dozen world leaders met here on the margins of the summit, including the UK, France, Germany, and Canada to discuss how to secure a full ceasefire and meaningful peace negotiations in the face of this leaked proposed peace deal by the U.S., which seems very much aligned with what Russia wants. So these leaders adopted a joint statement today that said the following, that the plan does have some necessary elements, but requires additional work. And it reiterates,

the statement does, that the principle must be kept that borders must not be changed by force. The leaders are also concerned by the proposed limitations on Ukraine's armed forces, which they think would leave the country vulnerable to future attack. Here's foreign affairs minister, Anita Anand. To ensure just and lasting peace for Ukraine, to ensure that the security guarantees are in place, and also to make sure that Ukraine is at the table and that its core interests, its sovereignty, for example, its territorial integrity, for example, are protected. But Anand stopped short of saying whether it's a deal Ukraine should even consider,

saying it's Ukraine's decision to make. So where does that leave Ukraine? Experts say the risk for Ukraine, if it says no to the deal, is real. Michael Basserkew is a senior fellow with the Eurasia Center and is a Canadian based in Ukraine. It's a disaster for Ukraine. If any Ukrainian leader were to sign up for even a part of this so-called plan, it would be the end of Ukraine, as we know it, game over for a sovereign Ukraine. Mr. Zelensky is in a very, very difficult position.

right now, because as he said in his 10-minute address, he either sides with Mr. Trump, Ukraine's most important ally, or he fights for Ukrainian sovereignty, integrity. And of course, it's the latter that he's going to choose. Perhaps a glimmer of hope, however, because Trump was asked today if this deal is a final offer, and he said no, but Trump is so unpredictable that it's not clear what that means. Unpredictable and also not at the G20. How did his absence impact the summit overall? Well, it has been noted, although I'll say quietly by some, that Trump's absence actually gives some countries the space to have the conversations they want, with whom they want, without worrying about the spectacle of Trump. But even not

being here, Trump casts a long shadow because, well, just look, it's Trump's proposed peace deal for Ukraine that had Western nations scrambling to come together today. And his shadow remains right to the very end because the U.S. is set to take on the G20 presidency next and they offered up instead because, of course, they have no one here. They offered up a temporary head of an embassy here for South Africa to sort of symbolically pass the torch to tomorrow. But the South African president has refused saying instead that he would rather hand it over to an empty chair. Okay, Karina, thanks so much. You're welcome. CBC's Karina Roman at the G20 summit in Johannesburg.

In Kiev. Ukrainian President Vlodomir Zelensky and the First Lady lay bundles of wheat in honor of the victims of the Holodomor. The Soviet-era famine is estimated to have killed millions of Ukrainians in the winter of 1932 to 33. It was largely caused by grain confiscations and economic policies imposed by Joe. of Stalin. More than 30 countries recognized the Holodomor as a genocide, including Canada. The COP 30 Climate Conference in Brazil has concluded with a deal, but only after bitter disagreements over fossil fuels. The end of the summit was delayed as countries wrangled over what would be included in the agreement,

leaving some disappointed. Susan Ormiston was at the conference. She's the CBC's Senior International Climate Correspondent, and she has the details. We know some of you had greater ambitions. After fire, floods and unplanned protests, 12 days of climate talks in Belén delivered a weak agreement, leaving many countries in revolt. Panama is deeply disappointed. You promise a transparent process that is not what we're seeing.

Two years, after nearly 200 countries pledged to transition away from fossil fuels, how to do that was omitted from this agreement. Colombia raised objections. The COP of the truth cannot support an outcome that ignores science. There is no mitigation if we cannot discuss transitioning away from fossil fuels. Canada was among the countries who did not support a roadmap on fossil fuels in the final agreement. Disappointing, said the Climate Action Network and out of step with where the world is heading. Under pressure, the Brazilian president of the climate talks, André Correa de Lago, promised to lead future work.

I, as president of COP 30, will therefore create two roadmaps. One on halting and reverting deforestation, another to transitioning away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly, and equitable manner. But those would be voluntary agreements only for willing countries. There were some wins in Berlin. It included thousands of indigenous peoples the largest ever representation, and countries did commit to at least triple financing for vulnerable countries struggling to adapt to climate change.

Important steps, says Ed Milband, the UK's senior minister on climate change. More than 190 countries have recommitted to the Paris Agreement, have recommitted to seeking to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees. But Belen also showed that countries' current, plans fall well short of what's needed to meet the target. So we're not going to hide the fact that we would have preferred to have more, to have more ambition on everything. With the U.S. absent and big economies focused on wars and trade,

these negotiations struggled, according to the EU's climate envoy, Volka Hoekstra. The world is what it is. The conference is what it is. And we do think that this on balance is clearly a step in the right. direction. But the end of this cop will raise questions about future ones. Brazil almost certainly wanted privately more than this. Is the world too divided with powerful lobbies to come to an agreement? asks Michael Jacobs, a senior fellow at ODI Global. You have to go with the consensus and they couldn't get a consensus for anything more radical

than we had today. The cop of truth, as Brazil called it, unearthed a hard reality. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Toronto. The International Committee of the Red Cross is cutting thousands of staff and scaling back where it can provide aid. The Switzerland-based organization says it's been hit with a 17% cut to its budget and will lose close to 3,000 jobs. The U.S. has been the organization's top donor but has recently slashed its foreign aid. Canada's recent budget has also made cuts to foreign aid. Still ahead, three decades ago, Toy Story told kids you've got a friend in me. And its studio has tried to keep being their friend all these years later.

On a big anniversary, we take a look at the rise and rise of Pixar. That's coming up on Your World Tonight. say they're now looking for multiple grizzly bears in relation to Thursday's attack involving a school group in Belicula on BC's central coast. That attack sent four people to hospital while several others were injured. Yasmin Ranea is in Belakula. Yasmin, what's the latest on the search for this bear? More conservation officers arrived in Belakula today to help with the search

and the conservation service says based on its investigation so far, Two more grizzly bears were seen in the area during the attack. So trapping efforts are now in place to capture all three bears. A police chopper with thermal imaging is helping with search efforts. Officials have not said yet whether the bears will be killed once they're found. This search has been going on since Thursday afternoon when a group from an independent school run by the New Hulk Nation was eating lunch along a trail when the bear attacked them or now suspected multiple bears and in total 11 people were injured. Three children and an adult were taken

to hospital and are still there. I spoke to Noel Putlis, the hereditary chief of the New Hulk Nation. He says a different group of bears displaced from their territory came here. He says, Since then, the community has seen an uptick in human bear interactions. There's probably 40 to 50 incidents where houses have been broken into, sheds, shops, and smoke houses. The bears have been breaking into homes, and they go on porches where there's dog food or cat food. The First Nation has set up a bonfire outside the youth center where there's also drumming and traditional singing going on. Chief Putliss hopes his community can begin to heal and once again live in harmony with the bears. So after this attack, there have now been calls for BC to lift its ban on hunting grizzly bears.

What more can you tell us about that? Yeah, this ban was put in place in 2017, but the BC Wildlife Federation issued a statement saying that this ban was implemented without any scientific rationale. The organization claims reports of grizzly human conflicts have since risen dramatically. Here's more from executive director, Jesse Zeeman. We have members telling us, like, we don't want to leave our house. We don't go out of the house without bear spray. We don't go out of the house with our dogs. The BC government says it's not considering lifting the hunting ban at this time.

Okay, Yasmin, thank you. You're welcome. CBC's Yasmin Kenea in Belakula, BC. Three years ago this week, the small city of Prince Rupert, BC, was shocked by a public murder suicide. The killer was a Canadian border services officer who used his own service weapon. A CBC News investigation reveals how that was able to happen. Betsy Trumpiner reports. On a gray November morning in 2022, Patty Foreman was walking to work when she was gunned down inside a building with a daycare, school.

and government offices. Julia Ocampo hid. I heard one loud sound and then then pack, pack, multiple gunshot. The shooter was Foreman's ex-fiancee, Sean Young, a Canada border services officer who then killed himself. Now, as CBC News investigation has revealed

the border guard used his own service weapon, a semi-automatic handgun as the murder weapon. The crime rocked Prince Rupert. Julie Ferlano worked with Patty Foreman at BC's Ministry of Children and Families. The tears have dried up on a day-to-day basis, but the memories are still alive and well. Some people still have a hard time entering the building. Just the sense of safety has been shook. Border services investigated but released no details to the public.

Now, CBC has reviewed the Border Service agency's internal report. court. It shows the killer was able to take the murder weapon from a restricted border services lockup in the middle of the night, even though he was off duty. The gun lockup was supposed to be secure, but security cameras hadn't worked for months. Young had the gun for six hours before he killed Foreman than himself. Only then did border services realize his service weapon was missing from the lockup. Jewel Gerstad was Foreman's best friend. She said Foreman feared for her safety after ending the relationship with Young.

Then he started stalking her. She had made a call in regards to feeling unsafe and was worried that he had access to weapons. Border Services tells CBC that since Foreman's death, it's tightened off-duty officers' access to weapons and trained supervisors to better. recognize mental health warning signs. But the agency says it won't release any information about Young's mental health even now after his death because of the Privacy Act. But Ron McDonald says the public deserves answers. He's the retired head of British Columbia's police watchdog, the Independent Investigations Office of VC. This is a situation where you have an individual

who is in the employ of the state, who committed a murder suicide, who used a publicly owned firearm to do it, and did that, committed that act in public. We need to know, did they do everything they were supposed to do? Three years after Foreman was killed, her friends and family and Prince Rupert are still grieving, still wondering if her death could have been prevented.

Betsy Trumpiner, CBC News, Prince George. The union for Alberta hospital workers and the province have narrowly avoided a strike. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees says it reached a tentative agreement with the province just before its strike deadline, which would have seen 16,000 members, including licensed practical nurses and health care aides, walk off the job. Sam Samson has more. Ain't no power like the power of the people. Hospital workers were prepped and ready. Members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees were set to strike at 8.30 a.m. local time.

But mere minutes into this picket line, it was over. A tentative agreement had been reached. 20 minute one, we rock. The union gave strike notice on Wednesday after weeks of failed negotiations with Alberta's government. They continued at the bargaining table, since. The AUPE says a deal came through one minute before official strike action was set to start. I think it comes down to a matter of respect. Licensed practical nurse, or LPN, Kayla Oliveira, was among the crowd of bundled up health care workers at one of the Edmonton picket lines. She says

she and her colleagues work so hard and finds the pay differences compared to registered nurses, or RN's, unfair. I have 12 years experience and I make $8 less an hour than an RN fresh out the gate. LPNs have been taken advantage of, and the scope of practice was increased by Alberta Health Services with no increased pay. I think that there's a message going around in the public that LPNs are asking for equal pay from our ends, and that's just not the case. We do carry diplomas, not degrees, and I think we're just looking for fair recognition. Wages were the main issue at the bargaining table. In the end, the union says its affected members will receive between a 12 and 24% wage increase over four years. For most, that will include adjustments to match what counterparts in other

provinces make and retroactive pay to April 1st of 2024. But the union says they aren't fully satisfied with the deal. Beyond wages, another key negotiating point was short staffing, which it says was not solved with this latest agreement. Sandra Azakar is AUPE president. You know, this short staffing is not going to go away. We still have a 12% vacancy rate, and those are the things that we continue to push for. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith acknowledged that during her province-wide radio show. I'm sure that there'll be some additional type of work that we need to do with all of our units to make sure that they've got the best work workplace conditions possible.

Union members are set to vote on the agreement later this month. In the meantime, a tentative agreement means all scheduled staff go back to work. And Albertans should expect a regular level of health care. Sam Sampson, CBC News, Edmonton. Across Canada, wait times in hospital emergency departments are getting longer. And according to new data, analyzed by CBC Marketplace, patients are getting impatient. The data shows in 2024, half a million Canadians walked out of ERs before being seen by a doctor. And as Marketplace host, Chris Glover told us, physicians say it's a worrying trend.

Chris, in your reporting, you share an example of how long ER weights can have incredibly serious consequences. Yeah, and it's certainly an extreme example at that. Back in 2024, 16-year-old Finley Vanderwerkin's parents rushed him to an ER in Oakville, Ontario with abdominal pain. He was triaged at level two. Guidelines say a doctor should see a patient like that within 15 minutes, but instead he waited eight hours and 22 minutes, and by then Finley had sepsis. He went into cardiac arrest, his organs started failing, and the 16-year-old died in hospital. Here's part of my conversation with his mother, Hazel. I had to go up several times to the nurse's desk and ask for them to come and see Finley.

He was having problems breathing, and he was in so much pain. He was crying out. Eight hours and 22 minutes. What does that length of time mean? It's a number I hate now. And it's eight hours of 22 minutes that Finley had to suffer. Do you think that his death was preventable? Yes. Yes. And Steph, the family is now suing the hospital.

And in its statement of defense, Halton Healthcare denies negligence. The hospital also tells us, since Finley's death, it's added more doctors during periods of high patient volume. His story is incredibly tragic. You guys have looked at the national data here and found that deaths in the ER are rare, but these long wait times are hardly an isolated incident. What more did you find? Well, we uncovered two main problems. First, ER weights are, in fact, getting longer.

Four or five years ago, the median length of stay in an ER in Canada was up to four and a half hours. But by 2024, that number was up to five and a half hours. and the hospital with the longest weight in Canada was a hospital in Montreal at 13 hours and five minutes. The second problem we uncovered is a growing number of people deciding to leave an ER before seeing a doctor. PEI was the province with the highest percentage of ER patients to do it, 14%. That works out to more than 13,000 people. But even Ontario, the province with the lowest share of ER walkouts at 5%, Due to Ontario's relative size and population, that still means nearly 300,000 patients left.

ER Dr. Fraser Mackay is with the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. It's rare that a shift will go by where one of the patients I'll see isn't someone that was there yesterday or the day before and couldn't handle the weight and left. And now they come back and now they're that much sicker. And so that is, of course, the big fear. Experts say there are many factors causing long ER weights, including chronic understaffing and a lack of family doctors. But the biggest factor is something called boarded patients. That's a term for ER patients who have been treated and are awaiting a move to another hospital ward. But because that other ward is full, the patient has nowhere to go and it causes a ripple effect where everybody waits.

We spent an entire shift with an ER doctor at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital. And that day, the longest boarded patient was waiting in the emergency department for 36 hours. Now, all provinces acknowledge ER wait times are too long, and they're trying to expand capacity, not just at hospitals, but Steph also adding more primary care workers. Chris, it's an important story. Thanks so much for looking into it. Thank you.

Chris Glover is a host with CBC Marketplace, and you can watch his full investigation called In Critical Condition on CBC's YouTube page. You're listening to Your World Tonight from CBC News. And if you want to make sure you never miss one of our episodes, follow us on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcasts. Just find the follow button and lock us in. Sorry if this makes you feel old, but Toy Story is 30. When Woody, Buzz, and all the other talking toys hit the big screen back in 1995, it changed Hollywood, and it turned Pixar into a household name. Three decades after that first success, there's a question, can the studio that launched computer animation to infinity and beyond still deliver the goods?

Magdegebras Lassa reports. Buzz-looking alien! Where? Well, I've always loved the fact that Toy Story is about friendship. In Toronto, Michael Bastoli is celebrating Toy Story's 30th birthday. His company is presenting the movie with a live orchestra this weekend. The heart and the characters, Woody Buzz, the whole gang, it really stands up even 30 years later. And Pixar kept stacking the box office wins, accolades, and Oscars.

Finding Nemo to up. Where are we? And the flick that turned emotions into characters inside out. For a long time, Pixar nailed the story and evolved with technology, says Daniel Geyes, an animator in Montreal. You had this visual language that no one had ever seen on the big screen before. You had design that no one had ever experienced in animation and a technique. It was a magic trick.

But does Pixar still have the magic? Its first flop was the good dinosaur. in 2015. Since then, many of its original stories have struggled. And this summer, Elio was its worst box office opening at 35 million U.S. globally. Its sequels have had some success, but over time, Pixar has fallen behind other studios, says Polygon Entertainment writer Petrona Radalovich. The clearest effect of that in American animation is into the spider verse, because that really just redefined what an animated movie could be. Radovich points to Sony Pictures Animation as a company now pushing animation in bold new directions.

I think they're embracing not having things look entirely photorealistic. They're embracing this stylization. They are going for something that looks more artistic and painterly versus something that completely reflects real life. Independent and international filmmakers are making waves too. Flo, the Latvian film, made for less than 4 million U.S., was an Oscar winner this year. Within that art form, there is an emergence of smaller crew production models. Al-Gadazzic is an animation historian in Vancouver. And that have access to cheaper or open-access tools and software that are able to produce feature-length high-quality films.

But Pixar still has big wins. Last year, Inside Out 2 was its biggest grossing films. film of all time with about 1.7 billion U.S. And Bastoli is reminding everyone... There's Toy Story 5 coming out next year. A blast from the past 30 years on. Makta Gebera Selesa, CBC News, Toronto. Okay, if you're like me, Olivia Dean,

has suddenly popped up all over your... world. Social media, billboards, the whole bit. She's 26, English, makes Neo-Soul music with a retro sound kind of similar to fellow Brit school alums like Adele, Amy Winehouse, Ray. You may have heard her hit, Man I Need. Talk to me. Talk to me, talk to me, talk to me. She's heading out on a big tour next year. Tickets sold out in minutes. And that's just the beginning. of the problems. When Ticketmaster added a second round, some tickets had a typo, which made them 1,300 percent more expensive. So a balcony seat at Boston's TD Garden, for example, that was supposed to be 53 U.S. dollars, was on sale for 753, and they sold.

To fans, to scalpers, to bots, they sold. And now some are being resold for even more. Ticketmaster admits to the typo, but Olivia Dean herself is taking aim, calling out Ticketmaster and promoters, Live Nation and A.E.G, saying their service is disgusting, that the resale prices are vile and to be better. after dean's plea to be nice to her fans ticketmaster said it's capping resale prices on its site at face value and hopes other sites follow and the whole drama is just another chapter in the ticket seller saga and another thing you suddenly know about olivia dean here's more man i need on your world tonight i'm stephanie scandaris thank you for listening

gave you the time and the place so don't be shy just come beat the men I need tell me you got something to get I wanted I kind of like it when you call me wonderful whatever the type of talking is come on then I got to know you meant to be the man I need talk to me talk to me For more CBC podcasts, go to cBC.ca.ca slash podcasts.