The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 14:00 EST

I've been patiently yet anxiously dreading this moment. It is the end of Stranger Things. This is the show that started back in 2016. We get to watch these teenagers fighting supernatural forces. Now it's beginning its fifth and final season this week on Netflix. On Commotion, I talked to some of the smartest TV critics I know about all things, Stranger Things, and about how this show transformed the way that we watch television.

For this episode and more, you can find and follow Commotion with me, Alameen Abdul Mahmoud, on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. A fire at two Toronto residential towers is still burning five days after it began. Hundreds of people are out of their homes. And despite firefighters' best efforts, the fire shows no signs of slowing down. Sonia Varma reports. Complex and stubborn.

It's how Toronto Fire Services describes a blaze affecting two towers at a Thorncliffe Park, high-rise. At a news conference this afternoon, fire chief Jim Jessup held up a piece of particle board, saying it is the culprit. Access to getting to this is next to impossible for our crews, and we have been trying everything. The board is encased in concrete. It is not generating flames. Think of a cigar that is slowly burning, and so it is just creeping up and up and spreading. More than 400 units have been evacuated, and the Canadian Red Cross is supporting 141 households displaced by the fire. Chief Jessup says residents will be able to return once the fire is out for at least 24 hours.

But right now, they have no idea when that will be. Sonia Varma, CBC News, Toronto. A steel mill in northern Ontario has issued layoff notices to 1,000 workers. Algoma Steel in Sue St. Marie blames the layoffs on what it calls unprecedented tariff. imposed by the United States and says the cuts are necessary to protect the future of the company. Algoma recently received half a billion dollars in government loans to protect jobs in the face of those tariffs. A search begins today for the remains of two more murdered indigenous women in a Winnipeg landfill. One of them is a victim of convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. The other

has been missing for more than a decade. Cameron McIntosh has a details. We want to bring her home. For Vernon Man, it's been 14 years of waiting. It's been way too long. He had two children with Tanya Nipanak, missing since 2011. It's believed her body and the body of Ashley Shingus murdered in 2022 are in Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill. At about 8.45 a.m. today, the first truckload of landfill material drove down the hill. Manitoba Premier Wob Canoe confirming this morning a search is beginning.

To recover Shingoose, later, Neapenak. Somebody goes missing, we go looking. Earlier this year, the remains of two other murdered First Nations women were recovered by a similar search in another Winnipeg area landfill. Man is optimistic it will work again. Nobody deserves to be there. The searches are expected to go well into next year. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Winnipeg.

European leaders call it a pivotal week for Ukrainian diplomacy. It comes as negotiators push ahead to iron out a draft deal to end the fighting. And U.S. Special Envoy, Steve Whitkoff, is due to meet with Vladimir Putin in Moscow tomorrow. Ukraine's president says the issue of territory remains the most challenging part of negotiations. Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly rejected Russia's demand that Kiev surrender the land currently occupied by Russian troops. Zelensky says strong security guarantees are also crucial. A growing number of Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the U.S. are warning the Defense Secretary may have committed a war crime. It follows allegations Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean

after an initial attack failed to kill everyone on board. Around 80 people have been killed since the Trump administration began attacking boats, it claims, are trafficking drugs from Venezuela. Democratic representatives Adam Smith questions the legality of the entire operation. The lack of transparency from this Pentagon has been a major problem. I think it's one of the biggest things that's chafed at the Republicans So I think you're going to see a renewed push in light of this incident. You are not supposed to follow orders that are clearly illegal.

And this Pentagon has put service members in an incredibly vulnerable position. Hegg Seth has condemned the report as fake news. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris. Thank you.