The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 15:00 EST

In 1983, Paladin Press published a book called Hitman. This book offers specific tips for the aspiring contract killer. Things like where to find employment, how much to charge, basically how to get away with murder, and also not feel bad about it. Ten years later, the book was linked to a triple killing. This week on Crime Story, can a book be an accomplice to murder? Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. A steel mill in northern Ontario has issued layoff notices to 1,000 workers.

Algoma Steel and Sue St. Marie blames the layoffs on what it calls unprecedented tariffs imposed by the United States and says the cuts are necessary to protect the future of the company. Industry minister, Melanie Jolie, says the government will support the workers through this difficult transition. My team and I have been in contact with Algoma's leadership team. We absolutely have every confidence in the Algoma workers as they're going through this hardship. And we will make sure that we support them as they're developing new products and also accessing new markets. We'll fight for these jobs.

Algoma recently received half a billion dollars in government loans to protect jobs in the face of those tariffs. 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 the blaze affecting two towers at a Thorncliffe Park high-rise. This is the material. 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 full. 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 search for the remains of a First Nations woman begins today at Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill. Ashley Shingoose was a victim of convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. He's now serving four concurrent life sentences for killing four First Nations women

in 2022. Two of them were found at a different landfill earlier this year. The Manitoba government says once this search is complete, it'll look for Tanya Nipanak, another First Nations woman who's been missing for more than 14 years. The White House is defending the actions of the U.S. Defense Secretary and military over a strike on a suspected drug boat near Venezuela. The Washington Post reports a second strike on the boat was ordered to kill the survivors of the initial attack. Katie Nicholson has latest. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt faced question after question about the second strike on the boat. To clarify, Admiral Bradley was the one who gave that order for a second strike. And he was well within his authority to do so.

Levitt confirmed the Washington Post's reporting there was a second strike on the vessel, which the U.S. has claimed, without evidence, was operated by narco-terrorists. Among those raising concerns about that second strike, independent senator, Angus King. That's a stone-cold war crime. Leavitt was asked about its justification. What law is it that allows no survivors? The strike conducted on September 2nd was conducted in self-defense to protect Americans in vital United States interests.

The strike was conducted in international waters and in accordance with the law of armed conflict. Republican-led congressional committees have vowed to fully investigate the circumstances of the strike. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. The number of dead from the devastating floods across Southeast Asia has now topped 1,000. A third of the deaths are in Sri Lanka. An Air Force helicopter picks up women and children from a hospital cut off by floods.

Severe downpours affected the whole country and especially the tea-growing central region. Hundreds of people are also dead in Indonesia and Thailand. Many more are still missing. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris. Thank you. Thank you.