The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 16:00 EST

Episode Date: December 1, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 16:00 EST

When Joe Hill started writing, he kept his real last name a secret from publishers because his real last name is King. His dad is The Stephen King, the guy who wrote books like It and Carrie and The Shining. So Joe's a best-selling author himself, and over the years the secret is out. But on Q with me, Tom Power, Joe will tell you why keeping that secret actually helped his career. And how the biggest giveaway that he was Stephen King's son was his face. Listen to Q with Tom Power wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. A northern Ontario steel mill is laying off about a thousand workers.

The announcement comes just months after Algoma Steel received half a billion dollars in loans to avoid exactly this scenario. Anisei Dari reports. We were brought into a meeting at 7.30 this a.m. and notified that notice was being served. Michael De Pratt is president of the United Steel Workers' Local 2251 in Sioux-Saint-Marie. While he knew job cuts were coming because of manufacturing changes, it was a surprise. What has occurred is that the transfer to the EAF technology happened earlier than expected. The company has been changing its manufacturing methods to pivot away from tariffed products.

Back in September, it was offered $500 million in government loans. At the time, a federal release said the money was to help limit disruption to the workforce. The first thing we need to do is to support workers. Speaking hours after the layoffs were announced, Finance Minister Francois-Philippe-Champeng didn't provide details on how the government might do that. We've been in touch with the company, certainly, to make sure that we can support them. Al-Gomis Steele has said the 1,000 layoffs are necessary to protect the company's future against external forces like U.S. tariffs. Anis-Hidari, CBC News, Calgary.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is making changes to his cabinet. To conclude the ceremony, please join me in congratulating the ministers. Three ministers were sworn in at Rideau Hall today following the resignation of Stephen Gilboe last week. Mark Miller is back to Cabinet, now the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for official languages. Two other ministers are taking on additional duties.

Procurement Minister, Joel Lightbound, will also serve as Quebec Lieutenant, and Julie DeBruzen, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, will be adding Nature to the list of her responsibilities. 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 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 Roald. landfill. At about 8.45 a.m. today, the first truckload of landfill material drove down the hill at the... Manitoba Premier Wob Canoe confirming this morning a search is beginning. To recover Shingoose, later Nipanak.

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. Ottawa has finalized an agreement to join the European Union's military procurement program. Defense Minister David McGinty says the deal will unlock billions of dollars in potential defense opportunities for Canadian businesses. This will allow Canada, for example, to participate by supplying capabilities such as ammunition, missiles, drones, artillery systems, infantry weapons, and beyond.

The so-called SAFE initiative is meant to boost Europe. defense capabilities in the face of Russian aggression. Ottawa will create a new defense investment agency to lead Canada's participation in the program. The deal has yet to be ratified by both Canada and the EU. European leaders, meanwhile, call it a pivotal week for Ukrainian diplomacy. It comes as negotiators push ahead to iron out a draft deal to end the fighting. 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. And that is the world this hour. For news any time, you can visit our website at cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Thank you.