The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 19:00 EST

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/01 at 19:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Prime Minister Mark Carney is making changes to his front bench. A former Trudeau cabinet member is being welcomed back, while two of his ministers are taking on extra responsibilities. Marina von Stackleberg has a details on the cabinet shuffle. Hi, Mark Miller. A former liberal cabinet member promoted to Mark Carney's inner circle.

Mark Miller was sworn in as Minister of Official Languages and Canadian identity and culture. Miller was a prominent minister under Justin Trudeau, but was left out of Carney's cabinet until now. How does that feel to be called minister again? I just prefer Mark. It's the one thing they can't take away. Environment Minister Julie DeBrucun will take on parks and nature.

Procurement minister, Joel Lightbound, now has the extra job of Quebec lieutenant. I look forward to getting to it with the, I'm sure with the advice of Sivin Gilbo. The job changes come after Gilboe quit cabinet last week because Ottawa signed a deal with Alberta. It lays the political path for a new oil pipeline. Gobot was Trudeau's environment minister. He says he resigned after watching Carney dismantle the climate policies they'd created. Marina von Stackleberg,

CBC News, Ottawa. A steel mill in northern Ontario has issued layoff notices to a thousand 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. Algoma recently received half a billion dollars in government loans to protect jobs in the face of those tariffs. A fire at two Toronto high-rise buildings is still burning for the fifth day. It was discovered on Thursday and has since displaced hundreds of people in the city's Thorncliffe Park neighborhood. Toronto Fire Service's chief, Jim Jessup, says the reason behind the continuous burn is the material used within the walls.

The very frustrating thing for our staff is it is not generating flames. Think of a cigar that is slowly burning. And so it is just creeping up and up and spreading. Our thermal imaging cameras are not even picking up heat signatures. But at this point, there is nothing to suggest there is any structural damage. The Canadian Red Cross is currently supporting 141 households displaced by the fire. Chief Jessup says the cause is still underinvest. investigation. A search for the remains of a First Nations woman begins today at Winnipeg's Brady Road

landfill. Ashley Shingoos 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 from more than 14 years. Police believe her body was put in a garbage bin and taken to the Brady Road landfill. The White House is defending the actions of its 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 a latest.

White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt faced question after question about the second strike on the vote. 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. Levitt 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. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris. Thank you.