The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 00:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. bro.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. A northern Ontario steel mill is laying off about 1,000 workers. The announcement comes just months after Algoma Steel received half a billion dollars in loans to avoid this exact scenario. Anise Haydari has reaction.

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 Francoel-Philippe Champagne 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 Hadari, CBC News, Calgary. Prime Minister Mark Carney is making changes to his cabinet. To conclude the ceremony, please join. Join me in congratulating the ministers. Three ministers were sworn in at Rideau Hall Monday following the resignation of Stephen Gilbeau last week. Mark Miller is back in Cabinet, now the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture,

and Minister responsible for official languages. Two other ministers are taking on extra duties. Procurement Minister Joel Lightbound will also serve as Quebec Lieutenant, and Julie DeBruzen, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, is adding nature to the list. of her responsibilities. A search began Monday for the remains of two more murdered indigenous women in a Winnipeg landfill.

One of them is a victim of the convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibitsky. The other has been missing for more than a decade. Cameron McIntosh has more. 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 Shingoose 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 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 deals for Canadian business. 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's defense capabilities amid threats from Russia. Ottawa will create a new defense investment agency to lead Canada's participation in the program.

The deal still has to be ratified by both Canada and the EU. Well, European leaders call it a pivotal week for Ukraine. It comes as negotiators push ahead to iron out a draft deal to end the fighting. U.S. Special Envoy, Steve Whitkoff, is supposed to meet with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Tuesday. Ukraine's president says the issue of territory remains the most challenging part of negotiations. Volodemir Zelensky has repeatedly rejected Russia's demand that he surrender the land currently occupied by Russian troops.

Zelensky says strong security guarantees are also critical. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.