The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 01:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Neil Hurland. 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 responsibility. Marie Navon Stackleberg has details on Monday's cabinet shuffle. I'm 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 DeBruson 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, The job changes come after Gilbo quit cabinet last week because Ottawa signed a deal with Alberta.

It lays the political path for a new oil pipeline. Gilbo 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 citizen-led petition affirming Alberta should remain part of Canada has been verified by Alberta election officials and is now a woman. on its way to the provincial legislature. In a statement, Elections Alberta says

it accepts that more than 400,000 citizens signed the petition spearheaded by former provincial deputy premier Thomas Lukazek. Lukasik says he engineered the petition to counter calls for separatism. A fire at two high-rise buildings in Toronto is still burning for the fifth day. It was discovered on Thursday, forcing hundreds of people out of their apartments in the city's Thorncliffe Park neighborhood. Jim Jessup is Toronto's fire chief. He says the reason the fire keeps burning 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 Red Cross is supporting households displaced by the fire. A search for the remains of a First Nations woman began Monday at Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill. Ashley Shingoose was a victim of the convicted serial killer Jeremy Skibitsky.

He's now serving four concurrent life sentences for killing four First Nations women in 2022. Two of their bodies were found at a different landfill earlier this year. The Manitoba government says once this search is complete, it will look for the body of Tanya Nipanak, another First Nations woman who's been missing for 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 the U.S. Defense Secretary after 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 Simpson has more.

The president has a right to take them out if they are threatening the United States. States of America. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt aggressively defending the actions of the U.S. military, confirming the U.S. carried out two strikes on one suspected drug boat on September 2nd, saying Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized the operation, which was conducted by Admiral Frank Bradley. Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed. The admission follows a report by the Washington Post, which said the second strike was ordered, after two survivors were spotted clinging to wreckage. It was done reportedly to satisfy a verbal order from Hegsef to kill everyone on board.

Levitt was careful with her words. She denied Hegeseth ordered everyone be killed, though she did not deny the second strike was meant to kill any remaining survivors. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.