The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 08:00 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, it's the world this hour.

I'm Joe Cummings. Less than a week after signing a memorandum of understanding on pipelines and energy with Alberta, Prime Minister Mark Carney appears today before the Assembly of First Nations. And among those in attendance, our First Nations chiefs from BC, who are prepared to take action against any pipeline. proposal for the province's northwest coast. Olivia Stavanovich has more. It's a slap in the face of British Columbia.

To many First Nations, we're very concerned. This isn't the issue Terry Tiji was hoping the annual special chief's assembly in Ottawa would start on. But the regional chief of British Columbia says the Assembly of First Nations has no other choice. Now that Ottawa is working with Alberta to greenlight new oil pipelines to the West Coast. Well, certainly I think there's a lot of mistrust here. TG says BC chiefs are preparing to push back through an emergency resolution. It calls on the AFN to support upholding the oil tanker ban along BC's northern coast,

a moratorium that Ottawa is willing to lift temporarily to get Alberta's oil to Asian markets. To get approval, Prime Minister Mark Carney says there must be full partnership, equity, ownership, and economic benefits for First Nations. Olivia Estefanovich, CBC News, Ottawa. U.S. Special Envoy, Steve Whitkoff, is in Moscow today for talks on a Ukrainian peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Whitkoff's visit follows weekend talks in Florida with Ukrainian officials, which the White House is calling optimistic.

However, the European Union defense ministers meeting in Brussels say they are concerned the U.S. is pushing Ukraine to make concessions. that will ultimately reward Russia for starting the war. The publisher of a beloved Canadian cartoon character has issued a statement condemning U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegzeth. Hey, it's Franklin. Coming over to play. That issue is a recent social media post by Hegzith

that depicts Franklin the Turtle as a bazooka-wielding soldier. Hegeseth posted a mock cover of a book he calls Franklin targeting narco-terrorists. It features Franklin standing in a helicopter dressed in military garb and firing a weapon. It appears to be a reference to recent U.S. military strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats. The publisher, Kids Can Press, says Franklin stands for kindness and empathy, and it condemns how he is depicted by a member of the Trump White House. First steps are being taken toward the renaming of Great Slave Lake. The enormous body of water in the Northwest Territories is roughly the size of Belgium,

but its name carries a hurtful connotation for the Dene people. Sarah Saint-Pierre has more. We really want to change the name because the name, Great Slave Lake, it doesn't sit well with our traditional name. Dilo Chief Cred Sangris of the Yellowknives-Denay First Nation is working with neighboring nations to come up with a new name for Great Slave Lake by next year. an option being considered is from the Yellowknife area. The name Tucho is what we used to call the Big Lake.

It's one of many contenders. The NWT Legislative Assembly received a formal renaming request in 2022. The Yellowknives Dene First Nation and the Daninukoi First Nation will set up a working group with input from elders. They hope to choose a new name by their next General Assembly. If approved, it will begin a journey through various levels of government. And if there's agreement, Great Slave Lake could be replaced with a new name on future maps. Sarah Saint-Pierre, CBC News, Yellowknife. Two Australian teenagers are taking the government to court.

As a young Australian, we as a whole have our constitutional right taken away from us. That is 15-year-old Noah Jones, one of the plaintiffs challenging the government's social media crackdown. As of next week, a law goes into effect in the country that bans anyone under the age of 16 from going on X, TikTok or Snapchat among other platforms. The government calls the social media ban a public health measure. And that is the world this hour.