The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 10:00 EST

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 10:00 EST

Hi there, Steve Patterson here, host of the debaters, the show where Canada's funniest comedians compete for your laughter. This week's episode is right on cue, is pool superior to darts? Two sharpshooting debaters are taking this one on, so listen wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. We go first to Ottawa. A three-day assembly of First Nation Summit is underway, and on the agenda this afternoon is an appearance by Prime Minister Mark Carney. It comes less than a week after he signed a memorandum of understanding on pipelines and energy with Alberta.

And among those at the summit are a number of BC chiefs who are prepared to take action against any pipeline proposed for the province's northwest coast. Olivia Stavanovich has more. It's a slap in the face of British Columbians. To many First Nations, we're very concerned. This isn't the issue Terry Tiji was hoping the annual Special Chiefs 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 a number. 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. After meeting with Ukrainian officials, over the weekend in Florida, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff is now in Moscow, discussing a peace plan for Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Crystal Gimancing reports.

It comes as Russia claims to be winning on the battlefield, seizing more territory, including the eastern city of Prokrosk. I don't believe it, says Olha Palipchuk, a resident of Kiev. She and others say Russia is claiming victories to bolster its negotiating position. Russia occupies about 20% of Ukraine right now. In the original peace framework, Russia demanded Ukraine give up territory in the east, including locations not under occupation. Mark Ruda is the Secretary-General of NATO.

The talks are now underway. I've stopped years ago to comment on Lavrov, on Putin or on Peskov. I've met them all in the past as Prime Minister, the Netherlands, and I can assure you, let them talk and not always react. Ruta did say he supports the peace efforts being led by the U.S. that you have to start somewhere. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. A publisher of a beloved Canadian cartoon character has issued a statement

condemning U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hey, it's Franklin. Coming over to play. That issue is a recent social media post by Hegseth that depicts Franklin the Turtle as a bazooka-wielding soldier. Hegseth posted a mock cover of a book titled Franklin Targets Narco-Terrorists. It features Franklin standing in a helicopter dressed in military garb and firing a weapon. It appears to be a reference to a recent U.S. military strike on suspected drug-smuggling boats. The publisher, Kids Can Press, says Franklin stands for kindness and empathy, and it condemns.

how he is being depicted by the Trump White House. 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 Australia that bans anyone under the age of 16 from going on TikTok, X, or Snapchat, among other platforms. Instead of cutting kids off from social media, because we're not the problem, we should be cutting off the bad things about social media, the online bullies, the predators, and the explicit content.

The government passed a social media ban into law earlier this year. And that is the world this hour.