The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: December 2, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/02 at 17:00 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 The World This Hour, I'm Stephanie Skanderas. Prime Minister Mark Carney has addressed the First Nations chiefs gathered in Ottawa. He says the federal government will go ahead with its major projects only if they are in the national interest. And that designation needs to meet certain criteria,

including consultation with indigenous peoples. Under the legislation, there must be consultation consistent with free prior and informed consent before a project can be designated in Canada's national interest, and none have been so far. Carney's comments come after AFN chiefs unanimously passed an emergency resolution today. It demands the cancellation of the pipeline agreement. between Ottawa and Alberta. Quebec is the latest province to try and tackle sky-high resale ticket prices

for sport and entertainment events. A new bill calls on greater transparency from the websites to ensure clients know what they're buying. Sarah Levitt reports. Consumer Protection Minister Simon Jean-Lain Barrett says resale ticket sites are getting out of hand. The new law will put the onus on resale sites to make it clear

they're selling the tickets at a higher price and they must post the original price. The government was prompted to take action following a tribute concert to the late frontmen of the group The Cowboy Fringen. The group opted to hold a public event for free at the Bell Center.

Tickets were snagged with some being resold for upwards of $500. Sarah Eve Lavek is with Option Consumateur, a consumer advocacy group. What we've seen is that sometimes consumers will buy tickets on a resale site and not know they're on a resale site. The Quebec bill won't go as far as the United Kingdom, though, where reselling tickets will be banned outright unless sold at face value.

Sarah Levitt's CBC News, Montreal. Edmonton Police Service says it'll run a test project that involves using artificial intelligence in officers' body cameras. The goal is to improve facial recognition and help officers in the field. Erin Collins has more. There we go. So we can see that the mugshot photo of Ann Lee here is on the left. Edmonton Police Superintendent Kurt Martin demoing a new way to ID lawbreakers. The idea, simple enough, a police officer in the field would be able to engage their body camera

to get more information about the person in front of them. The image would be analyzed by AI, searching a limited database of people wanted for a violent crime in the city. If the subject is flagged, the officer in the field would be alerted. For now, this is all just hypothetical, a test of the cameras and software. But Martin says that could change. In a future phase, the idea would be obviously to do this in near real time and make sure that our officers are aware of any potential dangers that exist to them. Edmonton's pilot project will also have a human officer checking the results of the AI.

The forces test run starts Wednesday and will last about a month. Aaron Collins, CBC News. Calgary. Alberta has unveiled its plan to fight Ottawa's firearms buyback program. An order paper filed by the province's justice minister says Alberta will use all legal means possible to push

back against implementation. That includes refusing to provide prosecution and policing resources to enforce the federal laws. The Alberta government says Ottawa's gun policies are unconstitutional and infringe on the rights of law-abiding Albertans.

President Donald Trump says he's hopeful the latest U.S.-led effort to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal will yield progress. Our people are over in Russia right now to see if we can get it settled. Not an easy situation. Let me tell you, what a mess. Talks have just ended between Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. For nearly five hours, they discussed revisions to an initial peace plan that many European nations have criticized for being favorable to Russia. The results of that meeting aren't yet clear, but the Kremlin is calling the talks productive.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Stephanie Scandaris.