The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/03 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/03 at 01:00 EST

Is your home ready for the next big snowstorm? You can take action to help protect your home from extreme weather. Discover prevention tips that can help you be climate ready at keep it intact.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. The Prime Minister addressed leaders at the Assembly of First Nations where concerns is growing about the potential. pipeline deal he just signed with Alberta. David Thurton reports on the message he went to

deliver and the one now being sent to him. Let's see. Thank you for allowing us to be here. Mr. Carney. Terry T.G. is the regional chief for British Columbia. He told the Prime Minister, the Assembly of First Nations passed a unanimous motion upholding the oil tanker ban on B.C.'s North Coast. To affirm the North Coast Declaration and rejection of any proposed pipeline to B.C. East Coast today. Thank you. The BC Chief called for a meeting with the Prime Minister, which Mark Carney said is in the works. The process of having that meeting has already begun. The request has already been made by my office. The Prime Minister said he recognizes First Nation leaders have a broad range of

issues that they want addressed. He announced another joint meeting early in the new year with premiers and First Nation leaders, where they get to set the agenda. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa. The UN Secretary General is sounding the alarm over his budget. Antonio Guterres says if more countries don't pay their annual dues to the United Nations, he'll have to cut 18% of his workforce next year. I've repeatedly appealed to member states to pay their assessed contributions in full and on time. The UN chief says he now has a deficit of $1.5 billion from shortfalls in the last two years. The U.S. is the biggest contributor to the U.N. budget, but President Donald Trump is threatening to slash that funding.

Quebec is the latest province to try to tackle sky-high resale ticket prices for sports and entertainment events. A new bill demands greater transparency from the websites to ensure fans know what they're buying. Sarah Levitt has more. 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 Le 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. Donald Trump is threatening to expand his attacks on alleged South American drug traffickers. So far, the strikes have hit boats in Caribbean waters.

But as Katie Simpson reports, on Tuesday, the U.S. President repeated his threat that targets on land will be next. Welcome to the final cabinet meeting of 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump kicked off what would become a lengthy and unusual meeting, unexpectedly announcing his plan to expand U.S. attacks on international drug traffickers, beyond the American airstrikes currently targeting boats in the Caribbean. And we're going to start doing those strikes on land, too. You know, the land is much easier.

It's much easier. And we know the routes they take. Trump didn't specify when this phase of the campaign would begin other than to say soon. The U.S. military has already surged resources to the Caribbean as tensions intensify. And while Trump says Venezuelan drug traffickers have been the target of attack so far, that's not necessarily going to be the case moving forward. Anybody that's doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack. Katie Simpson, CBC News, Washington.

And that is your world this hour. For news any time, you can visit our website. We're at cbcnews.ca.ca. I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you for listening.