The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/03 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/03 at 06:00 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, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With the clock ticking, a deadline is now just weeks away for the federal government to table its plan to reform the First Nations Child Welfare System. The court-ordered deadline was said after the Assembly of First Nations rejected a previous proposal

that was offering more than $47 billion. Olivia Stabenovic reports. After almost two decades of litigation, Prime Minister Mark Carney is pledging. His government will be the one to reform the First Nations Child Welfare System once and for all. This will help ensure the First Nations children grow up safe. But Carney's plan isn't the only one in the works. This moment and time will go down in history. CBC News was invited to attend a behind-the-scenes session

at the Assembly of First Nations meetings in Ottawa, hosted by Chiefs and Children's Advocates. They are crafting their own proposal. First Nations leaders rejected the previous liberal government's offer of more than $47 billion. dollars. Concerned the money wasn't guaranteed, and the discrimination against their children wouldn't end. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered the government to submit a new plan by December 22nd. It will be compared to the other proposal put forward by chiefs and advocates.

Olivia Estevenovic, CBC News, Ottawa. Questions are being asked in Newfoundland and Labrador, but why the province has yet to sign on to the federal pharmacare program. The newly elected progressive conservative government is insisting it is interested, but critics are saying it needs to take action to get on board. Mark Quinn has more. In a statement, Newfoundland and Labrador's government says it will negotiate a pharmacare deal when the federal government is, quote, ready to facilitate those discussions. The Council of Canadians, Yvonne Earle, is calling on the province to do more. If they wait, it's not going to happen. the push has to come from the provinces.

Earl heard Prime Minister Mark Carney say he wants to bring more provinces into the program, but she also saw that there was no new money for pharmacare in the last federal budget. When the Farmer Care Act passed in 2024, the Trudeau government did say it would be the first phase of a universal pharmacare program. Jim Dinn, the province's NDP leader,

can't understand why Newfoundland and Labrador isn't scrambling to sign on. The basic thing like this that could help with affordability. Both the NDP and the Council of Canadians hope to eventually see a comprehensive program that covers all medically necessary drugs. Mark Quinn, CBC News, St. John's. Newfoundland and Labrador isn't the only province or territory still not signed on to the program. In fact, only BC, Manitoba, P.E.I and Yukon have come to terms with Ottawa.

Public hearings get underway today in Washington into the current state of Kuzma. the Canada-U.S.-Mexican free trade deal. The hearings are part of a mandatory review by all countries. It comes amid U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war on Canada, and while the deal was forged during his first term in office, since beginning his second term, Trump has been threatening to withdraw or renegotiate the pact. Despite little progress in the recent round of talks to end the war in Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta is insisting the Ukrainian war effort remains strong. strong, thanks primarily to its allies. The best way to put pressure on the Russians is by making sure that the Russians understand

that the weapon flow into Ukraine will keep on going. There's exactly what's happening today. Thanks to the U.S., thanks to the Europeans, U.S. sending its crucial gear to Ukraine, paid for by Canada and European allies, but also Europe and Canada are doing a lot bilaterally. And secondly, making sure that the economic sanctions bite, that they are effective.

That's also exactly what is happening. With Canada, as Anita on and at the table, that's Ruta speaking today at a NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels. Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff held talks in Moscow. Russia is describing the talks as constructive, but they insist that no compromise has been reached. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.