The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/03 at 07:00 EST

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/03 at 07:00 EST

I've been patiently yet anxiously dreading this moment. It is the end of Stranger Things. This is the show that started back in 2016. We get to watch these teenagers fighting supernatural forces. Now it's beginning its fifth and final season this week on Netflix. On Commotion, I talked to some of the smartest TV critics I know about all things, Stranger Things, and about how this show transformed the way that we watch television.

For this episode and more, you can find and follow Commotion with me, Alameen Abdul Mahmoud, on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings with canada at the table offering a new round of financial aid the nato foreign ministers are discussing the ukrainian war effort today in brussels and as we hear now from crystal gamansing while the latest peace talks appear to be wavering it's clear that nato's support for Ukraine is not. The best way to put pressure on the Russians is by doing two things.

One is making sure that the Russians understand that the weapon flow into Ukraine will keep ongoing. Mark Rudah, NATO Secretary-General, said the second pressure lever on Russia is biting economic sanctions. NATO members and Ukrainian allies are also not deterred, including Canada. Anita Onend pledged a new round of $200 million to NATO's prioritized Ukraine. requirements list, also known as Pearl. Second, I am announcing that Canada is committing $35 million in security support

through the NATO Comprehensive Assistance Package Fund. Norway also announced another $500 million for Pearl, saying it has to be well equipped to defend itself and negotiate from a position of strength. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. The hunt for a aircraft that disappeared more than a decade ago is starting up again. The Malaysian government says it will carry out a 55-day search for flight MH370 beginning December 30th. The plane disappeared in 2014 on its way from Kuala Lampur to Beijing. 239 people were on board.

The initial search that followed was the largest in aviation history. This new effort will involve an underwater exploration company. that will search a 15,000 square kilometer site of the floor of the Indian Ocean. 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. Testimony will be heard from witnesses with individual concerns about the agreement and from those who say the legally negotiated deal is being undermined by the Trump administration's trade war with Canada. Questions are being asked in Newfoundland and Labrador

about 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. The wife of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez says he has been released from prison following a pardon from U.S. President Donald Trump. And the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is also confirming his release from a penitentiary in West Virginia. Hernandez, who was arrested in 2022 at America's request, was convicted in New York and sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for a drug cartel. Trump says he believes Hernandez was set up.

And that is the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings.