The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/04 at 01:00 EST

Episode Date: December 4, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/04 at 01:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. The BC Conservative Party says John Rustad is no longer its leader after a vote of no confidence from the majority of the party's caucus, but Rustad disagrees. So I'm currently still the leader of the party. Nothing has changed since we discussed this this morning. Rustad says he plans to stay and insists the party's claim that he's ousted, has no constitutional basis. The Conservative Party's board of directors passed a motion saying Rustad is, quote, professionally incapacitated. The politician had been fighting calls to resign from within his own party for months. Trevor Halford is the provincial member for Surrey White Rock. He says

he's been selected as interim leader of the party. A pulp and paper giant Domtar is closing one of its mills in Crofton, B.C., putting 350 workers out of a job. That news is hitting the Vancouver Island community hard. Marie Zidler reports. Brian Dace worked at the Crofton Mill for more than 20 years. His son worked there until last year when the paper operations were curtailed indefinitely. Now it shut down, which is a sad day for me and everybody working there. Dace says the news has hit the community hard, even if it doesn't come as a total surprise.

There's been rumors for a long time that the days were numbered. Lindsay Mandel runs a couple of businesses in the area. she's worried about how the closure will affect her customers. It's right before Christmas. And Crofton is already kind of a struggling community. Jeff Daw is the national president of the union representing the workers. He says people are devastated. It's a gut punch to the Cowich and Valley.

Daw is scheduled to meet with the Forest Minister. He hopes the province will provide some kind of support for the 350 people left without a job. Maurice Idler, CBC News, Comox. A Calgary teen is facing several charges. after allegedly using artificial intelligence to create sexually explicit material for other minors. Aaron Collins has more. This is not a joke.

It's not a prank. This is the most extreme form of bullying and a criminal offense. That offense, one, a Calgary teen, is alleged to have committed, accused of using pictures of other high school students to create deep fakes of sexually explicit material. Investigators seized a laptop, tablet, and cell phones from the 17. teen-year-old's home. The teen whose identity isn't being released is charged with making, possessing, and distributing child sexual abuse and exploitation materials, along with criminal harassment. Staff Sergeant Mark Oge is with Calgary Police. It's going to be a horrible impact. Teenagers are going through probably the most changes in their life with the self-image, body image.

The teenage boy was released with a number of conditions, including not having any electronics capable of accessing the internet other than for work or school. His next scheduled court appearance is January 8th. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Calgary. In Minnesota, U.S. immigration agents have begun an operation, specifically targeting the state's large Somali population. As Katie Nicholson reports, the action follows Donald Trump telling immigrants from the African country

to go back to where they came from. This language has consequences. Community leaders lined up in the twin cities. to condemn the U.S. President's language. It emboldens extremists and it puts real people in danger. What is happening in Minnesota... U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a tirade against Somalis. Their country stinks and we don't want them in our country.

And referenced a fraud scandal which he laid at their feet. It is true that nearly 80 Minnesotans have been charged in connection to a fraud investigation of a multi-million dollar COVID-era child hunger fund. And that dozens of those charged are Somali, though most of them were U.S. citizens and the alleged ringleader is white. These remarks come as multiple agencies are reporting renewed ICE operations targeting Somali communities in Minnesota. Minneapolis's police chief reminded the public his force won't help in any federal immigration crackdown. Katie Nicholson, CBC News, Washington. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland.

Thank you.