The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/13 at 03:00 EST

Episode Date: December 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/13 at 03:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. The federal health minister says she's keeping an eye out to see if some provinces are going too far in embracing private health care. In an interview with CBC Radio's of the House, Marjorie Michelle, said she's also concerned about the impact U.S. public health decisions

are having here in Canada. Host of the House, Catherine Cullen, has more. We are trying to keep everybody under the Canada health tent. Federal health minister Marjorie Michelle says she doesn't believe there's room for more private health care in Canada, though she emphasizes her desire to work with provinces. Last month, Alberta announced plans to let doctors work in the public and private pay for access system simultaneously, a first in Canada. Michelle says federal lawyers are still examining Alberta's legislation, which hasn't become law yet.

Another subject on the minister's mind is the U.S. Health Administration's approach to vaccines. Recently, a U.S. panel recommended rolling back hepatitis B vaccines for all healthy newborns. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. has regularly contradicted scientific consensus. Could that also cause damage here in Canada? I think he will make the damage if we are buying what they are saying. Do you think Canadians are buying what he's saying? Some. Michelle says she's working with organizations on the ground to help get more Canadians

vaccinated. Catherine Cullen, CBC News, Ottawa. You can hear more about this on the House right after the 9 o'clock edition of World Report or wherever you get your podcasts. The governing liberals are suggesting more conservative floor crossings could be on the way. Toronto area MP Michael Maude affected Thursday night, leaving the Liberals just one seat short of a majority. Government House leader Steve McKinnon says he and other grits have been hearing from Tories tipped with the party's leadership. Look, they realize like we do, that we're at a turning point. They realize like we do, that we're in a trade war, and that serious solutions are required.

Ma is the second conservative to join the Liberals in recent weeks, Tory leader Pierre Polyevs, facing a leadership review next month. We're now hearing how Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Karina Machado defied a travel ban and was smuggled out of the country to arrive in Oslo to meet with the Nobel Peace Prize, committee. Brian Stern runs a rescue company that specializes in dangerous missions. There was a land component, a maritime component, and also an air component, a small air component. I could tell you that we were not detected because if we were, they would have certainly killed us all. So I feel very confident in saying that we operated undetected.

Stern says he met Machado at sea. After fleeing Venezuela in disguise, she boarded his boat for a 14-hour journey on choppy seas, followed by a flight. While Machoio said she wants to return to Venezuela, Stern doesn't recommend it. Machado had been in hiding since August 2024. This is the fifth anniversary of a Newfoundland and Labrador group that's been feeding people who are struggling with food insecurity. Sharing the harvest has donated thousands of kilos of locally foraged or hunted food like moose to dozens of organizations in the province. Mark Quinn reports. Thank you. Over the last five years, sharing the harbors

has donated more than 1,500 kilos of moose meat to food banks. The group's founder, Barry Fordham, says there's also been fruit, fish, and even seal. Fordham is part of a movement to make food that's foraged or hunted, sometimes called country food, more available in restaurants and food banks across the province. But he fears he's only making a dent in a growing problem. The food insecurity crisis, as I call it now. Nick Kelly operates the single parents' association's food bank in St. John's. He says country food like Moose is prized by the hundreds of families helped by the association.

The response I get back is really, really good. You know, people are just really happy. Bortem and Kelly are thankful for the generosity they see at this time of year, and they hope donors will remember the need doesn't end when the holidays do. Mark Quinn, CBC News, St. John's. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.