The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/13 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: December 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/13 at 11:00 EST

All right, I got to tell you, I can't believe it's already end of year list season. Hi, friend. I'm Elamine Abdu Mahmoud and on my show, Commotion. We've been keeping track of all the trends that have come and gone in 2025. And this week, we're finally doing it. We're kicking off our year-in-review coverage with a look back at the year in music. I don't know what your top song was. I don't know what artists define your 2025.

But some of my favorite music critics are going to join me at the commotion table to get into this year in music. You can find that episode of Commotion and much more when you follow us on YouTube. or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Fagg. 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 The House, Marjorie Michel 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. Floodwaters are receding in BC's Fraser Valley. The region was deluged this week by an atmospheric river. 460 properties are evacuated, the majority of them in Abbotsford. Another 1,700 are under evacuation alert. Spencer Coyne is the mayor of Princeton east of Abbotsburg. He's encouraged the town's two main rivers are subsiding, but also worries about the coming days.

There's another system coming, and that system is supposed to be almost as big, if not bigger, and that should hit us about Monday. Floods are also receding south of the border in Washington State, which was hit by the same atmospheric river. Thailand's foreign minister is publicly pushing back on a claim by U.S. President Donald Trump that he has brokered a ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia. Violence flared up again this week in the century-long border dispute. After speaking with both leaders on Friday, the U.S. President claimed that he had the situation straightened out. Today, the Thai foreign minister, Shahasik Funggetko, said he was disappointed. Some of the points in his tweet doesn't reflect an accurate understanding of the situation.

And some of the points are inconsistent with the facts. Perhaps President Trump, the source of information had deliberately distorted the facts. The leaders of both Cambodia and Thailand confirmed in statements that no ceasefire had been reached. It's 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 harvest,

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 your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg.