The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/15 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/15 at 11:00 EST

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32 year old nick reiner is in police custody today following the death of his parents rob and michel reiner at this point there are no details regarding charges rob reiner's body and the body of his wife were found yesterday at the couple's home in los angeles Los Angeles Police Officers, along with the Los Angeles City Fire Department, responded to the 200 block of Chadbourne Avenue here in the city of Brentwood. Upon arrival, they determined that there were two deceased individuals inside of the residence. That is L.A. Deputy Police Chief Alan Hamilton. Rob Reiner is the son of comedy great Carl Reiner.

He began his career as an actor on the 1970s sitcom All in the Family and went on to direct such movies, hit movies, as when Harry met Sally. A few good men, the Princess Bride, and Spinal Tap, among others. Rob Reiner was 78 years old. Memorial ceremonies are being held across Australia today following yesterday's deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bandai Beach. That's one service held overnight in Sydney. Fifteen people were killed in yesterday's shooting,

which police and government officials are calling a terrorist. attack. Police say it was carried out by a father and son with the 50-year-old father shot and killed on the scene. They say the 24-year-old was shot by police and is in hospital. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he's considering stricter gun control laws. However, many Jewish leaders are saying gun control is not the issue. Some are saying the Albanese government has failed to protect the Jewish community in the face of rising anti-Semitism across the country. The latest inflation figures are out this morning from Statistics Canada, and they're showing that the national inflation rate was unchanged last month, coming in at 2.2%. Peter Armstrong has more.

This falls right about where economists were expecting to see inflation land this month. The biggest driver up was food prices, groceries were up 4.7% year over year. Frozen beef, for example, up 17.7%. The biggest driver down was in a category of travel tours and accommodation. And as it turns out, was that we're still working our way through the Taylor Swift impact on economic data. In November of last year, of course, Swift came through Canada and we saw hotel and travel costs shot up as demand surged. Well, now here we are a year later. An accommodation without Taylor Swift in town has come back down 6.9%. Rents at the same time are also rising, but they're rising at a slower pace. And all of this together keeps

the rate of inflation right at that target range, the Bank of Canada likes to see. Peter Armstrong. CBC News, Toronto. A person of interest in the weekend shooting at Brown University has now been released from custody, and police say the gunman responsible remains at large. Two students were killed and nine others were injured in the campus shooting. Willie Lowry has a latest. Rhode Island authorities say that after hours in custody, they simply didn't have enough evidence to charge the person that they had detained earlier Sunday morning. And they believe that the information they have collected points in a different direction. Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Norona says he's still confident they'll find the killer. Obviously, we have a murderer out there, frankly, and so we're not going to give away the game plan.

But the fact of the matter is law enforcement has the tools necessary. to solve this case. The Ivy League School has canceled classes and exams and allowed students to head home early for the holidays. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley says residents should still feel safe despite police releasing the initial person of interest. We have not received any credible or specific threats to the Providence community. The FBI is assisting local authorities in the investigation.

There's still no word on a possible motive behind the attack. Willie Lowry, CBC News, Washington. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.