The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/18 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/18 at 22:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. Working news and the hunt for the suspect in the Brown University mass shooting. And I will tell you that he took his own life tonight. Providence, Rhode Island Police Chief Oscar Perez.

Officers had surrounded a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, roughly 110 kilometers north of Providence. The suspect's body found in one of the units dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Providence mayor, Brett Smiley. Our Providence neighbors can finally breathe a little easier. Over the past five days, minutes have felt like ours. But the people of Providence have done what we're best at.

We've leaned on one another, come together, and supported one another, and showed the nation what a tight-knit community looks like. Two people were killed, seven others injured in the Saturday night shooting. A third person, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor, was shot and killed in his home outside Boston Monday night. So far, though, authorities have not connected the two shootings. A deal to keep TikTok operating in the United States has been signed. It should keep the social media app under the control of U.S.-based investors.

Anise Haydari as details. The U.S. side of TikTok will see control sold and transferred to American investors by January 22nd. That deal is now signed, according to a memo seen by both the Associated Press and Reuters. Reports indicate that memo says both TikTok and bite dance. The video app's parent company have agreed that a little under half of a new joint venture will be owned by three U.S. companies, MGX, Silver Lake, and Oracle. That's a tech company controlled by Trump ally Larry Ellison. Just under 20% of this new TikTok company will stick with the current owner, China-based Bite Dance. The TikTok app had been banned during the Biden administration over national security concerns tied to Chinese ownership.

The first Trump administration had expressed similar concerns, but this time around, Trump kept postponing cutting off the app. Under this deal, reports say the algorithm. That's the program that controls what people see on TikTok will be reconfigured based on U.S. data. Any Cidari, CBC News, Calgary. RCMP in Alberta have arrested more than a dozen people after a blitz targeting crime against critical infrastructure. Police say the 14 suspects are accused of targeting oil, electricity, and other infrastructure. Staff Sergeant Luke Helverson says it's often resulted in thousands of dollars in damage.

The dollar amount of what they steal pales in comparison to the damage they caused to the site, the downtime lack of productivity. Oftentimes these sites can cause safety issues for the workers, for nearby residents. The RCMP says they've laid a total of 40 charges. It adds while these offenders were targeting property and infrastructure, the crimes can quickly escalate to violence. Nova Scotia's interim liberal leader Ian Rankin says the Premier owes First Nations an apology for recent comments about illegal cannabis. Premier Tim Houston said last week that dispensaries are selling cannabis laced with fentanyl.

But the RCMPs say they have never found fentanyl in cannabis seized during raids. Spouting off things without evidence to back it up is I think unjustified and there probably should be an apology if they're actually targeting First Nations with comments like that. it's hurtful. We need to take a step back and start to work in collaboration with MiGMA communities and find a delivery model that they're included on. The province created a model for McMaw bans to own and operate legal cannabis stores that are supplied by the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation. While McCook First Nation signed an agreement with the corporation to run a shop under this model, but following the province's directive for a police crackdown on unregulated cannabis

sales, the band says it's tapping the brakes. And still with marijuana, U.S. President, Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday, downgrading cannabis from the most restrictive category of drugs. It doesn't legalize the drug, but makes it easier for access for health care and research. That is the world this hour. Get all the news you need anytime, anywhere. Download the free CBC News app today. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.