The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 00:00 EST

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 00:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles friday the u.s justice department is supposed to release investigative files related to sick late sex offender geoffrey epstein but the day before that legally imposed deadline democrats in the u.s released more images from the epstein estate paul hunter has more from washington all of the photos dozens of them are from geoffrey epstein's estate given to lawmakers investigating the U.S. government's handling of aspects of the Epstein case made public a day before a deadline for the U.S. Department of Justice to release all of its files on Epstein.

One photo shows a woman's bare foot with a handwritten passage on it from the book Lolita about a middle-aged man's sexual obsession with a 12-year-old girl. Others show more passages from the same book written on a woman's chest, neck, and spine. There are photos of passports, apparently of women, from around the world. My name is Charlene Rochard. As a bill to force the release of all documents was voted upon last month, Rochard stood on Capitol Hill with other survivors of Epstein's abuse pressing for the bill to be passed. Republicans have slammed the released photos as Democratic cherry-picking. Paul Hunter's CBC News, Washington. The hunt for the suspect in the

Brown University mass shooting ended Thursday night. 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. Here's 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 have 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 own home outside Boston Monday night. Officials are now connecting the two shootings, the suspect and the professor believed to have attended the same university in Portugal. Ontario has signed a deal with the federal government to speed up building project. like those proposed for the province's resource-rich-north. For years, possible development in the ring of fire has stirred interest in controversy. Philip Lee-Shannock explains.

We need to get these critical minerals out of the ground. Geologists say the area about 500 kilometers north of Thunder Bay is rich with chromite, cobalt, nickel, and copper, needed for everything from smartphones to electric vehicles. Premier Doug Ford says an agreement signed with Ottawa will reap the benefits faster. And when President Trump is taking direct aim at our economy, every second counts. Prime Minister Mark Carney says federal obligations to recognize existing treaty rights of indigenous people will be respected.

Trying to fast track this process is probably going to cause more problems than it's going to solve. Keith Brooks is with environmental defense. He's concerned about one set of approvals for Ring of Fire projects. He says Ontario has fast-tracked development. by loosening environmental protections. The province's Bill 5 passed in June gives the government sweeping approval powers in special economic zones.

Philip Hennock, CBC News, Toronto. 2025 was Canada's second worst wildfire year on record with nearly 9 million hectares burned. Environment and climate change, Canada, released a top 10 list of weather events for the year topped by wildfires. National Warning Preparedness Meteorologist Jennifer Smith

says the fire season was shaped by repeated long periods of hot, dry, and sometimes windy weather. Many of the most impactful events weren't driven by a single storm. They were shaped by persistent conditions. As Canada's climate continues to evolve, warming faster than the global average, understanding these patterns and preparing for them is just as important as tracking the next storm on the map. That list also including drought, powerful thunder and hail storms, and heat waves. That is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Mon. miles. Thank you.