The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 05:00 EST

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 05:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles on its face a new and growing nationalist club in canada is focused on canadian history celebrating veterans and encouraging fitness but that public face obscures the more radical beliefs of its leaders christian pos lang from our visual investigations team has more about the group second sons canada race war is here second son's friend says racial conflict is underway in Canada. The group pitches itself as a men's nationalist club, revering Canadian history and tradition, but Vren says the group welcomes neo-Nazis in its ranks. We do have national socialist members. CBC's visual investigations team dug through hundreds of hours of

audio and video from personal live streams published by the group's leaders, among the hundreds of instances of violent rhetoric, anti-Semitism, and racial slurs, one key idea they push, remigration. Stephen Ray is an analyst with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Remigration for Second Sons is a euphemism for ethnic cleansing. He wants that the group pushes narratives about tradition, history, and heritage to attract recruits. Second Sons was only founded in 2024, but it's grown rapidly since then. They say over 2,000 people have applied, with chapters across the country. Christian Paws Lang, CBC News, Toronto.

To learn more about this group and read the full story from CBC's Visual Investigations team, go to cbcnews.ca.c.a. The hunt for the suspect in the Brown University mass shooting ended last night. And I will tell you that he took his own legs. 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 with 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. Officials are now connecting the two shootings, the suspect and the professor. believed to have attended the same university in Portugal. A correction to a story we had earlier this morning, the European Union is lending Ukraine 90 billion, not million euros, the equivalent of $145 billion Canadian.

Instead of using frozen Russian assets, the EU is borrowing against its own budget. Ukraine would not have to pay back the money until it gets reparations from Russia. Hungarian President Viktor Orban is calling the loan lost money. His country, plus Slovakia and the Czech Republic have opted out of the plan. A new study has shown an Ontario policy implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic has saved dozens of lives. The research looked at an air conditioning mandate put it in place in 2021, spurred by CBC News,

and the difference it made in health outcomes of seniors in long-term care homes. Lisa Sching reports. It was a necessary undertaking. Geriatrician Nathan Stahl on investigating the effects of Ontario's decision to mandate air conditioning in all residents' rooms in long-term care homes. And during the COVID-19 pandemic, residents were not able to congregate. During the pandemic in 2021, CBC News was the first to ask Ontario Premier Doug Ford, why AC wasn't mandatory in nursing home rooms, resulting in the province requiring it be installed by spring of 2023. Stahl's subsequent study found residents in homes without AC

had an 8% higher odds of dying on extreme heat days compared with residents of homes with AC. York University Professor Emeritus Pat Armstrong and long-term care researcher says other provinces need to pay attention. You can die from the heat as well as you can die from the cold. She says a clear indication air conditioning is no longer a luxury. Lisa Xing, CBC News, Toronto.

And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.