The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 13:00 EST

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 13:00 EST

Hi, Steve Patterson here, host of The Debaters, the show where we answer your most burning questions, like, do candles deserve more appreciation? Canada's best comedians wax on about it in this week's new episode, so listen wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilvery. Three Toronto men are facing nearly 80 charges in connection with a series of offenses that targeted women and Jewish community members. Their charges include attempted kidnapping, sexual assault, and hate crimes. The RCMP's investigation also yielded more charges for one of the men, who they say was giving money to ISIS. RCMP Assistant Commissioner Matt Peggs.

These charges include terrorist financing, participation in the activities of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, and conspiracy to commit murder. This case demonstrates our commitment to ensuring that those who threaten the safety of communities in Canada will be held accountable. The Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs, says it's urging authorities to take decisive measures to prevent the spread of extremism. Niagara Police are urging people in Welland, Ontario, to shelter in place. That's after a police officer was shot while responding to reports of gunfire.

A search is still underway for this shooter. Michelle Song has the latest. Niagara Regional Police Service has asked Welland residents to lock their doors and stay away from their windows. Police say they have contained the shooting suspect in a building. The police watchdog is now investigating. Nearby schools and a hospital are under lockdown. The police responded to a shooting this morning. A police officer was struck.

The officer is now hospitalized. Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a press conference in Buffalo says the officer was shot in the chest. She's a wonderful person. She's going to survive. And I just want to say our prayers and thoughts are with a family. Their injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening. Michelle Song, CBC News,

well-in Ontario. Quebec's family doctors have overwhelmingly approved a tentative agreement with the province. The Lago government agreed to backtrack on several parts of a contentious bill that had included penalties for doctors who failed to meet performance targets. France-Ele and Durantsoe is Quebec's Treasury Board President. 500,000 more Quebecers will be taken in by GPs and 200,000 of those are vulnerable patients. So patients that will would go to emergency rooms. Now they're going to be followed by a doctor. Quebec's health minister Christian Dubet resigned yesterday,

citing his frustration with negotiations on Bell 2. A new report says hundreds of allegations of misconduct by the Canada Border Services Agency were found to have merit. Most of them warranted reprimands before people were fired. Another 14 voluntarily left their jobs. Catherine Tunney has details. interfering in immigration processing, associating with a known drug trafficker, sexual harassment. Just some of the 259 founded cases of misconduct involving Canada Border Services Agency employees.

The new numbers were included in a first of its kind report published by the CBSA this week, covering the 24-25 fiscal year. Any incident is one too many. Christine DeRoshe is vice president of the CBSA's recourse standards and program integrity branch. She stressed the number of misbehaving border officers is a small percentage of its 17,000 member workforce. The fact that it's in such a low proportion of our population, I want Canadians to have confidence in the work we do. She was not able to give any more details about the specific cases, citing privacy reasons. The new numbers are from internal investigations. The federal government's long-promise watchdog for public complaints about the CBSA is still not up and running.

Catherine, Taney, CBC News, Ottawa. And the U.S. Department of Justice will not meet the deadline to release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Some 300 gigabytes of data will be made public by midnight tonight. But Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News that several hundred thousand more documents will come out in the weeks to come. Blanche says the Justice Department needs more time to redact identifying details of the victims. The highly anticipated Epstein release is coming after months of delays and a near-earned. unanimous vote in Congress. That is the world this hour.

For news anytime, you can always visit our website, cBCNews.ca. I'm Kate McGilfrey.