The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 20:00 EST

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 20:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. The U.S. Justice Department has released several hundred thousand records related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Karen Pauls has the latest. In this new dump of files, lots of photos, many, sexual and graphic. Naked or topless women with their faces blacked out. Also some notes saying some images were not scanning. and because they contain child sexual abuse material. There's also photos of notable people like former president Bill Clinton, the late Michael Jackson, and Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of the former Prince Andrew, and lots of documents related to the prosecutions against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Again, much of it redacted.

Eric Fudali is a lawyer representing 11 Epstein accusers. They intend to sort of stretch this out, trickle documents throughout the next coming weeks. that's really not acceptable for the survivors, and it shouldn't be acceptable under the law. The Epstein Files Transparency Act does allow the department to withhold personal information of survivors and information related to ongoing prosecutions. Karen Paul's, CBC News, Washington. It's turning out to be a difficult holiday season for many Canadian charities, with fewer Canadians opting to donate.

Jamie Strasson reports. It's a familiar sound of the holiday season, The Salvation Army kettle in malls and on street corners. Donations are down this year, says John Murray. This year, we've raised $14.5 million to date in our national campaign, which is about $2.5 million down from same time last year. That's very concerning for us. The dip is being felt by a number of charities, both big and small, that CBC spoke with.

Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank, which served one in ten Trontonians last year, is also feeling the crunch. CEO Neil Hetherington says it's not uncommon to see former donors now in line at the food bank. Food prices came out at three times the inflationary rate. So it's no wonder that the bins at grocery stores all across the province are less full. Heatherington says his group and others are trying to do more with less this holiday season. Jamie Strash in CBC News, Toronto. A man accused in a Toronto shooting in which a woman was killed by a.

a stray bullet has been found guilty of second-degree murder. The incident shone a spotlight on the city's supervised consumption sites. The woman was killed after a fight broke out between three alleged drug dealers outside of one of the sites. In the aftermath, the province ordered a review of the consumption sites, ultimately passing new laws restricting where they can operate. That laws on hold, due to a charter challenge, but a number of consumption sites in Ontario have already closed. A new report is outlooking at hundreds of allegations of misconduct by the Canada border Services Agency. Four people have been fired in the aftermath. Catherine Toney reports.

Interfiring 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 DeRoshae 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 Tunney, CBC News, Ottawa. And the man suspected of a mass shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island and in the death of an MIT professor had been dead for two days when police found him. His body was found in a storage unit in New Hampshire, along with at least two firearms.

Police say he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. They say he killed two students and injured nine at Brown. The professor was shot in his home near Boston. That's the world this hour. I'm Kate McGilfrey. Thank you.