The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/19 at 23:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. A new report says hundreds of allegations of misconduct by the Canada Border Services Agency were found to have merit. Four people were fired. Another 14 voluntarily left their jobs.

Catherine Tunney has details. 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 DeRosha 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 Canadian. begins 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. Police in Welland, Ontario continue to ask residents of one area to stay inside and away from their windows. A suspect has been contained inside a building for roughly 15 hours now after shots were fired. Friday morning. An officer was shot, but police say she's now been released from hospital. They say the disturbance began as a dispute about offense that was blocking traffic sight lines. Three Toronto men are facing nearly 80 charges, with police alleging they made two separate attempts to kidnap women. They say the suspects were targeting members of the Jewish community and were fueled by hate-motivated extremism. The RCMP's investigation also yielded more charges for one of the

men, 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 is urging authorities to take decisive measures to prevent the spread of extremism. A man accused in a Toronto shooting in which a woman bystander was killed by a stray bullet,

has been convicted of second-degree murder. The incident shone a spotlight on the city's supervised consumption sites. The woman was killed after a fight broke up between three alleged drug dealers outside one of them. In the afternoon, the province ordered a review of the sites, ultimately passing new laws restricting where they can operate. That law is on hold due to a charter challenge, but several consumption sites in Ontario have already shut their doors. Devastating floods and deadly windstorms in BC this month

mark more frequent extreme weather, and it's also having a lasting impact on trees. Tenure Fletcher explains. It's harder to see in the winter, but you can see dieback in the tree crown. Lori and Nesbitt is an associate professor of urban forestry and environmental justice at UBC. She walks us through Vancouver's Jericho Beach Park, where she points out the climate impact on trees, still wet from the latest storm. Urban trees already grow in a really difficult environment, you know, a lot of gray infrastructure, pavement makes things dry, makes it hard for them to survive,

and then climate change makes that even more difficult for them. You know, we see droughts in the summer, and then we see more extreme rainfall and winds in the winter. Urban tree canopies around here are also declining. About a quarter of Vancouver is covered by tree canopy, according to the city, but it's been decreasing over the last decade, partly caused by the urgent push for new housing. That means more leafy tree-lined neighborhoods are being threatened by densification.

to be making sure that we have the right trees in the right place. We need to be making sure they have good soils. Tanya Fletcher, CBC News, Vancouver. Several artifacts recovered from the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald have sold for far more than expected at a Detroit auction. The sale highlights renewed public interest following the shipwreck's 50th anniversary. The longtime owner says financial need drove the decision after decades of public display. That is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.