The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/22 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/22 at 14:00 EST

You know that feeling when you reach the end of a really good true crime series? You want to know more, more about the people involved, where the case is now, and what it's like behind the scenes. I get that. I'm Kathleen Goldhar and on my podcast, Crime Story, I speak with the leading storytellers of true crime to dig deeper into the cases we all just can't stop thinking about. Find crime story wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the Worldless Hour. I'm Martina Fitzgerald. Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal workers have reached tentative agreements for both urban and rural mail carriers. The five-year collective agreements include wage increases, enhanced benefits, and a new model to support weekend parcel delivery.

CupW members will vote on the deals early in the new year. Both parties have agreed not to engage in any strike or lockout activity during that process. process. Ottawa is making a new offer to reform the on-reserve child welfare system. The federal government now says it's willing to spend more than $35 billion. As Olivia Stefanovic reports, that is less than what was previously on the table. This is what's going to address the discrimination that First Nations are dealing with. A long-awaited announcement by Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gullmasty. On the day, the federal government is due to submit a proposal to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, explaining how it will reform the on-reserve child welfare system. I believe that the community needs to drive the decision-making. Ottawa is looking to strike regional deals with First Nations, so they can decide how to spend more than $35 billion on child and family services over the next decade. The money is substantially less than the $47.8 billion put forward by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government.

But Golmasti says there's a key difference. Her government is offering more than $4 billion of funding after the initial $35.5 billion runs out in 2034. Olivia Estevanovich, CBC News, Ottawa. Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing Mark Wiseman, Canada's ambassador to the U.S. Wiseman is a former pension fund manager and global investment banker. He's also a longtime friend of Carney's

and was among the first to contribute to his leadership bid. The Prime Minister's offer says Wiseman will assume his role in mid-February and will lead negotiations with the U.S. on the review of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Employees at CBS News are threatening to quit after the network abruptly shelved a segment of 60 minutes. The piece focused on the U.S. deporting Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The company says the story was not ready for broadcast. But the reporter who worked on the segment accuses CBS of corporates. censorship. Steve Futterman has the details. This is the story that has triggered a major

controversy inside CBS News. The deportees thought they were headed from the U.S. back to Venezuela. The question is why the story was pulled at the last minute. It had already been approved by CBS Lawyers and the Network Standards and Practices Group. Correspondent Sharon Alfonzi believes it was political. The new head of CBS News, Barry Weiss, who made the decision, complained that no one from the Trump administration was in the peace. But the administration turned down repeated requests to be interviewed. CBS and its parent company, Paramount, were taken over earlier this year by Skydance, a company run by David Ellison. He is the son of billionaire Larry Ellison, a strong Trump supporter. The deal had to be approved by regulators. The Ellisons

reportedly told Trump they would make changes to CBS News. Steve Futterman, CBC News, Los Angeles. Officials in Russia are investigating a high-profile car bombing. An explosion in the capital, Moscow claimed the life of a senior member of the Russian military. Russian officials says Lieutenant General Fonil Saworov was killed this morning when an explosive device was detonated under his vehicle. The Kremlin says it is investigating a theory that Ukrainian intelligence was involved. At this point, there has been no comment from Kiev. Swarov was head of the Armed Forces Training Department.

He is the third high-ranking military official to die in bomb attacks in Moscow over just the last year. That is a world this hour. For news any time, just visit our website, cvcnews.a. For CBC News, I'm Martina Fitzgerald. Thank you.