The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/22 at 18:00 EST

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/22 at 18:00 EST

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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. 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 Estefanovich, 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 a global investment banker. He's also a longtime friend of Carney's

and was among the first to contribute to his leadership. bit. The Prime Minister's office 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 corporate 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's standards and practices group. Correspondent Sharon Alfonzi believes it was political. The new head of CBS News, Barry Weiss, who made it. 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 Fetterman, 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.

A Russian official says Lieutenant General Fonil Saworov was killed this morning when an explosive device was detonated under his vehicle. The Kremlin says it's investigating a theory that Ukrainian intelligence was killed. involved. At this point, there has been no comment from Kiev. Sowarov was head of the Armed Forces Training Department. He is the third high-ranking military official over the last year to die in bomb attacks in Moscow. That is your world this hour. You can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. We update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Martina Fitzgerald. Thank you.