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

Episode Date: December 23, 2025

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

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. from CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. Ottawa says it will spend more than $35 billion to reform the on-reserve child welfare system. The previous liberal government had offered more money, but for a shorter time, a plan that a group of First Nations chiefs rejected. Olivia Stefanovic reports. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered the federal proposing. after it found Ottawa racially discriminated against First Nations kids by chronically underfunding First Nations Child and Family Services.

I believe that the community needs to drive the decision-making. Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Golmasti says she's now looking to strike regional deals with First Nations so they can decide how to spend more than $35 billion over the next decade. The goal to keep kids connected to their families and culture. But it's not the only plan. under consideration. At the center of our plan is our love for our kids. Cindy Blackstock is the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society,

a driving force behind a competing reform plan, also submitted to the Human Rights Tribunal. Canada systemically discriminated against every First Nations shot across the country. So we need systemic solutions. Olivia Stefanovic, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have reached tentative agreement. for both urban and rural mail carriers. CupW members will vote on the deals early in the new year. Prime Minister Mark Carney has chosen business executive Mark Wiseman

to serve as Canada's next ambassador to the U.S. The appointment comes ahead of a formal review of the North American Free Trade Deal. Evan Dyer reports. Mark Weissman comes from the world of finance and is a friend of the prime minister. He's a political appointee, unlike the outgoing Kirsten Hillman,

a career civil servant who served for over six years in the role. Wiseman has worked for some of Canada's biggest pension funds. Gitanda Silva was Alberta's special representative in Washington and Canadian Consul General in Chicago. She says Wiseman will need to draw on all his connections. You're going to need to be a very good and savvy negotiator, a very strong communicator, and you're going to have to have really strong relationships

not only in Ottawa, but all across Canada with premiers in the business community and then across the U.S. as well. One area where Wiseman's, communication skills may be needed is assuaging concerns about his appointment in Quebec. The Parti Quebecois has already said his appointment is unacceptable to the province because of past comments in which he appeared to criticize the dairy supply management system. Evan Dyer, CBC News, Ottawa. Pro-Palestinian activists in Australia want to stop a new law in the state of New South Wales,

designed to stop hate speech and incitement. Josh leases with the Palestine Action Group in Sydney, he says it violates free speech, Today we are launching a constitutional challenge to Chris Minn's latest range of undemocratic anti-protest laws, which unfortunately we expect to pass the parliament today. The government of New South Wales, which includes the Sydney region, has fast-tracked new legislation that makes it a crime to display the symbols of federally listed terrorist organizations. For example, the flags of the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah. Chris Min's is Premier of New South Wales.

There was a sign that said all Zionists and neo-Nazis. So how can we say the protests that have these signs have no bearing on either the culture, the temperature, or even extreme actions within our community? The new legislation follows the deadly attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, which killed 15 people. And finally, we're following an urgent food recall across Canada tonight. It involves an outbreak of e-coli infections linked to Pillsbury brand pizza pops, 20 infections have been reported in five provinces,

B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and New Brunswick. Four people have been hospitalized. The Public Health Agency of Canada says, do not consume, you serve, or sell the recalled products. Take them back to your grocery store. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.