The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/24 at 03:00 EST

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/24 at 03:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. Bro.C.a. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. An 11-year-old boy is dead after carbon monoxide leaked at a residential building in Regina. His family was just getting settled in the city after moving west from St. John's Newfoundland. Laura Sharpelletti has more. Someone came up to me and said that my son was dead. When Morena Hills returned home from work last Friday, she found her husband and son unresponsive. She pulled young Henry Lasko into the hallway and screamed for help. A neighbor rushed to her side. I said to keep doing compressions. I got to go back in and get my husband. I was able to drag him out of there with all my might. First responders arrived and

began working on her husband. He's now in stable condition in hospital. Regina fire chief Lane Jackson says mechanical work was being done in the building and a piece of service equipment may have been the carbon monoxide source. Firefighters, along with the gas inspectors, were able to isolate it, shut it down. The family moved to Regina partly for an elite competitive soccer program. Henry was a gifted athlete with dreams of competing in the Olympics. CBC has reached out to the owner of the building but did not receive a response. Police say the investigation is ongoing. Laura Sharp-Bletty, CBC News, Regina. At least two people are dead and 20 in hospital after an explosion at a nursing home in Bristol, Pennsylvania, just outside Philly.

Cruz had already been responding to a gas leak when the explosion caused part of the building to collapse. Josh Shapiro is governor of Pennsylvania. The explosion was really quite catastrophic. We know that at this time there are at least two fatalities. We know that there are some number of individuals still missing. Heavy equipment is being used to push away chunks of debris. The oyster industry in Prince Edward Island is facing tough times. It's worth nearly $30 million, but it's been hit by disease. Wayne Tibido reports. PEI's oyster fishery has been hit hard by the deadly parasite MSX,

first discovered in July 2024, then another disease, dermo this summer. Neither pose a threat to people, but both can be fatal to oysters. Some fishers are finding almost all of their oysters dead. Bob McLeod is president of the PEI Shellfish Association. We're hoping that there's financial aid. The PEI government has provided some help. Now the feds are saying they'll announce an aid package early in the new year. But Liberal MP Bobby Morrissey says changes are needed.

Part of the federal government's plan is to restructure the fishery by launching a licensed buyback program to get some people out of the industry. Simply saying we don't want to change anything, but we want government to support us. doing this, that's not going to work. McLeod says some fishers would welcome a chance to leave. Wayne Tibuto, CBC News, Charlottetown. And finally, a Canadian art mystery is making the rounds

between two provincial museums. Now the public in Newfoundland and Labrador is being asked to help identify coastline depicted in paintings that are hundreds of years old. Julia, Israel, has more. Almost 20 years ago, I began working on this painting. Heidi Sobel is a conservator with the Royal Ontario Museum. She's searching for answers that could paint a picture, possibly the oldest picture

of Canada, dating back to the 1600s. I rarely come across paintings this old in Canada. Two paintings of majestic yet rugged coves, people waiting through the bay, fishing on wooden platforms. One painting looks out to infinite sea, the other peers inland. Now the paintings have arrived in St. John's for people to get a closer look. Mark Ferguson at the Rums Museum is keen on identifying the Canadian coasts in Dutchman Gerard van Edema's paintings. So I would really love to have people come in and have a look at that one and say, yeah, that could be this place or that place. In colonial times, merchants commissioned painters to bring home a visual of the future that awaits.

Now, four centuries later, it's up to Canadians to tell that story. Julia Israel, CBC News, St. John's. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.