The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/27 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/27 at 23:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. The death of a man in an Edmonton emergency room after allegedly waiting hours for treatment has the Alberta government ordering a review. Anise Hedari reports. He was gone because I, I was slapping Prashan, Prashan, wake up, don't, don't, don't. Niharika Shrikumar was there when her husband Prashant died. She says it was after around eight hours in an ER waiting room. He'd gone to the hospital complaining of chest pains. But the one time in his entire lifetime in Canada,

he needed that system, that treatment, that medical care, he was denied. 44-year-old Prashant Shrik Kumar's surviving family says he should have been seen by a doctor far sooner, and they believe he was not triaged properly at Edmonton's Grayn's Hospital. CBC News has not confirmed how busy the hospital's ER was that day. It is run by Covenant Health, a Catholic agency within Alberta's health system who would not comment on specifics due to privacy.

On social media, the provincial minister for hospitals said he directed both the provincial health agency and Covenant Health to review what led up to Shrikomar's death. The chief medical examiner's office is also investigating. And he said RECBC News, Edmonton. Thailand and Cambodia have signed a ceasefire agreement. Now we invite the board's side to proceed with the actions of the side copies of the drug statement. It halts, rather, weeks of fighting along their border.

If the peace holds for 72 hours, Thailand will repatriate 18 Cambodian soldiers captured earlier this year. Recent clash has killed at least 100 people and displaced more than half a million on both sides. Two countries have a long-standing border dispute dating back to 1907. The Ukrainian president sat down with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Halifax Saturday, as Volodymyr Zelensky makes a push to bring the conflict in his country. country to a close with two big North American meetings this weekend. They come after attacks on Kiev early Saturday, killed one and injured 27 others, and left thousands without power in the winter cold. J.P. Tasker reports. We have the conditions, the possibility of a just and lasting peace.

Sitting down for a bilateral meeting in Halifax, Prime Minister Mark Carney is pledging Canada's support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's plan to end the Russian war. The attack on Keith shows just how important it is that we stand with Ukraine. While condemning Moscow's latest missile strike, Carney is also promising $2.5 billion more in loan support for Ukraine to help with reconstruction if and when this nearly four-year-long conflict comes to an end. And this attack is, again, Russia's answer on our peace efforts. Zelensky's next stop is Palm Beach, Florida, for a meeting with President

Donald Trump. Ukraine wants the U.S. to sign off on security guarantees to protect it from future Russian attacks. So far, Trump has been non-committal. J.P. Tasker, CBC News, Washington. One of Canada's biggest public libraries has released its 2025 list of most borrowed books. Akshay Kolkarni brings us some of the highlights. The Vancouver Public Library says it's the most visited urban library system in Canada per capita. and this year, the most borrowed books by its readers are a number of returning favorites. In the adult category, it's a hat trick for the self-help book, 101 essays that will change the way you think, by Brianna Weist. It was the most borrowed book for the third year in a row.

Canadian author Louise Penny cracked the top three with her mystery novel, The Grey Wolf. Among teens, fantasy reigned supreme, with Sarah J. Maas taking top spot for the second year in a row. Her fantasy books also claimed three other spots in the top ten. For kids, it was a tale of two series. As Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the Babysitters Club made up nine of the top ten spots. Hukkirni, CBC News, Vancouver. Michael Hage scored on a power play 44 seconds into overtime as Canada beat Latvia 2-1 at the World Junior Hockey Championship.

Kether-de-Nex plays Denmark on Monday before closing group play against Finland, New Year's Eve. of the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.