The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/28 at 03:00 EST

Episode Date: December 28, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/28 at 03:00 EST

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Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. borough.ca. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Mike Miles. Fresh from his visit yesterday in Halifax with Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, meets today with U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump trying to broker an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine,

with Zelensky making several concessions in his latest proposal. The big question is, will Russia sign on? JP Tasker reports. The attack on Kiev shows just how important it is that we stand with Ukraine during this difficult time. After getting support from Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping for some from U.S. President Donald Trump today. I hope very important and very constructive meeting with President Trump. He'll pitch his plan to bring an end to the Russian conflict. We need two things, pressure on Russia and sufficient strong support for Ukraine.

That includes a request for security. guarantees from the United States and other Western allies. Well, a Trump-Zelensky deal on that and what the Ukrainian president calls territorial issues would be a breakthrough. There is no progress when it comes to Putin ending the war. Kurt Volker, Trump's former representative to Ukraine, tells CBC News, there's only peace if Russia agrees and it's not looking good.

Putin has made it very clear, including in just the past few days, that he wants everything. J.P. Tasker, CBC News, Washington. Starting in the new year, Ontarians will be able to put more products into their blue box. The province moving towards a privately operated recycling program. But as Michelle's song explains, more stuff being sorted doesn't mean it gets recycled into something else. Coffee cups, they'll be going to various mills. Starting January 1st, Ontario 1st,

Ontarians can throw into the blue bin coffee cups, deodorant sticks, and toothpaste tubes among other new products. Circular materials manages Ontario. Recycling Program. Alan Langdon is the CEO. We need to collect as much packaging as possible to ensure that we can meet material management targets. Ontario's new system takes the cost of recycling away from municipalities and puts it on to the companies who produce packaging, like big retailers, a recycling model now adopted

by several provinces like Quebec and Nova Scotia. When it comes to this new list of products, waste management experts say it's one thing to collect them. But that doesn't mean it's all being turned into something new and could be diverted back to the landfill. Cal Lacken is a professor at York University. Everything that you recycle loses some of its value and loses some of its properties. And so recycling should really be our last option and our focus should be on waste reduction. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto. One of Canada's biggest public libraries has released its 2025 list of most borrowed books. Akshay Coulcarney brings us some of the highlights.

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 Babysitter's Club made up nine of the top ten spots. Haksha Kulkarni,

CBC News, Vancouver. Joining a polar bear plunge is one way many people across Canada ring in the new year. Among them, Susan Baines, an advocate with equal access collective. She'll be taking part in the White Rock B.C. event along others in her beach wheelchair. She says an access mat will also be available. The beach wheelchairs have a pathway directly to the ocean. Yeah, we'll just have to make sure that people don't crowd the area around the mat. And I'm sure people will respect that. And everybody will have a fun time getting cold and wet. She's hoping to see events become more inclusive in the coming years. That is for the Worldless Hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.

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