The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/30 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/30 at 04:00 EST

This ascent isn't for everyone. You need grit to climb this high this often. You've got to be an underdog that always over-delivers. You've got to be 6,500 hospital staff, 1,000 doctors, all doing so much with so little. You've got to be Scarborough. Defined by our uphill battle and always striving towards new heights. And you can help us keep climbing.

Donate at lovescarbro.cairbo. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Neil Hurland. The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume today. More than a decade after the plane vanished, a marine robotics company, will search the seabed to try to find the aircraft. Michelle Song reports. Finding the plane, finding my loved ones, finding the truth. I believe these are things I must do in my lifetime, says Zhang Hui.

He remembers waving goodbye to his mother before she boarded the Malaysian Airlines flight that went missing and spent 11 years campaigning for answers. Now, the Malaysian government says the search continues with the help of U.S. and UK-based robotics company, Ocean Infinity. It's one of aviation's biggest mysteries. Flight MH370 disappeared in March of 2014. carrying 239 people, including a Canadian couple, but most of whom were Chinese nationals. Ocean Infinity now aims to search over 15,000 square kilometers of the seabed. But a prior multinational search resulted in no answers.

So all eyes will be on Ocean Infinity, and it will only be paid if the wreckage is found. Michelle Song, CBC News, Toronto. U.S. President Donald Trump is warning the militant group Hamas, and Gaza. If they don't disarm as they agreed to do, they agreed to it, and then they'll be held to pay for them. Trump made the comment after meeting yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas agreed to disarm as part of a ceasefire deal that had signed in October. During the pandemic, the federal program to give Canadians' financial help was fast, but flawed. Billions of dollars in COVID benefits were handed to recipients, who were later found to be

ineligible. Now almost three years on, more than $10 billion is still owed back to the Canada Revenue Agency. Jamie Strasson has more. I was stunned. I could not believe it. Patrick Massey thought the money he received during COVID was long in the past. During the worst days of the pandemic, Massey along with hundreds of thousands of Canadians, applied for the Canadian emergency response benefit or Serb. According to the federal government, Massey was not eligible for the Serb money and is now being asked to repay nearly $30,000. He's far from a loan. In fact, the Canadian Revenue Agency says since 2022 it has been trying to collect nearly $14 billion in benefits. Insolvency trustee Blair Manton says people have a right to appeal. And in general, the CRA has

been willing to work with people. But that's changing. We're certainly seeing bank account freezes now. We're seeing garnishes. But this isn't a problem that will just go away. Blair Manton says there is no statute of limitations on this debt and warns the longer you wait to find a resolution, the more severe the impact will be. Jamie Strash and CBC News, Toronto. An ongoing power outage has caused a northern Manitoba First Nation to declare a state of emergency, and it doesn't expect to have power again until Wednesday evening. Gavin Axelrod has reaction. They got to treat this as an emergency. Pimichikimak-Kree Nation Chief David Monias is pleading for help after a widespread power outage hit the community Sunday night.

Chief Monias says they're working to provide food, water, warmth, and shelter to residents. But in the meantime, like, people are getting cold, and people are sick people, and we have people on dialysis that need to be taken care of. Manitoba Hydro spokesperson Peter Chura says a power line snapped about 10 kilometers north of Pimichikamac. The outage has left more than 1,000 customers without power. Work was done Monday to clear an access road to the site of the downline. The repair includes reconnecting the power line over the Nelson River, and it has to be done during the day. It's in a remote area with some challenging terrain, and crossing a river especially makes it a difficult, more time-consuming project.

Manitoba Hydro expects to have power restored by Wednesday evening. The Canadian Red Cross is sending heaters and generators to help out people who are still in Pima-Chicamac. Gavin Axelrod, CBC News, Winnipeg. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Hurland. Thank you.