The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/30 at 08:00 EST

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/30 at 08:00 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 claude fagg the search for the missing malaysia airlines flight mh mh370 will resume today more than a decade after the plane vanished a marine robotics company from texas will search for the seabed to try and find the aircraft michel 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. The U.S. is escalating its so-called war on drugs, with President Trump confirming what is believed to be the first U.S. operation inside Venezuela. There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. The U.S. targeted a dock on the Venezuelan coast. U.S. President Donald Trump says it's where alleged drug boats load up before shipping off to various parts of the world. The move follows months of strikes against what the White House calls narco-terrorist boats in the

Pacific and Caribbean. Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukala today. The target was a separatist force allegedly backed by the United Arab Emirates. The attack signals a new escalation and tensions between the Saudis and the Emirates. The two countries have been backing competing sides in Yemen's decades-long war. During the pandemic, the federal program to give Canadians financial help was fast but flawed. Billions of dollars in COVID benefits were handed out 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 Strassion 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 garnisies. But this isn't a problem. them 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.

Canada has moved in the first place in their pool at the AAHF World Junior Championship. The Canadians got a hat trick from Whitehorse native Gavin McKenna to route Denmark 9-1 in Minnesota last night. For McKenna, the consensus first overall pick at next summer's NHL entry draft. the big night in victory were especially rewarding with loved ones in the building. It's a long ways from home wherever I usually play. So whenever you got some Eukonners in the building and especially my family, it's that little bit more motivation for me to play my heart out and do it for them.

Canada's next game comes New Year's Eve against Finland. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fagg. Thank you.