The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/31 at 15:00 EST

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/31 at 15:00 EST

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that could stretch into the new year. This comes after a main, critical to the city's water supply, broke last night. As Anise Haydari reports, another catastrophic break happened on the exact same street in 2024. Calgary's Bow Ness neighborhood flooded from a water main break. Tuesday night saw firefighters rescuing 13 people from multiple cars trapped by water overflowing on a major road. And while nobody was injured, there are now restrictions on mass water use across the city. To be clear, New Year's Eve is not counsel. Jeremy Farkas is the mayor of Calgary.

We can still proceed, but we have to do so in a way that recognizes the constraints that Calgarians exist in right now. Those constraints also include boil water advisories for multiple neighborhoods. This break happened in the same area that saw the same type of catastrophe back in June 2024. But Chris Graham with the city of Calgary's utilities says there was no indication of this problem in advance. There was nothing in the monitoring or in the operation of the pipe, the flows, the pressure,

that would have indicated an issue before the pressure dropped of the control room. There is no time frame yet on when repairs will be completed or when the restrictions will be lifted. Any Tadari, CBC News, Calgary. The countdown is on to the 26 Winter Olympics, and today Canadians learned who will be on Team Canada battling for men's hockey gold. Josh McLean reports. Sydney Crosby's golden goal from the Vancouver Olympics, etched into Canadian sporting history,

The hockey star is once again dawning team Canada's colors, heading to Italy to battle for gold. His teammates announced earlier today, Scott Salmond is an executive with Hockey Canada. We're confident that the team that will be announced today will make Canadians proud in February. A host of Stanley Cup and Four Nation champions, including 19-year-old sharks forward, Macklin Sellebrini, and St. Louis Blues, Jordan Bennington, in net. Connor McDavid secured his spot on the team earlier in the year, the first Olympic appearance for the Oilers superstar. Former Team Canada gold medal winner Chris Pronger.

It's a humbling experience in something that these players will take with them for the rest of their careers and their lives. Canada's first game is against the Czech Republic on February 12th. Josh McLean, CBC News, Calgary. Canada wraps up its preliminary round tonight at the World Junior Hockey Championships, with the Canadian team looking to ring in the new year by clinching their group facing off with Finland. The juniors have already qualified. for the quarter finals, which gets underway Friday. Canada has failed to medal at the championship the past two years. Puck dropped tonight from Minnesota is set for just after 830 Eastern and

530 Pacific. As Canadians welcome 2026, the Governor General reflects on the past year and looks ahead with hope for the nation. In her New Year message to Canadians, Mary Simon highlights the courage and unity shown by communities across the country. This past year, I witnessed extraordinary solidarity unfold across our country, in the unity of communities affected by wildfires, in your unprecedented economic cooperation, and in the revitalization of indigenous cultures and languages. In 2025, I saw Canada as a nation that is courageous, inclusive, and committed to building peace. sends her best wishes for joy, health, and peace to all Canadians as we start the new year.

And the latest appointments to the Order of Canada have been announced. Among them, Children's Entertainer Rafi, he's being promoted to the highest level, companion of the order, also named were Olympians Andre de Gras and Ellie Black, music journalist Nardois, the Human Serviette, country singer Terry Clark, wine entrepreneur Donald Triggs, as in Jackson Triggs, and neuroscientist Adel Simon. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Taranjit Parmar.