The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/31 at 17:00 EST

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/12/31 at 17:00 EST

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You can find us wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Taranjit Parmar. Parts of Calgary are now under water restrictions and a boil advisory that could stretch into the new year. This comes after a main, critical to the city's water supply, broke last night. As Anise Hadari 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, 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 canceled. 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 time. 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 pressures that would have indicated an issue before the pressure dropped at 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 2026 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 donning 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 Nicarious. 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 quarterfinals, which gets underway Friday. Canada has failed to meddle at the championship the past two years. Chinese President Xi Jinping is telling Taiwan they will be reunited. In his new year's message, he said China and Taiwan share a bond blood and kinship. Beijing has long claimed sovereignty over the self-governing island.

With China just wrapping what it's calling successful military drills to bolster its claim, Taiwan says it is maintaining a defensive stance, but adds all 11 Chinese Coast Guard ships have left the waters off of the island. 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 Grasse and Ellie Black, music journalist Nardois, the human serviette, country singer Terry Clark, wine entrepreneur Donald Triggs, as in Jackson Triggs, and neuroscientist Adele Simon.

And the Trump family's plan to launch a solid gold smartphone is on hold. The U.S.-made devices were supposed to go on sale by the end of this year. The company blames delays caused by the government shutdown. That 43-day shutdown prompted by President Donald Trump's failure to reach a settlement, with his Democratic Party opponents. The Trump-branded phone plan has raised questions about conflict of interest. And that is the world this hour.

For CBC News, I'm Taranjit Parmar.