The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/12/31 at 23:00 EST

Episode Date: January 1, 2026

The World This Hour for 2025/12/31 at 23:00 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 it is new year's eve across canada in twenty twenty six has already arrived in four provinces the new year arrived first in newfoundland five four three two one happy new day that was the countdown tonight in st john's on the live cross canada countdown special on c b cbc hosted by Adrian Arsinoe and Jan Arden. 2026 has also just arrived in the three maritime provinces. In fact, most of the world is already in 2026. That's how party goers welcomed the new year in Paris tonight

with dazzling fireworks around the city's iconic monuments. Avalanche Canada has just announced the death of a snowmobiler in British Columbia. It happened Tuesday afternoon near Tumblr Ridge. Three snowmobilers were riding in the Bull Moose area when one person was caught and buried in an avalanche. The avalanche was remotely triggered from the base of the slope. The avalanche measured about 300 meters wide by 240 meters long. The victim was fully buried and did not survive

despite a quick response from their companion. A First Nation in northern Manitoba says the lives of its members are at risk. Most residents of Pimichikamak, Kree Nation lost all electricity when a power line snapped Sunday night, just hours before the temperature plummeted to minus 32. Many were forced to leave home.

Others hunkered down for a frigid weight. Ian Frey's has reaction. No generator. We just kept our body heat with candle. When the power went out in the dead of winter, Troy Papanicus says his family tried to ride it out. Because he said the powers would be on the next day. That was three days ago. Since then, a broken power line has left Pimichikamak cre nation without heat, lights, or clean water as temperatures dipped to minus 30.

About 7,500 people live there. Chief David Monias declared a state of emergency on Monday and has been critical of the response by Manitoba Hydro. This is now a human safety issue, not just the power audits. The power company had estimated a relatively quick fix. It now says it hopes to pull. power will be restored late Thursday. The delays are being blamed on the rough terrain surrounding the community. Chief Monias says he's previously asked Manitoba Hydro to move the power line along the highway where it's easier to reach, but Hydro's been saying for years that it needs to study the idea. Ian Frey's CBC News, Winnipeg. Parts of Calgary are now under water restrictions and a boil advisory that could stretch into the new year. It all comes after a main critical to the city's

water supply broke Tuesday night. As Enise Haydari reports, another catastrophic break happened on the exact same street in 2024. Calgary's Bowness 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 canceled. Jeremy Farkas is the mayor of Calgary. proceed, but we have to do so in a way that recognizes the constraints the 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 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. And finally, Donald Trump has announced the removal of the U.S. National Guard from several American cities. The president says on social media, troops are leaving Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland. Earlier this month, the U.S. federal court ordered an end to the National Guard deployments. And that is your world.

hour. I'm Neil Hurland.