World Report - December 3: Wednesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: December 3, 2025

Prime Minister Mark Carney vows to fix the First Nations child welfare system.Canada pledges more than 200 million dollars in funding for Ukraine at NATO meeting.Saskatchewan NDP introduces bill to compel provincial government to adopt a wildfire strategy.Search for missing Malaysian flight MH-370 to resume.US President Donald Trump pauses all immigration applications from 19 countries, including Somalia and Afghanistan. Trailer Park Boys star Mike Smith will be in court this morning for his sexual assault case.EXCLUSIVE: Rare Mercedes-Benz supercar linked to Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding.

Hey Canada. It's me, Gavin Crawford, host of Because News. Each week, I put comedians on the spot with a pop quiz about the headlines. This week, we're talking about the monster of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's own making, Wayne Gretzky's incredible pronunciation skills, and the one kind of Christmas toy experts are all calling dangerous. Miguel Revis, Emma Hunter, and Gene Yune are here, so laugh along as we try to make sense of the headlines. Follow Because News on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts for free. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Marcia Young. A court-ordered deadline is approaching for Ottawa to present a new plan to fix the First Nations child welfare system. The Assembly of First Nations rejected the previous liberal government's offer of more than $47 billion. Prime Minister Mark Carney is vowing to fix the system, but as Olivia, Stefanovic reports, his new plan is not the only one in the works.

We will complete the crucial work. After almost two decades of litigation, Prime Minister Mark Carney is pledging. His government will be the one to reform the First Nations child welfare system once and for all. This will help ensure the First Nations children grow up safe, secure, deeply connected to their families, their culture, their language. McCarney's plan isn't the only one in the works. This moment and time will go down in history. CBC News was invited to attend a behind-the-scenes session at the Assembly of First Nations meetings in Ottawa,

hosted by Chiefs and Children's Advocates. They are crafting their own proposal to reform on-reserved child and family services. Mary TG is the group's representative for British Columbia. I just wanted to remind everybody how we got here today. We have, it's been a long battle. First Nations leaders rejected the previous liberal government's offer of more than $47 billion. Concerned the money wasn't guaranteed, and the discrimination against their children wouldn't end. The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordered the government to submit a new plan by December 22nd.

It will be compared to the other proposal put forward by chiefs and advocates that will come up for discussion at the Assembly of First Nations, later today. Olivia Estevanovich, CBC News, Ottawa. Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister, Anita Anand, is announcing more support for Ukraine. Anand is in Brussels today for meetings at NATO headquarters. Canada, alongside several allies, will purchase a package of military capabilities under the Pearl Program. This is the NATO vehicle for military support for Ukraine.

Canada's contribution to the purchase of this pearl package will be $200 million. Anand also announced an additional $35 million for Ukraine to help purchase resources like fuel, communications equipment, and medical supplies. Several countries are reaffirming their support for Ukraine after yesterday's failed talks in Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff were unable to make any progress on a U.S. proposed peace plan. Saskatchewan's opposition wants the province to be better prepared for wildfires.

This summer was one of the worst fire seasons in Saskatchewan's history. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed. Tens of thousands of people had to leave their homes. Now that Saskatchewan NDP is proposing a bill to compel the government to adopt a wildfire strategy. Helena Mahalik has more. We are the keepers of the land. We knew what to do. Nobody listened.

Carrie Lentowich says she's lost everything after wildfires destroyed her home, along with 200 others in Deneer Beach. She wants to see Bill 609, or the Saskatchewan Wildfire Strategy Act, implemented. Legislation proposed by the province's opposition that would require the SAS government to create a provincial wildfire strategy. Jordan McPhail, the NDP's critic for Northern Affairs, says that the findings need to be shared with the public, especially for those living up north. So we're bringing a bill forward to make sure that those local voices are heard. That's the first and most important part of this. But the second part is that accountability piece.

When a wildfire tore through Clayton Seawop's northern community of Deneer Beach in June, he stayed back to fight the flames. The former fire base supervisor says he wants the bill to pass because something needs to change before next summer. Seawop quit his job, frustrated over promises the government made. We got this. We got under control. We have it.

They didn't have nothing. Everything was lost. The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency says it does consult locals and experts in their wildfire decision-making, but that it's possible they need to talk to more people to make informed decisions. The SPSA says if improvements need to be made,

it will come out of the third-party review of the province's wildfire response. Helena Mollick, CBC News, Saskatoon. The hunt for an aircraft that disappeared more than a decade ago is starting up again. The Malaysian government says it will carry out a 55-day search for flight MH-370 beginning December 30th. The plane disappeared in 2014 on route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing

with 239 people on board. It veered off course less than an hour after takeoff and lost contact with air traffic control. The search was the largest in aviation history. An underwater exploration company will search a new 15,000 square kilometer site of the Indian Ocean. The White House is implementing a controversial immigration policy. U.S. President Donald Trump says he is pausing all immigration applications from 19 countries. These changes follow last week's shooting of two National Guard members.

The CBC's Willie Lowry is on the story from Washington. And, Willie, what more can you tell us about this new policy? The list of countries being targeted includes Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and a host of others spread out across the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The administration has paused all immigration applications from these countries. That includes green cards and U.S. citizenship processing, a move that could affect people who have been in the U.S. for years. And it all comes after the arrest of an Afghan national accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. last week. And Willie Trump appears to be targeting Minnesota's large Somali community. Why? That's right. So U.S. media reports suggest as many as 100 immigration and customs enforcement officers will soon be in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area looking for undocumented Somali immigrants.

The operation comes after President Donald Trump. Trump unleashed a three-minute diatribe against the community during a cabinet meeting yesterday. Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country. I could say that about other countries, too. And we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Let them go back to where they came from. Minneapolis officials, including Mayor Jacob Fry, say they stand by the community. To our Somali community, we love you, and we stand with you.

That commitment is rock solid. Minneapolis is proud to be home to the largest Somali community in the entire country. An estimated 84,000 people of Somali descent live in the state, most of whom are U.S. citizens. Thank you, Willie. My pleasure. The CBC's Willie Lowry in Washington. Trailer Park Boys star Mike Smith is expected to enter a plea today on a sexual assault charge. The 53-year-old actor is best known for playing bubbles on the show.

filmed in Nova Scotia. Smith was charged in early October in connection with an alleged sexual assault on a woman in December of 2017. CBC News has learned new exclusive details about the FBI's recent seizure of a rare Mercedes-Benz supercar. Investigators say the vehicle is linked to Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding. It is estimated to be worth $13 million. Thomas Daigle has more. top speed of 335 kilometers an hour, the 2002 Mercedes CLK GTR Roadster really flies. With two seats and no roof, it's effectively a street legal race car, and only six have ever been made. Certainly authority seizing cars is nothing new, but I haven't heard of one this valuable. It's no wonder dealers of exotic cars like Tim Kwok's sister were taken aback when the FBI recently announced it had seized one of those Mercedes amid the hunt for

alleged drug lord Ryan Wedding, FBI director Cash Patel. Ryan Wedding is a modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar. Now, CBC News has obtained the purchase agreement for the car, signed last year by Roland Sokolowski, a Toronto jeweler identified by investigators as one of Wedding's chief money launderers. Sokolovsky and a former Italian Special Forces member are said to have worked together to procure wedding luxury vehicles, motorcycles and properties around the world, all to hide the profits from his criminal empire.

Jeff Simzer is an expert in asset forfeiture. This guy runs what the U.S. have describes a $1 billion a year enterprise, and so he wants his toys. Born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Wedding is thought to be hiding in Mexico while still leading his cocaine smuggling network. Thomas Dagg, CBC News, Toronto. And the inside story of the $13 million seized car is the number one red item at cbcnews.ca. It is on our main page. That is the latest national and international news from World Report.

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