The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/14 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: February 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/14 at 06:00 EST

In Scarborough, there's this fire behind our eyes. A passion in our bellies. It's in the hearts of our neighbors. The eyes of our nurses. And the hands of our doctors. It's what makes Scarborough, Scarborough. In our hospitals, we do more than anyone thought possible. We've less than anyone could imagine.

But it's time to imagine what we can do with more. Join Scarborough Health Network and together, we can turn grit into greatness. Donate at lovescarborough.ca. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. With Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie at the table, an international security summit

has opened in Munich. And Jolie, along with her European counterparts, are all watching on with concern as the administration of US President Donald Trump lays out its position on the war in Ukraine. Abby Kugadasen reports. In recent days, Trump has confirmed speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin, announcing the two had agreed to start negotiations immediately. Trump has also suggested Ukraine won't get all of its territory back from the Kremlin. And his Secretary of State, Pete Hegseth, set off even more alarm bells by saying NATO

membership for Kiev is off the table. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has repeated the need for a lasting and reliable peace, one where security guarantees backed by the US ensure his country is not attacked again. And EU foreign policy chief Kaya Kalis reiterated concerns emerging from various capitals across the continent. Any deal behind our backs will not work. Clear that appeasement also always always fails. Europe wants to know exactly how much Trump is willing to do on the world stage to uphold

the existing rules based order as he pushes for a more isolationist America. Abby Kowaldas in CBC News, Berlin. Meanwhile Ukraine's president is saying there's been a Russian drone strike on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Vladimir Zelensky says the high explosive warhead did some damage, but radiation levels did not increase and a fire that was ignited has since been put out. The facility's containment shell appears to have been targeted. It was built around the fourth reactor on the facility,

which exploded back in 1986, causing one of the worst accidents in nuclear history. A Kremlin spokesman is denying Ukrainian claims that Russia struck the nuclear facility. The first debate of the Ontario election campaign is set for later today. The leaders of the province's four main parties will be in North Bay, focusing on issues specific to the region, something people in the audience will be saying has been long neglected. Lisa Schling has more. They need to advance work on reconciliation. Sherry Taylor is the chief of Gunugamian First Nation, about 300 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

She wants the party that comes into power to focus more on communities like hers. Our young people are dying. There needs to be more detox treatment centers. Like elsewhere in the province, health care is a major issue in the north. Tens of thousands don't have a family doctor there. The Ontario Medical Association says half of the physicians in the region will retire within five years. Dr. Danika Switzer travels between communities to help with the shortage.

The patients are forgoing care and that's maybe the most dangerous potentially to their health. The Greens, Liberals, NDP and PC's are promising to get everyone a family doctor. Many up north say they'll wait and see once the election is over. Lisa Shing, CBC News, Toronto. The federal conservatives are back on Parliament Hill this morning for the first time since December. Parliament's been on pause since January 6th that a Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plans to step down, triggering a liberal leadership race. The Tories, who are holding a caucus meeting today, have

held double-digit leads in the polls for more than 18 months, but since Trudeau's departure was announced, that lead has narrowed substantially. Former Prime Minister Joe Clark is joining the chorus of concern about Canada's sovereignty being threatened by the Trump administration, and he's urging Canadians to let their voices be heard south of the border. Including simple little things like, excuse me for this simplicity, simply writing letters to our friends in the U.S., being in touch with them, not to condemn their presence, but to make the case of the value which most of them know quite precisely that Canada holds.

That's Clark in conversation with Matt Galloway on The Current. You can hear the full interview later this morning. Clark and the other four surviving former Canadian prime ministers are calling on all Canadians to show their patriotism tomorrow by flying the maple leaf for Flag Day. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.