The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/17 at 22:00 EST

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/17 at 22:00 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, the world this hour. I'm Neil Herland. We begin at Toronto's Pearson Airport. Oh, she's in a plane crash.

Oh my god. A passenger plane flips over while landing, sending up plumes of black smoke. The Delta Airlines regional jet arriving from Minneapolis. 80 people were on board. All of them survive. But 18 passengers are injured. The CBC's Nicole Williams reports. Emergency crews were called to the airport around 2 15 this afternoon after a plane crashed on the runway and flipped upside down. All 80

people on board are alive. It was a Delta Airlines plane from Minneapolis operated by subsidiary Endeavour Air. Now cell phone videos painted a really dramatic picture. The drop it come on. The chaos on board as passengers clamor to the hatch as they're helped off the plane they're wandering away on the runway on their phones presumably getting in touch with loved ones and big jets of water from fire trucks spraying onto the body of the plane. Dozens of flights bound for this airport have been diverted throughout the day to Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton and Winnipeg International airports, but it seems most operations have returned to normal.

All but two runways have reopened while authorities conduct an investigation into what exactly happened here. Nicole Williams, CDC News, Toronto. Officials at Toronto's Pearson Airport say they're helping the passengers who survived the ordeal. Deborah Flint heads the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. We are very grateful that there is no loss of life and relatively minor injuries. We are very focused on the care and the concern and the passengers and the crew, some of whom have already been reunified with their friends and their families.

Others, we have in a comfortable place right here at the airport in an environment where they're getting a lot of care and support. Investigators from Canada and the U.S. are looking into the crash. Ontario's four major political parties faced off in a provincial election debate tonight. The Liberals, Greens and NDP leaders focused their attacks on progressive conservative leader Doug Ford. You can read more about the debate on our website or the CBC News app. The federal liberals appear to be narrowing the gap between them and the conservatives as candidates in the race to replace Justin Trudeau clear

another hurdle, Ashley Burke has more. Leadership contender Mark Carney enters a packed sports bar on Saturday night. His campaign says he's raised almost $2 million, far surpassing the $350,000 entrance fee. This race's entrance fee the highest in the party's history. It's meant to keep the pool of contenders small and serious during a condensed competition that ends March 9th. Joining me now is the Honourable Chrystia Freeland.

Chrystia Freeland turning to MSNBC and American Network this weekend to campaign against Donald Trump's terror threats. Doing this will hurt America really badly. The five contenders still in the race now fleshing out their policies and trying to differentiate themselves. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Ottawa. A pair of intense winter storms has buried much of southern Ontario and Quebec in snow. Vincent Sverazza is with the City of Toronto. he says the cleanup effort could take up to three weeks. Plowing snow on a one kilometer, one kilometer local residential road takes approximately five to ten minutes and that's a vehicle traveling at about 15 kilometers an hour. Snow removal

on that same kilometer of road can take up to 10 hours." Quebec is also digging out after its second major snowstorm in just a few days, and snow removal operations are struggling to keep pace. Philippe Sabourin is with the city of Montreal. In less than five days, almost 40% of all the snow we're usually getting in the winter." Montreal is asking people to avoid all non-essential travel. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.