The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 04:00 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. Canada's Transportation Safety Board is investigating what caused a plane to crash and flip over yesterday at Toronto's Pearson Airport.

All 80 people on board survived. Nicole Williams has more. A moment of terror caught on cell phone video as passengers scrambled to get out of an upside down plane that flipped after it crashed on the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport. And then the next thing I know is kind of a blink and I'm upside down still strapped in. Pete Carlson was on the flight from Minneapolis to Toronto. As we made our descent and made touchdown all of a sudden everything just kind of went sideways. 18 people were taken to hospital for injuries, including one child. But airport CEO Deborah Flint confirms all 80 people on board alive.

This is in due part to our heroic and trained professionals, our first responders at the airport. For now, still few answers. Pearson Fire Chief Todd Aiken. It's very early on. It's really important that we do not speculate. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Mississauga, Ontario. There were some fireworks during the Ontario provincial election debate last night.

The NDP, Liberal and Green party leaders are trying to gain ground against progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford. Polls have put him in the lead for months. Larenda Ratacop reports. With party leaders desperate to stand out, Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie leveled a personal attack on PC leader Doug Ford. You were raised privileged with a silver spoon in your mouth. You didn't have to work for anything.

You got a company handed to you, Doug, so you don't understand how expensive things are today. I bet you couldn't tell me what the cost of eggs are. Green Party leader Mike Schreiner hammered Ford on affordability and the PC government checks for all Ontarians. And it's not fair that Mr. Ford has handed out $200 checks to millionaires and billionaires like Galen Weston, the guy gouging you at the grocery store. Ford's response? When we saw more revenue come up to the coffers, we believe that it goes back to the people to stimulate the economy. NDP leader Marit

Stiles brought up her plan for a grocery rebate for low-income earners. You're going to get about a check for about $120 for a family of four back every month. The leaders have nine more days to make their case to voters before election day next Thursday. Lorenda Redacombe, CBC News, Toronto. We're about to find out Canada's latest inflation rate. The consumer price index will be released this morning. Georgie Smyth reports. Think of the CPI like a giant shopping basket filled with food, clothing, shelter and bills. Anything that Canadians might spend money on.

The index routinely tracks how much that basket cost the month before. A big portion of that is food. Colleen Wiseman is the academic director for the Master of Food and Resource Economics program at the University of British Columbia. She says January's numbers are more important than usual as US tariffs still hang over Canada. If these 25% tariffs come into place, this will be the benchmark for consumers. And a benchmark for general inflation and potential relief. That will allow both the Bank of Canada and the governments at all levels to be very strategic.

Georgie Smythe, CBC News, Vancouver. The most famous Acadian writer has died. Antonine Maillet was a legend in New Brunswick. Her work inspired a new pride in Acadian culture and her 20 novels and 12 plays were embraced by readers and audiences in Quebec and France. In 1980 she was interviewed by the CBC's Fifth Estate. I'm first of all an Acadian, which means a French speaking person living in Canada and in North America. I want to save the culture, I want to save the people. Her groundbreaking play La Saguen told the story of an Acadian cleaning lady from rural New Brunswick. Maillet died yesterday at her home in Montreal.

She was 95. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Neal Herland.