The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 14:00 EST

Episode Date: February 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/18 at 14:00 EST

1942, Europe. Soldiers find a boy surviving alone in the woods. They make him a member of Hitler's army. But what no one would know for decades, he was Jewish. Could a story so unbelievable be true? I'm Dan Goldberg. I'm from CBC's Personally, Toy Soldier. Available now wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Tom Harrington. The two longest runways at Toronto's Pearson Airport remain closed. With the wreckage from yesterday's plane crash still on the tarmac, Canada's Transportation Safety Board's investigation is underway. All 80 people on board the Delta flight survived, but two passengers remain in

hospital. Thomas Dagna has the latest. Officials won't speculate on what caused the crash, but Pearson Airport points out in recent days it received more snow than all of last winter. Airport Authority CEO Deborah Flint says 20 Transportation Safety Board investigators have now arrived to determine what went wrong, with help from U.S. officials and aircraft maker Mitsubishi. We do expect that the investigators on site will be reviewing the aircraft on its current configuration on the runway for

the next 48 hours. Delta Airlines now says 21 passengers in all were taken to Toronto area hospitals. In court to catch with the local paramedic service says crews treated patients for back sprains and head injuries. Some headaches, nausea and vomiting due to the fuel exposure. Firefighters say they had to board the plane to rescue some passengers, but most managed to walk away on their own. Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. Mark Carney has raised more money than any of his competitors in the race to replace

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Elections Canada filings released today show the former Bank of Canada governor has received 1.9 million dollars in donations nearly 3,300 people contributed to his campaign so far that is more than 10 times the number of those donating to former Deputy Prime Minister Christian Freeland Carney is also well ahead in the race to lock up the support of Liberal caucus members Canada's inflation rate went up a notch last month. It reached 1.9% up from 1.8 in December. Peter Armstrong has more.

This is the first time in three months that we've seen prices accelerate again. It's largely as economists had been expecting. Higher gasoline prices and mortgage costs came in heavier than that GST tax holiday and overall that drove prices up. The core measures that the Bank of Canada is always watching, those also accelerated,

but if you zoom out a bit, those are cooling too on a three-month average. Inflation's back on the tips of everyone's tongue right now, if only because of the looming threat of a trade war with the United States. If the US imposes tariffs, that'll slow demand and likely drive prices down. But if the Canadian government responds with its own tariffs, that would likely drive prices up for consumers in this country. We'll hear again from the Bank of Canada in three weeks' time. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto.

The Vatican says Pope Francis has bilateral pneumonia and his respiratory infection is also complicated by asthmatic bronchitis. Nevertheless, the Vatican says the 88-year-old pontiff remains in high spirits. Francis was admitted to hospital on Friday after a week of feeling unwell. The Vatican has cancelled all of his scheduled audiences through until the weekend. But officials say it is not clear how long the treatment will last. The U.S. and Russia have agreed to start working together to end the war in Ukraine. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other senior American officials met with a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia.

We're not going to pre-negotiate an end to this conflict. These are the kinds of things that have to happen through hard and difficult diplomacy and closed rooms over a period of time. Rubio says the two countries have agreed to reestablish diplomatic missions and will restore staffing at their respective embassies in Washington and Moscow. Here is National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. This needs to be a permanent end to the war and not a temporary end as we've seen in the past. We know just the practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wasn't invited to the meeting. He postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia in order to not give legitimacy to the talks. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Tom Harrington. Thanks for listening.