The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/21 at 05:00 EST

Episode Date: February 21, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/21 at 05:00 EST

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Canada is once again on top of the hockey world, beating the U.S. in a thrilling game to capture the inaugural Four Nations Faceoff Tournament. The CBC's Jamie Strashen reports from Boston. In the end, the finals of the Four Nations Cup delivered, and who else to end it but Connor McDavid. The Edmonton Oilers superstar ripped a shot into the top corner just over eight minutes into overtime. The Canadian bench erupting in jubilation. None of it would have been possible without the overtime heroics of Canadian goaltender Jordan Bennington, who made a series of acrobatic saves to keep the game alive. The championship game was played at a feverish pace, adding fuel to the political tension

that loomed over the final, driven by US President Donald Trump, who continued his jibes about Canada becoming the 51st state in the hours leading up to puck drop The tension carried into the heavily partisan American crowd who showered the Canadian anthem with booze But Canada had the last laugh Quieting the American crowd and capturing the title at a tournament that far exceeded expectations Jamie Strash in CBC News Boston and Canada won the game 3-2 and overtime Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is promising retribution against the militant group Hamas In a release video statement today Netanyahu vowed revenge for Hamas's failure to release the body of Haas's Shiri

Bebus on Thursday Hamas released the bodies of Bebus's two children, an infant boy and his four-year-old brother, but not hers. Hamas responded today, saying that the remains of Bebus appeared to be mixed up with other human remains following an Israeli airstrike where Bebus was being held. Arab leaders meet in the Saudi capital of Riyadh today to come up with a plan for the future of Gaza. Arab states have strongly rejected Donald Trump's proposal to take over the territory and relocate its 2 million inhabitants. Mohamed Farid is an Egyptian senator.

The amount of destruction and devastation that took place in Gaza is unprecedented. It's important to start a process of both reconstruction politically and reconstruction physically and reconstruction socially. This needs a consensus, a consensus from the Arab countries, from the regional partners, and of course from the international community. John Ankerberg Some encouraging signs for Pope Francis. The Vatican says the Pontiff, who has been hospitalized for a week with double pneumonia, had a good night's sleep and got up this morning and had breakfast. The Vatican adds that the Pope has no fever, his vitals are stable, has taken communion

and is working today. An Eastern Ontario man says the province's health care system is working against him. He's spent most of the past 16 years in hospital after an accident left him with a brain injury that requires 24-hour support. Matthew Kupfer reports. Kareen Rakowski helps her twin brother put on a sweater in his room at the Renfrew Victoria Hospital. It's where Ken Rakowski has had to make a home for most of the last 16 years.

A brain injury affects his speech. He feels criminals have more freedom than him. He was first admitted in 2009 after a car crash and spent about a year and a half at Pathways to Independence, a home for people with acquired brain injuries. Then he was injured during a bed transfer and sent to hospital. It's devastating. Pathways to Independence wouldn't comment on Ken's case, but say staff are all trained in bed transfers and lifts. Ruth Wilcock is the president of the Ontario Brain Injury Association. She says there are others in situations similar to Rukowski's and not enough space for people with acquired brain injuries. Government has invested in a few extra beds.

Comparatively, the need to what's been invested, there's a huge gap. Matthew Kupfer, CBC News, Renfrew, Ontario. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.