The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/15 at 12:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/15 at 12:00 EDT

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Russia. President Zelensky, who's with us this morning, has shown once again that Ukraine is the party of peace because he has agreed to and committed to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire. Starmer hosted a virtual summit of the so-called Coalition of the Willing today. Canada is among the 25 nations that agree to help Ukraine militarily and financially. Their goal is to get Russia to agree to a ceasefire. The talks did not include the United States. More dangerous weather is on the way for millions of Americans. We're on Act 27. You can start to see no catastrophe because dust storm is rising.

A multi-day storm system is making its way through the country. Strong winds are kicking up dirt, causing almost 40 vehicles to crash into each other on a Texas highway last night. The massive storm system is blamed for at least three deaths. Two skiers are dead in separate avalanches in the Alberta backcountry, one near Lake Louise, the other in Kananaskis country. Parts of the Rocky Mountains have been hit with heavy snow in recent days. That means the risk of more avalanches is high. CBC's Aaron Collins reports. We're seeing natural avalanches and human-triggered avalanches

widespread throughout the park. A warning from Banff National Park's Alex Lawson. Those slides, no joke. We're seeing avalanches running from mountaintop all the way down to valley bottom. Big enough to wipe out a house if it was in its path. Well, those avalanches coming after major storms dumped on slopes that had received little snow the rest of the season. And Avalanche Canada's Martina Halleck says more of the white stuff could be on the way. Winter isn't over yet in the mountains. Many of our regions saw significant snowfall recently and the weather is dynamic and can be less predictable in March, making it more difficult to forecast.

All that fresh powder a draw for many. There's a fair bit of pent-up excitement to get out there and experience some skiing. But Kevin Kopang, a mountain rescue specialist with the Cananascus region near Calgary, says it's better to be safe than sorry in conditions like these. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Calgary. A community in the eastern townships of Quebec is reeling after a fire destroyed parts of a family farm. It broke out Thursday at a fish farm and reignited twice before being extinguished finally.

No one was injured in the fire, but the family that runs the farm says they're facing a major loss. CBC's Natalia Weichsel reports. Norman Roy founded the Bobbin Fish Farm in 1975, before passing the torch to his son, Clément. Roy, who's now retired, still devotes his time to the farm, and says that he'll be helping out even more in the coming days after the fire. The Bobin Fish Farm is one of the largest rainbow trout production facilities in the province.

The owners estimate that the fire destroyed nearly a third of their market-ready products, as well as the building used to process the fish. The farm's fish were spared. But now the challenge is figuring out what to do with the remaining livestock. Everybody knows somebody that was working there. The mayor of East Hereford Benoit Lavois says the Bobin fish farm was a big employer in the community. Lavois says the town is now rallying around the family to support them as best they can. Everybody was working trying to help save everything best they can. Everybody was working, trying to help,

save everything that they could. So nobody was talking about the fire. Everybody was trying to help. Natalia Vixel, CBC News, Montreal. An attempt to crack down on St. Patrick's Day parties in an Ontario university town is proving divisive. Waterloo was granted a court injunction allowing police to arrest and charge anyone participating.

Kay Elghee, with a local community group, approves of the hard line. We would see people just being pretty flagrant. Like a lot of out of town people, they would come and pee on our yards, you know, they would throw garbage. They would be quite disrespectful, probably because they weren't themselves, you know, but some of them were kind of nasty. Some students feel differently, arguing that celebrating St. Patrick's Day is a cherished tradition. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Peter Duck.