The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/15 at 08:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/15 at 08:00 EDT

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Find an agent today at Desjardins.com slash business coverage. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Faye. Israeli officials are reporting at least four people are dead after an Iranian missile strike in the city of Bat Yam. Emergency crews are digging through the wreckage looking for victims and survivors. Sixty-one buildings were affected in strikes overnight. At one point, there were more than 30 people who were reported missing, but that number has since been reduced to three.

This is the third day Iran and Israel have been firing missiles at each other. Iran says oil depots have been hit but that the damage is under control. Some expect the conflict to take over the G7 summit that begins today in Cananaskis, Alberta, while nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran have been scuttled. In Iran, there were fresh Israeli airstrikes. The targets included the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tehran and sites that Israel says were linked to the country's nuclear program, including an oil depot. This appears to be the first attack on Iran's energy infrastructure. Leaders of the world's richest democracies, the Group of Seven, begin arriving in Cananascus,

Alberta today for what could be the organization's most consequential summit. The leaders meet amidst the threat of a full-blown war between Israel and Iran, and as the Trump administration wages a trade war on friend and foe alike. Murray Brewster has a preview. I think the stakes are significant. Gordon Holden is a former Canadian diplomat and political science professor at the University of Alberta who says the Trump administration's imposition of tariffs is destabilizing trading

relationships between allies within the G7. Holden says for the sake of the Canadian economy, Prime Minister Mark Carney has a tightrope to walk inside that meeting room. It may feel good to publicly push back, but at a certain point, while standing our ground, we need to try and find some common ground. Senator Peter Beame, Canada's former G7 Deputy Minister, says from his experience, managing Trump can be done. It's not like everyone is close to fisticuffs or anything.

It's a very cordial atmosphere and you can agree to disagree. Expectations are the summit will produce a series of action statements on issues where the countries can agree. The war in Ukraine will be discussed but it's the escalating attacks between Israel and Iran now high on the agenda. Marie Brewster, CBC News, Banff, Alberta. While it's a profession still dominated by men. Across the country, 12 percent of the firefighters are women, 15,000 in total.

For one shift at a fire hall in St. John's, Newfoundland, there wasn't a fireman to be found. For the first time in the 130-year history of that fire service, there was an all-female crew. Peter Cowan reports. Gina Burke is used to being the odd woman out. For most of her 33 years fighting fires, she's been surrounded by men. We just said, oh my God, wouldn't it be great to get all the girls together?

We're starting to get to a point now where we have enough girls that we'd be able to man a station. And that's exactly what happened. For one day at one station, everyone from the captain down to the most junior firefighter, eight in all, were women. For Melanie Barnes, who joined two years ago, this shift was about camaraderie. There was any doubt in anybody's mind ever. Our women of our job that day proved what they can do.

The biggest test was a house fire. The women were first on the scene, sweeping the house, getting the hoses out and making their captain proud. They just outperformed a great percentage of the men in the job. They gave more than I would even ask for. Perks only regret this will likely be the only chance she gets to work with an all-female crew before she retires next year. Peter Cowen, CBC News, Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. And finally Mercedes will be front and center at the Montreal Grand Prix today. The team parked itself on the front row with George Russell claiming the pole for a second year in a row. Teammate and reigning four-time F1

champion Max Verstappen is alongside. Montreal's Lance Stroll, the lone Canadian in the 20-card field, will start 17th. Race time at Sirquay-Gilles Villeneuve is set for 2 p.m. Eastern. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague.