The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/08 at 17:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/08 at 17:00 EDT

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Find the latest season wherever you get your podcasts. On CBC News, The World This Hour, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are getting a pay raise. Prime Minister Mark Carney says the bump will help with recruitment and retention. A problem military leaders have called critical. Catherine Tunney has more. It's a generational shift. Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the country's largest military airbase in Trenton Friday,

announcing a long promise pay increase for members of the Canadian military. The salary top-up will be graduated. The lowest ranks of the regular force will get a 12. 20% boost, or the top brass will see an 8% increase. Their pay, your pay, should reflect the weight of your responsibilities. There's also additional compensation coming, including extra support for those who move a lot for the job and those helping Canadians through natural disasters. And an incentive package to the tune of $50,000 to help recruit Canadians fill roles facing

critical shortfalls. The spike in salary spending comes as Carney's government promises to invest heavily in defense to meet this NATO target of 5% GDP by 2035. Catherine Tunney, CBC News, Ottawa. Prime Minister Mark Carney is joining a number of world leaders condemning Israel's plan to fully take over the Gaza Strip. The proposal to seize Gaza City was approved by Israel's security cabinet today. This action is not going to contribute to an improvement in the humanitarian situation on the ground.

it is going to put the lives of the hostages at greater risk rather than lessening it. Carney says he reiterates his call for a ceasefire and the immediate release of hostages. Earlier today, Germany, the second largest arms distributor to Israel following the U.S., announced it would suspend those military exports. It cited the worsening civilian toll in Gaza as the reason. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's disappointed with that decision, adding that the objection. objective is not to occupy Gaza. In the prairies. Our area, in comparison to the rest of Canada, is definitely the worst right now. That's meteorologist Keene Kukalski talking about the air quality in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and also parts of northern Ontario. Smoke from wildfires has pushed

the AQI to 10 plus, meaning elevated risk to health and the need to take precautions. With all the smoke that's already still hovering around the area in the prairies right now, it's really just kind of lingering there and with more smoke brought into the atmosphere by these fires, it's really just going to continue to add to the situation. Kukalski says the situation is expected to improve today and tomorrow, but spike again on Sunday. Anyone with lung problems or heart disease is urged to stay indoors with the windows closed. If you're planning on catching a flight, you may have to change your travel plans if thousands of Air Canada flight attendants walk off the job in a little more than a week. But as

Denise Haydari reports, negotiations are ongoing and a deal is still possible. Travelers departing Toronto's Pearson Airport aren't worried about leaving, but return flights might not bored if Air Canada flight attendants end up going on strike. It's a little bit concerning. We have to get back home, right? QPee has been negotiating with Air Canada on behalf of more than 10,000 flight attendants for months. But without a deal, the workers voted 99.7% in favor of striking. Air Canada has said it's still believes there could be a deal. Management and the union had their little tete-a-tete, as we say, in exchange positions. John Graddock lectures on aviation management at McGill University.

He says bargaining restarted today, but with flight attendants wanting both higher wages and their paid hours to include work before and after a plane is in the air. This is a contract that will cost their can. There's definitely no way our can is going to wait, get away with a low-cost solution. The union is now saying strike action could happen by August 16th. but they would have to give three days notice. Any Siddari, CBC News, Calgary. Advanced polls are open in the riding of Battle River Crowfoot,

where a conservative leader Pierre Pollyev is running. He lost his Ottawa seat in the last election, and hopes winning this riding will allow him to get back into the House of Commons. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thank you.