The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/13 at 09:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/13 at 09:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From CBC News, The World This Hour. I'm Mike Wise. Air Canada says it will start canceling flights and granting refunds after issuing a lockout notice to its 10,000 flight attendants. The union representing them announced plans to walk off the job this weekend. The airline says it'll start winding down operations in the meantime. Mira Baines reports.

The earliest workers can walk off the job is on Saturday at 1201. Eastern or 901 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday. Air Canada flight attendants held demonstrations at four major airports on Monday. And last night, the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants issued strike notice. The two sides have been negotiating a new collective agreement since March, going over key issues like wages, work rules, and unpaid hours. People worried about their flights this weekend have options. The airline says that any passengers booked to travel between August 15th and August 18th can change their flight if tickets were purchased no later than August 13th. These passengers will be allowed to change their flights for free to another date

between August 21st and September 12th. Meora Baines, CBC News, Vancouver. And that looming Air Canada job action has organizers of the Canada Games in St. John's enacting what they call their contingency travel plan. It's a backup plan to make sure athletes, coaches and technical officials who were booked on-air Canada are able to return home or fly to Newfoundland for next week's competitions. Games organizers say it will be up to family and fans at the games to make their own alternate travel plans. Well, there are new evacuation orders in Newfoundland and Labrador

due to growing wildfires. Residents in parts of the town of Paradise just outside St. John's are being told to leave, while the wildfire near Patty's pond continues to burn out of control. This has fire crews, fuming the strained. Peter Cowan has more. People are really scared. Marlene LeShane has her bagpacked, ready to leave her home in Upper Island Cove on the Bayford Peninsula at a moment's notice. The fire is

just a five-minute drive away, but she's worried there aren't enough aircraft and crews trying to stop it. Hot dry conditions in most of the province have created a tinder box. Yesterday afternoon, a new fire popped up in a cemetery in Spaniards Bay, an hour from St. John's. Aircraft had to divert away from other fires to snuff it out, and crews are tired. Help is on the way. 70 Canadian forces members are arriving to provide relief on the ground, and the Premier John Hogan says they're searching the continent for more air support. There's four high-capacity helicopters. Two Blackhawks are on route and should be here Thursday. Those are coming from Utah. That's on top of aircraft already here from Quebec, Northwest Territories, and New Brunswick. Extra resources aren't cheap.

The province says it's paying a million dollars a week for one helicopter from Manitoba. Peter Cowan. CBC News, St. John's. Israel is ready to push forward with expanded operations in Gaza despite internal opposition. The plan to take control of Gaza City comes as a new round of ceasefire negotiations begins in Egypt. Susan Ormiston reports from Jerusalem. Israel's Prime Minister says Palestinians would be allowed to leave Gaza before a military escalation, but rejects criticism. He's pushing them out. Benjamin Netanyahu made it.

remarks in a television interview Tuesday night. Talks have restarted in Cairo to try to revive a ceasefire plan and a delegation from Hamas is in the capital, says Egypt's foreign minister. Our main objective is to go back to the original proposal to have a ceasefire for 60 days.

Neither Hamas nor Israel is commenting on the prospects for any deal. This morning, a clash between the government and the chief of Israel's defense force appeared to be growing. Ayal Zamiar reportedly. told generals that Netanyahu's family had marked him, and supporters of the prime minister wanted him out. Defense minister, Israel Kat, said his conduct harms the military, and in a statement

cautioned all the critics and moral preachers opposing the war. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is your world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Mike Wise. Thank you.