The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/14 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/14 at 11:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From the CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Nuridine Kornay. Air Canada will be grounding flights today. The move is in preparation for a potential lockout or strike by flight attendants this weekend. Ariel Malul Weschler is Air Canada's chief human resources officer. We never left the table.

We are still available to bargain at any time on the condition that the negotiation has substance. Linda Ward has more from Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Taking a look at the Departures Board here at Terminal 1. It is business as usual, at least so far, but we know that is definitely going to change through the day. Air Canada says they will be canceling flights today and tomorrow, this all part of a gradual shutdown ahead of a possible strike

and lockout if no deal is reached by early Saturday. Air Canada says they've given passengers the option to change their flight from August 15th to August 18th, if that ticket was purchased no later than yesterday for another flight between August 21st and September 12th. Now, if their flight is cancelled, they'll try to rebook people on the first available flight with another airline.

They're saying passengers can also choose a refund. Linda Ward, CBC News, Toronto. Fire crews across the Maritimes continue to battle wildfires. One in New Brunswick is currently burning beyond control. according to officials. As Brett Ruskin reports, firefighters hope forecasted rain will bring some relief. North of Miramachie, New Brunswick this morning, an out-of-control fire has grown to more than 1,300 hectares in size. There's also at least two smaller fires that have popped up over the past day. There is some rain in the forecast, and officials hope it will be enough to get

a handle on the fire, says New Brunswick's Minister of Natural Resources, John Heron. When we have that window of opportunity, when things get down, happened, we need to go at it. Meanwhile, in Moncton, a fire outside the city is now considered contained after days of work on the ground by firefighters and in the air from water bombers. Those same bombers had been shared with Nova Scotia to help knock down a fire near one of Halifax's busy shopping centers. That fire is now being held. Nova Scotia's premier urges residents to follow the new regulations banning activities in the woods and says the region still has a tough few weeks ahead with these dry conditions.

Brett Ruskin, CBC News, Halifax. Meanwhile, in British Columbia, fire crews are working to protect the city of Port Albany. A drought on Vancouver Island is testing firefighters in new ways. John Northcott has more. Officials are using the words unusual and aggressive to describe the fire on the outskirts of Port Albany. The city, population 22,000, has residents of its southern neighborhoods under evacuation

alert. Winds have shifted, and in 24 hours it grew from 1,400. hectares to over 2,000. But for the 64 firefighting crews on the ground, the big challenge is the dry conditions prompted by a drought that started as far back as May. Here's fire information officer

Carly de Rozier. It would take a significant amount of rain over a longer period to really penetrate the ground, to extinguish the fire that is going to be burning deep in the ground, which is common when we see wildfires burning

in areas that are impacted by What they really need is not only rain, but a steady, sustained rain that will penetrate the ground and really get at the fires still active underground. John Northcott, CBC News, Toronto. The House of Commons and Canada's cybersecurity agency are investigating a data breach. CBC News obtained an internal email telling parliamentary staff, a malicious actor gained access to a database. It contained information used to manage computers and mobile devices.

The data includes employees' names, job titles, and office locations. Talks to tackle plastic pollution are at risk of ending with no legally binding treaty. Negotiations in Geneva are heading into their final hours. Norwegian Minister of Climate and Environment, Andreas Erickson, says compromise is needed. I think all parties need to be willing to be flexible

if we are going to get a treaty in these next hours. International bodies warn that without intervention, plastic production could triple by 2060. For CBC News, I'm Nurudine Koranei.