The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/14 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/14 at 13:00 EDT

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I'm Mandy Sham. Ontario's Premier has ordered the province's 60,000 civil servants to return to the office. Half of all civil servants are already there. Others are told to do four days a week starting this fall and full time in January. As Colin Butler reports, it signals the curtain call for the pandemic's work-from-home era. It's back to the cubicles, ready or not? public service will be returning to office full time in the coming months. Premier Doug Ford says it's just time. Banks and insurance companies are doing it,

so the civil service should too. I believe everyone's more productive when they're at work and how do you mentor someone over a phone? You can't. You got to look at them eye to eye over the water cooler wherever, train him, the camaraderie, plus the economy too. Ford says employees on the move and out for lunch are better for the economy. The move ends a years-long experiment in remote government work won unions campaign hard for and that let public servants swap commutes for keyboards at the kitchen table. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. An Air Canada press conference was cut short this morning after union members showed up holding signs in protest.

Canada's largest airline says it will start grounding flights tonight. More than 10,000 flight attendants are ready to strike on Saturday morning while the airline has responded with a lockout notice. Natasha Staia is a union president from Montreal. She says the airline is refusing to negotiate. We want a contract. We don't want to go on strike. We don't want our passengers to be suffering. This is not something that we want.

We love our passengers. It's our livelihood. We don't want to be out of a paycheck. We want to get back to the table and discuss. Air Canada insists it remains at the table, but says the union's demands are unsustainable. The company says the work stoppage could affect more than 100,000 passengers each day. 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. The cyber attack happened last Friday. Staff are being warned the data obtained could be used to target or impersonate parliamentarians. The battle against multiple out-of-control wildfires continues in Newfoundland and Labrador. The largest among them is the Kingston fire. It's destroyed dozens of homes so far.

Nikola Segan has the latest. I knew it was a tough job. I didn't realize it was going to be this intense. Jason Dyke is one of the volunteer firefighters battling the largest out-of-control fire in Newfoundland on the Beta Verde Peninsula around 150 kilometers from St. John's. The fire has pushed thousands of people from their homes. Premier John Hogan is estimating 100 homes have been destroyed. But he says the extreme fire and smoke mean officials can't be sure. He's urging evacuees to stay calm as they wait for

news. I've asked them to be patient. It's very easy for me to ask that. I'm not the one sleeping in the gym. I'm not the one who doesn't know if my house is still there. or not. Police in St. John's have arrested and charged a man in connection with a series of fires started in the city's downtown, charging him with arson with disregard for human life. He's also facing a $150,000 fine for breaking the fire ban. Nicholas Sagan, CBC News, Halifax. In India administered Kashmir, at least 44 people have died in sudden flash floods. The Himalayan village of Chashoti was a scene of chaos after parts of it were buried by mud and debris. At least 50 rescued people were taken to hospital with serious injuries.

The village is a stopping point on a pilgrimage to a local Hindu shrine, and many pilgrims are believed to be among the missing and dead. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mandy Sham.