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

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

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

So you're saying this airline forces the cabin crew to work for free. Tell me you're at least paid for boarding and de-plaining. No. Safety checks. No. Not even medical emergencies. No, but we'll always show up. But they're charging flyers more than ever.

And we're putting in thousands of unpaid hours. Where is that money going? Canada's airline, hey? Unpaid work is a true crime. Visit Unfair Canada.com to hear the whole story. A message from the Air Canada component of Cupy. From CBZ News the world this hour, I'm Mandy Sham. Air Canada has started suspending flights as its flight attendants prepare for a potential strike this weekend.

The airline has responded with a lockout notice. Hundreds of flights are expected to be cancelled by Saturday's strike deadline. Ivo Mousa has more on the state of negotiations. That's very unfortunate. Air Canada officials were interrupted by QP members. This morning, quietly holding protest signs. It appears negotiations between Canada's largest airline and the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants remain at an impasse.

They made the very last days of negotiations meaningless by making unsustainable offers. Ariel Melul Wexler is Air Canada's chief human resources officer. They refused our offer of arbitration and they sent us a strike notice as soon as they were legally able to do so. The main sticking points, wages, work rules, and unpaid hours. Natasha Stea is with Kupi. I really feel that the employer is counting on the government to come in, swoop in, and save all of this. Federal jobs minister, Patty Heidu, says she's met with both parties throughout the bargaining process,

and she strongly urges them to come to an agreement. It will move to CBC News, Toronto. Ontario is ordering the province's 60,000 public workers back to the office. Currently, provincial government employees are mandated to be in their offices at least three days a week. That will increase to four days starting this fall and full time in January. Premier Doug Ford says it's time. All the companies I've talked from the banks to the insurance companies to everyone else, everyone needs to go back to work.

Half the public service is already at work five days a week, and I want to thank them, and I just look forward to having everyone back to work. The move follows a similar announcement, by Canada's four biggest banks. In Newfoundland and Labrador, firefighters are getting a bit of help from the weather, but the wildfire threat is still very serious. The province's largest fire in Conception Bay North grew almost 1,500 hectares in the last 24 hours. Premier John Hogan says it's extremely difficult to get an accurate count of damages.

There's potentially up to or around 100 structures, 100 homes that have been lost due to the Kingston fire. Authorities have banned all off-road vehicles from forest. in high-risk areas, and several people have been fined for ignoring the provincial fire ban. Another individual has been fined $50,000 on the West Coast for having a campfire and an individual in St. John's. I know there was reports over Tuesday night into Wednesday, about three brush fires. That individual will have three $50,000 fines. That person has also been charged with arson with disregard for human life. The weather is also helping firefighters in British.

Colombia, dealing with the fire near Port Auburni on Vancouver Island. Some neighborhoods are under evacuation alerts, but they are not under an imminent threat. Incident commander, Stefan Hood says winds are dying down, temperatures are dropping, and humidity is on the rise, and he hopes that would help limit the growth of the fire. Hood says crews will use that time to construct firebreaks and clear fuel from the forests. The United Nations is condemning Israel's plan to go ahead with a proposal for new settlements in the Occupy. West Bank. Stefan Dujaric speaks for the Secretary General. He says the UN's position is clear. The Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, go against international law.

Settlements to state the obvious further entrenched the occupation, put the prospect of a two-state solution even further away. That is exactly the stated goal of the plan approved by Israeli far-right finance minister Bazala Smotrich. If built, the settlement would cut off the West Bank from occupied East Jerusalem. Smotrich says that would bury the idea of a Palestinian state. The announcement follows declarations by Canada and other nations about their intention to recognize a Palestinian state in September. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mandy Shan. Thank you.