The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/14 at 15:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/14 at 15:00 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 CBC News, the world this hour. 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? The Ontario 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've 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 year-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 noticed. 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 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. Nicholas again 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 Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, 42 homes are under an evacuation order due to an out-of-control wildfire. Officials say it was started by a lightning strike. Two helicopters are assisting ground crews trying to contain the fire and build a fire break. The weather is also helping firefighters in British Columbia, dealing with the fire near Port Albany on Vancouver Island. Here's incident commander, Stefan Hood. The wind is looking to back off a little bit. The temperatures are dropping.

The relative humidity is increasing. And hopefully all of this coming to a rain event that should help us. It's not going to put out the fire, but it should help us in terms of limiting fire growth for a period of time. Hood says crews will use that time to construct fire breaks and clear fuel from the forests. Some neighborhoods are under evacuation alerts, but they are not under an imminent threat. Parks Canada is urging tourists to postpone non-essential travel to hiking trails in the area. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mandy Sham.