The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/14 at 21:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/14 at 21:00 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 is sour i'm neil kumar ontario premier dug ford is ordering the province's public workers back to the office

it's time to get back to work as simple as that currently provincial government employees are mandated to be in their offices at least three days a week ford says half of the public service is already working full time at the office for remaining employees that will increase to four days starting this fall and five days in january People in Newfoundland and Labrador are getting an idea of the scale of the loss happening in the ongoing wildfire crisis in Atlantic Canada. At least 100 homes have been destroyed. Nicholas Sagan has the latest.

To give up everything and come to these calls, you know, we don't know what we're facing. In Conception Bay North, Newfoundland, a group of volunteer firefighters hose off their black and sooty gear, covering for nearby fire stations who are off fighting the biggest fire in the problem. The Kingston fire is burning more than 8,000 hectares, growing again overnight, new estimates from Premier John Hogan on the damage. There's potentially up to or around 100 structures, 100 homes that have been lost. Others try to shirk the rules, like the newly imposed bans on fires and off-road vehicles. Police in St. John's have arrested and charged a man for arson with disregard to human life

and find him $150,000 after brush fire. were set in downtown St. John's. Nicholas Sagan, CBC News, Halifax. In British Columbia, weather is helping firefighters dealing with the fire near Port Albany 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. Israel is moving ahead with plans to build thousands of homes in a new settlement in the occupied West Bank. It would effectively cut the territory in two,

feeling the already intense international anger over expanding settlements, including accusation it breaks international law, a claim Israel rejects. Susan Armistin reports from Jerusalem. Israeli finance minister, Bezela Smatrish, provoked a political storm. Advancing plans to build out an Israeli settlement in the continent. controversial E1 area, which would divide the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem. It definitely buries the idea of a Palestinian state, he said, because there's nothing to recognize and no one to recognize. At a coffee shop in Ramallah, a strong rebuke from resident Jamila

Johar. We do not accept any kind of partition or any kind of annexation of any meter in Palestine. Benjamin Netanyahu hasn't responded, even as Smatrish said he had the Prime Minister's support. Last month, Canada said it strongly opposed E1 settlement, but final approval could come next week, adding another point of tension in an overheated region. Susan Ormiston, CBC News, Jerusalem. California's governors moving forward with a plan to redraw the state's congressional maps. The new maps are an effort to help Democrats win five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms.

It's a response to Republican-led gerrymandering effort in Texas. Proposed legislation there would potentially send five more Republicans to Congress to help them hold a slim U.S. House majority. Governor Gavin Newsom says the plan is about protecting democracy. We're here because Donald Trump, on January 6th, try to light democracy on fire. He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. We have got to recognize the cards.

that have been dealt. And we have got to meet fire with fire. Newsom has called for a special election for California residents to vote on the new maps in November. And that is your World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcast. The World This Hour is updated every hour seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar.

Thank you.