The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/15 at 23:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 16, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/15 at 23:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. From CBC News, the world is sour. I'm Neil Kumar. The union representing Air Canada's flight attendants has rejected the company's request for binding arbitration. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and workers will walk off the job at 1 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday if the two sides can't reach an agreement. Philip Lee Shanock has the latest.

Andreas Mendez's flight out of Toronto's Pearson Airport has been pushed back three hours. We're hoping that is just a delay. Air Canada says it's ramping up cancellations after the union representing its flight attendants rejected the company's request for federal arbitration. Spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick says the airline is winding down operations upending travel for tens of thousands of passengers. We're already experienced the labor disruption even before the strike started, so that's why we're having the cancellations. Natasha Stey is with the Flight Attendance Union.

She believes the company would rather the government intervene. then bargain in good faith. Why are they canceling your flights? We're at the table. We want to talk. The strike deadline is 1 a.m. Saturday morning. Air Canada says check its website before heading to the airport. Philip Lishanok, CBC News, Toronto. Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

have wrapped up their meeting in Alaska without a deal on the war in Ukraine. Lisa Jing brings us the latest from Washington. Next time in Moscow. Without specifics, snore taking questions, questions. U.S. President Donald Trump hinted his biggest goal did not materialize after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Many points were agreed to. There are just a very few that are left. Some are not that significant. One is probably the most significant. That one point,

likely a ceasefire in Ukraine, Trump has long wanted. Putin more legitimized after the meeting with Trump saying it has been long overdue, though he would equally vague on any progress made. We are prepared to work on that. I would like to hope that the agreement that we've reached together will help us bring closer that goal. Trump saying he will brief Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the NATO countries,

but no mention of severe consequences he threatened should there be no ceasefire. Lisa Scheng, CBC News, Washington. New Brunswick has 23 active fires burning, and the biggest one near Mir Mishi has grown to nearly 14 square kilometers. Natural Resources Minister, John Heron, says what's needed is some mistype rain to assist with firefighting efforts. In the meantime, crews are using water bombers to snuff out fires before they become even more problematic. They are making a fair amount of progress with respect to building out a fire break,

part of the infrastructure which we're going to have to require in order to contain that fire. 40 additional firefighters will be coming from Ontario on Saturday. Seven years, 700 mines, and one historic liftoff. It was a groundbreaking moment in Northern Quebec on Friday when a rocket launched from Cree land for the first time. As Jaila Bernstein reports, the project marks a powerful partnership that could shape Canada's future space endeavors.

As dawn broke over a remote part of the Cree Nation of Mysticiny in northern Quebec, a team of bleary-eyed Concordia students watched seven years of work blast off into the atmosphere. Now that was the largest student-built rocket ever flown. The students reached out to the Kree Nation of Mysticiny asking if they could use their land roughly six months ago. Pamela McLeod is coordinator of land management and environment. So we'd never received a request like this before. I think we saw it as an opportunity to be a part of something that historic, but an opportunity also to collaborate. She says they were eager to integrate their culture, giving the rocket a Kree name.

Chacabas means star boy. The launch, proof of the opportunities that arise when indigenous experts and scientists collaborate to inspire the next generation of minds. Jela Bernstein, CBC News, Montreal. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar. Thank you.