The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 02:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 02:00 EDT

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Flight Attendance Charter Rights. Defiance on the picket line outside Pearson International Airport in Toronto. Now is not the time to take risks with our economy. Saying the two sides were clearly at an impasse, jobs minister Patty Heidu invoked Section 107 of the Canadian Labor Code to order binding arbitration between the airline and its union. It means operations will restart, although it's, It's not clear when the 10,000 flight attendants will return to work.

A work stoppage would cause thousands of Canadians to be stranded abroad and across this country, and this is simply unacceptable. Hide you! Shame on you! The Flight Attendance Union, Coupie, says Ottawa has rewarded Air Canada for not bargaining in good faith. It rejected the employer's last request for binding arbitration. Philip Lichanawks, CBC News, Mississauga, Ontario. And flight attendants United across Canada are planning for a day of action at several airports around the country on Sunday.

They plan to make their voices heard with demonstrations at airports in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver, where they will plead for fairness and the end to unpaid work. Wildfires in Newfoundland have made life difficult for the organizers of the Canada Games. Smoke has forced some events to be postponed and others to be moved. But despite difficulties, the games and the athletes carry on. Karen Pulse has more. At the net, trying to put it away, and they will. A win and seventh place for Team Nova Scotia's Women's Beach Volleyball team to finish a chaotic Canada Games competition.

Julia McDougal describes it as a roller coaster. It was definitely a bit scary at some points. Like, we didn't think we were even going to be able to play our games because, of course, the fires were getting pretty bad. Beach Volleyball was put on hold last Tuesday. after a wildfire prompted evacuations in this suburb of St. John's. Sierra Sarty is McDougal's teammate and cousin. We could see flames, flames, flames, so many flames,

and that was definitely super, super scary. With week one overshadowed by wildfires, and now Hurricane Aaron heading this way, organizers are facing challenges. But they say Newfoundlanders and the sports community are pulling together to keep these Canada games on track. Karen Paul's, CBC News, Paradise, Newfoundland. A province-wide ATV ban is in place for Newfoundland and Labrador until Sunday night.

Fire Chief Duane Antla says ATVs can spark a fire in many ways. I know people still enjoy doing it, but really it's not much of a sacrifice when you consider it a sacrifice that far fires are making right now on all of these wildfires. Residents are being advised to carry a fire extinguisher with them at all times. In Pakistan, more than 300 people are dead after days of heavy rains causing flash flooding and landslides. Rescue efforts are ongoing as crews clear blocked roads and continue to pick through the rubble looking for survivors. Authorities say many rain missing in the mountainous areas in the country's northwest. And Hurricane Aaron has now formed into a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean.

U.S. National Hurricane Center says, Aaron is not expected to make landfall, but it is threatening to dump flooding rains as it grows. And that is your rule this hour. For CBC News, I'm Neil Kumar. Thank you.