The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 07:00 EDT

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from cbc news the world this hour i'm claude pig air canada says it will be resuming operations today it's planning for the first flights to take off this evening but says it will be several days before everything is back to normal the airline started cutting back operations before its flight attendants went on strike striking workers like these in vancouver Hoover are already angry over the federal government's move to order them back to work. 10,000 have been off the job since early yesterday morning. Linda Ward reports from Pearson International Airport in Toronto. Out here on the picket line, flight attendants have not lost any resolve, chanting they will not be defeated.

Even though Air Canada says in a statement that the Canada Industrial Relations Board is directed Air Canada and Air Canada-Rouche flight attendants like these to resume their duties at 2 p.m. Eastern today. They say the liberals are violating their charter rights and giving Air Canada what they want hours of unpaid work. The CIRB has extended the term of their collective agreement until a new one can be made under binding arbitration. The union also says the arbitrator chosen here once worked for Air Canada. And while these flight attendants will return to work at 2 p.m. Air Canada says in a statement the first flights will leave this evening. But it'll take days for normal operations to resume.

Linda Ward, CBC News at Pearson Airport. Officials in Nova Scotia say the hot dry weather is helping to fuel the Long Lake Wildfire. It forced the evacuation of more than 100 homes in Annapolis County. The fire is now estimated to cover more than 1,000 hectares. On Vancouver Islands, several communities will remain without power for up to two weeks. BC Hydro says it's working to get the electricity back up and running, as an out-of-control wildfire continues to burn south of Port Albarnie. The power has been out since Monday. Firefighting crews say significant rainfall has allowed them to make progress

battling the Mount Underway Wildfire. Hurricane Aaron has now been downgraded to a category three storm. It's the first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center says that the storm's wind speed eased slightly early this morning. The hurricane has currently in the area that is the east-southeast of Grand Turk Island. Steve Futterman has the latest. All along the U.S. East Coast and in the Caribbean, they are keeping a close watch on Aaron. It's already surprised weather forecasters with its rapid intensification. For a while yesterday, Aaron grew into a Category 5 hurricane, and in places like Puerto Rico, they are feeling some of the effects with strong winds and heavy rains. Aaron's path right now,

is keeping it north of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Bahamas, but all those locations are being hit by significant rainfall. At some point today, Aaron is expected to start to turn north. And even though Aaron is not expected to make actual landfall along the U.S. East Coast, there still could be problems. Michael Brennan is director of the National Hurricane Center. The other thing we're very concerned about is the potential for surf and rip currents, dangerous conditions developing almost along the entire east coast of the United States. beginning Monday here in Florida, spreading up into the Carolinas. Steve Futterman for CBC News, Los Angeles.

A long shot was the big winner at the 166 running of the King's Plate at Woodbine racetrack in Toronto yesterday. And Mancetti coming down to the wild. What a get to wild winner. Mancetti and Pietroen win. Mancetti, a three-year-old American-owned cult who went off at 10-to-one odds, coasted to victory by two and a half lengths to win the. plate with 20-year-old Canadian apprentice jockey Pietro Moran, whose father David is also a

jockey aboard. Trainer Kevin Atthard of Tottenham, Ontario picked up his third career plate victory. The win was worth $600,000. The king's plate is the first leg in the Canadian Triple Crown. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Figg. Thank you.