The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 18:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 17, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 18:00 EDT

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Defiant Air Canada flight attendants say they will not obey the federal government's back-to-work order. QB says Ottawa's rapid interference is a violation of their charter right to collective bargaining. Jamie Strassion has more. At a rally at Toronto's Pearson Airport, Air Canada's flight attendants said they will defy a back-to-work order. Wesley Lysoski is the president of the Air Canada component of QP. We go back with respect when we go back. Air Canada had said flights would resume this evening after the federal government intervened, ordering an end to the strike and lockout and binding arbitration.

The one-day work stoppage caused about 700 flights to be suspended and stranded more than 100,000 passengers. The flight attendants were ordered to return to work by 2 p.m. Eastern today, angering QB members like Lillian Speedy. I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike. Neither the government or Air Canada has responded to the flight attendance announcement that they plan to defy the back-to-work order. Jamie Strash and CBC News, Toronto. Initially, Air Canada said it would resume service this evening, but now it says it hopes to restart

flights tomorrow evening. Ukraine's president will head to Washington tomorrow. for what could be a pivotal meeting with the U.S. President. Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, says the Russian president agreed to allow the U.S. and other countries to provide Ukraine with security guarantees. We got to an agreement that the United States and other European nations could effectively offer Article 5-like language to cover a security guarantee. Putin has said that a red flag is NATO admission, assuming that the Ukrainians could agree to that, we were able to win the following concession, that the United States could offer Article 5-like protection.

NATO's Article 5 states an attack on any NATO member is considered an attack on all NATO members. Whitkoff says such guarantees could lead to an agreement to end the three-and-a-half-year-old war. A mother in Toronto is in shock after her 8-year-old son was shot and killed while sleeping in his bed. Mercedes Gaston B-Dade spoke with family and friends of the victim. The mother of 8-year-old Javei Roy says she and her son were in his bed at their apartment complex when a bullet came through the window hitting him. Detective Sergeant Jason Davis says paramedics rushed him to the hospital, but the 8-year-old didn't survive. This young boy was in bed. He was in his home, the safest place that you can be.

Marcel Wilson is a friend of the victim's family. There are no words that can capture the pain of losing a child in such a horrific and senseless way. A family is shattered. Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkew has a message to anyone who was involved in the shooting. I encourage you to contact a lawyer and turn yourself in. We will leave no stone unturned in our pursuit of you and we will bring you to justice. Police haven't arrested anyone yet in connection with the shooting. Two other apartment units were hit by stray bullets, but no one of

else was hurt. Javeh's mother says he was a funny, sweet kid who loved his siblings and his cousins. Mercedes Gaston B-Dade, CBC News, Toronto. Three people are dead and eight others wounded in a shooting at a New York nightclub. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. Currently, we have identified 11 victims ranging in age from 27 to 61, eight males and three females. Three of the victims have already been pronounced. The age of the victims. The age of remaining victims are at local area hospitals with what is being described right now as non-life-threatening injuries. Multiple gunshots were heard from inside the nightclub early Sunday morning. Tish says

police believe an argument led to the shooting. Multiple shooters are believed to be involved, and at least 36 shells from multiple guns were recovered. Authorities are reviewing security camera footage, but no arrests have been made yet. That is the world this hour. For CBC News, Gina Louise Phillips.