The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/17 at 20:00 EDT

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QP 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. Air Canada says it hopes to restart flights tomorrow evening. Fire officials and residents on Vancouver Island are cautiously optimistic about the Mount Underwood

fire just outside of Port Albarnie. A few days of rain has slowed the fire's growth. Carly DeRosier is with the BC Wildfire Service. We're certainly trending in the right direction, but as it stands, given that this is a 3,600 hectare fire until we get containment in those priority areas with the return to hot and dry conditions. We can't necessarily predict when those will be able to come off. There may be a little more rain, but the hot dry conditions will be back this week. Fuel on the landscape prime to burn. That's how one research scientist describes conditions in Newfoundland this summer. Lucas Braho is with the Atlantic Forestry Center. He studies why and how fires spread so quickly. Braho says historically, Atlantic Canada's climate

has been cool and there weren't many wildfires, but now the climate is changing. Really a lack of precipitation or moisture that falls throughout the year that leads to to potential more drought conditions in the spring, but also during the summer months. Braho is conducting research with scientists at Memorial University to get a better understanding of how to predict these blazes in the future. Ukraine's president will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House tomorrow, but he won't be alone. Several members of the so-called Coalition of the Willing will be with him

as he tries to make progress on ending Russia's invasion. Cameron McIntosh has the story. We have to stop the killings. Putin has many demands. Ukrainian president, Vlomir Zelensky, says if he's going to negotiate peace with Russia, the fighting needs to stop now. It's impossible to do this under their pressure of weapons. So it's necessary to ceasefire. Zelensky will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump tomorrow at the White House,

along with the leaders of the UK, Germany, Italy, Finland, and the European Union. Rather than a ceasefire, Russia is calling for a force. full peace deal, which Trump now favors after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. Trump's special envoy, Stephen Whitkoff, says Russia is offering concessions on security guarantees and land swaps. We made so much progress at this meeting with regard to all the other ingredients necessary for a peace deal that President Trump pivoted to that place. Trump posted to social media this morning. Big progress on Russia. Stay tuned. Cameron McIntosh, CBC News, Washington.

In New York, authorities are reviewing security footage and searching for suspects after a deadly shooting in a Brooklyn nightclub in the early morning. Three people are dead and nine others wounded. Multiple shooters are believed to be involved and at least 36 shells from multiple guns were recovered. Police have made no arrests.

For CBC News, I'm Gina Louise Phillips. Thanks so much for listening. Thank you.