The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/18 at 14:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/18 at 14:00 EDT

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is making a plea for peace we need to stop this war to stop russia and we need support vladmier zolensky is meeting with u.s president donald trump for talks on ending the war it's likely that trump's proposals will involve seedings crimea to moscow rather and agreeing to never join nato Trump says he's open to discussing U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine as part of a deal, but he since changed his tone on whether a ceasefire is necessary. I like the concept. You know, I like the concept of a ceasefire for one reason because you'd stop killing people immediately. But we can work a deal where we're working on a peace deal while they're fighting. They have to fight.

That change in Trump's stance follows a summit with Russia's president last Friday. The U.S. says Vladimir Putin agreed to make some concessions on territory. but there's no confirmation from the Kremlin. Air Canada flight attendants are refusing to end their strike. After eight months of negotiations, there's still no deal between the company and the union representing its flight attendants. And as Colin Butler tells us, travelers are now paying the price. It is disappointing.

A strike in the heart of summer travel season. Disruptive enough, it has Prime Minister Mark Carney's ear. We are in a situation where literally hundreds of thousands of people, Canadians and visitors to our country are being disrupted. 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job on Saturday. Ottawa moved fast, ordering binding arbitration. The union defied that order and filed a legal challenge demanding their right to collective bargaining.

This morning, the Canada Industrial Relations Board called the strike illegal, ordering flight attendants back to work, but that's not going to happen, says QP National President Mark Hancock. We will not turn our back on these months. numbers. We're going to continue to support those flight attendants. With negotiations grounded, flights cancelled, and a defiant union, its labor turbulence with no smooth landing in sight. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. The Alberta riding of Battle River Crowfoot is holding a federal by-election, and Pierre

Pauliev's name is on the ballot. The Conservative Party leader needs a seat in the House of Commons after losing his home riding in the general election back in April. Pauliev is expected to win. Conservative candidates have won this writing with at least 80% support in every election over the past 25 years, except one. Hot and dry conditions are making this year's wildfire season Canada's second worst on record. Now officials are warning that it could stretch into September. David Thurton reports. Canadians living with the impacts of this year's fire, I know that hearing forecasts of continued fire activity can be daunting.

Julian Morissette with the Northern Forestry Center warning this year's fire season, could stretch into the fall. The outlook where we can forecast with at least some degree of certainty into the end of September is looking like it's going to continue to be warm and dry. Close to 8 million hectares of land have burned this year in Canada's second worst wildfire season on record. Most of that in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Definitely climate change is playing an important role.

Fire seasons are getting longer. Officials said it is so dry, increasingly. the country is seeing fires in places where historically they were not that common, like Atlantic Canada. David Thornton, CBC News, Ottawa. Texas Democrats are ending a two-week walkout aimed at stalling a Republican effort to redraw out the electoral map. Their return will allow the Republican-led legislature to proceed with the vote today. The reshaping of congressional districts is done at the behest of President Donald Trump. The goal is to add more Republican seats in the 2026,

term elections. California has announced plans to retaliate and redraw its electoral map to favor the Democrats. That is your world this hour. For news anytime, visit our website, cbcnews.ca. Or you can get all the news you need anywhere, anytime. You can download the free CBC News app today. Not only when you get the headlines, you'll be able to listen live to your local CBC News station. That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.