The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/18 at 16:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/18 at 16:00 EDT

At Desjardin Insurance, we put the care in taking care of business. Your business, to be exact. Our agents take the time to understand your company so you get the right coverage at the right price. Whether you rent out your building, represent a condo corporation, or own a cleaning company, we make insurance easy to understand so you can focus on the big stuff. Like your small business. Get insurance that's really big on care. Find an agent today at Dejardin.com slash business coverage.

from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles we begin in washington at the crucial talks on ending the war in ukraine all of us would obviously prefer an immediate ceasefire while we work on a lasting peace but the u.s president says at the moment that isn't happening it's one of several points being discussed in donald Trump's meeting with ukraine's president volatimier zelensky Trump is confident a peace agreement with Russia is within reach, but he adds it would involve land concessions to Moscow. Still, Zelensky says he's happy with the continued U.S. support. We spoke about it, and we will speak more about security guarantees. This is very important that the United States gives such strong signal and is ready for security guarantees.

Trump and Zelensky are now meeting with European leaders who are backing Ukraine. Trump says if the talks go well, he'll organize a trilateral meeting, including Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 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 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 CUPY national president. Mark Hancock. We will not turn our back on these members. 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.

Canada's busy wildfire season can stretch into the fall. Federal forestry officials say fires have already scorched nearly 8 million hectares of land, making it Canada's second to worst wildfire season on record. of the forest burned, was in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. But hot, dry conditions increasingly led to fires in places where they rarely happened before. It's a big day for both the Alberta riding of Battle River Crowfoot and conservative leader Pierre Pollyev. He's seeking to return to parliament in a by-election. Polyev lost his Ottawa area writing of Carlton in April's federal vote.

Aaron Collins says the littest. So there's negatives and there's positives. Voters here in Battle River Crowfoot on the fence about potentially being represented by a federal party leader. Pierre Pollyev on the ballot here in one of Canada's most conservative ridings. We won't have representation, that you won't have a person to access. During the spring election, conservative Damian Couric won with more than 80% of the vote. A Kirk stepped aside to let his leader run here after he lost his own seat.

And political scientist Lori Williams says it'll be important for Pollyev to win big two. People are watching closely. If he doesn't come close to that 83%, and level, then that will make it more difficult for him to make his claim that he is a credible leader. Poliev will face a party leadership review in January. Polls close across the Battle River Crowfoot riding tonight at 8.30 p.m. Mountain time. Aaron Collins, CBC News, Drumheller, Alberta.

A California woman has agreed to plead guilty to providing the ketamine that ultimately killed actor Matthew Perry. Jasveen Sanga was known as the ketamine queen. She's also agreed to plead guilty to four other drug-related charges. Perry died of an overdose in October 2023, shortly after his assistant injected him with the ketamine provided by Sanga. She'll be sentenced in the coming months. Senga is facing up to 45 years in prison.

That is your world this hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. We update every hour, seven days a week. For CBC News, I'm M. Mike Miles.