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

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

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

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from cbc news the world this hour i'm mike miles the union representing air canada's flight attendant says it will risk jail time by ordering them to remain on strike after eight months of negotiations there's still no deal between the company and the union and as colin butler tells us ottawa is launching a probe of a key issue in the dispute and it's deeply concerning and if there are loopholes that employers are using to get around the Canada Labor Code, we have to know and we have to close them. Jobs Minister Patty Heidu says the federal government is launching an investigation into allegations of unpaid work in the airline sector. A key complaint from 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants who 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. Haidu is urging both parties to get back to the negotiating table, but for now it's labor turbulence with no smooth landing in sight. Colin Butler, CBC News, London, Ontario. At the White House,

crucial talks on ending the war in Ukraine wrapped minutes ago. All of us would obviously prefer an immediate ceasefire while we work on a lasting peace. But the U.S. President says so far that isn't happening. It's one of several points Trump discussed with Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky. Trump has confident a peace agreement with Russia is within reach, but he adds it would involve laying concessions to Moscow. Still, Zelensky says he's happy with the continued U.S. support. 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. Those guarantees were also discussed with European leaders who were at the day's meetings. Trump says he intends to organize a trilateral summit, including Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin. It's a big day for both the Alberta riding of Battle River Crowfoot and conservative leader Pierre Pauliev. He's seeking a return to Parliament in a by-election, Polly have lost his Ottawa area writing of Carlton in April's federal vote. Aaron Collins

with more. 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 Damien Currick 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% level,

then that will make it more difficult for him to make his claim, that he is a credible leader. Polyev 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, Drum Heller, Alberta. 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 worst wildfire season on record. Most of the forest burned was in Manitoba in Saskatchewan, but hot and dry conditions increasingly led to fires in places

where they rarely happened before, like Atlantic Canada. 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 is 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. Sanga is facing up to 45 years in prison.

That is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.