The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/18 at 22:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/18 at 22:00 EDT

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I'm Neil Hurland. Tonight is full of anticipation for conservative leader Pierre Palliev. He's running in a federal by-election in the riding of Battle River Crowfoot. Polls are open for another 30 minutes. Polyev is looking to return to Parliament after losing his Ottawa area riding in April's federal vote. Aaron Collins has 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 Damian Couric won with more than 80% of the vote. 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. There's word tonight from the union representative. air Canada flight attendants that the two sides are talking again. The union said earlier it will risk jail time by ordering them to remain on strike. And as Colin Butler reports, 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. The Canada Industrial Relations Board called the strike illegal, ordering flight attendants back to work,

but that's not going to happen, says QPie 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. A major development tonight about the war in Ukraine. U.S. President Donald Trump says a meeting between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia is being arranged.

The announcement comes after a face-to-face at the Oval Office today between President Zelensky and European leaders. Burke has reaction from Zelensky. This productive meeting was president. Ukraine's president spoke outside the gates of the White House Monday night, describing talks with Donald Trump as warm and meaningful. Volodymyr Zelensky says he also had a long discussion with the U.S. president about a map in the Oval Office and pushed back over how much territory it showed Russia

had captured in Ukraine. Trump has repeatedly brought up the idea of Ukraine and Russia swapping land and the war. But Zelensky says there shouldn't be any conditions tied to meeting with Russia. I said always so Ukraine will never stop on the way to peace, and we are ready for any kind of form us, but on the level of leaders. Trump posted on truth social that he spoke to Russia's president on Monday and is already working on setting up a meeting between Zelensky and Vladimir Putin. Then he wants a trilateral meeting with them both.

The Chancellor of Germany says the leaders of Ukraine and Russia are expected to meet in the next two weeks. Ashley Burke, CBC News, Washington. A California woman has agreed to plead guilty to providing the ketamine that ultimately killed actor Matthew Perry. Jusveen Sengha is known as the ketamine queen. She has also agreed to plead guilty to four other drug-related charges. Perry died of an overdose in October 2023.

Sengha is facing up to 45 years behind bars. And that is your world this hour. CBC News. I'm Neil Hurlant.