The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/22 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/22 at 06:00 EDT

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Certain conditions apply. from cbc news it's the world this hour i'm joe cummings there are mounting concerns among health care advocates about the state of canada's national pharmacare program today dadawa has finalized agreements with three provinces and one territory but it isn't saying if it has plans to negotiate deals with the rest of the country In Fraze reports. On the front line, when you tell someone that they don't have to pay anything, they're happy. Erin McKenzie says National Pharmacare has left some Islanders surprise.

Now their diabetes meds and prescription birth control are free, fully covered by the federal government. McKenzie is with the PEI Pharmacists Association. I think a lot of pharmacy teams have the affected list of drugs hung up somewhere close to the computer and are becoming quite savvy with which ones those are. So far, there's only drug coverage from the feds in PEI and Manitoba. It'll be expanded next March to BC and the Yukon, and after that, who knows? Prime Minister Mark Carney's government has only promised to protect existing pharmacare deals, leaving many to wonder when and if any other deals will be made.

Elizabeth Thompson advocates for reproductive health in Ontario. For us to not be signed on to a program like this, you're missing nearly a third of the population of Canada. Ian Fraze, CBC News, Ottawa. For the first time, the U.N. Department that assesses global hunger has officially confirmed there is famine in Gaza. The agency declares a famine when at least 20% of households are experiencing extreme food scarcity. Last month, it warned of famine-like conditions. Now it's confirming the situation has dramatically worsened.

It says hostilities, frequent displacement, and blockades are creating the widespread hunger. The famine declaration comes as Israel's army is preparing to take over Gaza City. More Jeffrey Epstein files could be released today. A U.S. House committee is saying it will release some of what it has subpoenaed from the Justice Department. James Comer chairs the Republican-led committee investigating Epstein. We're going to review and we'll work as quickly as we can. This is sensitive information. We want to make sure we don't do anything to harm or jeopardize any victims that were involved in this.

but we're going to be transparent. We're doing what we said we would do. We're getting the documents, and I believe the White House will work with us. U.S. President Donald Trump campaigned on making the files public, but since coming to office for the second time, his attorney general has reportedly told him his name appears in some files, and Trump has been trying to downplay the attention on the case. The Trump administration says it's in the process of scrutinizing 55 million people

who are currently holding U.S. visas. It is looking for violations that could lead to them being thrown out of the country. That includes criminal activity, terrorism, or what they deem to be, threats to public safety. Among other things, the government officials will be examining social media accounts and police records. It's an expansion of what's already being done to international students, who the Trump White House have declared to be anti-Semitic or pro-Palestinian. More stories are emerging from Air Canada passengers who had their travel plans upended by last weekend's flight attendants, strike. The latest involves two Toronto children who flew unaccompanied to the Czech

Republic to visit their grandparents. If Lumusa has more. We got initially like an automatic email from Air Canada saying that their flight was re-booked on the 27th. That's a whole week after Carolina Gorodetsky's 14-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter were supposed to return from Prague after vacationing with their grandparents. Gorodetsky's kids were booked to travel on direct flights with Air Canada back to Toronto. Gorodetsky says when her children's tickets were cancelled, she struggled to find flights with other airlines. There's not a lot of companies who, first of all, agree to take them. Unaccompanied minors usually need to travel on a direct flight.

Travel consultant McKenzie McMillan says it's important parents have a plan B. Make sure you do your research before handing your child over to any airline. Gorodetsky says she's grateful air Canada has rebooked her children on flights returning to Toronto today. But she would like airlines to prioritize rebooking minors. Ivo Musa, CBC News.