The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/08/24 at 07:00 EDT

Episode Date: August 24, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/08/24 at 07:00 EDT

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the trip was made under a strict news blackout and amid tight security since the ukrainian capital is a frequent target for russian missile and drone strikes the cbc's murray brewster has more from warsaw poland Good morning. I'm your ambassador. Welcome. I look forward to hosting you in Ottawa. Platform greetings for Prime Minister Mark Carney at the end of a clandestine overnight train trip to Kiev. The well-worn path of world leaders making the journey to show their support for Ukraine.

His visit coincides with Ukraine's Independence Day celebrations. The Prime Minister is meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and the two leaders are expected to discuss details of Canada's additional $2 billion commitment of military aid, as well as opportunities for joint production of defense equipment. The question of security guarantees will also be discussed as part of a broader push by allies towards setting the conditions for possible peace talks with Russia, which U.S. President Donald Trump has tried to facilitate.

Russia has made it clear it's not willing to accept U.S. or NATO-backed security guarantees. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Warsaw. Saskatchewan Steelmakers are reacting to Prime Minister Carney's late. trade move yesterday, Carney announced he was ending most counter tariffs on the United States, but he did not end Canada's counter tariffs on steel and aluminum. And that's put people like David Fritz in a bind. He's the president and chief operating officer of Supreme Steel in Saskatoon and says Canadian steel makers rely on American steel products that can't be sourced here. When tariffs are on U.S. steel, that only hurts us and we don't really have an option for an alternative

other than going overseas, which Canada is also telling us that they want to limit imports from. So we're stuck in a lot of ways. U.S. President Donald Trump said he wanted to be, quote, good to Canada after the move. Meanwhile, opposition leader Pierre Pahliav said Carney showed weakness. The government of Alberta is proposing changes to how it manages water, including one change that would make it easier to transfer water between the slave peace and Athabasca River basins. But environmental groups say the changes could leave downstream lakes and rivers in the Northwest Territories worse off. Natalie Pressman reports.

We know what those impacts are. Jerry Cheesy serves as co-chair of Keepers of the Water. The main concern of the Indigenous Advocacy Group is something called interbasin transfers, which risks lowering water levels in the north, especially along marine transportation routes. Barges can't get to our communities to supply them with fuel, hardware, groceries. Alberta and the Northwest Territories have an agreement that dictates how much

water Alberta can use and how much is required to flow downstream. And the government of the Northwest Territories says the province is using much less than its limit. Michael Miltenberger is a former NWT Environment Minister and a signatory on that joint agreement. Some bland

reassurance that there's lots of water so now the world is in a global water crisis. The government of Alberta says the changes are needed in the face of recurring droughts in the province, and that the proposed changes won't impact the NWT. Natalie Pressman, CBC News, Yellowknife. Canada's Brooke Henderson holds a share of the lead heading into today's final round of the CPKC Women's Open. The Canadian National Tournament is being played in Ontario at the Mississauga Golf and Country Club. Henderson, the Smith Falls

Ontario native, fired a 600 par 65 yesterday to tie for the lead with Australia's Minji Lee at 11 under par. Calgary's Aphrodite dang, the 15-year-old making her LPGA debut, is at 6 under par, five shots off the pace. The 27-year-old Henderson is the last Canadian woman to win the event when she prevailed at the Waskina Country Club in Regina in 2018. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fag. Thank you.