The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 20:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/06 at 20:00 EDT

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It was the wage clause of the agreement that Air Canada flight attendants voted to reject, a deal that included an 8 to 12% increase in the first year, depending on the length of service and pay for flight attendants for work done not in the air. John Graddock is the aviation coordinator at McGill University and says he's not surprised by the vote. Flight attendants, as much as they're going to get some ground pay, it's not a lot of dollars. It's not going to take them off the poverty line to cost of living in Vancouver or Toronto. There's still going to be below poverty wages. Even with the rejection, it's unlikely there will be another strike before the vote.

both the union and airline agreed on no work stoppages or lockouts and to resolve wage issues through mediation and, if necessary, arbitration. But Graddock says this wage issue is a tough one, and he doesn't expect an agreement to come anytime soon. Sarah Reid, CBC News, Edmonton. A Canadian Armed Forces member in Latvia missing since Tuesday has been found dead. Warrant Officer George Hull was deployed on Operation Reassurance, currently Canada's largest overseas mission.

According to a statement from the Department of National Defense, the investigation into his death continues. It says there is no increased threat to other deployed members. The statement says Hull was based in Edmonton and had served for nearly 20 years. Heavy monsoon rains are battering South Asia, causing floods and landslides across the region and killing hundreds. Ishan Gerich has more. The Yamuna River is overflowing,

sending water into homes in New Delhi and forcing families out. We've been living on the pavement for four days, says Mamta Devi. Devi's family are boatmen, but she says this flood is making them rethink their lives. The government should offer us jobs that can allow us to move away, she says. For now, their only hope is one of many government relief camps erected across the capital. At one camp, half a dozen people crowd into a single tent.

More than 10,000 residents have been moved into the camps from floodplains and low-lying areas. People are barely managing. Sumit Sharma is a local volunteer. He believes until the authorities redevelop the river banks and improved drainage, floods will continue wreaking havoc here. Meanwhile, cloudbursts have triggered flash floods across northern India. Dozens have died in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. While in Pakistan's Punjab, an estimated hundreds of people have already died. And the floods are...

That is Ishaan Gareg reporting in New Delhi. And for the first time in a Roman Catholic holy jubilee year, a pilgrimage by 2SLGBQ plus Catholics was listed on the Vatican's official calendar. Megan Williams reports. Naxche is the co-founder of a climate advent. Wearing white t-shirts with a big rainbow hard on the front, a long procession of 2S LGBTQ plus Catholics, friends, and family members filed into St. Peter's Basilica as part of the Holy Jubilee year.

I hope the church continues to be open like today, for everyone, said this pilgrim. The Vatican's official recognition of the pilgrim group comes the same. same week, Pope Leo met privately with a prominent U.S. priest who ministers to gay Catholics. After, he said Leo showed the same openness as Pope Francis. Francis, who died in April, issued a decree in 2023, allowing priests to bless same-sex couples. Though the church still insists marriage is only between a man and a woman. Arch-conservative Catholics have denounced the decision to list the pilgrimage. Megan Williams, CBC News, Rome.

And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Kate McGilvery.