World Report - August 19: Tuesday's top stories in 10 minutes

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

CUPE and Air Canada reach tenative agreement, sending striking flight attendants back to work. CBC projects Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will win Battle River-Crowfoot byelection and regain a seat in parliament. Inflation dropped to 1.7 per cent in July due to lower gasoline prices according to Statistics Canada.European leaders who accompanied Ukraine's president to the White House, hold a virtual call today.Gaza's health ministry says 3 adults have died from starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours.  Efforts continue to get people living in tents out of the woods after Nova Scotia's ban due to wildfires. 

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Certain conditions apply. This is a CBC podcast. This is World Report. Good morning. I'm Arcia Young. QPN Air Canada say they have reached a tentative agreement in striking flight attendants must return to work. The union and the company sat down with a mediator overnight. Negotiations went until the early time this morning when there was a breakthrough. The CBC's Megan Fitzpatrick.

is at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Megan, what is the situation there this morning? Pretty quiet. There are no picket lines here, like there have been the last few days. There are some Air Canada staff and some people showing up for flights that have been canceled and they're trying to get on other airlines. Air Canada says some flights will resume tonight, but it's not clear which ones or what times those flights might be leaving.

The airline saying resuming operations is a complex process and it could take seven to ten days before they get back to normal operations. They have to get their planes and their crews back into position. And so they're warning, there could still be more cancellations to come over the next few days. So there's still lots of uncertainty for travelers. People are still being advised not to come to the airport unless they have a confirmed flight. What do we know about the tentative agreement? Well, we know the two sides got back to the bargaining table last night around 7 p.m. And the union says with the help of a mediator, they did reach a tentative agreement at 4.23 a.m. to be exact, we don't know what was agreed to, but the union says unpaid work is over.

That was one of the sticking points in these negotiations, overall wages, plus the union was fighting for flight attendants to get paid for the work they do before a plane takes off, and after it lands, that's called ground pay. The union says it will hold virtual meetings with its members to explain the agreement, and then they get a chance to vote on it and either accept it or reject it. All right. Thank you, Megan. You're welcome. CBC's Megan Fitzpatrick reporting from Toronto. Pierre Pollyev is returning to the House of Commons.

CBC news projects the conservative leader will win the Battle River Crowfoot by-election. As Julia Wong reports, Pollynev made humility a theme throughout his victory speech. Thank you very much to the great people of Battle River Crowfoot. Pierre Pollyne will soon be back in Parliament after a by-election in rural Alberta, In front of a small crowd, Pollyev said how much he appreciated the people of Battle River Crowfoot. I am grateful that I will have the chance to be their humble servant to fight every day and in every way for the people in this region who feed power and protect all of Canada. Polyev lost his Ottawa riding in April and chose to run in a riding where conservative MPs have always won with more than 70% of the vote. Polyev appears to have won handily.

In his victory speech, he talked about the lessons he learned from residents during the campaign. And they also reminded me that the road to success is never a straight line. Most of all, you should never give up in hard times. David Stewart, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Calgary, says the results should put to rest questions about Polye's future as conservative leader. With this kind of result, I don't think it has any impact on the leadership review, if anything, may be marginally positive. So for now, Pollyov will be heading back to Ottawa with a seat in the House and as

leader of the official opposition. Julia Wong, CBC News, Camrose, Alberta. Inflation dropped to 1.7% last month. Statistics Canada released its latest consumer price index, and the rate is down year over year from June's 1.9%. That is better than economists had predicted. And it is thanks to lower gasoline prices. The price at the pumps went down by 16.1% in July on a yearly basis. Canada and the foreign ministers of the Nordic countries are reaffirming their support for Ukraine.

In a joint statement, they welcomed the U.S. decision to work with Canada and Europe to provide security guarantees for Ukraine. It followed a virtual meeting today of the so-called Coalition of the Willing. Antonio Costa is the president of the European Council. He says the number one priority is for the fighting to stop. Whether we call it a ceasefire or a truce is a secondary. What matters is that we maintain pressure through sanctions if Russia does not comply. Today's meeting was also a chance for leaders to be debriefed on yesterday's meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. Chris Lekomanseng has more.

Ukrainian news programs chock full of peace talk updates. We are ready for trilateral meeting. Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, doesn't know when that meeting could take place with the U.S. President and Russia's Vladimir Putin, but there does appear to be a willingness on all sides. And President Donald Trump said security guarantees by Europe would have American support. But we're going to help them out also. We'll be involved.

I'm afraid that I am very skeptical of anything that President Trump said yesterday. Retired General Ben Hodges led U.S. forces in Europe between 2014 and 2017. He says he'd love his skepticism to be proven wrong, but... The president and his administration have been... Their approach has been doomed from the beginning because they don't care or they misunderstand the history, the culture, the geography. They can't even admit that Russia is the aggressor here. That aggression continued overnight. and into this morning. Ukraine's Air Force says Russia launched 270 drones and 10 missiles

at Ukraine, hitting 16 different locations. A post on X by Ukraine's foreign minister Andre Screeba said in part, Moscow continued to do the opposite of peace, more strikes and more destruction. The Kremlin's foreign policy advisor confirmed today Russia and the U.S. agreed to stay in close contact. The possibility of raising the level of meeting between Russia and Ukraine was also addressed, but no specifics were shared. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. Gaza's health ministry says three adults have died from starvation and malnutrition in the past 24 hours. It says that brings the total number of famine victims to 266. Nearly half of them are children.

Today, a ship carrying more than a ton of food for Gaza is expected to dock in the Israeli port of Ashdod. United Nations is arranging for the aid to be trucked into food stations operated by the World Central Kitchen. Three U.S. warships are about to arrive off the coast of Venezuela. U.S. President Donald Trump is going after Latin American drug cartels. The Aegis guided missile destroyers are reportedly due to arrive within the next 36 hours. And one U.S. official told Reuters News Agency about 4,000 sailors and Marines are expected to be sent to the Caribbean region, and Venezuela's president, Nicholas Maduro, is promising to respond by mobilizing more than four million militia fighters.

In a televised address last night, Maduro denounced what he called outlandish threats by Washington. The Trump administration accuses the Venezuelan president of drug trafficking and is offering a $50 million reward for information leading to his. arrest. The Long Lake Wildfire in Nova Scotia's Annapolis County now covers more than 3,200 hectares. Officials say conditions are less smoky and they've been able to get a better estimate of the fire. Bands on entering the woods remain in effect across the province, but people had been living in encampments in those areas and as Terran Grant tells us many of them don't want to move. Since August 5th, entering the woods in Nova Scotia is illegal.

The aim is to prevent wildfires, but some people are living in the woods and don't want to leave. Sometimes there's reluctance because it is home to some people where they're living. That's their comfort area. Matthew Reed is the manager of an outreach team with a Halifax charity, Seoul's Harbor Rescue Mission. The province has exempted them from the woods ban so they can continue going to remote encampments and try to convince people to relocate. We've been able to move a couple people. However, again, a lot of people are choosing to stay where they are.

The province says about 60 people have relocated, but an estimated 137 are still sheltering in high-risk areas. It's a meeting of two challenging issues for Nova Scotia, managing a dangerous drought and addressing widespread homelessness. The woods ban carries a fine of $25,000, but so far, no one who is homeless has been fined. We're not in a state of emergency as a province. It is discretionary whether or not these fines are levied. Legal aid lawyer Nadia Shivji. The fact that we haven't seen any of these cases hopefully shows some compassion. That said, Shivji also notes the woods ban is in place for public safety and should be followed. But she says the province cannot require people to move without providing an alternative.

Some shelters have added extra beds, but Shivji says shelters are not practical for everyone. Terran Grant, CBC News, Halifax. That is the latest national and international news from World Report News anytime. CBCNews.ca.com.ca. I'm Marcia Young. For more CBC podcasts, go to cBC.ca.com slash podcasts.