The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 12:00 EST

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/06 at 12:00 EST

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Richard Madden reports. It's fight or flight for the federal workforce. And it's believed roughly 40,000 government workers have accepted buyouts, which is far short of Elon Musk's ambitious goal of cutting roughly 200,000 jobs, or 10 percent, of the federal workforce. Now, many legal experts are questioning the terms because those who accept the buyout have to sign a waiver agreeing not to take legal action. They're also skeptical if workers will actually get severance because it could be delayed by lawsuits. Now in the past two and a half

weeks we've seen Musk and his team completely dismantle several government agencies from USAID, Treasury, Labour, intelligence agencies. Now critics are describing Musk and his team of 20-somethings that they're treating government like a tech startup, stripping each agency for parts and even gaining access to sensitive databases and intel of Musk's corporate competitors. Richard Madden, CBC News, Washington. Other news from the Trump White House. The Justice Department is suing the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago Claiming they are interfering with the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies

The suit claims federal immigration laws being undermined at the state and municipal level Chicago is one of a number of sanctuary cities in the u.s It means it can limit its cooperation with Washington when it comes to a range of immigration issues. Also, today, President Trump has announced he's establishing a White House Commission on Religious Liberty. Speaking at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, Trump also says he'll be ordering the Attorney General to create a task force to identify and investigate anti-Christian bias within

the U.S. government. And following Washington's lead, Israel has announced today it is withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The council is an international body created to protect and promote human rights. The Israeli government claims it has an institutional bias against Israel. And on Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order removing the U.S. from the council. In other news, CBC News has learned that the financial crisis at Canada Post is forcing

the Crown Corporation to carry out another round of management layoffs. Marina Van Stakelberg has the details. CBC News has learned nearly 50 Canada Post managers are being laid off this week. Nearly half of them are in Ottawa but also in Toronto, Montreal and other regions. Spokesperson John Hamilton says it's only internal managers losing their jobs. To the public this will largely be invisible this won't impact their day-to-day mail. Last month Canada Post also cut 20% of its senior executive team. Canada Post's finances are so bad it was

going to run out of the money it needed to operate by the spring. But the federal government stepped in last month with a one billion dollar loan. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has argued the corporation's money problems are in part because it's become too top-heavy. Jim Galant is a national negotiator with the union. There are a lot of managers, they get paid a lot of money. Canada Post says no unionized employees are being laid off. Marina von Stackelberg, CBC News, Ottawa. Despite the deep freeze that settled over most of Canada last month,

EU scientists are saying globally it was the hottest January on record. One of the authors of the climate study is Samantha Burgess. When we look at air temperatures across the globe, we've seen really large anomalies, particularly over the Arctic region, where those anomalies have been 20 degrees above average. So that's a huge anomaly. So that combined gave us insight early on in the month that January would be much warmer than average.

Burgess says over the last year and a half global temperatures have stayed more than 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial era. And that is the World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.