The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 06:00 EST

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 06:00 EST

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It's a gathering born out of the lingering U.S. tariff threats, and its goal is to look at opening new trade partnerships away from the United States. Lisa Sheng has more. This economic summit, an emergency response to US President Donald Trump's tariff threat on all Canadian imports. On Monday, Trump agreed to pause the levies for a month, but the trade relationship with Canada's biggest partner may never be the same. Unifor's national president, Lana Payne, will be in Toronto. We have to look at other parts of the world, whether it's Europe, to say,

okay, let's join forces here. Good ideas, according to Emily Gilbert, professor in Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. But there will be challenges. The environmental costs, if we do undertake trade at much greater distances. The other consideration is how quickly changes can be implemented considering the constraints of Trump's deadline. Lisa Shing, CBC News, Toronto. Candidates looking to be the next Prime Minister are facing a key deadline today. The Liberal leadership hopefuls have until 5 p.m. Eastern to pay the

next installment in their candidacy fee and it's a lot of money, $125,000. As of yesterday, one candidate, Karina Gould, was saying she doesn't have it. The parties set the entry fee for this race very, very high. We've seen that that means that there are a number of potential candidates that may have run that didn't and there are a couple that have already dropped out because of that. My campaign didn't exist when the party set these rules, but we're doing everything that we can to meet it.

Gould says she is confident she'll make today's deadline, but she is critical of the Liberal Party establishment saying the steep entry fee is keeping people out of the race. A new executive order signed by US President Donald Trump is calling for sanctions against staff members at the International Criminal Court. The order accuses the ICC of targeting the US and its ally, Israel. Sasha Petrusic reports.

Sasha Petrusic, U.S. Secretary of State for International Criminal Court of Justice Trump really does seem to be pushing the United States and Israel closer and closer together. He is accusing the International Criminal Court of illegitimate and baseless actions targeting the U.S. and its close ally Israel, in his words. All of this would place financial and visa restrictions on various people at the court. They have not been named.

The court said this is unacceptable. Also says that it would continue providing hope and justice to millions of innocent victims of atrocities. Those are its words. And of course, it comes on the heels of the US and Israel pulling out of a couple of other UN agencies. Yesterday, the UN Human Rights Council and before that, UNRWA, the main agency that helps Palestinian refugees. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. A new marketplace investigation is exposing what appears to be misleading discounts being offered by the popular clothing retailer Old Navy. Asha Tomlinson explains.

Everything was on clearance. Shoppers are looking for bargains at an Old Navy just outside Toronto. I found a bunch of good deals actually. But we want to know if the deals are really what they seem. We ordered 10 products from Old Navy's website and tracked prices for seven months to see how often they're on sale. All 10 of the items we bought were on sale more than half the time we checked. Retailers should be fair and accurate in their representations that they make.

Justin Giovanetti is a class action lawyer based in Vancouver. He's filed a suit against Old Navy. Gap and Old Navy represents that their products are being sold at a discount. We allege that that actually is not a discount price because that's the price at which these products are always or almost always sold. Giovanetti's case hasn't been proven in court and his class action still needs to be certified. We shared our findings with Old Navy's parent company Gap Inc. It declined to comment. Asha Tomlinson, CBC News, Toronto. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Comix.