The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 09:00 EST

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 09:00 EST

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From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. There's some encouraging news this morning on the Canadian Economic Front. Statistics Canada says 76,000 jobs were added to the economy last month. That inches the unemployment rate down to 6.6 percent from 6.7 in December. It's the second month in a row we've seen a decline. employment rate down to 6.6% from 6.7 in December. It's the second month in a row we've seen a decline. And the three provinces leading the way in job growth last month were Ontario,

B.C., and New Brunswick. Now to a Canadian Economic Summit underway today in Toronto. We talk about interprovincial trade. It's very difficult, even if your product is made in Canada, to get it from British Columbia to Ontario. That is Wes Hall, a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Canada-U.S. Relations. He's in attendance today, along with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and dozens of representatives

from Canadian business and Canadian labour. It's a summit born out of the lingering U.S. tariff threats, and its main goal, a number of priorities is to look at opening up Canadian markets for Canadian manufacturers concerned about the future of trade with the United States. The federal liberal leadership candidates have another hurdle to cross today. It's a $125,000 payment to stay in the race. The candidates have already laid out $100,000 to get their campaign started. And then after today's payment, another $25,000 will be needed by February 17th. 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 United States and its ally, Israel. Sasha Petrusic reports. 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. Still with the Trump administration, a government employees union is filing a lawsuit over cuts being made to USAID. A new marketplace investigation has discovered what appears to be misleading discounts that

are being made by the Trump administration. The Trump administration's unilateral actions are unconstitutional and illegal and will create a global humanitarian crisis. Tens of millions of people around the world rely on the agency's aid and medical programs, but led by Elon Musk, the Trump White House is taking steps to dismantle it. A new marketplace investigation has discovered 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 the representations that they make. Justin Giovannetti 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. Giovannetti'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 A World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.