The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: February 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/02/07 at 11:00 EST

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start listening today. From CBC News, it's the World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Canada's economic independence is being discussed today at a national summit underway in Toronto. The event has come together in the wake of the US tariff threats, and is being hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Thomas Degla has more. This is Team Canada at its very best. and is being hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Thomas Dagla has more.

This is Team Canada at its very best. The Prime Minister opened to the Canada-US Economic Summit by addressing the room full of business leaders, telling them today's goal is to come up with strategies to shore up the economy by diversifying trade abroad and rethinking commerce with the US. But it was the prospect of more easily doing business across provincial borders that drew the loudest applause.

It's about time we had genuine free trade within Canada. Justin Trudeau acknowledges those barriers to doing business within the country aren't new and need to be broken down as Canada faces the threat of crushing US tariffs next month. More than 150 leaders in trade, business, public policy and organized labour are huddling at today's summit, with the proposed levies potentially impacting all of them, their companies and workers.

Thomas Daigle, CBC News, Toronto. Meanwhile, there's some encouraging news today on the economic front. Statistics Canada is saying 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, and the three provinces leading the way in job growth are Ontario, B.C., and New Brunswick. A search is underway off the coast of Nova Scotia for a crew member missing from a capsized fishing vessel.

The vessel capsized last night with three crew members being pulled to safety. Two Coast Guard ships, a helicopter, and a small plane are involved in the search. The crew members that were rescued from the water were all taken to hospital. The Coast Guard is saying the conditions last night were not good, with high swells and low visibility. 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 that's a lot of money, $125,000. As of yesterday, one candidate, Karina Gould, was saying she doesn't have it. The party 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's confident she will make today's deadline, but she's critical of the Liberal Party executive 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 United States and its ally, Israel. Sasha Petrosic reports.

Sasha Petrosic, The International Criminal Court of Israel 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. It 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 Petrosik, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is The World This Hour. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you get your podcasts. The World This Hour is updated every hour, seven days a week. And for news anytime, of course, go to our website, cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.