The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/07 at 04:00 EST

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/07 at 04:00 EST

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In a week of whiplash developments about trade, Thursday delivered another head-shaker. U.S. President Donald Trump is pausing those punishing levies on Canadian goods for a month. But as Peter Armstrong reports, there are questions about what this new order includes. It basically makes it more fair for our car manufacturers during the short-term period before... U.S. President Donald Trump has led North American businesses down one of the weirdest, most volatile weeks in modern history. He unleashed the biggest set of tariffs the continent has seen in a hundred years, at least in theory, because he was trying to get Canada and Mexico to curb fentanyl smuggling.

But now he says any goods covered by the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement will be exempt for a month. It's just a modification short term because it would have hurt the American car companies if I did that. In the end, tariffs, at least most of them, have been lifted, at least for now. That will help exporters, but it didn't exactly mollify nervous investors. Stocks continued to sell off, with the NASDAQ slipping into official correction territory this afternoon. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Washington.

Now Canadians are experiencing a wave of anxiety over Donald Trump's second term. Psychologists say their advice can only do so much. Campbell McDermid has more. Never a Trumper! Protesters outside the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa expressing their fears and anxieties about Trump's threatened tariffs, his withholding of support for Ukraine and the 51st state jibes. Krista Baylis worries for her children. Mostly anxiety for my kids' future. For Luisa Fenner, it's finances.

So I'm frightened about the economic impact. Steve Whitwell worries it could come to a war. Yeah, keeps me awake at night. They're not alone. Mental health professionals say Trump anxiety is surging across Canada. Heather Anderson is a psychologist in Ottawa. This is not the occasional person that is experiencing this. This is across the board.

Psychologists say there is no single solution to Trump anxiety and offer a variety of advice. Exercise, mindfulness, spending time with loved ones, pets or in nature. And check in with yourself before checking the news online. Campbell McDermid, CBC News, Ottawa. Pope Francis has thanked those who've been praying for his recovery in an audio message after spending nearly three weeks in a short message in Spanish.

The pontiff delivered thanks for his hospital, from his hospital played out to all those who've gathered at St. Peter's Square to pray for his health as they have every night. Trains traveling between London and France were halted following the discovery of an old war bomb near some tracks today. The unexploded World War II bomb caused the stoppage of Eurostar trains between the two countries through mid-morning at the request of police. A lunar lander built by a private US firm touched down on the moon, but the CEO of Intuitive Machine says it's not positioned correctly.

Steve Ultima said this could limit the mission due to suboptimal power generation and communication. It's the second robotic lander to touch down on the moon in the past week. Well a different kind of blowback for Elon Musk. Getting video down from the ship you can see we've lost several engines and we've lost attitude control of the vehicle. His aerospace company suffered another setback Thursday. A SpaceX Starship rocket was launched in Texas but lost contact minutes into the flight as the spacecraft went tumbling back down to earth breaking apart. Some of the spacecraft's debris was scattered over parts of the Caribbean, forcing several

flights to be diverted around Turks and Caicos and ground stops at four Florida airports. This is the second time in less than two months that a SpaceX mega rocket has exploded during a test flight. And that is Your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fague. exploded during a test flight. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fege.