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

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

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

The following is advertiser content from Audible. Slow down and liberate yourself from day-to-day stresses with A Quiet Life in 7 Steps by bestselling author Susan Cain. Forging a purposeful, quieter life is just an Audible original away. Listen to a sample now. In a world of distraction, noise, and demanding social expectations, are you craving depth, meaning, and true connection? Hi, I'm Susan Cain. I wrote a number one bestselling book called Bittersweet and another one called Quiet about the Power of Introverts. And now, I want to show you how to live a quiet life in seven steps. In this Audible Original Series, we will ask and answer seven deep questions to help you find your quiet and live a richer, truer form of happiness. Explore over 890,000 titles on Audible.ca by signing up for a free 30-day trial and start listening today.

and start listening today. From CBC News, it's the World is Our. I'm Joe Cummings. In the midst of the Trump administration's on-again, off-again tariff action, senior Canadian officials continue to speak out on the American news networks. Here's Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc last night on CNN. I don't presume to imagine what the president or his administration have as their ultimate objectives. They made this decision, which we think is unfair and unwise.

Canada's never going to be the 51st state. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Jolie also on CNN was saying she believes the president's ultimate goal is to weaken Canada's economy Clearing the way for annexation Jolie adds it's important that both Canadians and the world know exactly what Trump is doing And then there's the impact on business both here in Canada and in the US You know you can't make an investment decision if you don't know what the tax regime is, you don't know what the tariff regime is. On CNBC, that is Bob Ray, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations.

As it stands this morning, Trump has paused new tariffs on Canada and Mexico and has reduced potash levies to 10 percent. But still on the books are the tariffs Trump plans to bring in next week on both Canadian steel and aluminum. On the books are the tariffs Trump plans to bring in next week on both Canadian steel and aluminum. After a week of talks, the European Union has now agreed to significantly increase its military spending to ensure Europe's long-term security. At the close of an emergency summit, the EU also voiced near unanimous support for Ukrainian

sovereignty and territorial integrity. Anna Cunningham has the details. Too tired. I wanted to start in German, but now I'm going to speak English. An exhausted EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, talked to the podium in Brussels close to midnight. Today, history is being written. Twenty-seven EU leaders and Ukrainian president, Vlado Mizul Zelensky concluding a 10-hour meeting. We are coming out of this European Council very determined to ensure Europe's security and to act with the scale, the speed and the resolve that this situation demands.

A week on from the White House bust-up between President Zelensky, Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, Europe has rallied behind Ukraine. With one predictable exception, the Kremlin-friendly Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, failing to endorse the EU statement. Anna Cunningham, CBC News, London. A legal challenge to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proroguing parliament has been dismissed. Two claimants from Nova Scotia had asked the federal court to declare the move illegal, insisting there's no reasonable justification. However, the court's chief justice has ruled that the applicants

failed to show that Trudeau exceeded parliamentary limits or limits established in the Constitution. Now to a concerning story about child privacy and protection. A marketplace investigation has found popular game apps that are profiling and tracking children to the point where our reporters were able to trace a child's whereabouts using one of the app's location data. Christina Birak reports. Christina Birak, Reporter, The New York Times Sliding his finger across the screen, nine-year-old Jamie's busy playing a mobile game. Based on its app store rating, It said E for Everyone.

Mom Sarah Dermody assumed kids' privacy laws would apply, but we show her the game's fine print. It says games are not meant to be used if you are under 16. Wow. The age and the content rating doesn't always match the privacy policy. Posing as game developers, we approached four global data sellers to test whether their data included information on kids. None of our data will have anyone under 16.

One gives us location data for over half a million devices in Toronto. Hundreds are at elementary schools, intentional or not. We're able to confirm a specific child's walk to school, sometimes a convenience store, and back home for a month. It is a bit scary. After checking privacy settings and tracking on Jamie's devices, Sarah Dermody says she's not downloading any new apps without reading their privacy policy first. Christine Birak, CBC News, Toronto.

You can watch the full investigation tonight on CBC TV, CBC Gem, or on the CBC YouTube channel. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.