The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/07 at 11:00 EST

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/07 at 11:00 EST

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The latest jobs report is suggesting Canadian businesses may be slowing their hiring plans in the face of the US tariff crisis. Statistics Canada says 1,100 new jobs were added to the economy last month, which is well short of the 20,000 that many analysts had been predicting. As a result, the unemployment rate remains at 6.6%, which is where it was in January. As well, major snowstorms in eastern and central Canada last month meant more than 400,000 Canadians lost significant work hours. Meanwhile, 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 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 was also on CNN 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 the United States. 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 some new tariffs on Canada and Mexico and has reduced potash levies to 10 percent. But still on the books are the tariffs that Trump plans to bring in next week on Canadian

steel and aluminum. After a week of talks, the European Union has agreed to significantly increase its military spending to ensure Europe's long-term security. And at the close of an emergency summit, the EU also voiced near unanimous support for Ukrainian sovereignty and Ukrainian territorial integrity. Anna Cunningham has the latest. 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, Volodymymyr 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 Presidents 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. Now to a concerning story about child privacy and protection. A marketplace investigation has found popular game apps that are profiling and tracking children. Christine Birak explains. Sliding his finger across the screen,

9-year-old Jamie's busy playing a mobile game. Based on its app store rating, it's at 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 catch the full investigation tonight on CBC TV, CBC Gem or on the CBC YouTube channel. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.