The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 05:00 EDT

Episode Date: March 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/03/09 at 05:00 EDT

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child exploitation in Canada are out of control jumping more than a thousand percent over the last decade according to police. Activities ranging from child luring to making pornography are mostly happening online on popular apps like Snapchat and Instagram. As Nicole Williams reports, advocates are demanding the tech giants be held to account. We're seeing, unfortunately, devastating consequences.

Neelia Yuda is manager of Children of the Streets in Port Coquitlam, BC, an organization that works with children who are victims of sexual exploitation. It sees firsthand that cases across Canada are on the rise. 106 individuals were arrested. It's why police launched Project Steal. In Ottawa this week, RCMP Inspector Matthew Girard says the national operation set out to target abusers over two weeks last month. The diligent efforts of all 63 law enforcement partners involved resulted in 40 victims identified.

We don't have a comprehensive online safety regime in Canada. Jacques Marcoux is with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and says Canada is falling far behind in introducing regulations to make online spaces safer. Nicole Williams, CBC News, Ottawa. The Liberal Party of Canada announces its new leader later today. That person will take over from Justin Trudeau, who has led the country for more than nine and a quarter years. They'll also be prime minister, prime minister, rather, designate until they're sworn in

by Governor General Mary Simon. CBC Radio 1 will have coverage of this election, hosted by Susan Bonner of Your World Tonight and Catherine Cullen of The House. It begins just before 5 p.m. Eastern Time this afternoon. China's army is warning Taiwan this morning it will tighten its noose around the island if separatists don't back off. China claims Taiwan as its own, with many people in Taiwan saying they're unsettled about the future of its most important industry, manufacturing of computer chips.

The world's largest chipmaker, TSMC, announced it will build a new $100 billion factory in the US. Patrick Fock reports. TSMC's deal allays long-held fears Beijing could seize Taiwan's chip industry if it invaded the island. China regards it as part of its sovereign territory and hasn't ruled out taking it by force. The move also came under the threat of tariffs. There's still no guarantee the US won't impose levies on chip makers besides TSMC. Some experts also say TSMC could lose its competitive edge by shifting operations to the US where labor costs for one are higher. Robert Chow is the founder of Taiwan's second biggest chip maker, United Microelectronics Corporation.

He's optimistic about the development and says diversifying Taiwan's supply chain dominance was inevitable. Concentrating the entire semiconductor industry here is geopolitically dangerous. But it's still likely to test Taiwan's chip prowess in the future. Patrick Fogg for CBC News, Taipei. And if you think the time change is tough on your body, you're right. Psychology professor Mike Antle explains. Your body gets surprised. You wake up before it was thinking you were going to get up. It's been used to waking up at a certain time relative to sunrise for quite a while. And all of a sudden you spring out of bed an hour earlier than it thought,

and you weren't, physiologically weren't ready for that change. That shock to the system results in an increase in car accidents, workplace accidents, and serious medical episodes. There are parts of the country that don't switch to daylight saving time, including Yukon, and areas in Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, BC, and Nunavut. Fire departments suggest this is a good time to check the batteries in your smoke detectors. By the way, there's a great story on our website, cbcnews.ca, about what would happen if we didn't change our clocks. That is your World This Hour.

For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles.