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

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

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

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why the internet sucks now, whose fault it is, and my plan to fix it. Find Who Broke the Internet on whatever terrible app you get your podcasts. From CBC News, it's the world this hour. I'm Joe Cummings. Canada's unemployment rate is on the rise. Statistics Canada says it moved up to 6.9% last month from 6.7 in March. And most analysts agree that, all things considered, the new numbers could have been much worse. Peter Armstrong reports. This is a better jobs report than expected, but it's not exactly painting the picture of a healthy economy. Sure, employers added 7,400 new jobs, but about 37,000 jobs were added due to the federal

election. Strip that out and about 29,000 some jobs were lost. So all these gains were made in the public sector. The private sector fell by 26,000. Job losses in the manufacturing sector, they've reached the highest we've seen since 2009. If you exclude the years of COVID, the unemployment rate is back up to 6.9%, the highest since November of 2024. This is also the third month in a row of either very little, no change or job losses in the Canadian economy.

All of which speaks to the uncertainty of the moment, but also to the fragility of the Canadian economy as we brace for all those tariffs to begin to really bite. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Russia is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. Hello comrades. Hello comrades. Hello, comrades!

Hello, comrades! In Moscow, that is the Russian defense minister greeting the soldiers marching in today's Victory Day Parade. And while the ceremonies are about honoring the past, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been eager to send a message about the current conflict in Ukraine. Briar Stewart explains. As the band played, thousands of soldiers and cadets marched in front of Red Square. On display in the parade, Russian drones currently being used in Ukraine. Putin had declared a unilateral three-day ceasefire to mark the anniversary, a move which Ukrainian officials saw as a manipulative stunt. They say the fighting hasn't stopped on

the front line. Sam Green is a professor in Russian politics at King's College London and says Victory Day in Russia has gone through a transformation. I mean they have framed certainly the entirety of the conflict in Ukraine going back to 2014 in the language of World War II. It's an effort he says to try to convince the Russian public that the country is fighting a just war even as it refuses to agree to a 30-day proposed ceasefire. Briar Stewart, CBC News, London. Over the course of the election both the Liberals and the Conservatives embraced the

idea of giving the Royal Canadian Navy armed icebreakers to defend the Arctic. But it's a position a former naval commander and several defense analysts are now questioning. Murray Brewster has more. The notion of arming an icebreaker is overly simplistic. Former Vice Admiral Mark Norman, who looks at the proposals of both the liberals and the conservatives with a raised eyebrow. I'm puzzled because I don't know what it is we're trying to achieve other than the political objective of demonstrating a commitment to Arctic sovereignty.

Other defense experts say icebreakers are slow and noisy. Submarines, they say, are better. The Conservatives in 2006 proposed heavy military icebreakers only to back away because of the enormous cost and limited utility. The Coast Guard is usually the home of Canada's unarmed icebreaking fleet. The Liberals, however, have promised to rewrite the Service's mandate to conduct maritime surveillance and integrate them into Canada's NATO defence capabilities. Whether that means arming them is unclear. Murray Brewster, CBC News, Ottawa. John Hogan is being sworn in today as the 15th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The 47-year-old was elected Liberal leader at a party convention last weekend. Hogan takes over from Andrew Fury, who announced in February he'd be stepping down from the office. And that is The World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.