The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/05/09 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/05/09 at 11:00 EDT

How did the internet go from this? You could actually find what you were looking for right away, bound to this. I feel like I'm in hell. Spoiler alert, it was not an accident. I'm Cory Doctorow, host of Who Broke the Internet from CBC's Understood. In this four-part series, I'm going to tell you

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. Most analysts agree that, all things considered, that increase 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. The Trump administration is making it clear that it has no plans to get involved in the growing conflict between India and Pakistan. Here's Vice President J.D. Vance in an interview with Fox News. What we can do is try to encourage these folks to de-escalate a little bit, but we're not

going to get involved in the middle of a war that's fundamentally none of our business and has nothing to do with America's ability to control it. Vance's comments come as Pakistan is reporting that five people were killed overnight by Indian drone strikes. At the same time, India is accusing Pakistan of attacking three of its military bases. The back and forth military strikes follow an attack last month on a tourist destination in India-administered Kashmir. That attack claimed 26 lives.

Russia is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. In Moscow, that is the Russian Defence Minister greeting soldiers marching in today's Victory Day parade. And while the ceremonies are about honouring the past, Russian President Vladimir Putin is also eager to send a message about the current conflict in Ukraine. Briar Stewart has more. 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. 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. A Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend. Cosmos 482 has been struck in orbit for more than a cent, half a century. And while there will be a crash landing, we're being told not to worry.

Jonathan McDowell is an astrophysicist at Harvard. It will slow down as it plows through the atmosphere from 17,000 miles an hour to about 150 miles an hour. You've got basically something the size of a small car plowing into the earth at 150 miles an hour. It's not like to evacuate the city, right, but it's like a small plane crash or something like that, right? You don't want to be standing right underneath.

Cosmos was launched in 1972 on a voyage to Venus, but it never made it. As for its reentry, we don't know exactly where it's going to land, but it's expected to touch back down sometime tomorrow morning. And that is The World This Hour. I'm Joe Cummings.