The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/06 at 13:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/06 at 13:00 EDT

The ocean is vast, beautiful, and lawless. I'm Ian Urbina back with an all new season of The Outlaw Ocean. The stories we bring you this season are literally life or death. We look into the shocking prevalence of forced labor, mine boggling overfishing, migrants hunted and captured. The Outlaw Ocean takes you where others won't. Available on CBC Listen or wherever you get your podcasts. From CBC News, the world this hour, I'm Julianne Hazelwood.

The Liberal government has just tabled its bill to knock down barriers to inter-provincial trade and labor. Prime Minister Mark Carney outlined its goals. A bill that is laser focused on building a stronger, more competitive, and a more resilient Canadian economy that works for all Canadians. It's our contribution to a broader effort with all the provinces and territories to eliminate the barriers that have held our country back for far too long. Carney estimates those barriers are costing Canadians as much as $200 billion a year. The bill will also speed up approvals for infrastructure projects that are considered in the national interest. The legislation was one of Carney's key election campaign promises. The Prime Minister's office has confirmed Mark Carney invited Indian leader Narendra Modi to attend this month's G7 summit in Alberta.

The two leaders spoke on the phone today. Modi says he's committed to India and Canada working together with renewed vigor. The two countries have been at odds over the past few years. That rift widened after former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed that Indian agents were involved in the murder of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil. The two-day G7 summit begins June 15th. Canada's unemployment rate has risen for the third straight month. The latest jobs report from Statistics Canada is showing it moved up to 7% in May. Peter Armstrong reports. All things considered, this is a much better report than it could have been and paints the picture of a resilient economy in the face of obviously tough times. We've been

looking for signs that what we're hearing about the tariffs and the uncertainty and the forces they play in the economy, that that's gonna start showing up in the data. We saw export numbers yesterday pushed exports way down and trade deficit way up. So businesses are doing less business. That's eventually going to show up in the numbers like jobs data and GDP. But today, it seems like the job market held on okay. All the growth we saw was in full-time jobs,

offset by losses in part-time. But it's still an undeniably difficult time. Unemployment at 7 percent outside of COVID, that's the highest we've seen since 2016. Youth unemployment now an astounding 20.1 percent. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Drifting smoke from wildfires is causing poor air quality across large parts of North America. That's prompting concerns in heavily populated areas of Ontario and Quebec. There are also air quality warnings across most of Manitoba.

Phil Bleschanak reports. The sky isn't quite blue. It's like a, you know, more of a white milky colour. Walking the boardwalk in East End Toronto, Karen Anderson says she knows what's in the air can be dangerous. People with pre-existing respiratory issues like asthma and things like that could be even more affected by it. Stephen Flissfeder says Environment Canada has issued a special air quality statement for Toronto and much of eastern Ontario due to wildfire smoke. It advises avoiding strenuous outdoor activities especially for children and the elderly.

He says conditions should improve through the weekend. As long as those wildfires are still burning across the country there will be that potential for high concentrations of smoke anywhere. Health authorities in Montreal and Ottawa suggest keeping windows closed and limiting non-essential travel. Phil Tashanok, CBC News, Toronto. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed the opposition's claims that his government has been arming local militias in Gaza. Netanyahu says the weapons are sent to clans who oppose Hamas. He insists there's nothing wrong with that and the move is saving lives of Israeli soldiers.

Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman calls the tactic complete madness. He says the guns are sent to what he calls the equivalent of ISIS in Gaza. And there is no guarantee those groups won't turn the weapons against Israel. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Julie-Ann Hazelwood.