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

Episode Date: September 5, 2025

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

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Follow Commotion wherever you get your podcast. 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 jumped last month to 7.1% up from 6.9 in July. Peter Armstrong has more. This is worse than expected, and expectations weren't exactly high to begin with. It extends the job losses we've seen since the beginning of the year.

The unemployment rate is the highest we've seen outside of the COVID pandemic since 2016. Stackand says now 1.6 million Canadians were unemployed in August. And if you look into the specific sectors, you can see a bit of a trend there too. High-skilled technical, professional and scientific services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing. Those were the sector's hardest hit. Ontario, B.C. and Alberta, that's where the job losses were concentrated. Now, for all of that doom and gloom, there is one caveat here of the 66,000 jobs lost, 60,000 were part-time. Full-time work was little changed, in the words of Stadcan.

And that's good, but clearly not enough to offset this wave of lousy jobs data right across the economy. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. Still with economic news, we're expecting an announcement today from Prime Minister Mark Carney on the Liberals' plan to help some of the Canadian industry's hardest hit by U.S. and Chinese tariffs. The automotive sector is believed to be a priority, along with the country's canola industry. China's tariff action against Canadian canola is believed to have cost producers more than $100 million over the past two weeks alone. Russian President Vladimir Putin is issuing a warning today to Ukraine's allies. Putin says any troops deployed to Ukraine once the fighting is over would be considered.

considered by Moscow to be enemy combatants. Crystal Ghancing reports. Talk of the war in Ukraine spilled over into a Russian economic forum. Vladimir Putin said foreign military contingents in Ukraine will be legitimate targets for destruction. There are commitments from 26 nations for an international post-war reassurance force for Ukraine. What's happening with the coalition of the willing

is even bigger than Russia and Ukraine. Admiral Tony Radican was until this week, the chief of the defense forces in the UK. It's much more about European security, this adjustment with America, the reassurance to America that Europe is taking more responsibility for its security. Putin says if a lasting peace is achieved,

there would be no need for international troops in Ukraine that Moscow would respect a peace. Steele. Crystal Gamansing, CBC News, London. Protests are being held across Israel ahead of the second anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attacks. The demonstrations come as the Israeli military intensifies its assault on Gaza City. Sasha Petrissik has more. Israel's streets are filling with protesters, marking 700 days since the war in Gaza started, angry at the government for continuing to fight without bringing remaining hostages

home. Hamas militants released a video today showing two of these held in Gaza City, Israel's next military target, and Hamas's most active base, says the IDF. One of the only places in Gaza that we haven't operated at all. Not in any sustained way, says IDF Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, is targeting remaining Hamas fighters. Some of them have stayed in Gaza City from the beginning of the war. And some have moved back during the latest. ceasefire with the aim of rebuilding and re-arming. The IDF says it already holds some 40% of Gaza City with a major offensive ready to start

in the coming days to occupy the rest. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Jerusalem. And that is the world this hour. For news any time, make sure you go to our website. We're at cbcnews.ca. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings. Thank you.