The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/26 at 03:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/26 at 03:00 EDT

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A message from the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario. From CBC News, The Worldless Hour, I'm Mike Miles. Tension is heightening among NATO allies, including Canada, over the recent spat of unidentified drones in NATO airspace. The latest ones were spotted over Denmark near a military base. Comes near a mid, rather, reports a Russian landing ship with its location responder turned off, was found loitering in waters off the Scandinavian country. Murray Brewster reports.

We will always react with calm determination. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter, defending allies not firing on the unknown drones that violated Danish airspace earlier this week. Who was responsible for the drones has been a mystery, perhaps until now. A Russian Navy landing ship was spotted off Denmark, hiding in waters with its location transponder switched off. Attention was further heightened yesterday with reports that Hungarian NATO fighters intercepted five Russian fighter jets over the Baltic Sea near Latvia. Canada's Foreign Affairs Committee met over the issue, and Conservative MP Michael Chong noted

how Russian bombers flew close to Alaska this week, but stayed out in international airspace, knowing the Americans would have no hesitation in shooting them down. Russia feels that NATO doesn't have the same deterrence posture. Following the incident in Poland, allies stepped up air defenses in Eastern Europe, but defense experts say it hasn't stopped Russia from playing chicken with NATO. Murray Brewster, CBC News.

Ottawa. Former FBI director James Comey is expected to turn himself into authorities this morning after being indicted on charges of making a false statement to Congress and obstruction of justice. U.S. President Donald Trump's been long irritated over the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He's celebrating the indictment, calling it justice for America. Comey isn't cowed, though. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system and I'm innocent. So let's have a trial and keep the faith. A grand jury decided against a third charge related to another statement coming made to Congress, this won about

2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Canada Post workers are on strike. Again, the Canadian Union of postal workers is furious about Ottawa's plans for ending door-to-door delivery and shuttering some rural postal outlets. Also frustrated small businesses who rely on Canada Post. Ryan Mitten speaks for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. We know that small businesses are already facing consequences as a result of the ban on flyers. So for this to potentially stretch into the holiday season, a critical for time for small businesses looking to make the ends meet, pay their bills. And we've called for Canada Post to be temporarily deemed an essential service in order to protect the economy and protect small businesses. The government says reforms are necessary to save a service that's losing $10 million.

a day. We're waiting for some key economic data this morning. The economy has weakened considerably. The unemployment rate is climbing and confidence has plummeted. But is the economy slipping into an actual recession? We'll get a better sense when GDP numbers are released this morning at 8.30 Eastern Time. Peter Armstrong reports. Just about everywhere you go, you can see the impact of the U.S. trade war. Just this week, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklam offered this succinct description in a speech in Saskatoon. Tariffs have weakened our exports and GDP growth. They've slowed the job market and they've added costs.

But there are some glimmers of hope emerging. Since June, economic activity has started to show some signs of life. Manufacturing sales, wholesale trade. We're all up over the summer. Even Canada's housing market is seeing sales pick up again. You could say that we've dodged a recession so far. That's CIBC chief economist, Davry Schenfeld. He says,

probably saw some gains, which would make it unlikely that the economy sees two back-to-back quarters of negative growth, the technical definition of a recession. He says there are plenty of risks ahead, though, in either way, even if this isn't a technical recession, it sure feels like one for many Canadian workers. Peter Armstrong, CBC News, Toronto. And that is your world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Mike Miles. Thank you.