The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/09/26 at 11:00 EDT

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/09/26 at 11:00 EDT

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who have formerly recognized a Palestinian state. Israel will not allow you to shove a terrorist state down our throats. We will not commit national suicide because you don't have the guts. to face down a hostile media and anti-Semitic mobs demanding Israel's blood. Netanyahu calls the recognition of a Palestinian state, quote, sheer madness. He also commented on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying Hamas is responsible for the food shortage in the territory.

Just prior to his speech, dozens of delegates rose from their seats and left the General Assembly Hall in protest. Prime Minister Mark Carney is in London today, meeting with British Prime Minister Kier Starrmer. I want to salute your leadership, in Ukraine, in the coalition of the Middle East, more broadly in this next phase of multilateralism. This is the fourth time now that Carney and Starrmer have met since Carney took office in the spring. And along with the defense issues, Carney mentioned there, the two leaders are also discussing trade.

While on this trip, Carney also has talks scheduled the leaders of Australia, Spain, and Iceland. The latest update on the state of the Canadian economy is showing it grew slightly in the month of July. Statistics Canada says the gross domestic product moved up by 0.2%, which is the first gross we've seen now in four months. Peter Armstrong has more. The question coming into these numbers was whether we would be able to say that Canada had avoided a recession or at least the technical definition of one. And looking through these numbers, we can say Canada has likely avoided that. We can say Canada has probably dodged a recession for now. Remember, a recession is just two back-to-back quarters of negative growth. And we knew the economy contracted in that

second quarter in April, May, and June. So if that had continued in the third quarter in July, August, and September, that would have met the definition. But July has come in quite positive. 0.2% growth is pretty solid. The preliminary report for August is flat. So it would take quite a contraction in September to push the economy to meet that technical definition. But it's important to say for most Canadians, there's not that big of a difference between a 0.1% contraction and 0.1% growth. And that's why many Canadians feel like this is a recession, even if it doesn't meet the technical definition of one.

Peter Armstrong, CBC News, interrupt it. Canada Post workers are back on the picket lines. The union representing the country's 55,000 postal employees, says the strike action is in response to the reforms. federal government is putting forward for the future of the Crown Corporation. Those reforms include, among other things, and end to all home delivery. Meanwhile, the strike means the mail is, of course, not moving. And this concerns Ray Mitten with 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. Canada Post says mail and parcels will not be processed or delivered during the strike, but delivery exemptions will be made for items such as welfare checks. A British court has thrown out a terror-related charge against one of the members of the Irish rap group kneecap. The charge was laid after the group allegedly displayed a Hezbollah flag during a London concert. The chief magistrate in the case has ruled that the legal

proceedings were, quote, instituted unlawfully. Britain and Canada are among the countries that have designated Hezbollah a terror organization, and just this month, kneecap canceled an upcoming Canadian tour after a parliamentary secretary claimed the group would not be allowed into the country. And that is the world this hour. For CBC News, I'm Joe Cummings.