Tonight on CBC Vancouver News The Province cracks down and let me be clear these crashes need to stop BC introduces legislation to usher in strict new penalties in a bid to curb overpass crashes Plus wary of what’s to come residents are honestly at this moment in time I think
Um frustrated and fearful the city announces plans to clean up crab Park Vancouver’s only legal Tent City citing safety concerns also signs of Hope at Sea bigger than normal for this time of year it’s always exciting you always hope to do good and you always hope it’s going to be a a
Good year some Herring Fishers are optimistic about early returns that look more promising than they have in years this is CBC Vancouver News hello I’m Tanya Fletcher thanks for joining us the province is planning to bring in sweeping new penalties for overpass crashes the maximum fine will jump from $500 to
$100,000 and those responsible could spend up to 18 months in jail our Bain is at the legislature with more on the bill tabled by BC’s Transportation Minister today BC will soon be leving the toughest fines in the country for drivers who crash into Highway overpasses there have been 35 crashes
Since late 2021 by overh highe commercial vehicles let me be clear these crashes need to stop this bill seeks to pinpoint enforcement new legislation has been tabled in the BC legislature and expected to pass these changes will enable the courts to impose fines of up to $100,000 for drivers involved in infrastructure
Crashes or a maximum imprisonment of 18 months or both the maximum penalty aimed at repeat offenders and serious cases is 200 times higher than the $500 penalty that’s been in place since the 1970s the incidents in recent years have caused millions of dollars in damage supply chain disruptions and posed
Serious safety risks nobody sets out to hit an overpass uh what this does is sends the message to say you need to be more diligent you need to pay attention to what you’re doing you need to take the time to do the job right the United truckers Association says some truck
Drivers new to Canada feel pressured by companies to say yes when they should push back on what’s asked of them to avoid these types of crashes what I do believe is that the real cause is the new foreign workers they are supposed to work with only one particular company they have to
Follow to the all instruction they are only the Yes Man of their dispatchers of their companies last year the province brought in penalties targeting trucking companies involved in overpass crashes The Province suspended the operations of Chohan Freight forwarders after six overpass crashes in just over 2 years
Even so the company continued to operate in Alberta and it’s a loophole the province is trying to close the province is developing new training materials on measuring load Heights the transportation Minister says his ministry is also doing research into making outward-facing dash cams mandatory Mira Baines CBC News Victoria an investigation spanning a
Year and a half has now led to a second deegree murder charge sirar CMP say 38-year-old Justin boss has been charged in the killing of 37-year-old Troy Michael renier he was shot sh multiple times outside a home in August of 2022 and wound up dying from those injuries
The case is now before the courts some North Vancouver parents and students are calling out the school district after it changed their schedules as of September four high schools will be reverting from the semester system back to a linear system under a line linear system students take the same eight courses all
Year long instead of changing courses each semester the school district says the decision was made after lengthy discussions with teachers students and parents but some say they weren’t consulted this completely blindsided us and we pretty much had no idea about it until they released the news so as
Somebody with anxiety myself um I’ve struggled my entire life with it juggling eight courses is not going to help that at all an online petition in favor of keeping the semester system has now more garnered more than 1200 signatures well the city and the park board have announced detailed plans to
Clean up a nearly three-year-old encampment the Tent City at crab Park along brard Inlet is the only legal one in Vancouver as Chad pson reports the city says it has become unsafe this is the encampment at crab Park in place since May 2021 protected by a court order in January 2022
Advocates say it’s Unique in Canada because people are able to feel safe in their homes and not have this constant fear being relocated they’re able to build other things and it’s been really wonderful to watch that happen and expand and even last summer we were able to have a community garden there is
Unease here today though that’s because Vancouver and its Park Board say the site is unhealthy and unsafe and needs a thorough cleaning a reorganization but don’t call it a decampment this is about um clean up of debris and um and cleanliness in the area of of extensive
Debris buildup as well as the compliance with stru with um with the notice and operational guidelines the city says this site these structures are no longer compliant with rules governing the camp that the problems gotten too big now for individuals to clean up so Crews and
Machinery are needed the plan is to have people store their belongings and then move somewhere else on this site to live for 2 weeks before returning here to improvements and the offer of things like free tents I don’t mind that but I just don’t want them moving everybody
Out all at once that doesn’t give any reassurance that they’re going to fence it off and we’ll be out of a place residents are honestly at this moment in time I think um frustrated and fearful like I think there’s a big mix of emotions that are going on folks that
Are in this situation without housing um understandably have uh a lot of worries and fears and at times distrust of government whether it’s local government or senior government we recognize that so as part of the plan the city will spend the next week getting feedback from residents here and then change the
Cleanup plan as required but once people are back if there is again non-compliance then the park board’s permit to allow this 10 City might be terminated if compliance isn’t met and safety concerns continue to be an issue then that GM notice would need to be revoked and we would make sure that it
Is in line with any legal ramifications U and we would explore that about 50 people who stay in the camp will have a week to pack up before the cleanup begins on March 25th Chad pawson CBC News News Vancouver the United States and Canada have agreed to work on reducing
Pollution flowing from BC coal mines into American Waters researchers say selenium which is toxic to fish is being washed Downstream from mines in the ALK Valley in 1985 a report estimated under two tons of selenium had flowed into US Waters by 2023 that number had reached nearly 11 tons the new agreement
Involves both Federal governments along with BC Montana and Idaho as well as six indigenous communities on both sides of the Border it’s to our Collective benefit all of us that are involved here that we find a we find answers so that work can continue but then we also
Address the the very serious um pollution issues researchers will work on finding ways to reduce contamination from BC coal mines specifically flowing into Lake kconusa a reservoir straddling the national border the group will be up and running by the end of June and will present their findings in two
Years BC’s minister of mental health and addiction says police will be testing the drugs seized in Prince George but she says at this point there’s no evidence of widespread diversion of safe Supply opioids she adds the priority right now is making sure healthc care practitioners who work with drug users
Are supported there are a number of um steps that Health authorities have put in place to ensure that they are um able to um better Monitor and monitor more earlier for signals that um individuals may be misusing pres prescriptions Alberta Premier Daniel Smith and federal opposition leader Pierre PV have said
The recent seizure in Prince George is an example of safe Supply drugs being diverted onto the illicit drug Market OBC salmon Advocates are once again raising the alarm on the toll salmon Farms have had on fish and wildlife in a report released today the Watershed watch salmon society says Ottawa is
Languishing on its promise to transition open net salmon Farms from BC by 2025 so we feel that there’s a bit of a riff there in terms of what the minister promised and what the department is Consulting on it doesn’t make a lot of sense to to give these uh salmon Farms a
Six-year license when we’re still Consulting on the transition how however the head of the BC salmon Farmers Association says the transition has been misunderstood and does not involve leaving the ocean or the removal of open net pen Farms the transition is to find ways to reduce our interactions with wild salmon uh and
Further decrease any risk that we may have in with the uh with the environment and that is something and a challenge we are completely up for uh and we expect that to happen over a period of time the association says the same license renewal and expiry process is still in
Place while the group continues consultations with the government there are signs that efforts to protect an endangered fish on BC’s South Coast may be working most Herring Fisheries have been closed in the province since 2021 but as AET Bren tells us a recent strong spawn has experts hopeful for a big return this
Year Taylor Forbes wrestles a whole fills tubs with ice to pack fish he always hope it’s going to be a a good year in his six Decades of fishing forbs grandfather Billy has watched Herring returns dwindle due to over fishing pollution and habitat changes as long as you’re ready you let Mother Nature
Decide each spring Herring turn Coastal Waters bright turquoise with their Milt or sperm most Pacific hering Fisheries have been closed since 2021 in an effort to protect wild salmon which rely on hering for food this year their numbers are forecast to increase significantly they’ve even shown up early in some
Areas thanks to Al Nino biologists are cautiously optimistic overall it’s you know a bit of a mix but uh generally if you look at stocks coastwide as a whole we have seen an increasing Trend over the last 10 years scientists are examining what exactly has helped the
Species it’s early days for this kind of work but I have to say the indications are EXT ordinary because it means you know if you’ve got Herring you’ve got everything Herring feeds salmon fish that in turn feed BC’s and dangered orcas the fish is also part of the indigenous traditions and Fisheries uh
It definitely offers hope um you know what we’ve seen though you know in our territory has been decreases but not every provincial Coastline can expect a rebound for this first nation stocks are expected to decline this spring we wanted to be able to see the uh returns in you know in
Great abundance the hope is one day all coasts will see a robust spawn we’ve had some early spawns out there for some reason and they’re bigger than normal for this time of year his Nets are ready in the hope that nature offers an abundant Hall evat Bren CBC News Vancouver our DARS mavi is here with a look out the forecast in DARS safe for a few showers in the morning it certainly felt like those first signs of true spring on the horizon it did uh there was a little bit more activity on parts of the island than here in Vancouver but
Really across the South Coast we are calming down we’re seeing that last little bit of precipitation coming through and after that we are calming down uh the one thing to still watch out for would be some pretty strong winds uh in the uh in the straight around
Victoria and the gulf Islands maybe in Vancouver as well that should start to Cal down over the next few hours as well and by tomorrow morning mostly calm the strong winds then will be up off the North Coast of the island but after that pretty much uh looking at that
Everything really tapering off high pressure system moves in no more precipitation or at least very little to speak of in the next 24 hours after the next 24 hours nothing whatsoever on the south coast a little bit coming to the north and Central Coast we’ll have a
Look at that later this hour but for now get just expect that little tiny bit of rain the tiny bit more snow still to come for some of those mountain ranges and then not really anything else and in fact those freezing levels are really going to rise as we see the temperatures
Climb across the South coast and Vancouver Island over the next few days and into the weekend where temperatures in many places could approach 20° doesn’t quite look like we’re going to make it on the south coast although for parts of the Southern interior they will uh we’re going to see those temperatures
Really come up along with those freezing levels so freezing levels pretty much jumping up to uh 3,000 M by the end of this week so be ready for that and beyond that enjoy a little bit of a cooler morning but should warm up by noon and the only other thing to mention
Is that we’re getting a lot more Sunshine about an hour of sunshine added to our days in the next two weeks love that thanks so much Darius thanks Daniel it’s a creative attempt to incorporate traditional indigenous languages into the education system a woman from the Williams Lake first nation has helped
Create flash cards to teach kids in her community the squet machine language here’s a look at some of the flashcards that were given out at a recent baby welcoming ceremony words like Rena which is uh my little sister Ren s is my younger brother we’ve been trying to incorporate language s machine as
Much as we can into our programming and so we came up with this idea with the um flashcards and so we have family terms states of beings greetings um clothing colors great great is uh it’s actually a hard cue so it’s like at the back of your throat on the
Top it’s um and it means blue I think it would just be mind-blowing to have you know these little ones running around you know instead of saying that’s my brother that’s my uh Ren Sessa we’re trying to incorporate language where we can when we can so then that way hopefully one day they’ll
Be fluent gaka their father Kut which is hat I feel like I’m a baby in the language right now so it’s it’s nice to have have these to refer back to like Ren G is my older brother even with the parents like you know because everyone’s yearning to learn the language and they
Want simple words basic terms that were easy to say and if they wanted to learn we would be able to teach them as well M Ren uh Sam Geck is my daughter you know it’s something that will last a lifetime it is something that we are bringing back
Because there was a time that we weren’t able to speak our language you know and this is something that is you know being revitalized it’s it’s a living thing it’s a probably one of the most important things in our lives is language it’s how we conversate I’ve been wanting to learn
My language for years and then you know I had the opportunity last July to start classes and I’ve been taking classes ever since I think I feel a little bit more connected to the land it’s something that I’ve wanted for so long I feel more connected to my parents to my
Dad who was R G is my mother Ren geek is my older sister I would suggest taking classes up next with reservoirs at record Low’s BC Hydro has had to resort to buying power from both South of the Border and our Province next door so is it time to diversify how we generate
Power in this province we’ll explore that after the Break and thank you for staying with us during our commercial free Liv stream the 15th annual Scotia Bank girls hockey Fest returned to Winnipeg over the weekend players of all ages hit the ice with some of their hockey Heroes former broadcaster national team captain Cassie Campbell LED an on Ice training session
The goal is to get more girls into the sport and encourage them to stick with it check it out it’s our 15th year in Winnipeg and uh continues to grow the game and and it’s been an unbelievable program over the years there’s all different groups
We have an elite group we have a learn to play group um I think the learn to play group we just saw them and you know some of them have never had a pair of skates on before and been on the ice so they’re trying hockey for the very first
Time and they’re with people that are sort of at the same level as them so I think it helps them feel a little bit more comfortable so we’re going to be we learned about how to be a good teammate and we did some practicing on skills and yeah what’s your favorite part
Um I don’t know all of it for a lot of the new players we’re kind of just working on some basic skills like Pock handling or just skating getting the feet off the ice or just passing back and forth just some of the basic stuff well I think it can definitely be tough
For for girls getting into the sport at at the beginning but I mean right now we’re at uh a really good time for women’s hockey with the pwl starting so it’s good to see a lot more girls getting into hockey especially at a young age when I played you had to play
With your brother right I mean there were the boys teams and um there weren’t a lot of girls hockey teams around and I think over my career it just continued to grow and grow and and you know when I retired you’re just starting to see it grow and grow and you know especially
When you come back to centers like Winnipeg and you know from 15 years ago to what we’re seeing today our first group was the youngest and there’s a lot of talent here in Manitoba so it’s just fun to watch the game get better and better it’s fun to see more
Opportunities uh for young girls to play and um it’s fun now that they get to watch their Heroes with the professional women’s hockey league on a regular basis too you know these girls are going to get to watch them on TV every other night and I think that’s really
Important uh for them to see these great women on a regular basis and to say you know what maybe one day I can grow up and and play professional women’s hockey all the girls that I know that are from Manitoba Sammy Joe small Jennifer botol joshlyn Lorac and Kristen Campbell list
Goes on and on they’ve done a really good job of being role models in this province and uh you can tell because there’s a lot of great goalies first and foremost but just you can just see at a young level they can skate better they’re just more skilled you know they
They’ve been introduced to the game in different ways than maybe I I was so um kudos to this province for producing continuing to produce great hockey Players we continue our look at the ongoing drought situation in this province the effects we’re seeing right now and some of the challenges that may lie ahead this spring and summer one place we’re already seeing that impact is power generation BC Hydro says reservoirs are low and that’s causing Ripple effects
With the sight SE Dam about to go online and start generating power The Province should be looking at much more power in its system but the utility has had to import electricity from South of the Border and Alberta and while it can offset some of those costs by buying
Power when it’s being sold on the cheap and selling back when it’s going more uh there is still worry about the season ahead and now BC Hydra is hoping to generate more power and in different ways joining me now is katuma sers he’s executive director of clean energy BC
And a member of the Hupa set First Nation so quima what are you watching specifically as BC heads into the spring and summer season in regards to power generation I’m looking at Vis hydro’s uh call for power they’ve issued their first call for power in 15 years so it’s
It’s it’s scary with droughts you know showing us that you know climate change is here it’s impacting our infrastructure um but it is an exciting time because we are taking actions right now to ensure that we’re going to have uh clean energy when we need it um because even when sayc comes online
We’re still going to need more power we’re going to continue to need more power um and so it’s it is an exciting time in that sense it’s hard to get excited about droughts and everything things it’s showing us you know that that we need to diver I ify our electricity production and certainly
With this call for power we’re going to see that we’re going to bring on cost- effective options in terms of wind and solar into the grid so that we can help make sure rates remain affordable clean um and environmentally responsible yeah let’s talk more about that it seems VC
Hydro has put all of its eggs you might say in the hydro El electricity basket they seem to be moving to create a more robust system but is this all moving fast enough given those demands we’re going to see that is the question is you
Know do we we have to match our efforts with the pace of electrification and this is what we’re seeing everywhere in all jurisdiction all across the world where we need to we need to figure out how we’re going to reduce greenhouse gas uh emissions meet our climate targets
While also safeguarding our our economy from climate change and and makeing our economy is competitive and we can attract Capital these are all very difficult especially when you want to keep things affordable that’s why it’s key to bring in more clean energy into our grid so that we have the a a diverse
Range of of clean energy but also that we’re actually going to be able to meet our electricity uh needs in the future striking that balance the the magic task uh with a shortage of power is it cheaper and faster uh to restart traditional energy creation infrastructure we’ll give the example of
Say restarting a power source like the barard a Generating Station do you think BC Hydro perhaps mothball that facility a little too quickly well I think what’s important for viewers to to think about when we consider you know uh Natural Gas is that you know we should consider the
Energy transition and moving towards the new economy that’s moves towards our strengths which is clean electricity that where corporations will want to invest here to meet their ESG targets and ensure that their high paying jobs here in Bri Columbia like the emoli $1 billion investment here in L Mainland we
Want to see more of that in order to do that we need more clean electrons and so moving to moving towards like those old Technologies kind of makes it more difficult to do that and finally just do small projects make sense financially I mean what are the tradeoffs between big
Infrastructure projects things like sight sea and smaller more diverse projects yeah well this is the exciting part you know the province has put forward $140 million to support uh we likely be First Nations Le projects that are distribution scale uh but with this call for power we’re going to see bigger
Utility scale wind and solar and with those that size projects we’re going to see uh economies of scale so costs are going to come down wind solar they’ve come the cost have come down the past decade 90 or 90% for solar 70% for wind and we see on markets like a Berto last
Week when renewable energy comes on prices come down um so it’s um certainly an exciting time for our industry we’re we’re excited to have opportunity to bring these clean affordable projects into VC um well we certainly appreciate all your Insight on this thank you so much for sharing your time with us today
Thank you that’s cotum MERS executive director of clean energy BC well coming up at least 50 people are injured after a traumatic flight on a Boeing jet with some passengers thrown right to the ceiling we’ll tell you what went wrong in the renewed push for the company to correct course stay with Us food insecurity is a major major um problem in our community and just I’m not even just talking about Muslim Community it’s like everyone Ramen for dinner is not dinner really right um so we have students um we have people in the community with low income or modest income especially those that fall
Through the cracks and do not qualify for like social assistance and stuff like that for whatever eligibility reason right so um when they cannot get help from those places um especially um so our program we can help them just being able to help out it’s it’s an
Amazing thing to do and you know just uh doing as much as we can giving out as much as we can it means a lot because I don’t know like if you’re blessed with something you should give more and so that’s what I’ve always been taught by my you know elders but today
Is a monthly hamper distribution so we have about 100 clients um currently for mases um we had about 25 last year so you could see that this has grown to like four times uh which tells us about two things food insecurity is a real problem in the community that affects
Everyone irrespective of who you are um what religion what country What ethnicity it hits everyone the same um but at the same time we are blessed that the Muslim of s scatch 1 Mas we have the means to be able to help at least 100 clients um so what what happened today
Is we had volunteers that came in um a little bit early they had already ordered um the grocery from um a store that um we have like partnership with um and then they came here packed it one by one and as clients came by they just
Like took it home at least that’s one less thing for them to worry of having a hamper um and then they can take over the home that at least reduce the grocery build to some extent so providing some relief to some of those People Welcome back dozens of people are injured after a Boeing airplane suddenly plummeted in the sky yesterday launching passengers from their seats and it comes just weeks after a door panel flew off a Boeing flight midf flight as the cbc’s doas deas is finding out an investigation has reportedly found
Dozens of flaws in the company’s manufacturing process passengers were thrown to the ceiling on this flight from Australia to New Zealand with at least one seen here attended to on the floor mid-flight it felt like uh you know when you are in a roller coaster and you just go like this
This Dreamliner flown by Chilean Airline latom abruptly dropped more than 300 ft leaving 50 people injured several sent to hospital I just realized I’m not in a movie this is actually for Real Canadian Brian jit was on the flight and took these pictures showing emergency crews boarding the plane after it landed in
Auckland the pilot came to the back and I said uh what was that and he openly admitted he said I lost control of the plane my gauges just kind of went blank on me it’s the latest in a string of terrifying incidents involving Boeing Jets a tire fell off this trip 7 taking
Off from San Francisco last week smashing cars below that Alaska Airlines Max 9 that saw a door panel blow out in January is prompting investigations and more scathing criticism of Boeing they need to go through a serious transformation here uh in terms of their responsiveness their culture and their quality issues
The New York Times reports the plane maker recently failed 33 out of 89 audits carried out by us Regulators Boeing tells CBC News in a statement we continue to implement immediate changes and develop a comprehensive action plan to strengthen safety and quality Bo culture has changed over the last 15 or
20 years uh and it’s showing up in terms of the issues that we’re having with this new generation of airplane Airlines including WestJet are awaiting their new Max planes but the company is slowing production as the FAA Demands a plan from Boeing by this spring to address concerns over quality and
Safety the cbc’s Thomas Dela reporting and now Susan ormiston takes us through Boeing’s bumpy ride over the past 5 years and asks the question is flying those planes any safer now for Boeing the New Year began with a blowout I hear this boom I look to my
Left and part of the plane is gone at 16,000 ft a door panel on Alaska Airlines flight 1282 disappear leaving a gaping hole to in Alaska or Seattle Alaska 1282 we just press we’re declaring emergency we needed to send down to 10,000 looking at the flight
Attendant faces it was clear to me this wasn’t going to go well the 737 Max 9 deep pressurized oxygen masks dropped and passengers feared the worst yes we are emergency we are depressurized we do need to return back too we have 177 passengers still is 18
So I quickly realized I need to Pivot and start messaging to people to say goodbye no one was sitting next to the panel but a young man two seats over had his shirt sucked out the opening the heavy cockpit door blows open the pilots said that their headsets were ripped off
There’s a checklist up here this thing gets blown out the door the cockpit is filled with noise and there’s all kinds of debris blowing out of the cockpit but now we’re down to my eyes are glued to that opening and I’m just wondering what’s going to
Happen next I’m not prepared for this I wasn’t prepared to die on this flight2 power11 2 the plane landed no one was critically hurt but for Boe its reputation was questioned once again 5 years after its worst crisis ever we were on the scene back then
5 years ago we went to Ethiopia where et302 dove into the ground and among the victims 18 Canadians in the aftermath Boeing promised to change the corporate culture to fix the planes and restore trust but has it 5 years later is Boeing any safer so here we are a familiar place
For you uh just a little bit Dennis tager flies Boeing 737s for American Airlines oygen switch on in a simulator he shows us how the Alaskan Airlines Pilots may have reacted you don’t know what happened did someone have a bomb back there did the piece that blew off
The airplane hit another part of the airplane this is happening in seconds and had the plane been higher at cruising altitude the situation would have been far worse when that door blows open we’re not talking about shirts just being ripped off from just near the door it’s a mass massive suction that comes
Out of the airplane and who knows what could have gotten sucked out of the airplane including people when the door blew off the Alaska flight once again the doors blew off Boeing how in the world could this happen we had the same question after covering the two Max 8 crashes 5 years
Ago in 2018 it was a line Air flight that dove into the sea just 5 months later the eth I opian Airlines flight plunged into the Ground two catastrophic crashes both 737 Max 8 aircraft killed 346 people ever since the US’s Federal Aviation Authority has been monitoring the 737 Max production a colossal Money Maker for Boeing Max aircraft flowing all over the world in February the FAA published a scathing report report on Boeing safety culture even before the
Alaska Airlines blowout the events of of January 5th it it really created two issues for us one what’s wrong with this airplane uh but two what’s going on with the production uh at Boeing the FAA sent inspectors onto Boeing’s assembly line and ordered it to slow down the
Production of new 737 Max planes while investigators piece together how a door panel could drop from the sky how four bolts were missing on the door plug how the 737 Max 9 flew for 2 months before the panel ripped off passengers have already launched lawsuits as Boeing’s CEO tries to blunt
Criticism we field safe airplanes our people do we have confidence in the safety of our airplanes and that’s what all of this is about and we fully understand the gravity when you heard about the Alaska Airlines problem what was your first thought shock and to have this happen um
On a brand new airplane 10 weeks old um was a shock to me we asked John grck an aviation management professor at McGill University about Boeing’s newest crisis what would you say was the reputational damage for Boeing and the max aircrafts uh it is a huge blow to Boeing Boeing has a
Mindset um of operational and financial performance that they are very much focused today uh on return to their shareholders they’re focused on the economics of building an airplane and the latest Alaska Airlines incident still has a lot of people asking you know has Boeing fixed itself and the answer is probably
No would you like me to hold one yeah sure for the families who lost loved ones in those catastrophic crashes years ago the latest problems with Boe have only triggered new emotion was the CBC Susan armiston reporting still to come it’s only March but Quebec has been forced to issue a
Fire risk bulletin snow is melting too early and there’s little precipitation still falling what this means for the upcoming Fire season after the break I just took a deep breath and I thought it would be worse than it was very first polar plch I wanted to do it for our athletes being a part of Special Olympics they belong being in the regular stream of sports doesn’t necessarily fit for them they don’t need
They don’t um shine like they do here every everybody was was there for a great cause and the smiles on everybody’s faces the cheering that was amazing the people there everybody that did the plunge um the mother daughter team was awesome me and my mom had costumes we
Did Hawaiian dresses and a luow necklace they do a lot of stuff for Special Olympics we we it’s definitely very helpful for them and they fundraise a lot so I’m glad we were able to help with it so I just jumped in and went for I blacked
Out it was so cold years ago I first started working in the rehab field and um the Special Olympics were definitely something that you know they look forward to with their bowling and it was a sense of community for them and it was very good to see them all work together
And it something to be proud of this this is a good organization they do wonderful things for people with disabilities it started last last summer and I met everybody with soccer on that team and it was really great so I stayed like making friends and getting to know
New people and having fun they are here for each other they’re cheering each other on Dive Right In get it doing it is it’s exhilarating it’s great for you um and all for a good cause [Applause] W He hey I’m rohi Joseph vibing is the new show all about discovering great new songs and fresh artists from across BC and Beyond stream vibing on CBC Listen welcome back taking you over seas a key mediator in the attempts to get a ceasefire in the Israel Hamas War says a deal is still Al long way off I can’t offer any timeline sadly at uh at the moment situation is very complicated on
Uh on the ground uh the we are not near uh a deal meaning that we are not seeing uh both sides converging on uh on a language that can uh resolve the you know the current disagreements over the implementation of um of the deal but there are new developments in the
Efforts to get Aid into Gaza a jety is being built for the first food delivery by sea to the territory that shipment is sailing from Cypress and is expected to arrive in a couple of days the us-based charity World Central Kitchen is a key organizer and will be Distributing the
Food in Gaza details about how exactly that will be done logistically are still being worked out well back in our country a dry winter is sparking worries about what the upcoming Wildfire season will look like Quebec is now preparing for its season earlier than ever before while in Alberta the Wildfire season has
Already started as cbc’s Alison northcot is finding out the memories from last year’s record-breaking season are still fresh when Wildfire surrounded the cre first nation of waswanipi last summer residents had to leave their homes twice it was the first time that we had to evacuate for forest fire in many many
Years now after a drier than usual winter in Quebec the community is preparing in case that happens again we know what to do now unfortunately that’s the sad thing we we do know what to do we we do know how to evacuate the most vulnerable populations of our community
Last year Canada’s Wildfire season had the largest and most intense fires yet record-breaking is almost a euphemism I mean it was uh it really shattered past records um so it’s uh we’ve learned a lot and Fire Prevention agencies are concerned about what this year could bring in Alberta and BC some fires from
Last year were never fully extinguished and there are already new ones burning we didn’t have the precipitation that we would normally see over the winter so we’re already at a 100 times the amount of area burned uh this year than we would normally see Alberta is bringing in firefighting staff early Quebec is
Too its fire prevention agency issued a fire risk rating for southern Quebec last week earlier than ever before amid quickly disappearing snow a few hours of sunshine and if you had some Wind Through It uh it’s going to get dry very quickly so it’s going to become uh very very uh
Easy to start a fire he says fire risk over the coming months depends a lot on how much precipitation there is this spring but Alberta Wildfire says even if they get rain it might not be enough to help we will still be in high or very high or extreme Wildfire danger in part
Of the province fire prevention agencies are watching the weather closely experts say climate change has increased Wildfire risks around the world and that Canada is no exception Allison northcot CBC News Montreal and Darius mavi is back with the full forecast in Darius it feels like that heat and uh the sunshine are on the way but looks like you’ve still got some uh precipitation on your screen there yeah a little bit of activity still in the interior that’s clearing up
As well really in the next few days the only place we’re going to be seeing that is the North and Central Coast uh even the Central Coast only a small chance we see some precipitation there after tomorrow for the North Coast though it should be pretty consistent over the
Next couple days but by the weekend it’s most likely that they’ll be drying up as well for today you can see there were some showers across places like the Oken Valley up in the Thompson uh and really moving across that uh across that region continuing to move west now that or east
Sorry that frontal system rolling through and as that continues to move out it’s really going to be the last thing we see for a while in the more Southern parts of BC so really going to be drying up and as you said warming up
Which will be a bit of a a bit of a change now here in the north and on the North Coast in the Northwest that’s really the last place we’re going to be seeing some of that precipitation over the next few days a decent accumulation on some of those mountains uh this is
The place in the province where we do have the most snow pack already so uh not doing not not not a problem to get more there but uh we could use it in some other parts of the province not likely to see that for the next week or
So as things are looking quite dry and that is going to be the case for a while but temperatures though they are going to continue climbing those freezing levels are going to shoot up meaning we may see some snow melt Avalanche risk may continue to stay high will likely
Continue to stay high because we have that unstable layer that formed when we had that cold snap followed by a really warm period back in January and now the warm temperatures are only going to sort of exacerbate that risk so uh we may have those slab Avalanche risks as well
As some other ones because of that uh those layers melting on the top as well but with that being said uh still temperatures going to climb many people in the South going to enjoy that warmth and that Sunshine over the next few days including tomorrow where we’re going to
See mostly Sunshine a lot of these places that cloud should clear out in the morning the only place again the north uh the Northwest and then also the southeast really just the uh the East Cy is going to see a little bit of that rain tomorrow if we zoom in here in BC
We’re going to talk a little bit more just quickly about those uh that that daylight that we’re going to see because the Equinox is one week from today we’re going to see the start to Spring we’re going to see that uh that 12-hour day that marks the beginning of Spring and
That means that from this week until two weeks from now or today until two weeks from now we’re going to see a massive increase in the amount of daylight we get around 52 minutes here in Vancouver but the further north you go the more of that daylight you’re going to get and
The more quickly you’re going to get it so very consistent Sunny forecast as the days stay longer so it’s sunny and the sun’s out longer it’s been a long time since we’ve seen a board like that thanks so much daras thanks tya still ahead it’s that time of your
Again beautiful Blue Waters courtesy of Herring spawn after the break we’ll dive into why they turn the water that stunning color stay with us Hi I’m Amy Bell and here’s what’s in your CBC Vancouver inbox join CBC Vancouver’s benit bra at the alumni UBC webinar build the future with Jen Zed April 3rd a panel of gen zbc students and alumni will share their views and experiences about their cohort’s values and Inspirations approaches to work and
More and never miss a special programming series event or contest subscribe to CBC Vancouver’s e newsletter at cbc.ca Vancouver inbox she may not have won an Oscar on Sunday night but actress Lily Gladstone has made her Mark the indigenous performer has been making history throughout this award season and as the
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Joe big mountain with a [Applause] Gucci The Killers of the flower Moon Star has made award season history the six ofate setap and namu actor is the first indigenous performer to win the golden Globe for best actress in a drama and the first to earn the SAG award for
An outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role along the way in magazines and on the red carpet she’s been wearing indigenous designs bringing the bling in beaded jewelry and striking a pose in standout looks among those that made the cut to dress the star is anishnabe designer Leslie
Hampton Hampton who is based in Toronto designed this look worn by GL Stone in variety magazine so this is what we sent and this dress as an option for the star to consider for the Oscars it’s so exciting to be able to have that connection with Lily um and to celebrate
Her massive achievements and moments that are happening right now not only for her but for indigenous people and it’s an exciting time for the many indigenous designers tapping into new or traditional methods you’ll see that with like quill work and bead work and uh ribbon skirts Sage Paul says what’s
Happening in fashion right now is Monumental to see indigenous made garments and fashion and accessories on the red carpets on the runways even indigenous models it’s inspiring uh we can see younger Generations be seeing themselves represented in those spaces they too could one day make their
Own mark on future award Seasons to come Mak gber cesa CBC News Toronto as we told you earlier it’s herring spawn season and returns are signaling an above average year for the fishery but it’s not just humans moving in for a feast the Herring spawn are also an opportunity for other animals as
Well Connell Bradwell and Emily Robertson break down why the spawn is key to a healthy Wildlife population Every Spring around Vancouver Island and along the coast DC the Ocean Suddenly turns turquoise why is that Connell oh well there’s no glamorous way of saying it it’s a lot of fish sperm
Also called mil today we are talking about the Herring Sport as the season begins to change in BC one of our most abundant fish species migrates from the offshore Waters to Nearshore bays and estuaries to spawn it’s the Pacific Herring and this spawn produces one of the most spectacular natural events along the coast often referred to as the Northern Lights of
The ocean when the fish arrive the males release Milt a milky substance that contains sperm into the water turning the coastal ocean a stunning turquoise color female Herring will coat the seaweed eelgrass rocks and everything else on the shoreline with a thick layer of tiny transparent eggs the scale of
This event is hard to quantify there can be up to 6 million eggs per square meter unlike the salmon the fish don’t die here after 3 weeks of spawning the Herring returned to the open ocean and this cycle can occur 5 to 10 times throughout their Lifetime Pacific Herring are the foundation of the coastal food web and there are very few species that don’t eat it the Herring spawn is the first big influx of food of the year for a diverse range of marine predators that includes marine mammals fish invertebrates and my favorite the
Birds around the spawn areas girls Gather in their thousands and just like any area with a lot of goals it’s chaos the goals forage on both the eggs and the fish themselves and can consume 2/3 or more of the eggs that are Exposed on the beach during low tides you can see
That GS aren’t the only bird species that are here other birds like waiting Birds song birds and Ducks also feed on the eggs some birds even time their migrations to coincide with the Herring spawn and the Herring eggs are used as fuel to get them to their breeding
Grounds some of which are as far away as the Arctic we’ve been seeing hundreds of bald eagles in this area Eagles start nesting early here on the coast so the adults need to be in good condition for this the abundance of food is important for both the adult eagles with the
Whitee heads and the younger Eagles who are all brown while the younger Eagles aren’t building nests right now they are still very hungry after a long winter with only little amounts of food and this is what the Herring spawn does for Birds towards the end of the
Winter their energy levels are at a low this Feeding Frenzy helps to top them up so they can go on and have a successful breeding season so a lot of the Marine birds that we see in the spring and the summer are only really around because of the Herring
S where I live on Vancouver Island we get a lot of sea lions and filming them is a lot of fun sea lions love Herring and the spawn attracts thousands of them they’re staking out territory on the Rocks where they lounge around before diving into the ocean waters to Feast on
The Herring after they’re done feeding they raft together and continue to just gorge on the fish just like the birds the sea lions head to different breeding sites all along the BC Coast the Herring spawn is really important for them it gives them the fat reserves they need to
Breed the success of the Herring spawn directly affects the reproductive success and health of these migrating animals and that’s the case for everything from fish to birds to sea lions all the way to Whales like so much on this post there’s an interconnection between the land and the ocean the fish spawning event that is perhaps most famous is the salmon run where we see a huge transfer of nutrients from the ocean to the land land and the Herring spawn is no different to
This these nutrients are spread throughout the forest by the Predators that feed on them so for example if a g or an eagle eats Herring eggs or the Herring themselves on the beach they then deliver those nutrients to the forest by pooping as they fly over after
The hatching period dead eggs en casings in Shallow Waters move with the waves and Tides this can deliver the eggs to the intertidal and Coastal ecosystems as they decompose again providing area with a huge amount of nutrients oh and talking of salmon Herring are actually a really important food source for the
Salmon themselves so that means that a good Herring spawn can often mean we get a good salmon ride the importance of the Herring spawn as the foundation of the food web means that its impacts carry on throughout the spring summer and Beyond filming the chaos of the Herring spawn has been an
Unbelievable experience and witnessing this brief spectacle has been so special as it really only lasts for a few days before it’s gone this natural phenomenon is crucial for a healthy ecosystem and a diverse range of life that exists here on the coast of British Colombia I saw you eyeing up that puffing sweater he was wearing and that is your news for this Tuesday March 12th for news anytime anywhere download the free CBC News app you can always find Us online at cbc.ca BC and we’ll be back with your next local newscast at 11:00
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