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tonight with soaring food prices a warning from food banks this could be their toughest summer ever you know sometimes like well what is that next meal going to be like a new survey put some hard numbers to hunger in canada also tonight the pandemic effect on kids and their learning curve i'm not convinced that online tutoring is the way to go what educators are doing to catch up where you live and as russia cracks down on dissent not everyone's keeping quiet if they put us in a jail that's the bottom war a generational divide and the use of social media this is the national [Music] good evening i'm andrew chang adrian is away we are getting a new view tonight of just how much and how many canadians are struggling with rising costs to the point of going hungry a new poll by food banks canada found about a quarter of canadians say they're eating less than they should because that's all they can afford and a fifth of respondents reported having gone hungry at some point during the pandemic as jamie strashen shows us many food banks are now bracing for a very difficult summer ahead at this toronto food bank volunteers fill boxes as fast as they can a perfect inflationary storm has pushed many canadians to the edge right now we're seeing the largest number of people relying on our services in our 41 year history she warns of a very tough summer ahead and a new food bank's canada survey shows why it indicates about seven million people reportedly going hungry sometime during the pandemic in toronto she says the need is massive i think daily bread food bank reported an increase a hundred thousand more people per month north york harvest is also seeing unprecedented numbers this is not just a toronto problem but one playing out in town cities and communities across canada where no one is immune to rising gas housing and food prices in calgary when magic larvae visits a food bank these days it's as a volunteer but he knows what it's like to be hungry and desperate sometimes it's like well what i'm gonna do where am i gonna go right and what is that next meal going to be like there is a sense of desperation here a common story at food banks across the country we had an economic bit of a slowdown we had a pandemic on the heels of that and with changes in the economy the inflation and things like that it just it puts greater pressure on families food security experts say the impact of having limited resources to spend on food is felt especially in already marginalized groups indigenous communities many would say that is also the result of generations of colonialism and and you know adverse effects of all of that uh black and racialized households so that inequality is structured along class gender and racial lines at food banks across canada the word is this will be a summer of hunger with both returning users and first-time clients increasingly depending on them jamie strashen cbc news toronto well the lawyer for jacob hogart says the former rock star will appeal his conviction on one count of sexual assault causing bodily harm on sunday a jury found hogard guilty on that charge but not guilty of two sex-related charges involving another complainant today the trial judge set tighter conditions for his continued bail including a two hundred thousand dollar surety hogard can only live in his vancouver home and must observe a nightly curfew as he prepares for sentencing and he'll be on trial again in august facing a new sexual assault charge related to an alleged incident from 2016. our next few stories also deal with aspects of sexual crimes or deadly violence against women including the push to stop predators before they strike katie nicholson begins with an inquiry into the killing of three ontario women by one man he's in jail for the rest of his life but there's hope that his case will yield clues on how to stop others from becoming victims you're starting to get up there my little senior citizen in tracy mcbain's arms one of the two cats she inherited seven years ago the day her best friend natalie warmerdam was murdered there's still that feeling of a life unlived i mean she didn't leave us she was taken wormadam anastasia kuzik and carol culleton all killed one after the other in a space of hours by a man they knew with a lengthy violent history how it happened now under the microscope in a coroner's inquest too little too late and it's just going to be repeated and that's my fear next to the monument built in memory of the three women lawyer pamela cross says there is reason to hope for change because the pandemic shawn a light on intimate partner violence if there are strong recommendations from the jury then perhaps this is the time that governments and communities will be moved to take action the inquest is also focused on the unique barriers faced by victims in rural areas there are fewer lawyers cell service is erratic in many parts of the county and so a woman might call for help but not be able to make the call go through that focus so meaningful for anastasia kuzik's sister you know just the fact that you have to use dial-up internet or you know all of these things that urban canada takes for granted i think these are really important things to talk about tracy mcbain wants to be optimistic and more than anything she doesn't want anyone else to live in fear like her friend no woman on this planet should live with a shotgun under her bed a panic button beside her nightstand and security cameras no woman katie nicholson cbc news pembroke ontario a long wait ended today for two women who were kidnapped and raped 36 years ago their attacker sentenced to 19 years you know our life was ruined for all these years and he got 19 years so it's a little disappointing the two women were attacked on separate occasions and only met last november with time served raymond burke now faces just under 10 years remaining in prison well a man from the netherlands went on trial today in bc accused of online harassment and extortion of a canadian teen many will remember the case of amanda todd renee filipponi reminds us who she was and tells us why this case is so important for so many hey guys samantha and i'm missing someone like you amanda todd was a teenager when she was harassed and extorted online now her mother is hoping for justice as the trial for the man accused gets underway i'm going to hear stuff related to my daughter which will be hard so i can't predict how i'm going to be dutch citizen aiden cobin pleaded not guilty to five charges against him for alleged extortion criminal harassment child luring and child pornography he was extradited from the netherlands to canada in december 2020 and has been in custody here since the crown says cobin is connected to multiple phony online accounts and that for a period of more than two years starting in november 2009 todd received messages saying there is video of you flashing your tits those were followed up by demands that she performed sexual acts on webcam once a week we just do fun stuff on cam is all and then messages saying last chance or i start sending the video to everyone in your facebook school and newspapers in your city this case is about whether the crown can prove who's behind the messages that were sent to amanda taught the defense says the crown cannot prove that and want to make it clear cobin has not been charged in relation to todd's death the teen took her own life in 2012. there's a lot of emotion wrapped up in these charges and i know members of the public they probably want blood and they assume because my client is charged that he must be guilty this expert says it's unusual to see cases like this make it to court it's also extremely hard to find who the perpetrator is if that perpetrator is anonymous that perpetrator can hide behind all sorts of avatars the trial is expected to last for several weeks the jury will hear from family and friends of todd police here in canada and investigators from the netherlands who seized cobin's computer and personal devices renee filipponi cbc news new westminster a somber anniversary today one year since the deadly attack on a muslim family of five in london ontario we reclaim this space from tragedy and we heal together tonight a vigil was held to remember the victims organizers also unveiled a mural that stands near that intersection where a man deliberately hit the afzal family with his pickup truck the vigil was led by a friend of ymna of zal yamna was just 15 years old when she was killed along with her father salman her mother madiha and her grandmother talat yamna's nine-year-old brother was seriously hurt but survived many events were planned throughout the week today this morning in particular we wanted to give the religious faith perspective of what happened other events in the family's honor included an intimate prayer service held at london's islamic cemetery and the unveiling of a new community garden a man in bc who allegedly had four people with his truck at a march honoring residential school survivors has turned himself into police the incident happened near happened saturday near the site of a former residential school police say the 77-year-old appeared to be trying to get through the group when he hit them two people were taken to hospital with minor injuries no charges have been laid public inquiry into nova scotia's mass shooting in 2020 heard from a nova scotia police chief today he said he didn't know the gunman had entered his town until it was too late kayla hounsell has those details surveillance video shows the gunman driving through truro 40 kilometers east of puerto pick on the second day of the massacre the town's chief of police says he didn't know the gunman was in his town until days later when he saw these pictures on the news citizens were upset mayor was being emailed and of course then they were reaching out to me to find out how did this happen you know why didn't you tell us what happened and i had no idea what happened mcneal was off duty he testified his officers first found out something was happening when they got a call from the hospital in truro that it was in lockdown there had to be a lot of catastrophic failures for this guy to be on the loose for 13 hours driving through nova scotia doing what he was doing the rcmp did later call truro police to advise there was an active shooting and that the suspect was linked to a former police car that might be deckled the mounties also sent three be on the lookout bulletins to all police agencies in the province but never asked them to help i'm a firm believer in cooperation and we're not in competition especially when it comes to the lives of our citizens mcneil testified his force's relationship with the rcmp has deteriorated partly because of the mountie's position on the alert ready system which was not used to tell nova scotians about the mock police cruiser all 10 nova scotia chiefs of police have since voted unanimously to change the rcmp's membership status in their provincial organization the rcmp leadership you know wanted the nova scotia chiefs to endorse that the alert ready system doesn't work in the province it's fundamentally it doesn't work for police use nova scotia chiefs disagreed with that narrative mcneil also testified he believes an alert should have been issued during the mass casualty and that it could have saved lives tomorrow the commission will hear more about the rcmp's communication with the public kayla hounsell cbc news halifax in calgary an 86-year-old woman died sunday after being attacked by her neighbor's dogs police say the woman was gardening in her back alley when she was attacked witnesses have told cbc news it took half an hour for an ambulance to arrive the woman was taken to hospital but died a short time later those three dogs are now in the city's care well health officials in bc confirmed today the province's first case of monkey pox in a vancouver resident it was an it was an individual who had traveled uh recently and was a was a contact of another monkey pox monkey box case the bc center for disease control says the risk to the general public is very low meanwhile in the uk 77 new monkey box cases were reported bringing its total to more than 300 that's the largest outbreak outside of africa boris johnson is politically safe for now at least the uk prime minister survived a confidence vote today from his own party that could have kicked him out of power as chris brown explains it's a big win but it may not be big enough with his political future in peril prime minister boris johnson faced a decisive vote needing support from at least 180 of his conservative mps to keep his job and he got that i can announce that the parliamentary party does have confidence [Applause] i understand that what we need to do now is come together as a as a government as a party boris johnson is elected as the leader of the conservatives johnson's undeniable charm and a promise to get britain's exit from the european union done first won him the conservative leadership and then an election will you take responsibility three years later that affability has worn thin a series of boozy office parties at number 10 while the rest of the country was in a tough coveted lockdown led to a police investigation and then a damning report by a top civil servant johnson's denials and efforts to dodge accountability only seemed to make things worse i don't think you can be in charge of setting the rules during lockdown and then blatantly allowing people under your direct leadership to break those rules johnson was booed when he appeared at the platinum jubilee when the thank yous to the queen were out of the way his political enemies made their move as his supporters tried to sway those on the fence i think the focus now has to be i'd say not in the chaos of a divisive or destructive leadership contest but to back the pm today while the cajoling worked a 58 margin of victory is hardly decisive but johnson insists it's enough to carry on i certainly think it is because don't forget that uh you know when i first stood to be uh leader of the conservative party in 2019 i didn't get anything like that much support from my my colleagues in poland this political watcher says the prime minister and his government are badly damaged i think boris johnson surviving this vote doesn't mean that there's imminent demise of his premiership it just means that the party the government will continue to struggle okay so chris looking to the future boris can be considered both safe and not for sure mps can't try something like this again for at least another year then again other conservative occupants of number 10 downing streets such as margaret thatcher and theresa may they learn that you can win a confidence boat but not actually settle much both of them were gone as leaders after just a few months anyway andrew chris brown thank you very much officials in the united states are warning that russia is looking to sell stolen ukrainian wheat to countries at risk of famine there are credible reports that russia is pilfering ukraine's grain exporters exports excuse me to sell for its own profit turkey and russia say they've reached a tentative agreement to restart grain shipments out of ukraine by clearing mines and guaranteeing the safe passage of ships but ukrainian president vladimir zelinsky says his country hasn't been invited to talks on that deal ukraine's grain supply accounts for one-tenth of global wheat exports now the city of odessa is key to getting that grain out to the rest of the world from its port on the black sea in the south of the country margaret evans and her team travel to the vast area near odessa where farmers are feeling growing anxiety about when they will be able to get their crop to the world once again the ordered rows of farmland in southwest ukraine so at odds with the chaos of a country under siege in one of the world's great bread baskets it should offer a sense of comfort fields of wheat just starting to deepen in color instead the coming harvest carries with it a sense of crisis the petrodolinska agricultural farm it's home to about 700 head of cattle and around 1 000 hectares of land cattle feed mixed in-house is not a problem storing wheat headed for world markets is because some of the grain from previous harvests is still here says the farm's chief technologist while the next one is right around the corner but with ukraine's major ports blocked by russia experts say more than 20 million tons of harvested grain is stuck with serious implications for global hunger efforts to ship by road and rail have been hampered by logistical problems it's a nightmare freight expert oleg kostyuk says the will is there but not the capacity small ports on danube river it might be another solution but even though if everything will work well road railroad and danube river ports we will be able to export like two maybe three million tons not nearly enough and critics accuse russia of weaponizing hunger it's led to calls for a safe corridor through the black sea where a handful of mines have recently washed ashore the russians have used anchor mines says alexander kovalenko they're more or less stationary and anti-mine ships would need a month or two to make a corridor through them and a great deal of political will farmer iworshumeko is doubtful western countries have the fleet to do what he says but the russians won't go for it they want to keep us down politically and psychologically all this in a corner of ukraine where farmers don't have to worry about daily shelling in the fields at least not yet time is slipping away here like grain in an hourglass margaret evans cbc news near odessa well students across the country are wrapping up another school year disrupted by the pandemic next we ask what's being planned to help kids who have fallen behind and why some provinces are getting a better grade than others that's where they gained an advantage plus a major toronto hospital shuts down its aboriginal healing program amidst questions about the man who ran it they owe us an explanation [Applause] has waited for and why canada's world cup bound men's team is refusing to play we finally get to see some excitement for the beautiful game in our country and this is what happens an ugly dispute in the beautiful game we're back too well school's almost out for summer and many students are counting down the days it has been a tough year of pandemic learning early data suggests that millions of canadian kids are behind in core subjects like math and literacy and mental health is an issue as well so tonight we kick off a new series about how to close the gap and we begin with a look at what's already being done where and whether it's working here's deanna sumanek johnson with the learning curve just as different provinces had different responses to the pandemic their plans to tackle the learning gap accrued over the last two and a half years vary greatly too cbc news asked all provinces and territories about their plans to help kids catch up then we asked three independent education experts to review the documents sent to us they all agree the plans are too vague the experts say it's about more than just throwing money at learning recovery instead they'd like to see targeted investments in key areas including assessments tutoring curriculum adjustment and mental health education expert paul bennett says alberta's plan is tops when it comes to assessment alberta had the advantage of waking up sooner and identifying the challenge of learning recovery alberta's math and reading assessments of the youngest grades began well before the pandemic and continued throughout it these screenings though optional found that students were struggling in these key subjects compared to before the pandemic so the province is making these tests mandatory for grades one through three starting in september that's where they gained an advantage other provinces one at a time gradually began to re restore their provincial testing several provinces have highlighted tutoring as a key part of their recovery strategy ontario and quebec are allocating the most money for tutoring post pandemic so far 175 and 82 million dollars respectively but one of our experts isn't pleased with quebec's implementation most of it was going to be done online i'm not convinced that online tutoring is the way to go given what we know about the virtual experience as it was another thing our experts wanted to see is what's being done on curriculum reform they say if for example students didn't learn what they needed to in grade two math those lessons should be moved into grade three i don't see any real curricular reform again on the alberta plan there's more discussion around the younger years and reading numeracy literacy kind of things nothing to suggest that there's going to be an overhaul that really takes into consideration the new context meanwhile this expert is more impressed by the provinces that redefine the meaning of how well students are doing the northwest territories said its education department will closely monitor the needs of nwt students using existing wellness data collections in nova scotia each school has received a healthy living grant to spend on activities that improve physical and mental health they were reaching out to staff and to students to ask them you know how they were doing so i think it's that it's that kind of rich idea of measurement and assessment that we need beyond again beyond just the test scores so in the coming weeks we will bring you lots more stories about education and the lingering effects of the pandemic but deanna i mean this is just part one i mean tell me what surprised you most about putting this series together honestly andrew the sheer number of ways in which the pandemic has affected and continues to affect students so we've talked a lot about those lags in math and literacy and some of those core academic skills but there are other gaps as well fraught friendships between children uh physical activity we all wanted our kids to be active to not be sedentary we worried about screen time before the pandemic well all of that has been thrown asunder and we also focus on the helpers educators parents and teachers who really want to get kids back as much back to normal as possible so there's lots more to come lots more to come deanna thank you thanks for having me and to learn more about your province or territories plan to recover from pandemic school disruptions you can check out our interactive tool just head to cbc.ca learning curve as the kremlin continues to crack down on dissenting voices one young russian is helping some of those voices be heard around the world when you see these journalists going to jail getting charged getting big fines doesn't that make you worried for yourself it does make me worried actually next the youtuber behind the videos watched by millions and later how a high schooler in manitoba turned her dream into reality on the qriket pitch welcome back as the fighting in ukraine has gone on russia's crackdown on journalists has escalated last month for instance it banned cbc news from operating in russia and it has also criminalized anti-war demonstrations but not all voices have been silenced terence mckenna has the story of one young russian who's found a clever way for dissent there to be heard around the world when russian troops invaded ukraine in late february there was a wave of anti-war demonstrations around the country authorities quickly cracked down rounding up the perpetrators thousands have been arrested then on march 4th vladimir putin rushed a law through the russian parliament which established severe criminal penalties for dissent including for any criticism of the russian military or what was called fake news any news not sanctioned by the kremlin even the words war and invasion were banned on social media and elsewhere only putin's term special military operation was allowed in moscow's red square a teacher who posed in front of a monument to kiev's second world war dead holding a copy of leo tolstoy's classic book war and peace was immediately arrested in recent months anti-war demonstrations have almost disappeared there are occasional protests like this incident where a russian tv producer interrupted the evening newscast with an anti-war message proclaiming that government broadcasts were all lies she was fired and fined many other journalists have been arrested and faced big fines now there is a small-scale youtube channel in russia trying to let the world know there are still dissenting voices in the country it's called 1420.
it is the brainchild of daniel or ryan a young software engineer who used to watch international videos during his long commute to work and decided to create his own and i used to watch videos like some street interviews from different countries so i thought it would be cool to make the same thing in russia that's how i came up with the channel he named the channel after his high school moscow school number 1420 his video started out portraying life in russia through simple interviews in the street but since the february invasion of ukraine his channel is carrying very controversial and dangerous material he asks provocative questions like what do russians think about putin many of course feel these questions are too dangerous to answer but others are willing to share their negative views is like standing like this right orion keeps a tone of strict neutrality i i just don't care whatever they say so even if they are pro putting anti puts in whatever we just need to make a cool video when you see these journalists going to jail getting charged getting big fines doesn't that make you worried for yourself it does make me worried actually so i i'm not sure if if they will lock us if they put us in the jail that's the bottom yeah because we just asked questions basically as the war in ukraine progressed and news came to light about russian atrocities in the town of bucha and elsewhere the 1420 crew showed those videos to russians and asked their opinion some echoed the russian propaganda channels which claimed the videos were all fake or that it was ukrainians themselves murdering people but some did not most of the people who speak with 1420 are young and orion has noticed a big difference between younger people who tend to oppose the war and the older generation that supports it all the people they were raised watching communist movies uh communist music and younger people they were raised during different times and i guess even from my own real life experience there is a big difference definitely i think he is a worker after president biden called putin a war criminal the 1420 channel asked russians if they agreed [Music] [Music] seems a risky topic but daniel orion thinks he is being careful i think so yeah we made the video do russian thing uh putin is a war criminal i think uh we are walking on the edge sort of but we're careful russians are worried that their country is becoming hated abroad because of the war in ukraine [Music] um [Music] in his recent videos orion has noticed that russians seem to be progressively turning against the war alone in our latest video um people say that they don't approve we haven't found any person who said that he proves right shortly after our interview daniel marine posted this on youtube and funny thing happened five minutes after we recorded this video police came to us you can see it in the video right now i don't know the reason but it's okay there is no pretension at the 1420 channel that these are scientific surveys there is little doubt that most russians support the war especially outside the big cities those who don't of course are much less likely to express a critical opinion to a camera in an authoritarian society a point sometimes made here with humor [Music] [Music] terence mckenna cbc news toronto [Music] today the u.s state department didn't mince words in its assessment of russian censorship the kremlin is engaged in a full assault on media freedom access to information and the truth those comments were in response to threats from the kremlin warning that u.s news organizations could be stripped of their accreditation if russian media in the united states aren't better treated well next the cbc news investigation looks into questions raised about a celebrated metis healer at a major toronto hospital hello uh hi can i speak to elder little brown bear please speaking why some indigenous people have concerns about his background and later with just months until they play for the world cup the canadian men are locked in a battle off the pitch there are growing questions about the indigenous ancestry of a high profile metis elder and healer until recently ernest matan ran a respected traditional healing program at a major toronto hospital but after some in the indigenous community looked into his claims of metis heritage and found them lacking he quietly left and stopped talking here's jonathan gatehouse with a cbc news investigation if we don't smudge under the armpits it holds negative energy ernest matham was one of the public faces of toronto's michael garren hospital for a decade a meti elder who headed their aboriginal healing program earning accolades for his work and making more than 120 000 a year according to public records but an early may mata who also goes by his adopted mohawk name little brown bear abruptly retired after members of toronto's indigenous community raised concerns about his background he's self-indigenizing himself and he's profiting off of it like hundreds of thousands of dollars tian hupfield an indigenous educator and powwow dance teacher became suspicious of mattel's potpourri mix of first nations teachings her worries crystallizing when no one could tell her exactly where elder little brown bear came from i was really really mad so i sent a complaint to the hospital and they said they sent my complaint to his supervisor and then i never heard anything back from them hello hi can i speak to elder little brown bear please speaking cbc news reached out to mattel he didn't want to answer our questions citing family medical reasons michael garan hospital also declined an interview but said in a statement that the hospital took the matter very seriously working with matan to investigate the situation and take the necessary steps to verify his ancestry matan presented the hospital with an old metis nation of ontario citizenship card but it seems his status with the organization isn't clear-cut the mno began vetting its 24 000 members in 2017 to prepare for self-government requiring those who claim historic links to the community to document those metis ties five years later 5300 people on their list still have incomplete files matan among them he was kind he was he was gentle the controversy has left those who turn to mattel for help struggling for answers let's go mama melanie bartel is ojibway but was adopted and raised by a white family let's go little brown bear was her first cultural mentor until doubt started creeping in he was a metis man and he was doing ceremonies and speaking the ojibwe language and he was also claiming to be mohawk so that combination just seemed very strange to me she's full of questions for mattel and michael garron hospital they owe us an explanation how many years was he teaching things to people and having people trust him only to turn around and find out that he may not be who he said he was jonathan gatehouse cbc news toronto disappointment this weekend for soccer fans hoping to see canada's world cup hopefuls in action we finally get to see some excitement for the beautiful game in our country and this is what happens next why a fight over compensation kept them off the pitch this weekend canada's men's national soccer team has resumed training a day after refusing to play a scheduled friendly match against panama but its bitter contract dispute with canada's soccer drags on and with a shortening window to prep for the world cup pressure's growing to solve it here's stephen d'souza [Applause] this is the moment the country has waited for a moment of joy back in march when canada clinched a spot in the men's world cup for the first time in 36 years but off the field a battle over compensation was just beginning this past weekend it went public and got ugly when players refused to play a scheduled match against panama in a statement the men's team said it's time we take a stand for the future of soccer in canada at the heart of the dispute how world cup money is distributed between the men's and women's program and canadian soccer the root of it it comes to just a mistrust between the players and the csa and i think that stems from a lack of transparency over the years that the csa has demonstrated observers say the dispute highlights long-standing issues with the soccer federation it is volunteers and they have different agendas in different parts of the country it's a complicated country to run anything and when you have a lot of money coming into the situation it becomes even more complicated canada soccer says the national team's financial demands would put other soccer programs in jeopardy i can't accept an offer that will put our organization in a financial position that is untenable canada gets 10 million dollars for qualifying for the men's world cup the men are asking for 40 for themselves and 40 for the women canada soccer is reportedly only offering 30 percent each we're suffering from not having been to the world cup for 36 years former player bob lender duzy says a deal needs to be reached we're going to the world cup indefinitely from here on in so let's try and establish something that you know eliminates what we've just gone through the pressure to get a deal is on canada has an important game scheduled on thursday stephen d'souza cbc news toronto 19th century black cowboy john ware has been recognized as a person of national historic significance by the federal government a plaque was unveiled today at a historic site near calgary john ware arrived in the 1880s from the u.s on a trail crew he had once been enslaved ware built a successful ranching career in alberta becoming a western canadian folk hero i know so many young black people who [Music] don't necessarily feel connected to this place and hearing the story of john ware helps them to make that connection and to know that there is a longer history john ware died in 1905. coming up a young manitoba girl didn't think her peers would want to join an all-girls cricket team i had no faith that more than like three girls would join but turns out a lot of them did and now her team is making history next in our moment well there are dozens of cricket teams in manitoba but none quite like this one because this is the only team made up of all girls the crocus plains made history on the weekend becoming the first female cricket team to compete at a provincial tournament in manitoba and it's our moment my team is actually the one of the first only girls team in manitoba last year i was the only girl who joined the cricket club at crocus so then this year i really wanted to have a only girls team so i asked all my friends all the girls that i knew who would be interested and turns out 11 of them did say yes to join the team we actually have an all-girls team that come to participate in any tournament that we've run in in winnipeg so it was very encouraging to see that a complete set of girls are going to come here participate and they'll be playing against boys but they take the challenge on a lot of people assume that oh it's qriket the girls won't be able to hit the ball as hard or throw the ball as hard as the guys do but we can we can definitely do it if we practice a lot of other provinces do have their provincial girls team so hopefully we can get some other girl teams up and running and then we could have a girls-only tournament indeed that would be something huh so the you know the explosion and interest in cricket generally but but of course with girls specifically i mean that's the real story here and apparently there's already talk aspirations of creating a women's league in qriket there as well that's the national for this june 6. have a great night
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