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[Music] tonight a successful liftoff for the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built and then things got interesting I mean it was it was exciting why the disintegration of their work had officials and workers cheering police lay out the details of a bold airport Heist the total worth is estimated at just over 20 million dollars how a new track from Drake and the weekends [Music] the apparent duet that shaking the music world this is the national with David Common space enthusiasts have now marked a moment the launch of the most powerful rocket in human history towering 28 stories tall versions of it are expected to Shepherd astronauts on the most ambitious space missions ever to the Moon even to Mars the SpaceX Starship blasted off with Fanfare hurdled into the sky like a Titanic Javelin and then as you see blew up and yet reaction on the ground was not what you'd expect Nicole mortelero shows us why it's being chalked up as a qualified success and with that spacex's massive Starship took to the sky the cheers of the SpaceX employees at Mission Control mixing with the Roar of the Rockets engines was almost deafening but around two and a half minutes into the flight the rocket veered off course and began to Tumble after several flips and turns it blew up or as SpaceX likes to say it experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly and yet the cheers were louder than ever that's because this isn't considered a failure for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk I mean it was it was exciting uh this was not unexpected uh in the history of space flight launch failures in the development process happen all the time they set expectations as such uh they even have that that euphemism of the rapid unsaturated disassembly uh to kind of cover the the using the term failure but um failure is productive failure is when you learn and today they got a lot of data about the vehicle in flight they did have a few surprises from which they can learn such as apparent debris coming off the launch pad even damaging a nearby car Engineers are likely pouring over critical data for the next launch attempt which musk said could happen in a few months the ground crew scouring the launch pad for damage so I imagine that is a phenomenal amount of information that they couldn't really model properly with their computer software so that happened and then of course um you know the debris that happened from the launch pad I think they're going to need to do a lot of work but SpaceX will push ahead eventually a version of this Starship will be used to take astronauts back to the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis program and I mentions coming up pretty quickly yeah because you know what they need to do this very soon um you know we have Artemis 2 that's going back around the Moon with Canadian Jeremy Hansen then after that is Artemis 3 but NASA doesn't have a lunar lander they are actually depending on SpaceX and SpaceX will be a version It's called The Human Landing system would be a version of the Starship and that mission is supposed to go in 2025 so the question is will SpaceX make that deadline don't know well we'll find out Nicole martinero thanks very much thank you Canada's biggest airport was the scene of a multi-million dollar Heist of gold and other valuables now investigators are working to find out how it happened and who's responsible Dale mcnuckduck joins us from Police Headquarters at Toronto's Pearson Airport Dale exactly what went down here and David what we know right now is that on Monday an aircraft arrived at Pearson Airport in the early evening and as per normal procedure it was unloaded and cargo was transferred to a holding facility now that cargo which police are describing as a high valuable container was offloaded it was later removed illegally from that holding facility and it's since been reported and an investigation has come as now police say that the shipment did contain gold but was not exclusive to Gold it did also contain some other monetary valuables as well right now the estimated value just over 20 million dollars we don't know if this was a crime of opportunity or if it was planned here's a little bit of what police had to say well we'll look at all avenues but I mean for me to come on the record and say it's professional this time would be really really early for me and I you know I'd be hesitant to say such thing but we'll look at it all right but uh how this went missing certainly uh it Peaks our interest and we'll try and dig into it but uh for sure right but to say it's professional this time a little early for me to say so not a lot of details there David we still don't know anything yet about suspects or how the cargo was removed from the holding facility or who even owns the cargo what are police saying more about the investigation so peel police says criminal investigation Bureau airport division is in charge right now and they have the rcnp ready to assist they do say that this is an isolated incident and very rare they're not ruling out a potential inside job and are willing to expand the investigation team as needed we did speak to a former RCMP Major Crimes investigator about where this investigation might go have a listen a basic investigation involves a triangle if you're looking at one point of the triangle is a location another is the property the stolen property and another is people what they want to do is investigate get as much verbal evidence physical evidence camera evidence documentary evidence as possible to start making links to those points on the triangle so last thing David police say that there is no threat to Public Safety anybody flying in or out of Pearson shouldn't be concerned uh this is a pretty wild Sensational story David which certainly is jail manuktuk at Pearson Airport thank you Ottawa has announced a massive new deal with auto giant Volkswagen to build electric vehicle batteries here in Canada now it comes with thousands of jobs but also means taxpayers giving up 13 billion dollars here's an isadari on what Canada gets for that money Ottawa calls it a great deal for Canada and it means ensuring that Canada which is a major car producing country today continues to be a car producing country as we move to electric vehicles Volkswagen will get up to 13 billion dollars over the next decade to make electric vehicle batteries in St Thomas Ontario for too long Canada has been losing out deals to the U.S industry experts say the deal is necessary it takes a lot of money but it is an auction so if the United States pays a billion dollars then someone else is going to have to pay two billion dollars or a billion and a half or anything more to lure in that facility sources tell CBC News the subsidies are contingent on U.S policy if the U.S drops its incentives so does Canada Canada's industry Association says there will be huge spillover effects these are good jobs that pay for mortgages and and feed kids and and build communities they're not they're not uh you know short-term jobs that people slip in and out of you can build a career on them one of the lessons we learn as kids is just because your friend does something silly doesn't mean you should do something silly competing with the US isn't worth the money say taxpayer Advocates respectfully if the United States wants to Dole out corporate welfare to multinational corporations we should say fill your boots but we should not uh engage in a battle of who can waste more taxpayers money the new plant will be Volkswagen's first battery plant in North America something the industry says can't come cheaply not to be flippant about it but you know this is the second biggest automaker in the world and you want them to make your batteries here it's not going to come for free Federal ministers are calling this plant a generational opportunity but it's one that will cost billions of dollars over a generation any tadari CBC News Calgary the federal government has given the green light to a dramatic expansion of Vancouver's Port it's called Roberts Bank terminal 2. it will increase the port of Vancouver's handling uh container handling capacity by up to 60 percent it's expected to Spur trade for years to come but has also prompted a number of environmental concerns including threats to whale and bird populations the government says the project to has to abide by hundreds of Legally binding conditions to mitigate those impacts a new report from Canada's environmental Watchdog says the government isn't measuring the effectiveness of its policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions David thurton explains why one part of the current plan may also have a fundamental flaw this is fascinating isn't it a lovely rubra Maple Mark Cullen is helping the government plant 2 billion trees by 2030 but even he has his doubts about that Target will they I don't know will they stick with 2 billion trees if they do they probably will have to change their Horizon Canada's environment Watchdog says that plan has had some Growing Pains the first year they made it just about close enough second year not even close in 2022 60 million trees were supposed to go into the ground but it's estimated only 16 million actually made it a far cry from expectations his two billion trees ambitious for sure it is am I comfortable and confident that we can do it I I absolutely am but even if the government ends up achieving its goal the benefits of their natural carbon sinks will take even longer to be felt this graph shows site preparation and planting generate emissions at first bending that curve though won't happen until much later on the core benefits of the program aren't going to be realized until after 2050 that's when you know the trees will be old enough that they'll start to to sequester a reasonable amount of carbon nature Canada says Thursday's report exposes the flaws and Emissions calculations they are overestimating the amount of emissions that are going to be sequestered the government acknowledges this but says there's still benefits for the planet we're not banking on on the tree planting program to to reduce to to reduce emissions we know we know it will the government says it accepts the commissioner's recommendations including monitoring the health of trees already in the ground and ramping up the growing process David Thornton CBC News Ottawa from passports to the tax office some critical Services of ground to a halt on day two of a nationwide strike by public service Alliance of Canada workers but Ottawa remains optimistic a deal is not far off we have tabled a fair offer the way to a resolution is at the negotiating table and remain hopeful and optimistic we're going to get to a resolution soon more than a hundred thousand unionized Federal public servants walked off the job yesterday they've been demanding a 13 and a half percent pay raise over three years Ottawa has countered with nine percent this strike is already having impacts across the country from the city to the farm Sarah Levitt shows some points of anxiety Farm it's all hands on deck time to get these seedlings planted in the fields onions cabbages and more we are visiting at the end of June okay and so that's what's at risk here the harvesting yeah at risk because those workers are temporary foreign workers from Mexico and the psac employees who process their work visas are on strike we don't know anything right now we're asking for the delay of the government and the government didn't say anything it's the the the problem that we have the peace act strike is expected to have a severe impact on an immigration system that was Far Behind already we went from around a 2.6 million file backlog in September
and that was driven all the way down to about 1.9 million in February if there is an ongoing strike that that's going to drag on for a while we will see those numbers increase dramatically again grain farmers are also worried not only do they rely on temporary foreign workers but they also need their crop inspected before they can export it those inspectors are now on the picket lines it would eventually cause some cash constraints for for our producers and consequently with with some bat clogs there then you're going to have some backlogs in in providing supplies for Farmers to get their crop in for this year there can also be delays with your taxes especially if you file via mail there are no plans to extend this year's May 1st deadline and if you have questions you may be out of luck file with your best guess in which case it may be wrong you may be subject to penalties or don't file in which case you're subject to an immediate late filing penalty of five percent not a good situation any way you look at it negotiations continue but for now uncertainty remains Sarah Levitt CBC News Montreal so what does this strike mean for the government and who has the most to lose Rosie and the at issue panel will get into that in about 20 minutes BuzzFeed is shutting down its news Division and cutting 15 percent of its overall Workforce in total about 180 jobs are being cut but the company says it will continue to deliver news through HuffPost which it acquired in 2020. this is the second round of layoffs by BuzzFeed in just four months the company has failed to turn a profit since going public in 2021. at least three people are dead and many more injured after a string of tornadoes ripped through rural Oklahoma this time lapse video shows the enormity of the storm as it was forming Wednesday evening today Crews combed through the devastation roofs ripped off buildings and transport trucks tossed across roads many homes completely destroyed lost everything five cars house barns animals and everything else we own the storm also produced damaging hail in some cases the size of look at it golf balls War famine disease for almost a decade Yemen has suffered all of it now a new disaster leading to at least 78 deaths it has again laid bare the desperation of its people Thomas dagg explains come over there Yemen's Capital Sanaa hospital patients bear Tell-Tale signs of an especially brutal disaster amid nearly a decade of suffering in the dark of night crowds rushed to a narrow Street to receive cash handouts from local businesses mint is a way to Mark the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan but when a gate opened it sparked chaos with dozens on top of one another those who couldn't get out were crushed the prime minister of Yemen's houthi-controlled region Abdul Aziz binhad tour vowed there would be an investigation into the Stampede just the latest catastrophe in a country torn apart by War thi Rebels supported by Iran have clashed with the saudi-backed former government in a brutal Civil War that has killed more than a hundred fifty thousand the UN has called it the world's worst humanitarian crisis there's tens of millions of people that are impacted a lot of a lot of folks in terms of health infrastructure has been damaged people's livelihoods need to be restored there have been some encouraging signs a prisoner swap coming after long time Rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia announced plans to rebuild diplomatic ties it inspired hope their proxy battle in Yemen would end even a U.N brokered ceasefire has held longer than expected we have not seen such a serious opportunity for making progress towards ending the conflict in eight years those hopes are dampened by despair at the scene of the Stampede shoes left behind in the scramble to escape marking the dozens dead the cash each died trying to receive worth an estimated 10 U.S
Thomas dagle of CBC News Toronto foreign affairs minister Melanie jalis is an evacuation of Canadian citizens and diplomatic staff from Sudan right now is impossible this the situation is very difficult and challenging as we speak we call for ceasefire and de-escalation the airport is unaccessible obviously close the streets are unsafe what we're saying to Canadians please shelter in place fighting between rival military groups has brought the country to a standstill since Saturday at least 330 people have now been killed Global Affairs says it's aware of more than 1500 Canadians in the country Canada's Embassy there is closed but its staff are safe now to a CBC News exclusive looking into the plight of some of those still trapped in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime newly unsealed court documents reveal why former Canadian embassy employees are now suing the federal government Refuge Canyon now on why they say Canada has failed them when Western Allied flights left Kabul in August 2021 psych shajan was able to escape he credits his American friends I was lucky to get out on the 17 from Kabul to Qatar but for close to a decade it was the Canadian embassy in Kabul that employed his Law Firm for legal matters ranging from traffic accidents through real estate deals when the Taliban entered Afghanistan's Capital nearly two years ago he told his staff to take precautions yeah called everybody and I asked everyone to go home and make sure that they are with their families most are still there special immigration measures were meant for people like them people who had helped the Canadian government but for 24 who apply to come to Canada most have not received decisions on their cases neither has a former Embassy Security Guard now they're suing Ottawa we hope that we will be among the first groups of people that will be evacuated this man worked for shajan he and the other plaintiffs aren't named in newly unsealed court documents he's currently hiding in Afghanistan CBC News has agreed to conceal his identity and his voice tell about his visited or old office and the houses of some of our colleagues the lawsuit alleges the regime has detained and tortured one applicant interrogated others and held family members at gunpoint to reveal hiding locations nothing was happening their lawyer says immigration paperwork has languished despite her clients best efforts they had sent emails web portal forms they had called the hotline Ottawa would not comment citing the court proceedings so far some thirty thousand Afghans have come to Canada since the fall of Kabul a third of them have arrived through the immigration measures at the center of this lawsuit Rafi on CBC News Ottawa a new song made with A.I using some familiar voices is Raising some ethical and legal questions [Music] it may sound like Drake but he wasn't involved can artists do anything to stop it this is one of the first times where I truly felt that I was losing my grasp on reality Twitter Sparks a political debate in Canada after slapping a label on the CBC news with the CBC has brought him to involve American Tech Giants to try and attack the local news Rosie and the at issue panel weigh in with their thoughts but first Alec Baldwin won't face charges as he resumes filming on the set of rust we're back in June lawyers for Alec Baldwin say criminal charges in connection with that fatal 2021 shooting on the set of rust have been dropped Baldwin was facing two counts of involuntary manslaughter those charges stemming from the death of Helena Hutchins she died after Baldwin fired what turned out to be a loaded prop gun in her Direction the film's director was also injured in that incident K-pop Star Moon bin has died at 25 years old [Music] the singer with a popular boy band Astro was found unresponsive in his sole apartment on Wednesday the cause of death was not reported the news affected fans all over the world his is the latest death of a young K-pop Star in recent years now you may have heard it in recent days two of the most popular popular musicians on the planet both Canadian coming together to create an instant viral sensation well appearing to anyway the only problem is it wasn't really them singing as Eli Glassner explained the AI hit is Raising some creative and legal questions [Music] at first it's quite convincing Creator Ghost Writer 977 claims the song is AI generated artificial or not it quickly generated real numbers over 600 000 streams on Spotify before Drake's label had it pulled there was just something about it but it was good enough to fool this music journalist give me your thoughts when you first heard this shock I think this was one of the first times where I truly felt that I was losing my grasp on reality because it really sounds very legit [Music] we are vastly approaching to this odd caddy Valley where we're not going to be able to know what's a deep fake and what's real this isn't the first time it's happened to Drake recently an AI cover of the song Munch prompted Drake to say on Instagram this is the final straw AI the power of AI has created everything from Rihanna singing Beyonce's puppet to this artist who had Drake rapping about beans I don't want no kidney beans no black beans [Music] scary um you know you spend as much time as possible to perfect your craft and to know that technology has reached a place where it can literally replace you [Music] Rini Smith is currently touring across Canada and she's worried about control if your voice is on something you didn't write and you're not endorsing that message then that can be a very scary thing in itself people say it's getting too far and you know it complicates our work we played the song for these entertainment lawyers who say artists have some options the use of of likeness and even the use of somebody's voice that's really indicative of who that particular personality is those are things that are protective and maybe even an upside there might be artists out there that want to license their voice to other creatives and you know you can get collaborations that way that you know would never have been thought of as the emerging power of AI disrupts another industry Eli Glassner CBC News Toronto after the break Rosie is here with that issue hi David tonight we are going to talk about the public Sector Strike and how the government is responding it is a failure to have a hundred and fifty thousand people workers go out on strike and the biggest general strike in four decades the two sides are still talking can we expect a deal soon and is the government handling the negotiations well Chantal Althea and Paul Wells do you want me to talk about that one more [Music] hi there I'm Rosemary Barton here's what's at issue this week public sector workers have begun strike action over wages and remote work it is the biggest job action by government workers in decades the opposition has expressed their disappointment with the strike the NDP hopes a deal can be reached without Back To Work legislation the two sides are still at the table talking we are still at the table we're going to continue to talk uh you know if there's a willing and willingness on the employer side we'll continue through this weekend we'll stay there for as long as it takes to get to a deal because that's our goal as you know the strike has been so what's been made of the labor action and how is the government managing it all let's bring in at issue Chantelly bear Althea Raj and in for Mr Coin tonight Paul Wells good to see you all appreciate you being here Althea I'll start with you do you think a strike was um could have been avoided or or was this inevitable given how long negotiations had been going on well it seemed like the union actually wanted a strike and that's what people internally will tell you so I think that there was part of this was I don't say unavoidable because the government could have just given the union everything it wanted but I think there was a does a willingness and a Readiness from the union to bring it to the picket line um and a willingness to stay there and they have a big strike fund um you know and they could you know be there for months if that's what they decide to do what's interesting is that um they haven't started making their case to the public yet you know if you look back at um the the support that the labor movement got last fall when Doug Ford brought in the notwithstanding Clause to bring workers back to work one of the reasons why there was so much public support was because those were really the lowest paid paid workers and the union has not communicated that you know we're not talking about the executives in the government here they haven't talked really to to the public so that's in a way a good sign because it means that they are still negotiating they're not they haven't taken their case to the public yet but um if if the government decides to dig in their heels and they might on this back to work stuff on the the sorry on uh the remote work stuff because I think that's a bigger sticking point than the actual um increased salary increase uh I think they will have to start making that argument otherwise the public is going to get really frustrated and angry about the lack of services that they are getting though Paul a lot of these people from what I understand make anywhere between forty to sixty thousand dollars a year and if you're dealing with an inflation crisis interest rate hikes you can understand how the union can make a pretty good case there that these people who Canadians depend on maybe need to be paid more uh absolutely I mean uh their purchasing power has been diminishing thanks to inflation uh and um they are probably not unaware that if the next election goes a different way that a future government might be a lot less sympathetic than the Trudeau government which after all has proven itself a pretty soft touch on questions of spending over the last seven years uh and and so I think they they figured they should take their their chances the problem is even even though it's true these are front line workers these are uh uh not the big decision makers of the public service and they do make quite modest salaries people who make similarly modest salaries out in the rest of the economy can't count on uh very large uh uh salary increases year after year after year um they don't you know if you if you if you work at a Costco or something your boss is not able to to provide the kinds of salaries and benefits that these folks are asking for especially maybe they're able but they're unwilling yeah I suppose we could ask Galen Weston he's got some time to talk about that sort of thing now um but uh you know so there is a there is a a a challenge in gathering public Sympathy for the sort of Demands that these folks are making yeah Chantal it's usually been hard for public servants because of the benefits not only those they are asking but those that they do enjoy uh tend to make the public less sympathetic towards and the fact that they tend to have job security that being said the government is in a difficult political place for a number of reasons uh you can bet that premiers across the country are hoping that Justin Trudeau will hold the line on wage increases why because of the trickle-down effect of whatever happens in this negotiation to the negotiations that will be coming in most provinces over the next year two years so the the whatever the federal government gives will become a template for what happens in the provinces but politically the other problem the Liberals have is that the public pressure when the public does lose patience and it will is will be on them the mdp is Happy enough to stand with unions and to say well you know Justin Trudeau always said he was your friend but look at this test of that friendship and how it's turning out detail for the black quebecois and I think the conservatives believe possibly rightly uh that they can put this on Justin Trudeau say look he can't even handle the Civil Service and keep public servants uh on the job so when when the Prime Minister hence it uh Back To Work legislation you've got to wonder who in the world will be his dancing partner because at this point no one is stepping up to say me me well also because Althea we're now in a space where all parties Court the labor vote to varying degrees of success Doug Ford certainly uh for you know his win is in large part because of that so that he chantal's right there's so many people that want to keep people happy here so many parties that want to keep people happy yeah I mean it's it would be suicidal for the NDP to decide to support back-to-work legislation they cannot do that at all um ironically I guess there could be an opening for the block if they decided to give the government that but you know what would they be negotiating in return uh the conservatives I think shot that is right we'll let the Liberals hang out to dry as long as possible they're trying to make it sound like the government is incompetent and can't manage public financing not that they would actually do anything different and that's that's the challenge right I mean if the conservatives were in this position I'm not sure that the union would feel so emboldened Paul yeah Peter pauliev uh was on Twitter and said that you've got to be super incompetent to have the largest expansion of the public service uh uh in decades and the biggest Public Service strike in decades that's a great line um but Paulie have also famously said we don't want a government that can run your life we want a government that can run a passport office this is this year's passport office what he would actually do remains an interesting question he's got a lot of public servants in his writing those public servants made things hot for him in 2015. um but he runs a party uh that is a lot less sympathetic to Public Service demands and he's been running it in a way that would suggest that that if it were logical with itself it would continue to be unsympathetic to those demands if the question's put and if the if the real question is not do you support this law but do you feel like this is worth going into an election on uh I think that's a harder question for Pierre polia than for some of his colleagues okay we're going to take a short break I'm glad Paul mentioned Twitter because we'll be back with another round of that issue in a week that saw pure polev attacked the CBC with the help of Elon Musk and Twitter what does it say about how the public broadcaster will be or is being used politically that's next on the national foreign welcome to another round of that issue and a political debate about the CBC courtesy of Twitter after an appeal from conservative leader Pierre pualev Twitter's CEO Elon Musk changed cbc's Twitter label to government funded which Twitter defines as an outlet that has government involvement in the editorial content the CPC paused its use of the platform because of the suggestion it is not independent qualiev claimed Victory tweeting this and adding fodder to his calls to defund the CBC something the Liberals jumped on for their own political reasons shoes but the CBC has brought him to involve American Tech Giants to try and attack the local news the local culture the francophone news the Canadians rely on from coast to coast to coast so what do these weeks events tell us about the way the CBC is being used politically now and how it will be in the future and is it effective let's bring back everybody Chantal Althea and Paul Chantel why don't you start us off here do you think that this is a winning strategy for for Pierre poliov that that there is a conversation that people are eager to have around this and that you know using the the Elon Musk Ploy which has been used with many other public broadcasters in the world uh in the past couple of weeks is a smart idea well if it were a conversation it would certainly be worth having sure but the way it has been led by the conservatives and their leader is not the way of a conversation you can't start a conversation by saying um the CBC is is a propaganda tool it's just too easy and them not be able to answer well how exactly would you go about defunding the CBC and not had Zoo Canada and how would you explain to Canadians that you would be funding a service for a one language group in this country and not the other there are plenty of questions to be asked that being said usually when a leader takes a stance and pursues it as aggressively as MPS are eager to Echo it and some of them were but in Quebec this week the the entire Quebec caucus literally turned them to ghosts they would not go on any radio show on any TV show to to kind of expound on where their leader was going and the reason for that is that they know that in their own communities it's not a great battle horse to say if I'm uh the kazoo Canada is a problem for me and so it's rare that you see MPS run away from their own leaders position I'm not saying a gaff a deliberate strategy that has his own MPS hiding under their beds rather than account for it what's interesting too Althea is not it's not just what pure polio is doing but she's been you know very open about uh publicly but it's also the way the Liberals and the Prime Minister position themselves around this as the great defender of it all yeah it was interesting to see the CBC has not only become this wedge issue where the Liberals are now fundraising off of the CBC and I guess should we all just declare that we have a conflict or is it just so obvious that we don't need to declare that we have a conflict and talking about the CBC and its funding um first of all on the Twitter stuff uh pure polyev has decided to pay for his blue check mark so I guess you could argue um or certainly ask the question whether his paying a v-long musk is cash for Access and Elon Musk is doing him a favor to help him in his campaign at the same time that Chantal mentioned that Pierre pauliev is talking about CBC as Trudeau's propaganda which is what he called it this week he is using cbc's reporting to attack the government in question period the story about the Jamaican vacation that is the story from hazu Canada like I'm a big fan of the CBC I grew up listening to Morningside and watching Peter Mansbridge with my dad on TV and cross country checkup and I think it's one of these in institutions that knits the country together and we get to learn about each other from coast to coast and I'd be really sad to see it leave but I do think that so much of this is a self-inflicted or self-inflicted wounds that CBC is engaging in themselves like you know tried I don't and this is not to you Rosie but to the people running the CBC like don't get involved in this mess and constantly they are not doing themselves any favors like most people will look at Twitter and say government funded like of course your government funded you receive 1.2 billion dollars annually from the government they may not read the Twitter fine print so I just I wish that there was a little bit of maturity from the part of the CBC and detangling itself from the political gamesmanship on this issue and letting it play out without them being an actor in it so that we can try to safeguard the CBC sorry end of ranch Paul uh one hardly knows where to begin look on the substance of the thing the CBC is not the Vatican uh it should be perfectly uh normal for people to ask questions about its utility a hundred years after it made perfect sense to establish a Canadian presence in the then new technologies of radio and television it's now just as obvious that there is just a hell of a lot of competition for uh viewers and readers uh and listeners time and attention and that the CBC like any one of us is struggling to uh hold on to its footing it's also very obvious to an awful lot of people who watch the CBC that uh certain political viewpoints are presented more frequently than other political viewpoints and that that bugs the kind of people who Pierre pauliev needs to vote for them um and and I think the last thing is it was a very strange thing that after everything that Elon Musk has been doing for the last year saying an obvious and notorious truth on the cbc's account that it receives money from the government was the thing that made the CD DC decide to get off Twitter I didn't even need Elon Musk to get off Twitter it's easy to get off Twitter more people should do it yeah um the only now having defended quality to that extent I will say there's a question of priorities there's a shooting war in Europe going on right now he hasn't had a thing to say about that for a year uh picking this as his next fight confuses even those people who might be amenable to voting conservative because it's about 80th on most of their priority lists yeah yeah and when you talk to conservatives what they say is that this continues to be a red meat issue for them that it's something that they want to talk about as do liberals for that for that very same reason Chantal yes but it does become a competence issue if you're going to make this really important then it's a public policy issue you need to think it out I'll give you one example um set the aside the difficulties in keeping one and not the other because it gives French language information to communities outside Quebec that have no other French language Outlook fine so except they only manage to exist because of the CBC infrastructure for one second and more to the substantial point guard Canada is the only Outlet the only media in Quebec that actually brings in stories from outside Quebec so if you want Quebec to be even more insular well get rid of those antennas across the country and it's going to be fine I mean you can fill newscast with Quebec news it's not very hard but if from just a nation preserving perspective you need to think about these things and be able to answer those questions if you're going to seriously say as a future Prime Minister I believe the CBC is now a propaganda tool that I would not want as prime minister so I would wind it down quickly Althea and then Paul he will wind it down and use the CBC buildings for social housing apparently I don't know that he needs to say publicly what he would do I mean these are questions that we're interested in but the people that he's speaking to are not interested in the details this is the biggest like cheer getter during his leadership contest whenever he went to a rally and he talked about defunding the CBC it got really really loud cheers it's very it's very popular with a certain group of people who probably frankly don't actually watch the CBC I think the Sydney's biggest defense frankly is to just do its job properly prove your worth and then people will see value in it um Paul last word uh on this question of a conflict of interest it's not only the CBC um thanks to a bunch of uh essentially ineffectual uh bailouts to large newspaper companies which I fought every step of the way every time anyone asked me uh every reporter in every scrum in the next federal election will be in an obvious conflict of interest there's a government that wants to extend those uh subsidies and there's a government that that claims to want to shut down the English CBC is a party that wants to shut down the English CBC and and those newspaper subsidies uh that is it doesn't matter what the reporters think or whether it affects their uh their work the fact that someone could reasonably ask that question shatters The credibility of most of the journalists who are going to cover the next election there's nothing those reporters can do about it it's a big problem okay we'll leave it we'll leave a good conversation on that one appreciate it and with that I'll send things back to David Common and he's in Toronto thanks Rosie next a small community recognizes a local hero I don't know it's it's family is is family they look after him as a family member a special Olympian's second home now named in his honor in Our Moment you're looking at a rare kind of solar eclipse that took place last night it's known as a hybrid Eclipse when you see the outline of a solar ring and a total eclipse completely blocking the sun this blockout lasted 58 seconds thousands gathered in Western Australia one of the few places in the world to view the cosmic event next time you can catch this kind of eclipse he's 20 31.
well there's no overshadowing this star Mike Austin is a bona fide Legend in Lewisport Newfoundland he's a Special Olympics champion and a community hero he's known for attending every event at the local arena inspiring other athletes and spreading joy that Arena now Bears his name the grand gesture is Our Moment [Music] three weeks ago we found out that they had said a motion in Council to rename the Motorsport Stadium the Mike Austin Arena there's no words to explain the emotions that ran through us at that time Mike is a special Olympian he's got over 200 medals every time the stadium doors are open Mike is there he's always there he's a fixture I don't know his family is his family they look after him as a family member we were so proud We were up there with him one day unveiled the sign it was not a dry eye in the stadium to see him a hundred and such that way I tell you it is is it was so so great yeah sure was what a great grand gesture and a great little town uh congratulations Mike that's amazing and congratulations parents who kept it a secret for three weeks that can't have been easy also a sign at the refreshment stand there says mike eats free so your friend is Mike thanks very much that is the national for April 20th have a great night foreign
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