CBC News: The National | Barrie, Ont. crash, Freeland harassment, COVID-19 on campus

tonight a tragic crash ends six young lives in ontario as a parent myself i don't know how you heal from this the devastating community and tributes to one of the victims doing in alberta the growing concern about security and harassment after christian freeland is accosted in alberta there's a rage machine that keeps turning this out crowded lecture halls packed parties campus life is back will kova come with it sometimes like i'll feel like i want a mass just to be a little more comfortable an infectious disease doc weighs in on the right approach for 2022. this is the national good evening i'm ian hannah mancing on this final weekend of august when many are enjoying what's left of summer a community in ontario is instead grappling with enormous loss after six people were killed in a single vehicle crash police in the city of barrie confirming today that six victims were found at a crash site early this morning it's believed they were all in their early twenties and had been reported missing saturday night dale monocduck is in bury tonight with what's known about the crash and the impact on the community police say an officer discovered the scene around 2 a.m sunday on a rural stretch of road southwest of downtown berry it's believed that the occupants of that vehicle were the persons that were reported as missing the night before on saturday night at this point the investigation remains ongoing the group reported missing around 8 pm saturday were four men and two women all in their early 20s police have not confirmed the names and ages of the victims however the berry minor lacrosse association confirmed to cbc news that one of the young men killed was luke west a longtime member of the berry bombers they call them one of their most beloved players and coaches in a statement they wrote few have ever worked harder in bomber blue few can claim to have lifted us so high we love you we miss you and we are grateful for the time we had with you rest in peace number 11 go lucky as a parent myself it's about the worst news you can imagine berries mayor jeff lehmann called the crash a shocking and horrible tragedy in his community the victim services unit with the barrier police are assisting the families now that's what they do in situations like this uh connecting them in in many cases to counseling or other support that will be needed over the the longer term i'm sure ontario premier doug ford paid his respects on social media on behalf of all ontarians i want to extend my deepest condolences to the loved ones of these six young individuals we are holding you all in our hearts during this time of unspeakable pain and dale you've been out near the scene of the crash this afternoon what's been happening there ian throughout the afternoon and evening about a handful of people have pulled over on the shoulder of country road 27 where i am trying to catch a glimpse of what's happening behind me but as you can see there's been a police car stationed there for much of the day police say that this will be a complex investigation and won't speculate about the cause of the crash we're also still waiting on confirmation of the victims identities but obviously ian a very difficult day for their families and the community of barrie yeah field minute in barrie ontario thanks prime minister justin trudeau weighed in today on that video showing the deputy prime minister being verbally attacked by a man in alberta he called what happened to christian freeland extremely disturbing brian patrick jones shows us the video the reaction and what's known about the man responsible i need to speak to somebody in charge here the man made it clear who he was looking for christian yes what are you doing in alberta your trainer get the province you don't belong here today prime minister justin trudeau condemned the harassment threats violence intimidation of any kind are always unacceptable and this kind of cowardly behavior threatens and undermines our democracy it looks like the event was planned this anti-hate expert says the man in the video subscribes to anti-government conspiracies and covet 19 misinformation he also took part in events supportive of the freedom convoy there's a rage machine that keeps turning this out essentially and presents the political leaders or politicians in general as the enemy we're seeing increasingly people in public life people in positions of responsibility particularly women racialized canadians people of minority or different community groups being targeted politicians denounced the attack and posted messages of support for freeland including several high-level conservatives we have to put an end to it and demand that everybody treat other canadians with respect when we debate political ideas it is not okay we need protection especially for some of the you know our senior most recognized ministers former cabinet minister catherine mckenna often had to beef up her security after facing threats and there have been other recent examples protesters screamed at ndp leader jagmeet singh at an event in may and the prime minister was hit by gravel while campaigning last year targeted this expert says beefing up security could be a challenge these resources need to come from somewhere and the rcmp is already short staffed freeland's office wouldn't comment on her security she says she'll continue to visit the province alberta's rcmp wouldn't confirm an investigation ryan patrick jones cbc news toronto police in vancouver have released video showing the assault of a man following pride events earlier in the summer and they say that they're investigating it as a possible hate crime this comes as ottawa unveiled a new plan to support lgbtq communities across the country as susannah de silva explains advocates say it's needed now more than ever and a warning the video you're about to see is disturbing a toss of a slushie just the beginning of a cruel assault on vancouver's commercial drive police say the 42 year old man was beaten after an argument with another man inside a convenience store but believe there is another reason for the violence we do believe that it was motivated by hate this happened during pride week and i understand that the suspects did utter some homophobic threats to the victim the attack happened here july 31st police say hoping to protect the victim they tried to identify the suspects without releasing the tape his physical injuries may have been minor but obviously there's a lot of emotional trauma that comes with this the most recent numbers from statistics canada showed a 64 percent increase in hate crimes last year targeting people for their sexual identity build a future where everyone in canada is truly free to be who they are and love whom they love part of the reason the federal government says it unveiled an election promised action plan worth 100 million dollars over five years 75 million of that for community groups plus money for data collection and an awareness campaign making sure we are empowering folks on the ground community leaders like so many gathered here today to step up and give that support is a far better thing than having to do it from government welcome news say some advocates and so these kind of investments are critical in terms of being able to respond to what we see is like a growing lack of tolerance others would have liked to have seen more um yeah i think the idea of having a 2s lgbtqi plus action plan is an important step not many countries in the world have them the the plan should have been more concrete in this latest act of violence police are asking anyone who recognizes the alleged attackers and those who came to help to contact them susana de silva cbc news vancouver quebec's 43rd general election campaign is now underway despite a healthy lead in the polls caq leader francois lago says he's leaving nothing to chance if there's one thing i learned during the pandemic is to be humble because things change very fast lego kicked off his campaign in quebec city this morning as did liberal leader dominique anglad and conservative party leader eric doohem la paz klima party quebecois leader paul san pierre plamondo launched his bid in montreal while the joint leaders of quebec solidaire kicked off their campaign in sherbrooke quebecers go to the polls october third lego starts his campaign in a strong position with many impressed by his handling of the pandemic and steering quebec politics away from old debates though not everyone wants to see him get a second term here's allison northcott this farm in laval north of montreal sits in a riding that could change hands in this election stephanie beltran who works in long-term care says the pandemic is still a major issue for her and she's impressed with how francois lago has handled it she says she's already made her choice to support his party again lego is aiming for a second term as premier amid a shift in quebec's electoral politics from an old politics in quebec are organized around sovereignty and federalism towards kind of like new and normal politics discussing social and economic programs more in terms of left and right lego has pushed a nationalist agenda over a sovereignist one passing controversial legislation like the secularism law and bill 96 to strengthen the french language he's popular among many quebecers they have the benediction of everybody you know to make some move but not all of them i think it's time someone goes that's all i have to say antoine safai moved here from syria seven years ago and is studying to be a pharmacist i'm not a big fan of the bill that has been passed recently i'm not really like in full committed to caq and their ideology i'd rather like you know i'm more inclined towards the liberal side experts say part of lego's advantage has been a lack of visibility of opposition parties during the pandemic with some leaders quebecers just don't know yet they were not in front of the news all the time while murcielago was on the news making promise conferences every single day there are five main parties now jostling for seats the competition for attention and recognition remains but voter turnout has been declining in quebec and with the caq starting off this campaign ahead in the polls that slide could continue many voters think that well the elections won already i don't have to go ahead and vote anymore with a campaign now officially underway quebecers have five weeks to make their choices alison northcott cbc news laval sources at ctv news has revealed a story that was supposed to air on wednesday night didn't after management gave specific feedback around what could not be included in it as if though musa explains some say it raises serious concerns about journalistic interference the ctv national news story was about dove's keep the gray campaign lisa laflamme wasn't named in the campaign but many have linked it to her ouster as anchor of ctv national news there were reports in the media her dismissal may have been tied to her decision to stop dying her hair during the pandemic several sources at ctv told cbc news richard gray the company's acting vice president of news instructed journalists not to include images or video of la flam gray was recently appointed to replace michael melling who is on leave pending the outcome of a workplace review journalists pushed back and the story didn't air ultimately journalistic independence is is our is our north star you know and this is strikes at you know the currency that we trade in which is trust truth and transparency the canadian association of journalists says several ctv employees reached out to the organization about their management's potential infringement on editorial freedom ctv sources say it's not unusual for bosses in newsrooms to give feedback on stories but the direction not to include images or video of leflam crossed the line they were coming to the cha with some hope for leadership for follow-up and to ensure that you know that this that this this issue gets the the attention and the oxygen and the spotlight that it needs in order to you know be be considered and taken seriously a conversation about ageism and women going gray c-t-v eventually aired the story on thursday after companies like wendy's unveiled similar marketing campaigns this time with images and clips of la flam in a statement to cbc news ctv's parent company bell media said all editorial decisions have been made by editorial leaders and the company remains committed to upholding the principles of journalistic independence and integrity the company's ceo also says laflamme's departure is not related to her age gender or gray hair instead it reflects the massive changes to traditional broadcasting in canada ethel the backlash over lisa leflam's departure from ctv news continues to grow this weekend yes in saturday's globe and mail dozens of prominent canadians including artists journalists civil rights activists and politicians published an open letter calling on bail canada to make things right in the two-page advertisement they said bell media's decision to remove la flam in the very prime of her career has had a profound impact the letter was signed by more than 70 people including singer anne murray and former prime minister kim campbell all right it's all thank you you're welcome there are signs tonight violence has abated for now in libya's capital a day after intense fighting that killed more than 30 people charred cars and bullet holes scarred the city after its worst fighting in two years clashes broke out early saturday between militias loyal to the government and groups allied with a rival administration india has demolished these two residential towers yet to be occupied it follows a decade-long court battle that found builders had colluded with officials to violate several regulations the 100 meter towers are the tallest structures ever pulled down in the country rescue operations continue in pakistan amid catastrophic flooding the number of dead continued to climb this weekend and as kyle backs explains relief efforts are strained in a country already struggling financially a young boy clinging to a few rocks pulled up by rope and taken to safety a dramatic rescue one of many as helicopters airlift hundreds in northern pakistan already more than a thousand are dead including more than 300 children in the last 24 hours alone at least 119 people were killed i haven't seen any any destruction or devastation of this scale inside this temporary shelter flood victims scramble to get their hands on food and other supplies floods are common in pakistan but not to this level of devastation officials describe it as a climate catastrophe this man says it's been raining for more than a week his house has collapsed and he could not save anything from it aid workers are trying to bring in supplies by truck and boat but many roads and bridges are washed out some countries are stepping up to help including canada prime minister justin trudeau says like many canadians across the country he's thinking of everyone affected by the devastating flooding in pakistan canada is providing support through the united nations central emergency response fund and the red cross still pakistan's prime minister says more is needed saying those blessed with wealth to come forward and hold the hand of those suffering in this difficult time pakistan is trying to avoid a financial collapse but the country says it's been able to secure more loans and could receive more financing from the international monetary fund in the coming days in the meantime monsoon downpours and roaring flood waters continue to pound the country kyle backs cbc news washington parts of central mississippi are bracing for flooding tonight get out now get out as soon as possible record-setting rainfall has begun submerging streets the pearl river is expected to crest tonight or tomorrow up to 150 homes could be affected the governor declared a state of emergency in some areas and says search and rescue teams are standing by tomorrow is expected to be a milestone day for space travel after years of planning and months of preparation the artemis won mission is now just hours from launch using the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built the ultimate goal returning humans to the moon more than 50 years after the apollo missions and here's a look at the launch site in cape canaveral tonight tomorrow's liftoff is scheduled for just after 8 30 a.m eastern earlier today we spoke to cbc news science reporter nicole mortelaro about this historic mission and what nasa will be watching for most closely what we're doing is looking at that rocket to see how it performs you look at it you might recognize those white boosters on the side those are repurposed from the from the shuttle years and we want to see how that alt system all works together in tandem and on the most important thing of course is that crew capsule orion that is sitting on top want to see this is going to be a 42 day mission around the moon and we want to see how that performs and then importantly coming back you're going to see the orion capsule that test of that heat shield that is critical for re-entry it is coming in at 40 000 kilometers per hour and if the artemis one mission goes as planned iron ms2 is next and that will be launching sometime in 2024 or 2025 we will have a canadian astronaut on board and then there's artemis iii and that's going to be done in tandem with uh spacex and their massive rocket starship uh in artemis 2 you're going to have astronauts orbiting the moon and coming back artemis three have boots on the ground that's the ideas to get astronauts on the surface of the moon once again and this isn't just a hey we're going and we're touching down and coming back collecting moon rocks this is actually building a permanent presence in space canada is contributing to the lunar gateway which is part of this overall return uh to the moon and on that will be canada arm three and because of that that's why we get astronauts on our on the artemis mission and that's actually really kind of like a platform to head not just to you know moon as a jumping off point but also to mars that is the long-term goal and stay with cbc news tomorrow and nicole brings us more on the historic artemis one mission live from cape canaveral as intense shelling continues to target the zapariza nuclear plant in ukraine in some other parts of the country people are trying to rebuild oh gosh so what happened here up next inside european and bucha months after their deadly battles plus university students prepare for a return to campus pretty much no matter what the mandates are i'm just excited to be back on campus and have a normal year for masks to mandates why that new normal looks different across the country and later a canadian homecoming it's a big deal it's a big deal the cup the parade and the meaning behind this moment we'll be right back the national voted canada's best national newscast both ukraine and russia are accusing each other of ongoing shelling around europe's largest nuclear power plant this weekend and that's heightening concern about the possibility of a nuclear disaster russian forces have been in control of the zapariza plant since early in the war but ukraine still controls the area just across the river from the plant ukrainian scientists are still running its operations the shelling is happening as negotiations take place to have a team from the international atomic energy agency to visit the plant that team would assess any damage to the facility and could arrive within days while the war grinds on in parts of ukraine other communities are trying to rebuild from the wreckage of earlier battles with the conflict now past the six month mark susan ormiston and her team visited communities near the capital of kiev where people are struggling to put their lives back together despite the risk of another russian attack oh gosh so what happened here this was his son's bedroom until the war ripped open the roof his child's bed was right underneath luckily ivan panamarenko and his family had already fled eurpin i'm very sad it's his room the best place he just finished renovating their dream apartment now with a lot more work to do when he can find the money and the time can you move back here when all this is renewed i don't want to take my kid back here to see all this event and his wife had come back to collect toys and clean up betting russian troops will not invade again but they are angry you're doing your best to have a good life and because of russia for what it's just a regular building the fighting ravaged european near kiev leaving ugly scars as ukrainian forces tried to push the russians back some apartment blocks so broken they'll be demolished but where there's fixable damage it's beginning residents starting to reclaim their lives that ear pin bridge destroyed in march with people trapped trying to flee is being rebuilt a symbol of risky resilience here some of the darkest early days left bucha terrorized as the russians retreated mass killings andrei tells us there were eight bodies on his street when they escaped russians were getting drunk in the evenings and driving tanks and firing he says he shows us his daughter's home randomly hit by tank fire a hole right through the wall but the family has come back to live for now it's safe enough to be here to fix your house it is scary but we don't have any other choices ola where would we go and how and my grandkids are here the house was built just a year ago mostly intact except for the one corner their grandson's bedroom hit a week after the family left his daughter and son-in-law will start work on the damage monday we need to live to hope for something father andre invites us into his church which became a sacred refuge during the worst days has no logic he says struggling to explain the atrocities butcher won't it can't forget collecting bodies for a mass burial in the churchyard the pictures are an undeniable reminder but father andre says the spirit of regrowth is beginning most people have the aspiration and the willpower to renew their normal lives she says but while bucha and erpine rebuild they worry about other parts of ukraine still under shelling we don't want this to become a war of exhaustion that temporary graveyard behind his church with its horrors is growing over eventually to become a memorial those bodies from the churchyard have now been brought to a cemetery here in bucha a final resting place but even as people here begin to resume their lives they've dug fresh graves susan orsten cbc news bucha when we come back how canadian universities are navigating the return to school we have to give students the right to have a normal year people want to interact infectious diseases specialist dr zane chandler breaking down the different policies and what makes sense for this moment and later why the future of the movie theater may mean no movies at all in ontario hundreds of western university students protested this weekend against the school's covet booster and masking mandates across the country the policies are quite varied we spoke to some students at two universities in toronto which have relaxed their coveted mandates people want a mess they can mask like i sometimes like i'll feel like i want a mask just to be a little more comfortable my mother is immunocompromised and so is my sister so i do highly believe in covet mandates i think it's good that it's like relaxing its policies because like the city is as well and it's kind of matching how we're doing outside of school pretty much no matter what the mandates are i'm just excited to be back on campus and have a normal year well for some analysis on all of this let's bring in dr zane chagla an infectious diseases specialist and an associate professor of medicine at mcmaster university in hamilton and dr chagla we're seeing different approaches from different universities and let's start with mcmaster it's leaving decisions up to students and staff so i saw some tweets from from mac and one of them says you know masking is strongly encouraged indoors but not mandated vaccinations aren't mandated but people are encouraged to keep up to date why do you support that approach yeah i mean i think it goes with what the evidence shows we want things to be safe but we we recognize that you know particularly vaccinations are a personal risk modifier we have lost with omicron a lot of the ability for vaccines to prevent infection uh two doses uh really you know 20 weeks after that second dose the protection against infection is lost even three doses out of uk israel singapore that that a lot of the protection against infection is lost by three three uh three to four months and so you know when we have that in mind uh there's no way you can vaccinate people to a point where they're gonna be preventing transmission we've seen that around the world and i think you have to add to the fact that this last year a lot of people have had cold sixty percent of the population that would be going to university 18 to 29 year olds have had coving and so you know when you add that on the fact that some of them are vaccinated some of them may not be vaccinated some of them may have two doses when we see the data showing that their protection against severe disease is very high regardless of which one of those boxes they fit in you know i think you start taking away the role of mandates especially in vaccination and you have to start thinking about the harms of that approach which aren't minimal in that sense so let's talk about that what are some of the harms yeah looking number one you know vaccines are incredibly safe but there is side effects you know particularly in 18 to 25 year olds in men that is the highest described risk group of myocarditis now it's not a high risk it's about one in nine thousand to one in sixteen 000 on the booster dose based on some israeli data but again you know if you have a young man who has two doses of vaccine plus a prior infection who is no different than having three doses of vaccine you know and now you're asking them to take an extra risk on top of that you know we do have to think about that add to that you know as public health we're going to need people on our side we have other diseases that are circulating like meningococcus in toronto we'll need people uh when things happen and we'll need people's trust when things happen the more we push people away the less likely they're gonna come back and i think the third point is the booster rate is not the same in every population we see some of the lowest income communities some of the most racialized communities even in london ontario that have booster rates that are less than a third in the 18 to 29 year old population and so when you think about the people that are going to be excluded from coming to school unless they make that decision you know we may start pushing people out of higher level education at the last minute which then has you know other implications for their benefits to jobs the benefits to their formative experience in postgraduate education and post-secondary education and many other factors in that sense you mentioned london of course the university there the big one western has taken a different approach than mcmaster and it is mandating boosters it is mandating masking so you've talked a lot about boosters but let me let me ask you about masking because i bet you some people watching now have this question what's the harm in that like if masking helps why not just mandate it in a university classroom yeah look i i don't disagree masking you know offers protection uh you know in the best studies 10 to 20 reduction in covert transmission which is good but i think you have to recognize that a university campus is no different than day-to-day life in many settings where masking is not provided b students in university don't necessarily just sit in the classroom all day they eat together they live together they go to bars together they study together their environments together all the time that are in their privacy where masking isn't used and so you know is that risk gonna be significantly reduced by masking only in the classroom versus you know uh the fact that you know when people go back to their day-to-day lives um that's uh you know masking comes off or is optional and i think you know again we have to give students the right to have a normal year people want to interact it's a social experience to be in university if people want a mask they should wear a mask they should wear a well-constructed well-fitted mask and again we have to be sure that in all settings we are not discriminating against people based on their mass choices that they if they want to wear a mask they should have the freedom and the availability to wear a mask without any type of discrimination dr we have just about a minute left i i want to slightly switch topics but still about uh about covid i know you do a lot of research you you pay attention to a lot of the information that's coming out uh from your perspective do we have a good sense of what this pandemic is going to look like in the fall look this pandemic is still affecting people that are immunocompromised and elderly and and we really want to make sure those people are protected going into the fall they need to be fully vaccinated they need to be accessing treatments when the time comes if the time comes that they get covered they need to be offered all the protections possible in that spot we probably will see a rise in transmission what that means from a healthcare standpoint is unclear but again you know i think we have to focus on the groups where the disease is affecting the most and offer them the most protections rather than worrying about you know lower level things like university institutions i don't have to tell you a lot of emotional reactions to these topics and you've uh decided that you do want to kind of weigh in on this and we appreciate you taking the time to explain your view on on these issues thank you very much no problem thanks ian after the break movie theaters are being forced to rethink what they can offer you most of our programming now isn't film at all it's live performance it's rentals the steps many are taking to get you back in their seats but first on the eve of the historic lunar launch we revisit my conversation with a canadian astronaut about her own historic space flight i'm jamie poison join me for cbc's daily news podcast front burner every weekday front burner takes you deep into the story shaping canada and the world subscribe wherever you get your podcast we're just hours away now from an important rocket launch nasa's artemis one is poised to usher in a new era of space exploration building on decades of scientific contributions including for many canadians and one of them canada's first female astronaut dr roberta bondar i spoke with her earlier in the year on the 30th anniversary of her shuttle mission dr bonder it's a real privilege to speak to you welcome thank you for having me here i want to go back to that day 30 years ago tomorrow you're strapped into the shuttle and about to do science experiments in space so in a lot of ways maybe the greatest scientific challenge of your storied career but i think it's worth reminding people who are watching the the potential danger that you and astronauts faced the the challenger uh disaster had happened just what uh six years earlier there would be another shuttle disaster about a decade later tell us about kind of the courage the valor that all of you needed to have as you got ready for that launch and liftoff liftoff of the space shuttle discovery it's very true i mean it's always said that the most dangerous part of space try to launch the landing and everything in between and after a while one gets used to figuring out what the risk is that you want to accept that morning or that afternoon and just getting on with it because it's a professional job and we just want to do it well not to dwell on it though but but you had to was it a video message to your to your mother where you had to contemplate her seeing this in the worst possible circumstances three hours before i was supposed to get up in the morning to go onto the shuttle i decided i'd leave an audio tape for my from my mother and it's never been played it's never been played since my flight i still have it and i think someday i might listen to it but i don't know what was wrong with me i thought well i better leave some kind of voice to say it's okay mom this is what i want to do and i had to shut the tape off all the time because i was tearing up you know i think all of this is is is a peak inside a time when you know that the immense challenges that you and other astronauts faced and now we live in a time where if you're rich enough you can go to space this era of space tourism i i'm really curious what do you think of that i think space tourism has been going on for a while the russians have extracted a lot of money i mean i think about madame and sorry that went up into space so they used mir and the international space station for for people who were not professionally trained astronauts to fly and you know you can't tell somebody how to use their money i mean you really you can suggest and ethically hope they will do it but billionaires have the money to construct a toy that they want to go into space with i can only hope that there's some spin-offs from some of the information that we get from technology but no one likes to see these kinds of things built into wildlife preserves or encroaching on habitat that that needs to be used in an ethical matter differently so i think those are there are conflicts about that it's it's tough i think for a professional astronaut uh myself included to be able to watch somebody go up for 25 seconds and not look at the earth but choose to play with some smarties let's put your impact as an astronaut in perspective we went to three other canadian astronauts and asked them to to talk about you and let's play that tape now roberta bondart's contribution to space travel has been to open the door and the dreams for so many others to take a huge personal risk to do something so that others could follow in her footsteps and to show us the world in a way that we've never seen it before thanks and respect roberta roberta's impact on space travel has been that of a pioneer she blazed the trail for the many scientists physicians women and canadians who followed her then in the past 30 years she has very creatively used this mission experience as well as her photography and her foundation to help us all better appreciate the planet's environment congratulations roberta hi roberta this is jenny gibbons from the canadian space agency and i just want to say congratulations on the 30th anniversary of your space flight i also want to take this opportunity to say thank you for inspiring me and countless other canadians around the world throughout your careers in neuroscience space and conservation since your space flight i just think we are so fortunate to have you to look up to to hear from you're very generous with your experiences and we're just so lucky to have you so thank you so much and enjoy all of the joy that today brings i hope it's truly a wonderful celebration i loved watching your face as you listen to those those tributes to canadians who have been in space the third waiting for her assignment your reaction to what they were saying well it's very generous it's it's also good that we're all still alive and look pretty good still you know no it's very it's very nice for people to take the time to to mark this anniversary i i just think it's it's just a wonderful sense of respect for what it is we do and especially seeing jenny on the screen because i know she's a new mom and she is working very very hard and training very hard and she's the next woman hopefully will be flying in space uh certainly bob thursk has uh has done a lot being on space station uh being in the shuttle and of course chris hadfield has been remarkable in his spacewalks and in the work that he's done uh since his space flight so it was all very very generous of them dr bonder i know this is a big question but but what do you hope your legacy will be well i hope my legacy will be about a person who tried a person who was able to move the bar especially for humankind i think that for canadian women it's good to have role models regardless of what field it's in but i think mainly i like people to look at me as a person who has a high degree of ethics and was trying to do something to share her vision of the earth from space and how special it is to help other people engage with the natural world it was so impressive reading about you getting ready for this interview i certainly have followed you in the news but i i'd kind of forgotten how many areas you are so accomplished in from medicine to uh to photography for example and it's a real privilege talking to you today thank you very much my pleasure thank you so much for many people watching a movie in a crowded theater is still a distant pre-pandemic memory as film audiences move from cinemas to streaming there's a push in the movie theater industry to diversify to survive lisa xing shows us how these days paradise theater is a different kind of venue than it was when it started out a few years ago film programming at the time was probably 70 to 80 percent that's all changed we do comedy we do music shows or other sort of events how crucial has that been very very crucial and that's honestly most of our programming now isn't film at all it's live performance it's rentals the pandemic has changed everything shuttering cinemas keeping crowds home even though canadian chain cineplex reported its strongest quarter in more than two years earlier this month crediting blockbusters like top gun maverick and jurassic world it's offering two for one ticket deals and a member's club to keep people coming back other chains like landmark are touting heated reclining seats that's what we're competing with is getting people back into that habit i mean over the last two and a half years there are certainly many customers that have lost a habit even though some theater chains are reporting strong results analysts say the industry is undergoing a huge shift streaming will only become a bigger part of how people get their entertainment according to recent data by next year the number of households with streaming services is projected to more than double from 2017. it's expected many will be subscribed to more than one service and even if services like disney plus aren't profitable now they will be the studios are playing a long game and the long game is we need to have a direct connection into the consumer so how do cinemas survive it is key to reflect on the sort of um not to put all your eggs in one basket type um adage because i think that there's still never going to be enough major blockbuster releases for this to sort of hold it also means a leaner theater industry in the future lisa xing cbc news toronto now some cadre took the stanley cup to a place it's never been before it's just part of my background it's part of my roots part of who i am he shares his victory with his community in our moment two months ago nazim country won the stanley cup as a member of the colorado avalanche he's believed to be the first muslim to become an nhl champion and this weekend he returned to his hometown of london ontario and one of the places he took the cup was his local mosque their celebration is our moment i'm very appreciative very privileged and honored to be the first ever muslim to bring the stanley cup to the mosque it's a big deal it's a big deal well i think uh you know it's important to share with our community and obviously with our background i think it's uh it's important and obviously you know to be the first one to do anything is quite an achievement and an honor for myself and my family if he did it why can't i it's one person did it that opens the door for everyone else it just shows like if i put my mind to it i can also do it like maybe one day i'll be bringing stanley cup back to london hopefully it's just part of my background it's part of my roots it's part of who i am so you know there's a reason why i brought it out and just kind of showcased it because you know i think the community deserves it and uh they've been cheering me on from the start so i wanted to share that with everybody you know lots of hockey players talk about that moment it might be at a camp it might be watching a game or it might be at that mosque where an already good player just gets inspired to be that much better and it'll be interesting like look at the faces how happy people will be interesting to see if that happens there cadre has a connection to a lot of cities right london ontario toronto where he played for the leafs calgary where he just signed i'm going to talk to him next week i guess in an interview that will be on the national in a couple of weeks time that is the program for august 28th good night you

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