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tonight as the jury deliberates jacob hogard's fate a cbc exclusive interview with a third alleged victim i was in a lot of pain and i was crying what she says the headley front man did and the new charge he's facing a first in canada why possession of small amounts of some drugs will be decriminalized in bc substance use is a public health issue not a criminal one and rosemary barton sits down with former trump advisor kellyanne conway why did you use those terms in that interview so alternative facts was literally a gaffe more on alternative facts that 2016 campaign and whether trump will run again this is the national [Music] good evening i'm andrew chang adrian is away jacob hogart once the frontman of the rock band headley is now facing another allegation of rape in a separate case in kirkland lake ontario a fact we can report because a jury in toronto is now weighing a verdict on charges related to two other alleged sexual assaults in that trial hogaard is accused of groping a 15 year old fan and after she turned 16 of raping her is also accused in a separate incident of raping an adult woman from ottawa and now another charge of sexual assault involving someone who is 19 years old at the time these allegations all graphic disturbing and denied by hogard but his third accuser is speaking for the first time exclusively to cbc news's judy trin her identity is protected by a court order and her voice has been altered [Applause] [Music] she was a 19 year old headley fan who went to the band's concert during kirkland lakes homecoming week she just wanted to talk music and jam with the lead singer instead she says jacob hogard forced himself on her her identity is protected by a court order i kept telling him no don't stop over and over and over again hogard's lawyer says the singer is innocent and denies this allegation in june 2016 following the concert the young woman and other fans partied with the band around a fire pit near the hotel she got drunk that's when she says hogard brought her to his room he tried to remove my clothes and i told him no and he did it anyways she says hogard took a naked photo of her without consent then raped her he called me a dirty little piggy i was in a lot of pain and i was crying and he didn't seem to notice the pain or the crying when he did that he completely ignored it she says hogard choked and slapped her leaving a red handprint on her thigh that lasted a week i felt powerless i couldn't run away i couldn't go anywhere i was stuck there with him the woman lives in british columbia for six years she kept the incident a secret but is now pressing forward with a charge i just want to tell my story and i hope justice will be served okay so judy we're hearing about all this now but hogard's latest accuser came forward to police some time ago that's right andrew the woman reported it to police in february now after investigating those allegations in kirkland lake ontario provincial police charged hogart with sexual assault causing bodily harm his next court appearance is on august 4th hogar's lawyer says he plans to vigorously defend himself and intends on pleading not guilty to this latest allegation andrew judy thank you very much you're welcome in alberta a father and son have been found guilty in the shooting deaths of two metis hunters in 2020. paige parsons joins us now from edmonton and paige the jury came back after just starting deliberations yesterday that's right andrew they found anthony bilido guilty of second-degree murder in the death of jake sansom and guilty of manslaughter in the death of maurice cardinal they found anthony's father roger biladeau guilty of two counts of manslaughter as well and the road to the trial and even the trial itself was a difficult one for the men's family nothing will ever be justice i mean you know how do you say how do you put a time or sentence on two lives and lives that were as significant as their lives it was a case that rocked a small rural community on march 27 2020 jake sansom and his uncle maurice cardinal were hunting near the village of glendon just over 200 kilometers northeast of edmonton that night both men were shot to death during a confrontation with two farmers in the area during a two-week court of queen's bench trial in edmonton jurors heard evidence that one of the two accused 58 year old roger bilido spotted the hunter's truck in his driveway believing they were thieves the farmer and his then 16 year old son chased them reaching speeds of over kilometers per hour bilido called his older son anthony in his 30s to help he brought a gun security footage caught the encounter on camera when the two trucks came to a stop near a remote intersection according to the defense sansom broke roger bilido's truck window when his son anthony arrived he shot and killed sansam then cardinal crown prosecutors argued both billado men should be convicted of second-degree murder for the killings and lying to police before finally confessing i just said anthony i said you know my truck and i said well you've gotta fix up on this what did he say he's yeah his dad i know he said let's keep with it anthony bilito's lawyer argued his client acted in self-defense and roger billeto's lawyer tried to persuade the jury that the father didn't intend for the encounter to turn fatal leaving the courthouse anthony bilito's lawyer told reporters he does believe there are grounds for appeal the men's families are still trying to absorb the verdicts but they are thankful for all their support they received including from colton bushi's mother who came to edmonton today to be with them now they say it's time to try to start to heal andrew okay clearly a difficult case paige parsons in edmonton thanks so much well now to british columbia where the federal government made a major move today to help tackle the opioid crisis in a first in canada it has approved a request to decriminalize small amounts of some illegal drugs for people 18 and up in british columbia renee filiponi takes us through how it will work and how the community is reacting i couldn't of course talk about her you know without crying it's been six years now since deb bailey's daughter ola died of an overdose her body was found in a vancouver stairwell and she started to use heroin and that was really it for her 21 year old ola struggled with addiction for years bailey says the shame made it more dangerous and the move to decriminalize small-scale possession is just a first step in the right direction you know you're using and you can hold a certain amount and we move towards stopping shaming people for becoming addicted that could be huge today the federal government approved bc's request for an exemption from the law criminalizing drug possession this time limited exemption is the first of its kind in canada and with it comes great responsibility the three-year trial starts in january it will allow adults to carry up to 2.5 grams of drugs like illicit fentanyl heroin and cocaine it reflects our government's agreement that substance use is a public health issue not a criminal one it's a move police in the province support but say there are concerns that need to be addressed before it's implemented i have some concerns around public consumption expanded online illicit sales of illicit drugs motor vehicle-related offenses of people using drugs in in vehicles impacts to youth and children but advocates say these changes need to happen right now they talk about urgency and yet they it's seven months down the road that's another 1300 people are are you kidding me there are also concerns this does nothing to address safe supply or access to treatment and politicians need to listen to people on the front lines the government should put more trust in us to come up with more solutions all in the battle against a crisis killing on average six people a day in b.c renee filiponi cbc news vancouver canada's auditor general released a series of reports today on a number of different topics and the message was blunt on several fronts despite promises made to disabled veterans despite calls to curb discrimination in canada's prisons the federal government is failing to deliver and as ashley burke explains the human cost is very real after two years on the job the auditor general says she's feeling more disappointed than hopeful the results have not gotten any better in fact in some cases they have gotten worse karen hogan released a series of reports into issues her office already audited in the past affecting vulnerable people it's very frustrating and discouraging for the government to know for many years that problems exist that barriers exist but that little action is taken one report found that black and indigenous offenders are twice as likely to be placed to maximum security institutions and remain in custody longer we found not only systemic barriers but also in my view systemic racism in certain instances i saw racism all the time in correct in correctional services yeah aisha bensley man served three and a half years in a medium security facility i never thought i'm gonna have the opportunity to get parole i never even applied for it because i'm just wary of them because they treated me badly since the first day i came another report found injured veterans are still waiting far too long for their disability applications to be processed ten months when the target is three the report also said veterans who are francophones and women face even longer delays which is unacceptable this has a real consequence on the well-being of our veterans and their families the report is a snapshot of a point in time and we've made some real tangible progress since the audit period ended the government presented a united front accepting all the recommendations in principle then defending their efforts we have every expectation that we will continue to accelerate in rooting out racism in all of its forms but the auditor general says it's time for the government's actions to live up to its words ashley burke cbc news ottawa one week after the mass shooting at an elementary school in uvalde texas the first funerals took place today for some of the 21 victims just a few minutes drive from where the attack took place the body of ten-year-old anne-marie joe garza arrived at a church today for her funeral service she was among 19 students and two teachers killed by a gunman inside their fourth grade classroom more funerals are scheduled for later this week canada is imposing another round of sanctions on key russian financial institutions and citizens including a woman purported to be vladimir putin's girlfriend so we're targeting banks we're targeting also oligarchs close to the poutine regime and we're also targeting his person very close to putin a former gymnast now in russian media elena kabava is one of 22 russians sanctioned today four banks were also targeted and the government suggested there could be more sanctions to come now as for the war itself intense fighting continues as russian forces try to consolidate recent gains in the east but they're also making moves in the south tensions are high in mikolayev taking it could open the door to odessa putting the entire south in peril margaret evans is in mikholev tonight where those who haven't fled are digging in determined to resist the rhythm of daily life in mikolaiv becomes more elemental day by day here residents lining up to fill their containers from a well water treatment facilities damaged by fighting there's no water in the tap says marina and our government supplies clean water like this we're patient they have to be the city has stood now for three months as a barrier between russian troops occupying territory just to the east and the city of odessa to the west it comes with a cost andre lost his house to one of the latest rounds of shelling in may a missile landing outside and setting it alight amazingly he says everyone survived even the smallest shelling intensified again this week in the city's hospitals now way stations for injured soldiers and civilians doctors often live on the premises including ihorse coropod if we don't have such friends like canada great britain and united states it will uh was will be very hard to stay in this state that we right now that state is hard enough marina perezina has been here since march when a missile struck while she was lined up at a supermarket life is the main thing a person possesses she says the most precious thing the streets here have a hollowed-out feel to them like a ghost town but there are pockets of life too some people even returning from abroad vitaly kim a local hero along with being head of the regional administration says it's not a good idea my advice is not to come back until two or three weeks to see what will be on the front line people here insist ukraine will win back all its territory colonel roman costenco is also a member of parliament the biggest challenge he says is to hold mkholive while we prepare reserves for the offensive and the liberation of territory for the people who've decided to stay in the city the challenge is to hold their nerve margaret evans cbc news mikko live coveted measures will remain in place at the border for at least another month the extension comes a day after parliament voted down a conservative motion to revert to pre-pandemic rules for travel several measures are still in place at airports and land borders including vaccine mandates and random testing well in britain final preparations are underway for the queen's platinum jubilee celebrations this week british flags are out in full force along london's famous regent street while outside buckingham palace soldiers have been rehearsing for the queen's birthday parade and not far away die hard fans are already staking out a spot setting up tents to try and catch a glimpse of the royal family as excitement builds for the queen's platinum jubilee chris brown shows us what it means for the british economy as the head of the british state and arguably the most famous woman in the world the queen wields serious economic clout especially in her jubilee year i would say at this time of the year by about 30 percent increase in our production the jubilee has definitely given us a bit of a kickstart how many of these have you got to print in this stuart morris is rolling hundreds of thousands of souvenir tea towels off his printing machines this single order from the daily mail newspaper for its readers is worth 80 000 pounds we've done the tote bags shopping bags we've done aprons it seems to get bigger every 10 years so let's hope there'll be another one on souvenir sales alone the jubilee generates some impressive numbers along with all the tea towels people are expected to snap up some 6 million coffee mugs more than 10 million british flags and up to 3 million items of stationery and pens add it all up and branding experts estimate the jubilee amounts to a 1.6
billion dollar canadian infusion into the british economy the largest part of that will be from benefits to tourism and so we estimate about one percent of british tourism spend is connected to the monarchy josem says the queen and her family cost british taxpayers too roughly 800 million dollars canadian a year for all of their residences and security and shutting down the country for two stat holidays to celebrate is also costly so for some it's not a clear-cut win it's definitely ridiculous there should be other avenues where that money could be better channeled still merchandising sales alone will make the jubilee profitable and while the queen is of course the star for this company her pets come a close second this corgi tea towel is actually their best seller chris brown cbc news hadley now on top of the official platinum jubilee celebrations there are thousands of street parties being organized across britain adrian stopped by one of them to see how people are marking the historic moment okay there's nothing like starting a party early the official four-day jubilee weekend does not begin until thursday but the good folks at brisbane road right at quebec road see the commonwealth connection there aren't waiting okay we're about to cut the cake consider this moment just an appetizer for the ubiquitous and huge british street parties to come so some 16 000 applications for those parties double from a decade ago have been submitted that was double from the golden jubilee in 2002 the brits are in a mood for together and of course they are covid crushed years of togetherness and in this country tracking to have the worst inflation of all g7 nations a little homemade fun is affordable and then there is her majesty of the roughly 50 monarchs in british history she's the only one to make it to 70 years on the throne no one alive today is likely to ever see that again it may never happen again so even as all the commonwealth countries re-evaluate their relationship with the monarchy how do you say thank you for all that service you know the last few years have been challenging and that's i think it's something that people can really genuinely rejoice and be happy be happy about i think just being there and supporting her on the day is all we can do that's what this week is about thursday watch for a birthday parade down the mall later in the evening a 70 aircraft fly over as the so-called working royals join the queen on the balcony friday it's the service of remembrance yes prince harry and megan will be there saturday a party at the palace sunday that giant jubilee lunch across the entire country there's more there's always more of the moments you'd expect and the ones no one sees coming and we'll be there with you for all of it packed schedule so adrian will be co-hosting the national from london starting tomorrow bringing special coverage of the queen's platinum jubilee including an exclusive look inside windsor castle then then there is the royal library this is the place we were really eager to see because this is the place that houses some of the most precious items in the royal collection okay so here are the details adrian will also be hosting a cbc news special on thursday for the queen's birthday parade kicking off the official celebrations it all starts 5 a.m eastern on cbc news network and on cbc gem well the ontario community is trying to write a historic wrong surrounding the graves of some who came to canada to escape slavery i'm going to mark the grave around the flag up next honoring the stories of those lost to history plus she was at the center of the trump white house and she's still defending the former president you had a boss who liked to um play pretty fast and loose with the truth to say the very least coming up rosemary takes on alternative facts and more in her interview with kellyanne conway plus a little later slow and steady when this halifax woman decided to lace up again she didn't realize she'd be going back in time they do look like the ones i used to have why her vintage roller skates were an unusually perfect fit we're back into cbc news the national name canada's best national newscast at the canadian screen awards at least 106 people have died in brazil from flooding over the weekend that triggered several landslides in the country's northeast local authorities say several people are still missing and about five thousand people have been forced to flee their homes canadian oil giant synovus and suncor announced today plans to restart work on the expansion of the white rose oil field in newfoundland it's a three billion dollar project that was put on hold when oil prices collapsed in 2020. the project is expected to create nearly 2 000 jobs well a final resting place is being given new life it contains the bodies of those who escaped slavery through the underground railroad as well as black loyalists who helped canada during the war of 1812. katie nicholson shows us the efforts to identify and remember those buried there under a punishing son the hard work of reclaiming the past i'm going to mark the grave around the flag james russell got sick of driving by this empty field knowing it was the former grounds of a church and so many early black settlers were buried here their headstones lost to time i think it was a little pissed off it cost him three thousand dollars of his own money and countless hours all worth it this is a sacred ground people are buried here people who who lived and loved and had relatives and had happy sad lives but they are people and and and that they have names and they have faces that's the sidewalk ground penetrating radar showed the 75 year old where the graves and long toppled headstones may be the graves are marked in yellow and the red dots are buried headstones so there's 28 in total he hopes those headstones will be excavated maybe even restored to provide clues to who was laid to rest here so this one right here is the first one that you've marked out yeah and it's always east to west because christians buried the folks east to west mary york september 15 1849 act the church is long gone but some records remain at the museum we have about 15 names for sure that are you know we think that they are buried there including two black men who died trying to keep an escapee from being returned into slavery those two individuals are local heroes that with this project we hope will be able to recognize them a bit better in a site like that at the graveyard for russell it's more than just finding a way to honor black history when all this is done how will you feel great yeah why i've done my part in terms of respecting folks who have been denied respect and that means a lot to me katie nicholson cbc news niagara on the lake she was a central figure in the trump presidency and coined an expression that persists to this day sean spicer our press secretary gave alternative facts to that but the point remains alternative coming up rosie interviews kellyanne conway plus what's spoiling summer plans for some tour operators who were hoping for a post-pandemic comeback welcome back a year and a half after losing to joe biden donald trump still casts a long shadow over u.s politics while only he knows for sure if he'll run again few know him better than kellyanne conway do you believe that donald trump will run again in 2024 and if he asked you to run his campaign would you yes i think that he would like to run for in 2024 because he thinks there's unfinished business he sees that biden is not doing a great job a senior counselor to the president conway was closer to trump than just about anyone outside the trump family fiercely loyal she defended his angry outbursts and his bouts of misinformation she also drew heavy criticism of her own on that score before leaving the administration in august 2020. it was quite the tightrope kellyanne conway walked for years not just a trump loyalist but also married to one of his fiercest critics it's something she revisits in her new memoir here's the deal and tonight in a canadian exclusive our chief political correspondent rosemary barton speaks with conway about the trump years about alternative facts and about the prospect of a trump 2024 presidential ticket kellyanne conway thank you for making the time appreciate it did you write this book because you were trying to correct the record about yourself or or the president's record what was the goal here the goal of my memoir is really to tell the story behind the stories many people are very interested to know from where i've come what motivates me how i became the first woman in united states history to successfully manage a presidential campaign why donald trump chose me what i did a senior counselor to the president and really how i feel about the tweeting men in my life a boss and a husband who were constantly on twitter communicating when i was not and i was talked about and talked and spoken for and spoke on behalf of the country so many times and yet i didn't tell my story because i thought i was a public government on the taxpayer dollar and for me people think they know me and people think it's fun and it's for kicks and clicks to make fun of me make fun of my hair my looks talk about my family and the like but there's a whole other half of the country that feels a different way about me but i also think that president trump over time history will show that he deserves a ton of credit for getting a great number of accomplishments completing on behalf of the american people not least of which are trade deals including with canada and mexico korea japan and even china well you touched on a lot of things that i want to ask about so that was a good a good start one of them and i i bring this up because i think it's one of the things that canadians would remember about you is that the quip about alternative facts sean spicer our press secretary gave alternative facts to that but the point remains alternative of course you said that when you were trying to explain sean spicer's false claims about the crowd size at the inauguration um why did you use those terms in that interview so alternative facts was literally a gaffe i melded together things i was trying to say not to explain or defend what sean spicer had said because i had just spent 38 minutes giving three sunday show network interviews cbs abc and nbc looking into a blank camera in the freezing cold outside the white house is the very first person in the trump administration to do so and i had no notes no net no staff nothing that's okay i'm used to doing that the anchors who are watching me have a lot of people around them people in their ear the teleprompters the notes and the whole bunch but alternative facts was a gaffe that was never meant it was a misstatement that i corrected immediately and many times since the reason people keep alternative facts alive is because i've spoken millions of words and they don't have much else to go on frankly they need to do that to try to diminish me to try to um try try to get the president to be mad at me and fire me and people to pretend that we're just liars so i would never lie to the public through alternative facts i would say miss conway yes you say it's a slip of the tongue and sort of interrupt you but but it was a pattern with the president to to misrepresent facts he he he did that many hundreds and hundreds of times and it's documented and i wonder if it became a thing because you had a boss who liked to um play pretty fast and loose with the truth to say the very least i believe people kept alternative facts alive because the mainstream media that could not get enough of me during the campaign i was on tv seven eight times a day so i have a living breathing video catalog of what i thought about each state our campaign strategy the fact that trump was going to win i said it many times on the record these other people did not pretend they did because they can't do what i did frankly donald trump wins and that was not part of the implicit bargain the implicit bargain was oh here comes kellyanne as a campaign manager in the last few months so now we have a fair fight we can have one to explain things he said where we have chick-fil-a and big macs piled to the ceiling and somebody said they're not piled to the ceiling they're only this high i understand that but you represented the president and the administration and and um he certainly made a lot more false claims than about hamburgers but but let me go back to something that you do say in the book that you were the first person in his inner circle to tell him he didn't win in in 2020.
the president has actually since responded to that and said that that is not true um that you were not and that he would never have accepted that claim so why do you think he chose to respond like that to to what you've said in the book and and what does that say about how what he thinks of you well i know what he thinks of me and i know what great work we've done together and nobody can change that um i had in in my email the night before a statement he was going to put out which was very highly complimentary of me the book we'd work the work be done together and quote maybe we'll need to do it again so obviously someone got in his ear overnight and he made a different call but that doesn't wash away uh the year is a great work you write a lot about uh and you mentioned it off the top the strain um the strain in your your marriage that the president and and your husband these counter tweetings and i'm only asking obviously because this is in the book this isn't me digging into your personal life without you having written about it um your husband time and again tells the world that you're working for a at madman point he says he's he's you've ruined yourself and embarrassed the family really painful um things i would imagine my husband's opinion of the president affected me greatly he was crying on election night in his black maga hat he was all for donald trump and mike pence winning he would come to the campaign night after night after he was finished with his own job to help out and as i write in the book people say without kellyanne conway donald trump would not have been elected in 2016 that's debatable but what will never be in doubt without george conway urging encouraging and frankly insisting that i take my shot in 2016. i could never have been the campaign manager at the exam i was he drove me to trump tower the day after and the two days after the access hollywood tape came out to make sure that i quit i stayed on board you have to do this he came to that final debate took the right eye home from las vegas so the facts are the facts and if you want to know the facts these are the facts we moved as a couple and as a family to washington dc i would never as a mother move my family put my kids in whole new schools so yes george's opinion of donald trump mattered a lot to me when we were making decisions as a family he changed his mind he's entitled to do that who cares by the way that george is one of 80 million people who voted against donald trump in other words that's america you write a little bit about canada both our immigration system and of course the renegotiation of nafta at one point the president calls justin trudeau two-faced and and took him to task for his defense spending well he's too fast i called him out on the fact that he's not paying two percent but i'm just wondering from from your perspective what was the nature of their relationship was it a good working relationship my belief is that donald trump as president was pushing for america first and i think justin trudeau is the leader of canada was pushing for canada first and i think they were both great jobs on behalf of their country and their people i've met mr trudeau many times we've always had a very cordial relationship but i think more importantly the way i think your question is excellent in this way i want the canadian people to know that my own view and my own experience of their interactions and of the issues they worked on was that these agreements including the usmca the new negotiated old nafta i believe it benefited all three countries canada the united states and mexico which should make everybody happy and it was forged not out of confrontation but out of collaboration and i i think it's incredibly important that countries leaders of countries who don't agree on everything can work together you write about what donald trump tapped into obviously and how you you became the campaign manager that that fueled that movement and tapped into obviously many americans relating to the to what he was what he was saying do you see any other republican candidate right now who could tap into that movement it's an excellent question that's on the mind of many americans as uh 22 rosemary and then 2024 quickly after that uh come into focus donald trump's america first movement is branded by him the mag make america great again i actually think america first is even a more apt way to talk about the policy accomplishments because make america great again was aspirational it was a promise he was going to do that he explained what that meant he meant border security meant national security met bringing back the manufacturing base recalibrating um and modernizing these trade deals and did indeed did including with our great neighbors to the north and the south canada mexico but rosemary i think that he is i think what donald trump did i've said many times he didn't run a conventional political campaign he started a move and people felt like they were a part of the movement for that man forgotten woman forgotten child um and so he i think he'll have to go first with his decision on whether or not to run for president sorry to interrupt you would you want to be part of that rematch we'll see if the president would like to have me um i believe that elections are about the future not the past but just to be clear you would do it if he asked you again depends what the role was and it depends what the campaign is about i mean i give donald trump enormous credit i think he transformed american politics he was willing to take a chance he's a risk taker but he's also a savvy businessman he's a leader and he'd also have an integral on tv show etc he knows when to fold and when to hold them and he doesn't like to quit he doesn't like to lose he saw a winning strategy there and it's he who won that election thank you for making the time for canada i do appreciate it thank you for having me rosemary god bless the people of canada okay well a highly anticipated public inquest is underway into the death of a young man in regina who is struggling with mental health issues coming up we're going to hear from his family grieving and looking for answers [Music] a long-awaited public inquest into the death of a promising young football player has begun in regina samwell hugo who struggled with mental health issues was just 20 years old when he drowned in a lake two years ago after he was forcibly removed from regina general hospital now speaking publicly for the first time the family told omayra issa what they want to see happen a grieving father and a mother still reeling my son didn't have any problem with anybody what he could offer is just a smile as you can see from his face the 20 year old from abbotsford in bc died at west canal lake in regina on may 21st 2020 the promising football player was in the middle of mental health crisis and sought help at the regina general hospital twice in one day leave me alone i said eventually he was forcibly removed by security a few hours later he was found drowned in the lake he died by suicide according to his family speaking through a sudanese arabic translator samuel ugo's parents say they're still looking for answers i was not happy the way that someone was treated who went to the hospital seeking treatment but see what happened to him being pulled away that shouldn't happen to a person for this i'm deeply sorry the saskatchewan health authority apologized to hugo's family it admitted it had failed to provide care and paid 81 thousand dollars in damages to the family a coroner's inquest is currently underway from there a jury will make recommendations to prevent similar deaths this incident has made many in saskatchewan's black community lose faith in the health care system it's very unfortunate if that night we had had cultural sensitivity people around or somebody like look like samuel maybe maybe samuel would have been alive today you know what it means when i go to hospital i see a black person or i see a black doctor or even a black genital i feel good then i feel safe we have to relieve that again uco's uncle says his race affected the level of care the hospital provided they did not feel compassion somewhere because of his color of skin nothing else will have will make us think otherwise in a statement the sha says it is committed to better support its diverse population the family says this week-long inquest is a first step in the long road to justice for samuel ugo omera isa cbc news regina surging gas prices are getting in the way of what should have been a tourism rebound so everything is more costly than ever coming up we'll check in with tour operators in newfoundland feeling the pinch i'm jamie poisson and tomorrow on cbc's daily news podcast front burner a deep dive into quebec's controversial new language law bill 96 subscribe wherever you get your podcasts [Music] well after a rough few years during the pandemic there was hope that this year would mark a rebound for canada's tourism industry but in some parts of the country the price of gas is really getting in the way of the bottom line chris o'neil yates visited one newfoundland town where businesses are struggling to keep up after a no-show last year icebergs are beguiling visitors to twillinggate so we're from australia and this is almost as far away as you can get and to see an iceberg we're pretty lucky not so lucky though with gas prices surging to over two bucks a liter since they booked their travel been trying to keep the tank full when it hits about half so kind of lulled into a false sense of security that it's not costing that much this here this piece of ice and and such as others represents 50 percent of the business tour operator barry rogers now pays three times more to fill his boat's fuel tank absolutely i mean we just can't put that you know because of the world crisis back to our guests rogers did increase ticket prices slightly but to save fuel he's reducing boat speed and cutting the number of trips i mean if we've got say low numbers on the four o'clock we ask our guests to move back to the one and it's not just boat tour operators that are feeling the pinch this year it's also having an impact on other people who rely on tourism to make a living so everything is more costly than ever food costs have increased by at least 30 percent for deborah gordon's restaurant she's increased menu prices but not by that much so you sometimes have to make decisions about what actually goes in that salad now maybe you have to take out some of the premium items so that you can keep price point to where it's at least acceptable she worries that people may balk at driving because of the high cost of gas they say newfoundland is a very expensive destination yes absolutely but twin gate within newfoundland is also an even more expensive destination a delicate balance to keep business afloat until the next iceberg season chris o'neil yates cbc news twillengate newfoundland well tonight's moment is all about a one-of-a-kind almost fairy tale-like reunion it's like a cinderella and the slipper moment they are a perfect fit we'll show you why well that is renee forstall she's 60 years old and decided she wanted to pick up a hobby from her youth roller skating so naturally she began her search for some used skates and came across what seemed like a pretty solid pair she found them online but it was only when she showed up to try them on that she realized just how perfect a fit they were that moment is our moment kind of meander through the facebook and marketplace and see if i could find any vintage uh roller skates and they were sitting there with no laces and they had no size mentioned and 40 bucks that's a good deal so i messaged them and i said hey i think these are going to work i looked at them and i thought wow they look like the same type i used to have so i just put them on and it was like holy smokes that wow it's like a cinderella and the slipper moment it's like a perfect fit when when she saw her name written on the insides she just started tearing up and i thought that was so cool i feel like they could make a disney movie out of the whole thing and i couldn't even believe it i thought how and then i said this is me these are these were mine suddenly i was reeled back to my youth like 40 years ago i was like bob like life flashed before my eyes the universe works in mysterious ways let's put it that way indeed it does so you know of course of course this is such a lovely beautiful wonderful story but i can't help but think that that like if you were renee wouldn't that have been so like creepy in in kind of a surreal sort of way like like you you go to buy something and you see your name and it's like those skates belonged to you all along i don't know maybe i'm overthinking things i think it could make for a good horror movie that's the 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