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tonight marking one year since a kamloops first nation forced a canadian reckoning with residential schools too many children did not make it home with reconciliation in mind what's been learned and what's next also tonight a canadian desire for travel hits a new restriction prices that bite three thousand dollars for me is equal to five months of rent if we end up being broken and the royal family a new take from an old hand do you see a possible future where the royal family brings harry and megan back andrew probes tina brown dishes good evening i'm adrian arsenault andrew is away one year after the discovery that sparked a national reckoning today a day of reflection in kamloops bc opening its doors to canadians that to come loops to schwepp nation gathered to honor le squique the missing children who never made it home it took place near the site of a former residential school and its 215 suspected unmarked graves there was song dance and prayer but with the prime minister in attendance talk to how to turn a reckoning into reconciliation a long day of remembrance ended with remarks to the community from chief kasmir and the prime minister then with questions from the media brady strachan is in kamloops tonight with more on how the day unfolded and the difficult decisions that now lie ahead through song and dance just steps away from the sight of suspected graves the community remembered young lives lost so we're here today to honor and to reflect this past year the very first anniversary of the week way the missing the children who did not come home for some elders who attended the school the ceremonies today are a way of healing the trauma they endured i remember the nuns pulling up their arms like this and coming down hitting our back there was three of us and so i didn't want to be here anymore rose miller was just eight years old she tried to run away along the river to reach her parents i got back and got punished they cut my hair off so short all over i had long grades and we had a lion at little beds that they have in there and on our stomach and they stripped us down and they strapped us she says watching children in regalia expressing the culture she wasn't allowed to know is a way forward for her community indigenous leaders here say they too are looking for a way forward that includes searching for any further remains on the site there is federal money to support that work but the harder question for many is what to do with any remains found on the site they should be brought back to the communities because this here was a central place for many children from all over bc maybe even estates in alberta first nation leaders say that's a decision that will take time and careful consideration i think the focus really needs to be on the survivors and their families so that they can have the space and the voice and the healing they need and then they can come together to make some of these key and important decisions the federal government says it's committed to working with the first nation communities tied to 140 residential schools healing is not easy it's a journey and it takes time and everyone has their own pace and we will be there with you every step of the way and while the path to reconciliation may still be unclear this community hopes its unity may help pave the way brady strachan cbc news to come loose to sequel first nation renee philipponi is also in kamloops renee you've been there at the memorial all day starting with that sunrise ceremony but i wanted to ask you about how it ended with comments from the prime minister and the chief of the to come loops to schweppnick nation what stood out to you well talking to community member community members all day they really talked about how they felt there was too much talk from the federal government and and not enough action and that really translated into that press conference today when the prime minister was asked questions he was asked specifically about what the government is doing to help communities like the tequilas to schwetmick when it comes to more ground penetrating radar and investigations healing centers and also when it comes to you know the mental health supports that are needed you know he said we will be there with what is needed and that it should be a community driven project but there were no specifics from him nothing new today so while his visit here was welcomed by some elders giving him hugs and tears and selfies there were a large sort of vocal group who weren't happy the prime minister was here at all drums were beating they were chanting canada is on indian land your constitution is not our constitution and he was asked specifically about that and he said you know he understands that there this community has gone through some incredible trauma and that yes there is anger frustration mistrust that is totally legitimate he said and if someone needs to yell at someone for it then they can do that to him adrian all right renee philipponi and kamloops thank you renee you're welcome support is available for anyone affected by residential schools you can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis line that number 1-866-925-4419 let's head east now where a clearer picture is emerging of just how devastating and deadly the storm was that blew through ontario and quebec this weekend today the death toll increased to at least 10. it's been two days and tens of thousands of people are still without power the infrastructure so badly damaged it could be days yet before it's restored deanna sumanek johnson shows us what residents and hydro crews are up against as they try to piece things back together on a holiday monday in ottawa little cause for celebration much for concern from above the destruction is clear hydro towers crumpled trees snapped homes severely damaged this family has had their kids bathe and eat meals at a friend's house now we don't have any power no hot water nothing so with four kids it's very very hard help is coming into the province from the united states crews from the toronto area kingston and new brunswick are also in or heading to ottawa the counselors in those areas are telling me this is as bad if not worse than what they remember from the tornado back in 2018 and then of course going back all the way to 1998 and the ice storm that devastated our city in this town northeast of toronto a state of emergency continues cars and homes still crashed under fallen trees crews working hard to restore power i just want to thank these guys after facing criticism for not going to the devastated areas sooner ontario's premier arrived today it's every all hands on deck right now and we're going to get this cleaned up but for many people the only hands on deck are their own this is a big concern this couple's home in oakville ontario has looked like this since saturday they're trying to reach their insurance company to see if it'll cover the cost of removing the tree from the roof so i called the insurance company you know no one responds i send online res the claim but you know so far no response yet and so the work continues after the long weekend that for many did not go as expected we say we will pass a long weekend it's a long weekend very long sumanak johnson cbc news toronto long weekend celebrations turned violent last night at a popular beach here in toronto so two men were shot another was stabbed seven police officers were injured one of them struck directly in the face by a firework it's believed the gathering was organized on social media 19 people have been arrested so far hundreds of ukrainians displaced by the russian invasion are preparing for their first night in canada they touched down in winnipeg today on ottawa's first charter flight from the region as karen paul shows us their long journey ended in a very warm welcome their flight was nearly two hours late finally touching down in canada safe as the ukrainians got off the plane went through customs and got their luggage family and friends were waiting this couple came to pick up his mom and sister who fled harkev they had like a very narrow window to flee so finally they moved and crossed the border to paul and then they spent their like months waiting for everything and now they're coming here i believe they're calling while we were talking he got a call from his sister on the plane so yes they're landing waiting for their time to leave the plane oh my god yeah we hardly slept we hardly eat anything but until we knew that there safely soon people started trickling out of canada customs suitcases in tow looking a little shocked at the greeting this family fled shernahive in december already worried about what was on the horizon i'm feeling great a bit exhausted after flight but it's perfect i'm happy to be here from the airport they went to the ukrainian refugee reception center a one-stop shop for provincial services like health cards and housing ottawa is providing up to 14 days of accommodations in a hotel the manitoba government says the newcomers can stay as long as it takes to find a place to live we'll do whatever we can to help support them through this time it's difficult enough for them and to that we just don't want them to worry back at international arrivals finally the emotional reunion give them a like make the dinner for them and just have a good talk this is the first of three federally chartered flights the second will go to montreal on sunday the third to halifax four days later all told one thousand people will arrive but 240 thousand ukrainians have applied to come to canada manitoba hopes ottawa will send more flights here promising an open heart and a warm welcome karen paul cbc news winnipeg the number of people forced to flee conflicts like the war in ukraine reached an all-time high today that number has now hit a hundred million worldwide it adds up to more than one percent of the global population and includes refugees and those who are internally displaced the data was released by the u.n as ukrainians continue to leave their country moscow is stepping up its attacks in parts of eastern ukraine there is a fresh sign of resistance to the war though a russian diplomat has resigned in protest and ukrainian civilians and forces remain defiant briar stewart is there russian troops didn't make it to kiev but the burnt out shells of a few of their military vehicles did dragged onto the central square to serve as a symbol this is now a reminder that we are strong and this is what happens to those who come here to invade our land but this is also one more reminder of what ukrainians living and fighting on the front line are going through i lost maybe to my friend on this floor her friends were killed in mariopo but ukrainian soldiers are being targeted across the country 87 were killed last week at this military training facility during a missile strike every country today while speaking to business leaders virtually at the davos forum vladimir zelinski called for the world to completely cut off russia what should the sanctions be like he said maximum so that russia or any other potential aggressor that might want to brutally attack a neighbor would know straight away what the consequences are he wants to see an oil embargo blocks against all russian banks while some foreign companies are withdrawing from russia zielinski says they all should today a russian diplomat to the u.n resigned his post in the scathing statement he said never have i been so ashamed of my country as on february 24th of this year even as russia tries to seize more land in the donbass ukrainian prosecutors are already going after its soldiers the heinous killings committed in the early days of the invasion this 21 year old russian soldier looked almost childlike as he peered out from the prisoner's box ukraine says it's investigating more than 13 thousand war crimes zelinski says russia's apparent treatment of civilians is one of the reasons why it's more difficult to arrange formal negotiations he says the only russian official he'll meet with is president vladimir putin and so far there are no plans for that briar stewart cbc news kiev after 15 years in business starbucks is leaving russia the seattle-based coffee company is closing 130 cafes and ending shipments of coffee and products to the country starbucks says it will continue paying its employees in russia for six months this is the second major exit of a global american brand mcdonald's announced its intentions last week now for some reassuring news about monkey pox even as more suspected cases were reported today in the uk and europe canada's official numbers remain at five cases confirmed in montreal plus a couple of dozen suspected cases including one in toronto chris brown shows us why globally there is caution but not fear the last thing britain or anywhere needs is another health scare but no sooner have the coveted masks come off here then the global medical community is warning of a new threat of monkey pox they're very violent the worldwide outbreak of monkey pox infections is so unusual that it's a cause for concern said germany's health minister with lethargy blisters and [ __ ] sores the virus is unpleasant but rarely fatal usually found in parts of africa what's new is that clusters are turning up in europe and beyond welcome to another so doctors from the world health organization took to social media monday with words of caution transmission is really happening from close physical contact skin to skin contact so it's not it's quite different than covet in that sense notably analysis of the cases reveal several european clusters are within communities of men who have sex with men suggesting theories of perhaps a super spreader event like a party experts say subsequent international travel could then move the virus quickly around the globe if one or two people became infected at a mass gathering and then went off to their own countries they could set up small outbreaks in their country so it's it's feasible but i'm not pointing an accusatory finger at anyone britain reported 36 new cases monday for a total of 56 with fewer than 200 confirmed or suspected globally worrying but no reason for overreaction says this expert so we should definitely not be going all out with the alarm meter we should not be panicking dr helen vamalaratna says unlike covid monkey pox is not a new virus nor does it appear to have mutated so the important things here are good surveillance collecting good data decent contact tracing there is a vaccine if other measures don't halt the spread but doctors say the greatest harm may be the risk of stigmatizing the gay community because anyone can get monkey pox chris brown cbc news london pfizer is one step closer to getting regulatory approval for its covid vaccine for kids younger than five preliminary data suggests its three doses offered strong protection and were well tolerated pfizer had initially planned for two doses but discovered they didn't seem strong enough the company says it plans to submit its new data to u.s regulators this week moderna released similar trial data back in march for its two-dose vaccine for the littlest of kids the fda is expected to review both vaccines on june 15th joe biden's provocative words about china today had some people asking did he really mean that it was all about the lengths the u.s would go to if china got aggressive with taiwan magna gabrilasa shows us the president did raise the stakes and that might involve canada not pulling any punches president joe biden says if china attacks taiwan the u.s will defend it militarily yes

that's the commitment we made the white house says biden's comments don't reflect a change in policy referring to the 1979 taiwan relations act by which the u.s would provide taiwan with resources to defend itself but that act doesn't require military intervention at least one republican congressman liked what biden said coming from the president's very very strong and i think china needs to understand that they can't take this lightly and that we're not going to sit back idly and watch them invade taiwan china reacted quickly and forcefully saying china deplored and rejected biden's comments its foreign minister called taiwan part of china and that it wouldn't stand for outside interference some chinese officials believe the u.s is testing china to see how far it will go says this expert that is dangerous if they if they actually conclude that because that could imply that xi jinping feels that he's being backed into a corner that he has to do something to uh to show that china has a sovereignty over taiwan countries should be very active now to to tell china you better be careful this former canadian ambassador to china says recent actions against russia by the u.s and others also act as a warning and the message now to china needs to be don't think about invading taiwan you have to maintain the status quo otherwise you would be subject to heavy sanctions he believes if china does invade other nations including canada will do their part to support the u.s

mark de gabriel solas cbc news washington well many pandemic restrictions have lifted your summer travel may have hit a new bump in the road three thousand dollars for me is equal to five months of rent well canadians decide what they're willing to pay the tourism industry braces for a season of sky-high gas prices well i'm not going to cry on camera as the queen's platinum jubilee approaches journalist tina brown on what the future could look like for the royal family do you see a possible future where the royal family brings harry and megan back plus the women who are breaking barriers in men's pro sports i don't have to defend my place in this game and if they don't know i can't control that we're back in two cbc news the national name canada's best national newscast at the canadian screen awards welcome back after years of covid concerns and restrictions many canadians are eager to finally travel again but as sophia harris explains some are now running into a brand new roadblock that has them pausing their plans once again after two years of lockdowns and travel restrictions chanakia ramdev finally started making plans this spring to visit his parents my parents who are seniors now have been alone in india but ramdev says his trip is on hold again because airfares to india recently spiked to around 3 000 round trip a price he can't afford three thousand dollars for me is equal to five months of rent even though the travel restrictions have been removed a new restriction has been added which is a financial restriction according to statistics canada airfares are surging up by 20 in april compared to pre-pandemic prices this economist blames the hike on increased demand at a time when airlines aren't yet flying at full capacity and soaring oil prices jet fuel prices have risen over 120 percent compared to this time in 2019 high prices at the pumps are also putting a damper on travel plans closer to home the national average price of gas recently topped two dollars a liter a record high pre-pandemic ted hilton regularly made the 460 kilometer drive to michigan to visit family he wants to resume those trips but the senior who lives on a fixed income says he can't afford the gas bill you depend on keeping in touch with friends and relatives and not everybody lives next door and not being able to travel and to meet up with them it does make you feel rather isolated experts predict fuel prices will remain high for some time and could climb even higher meaning no relief in sight for cash-strapped canadians with unfulfilled travel plans sophia harris cbc news toronto so you just saw a picture of niagara falls there spare a thought for those in the tourism sector in that city as stephen d'souza tells us many are worried about the impact of sky high prices every time john kinney fires up one of his jet boats he feels the double hit from high gas prices i'm not going to cry on camera but boats are notorious fuel consumers his other concern that high gas prices keep tourists at home syracuse boston those you know one tank away markets when now it costs a couple hundred dollars to fill up your tank those people may say i'm going to stay a little bit closer to home a recent survey found 66 percent of drivers said high gas prices would force them to cancel or limit road trips this summer that has a real bad impact on the industry that is hoping to have its first proper summer for two years the mayor hopes a restriction-free summer can overcome the sting of high gas prices i think what's going to happen people are going to budget this into their vacation to niagara falls that's what marie and bowie did we've been stuck inside for the past two years right so this summer i'm going to sacrifice but it's not only a drop in canadian visitors that has businesses here concerned with so much of their business coming from the u.s tourism operators say their biggest worry isn't high gas prices but uncertainty at the border americans make up almost 30 percent of visitors to niagara falls but tourism officials say confusion over rules and requirements like the arrive can app are keeping americans away it's just another layer of red tape it's another reason to not come to canada to bypass us back at the falls mariam bouilla says he'll likely spend less on food and attractions but won't let gas prices slow down her trip if we end up being broke an attitude that businesses here hope will help fuel their recovery stephen d'souza cbc news niagara falls ontario and it's not just the summer road trip in parts of nova scotia they're hoping tourists are ready to set sail we'll take you to a harbor along the coast ready to welcome back travelers but first does the monarchy survive the 21st century andrew sits down with journalist tina brown for a conversation about what's next for the royal family thank you very much well that's a royal outing today in london the queen was at the chelsea flower show since she's been having some trouble walking she was driven around in a golf cart this is the latest in a series of appearances helping to ease concerns about her health ahead of next month's platinum jubilee celebrations now it's been a rough patch for the royal family including prince andrew caught up in scandal and prince harry leaving the country as the commonwealth prepares to celebrate the queen's jubilee andrew sat down with tina brown to discuss her new book the palace papers a blunt assessment of this difficult time from a royal family watcher who thinks it will survive it hello and welcome to newshour live from the bbc spokesman for prince andrew today declined to comment after a woman who claims she was brought to the uk as a teenager to have sex with breaking news that's just coming into us which is that prince andrew has reached a financial settlement with virginia opened up to oak breath harry and megan again hit the reputation of the monarchy heart and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born what they have been their own worst enemy it is true i mean i don't think limitless scandal and explosions can leave the monarchy intact it is a dumpster fire actually i mean it's been a pretty rough well certainly a very rough uh five years at any rate so then can i ask this in in as blunt a way as possible does the monarchy survive the 21st century well i do think the monarchy survives but i don't think it's going to have the same global uh lustre let's put it that way that the queen uh with her extraordinary stature and rings of history around her you know 14 prime ministers starting with uh winston churchill there's no one who can have that kind of luster and radiance and you know and stature frankly again very unlikely uh but it'll be a different kind of monarchy but i believe it will survive tell me if i'm wrong one portrait that i i felt like was being repeatedly painted in the book was one of a royal family writ large that is for the most part pretty disconnected from the reality of of you and and me and people who are watching this it is disconnected and the interesting thing about the story the royal story and certainly the story that i was telling was the way themes you know reassert themselves again and again there's the monarchy the institution thousand-year-old white protestant privilege fortress as it were which moves like a glacier and then there are these human beings who inhabit it who are like any family there are you know the the successes the failures the the weak ones the strong ones the the miscreants the sort of the tension between the institution and these very human very fallible people who inhabit it and a lot of what we're going to see is about what these people elect to do as individuals in that constriction of the monarchy buckingham palace has confirmed that the duke and duchess of sussex will not be returning so one of the royal family's most popular members a man for whom over the years there's been great sympathy and admiration now faces a very different future the way back to royal duty has been closed do you see a possible future where the royal family brings harry and megan back into the fold i do see a possibility in charles's reign i think that charles wants harry back actually and i wouldn't be surprised it's a question of whether pride on both sides can um affect er approximate i think they've got to now have a period where uh there is some calm uh of course prince harry doesn't want that to happen i mean he's busy lobbing his grenades from montecito and is going to publish his own memoir his own tell-all memoir in the fall which i think is weighted with awaited with a lot of trepidation frankly about what's he going to do now to destabilize things just at the moment when you know they're going to be like that there's a real anxiety about that so it's a question of let's get through the book and then we'll see what happens if you were to venture an opinion here do you think harry and megan made a mistake i personally think that they could have accomplished a tremendous amount within the royal family and that's certainly the way diana always lived her life i mean diana after all there's a lot of comparison with diana but diana actually did stay there for 16 years and she didn't leave the royal family she hated it but she also saw that it was an amazing platform for her to uh uh for her humanitarian causes and she stayed living in kensington palace after all she didn't leave kensington palace that was her power base and she knew it i think they could have accomplished more while being still hanging onto the platform of uh you know their royal service not quite the welcome they were hoping for at one of the first places william and kate were supposed to visit protests forced the couple to cancel this is our land this is our property we're moving on and we intend to attain in short order developing courses and function our true ambitions destiny as an independent developed prosperous country an independent jamaica awkward moment for char for william i think that his feeling would have been actually emotionally sympathetic to it because i think william is a modern a modern young briton would actually agree with the sentiment but the role he's playing it put him in a very awkward spot but i think really what william i know what he thinks is that he's kind of commonwealth tours have to be utterly rethought in some ways they haven't changed since the queen and prince philip were going there and standing up in the land rover and sort of you know making their their sort of you know looking down gestures as it were to uh the people of those nations and i think you're not going to see william and kate doing those kind of tours anymore the ceremony is unchanged but the politics are new the queen has seen much in her reign a line from from your book in which you quote the queen who said i have to be seen to be believed and and that was a great hint at the both the fragility of the monarchy but also the the power of it that you're talking absolutely i mean the queen has never been in any doubt that she served the british nation she regards her life as serving the nation she didn't see herself as like ruling the british nation she thinks she knows that she's there essentially at uh at the will of the british people but i think the monarchy can still be of great national importance and even international importance and i think there's time enough for william to uh to grow enough to to have quite a bit of gravitas because william has something else he's diana's son and as diana's son he will always be first in the nation's hearts can i ask you one more question why do you keep coming back to this this topic the royals the royal family you've had a fascination with them i am fascinated by the rules because it is a quintessential dramatic and fascinating situation to have human beings living in such a gilded cage and in such constrained situations and yet trying to be human trying to be normal that's a very interesting dynamic there's something just deeply fascinating just about the human predicament these people are in tina brown what a joy to speak with you thank you thank you when we come back men's pro sports aren't just for men anymore i don't have to defend my place in this game and if they don't know i can't control that we'll introduce you to some of the women making big moves in the big leagues next welcome back the fight for equity between men and women in sports has largely been around equal pay for playing but a more subtle fight has been around to access not to play but to coach men have always had that privilege in women's sport lindsey duncan shows us some women who've punched through the other way this is the stuff of dreams when cami granado was small she and her hockey mad brothers joked about winning a lottery so they could buy an nhl team and call the shots in my mind that was like the only end because it just it seemed like impossible i just thought well it's never going to happen because it's just they don't women don't get hired now they do granado is one of two female assistant general managers with the vancouver canucks the only two women at that level in the league granado runs player development and scouting emily castengae handles contracts no lottery win to get here just decades of being better than pretty much everyone else including the men i don't have to defend my place in this game if they don't know i can't control that more and more men's pro sports leagues are making the calculation women can help them win there are a dozen female coaches in the nfl half that in the nba a female gm in baseball eyes up is that pies up and this season the bc lions hired the first woman to coach in the cfl it's been a hell of a fight to get here and for many it's still a battle the first medal goes over the head of the captain candy granada canadians may remember granado as the architect of heartbreak leading team usa to gold the first time women's hockey was in the olympics her post-playing career equally impressive renato is the only female analyst in the nhl right now an analyst for the la kings a broadcaster a hall of fame inductee a pro scout for seattle then the call came from the canucks as qualified as she is granada was surprised i just didn't think i was going to see that come so quickly in our like in my lifetime but hiring women for the front office was something jim rutherford was thinking about a decade ago when he was gm of the pittsburgh penguins and winning stanley cups i always thought you know the women they have a lot to offer you know they're smart people they know the game and it's only a matter of time it's one thing to say that in hockey we're going to go double back right left right left right left but here it's tougher i've been dealing with roadblocks as a female in football since the day i stepped on the field you know i've had coaches flat out refuse to shake my hands tanya walter is an assistant defensive coach with the cfl's bc lions running rookies through training camp she is the first woman to coach in the cfl there you go i know that you know the expectation is almost higher it's like if i you know i get in that feeling where it's just like if i do anything wrong it's going to automatically be like jumped on surprisingly walter's favorite sport growing up wasn't football but basketball on the court she was told she was too aggressive and that aggression works well on the football field she played with the edmonton storm of the western women's canadian football league then team alberta and canada winning silver at a women's world championship but still she faces criticism she's not qualified for this an entry-level pro position you're square okay it flips from your hip okay so my shoulders should not be moving you know a lot of people are like oh well she doesn't have the experience she didn't play in the cfl so she shouldn't be coaching the cfl she doesn't understand it she's never played football and it's you know we'll first look at what i've actually done before you you know say that i don't know what i'm doing judge me on the job that criticism doesn't come from the players she's actually been working me i ain't gonna lie these first couple of days yeah yeah she's been surprising me with the stuff that we've been doing she had to work hard harder than men do to achieve the same thing so i think that says a lot about her surviving adversity might just be what makes walter good at this i come from somewhere where i've had to fight for every opportunity to play i've had to fight for every opportunity to you know be involved granado couldn't agree more i absolutely think that if you keep hiring the same minds you're not going to get growth the goal though is that someday it won't be remarkable when women earn these jobs the once impossible will not only be real but normal lindsey duncam cbc news vancouver there is change underway along the coast of nova scotia smaller porch that close to international boaters when the pandemic hit are finally welcoming them back we'll take you to lunenburg right after the break welcome back just in time for this long weekend the canada border services agency has reopened more than 300 small harbors to international boats a dozen of them are along the nova scotia coast where shaina luck found the locals eager to greet the arrivals lunenburg is getting ready for the big influx of tourists the historic port closed to international boaters when the pandemic hit now they're finally coming back lunenburg is a tough place to drive to or right out on the end of the road but if you're on a boat it's on the way to everywhere hall basket employs seven people at his boat works shop and typically does more than a million dollars of business every year we have boats from europe both from the united states a lot of people cruise to greenland and newfoundland and they come up from the caribbean that all stopped in 2020 when the canada border services agency suspended service in the town you know we were almost mothballed for a while because of it but so was everybody else before the pandemic boaters entering canada could do their paperwork here but with small ports along the south shore of nova scotia closed they had to travel to larger ports like halifax sometimes adding a day's worth of travel for small boats about 20 percent of the business in this sale repair shop comes from the northeast united states may is the month when people move their boats and the reopening of small ports could attract tourists in other parts of the country macmillan is ready for them to arrive all the great lakes you know there's little places where americans transit and go to and from canada becomes same reason looking for cruising looking for you know a little more pristine get away from the big big cities a few hours drive from lunenburg some americans are already arriving this is the first ferry from maine in three years tourism operators are hoping those visitors will spread throughout the province and spend some money while they're here lunenburg is just one of more than 300 border services sites reopening across the country about 50 are in atlantic canada and the west most of the rest are in ontario shaina lux cbc news lunenburg a 14 year old yukoner made hockey history for the territory everyone was very proud it was a really really cool moment yeah it was a cool moment and it's ours after this okay in there somewhere is gavin mckenna the 14 year old from white horse who just made hockey history he was selected first overall in the western hockey league draft by the medicine hat tigers so he is the very first you conor to be picked first in the whl draft that monumental moment for the young player and the territory is our moment i was awesome i was at the rink with my team lots of my teammates were there so they got excited for me and everyone was very proud it was a really really cool moment gavin's been kind of ranked as the number one in western canada for quite some time so you know we were always hoping that uh you know it would all pan out he loved it right from the very beginning he always had to have a puck or a stick in his hand he was just right started skating at two and gavin was competitive right from the very beginning his grandpa would tease him and say like you need to get rid of that and try and catch me and sure enough off he went trying to chase his grandpa and the rest is history we're super proud of him you know all of his hard work over the years starting to pay off it was awesome it felt didn't feel real for a bit there it's kind of set in now but very exciting day yeah no kidding good for you did you see how fast he was as a little guy there gavin doesn't turn 15 until december his big dream the nhl we have all the faith in the world he'll get there that is the national for may 23rd good night you

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