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tonight sweeping recommendations for change to address sexual misconduct in the military i see no basis for the canadian armed forces to retain any jurisdiction over sexual offenses the government says it accepts a new report what do victims think also tonight reaction to the killing of a popular rapper with strong ties to canada he actually rose up from brampton like it's a huge loss and shrinking the farm to fit the city then scaling up your family needs to eat my family's to eat my neighbor needs to eat everyone needs to be part of this economy a diversity of backgrounds a common goal this is the national [Music] good evening i'm andrew chang adrian is away in two separate announcements today the federal government promised action to make canadians safer now in a moment we'll look at how its gun proposals measure up to earlier promises but first we're going to zero in on the crisis of sexual misconduct in the military and a slew of recommendations today about how to tackle the problem they come from former supreme court justice louise arbor and they are wide-ranging from where officers should be trained to who should investigate their alleged sexual offenses now over more than 400 pages arbor lays out the problems and proposes solutions ashley burke takes us through some of the findings and what commitment the government is prepared to make a blistering indictment today of the military's resistance to change what's happening in the military system is not sustainable former supreme court justice louise arbor's review found the military is incapable of recognizing its own weaknesses and that's kept sexual violence misogyny and harassment alive she's now calling for a major overhaul including stripping the forces of the power to investigate and prosecute sexual offenses the handling of sexual offenses by military court in the past 20 years has done very little to improve efficiency discipline and morale if anything it has served to erode it arbor also has serious concerns about military colleges and recommends the forces review whether they do more harm than good the continued prevalence of sexual misconduct at the military colleges is well documented and i think it's harder to address these issues there than in a civilian environment i accept madame arbor's final report in its entirety the government says it already started moving forward on 17 of our boar's 48 recommendations and will review the rest the forces top soldier says this time the military has to respond differently perhaps what has happened in the past is we've been too defensive when we've had an external set of eyes on us experts say after more than a year of unrelenting scandal the military's credibility is at stake i think how the canadian defense forces and the minister responds to this report will help to either instill confidence or break that confidence and further erode that confidence i remain cautious in my optimism former navy member don mcamoy says she's been waiting for culture change since going public in 1998 saying the military failed to properly handle her rape case it's getting tiring i need to see some of these implemented right away and you know actions taken right away that's a concern our boar has too she says she wants to know within the next year what recommendations the military won't implement and says there are hundreds of others from past reviews that are still in limbo okay now ashley based on arbor's interim recommendation the government had already started work to transfer sexual offenses to the civilian system can you tell us where that stands andrew we have been asking the military for months now how many cases of sexual offenses they have transferred to civilian police today still no answer our boar said that there are on average about 30 sexual offense cases in the military a year compared to more than 2 000 in the civilian system arguing that it shouldn't be much of a workload increase for police ashley burke thank you very much now in ashley's space you heard from a former member of the military a little later we're going to speak with another who describes what she endured and the response she got i was told if you don't like it you can quit and at that time i took it upon myself to become more looking like a man we'll also speak directly with justice louis arbor about what surprised her about her own investigation okay now to the other major development in ottawa the federal government is proposing a national freeze on the sale of handguns as part of a sweeping new gun control bill tabled today julia wong takes us through the proposed changes and how they're being received for the liberals today's bill is an election promise fulfilled as we see gun violence continue to rise it is our duty to keep taking action the legislation would increase penalties for gun smuggling and trafficking introduce a red flag law so individuals considered a threat to themselves or others surrender firearms to police and implement a national freeze on the sale importation and transfer of handguns some municipalities had wanted a handgun ban today they got a freeze on handgun ownership in many discussions with those municipalities it became clear that they didn't feel like they had the ability or the tools to do that but we made a commitment to canadians that we were going to take real concrete steps to strengthen gun control natalie provos is a survivor of the 1989 polytechnic shooting she applauds the move toward a federal freeze we will have the same legislation for all canadians so i'm very happy for this very good first step today but this edmonton gun store owner says the handgun freeze goes too far and will affect his livelihood that's about 40 to 60 percent of my business so now i have to figure out if that is lost revenue i have to figure out how we move forward how we potentially grow the business how i keep all my staff employed guns rights groups are also concerned that legal gun owners are being unfairly punished you're assuming that stopping the legitimate lawful use of the handgun sports in some way is going to reduce crime and violence because every credible expert on this topic knows it's not okay now julia another part of the announcement today was about a mandatory buy back program for assault style weapons andrew the program will apply to the more than 1500 models and variants of assault style firearms banned by the government in 2020 in 2021 the government estimated there were roughly 100 to 200 000 of those guns in canada though many say that number is low the government says it's still sorting out the details of the buyback and will consult with industry on compensation but there's a commitment the program will start before the end of the year andrew okay julie wong in ottawa thank you now for some political analysis let's bring in rosie barton rosie let's turn to that handgun freeze not a ban what should we take from that i think andrew you know it shows that gun legislation is very challenging the liberals had wanted to put a in place a handgun ban for municipalities but it became clear that that was unworkable for cities they then looked for a solution that would be driven by the provinces but as the prime minister himself said today that didn't fit either so given the potential for pushback from various groups this was really as close as the government felt it could get to a ban but a cap on the number of legal handguns is not a ban which is what they had promised it was likely the easiest way though to make this work politically across the country right and and what did you make of the timing of this legislation listen they had a piece of legislation similar to this before the election that died so this was going to happen but it was accelerated because the mass shootings in the united states the government wants to show it is acting aggressively on guns but there is also some political opportunity here the prime minister says he wants to get this done quickly hopes other parties will fast track it too we know conservatives are very concerned about protecting the rights of legal gun owners in this country but even here in canada the recent shootings in the u.s will make it more challenging for any party to take issue with some of these measures rosemary barton in ottawa thank you thanks in yuvaldi texas visitations got underway today for some of the 21 victims of last week's mass shooting at an elementary school [Music] six days after the attack as mourners prayed at a makeshift memorial family and friends gathered nearby at visitations for two ten-year-old girls they were among the 19 4th grade students killed in the mass shooting two teachers were also killed and after visiting uvalde yesterday u.s president joe biden said today he would keep pressing for change the pain is palpable and i think a lot of it's unnecessary so i'm going to continue to push and we'll see how this works the first of the victims funerals are set for tomorrow exactly one week after the attack well now to the death of a popular rapper that's sending shockwaves through the punjabi community in india and here in canada where he had his breakthrough sidhu muswala's music videos have been watched millions of times dale manokdak shows us how he's being remembered [Music] was shot on the roof of the nelson square parking garage in brampton just north of toronto i think it symbolizes a perfect moment he's going to go down as a legend group in bardwash who directed six of the rapper's videos including legend says sidhu musevala has had a profound impact on his life we worked together for a span of maybe eight months and in that time my career skyrocketed everything changed for me and it set a path for me that i'm still on today [Music] is especially relatable to those in brampton he arrived in 2016 after receiving an engineering degree in india he just came here as a student he just do a struggle he just composed his music he actually rose up from from brampton like that's where most of his fame form was from and like it's a huge loss but his impact has stretched much further this vigil was held sunday in surrey bc together we are here praying for his soul that rest in peace canadian rap superstar drake posted about musee walla's death and canadian entertainer lily singh took to instagram to talk about recent acts of violence including the mass shootings in the united states i think today for me personally you know hearing about the murder of siddhu muswala which is who's an iconic punjabi musician just was like the final blow some indian news reports say walla's father told police that his son had recently been receiving threats opposition parties in the state of punjab were accusing the ruling government of taking the singer's security away at a time when he was facing severe death threats from several gangsters in the country police say the investigation is ongoing sidhu muswala was 28 years old dale monocdoc cbc news brampton at least 21 bodies have been recovered at the site of a plane crash in nepal [Music] that's believed to be nearly all there were 22 people on board the aircraft crashed on sunday 15 minutes after taking off from a tourist town west of kathmandu the wreckage was found monday across a himalayan mountainside at about 4 000 meters above sea level authorities are investigating well bc has the longest walk-in clinic wait times in the country getting a family doctor is no easy feat and now emergency rooms in the province have faced unexpected closures as susana da silva reports there are desperate calls for the province to fix its hobbled system while the bc premier was all smiles at the groundbreaking of a new metro vancouver hospital john horgan also offered a dire warning the system is vibrant but the system is teetering three emergency rooms in small bc communities were forced to temporarily close this weekend not enough staff it is going to burn the health care system in the ass if they don't find a solution to fill the gaps and turn this around in a very timely fashion gaps felt all over the province have pushed some to the lawn of the legislature almost 1 million people don't have a family doctor and recent data says bc walk-in wait times are the longest in the country sometimes to having to use google doctor and try to figure out whether i needed to go to an er camille curry and her children have chronic conditions and can't find a doctor and when they can't get into an urgent care center or a walk-in clinic and the ers are closed like what have we come to that we actually have zero access to health care left at that point and while the pandemic has created new challenges many say these problems were years in the making from poor working conditions to low pay and it's not just a bc issue we really have to support our workforce much better with a systemic multi-layered concentrated long-term you know cyclical not ad-hoc band-aid approach the province blames staff illnesses for the recent closures while promising to improve conditions for current staff and train more but says the prime minister needs to send more money i know that he understands the importance of this the more we wait the more difficult the challenge becomes there are promises for long-term improvements but many worry about how to hold the province's health care together in the short term susannah the silva cbc news vancouver canada's tourism industry is finally starting to rebound after two long years of pandemic turbulence but now travelers are facing new challenges long waits and frustrations with getting passports as allison northcott reports there is no quick fix at toronto's pearson airport people have come to expect long waits it's terrible that people have to wait so long for domestic flights now we can finally travel and so i'm not surprised that everybody wants to go now but that jump in demand is meeting hurdles labor number one and it's impacting us in every every nook and cranny of our industry that's because when the pandemic shut the sector down thousands of workers went to other industries that were much more stable and could offer guaranteed hours and guaranteed pay and our industry was one that was hit with fluctuating restrictions staffing is also an issue for security screening at airports and customs officers pre-pandemic we were seeing you know in some cases lineups that took hours and we're starting to see that and worse again passport offices have seen long lineups too he's in ireland right now and he's uh there's they're staying in a castle jonathan ratcliffe was supposed to be with his friend jacob in ireland but had to delay his departure because his passport arrived too late it was very saddening because you know they're really wanting me to they're really wanting me to come out there and you know have uh spend time with them up there but i just have to sit back here and wait for those wanting a nexus card to use the fast lane into the u.s canada border services agency says there's a backlog there too of nearly 300 thousand applicants are you ready for canada tourism the federal government says it wants to help the industry bounce back despite bottlenecks and get rid of those bottlenecks in the system because look our collective responsibility is to make the travel experience as seamless as possible some are pushing ottawa to remove remaining travel restrictions like random airport testing to reduce delays the government says it's adding more airport screening officers and other resources and watching wait times closely alison northcott cbc news montreal tonight european leaders are agreeing to ban most russian oil imports by the end of the year this is an important step forward it could be the toughest action yet against russia in the war in ukraine the draft agreement includes an embargo on russian oil delivered by tankers but does allow some pipeline imports for landlocked countries including hungary which was a main eu member holdout france is calling for an investigation into the death of frederick leclair immov he's a journalist killed in eastern ukraine by a russian shell that hit his vehicle he was reporting on evacuation efforts at the time and is the second foreign journalist to die covering the conflict le claire emuff was 32 years old well the queen's platinum jubilee celebrations get underway this week as part of our special programming adrian will explore the queen's deep connection to canada and it includes rare access inside windsor castle an exclusive look inside windsor castle from the grandeur of the royal library to right here in the beautiful saint george's hall our cameras have never been here before we're looking at objects never shared before listening to stories we've never heard before that's because in this platinum jubilee year there are questions about the queen and canada she's visited canada more than any other country is it affection or is it duty and what happens with that relationship as time marches on adrian's documentary the queen and canada airs on june 5th at 9 00 p.m on cbc television and she will be bringing special coverage of the platinum jubilee celebrations from london starting wednesday here on the national well cases of syphilis have been rising steadily in this country over the past few decades but a new rapid test is giving hope it's going to be an incredible game changer up next slowing the spread plus a long-awaited report on sexual misconduct in canada's military the handling of sexual offenses by military court in the past 20 years has done very little to improve efficiency discipline and morale coming up i'll speak with former supreme court justice louis arbor about her recommendations plus reaction from a victim who served for decades and a little later i kind of have lost faith and the ability to trust this industry the mounting allegations against the toronto plastic surgeon we're back in two cbc news the national name canada's best national newscast at the canadian screen awards some pretty incredible footage here from yukon showing a landslide in whitehorse over the weekend three homes are under an evacuation order the city says there's no widespread risk but residents are being advised to be prepared hurricane agatha made landfall in southern mexico this afternoon bringing torrential rains and the threat of flooding the category two storm is the first hurricane in the eastern pacific this year it is expected to dissipate by tomorrow night public health workers are dealing with a syphilis outbreak across parts of the prairies in canada the number of cases has been rising steadily since the early 90s syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection that can cause serious health problems but a new rapid test could help stop it from spreading julia wong has that story with the prick of a finger two new rapid dual hiv and syphilis tests can tell someone if they have either disease in under 15 minutes rapid hiv tests are not new but rapid syphilis tests are results from conventional testing for that sexually transmitted infection can take a week or longer it's critically important both for that person to get treated and then for to prevent the community spread dr amita singh oversaw a 19-month clinical trial in edmonton and northern alberta fifteen hundred people took the rapid tests at inner city emergency departments a correctional facility and a first nations community roughly one-third tested positive for syphilis higher than expected the results checked by a lab singh says both rapid tests were more than 90 percent accurate it really tells us that we were offering testing at locations that we were very likely to pick up persons at risk there has been a resurgence in syphilis across the prairies in recent years doctors say the reasons why range from an increase in drug use to increased use of dating apps which has made it easier to have casual sex with multiple partners this harm reduction agency is ramping up syphilis awareness campaigns and talking to clients people are concerned about long-term impacts if they don't get treatment that can impact their organs and even cause death the rapid test could be pivotal for pregnant women since 2016 there have been roughly 180 babies in alberta with congenital syphilis 39 have died but if women are not tested during the pregnancy and early on in the pregnancy then we can't intervene with our treatments the trial was so successful it's expanding to saskatchewan later this year and certainly over the last couple years we've seen exponential rates of syphilis but the rapid test will still need full health canada approval before they can be used more widely singh is feeling hopeful it's going to be an incredible game changer helping to slow the spread of a serious and potentially deadly disease julia wong cbc news edmonton three young people narrowly dodged an oncoming commuter train in toronto surveillance video shot from the front of the train captures the very very close call it happened on a bridge in the city's west end first the train barely misses one of the young people who survives by squeezing up against the fence as the train speeds by but then more danger ahead two more people on the tracks try to outrun the train operators hit the emergency brakes and sound the horn then the two run off the incident happened may 20th the video was released today to warn the public about the dangers of walking on train tracks okay after the break we will have more on a long-awaited report in sexual misconduct in canada's military i recommend that criminal sexual offenses should be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the civilian criminal courts up next i'm going to speak with former supreme court justice louis arbor about her recommendations and we'll get reaction from someone who knows what it's like to be a victim plus the way we eat has such an impact on our health on the planet the push to bring urban farming to canada's biggest city if we do not take this moment for what it is we run the risk of not being a fully effective military domestically and internationally well scathing new report lays out 48 recommendations to overhaul the canadian military amid a sexual misconduct crisis they include changes to recruiting training and promotion and permanently handing over sexual offense investigations to civilian police and courts now that report was more than a year in the making and it's the work of former supreme court justice louise arbor who joins us now justice arbor thank you for making the time to chat with us my pleasure you've been investigating what was already a well-documented problem so so what if anything surprised you here well i came in essentially expecting that i wouldn't have that much to investigate because the extent of sexual misconduct in the canadian armed forces had been well documented not only in the landmark report by justice deshawn 2015 but since then by certainly the final settlement of the aider bd class action statistics canada surveys the auditor general there had been a lot of information and yet when i came into this i was amazed to hear from many many victim survivors reaching out to me to tell me this is still happening so this i think in and of itself was not only shocking very surprising and at the same time i was asked to look not only at sexual misconduct but also at the link to leadership issue you know training selection of candidates for promotion and so on and that whole aspect had not been looked at before and proved also really quite a challenge right so given how entrenched and pervasive the problem is and was you know are the ingredients for change there and i guess what i'm asking there is is why do you think this moment may be different from every other moment that's come before i like to think that maybe the the central piece of this report which permeates all the recommendations i make is uh the necessity for the canadian armed forces to open up to outside input and i don't mean just oversight which is essentially an after the fact analysis and criticism i mean getting first of all getting outsiders to do things that they do better you know that the profession of arms is probably very good at what it does i can't judge that but you know canada has a really good reputation what it's not as good as is in a lot of other things education justice some management of human resources and for that i think they have to break uh this kind of commitment to fixing everything themselves and reach out i guess the question is do you think they're capable of that magnitude of change well part of the question is will their political masters make them do what they may or may not be naturally inclined to do you know they weren't naturally inclined a few decades ago to include women in their ranks this came from the outside it came from court orders and human rights tribunal decision orders you know we live in a constitutional democracy where the the armed forces are answerable are led by our political leaders by the minister of defense the prime minister if the political will is there and if the leadership of the the forces is on the program if they don't stall i think there's every reason that substantial structural change can happen one last question for you if i could given your investigation what would you say to victims who have you know waited in many cases many long years for action and who have been disappointed at most every turn i think the first thing i would say is none of this would have happened without you that's the very starting point and frankly i had without the media having given a kind of an amplifier a loud speaker to the voices of victims it took you know the courage of some to come forward and then if you look at the class action which the federal government settled for some 900 million dollars which received over 19 000 claims that are being processed without this no hope of change would have ever been forthcoming it i hope it won't be as slow as it's been up to now but at the very least i think they should take a lot of pride in having stepped forward in that fashion justice arbor thank you for making this time sure my pleasure now next we're going to speak with someone who has first-hand experience decades of it with the canadian armed forces and and someone who herself reported several acts of misconduct with no resolution welcome you were a reservist for nearly 10 years right with the military police for 15 as well correct yes can you tell us what the range was of of what you had to deal with during all that time i first joined the infantry reservist i was just 17 years old i turned 17 that at that month and i had to from my teen underage as a 17 year old i had to injure sexual misconduct having male shoulder penis to me having male when i was sleeping during courses put their penis on my face masturbate while i was sleeping on top of my bed masturbate around me if i was having showers they would walk into the showers laughing i would report this to my supervisors which i was told if you don't like it you can quit um and at that time i took it upon myself to become more looking like a man so i wouldn't be seeing like a woman cutting my hair short and acting a lot like a man um just so i didn't have these types of harassment and it still went on um i had adult male leering at me i reported that as a 17 year old and this person was sent to a different section but i was penalized but the remainder of the group that i was the problem seeker and not the other person and so not only not only sorry to interrupt there but but not only did you have to endure this at such a young age but over such a long period you're saying that you were in fact the one reprimanded and punished for this and so i mean knowing that when you see the recommendations that came out today you know including allowing victims to access the civilian justice system directly to avoid precisely the kind of problem that you had to deal with how does that leave you feeling in my personal opinion there's no way that any type of military personnel should be investigating any type of just sexual misconduct or sexual assaults or anything like that that being military police or even supervisors at the unit level because it is always a iashi and the chain of command is always looking for the their best interest to protect themselves and the higher-ups it's never for the best interest of the victim which is often at the lower rank level so with the changes then that that justice arbor has recommended and that the minister of defense seems intent on implementing particularly on that point do you think that the military is capable of an about-face on on all of this you know from what you've seen from what you've experienced is it capable of that kind of a a fundamental shift in how it treats women in the 24 year i've served in the military that being a military police or an infantier it has never changed the community is just a community that is so used to this type of misconduct it has never changed in 20 years and it will never change it has to be pushed forward to outside agency third parties civilian police force it's the only way it's going to be implemented properly and people are going to be penalized for what they've done and the victim will have voices i know you'll be watching uh all of this very closely as will we catherine bergeron really nice to talk to you thank you thank you okay in just a few moments with real estate at a premium in canada's biggest cities urban farming may not seem like a feasible idea but a group in toronto is making it work at the end of the day we need to eat your family needs to eat my family is to eat coming up how they're trying to make a better world through the food they grow plus the toronto plastic surgeon accused of botching surgeries and a woman who says she's been left scarred by it [Music] welcome back the idea of urban farming beyond your balcony or your backyard might seem a little far-fetched especially considering how expensive land can be if you can even find any for farming but a group of urban farmers in toronto is showing what can be done in the name of good food good ecology and good community jeremy what are you transplanting here this is komatsuna here by growing in the city you're getting people thinking about food getting people involved with food how's it going building community around food and i think that kind of puts a name to the farm and the face to the farmer and i think that's a really important thing we're missing right now in our food system we're all so alienated from where our food comes from my name is iran gowell i am the founder and ceo of fresh city farms right here in toronto i was a hedge fund lawyer i was working on wall street and i started thinking about what i can do with my life because i didn't find what i was doing that meaningful and i just became obsessed with food and how the way we eat has such an impact on our health on the planet and i just started urban farm we deliver to thousands of homes across the city each week we also have several retail locations we operate it's our first year farming on this new site downstream park is essentially at the geographic epicenter of the greater toronto area as you can see here they're transplanting seedlings into the fields one of the challenges with urban farming certainly in a city like toronto there's very few places that are open for urban agriculture so this first plot over here is the ymca's plot so this is where they'll be running farm camp out of so we're operating this as what we think of as a co-farming division this last plot over here is going to be the ubuntu collective they work with racialized young single mothers in in this neighborhood we've chosen to share about 70 of the land with other groups because we feel that ultimately it's not a question of you know how much food that we as a company can grow but it's how we can empower others to kind of showcase what they do my name is m dial and i run you aquaponics which is a small scale aquaponics operation here at the urban farm in downsview park [Applause] so things are still clearly under construction here but hoping in the next couple weeks things will be kind of operational aquaponics is a closed system where you grow veggies and fish at once where the fish are providing nutrients for the veggies or plants are filtering the water for the fish and it's like an ancient practice that's been used all over the world on every continent for hundreds and hundreds of years so i'm actually from california where water conservation is a big issue so that's how i learned about aquaponics my background is marine biology yoyu aquaponics will be toronto's only outdoor aquaponics operation this is something that i've wanted to do for many years but it's really hard to access space for a lot of folks especially young marginalized bipod growers like myself it's incredibly difficult to find growing spaces there's a lot of inequities and access i would say but i'm really grateful to be able to work here hey how's it going okay okay yeah it's an incredible opportunity to be able to work with so many different community groups and businesses and organizations here at this site because farming is a constant learning process and that's only strengthened in numbers i think there's so much that we can all learn from each other my name is jessen jiao the name of the farm is called zawadi farm zawadi is swahili meaning gift i was in tech for many many years but i found i was getting stressed with that whole ecology of compete compete compete nobody shares anything nobody works together just very combative and competitive i dropped literally everything in tech and went 100 into farming what's really cool is the ymca is beside me i have a small community farm right there i have arness my friend from uganda they have judith who also worked and farmed in tanzania together all of us despite how different ways of things we're doing whatever he's doing i'm learning from oh my goodness all those hills buddy i'm seeing these guys here yeah oh the alfalfa i'm happy they're there i just don't know if they're going to be a problem later you know yeah transfer of knowledge is the most most powerful tool in agriculture there is the top there's nothing that's more in the way um yeah you know a perennial you know all these farms around us i need them to be there because that all that adds to a capacity to bring food to our cities right if you've got access to a fork a rake and a shovel you can grow you can grow we have an incubation program for urban farmers and we want to train as many people to know that what i'm doing is not rocket science it just requires present and time [Music] i can't feed toronto by myself we need more jessie's we need more zawadi farms this land needs us your differences in my different sense don't really matter because at the end of the day we need to eat your family needs to eat my family needs to eat my neighbor needs to eat everyone needs to be part of this economy so that's where we're hoping to make an impact is to make sure that we all get it we all learn it we can all can do it and support each other while we're doing it [Music] pretty neat initiative okay a toronto woman says she's been left disfigured after a botched plastic surgery that entire experience had a significant impact on my life coming up the toronto plastic surgeon and the growing allegations i'm jamie pueso and tomorrow on cbc's daily news podcast front burner a human rights investigator describes gathering evidence of war crimes in ukraine subscribe wherever you get your podcast a man was arrested in paris for throwing cake at the glass protecting the mona lisa on sunday he was disguised as an older woman in a wheelchair but after throwing the cake shouted at people to think of planet earth that's when security stopped him and took him out of the building he's reportedly been sent to a police psychiatric unit well toronto plastic surgeon is facing new allegations from former patients including a woman who says she was left disfigured and as angelina king explains this doctor has faced serious complaints in the past oh my goodness it looks so terrible it's been a few years since these photos were taken but amanda o'brien still finds it difficult to look at her chest you can see like one is a totally different size than the other one in 2019 o'brien underwent what she thought would be a relatively straightforward procedure with dr mahmoud kara a breast lift with her existing implants intact now o'brien is the representative plaintiff in a six million dollar proposed class action lawsuit against cara o'brien ultimately had five surgeries in a year and claimed she was left with an infection a deformed breast scarring the removal of her existing implants and a botched breast lift that cost about seventeen thousand dollars that entire experience had a significant impact on my life the lawsuit states cara had a callous disregard for patient safety and that he used implants that were not the size that patients had agreed to and paid for the level that we've seen here in the number of women who affected certainly suggests something was was not being done properly hi there i'm dr cara ontario's regulatory body temporarily suspended cara's medical license while investigating complaints against him the claims haven't been tested in court and the lawsuit has yet to be certified as a class action carra's lawyer says his client denies all allegations of negligence breach of duty and misconduct cara is the subject of another lawsuit that claims he took patient deposit money then seemingly disappeared accusation cbc news reported on last fall he since paid some patients back like debbie laurie now i'm scared to even try again o'brien feels the same i kind of have lost faith and the ability to trust this industry she's been too afraid to look into whether her scarring can one day be fixed angelina king cbc news toronto well up next a very different kind of flower we know that that green technology is going to be critical to saskatchewan and to the world we're going to tell you all about it in our moments hey welcome back so what you're seeing here is an image of what's called a smart flower its petals are solar panels and they are powering up a high school in saskatoon and of course this being a school it provides so much more than just power right also a learning opportunity so tonight this unique source of clean energy and inspiration is our moment the solar flower is a unique way of gathering energy from the sun with a set of solar panels that opens and closes depending on how bright and sunny it is so at night it closes up and it cleans itself and in the morning it looks at the sun and it opens itself back up inside the pillar there is a battery system that gathers the energy when it's not in use and stores it in a battery and then there's a set of wires going to the school and inside a classroom there the kids can look at what's going on change the way that it operates and they can plug things in and do their own school projects with it we're really excited to start the conversation around alternative energy sources thinking about the technology of how it works integrating it into a lot of science curriculum well we know that that green technology is going to be critical to saskatchewan and to the world and so we want to be on the forefront to really educate our young people about what it is i love it i i certainly didn't have one of those at my school when i was a kid and just think you know as a sciency conversation starter sure easy to see the value there but think of all those kids in that school who may now be contemplating whole careers that they never even knew existed the very definition of inspiration right there that's the national for this may 30th have a great night [Music] you

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