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May 31, 2023 | A teacher and 17 students are injured after falling nearly two stories on a Winnipeg school trip. An urgent plea for help in Nova Scotia as wildfires rage across the province. Plus, how sports betting is changing the way fans watch the game. 00:00 The National for May 31, 2023 00:49 Students injured after Winnipeg walkway collapses 03:42 Nova Scotia calls for military help battling wildfires 04:28 N.S. increases burn ban fines as wildfires rage 07:25 More than 15 wildfires still burning in Alberta 07:47 Wildfire forces Fort Chipewyan residents out 09:33 Landspout tornado near Stettler, Alberta 09:55 Heat warning for parts of Ontario and Quebec 10:14 CBC News launches new climate dashboard 10:31 Fireworks set off inside Toronto transit bus 12:50 Canada will print warnings on individual cigarettes 15:09 Opposition MPs vote in favour of new special rapporteur 15:43 Enhanced security for senior ministers, civil servants 18:00 Women allege construction firm ignored sexual misconduct 21:22 Danny Masterson convicted on 2 rape charges 21:46 Rescue operation at partially-collapsed Iowa building 24:01 Air New Zealand asks passengers to be weighed 25:16 Ceasefire talks break down in Sudan 25:37 On the front line of mass migration out of Sudan 33:58 Leafs name Brad Treliving as new GM 34:16 How sports betting is changing the game 43:50 The Moment | Meals in honour of late daughter #News #LatestNews #CBCNews Watch The National live on YouTube Sunday-Friday at 9 p.m. ET Subscribe to The National: https://www.youtube.com/user/CBCTheNational?sub_confirmation=1 Connect with The National online: Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/thenational Twitter | https://twitter.com/CBCTheNational Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/cbcthenational More from CBC News | https://www.cbc.ca/news The National is the flagship of CBC News, showcasing award-winning journalism from across Canada and around the world. Led by Chief Correspondent Adrienne Arsenault and Ian Hanomansing, our team of trusted reporters help you make sense of the world, wherever you are. The National was named Canada’s Best National Newscast by the Canadian Screen Awards and RTDNA Canada.

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[Music] tonight 17 children injured after falling nearly two stories on a school trip could have been so so much worse a platform collapsed beneath them sending them crashing below what happened and how are they an urgent plea for help in Nova Scotia as out of control wildfires Grove it's a bit of a war zone right now the enemy is the fire and we're trying to battle it in conquer it and how has sports betting changed the way feel like the wild west I mean it's very different watching a sporting
event nowadays this is the national with Chief correspondent Adrian Arsenault a group of grade five students is recovering tonight after being rushed to hospital while on a field trip this is why a walkway full of students partially collapsed at Winnipeg's Fort Gibraltar Historic Site throwing many of them to the ground tonight all are expected to be okay but a lot of questions remain so cam Macintosh is outside that site right now so cam this was no doubt supposed to be a fun day for those kids
what a turn absolutely Adrian so this is Fort Gibraltar here behind me it's a replica of a 19th century Northwest Company Fort that once stood not too far from here these days it's used for things like festivals weddings corporate events and of course field trips this morning there were three grade five classes here students many of which would be drawn to an elevated walkway that runs along the far Northern wall of the fort we interviewed one of them in an audio interview we were on a field tr
ip to Fort Gibraltar Bridge Safari was standing right there with more than a dozen schoolmates and then randomly started cracking when we were on I couldn't breathe it collapsed shortly before 10 a.m the students from Winnipeg St John's Ravens Court School in total 17 kids and one teacher taken the hospital it could have been so so much worse we were prepared for the worst Winnipeg's largest hospitals suspended surgeries to free up doctors there are bruises and some broken bones but nothing life
-threatening some children fell some children fell directly and there were also some children who slid down on this structure from the the injury patterns that we saw relief there but now plenty of questions here why did this happen now for contrast this was posted by another school group just days ago no signs of problems for Gibraltar draws thousands of visitors a year mostly during Winnipeg's festival de Voyager the fort is owned by the city the festival manages it parts of it were rebuilt ab
out 10 years ago including that walkway so cam where's the investigation go from here so a provincial workplace health and safety is taking the investigation the festival de Voyager in the city of Winnipeg both say that they'll cooperate with that as for the school people we've spoken to there are all saying of course they're relieved that this wasn't worse but many of them will have questions of their own about how a grade five School field trip ended in an emergency room all right thank you Ca
meron Ken McIntosh in Winnipeg tonight calls for help in Nova Scotia are growing more urgent tonight as already out of control Wildfire spread further and faster about twenty thousand people in The Province are currently under evacuation order this has firefighters on the front line report towering flames and the premier well he's asking the federal government to send in the military so right now there are four out of control fires burning all of which have caused destruction but this one in Bar
rington lake is staggering in size at more than 17 000 hectares it covers more than double the area of every Nova Scotia wildfire in the past 10 years combined Kayla Hansel takes us to Shelburne County now where even more evacuations have been ordered tonight it is the largest forest fire in Nova Scotia history and it is growing rapidly with flames climbing nearly 100 meters high we started the day with a lower intensity but by afternoon this thing has been getting up and uh rolling like a freig
ht train fire in Southwestern Nova Scotia has already destroyed around 50 homes they see it on TV both Alberta and other provinces and it's far away and you feel bad but you don't realize and the fire is now traveling taking aim at another Community it's a bit of a war zone right now the the enemy is the fire the fire in Shelburne County also forced the evacuation of a nursing home prompting Acadia University more than 200 kilometers away to offer its dorm rooms good it's got a bed and clean and
in the midst of a provincial crisis another problem fire Crews say didn't have to happen this fire in the Halifax area started by a contractor burning debris there is no burning permitted anywhere in the province and certainly nowhere within the Halifax Regional municipality there have been eight more illegal Burns since last night so the province's increasing fines to 25 thousand dollars think about other people don't be selfish don't be stupid the main Halifax Area fire has destroyed at least
150 homes we need help the federal government knows that the premier has written to the prime minister with a long list of requests including help setting up a base camp for firefighters Advanced payment for Disaster Assistance and Telecommunications infrastructure we'll continue to be there for people okay well this is this is walked off it comes at a time when there is competition for fire resources across much of the country the firefighters God bless their hearts yeah if they can only do so
much a desperate situation for which there is no end in sight Kayla joins us now from the Halifax area Command Center so so Kayla this sounds dire what can you tell us about the next few days well to be blunt Adrian officials are saying the weather is not a good story it is going to remain very dry and it is getting warmer it's going to be above 30 degrees in parts of this province tomorrow we broke records today we're expected to break more tomorrow and on top of that our April was one of the
driest on records May wasn't much better and there is no significant rain into the forecast until Friday night into Saturday Adrian all right Kayla hounsel thanks to you and the team well Nova scotia's Wildfire fight grows more difficult Alberta's is also far from over more than 15 fires are still burning out of control in that Province and the danger remains highest in the north including the remote Hamlet of Fort chippewan where residents have been forced into a sudden and dramatic evacuation
Julia Wong has their stories Wildfire is inching closer and closer to the northern community of Fort Chippewa residents like Beverly Toronto told to get out well it's kind of emotional because that's our home you know so um didn't want to leave there are only two ways out of Fort chippewan the first by plane the Canadian Armed Forces provided a Hercules aircraft and a convoy of flights took more than 500 people to nearby Fort McMurray where they were welcomed with information and for some their
pets the second way out by boat volunteers shuttled residents late into the night to hotel rooms once they got to safety they were tired they're exhausted it was a long trip we wanted to get them uh to safety and warmth the fire risk in Alberta remains extreme in the north but it's better in the central part of the province where cooler weather has lessened the risk firefighters are making use of the cooler and wetter conditions to reinforce fire guards around communities and to extend containme
nt lines back in the north this fire is too close for comfort like you see from behind us here how big the fire is and it's raising out of control and it's getting closer to the airport and once the airport stopped once they signed the alarm they'll closed down the airport and then we will then we're at the mercy of the fire make sure that oven's open Calvin walkwin is staying behind to run his gas station and convenience store for fire Crews we're just trying to assist and and put people at eas
e and keep them calm a call for calm as fire threatens yet another Alberta community Julia Wong CBC News Edmonton if you look much further south closer to Red Deer extreme weather there spawned at least one funnel cloud this afternoon so that video was captured near the community of settler it was under a tornado warning earlier but it was lifted at around 5 PM local time Environment Canada says it appears to be a land spout tornado and Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for parts of S
outhern Ontario and Quebec this week temperatures in the region soared above 30 degrees today nearly breaking records for the day and the heat is expected to stay until at least Friday it is the Region's first heat wave of the year and if you're thinking this is unusual there's now a way to confirm it on our new CBC News climate dashboard visit cbc.ca climate to see how today's or any day's temperatures compare to historical Trends you can even search for your city now Toronto police say they ha
ve arrested a 14 year old girl after fireworks were set off inside a packed Transit bus and video surfaced online she is charged with mischief and dangering life and as Thomas dagel explains that dangerous stunt is one of several that have taken place in the Tuesday afternoon Rush Hour a young person is seen smiling shooting fireworks on a crowded Toronto Transit bus in motion other Riders are heard screaming as the bus fills with smoke it's Reckless it's irresponsible and uh and it's illegal an
d it's why we take these things so seriously it's a Brazen stunt on a Transit Network that's seen a rash of violence this year and the commission now reporting more than half a dozen similar fireworks incidents since just last week it was disturbing because TDC should be a safe place to travel it's no good sometimes I scared to take the TTC now that I've seen that I'm now going to the bus it's really scary the website six buzz says it was set this video and paid someone to buy the clip the same
site shared another video last year showing a similar incident that sparked panic if you're doing this in order to get notoriety online then I'm concerned at what it would take the next time to get even more notoriety and how you're going to affect other people in the latest incident this common brand of fireworks appears to have been used advertised as shooting to a height of 25 meters all those people were in a very bad scenario on that bus at this special effects business they stress Safety F
irst when selling fireworks because they say the blast can cause serious harm they could risk other dismemberment and other severe injuries due to the the size and and the volume of the effect that was produced police were given Transit bus security video for their investigation not to mention this clip apparently posted as a stunt now it's key evidence Thomas dagler CBC News Toronto a big change is coming for Canadian smokers every single cigarette will soon come with a warning printed on it as
Christine beerack shows us this is a move that is a world first as far as health warnings for smokers go this one will be in your face literally it is a very positive announcement that Canada will be the first country in the world to have a warning directly on every cigarette Health Canada's new tobacco labeling rules will force companies to add more warnings telling users there's poison in every puff cigarettes cause cancer impotence leukemia and harm children the question is will they work I
think they should because it would stop everybody probably even me once you've seen the warning once you've you know see it again it doesn't really have the same effect while smoking rates in Canada have been declining 12 percent still smoke cigarettes kill approximately 48 000 Canadians every year the fact that there is a mess a warning on the product gets people to think about really should I be putting this into my mouth researchers say warnings do push some people to quit and discourage youn
ger users from starting Studies have shown labels are effective in communicating the health risks of smoking at the end of it all the tobacco industry has the most intimate communication of all directly to the brains of the people who smoke that direct line of control is the highly addictive power of nicotine which keeps users coming back for more they designed the cigarette to be really really controllable through the puffing that people don't even know sometimes that they're doing this boat wi
ll create generational change and those born after 2 that's in their lifetime there is no good reason to allow a product to be sold that kills half the people that use it can tobacco strategy aims to hit less than five percent tobacco you 2035. experts say it'll take higher prices lower nicotine levels and better programs for smokers to reach that goal Christine Burak CBC News Toronto David Johnston is rejecting a majority vote in the House of Commons that called for his resignation a special ra
pporteur on foreign interference is Quan MS zarrillo opposition MPS voted in favor of the NDP motion asking Johnston to step aside and directing the government to establish a public inquiry to be led by someone approved by all parties the motion is non-binding Johnson said his mandate comes from the government not the House of Commons well CBC News and Radio Canada have learned that the RCMP will offer special Protection Services to senior cabinet ministers and civil servants as Rafi bujikanian
tells us security insiders say this is long overdue [Music] Justin Trudeau pelted by rocks during the last election campaign Deputy Prime Minister Christopher Freeland accosted in Alberta get the out of this province protesters confronted ministers during meetings in January sources tell hadu Canada and CBC news that may have been the impetus for the RCMP which is now preparing to offer extra security to senior ministers and bureaucrats you go back 25 years there are a lot of very unhappy people
but the disconnect that we sometimes talk about I don't think was there social media brought them togethers as a former thesis director her ability to communicate and to sort of rev themselves up in a way that sometimes involved violence is the really big difference well I think when Michael Warnick was Canada's top bureaucrat he says the internet blurred the line between perceived dangers and real ones physical threats to people are are rare but it's difficult to know whether that person who's
on you know online uh attacking somebody is just a benign keyboard Warrior or whether it's a premonition of a real threat it's not just elected officials a threat against the chief medical officer led to a criminal charge it does seem to be a more dangerous environment every year ministers have experienced that firsthand the threat landscape for politicians I think of all political strikes that have changed dramatically since when I was elected in 2015. we represent something bigger than who we
are when we are in the office that we serve and it's really important that we as a country so many many years deal with this new phenomena sources say cabinet has discussed the new RCMP Plan before it receives approval the treasury board would need to have it say Rafi on CBC News Ottawa well these five women in Edmonton are suing the company they used to work for saying they were ignored even punished when they raised concerns about their boss's alleged sexual misconduct they detailed their dis
turbing allegations to Wallace Snowden and tell her why they are fighting for millions of dollars in Damages Jessica McNabb wants to live further away from her former boss the man she says raped her in a parking lot in March of 2021. I thought it was a work meeting and after it happened nowhere to turn she's moving with the help of four of her former colleagues at Coventry homes all of them allege they were wrongfully dismissed from a workplace poisoned by sexual misconduct a partner at the comp
any Robin nazardine has been charged with one count of sexual assault Coventry has built homes in more than a dozen communities across the greater Edmonton area now five women have all filed lawsuits against the company seeking a combined 6.2 million dollars for damages including wrongful dismissal breach of contract and mental suffering two of the women allege sexual assaults the three others allege they were wrongfully terminated for raising concerns about how the company was handling allegati
ons of misconduct against Nazarene none of the allegations have been proven in court in a statement nazardine maintains his innocence and says the truth will come out Coventry homes declined to comment but instead of taking some responsibility for their actions and their role that they play in women feeling safe at their company they decide to ignore it Caitlin garyot claims that after years of repeated harassment at work she was coerced into having sex with nazardine under threat of termination
I suffered for years years the women say they have formed a bond hopeful their refusal to stay silent will force change we're doing this to set precedence for them and for other companies they can't turn a blind eye to this ugliness the criminal trial begins next year until then McNabb is Seeking a bit of distance and finding solace in her former colleagues Wallace Snowden CBC News Edmonton there are calls to search for more survivors inside a partially collapsed building after a dramatic rescu
e what rescue efforts are becoming more dangerous by the moment thousands flee the violence in Sudan as ceasefire talks break down again she's staying at home when the gunshot come it came through the house yeah an exclusive look at what it takes to get out and an unusual request a New Zealand Airline asked their passengers to step on the scale we're back in June Danny Masterson the star of That 70s Show faces up to 30 years in prison after he was convicted of two counts of rape prosecutors said
Masterson raped three women at his home in Hollywood between 2001 and 2003. the jury was unable to come to a verdict in the third case he is expected to be sentenced in August and several people are still missing in Iowa days after an apartment building partially collapsed officials said they were going to demolish what's left of the structure yesterday after calling off rescue efforts that is until a dramatic turn of events Paul Hunter explains there it sits in Davenport Iowa as if a giant str
ip had simply been torn out of it said the city after the collapse Sunday the apartment building was so unstable it must be torn down quickly but then more than a day after the collapse a woman who'd been Sheltering in her bathtub now calling out desperately for help get her out they chanted and soon enough Survivor Lisa Brooks made it out unhurt I was real scared and when I woke up I woke up on the strength cause I Heard a Voice anybody in the building but with her rescue a realization could th
ere be others still in there somewhere five people remain unaccounted for two are feared to have been in the building as it fell y'all want to tear down the building and you know you got five people still unaccountable for help me understand that but as pressure mounts to now look harder before any demolition City officials worry the building may be too unstable for further searching and are now considering their options meanwhile questions about the building's upkeep grow with stories of compla
ints unacted upon including from this first floor business unit leaking in two different spots um cracks in the walls and now as investigators continue looking into what caused the collapse hope continues to fade for any other survivors including from the mother of another of the still missing I don't believe he's allowed he's always helping people wrong it's he's friendly her son's body she presumes is now somewhere there Paul Hunter CBC News Washington bit of an unusual ask for Air New Zealand
passengers the airline wants to weigh them before they get on their flight this is all part of a voluntary survey aimed at improving fuel efficiency the airline says the weight is anonymously recorded not visible to others but some Americans are bristling online saying they're concerned about privacy and body discrimination a fragile ceasefire in Sudan has fallen apart forcing more people to flee in difficult conditions there's 300 people crammed onto this exclusive access to the Sudanese borde
r where thousands of people are crossing to find safety and hopefully I can make a few bucks tonight on uh on my little bidding up here sports fans are hoping to score big when their teams do but some are worried about the Fallen the national takes you deeper into the story shaping our world next foreign [Music] negotiations between warring military factions in Sudan have broken down the Sudanese Army is accusing the paramilitary rapid support forces of repeatedly violating past ceasefires that
could put Aid access at risk in a place where people desperately need help well over the last month and a half the United Nations says nearly 400 000 people have fled that country many to neighboring South Sudan where residents are already struggling to survive in a Canadian exclusive Chris Brown and a CBC News crew went to where few cameras due to speak directly with those running for their lives we are in the poorest country on Earth and our flight is headed to one of the poorest parts of it t
his is South Sudan's upper Nile region next to the border with Sudan the place where people already struggle to feed themselves and now it's at the epicenter of a new humanitarian catastrophe foreign from Sudan's fighting spills over to its neighbors Khartoum is eight hours down that road this is the most direct way that people can flee the war and come to South Sudan a place where they say they feel safe impressive heat but 40 plus degrees Celsius Caravans of exhausted donkeys bring people and
baggage across the frontier some climb trees to get a mobile phone signal to let family know they're safe it's my wife and those my kids Hafiz Muhammad Ali escaped the bombardment in cartoon with his wife and four children there is a lot of War there it's bad because the airplane is beating a lot of place how do you feel now that you've crossed the border and now I'm very sift I'm this is you know I'm sudanis when I when I came here I will be comfortable Ali is in the minority here most of the a
rrivals are actually South Sudanese people who fled their own country Civil War over the last decade now they're returning but most have nothing to come back to here we are we are operating in here U.N worker mulu James bury says he sees about a thousand people crossing every day they say they are not sure when this war is ending because though there is ceasefire but they don't see us and Seed ending soon like an hour away there's a medical clinic for Urgent needs yeshu dang who's three months p
regnant took a bullet in her arm about a month ago in Sudan's warring factions fought gun battles outside of her house near Khartoum she's staying at home when the gunshot come it came through the house yeah just came through a wall yeah and the place is near her all are affected destroyed by The Gunshot when she felt it was safe to move she and her family fled the rivals temporarily stay in a Transit camp it has drinking water and food but it's a stop Gap rank can't handle all of these people a
nd they need to be moved on quickly I'm at the Port now how many people are we left to move to fill this boat a daunting logistical challenge that's largely Fallen to a Canadian Aaron Adkins who's with the un's International Organization for migration logistically this is this is very challenging very challenging for everything from the boats to the fuel to the to the buses and trucks everything is either broken or barely running so we're having to day by day address all these little wishes Adki
ns is originally from Fredericton but growing up his family split their time between pei and Kenya where he's usually based I myself and all of iom and also the rest of the humanitarian Community are very concerned about trying to get people back to their their intended destination because if we cannot we we will end up with a a long-term humanitarian response that extends over years and years and years with local roads in awful shape the White Nile river which is not white at all is the only ro
ute to move people to larger population centers and these converted cargo boats are the only means to do it there's a mad Crush for space to not get left behind 100 people crammed onto this small boat there's no place to stand up there's no toilets and people have to bring their own food and it's a two-day trip up the Nile River one passenger asked us to help him Shield his body from the blistering heat sun is too hot now right yeah so what are you gonna do I need umbrella you need an umbrella y
eah I don't have an umbrella even when those on the boats reach bigger towns or cities this crisis won't be over there have been reports of violence involving new arrivals as food and water are scarce more than 10 million people 76 percent of South Sudan's population already needs humanitarian assistance to survive thank you very much my name is Chris Brown in the capital Juba South Sudan's foreign minister shared his fears at Sudan's instability will threaten an oil pipeline that his country de
pends on and that the violence next door will spread when your nearby is burning don't keep quiet that that burning will finish there are always spillovers one of this spillover is the if you have those kind of militarized Nations you know people running to South Sudan with guns it created insecurity here when you have probably an agents of islamists you know penetrating and come to Sudan will become vulnerable as a country there have been many attempts to negotiate ceasefires in Sudan but none
seem to last long and those arriving in rank told us they have little confidence in peace efforts 16 year old Nigel spoke on behalf of her family the war is escalating every day she says and we're not sure when it will stop and we're worried until 2011 Sudan and South Sudan were the same country their Fates remain closely connected the war there carries a very real risk of dragging this fragile country down with it Chris that is hard to watch we do see Canadians assisting there in South Sudan bu
t what about the Canadian government well you do see Canadian flags Adrian on humanitarian tents at some of those shelters Ottawa has kicked in 31 million dollars to help South Sudan specifically deal with this Exodus but when you're there what's striking is just really how fragile this place is without an immense humanitarian effort it couldn't function people left because of a Civil War and now they're being forced to return and there really isn't the infrastructure or the economy to integrate
them and that's causing all kinds of ethnic and political tensions uh when everyone's all jammed together as you saw and they're on the move so it really is a very precarious situation indeed Chris thanks to you and the team Chris Brown in London thanks next fans are betting big on sports the troubling Trend behind sports betting next [Music] well the Toronto Maple Leafs have named Brad for living as the new general manager drilling joins the club after spending nine Seasons with the Calgary Fl
ames he is replacing Kyle dubis who was fired shortly after the Leafs were eliminated from this year's playoffs so if you've been watching the playoffs there's one aspect of the broadcast you cannot miss gambling ads lots of them Those ads are bringing in big money but as Jamie stration shows us that cash can come at a cost grandma Toronto a Maple Leafs playoff game draws a frenzied crowd thousands who couldn't get inside watch outside but it's not just this game there's the game inside the game
who's gonna score next walking through the crowd it was all too easy to find fans making bets so what do you have tonight I got no lachari first goals 25 bucks 650 payout it's gonna happen hopefully I can make a few bucks tonight on uh on my little betting up here uh the phone is the new casino thousands of betting options available through dozens of now legal betting apps first goal so what bets do you have tonight um so tonight I have [Music] to get some points and Riley to get some points an
d O'Reilly to get an assist for sure a lot of people have said it's out of control uh what do you make of what's going on right now it's actually we've seen greater control Paul Burns is the president of the Canadian gaming Association the catch is being able to educate inform players to the tools that are available so they can set their own limits on their sites they can set how much time they want how much money they wish to spend or to lose in any given time period and there's also the abilit
y the players are being monitored for their behavior and The Operators are required to monitor risk to offer greater player protection put all those tools in place oh since Federal legislation passed in 2021 loosened up the rules around sports betting Ontario has gone Full Throttle it's totally up to you it's your bet a year ago it became the only Province to regulate dozens of foreign and Canadian companies allowing them to legally operate and advertise in Ontario the province has collected 280
million dollars of the billions of dollars ontarians have wagered on those sites in the last year you find yourself betting more this year than you have in the past yeah of course every game's more exciting all the commercials way too many commercials out there for betting that's why we're addiction now yeah gambling's a big thing now yeah yeah the next ad we're gonna see is probably gonna be a gambling ad what do you what do you think about that I think that's getting a lot of more people into
gambling which I don't know if it is the best thing but people have described it as you know the wild west and you know we see the ads everywhere how would you describe what we're seeing in Canada right now I would describe it similarly to that it does kind of feel like the wild west I mean it's it's a little bit I mean it's very different watching a sporting event nowadays relative to where it was even a couple of years ago oh that's that's a pop Rob pizzola has been gambling on Sports for yea
rs he actually does it for a living and wins much more than he loses like all Canadians he has been inundated by the endless stream of ads often fronted by big name Stars touting the rush of a big win aimed at an audience mostly unfamiliar with betting on sports how do you decide whether you're gonna bet or not it's honestly luck in the draw especially with hockey you know uh basically he's just gonna see who's playing really well and then hopefully go with that player what just really excited t
o get in the game what made you decide on that bet I just had a good feeling I woke up this morning I was like Nola Charlie's gonna score the first goal it's gonna happen considering pass for a charity was unable to control it and it didn't acharya did not score the first goal in fact he didn't score any goals in the game what people don't want to hear is that sports betting is more of a math problem than it is knowing Sports and if people heard that maybe it would affect their ability to bet or
they wouldn't be turned off by it but that is the truth it's more of a math problem than actually knowing and understanding Sports it's too early to know what the long-term impact of Ontario's affectionate Embrace of gambling will be but there may be early warning signs [Music] there's hotel de grass is a good place to start the hospital is home to the province's only residential facility dedicated entirely to problem gambling what I'm seeing is an increase in young men coming in with gambling
problems related to sports as well as longtime counselor Diana Gabriel says a crisis is quickly emerging with what she calls the normalization of sports gambling when a society is completely doused with all of the advertising the pushing the superhero sports figures promoting where it becomes normalized in five years we're going to have a whole new generation of people who have been acclimated who have been enticed to partake in this activity without being justly educated about the warning signs
of it everything gets rationalized and you you just escalate in Ottawa Noah Weinberg says the Windsor program saved his life it's been five years since he left there finally breaking an addiction that cost him at least a million dollars and consumed him for decades as someone in recovery I mean how hard has this last year been with this Deluge of of advertising and it's even if you don't like sports you can't escape it I'd say this last year and a half of recovery is as hard if not harder than
when I came out of the program in Windsor it's just there's so much you're you're banged over the head with it you find it hard to watch a game though with all the advertising it's I find it disgusting I don't I don't find it hard because I'm doing really well but I can't imagine what somebody's coming out of that program tomorrow is going to feel it's going to be next to Impossible what's your message to someone who says you know what listen I'm a year into recovery I I just want to sit down an
d watch the game and this has been very triggering for me it's difficult listen those are real problems and real difficult situations for those people that have them and that is a different change there has been a lot of gambling advertising pre more in sports now that's something that that you know we know is a challenge for a small percentage of population and it's real for them and I and I say that between broadcasters leagues and the industry we want to make sure our advertising is appropria
te however you decide to play play safe the gaming industry has produced as promoting responsible bettings what type scores when we went looking for those ads in five random playoff games we didn't see any we did see though an average of seven commercials per three periods for yourself I'm more worried about the kids Weinberg says a recent night at a bar watching a game made him realize how quickly Sports gambling has changed been in sports bars all my life and that used to just be Sports Talk y
ou'd talk about the player you talk about what just happened or what could they do to change that wasn't the talk in those in the bar the other night the talk in the bar the other night was how much are you going to put on this how much you're going to put on that can they come back and will there be this many goals in this period lots of sporting events pizola worries about what comes next he has seen the underside those gripped by gambling addictions long before Wayne Gretzky and Connor McDavi
d make gambling a familiar part of the sports landscape I still don't know that Ontario's fully figured out exactly the effect that this is going to have on the average person the lack of changes we've seen over the course of the last year especially with how sportsbooks can advertise I'm not sure that they're grasping the full picture of it and this is going to create a lot of problem gaming do you have any Buddies it's your third thinking about you know gambling as long as you don't quit you'r
e always bound to make money that's how it works that's the strategy so wow as you said that is absolutely not the strategy but clearly people are hooked any thought of of altering the regulations I think there is Adrian the provincial body here in Ontario that regulates these ads says it's looking at both the volume of ads that can run on television and who confront Those ads can celebrities continue to endorse gambling products I think anybody that watches Sports in Canada will notice if and w
hen those changes are made we'll all be watching all right Jamie stration thank you thank you a little girl gone but never forgotten Kennedy Kennedy was my life how her memory is inspiring an act of compassion in Our Moment well this little one Kennedy moussey is the inspiration behind white sales Bakery in tantalan Nova Scotia it's a community Reeling for wildfires and now she's inspired her parents again so four-year-old Kennedy died in October but her memory lives on in an act of kindness to
help those forced to flee their homes and tonight it's our moment tonight we're doing 200 chicken dinners which will consist of chicken mashed potatoes carrots and stuffing we took up meat lasagnas veggie lasagnas gluten-free and we also did chicken pot pie and shepherd's pie to shepherd pie we have a four-year-old little girl that we lost in October of 2022 who absolutely loved baking loved everybody she was somebody that you could walk up to in the store and she would go home with you if you w
ere nice enough to her and she's the most beautiful human ever to walk this Earth Kennedy was my life we just do everything that we can to honor her with our our Bakery and like um with the wildfires that are affecting tan Talon which is my home Community I grew up here we uh we wanted to jump into action and do what we could as a family as a community as a business to support our loved ones and everybody in the community it costs nothing to be kind check in on your family and check in on your n
eighbors her family is going further raising money in Kennedy's name for kids to go to Camp a shout out to everyone in tent Allen from the cafe to The SuperStore they're all helping each other out hanging everybody that is a national for May the 31st thank you for being with us have a good night

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