this is CBC Nova Scotia [Music] news good evening the progressive conservative government in Nova Scotia tabled its third budget today it is a document that continues massive spending on health care but also gives a nod to cost of living pressures it comes as the province gets closer to an election year Michael Gorman breaks down the numbers the budg unveiled today includes revenues of $15.8 billion against expenses of 16.5 billion the deficit is projected to be $460 million Finance Minister Ala
n McMaster says his government remains focused on fixing the province's healthare system and there's more than 7 billion toward that effort among other things there's 184 million to help address weight times and access to diagnostic testing and surgery there 75 million to help Advance electronic patient records and more money for Cancer Care and Hospital construction funding for doctors clocks in at $1.2 billion the budget also includes 36 million toward the creation of universal mental health a
nd addictions care but McMaster says it's also time to broaden his government's Focus cost of living has become top of mind for people as we experienced some of the highest increases in inflation in 30 years the number one ask by Nova scotians in this year's budget consultation was for tax relief and they're going to get it tax relief will come through income tax brackets the basic personal amount and some non-refundable tax credits being indexed to the rate of inflation starting in January that
amounts to an average savings of between $69 and $259 per person next year depending on their tax bracket the average savings increas is to between $231 and $863 in 2028 Premier Tim Houston says it's a big deal and it is a very very significant meaning meaningful form of tax relief and I believe that will will will end up to be the biggest uh tax break for Nova scotian certainly in their history the government also announced $18.8 million to begin the roll out of a school lunch program official
s say it will start with elementary schools in the fall and take four years to reach every school in the province the timeline could be shortened if a deal is reached with the federal government for funding opposition leaders welcomed news of the lunch program and the indexing of tax brackets but they say in assistance rates also should have been indexed and increased for everyone monthly payments are going up for 60% of recipients Zack Churchill and Claudia chender say the budget does not go fa
r enough to help people struggling with the cost of living the province can actually afford to cut the HST right now they brought in an additional billion dollars in taxes last year that they didn't even know about uh and if we're going to help workingclass middleclass people and low-income Nova scotians we have to ensure that they're not paying the highest sales tax in the country we have a massive massive number of uh Nova scotians in core housing need and lots of middle class folks who just y
ou know struggle each month uh to pay the rent and we see almost nothing uh to help those folks in this budget and that's really concerning during their first two years in office the Tories benefited from tax revenues that came in well above budget projections that resulted in more than a billion dollars in unbudgeted spending in 2023 24 it remains to be seen if that will happen again this year Finance officials say growth from an increasing population will continue this year although the trend
is expected to slow Michael Gorman CBC News Halifax I'll talk to the Finance Minister about what's in the budget and what's not that's our newsmaker interview just after 6:30 Halifax is preparing to take new steps to get people out of tent encampments more than 50 people received eviction notices earlier this month at five sites but when the deadline came earlier this week the city did not enforce it now officials say they're going to remove people's possessions and cut off their access to power
Taran Grant reports 10 tents are still standing at Grand parade including one that's home to this man and his pregnant wife they've been homeless since their apartment in Hammond's Plains burned down in a wildfire last year they spent some time at a shelter but they didn't feel safe we've been trying our hardest we've been doing everything we can do but there's just no help nobody to help step forward the gentleman here that takes care of the park with us he tries to help us and feed us as much
as possible and you know do what he can do and but there's just no help from the government or no help from the city just to lend us a hand you know the gentleman he's referring to is Steve wilsack who's been volunteering here for the past 3 months I am pleading don't move people unless there's a place for them to go the city and the province say people do have options for moving inside but wilsack disputes that there has been misinformation in terms of that there are places for people to go ot
her than an emergency shelter which is not home people need four walls housing first tents at Grand parade have been connected to a power generator since January which they rely on for heat but tomorrow the city says it's turning it off I hope they don't but if they do I don't know what I'm going to do I don't know what my wife is going to do two of us we're just trying to live day by day right now find housing and housing here in hellofax is just real real hard right now other residents are als
o at a loss this man has been at Grand parade for 6 months in his tent are all of his possessions which the city says it's going to throw away I'm not happy about it it's cold it's winter we have nowhere to go so what would they like us to do so the city gave notice yesterday about their plans but so far there's no sign of them actually enacting those plans at least not here at Grand parade up at Victoria Park which is another one of the tent encampments that's set to be cleared out they did dro
p off a dumpster today but there are still many tents there and it doesn't look like anyone has left since they got notice yesterday about these new plans back here at Grand parade though it's business as usual and it's been quite quiet today it's just been the residents here there have been some Outreach workers who have stopped by to check in on them and there's the usual pedestrian traffic and that leaves the residents to just sit and wait nervously to see what happens next Tom and Amy all ri
ght thank you for that Taran that's Taran Grant reporting live for us this evening from Grand parade meanwhile tenants in the hellofax area are speaking up after being forced out of affordable units by fixed term leases those units are then renovated and the rent increased that practice has Advocates concerned that when affordable units are lost they'll never come back Nicholas Sean reports key Corgan was the last piece of the puzzle the only tenant left in her nunit building in North End Dartmo
uth emptied and slated for renovations made possible by fixed term leases they're using it to get people out raise the rent get somebody new in the rent was aord a for the low-income tenants but their leases all had a set end date that the landlords enforced Corgan worries rents in this range will never return as units are put back on the market for more money I understand it's a business I understand they want to make money off of this however at some point you know you have to have a heart lik
e people need a place to live they can't be out on the streets corgan's landlords didn't respond to cbc's request for comment but her concerns are backed up by data last year Halifax's average rent had its largest jump since this data began being recorded in the 80s and Nova scotia's rate of rental inflation was the highest in the country the 5% rent cap is in place for almost two more years but fixed term leases let landlords bring in new tenants who aren't covered by the cap investors increasi
ngly are seeing those lower-end housing apartment options as an opportunity to to increase rents and make money quickly Hayes says between the 2016 and the 2021 census Halifax lost more than 8,000 affordable housing units Often by being renovated and flipped they're not coming back no one is building $700 a month uh rental units Ben Wilson also lost housing he could afford after his landlord did Renovations and his fixed term lease expired he was offered a new one but couldn't pay the high highe
r price it was unlivable conditions from being realistic but I put up with it assuming that I'd get another lease once the construction was finished Wilson's landlord told CBC news that property owners are dealing with skyrocketing expenses far outpacing the rent cap The Province says it's working to find ways to balance landlord's Rising costs and tenants need for rent stability to make fixed term leases a less popular option Nicholas San CBC News Halifax and new data shows that the cap reton R
egional municipality has the worst vacancy rate in Nova Scotia the numbers from the Canada mortgage and housing Corporation show that the vacancy rate in cbrm is 0.8% that is lower than Halifax and among the lowest in the entire country experts say it's the result of a large number of international students attending cap Ron University and Cape rers returning home after years of working out west recently the the federal government announced $13.3 million in funding to FastTrack construction of 3
67 housing units in Cape Breton over the next three years and Ryan snoden joins us now on a day that started out pretty darn nicely didn't it yes and then it dipped down awfully fast yeah it was wet but it was warm this morning that is for sure just a wild swing temperature-wise today uh right as advertised look at our temperatures at 5:00 a.m. this morning widespread double digits uh that front had just moved through Yarmouth at 5:00 a.m. and then crash those temperatures did from west to east
throughout the day there's 9:00 a.m. already below freezing in Yarmouth still seven uh in Halifax double digits in Cape Breton and then by noon we were at zero in Halifax Sydney was still at 8° and we've continued to tick down 3:00 Sydney was the last spot to drop below the freezing Mark already Min -4 there it's - 7 in amers and paroro right now minus 7 in Kentville and minus 6 in Halifax that's just the temperature this is what it feels like minus double digits so in terms of what it actually
feels like feels about 20 degrees difference uh from this morning so an incredible powerful cold front indeed uh we've got some flurries in the mix right now on the other side of this front as it moves across New Finland and those flurries will linger through tonight could see a couple of centime of light accumulation for the mainland in veress County could pick up as much as 15 cm with some snow squalls setting up there uh north of Mau there's the area of high pressure which is settling in and
it is going to help direct some milder air back into the mix temperature swings you want them you got them how about this so this is this evening watch temperature just temperature- wise we're starting the morning in the -7 to -14 range feeling widespread - te and 20s tomorrow morning and then uh temperatures are going to stay pretty chilly throughout the day tomorrow in fact well below the freezing mark But as we move into Saturday the winds shift back to southernly we're mid to high single dig
its Saturday mid to high single digits again on Sunday now we will be sprinkling in some showers here for Sunday no question about it as this area of high pressure moves out Tom and Amy we're going to increase the clouds through Saturday and then we've got this low that's going to kind of sit and spin for a few days off to our South and that will be certainly throwing some moisture into the mix so the warmup will come with a price tag eventually of some showers but we'll walk you through that wi
th your full 7-day forecast coming up in a few minutes lot to talk about there okay thanks so much Ryan thanks Ryan thank you representatives of the maritime Elver fishery are calling on the federal government to implement enforcable regulations for moderate livelihood fishing by indigenous people they told the senate committee in Ottawa that ambiguity is leading to unauthorized harvesting of the baby eels on on dozens of rivers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Paul Withers reports we are pionee
rs of this industry the appearance comes as the minister of fisheries and oceans considers cancelling the upcoming season an acknowledgement that once again DFO is unable to manage this fishery I implore you not to believe any of the misleading statements that removing legal Fishers from Rivers will reduce the number of illegal and unregulated fissures taking our place poachers will be out in Force as soon as the elvers start running as they were during the shutdowns of 2020 and 2023 she's refer
ring to the hundreds of unauthorized Harvesters eager to cash in on the tiny translucent eels that are shipped live to Asia and grown for food as migma people all of this is our territory it's on seated migma land and we are allowed to fish anywhere as we want many are indigenous asserting their treaty right to earn a moderate living from fishing claiming they do not need DFO approval despite a Supreme Court ruling to the contrary commercial license holders say the department must put its requir
ements in writing if DFO tries to enforce the law the courts and the prosecutors say well there's no regulation that says they can't so DFO simply needs to make a regulation saying here's what the can the dos and don'ts are and they need to apply it to all First Nations 3600 kgam tuck the fishing plan put forward by the Assembly of Nova Scotia mikmar Chiefs would take more than a third of the maritime wide total allowable catch to be fish by about 600 people it's not clear if they will defy a cl
osure we feel that she doesn't have the ability to make a unilateral decision to do that without our um input you know nor is the enforcement response any clearer DFO declined comment today it says it's still considering feedback received since had announced its intention to cancel the season earlier this month Paul Withers CBC News Halifax a new public prosecutions policy hopes to change the way black people in The Province move through the criminal justice system it is called the fair treatmen
t of African Nova scotians and people of African descent involved in criminal prosecutions policy it was announced last night at the black Cultural Center in Cherrybrook the policy designed to help law professionals view various aspects effect of criminal cases through a more culturally competent lens that includes arraignment bail and sentencing even the initial decision who to Pro to prosecute Robert Wright with the African Nova scotian Justice Institute says getting the policy implemented has
n't been easy I'm optimistic that we got to the place where there is now a policy in place um it would be fair to say that over the last year or so it's been a rocky road toward to this moment in time um it I think it would be fair to say that there was significant opposition internal opposition to the policy uh perhaps even internal um lack of understanding of its necessity Rick Woodburn the acting director of the public prosecution service says the policy is not only about changing the system
but also about fostering trust in the black Community the father of a 34-year-old cap rton University student who died in a 2022 house fire is suing his son's landlords and two of his roommates the statement of claim which has not been proven in court alleges there was inadequate fire safety equipment and fellow tenants failed to extinguish smoking materials properly reesh gapu died of injuries he sustained in that fire that consumed his residents in Sydney court documents show the landlords hav
e already been charged with several fire safety infractions and are expected to enter a plea next month in Provincial Court well if you're one of the millions of Canadians who work today you may not have gotten paid those on a fixed annual salary are likely not getting paid for the extra day during the leap year the average salaried worker may be losing out on hundreds of dollars while employers collectively saved billions the cbc's phip deont reports in the part of Toronto's Financial District
many who earn a yearly salary are not too happy to find out they aren't getting paid for the extra day of work during leap years I think it's pretty brutal I know for myself if I'm working I want to be paid like you still have your expenses for that day I think we should be compensated some argue it's a give and take being salaried comes with other benefits and more flexibility I'm not necessarily a 9 to5 kind even if that's what my contract says the reality is I'm expected to yield a certain am
ount of work and that's that's what I'm getting paid to do it's a quarter of a day every four years so that doesn't really kind of move that bottom line for me a whole lot but for some it can add up to hundreds of dollars crunching the latest figures from statistics Canada the average salaried worker is losing out on $351 for a typical 8h hour day and with more than 65 million people earning a fixed annual salary about a third of Canada's Workforce employers collectively save more than $2 billio
n we use the term wage theft because it is a form of theft that workers are experiencing and it's a much broader issue the workers Action Center is looking to tackle from unpaid public holidays and overtime to withheld employee benefits this is a real crisis in Canada and and people are feeling it more because every dollar counts when the cost of living is as high as it is now people who receive annual salary will usually spend more hours of work in a year that what they're actually paid for it'
s kind of expected from them it's included in their salary some contracts include pay for leap days but it's still pretty uncommon it's ultimately up to employers and currently no law forces them to do so FIP deing CBC News Toronto just a pleasure to work with you today even if it's for free right yeah exactly first quick break on the way stay with us there's a lot more to come on CBC novas Scotia news the federal health Minister releases the long awaited details on ottawa's pharmacare plan Cana
da is bringing back visa requirements for Mexican Travelers after a surge of bogus Asylum claims all all right there's a look at downtown Halifax on the waterfront there Ryan is up next with his full weather forecast we'll see you in just a [Music] minute all right we're entering the Deep Freeze in Nova Scotia for sure lots of drama in the weather this month huh yeah for sure it's been up it's been down it's I mean we've had yeah the Epic snowstorms the rain and um yeah I mean it has been dramat
ic to say the least it's almost over it's almost over yeah yeah definitely the extra day today to February that's right one more day for February to stick it to us uh I don't get to use this graphic very often so it's one of my favorites uh as we look at the temperature change from this time yesterday to now and you can see how much the maritimes has dropped places like charot there have dropped 24° 24 hours and you can see New Brunswick certainly the most dramatic change but Nova Scotia anywher
e from 17 at Greenwood 15 at the airport Halifax so definitely a huge drop and there's where we are across Nova Scotia right now uh temperatures will continue to drop down as you can see Sable Island still at the freezing Mark but everywhere else uh certainly below freezing now and those winds are going to continue to be a factor for tonight easing uh but still sustained right now now 40 to even 50 67 at Westport as you can see uh 33 at ammer 44 Caribou Point that's station gusting to 60 gusting
to 70 in lunberg 85 at Westport uh so it's definitely still quite Breezy out there and by the way we did see some pretty strong wind gusts I meant to throw that graphic in uh but uh yeah that one Skip by so we'll uh make sure we Circle back to that at the end of the show widespread gust though 70 to 90 kilometers per hour we did crack 100 in more than a few spots including Digby Halifax Airport was at 102 um and uh East null at kquid Bay 119 a localized gust there so uh that was of course last
night and it was howling wasn't it uh we'll see those you can see those wind chills already in the minus double digits and teens out there right now so it's pretty chilly if you're heading out for that dog walk this evening bundle up and be mindful that things or have of course turned icy after all of that water all that rain that runoff uh things are turning icy out there so keep an extra watch on that first step on your walkway or any untreated surfaces through this evening area of high pressu
re that's going to clear us out for tonight and we'll keep some sunshine in the mix even into Saturday this is the low that's just starting to De develop here along the Gulf of Mexico that's going to hit the coast and then work its way northward and that will throw clouds and showers into the mix for a good chunk of next week as we certainly start uh March well not start March tomorrow is of course starting march on a on a cold note but uh for the rest of the week March looking uh certainly quit
e mild minus 13 in Edmonton minus5 in Calgary so you can see that cold air kind of in the north of Canada but that milder air starting to creep its way back in chance for some flurries at for tonight no question about it uh the best chances are going to be in the north and east for the North umberland Shore region could see a couple centimeters here could see 5 to even 10 cmet for uh inest County north of mabu and we are looking at those temperatures starting in the minus double digit range for
a good portion of us as we move throughout tomorrow you can see a solid mix of sun and Cloud across the province note that those onshore flurries and the Squall chances continue in through Northern iness County another five ctim no question possible there uh so totals over the next 24 hours could add up to around 15 cm in some cases there for the highlands temperatures tomorrow for those highs near the freezing Mark Digby Yarmouth and shelburn counties minus 2 to-4 for a good portion of the vall
ey into the Southshore region including the Halifax area - 6 to 7 for the East uh especially Cape Breton minus 7 maybe even minus8 up through uh Northern inass County windshield values tomorrow morning will be to the minus teens and 20s by lunchtime uh backing off a little bit but still very brisk from start to finish so make sure the kids are dressed warm uh when they head to school for tomorrow look at Saturday 5 6 7 8 degrees across the board increasing clouds chance of some late day showers
pushing into the Tri County Area as we mentioned earlier this next system will be throwing some more moisture into the mix certainly in the form of cloud cover and shower chances not only Sunday uh but likely in Monday and Tuesday and yeah it's looking a little unsettled next week for sure certainly plenty of clouds uh not all of these days will be constant showers but shower chances no question as we work our way through next week but temperatures certainly mild Tom and Amy I have no snow left
in my yard no I the snow's gone crazy how fast the snow melted yeah okay thanks so much Ryan thank you thanks Ryan up next I'll talk with Nova scoia Finance Minister Alan McMaster about his party's latest budget released today that's our newsmaker interview stay with us you're watching CBC Nova scotian news the Houston government has released its latest provincial budget which continues with massive spending on health care and some help for some people feeling cost of living pressures Alan McMas
ter Nova scotia's Minister of Finance is with us now welcome well thank you nice to be here I heard you say that Nova scotians wanted tax relief and they're going to be getting that in the in the index index tax brackets and in basic personal amount it's uh between 65 and or 69 $269 a person doesn't sound like a lot of money how much Relief really is that it'll start coming for people in January of 2025 they'll notice it on their paycheck uh there'll be less money coming off more going into thei
r pocket and this is the kind of tax relief that's going to get bigger and bigger every year so it's going to compound every year as it's indexed it'll become worth more and more to people so it is a big decision point it's something people ask for was the number one ask in budget consultations and we were able to provide it why not uh take a couple points off the HST you know if if people want tax relief and they want a lot of more money in their pocket wouldn't that be a better way to do it we
ll income tax is is something that you know anybody that has to pay income tax they're all paying it um consumption taxes like HST uh certainly people need to buy a certain amount of things but once you get past that uh people who have more money can buy probably limit that's unlimited how much they could buy and could benefit from an HST cut we felt the income tax relief was something that was better for everybody and it was also the number one thing that people asked for was to actually income
tax index the income tax brackets but we went a step further we in we indexed the uh basic personal amount and we also indexed various tax credits all it will mean more tax relief talking about people who are affording things there's a lot of people in this province who can afford a lot less um and yet your government has not increased the income allowance for the third budget now uh why not don't surely there must be more that needs to be done there well we actually did increase it by $300 mor
e per month for 60% of people who are R income assistance this was just recently yes it's actually part of this budget uh and so there's a significant increase and I understand that will be anywhere from a 22 to 44% increase for people uh who have disabilities and that for that's just people with disabilities so I'm talking about everyone who's on income allowance your budget hasn't increased that for everyone well there are supports throughout the budget and every Ministry has a role to play uh
one of the other significant things we announced today uh was a school lunch program so anybody that is having difficulty making ends meet at home and sending their children to school a school lunch program combined with with the breakfast program will ensure that some of that pressure to provide food for their children going to school uh some of that pressure comes off them at home that would help I could see that helping a family but that's not going to be fully rolled out for four years why
is it taking so long to get what should be a fairly simple program out and running uh every school is different in the province and uh we have for instance there are some schools that are primary to five some are primary to eight um schools have different uh food preparation equipment in them so there's all these details we need to work out but I know there's work happening on it already there's a a real interest to be fair about which schools get it first and we want to start with the the young
est grades first um so I know people at Department of Education are going to be they're working on it now and there'll be a lot of work happen over the summer and once people come back for school in September uh there'll be some efforts then because teachers will be involved in this and everybody will need to get familiar and set up and our hope is is by the Fall this program will be up and running and uh the first part is is in the budget today about $18 million and then as time goes on and it'
s expanded to other schools and other grades uh it will it will grow in cost but it will also grow in benefit a lot of desperate people will be looking at this budget and saying I want more in public housing they're not going to get it in this budget why why not well they are going to get it because we've increased uh in just two and a half years we've increased the number of rent supplements from 4,000 across the province to 8,500 in this budget so we've more than doubled the number of rent sup
plements that helps people who can identify housing uh which may be a bit out of the reach the supplement can help bring it within their reach I'm talking about building public housing which is what all the experts are saying we need to do more of well we're trying to leverage the private sector uh as you you will know we took the HS the provincial sales tax off the construction uction of multi-unit residential housing um so that is an incentive for the private sector but if there's not enough h
appening through the private sector um and through Cooperative organizations that also build housing we've taken the step to in this budget to build more public housing and that's the first time in a long time that the province is investing in new public housing it's more expensive to to own operate maintain uh we have the stats to prove that but we're willing to accept that we need to do it I need to ask you about the healthcare spending because it's massive in this budget as well um it's a big
dollar figure attached to it can does it come with any guarantees or uh confidence that you are going to move the needle on wait times and weight lists in this province I think we've been moving the needle already in fact if you look at long-term care beds nursing home beds when we when we came to office 2 and a half years ago there were 500 vacant beds because there was no nursing staff to have people in those beds those beds are all full now um over 300 more have been added to the system they
're full um there's a significant decrease in surgery weight lists they're still some of the highest in the country though yes and that is because we had a system uh that was not uh it was not capable to handle the population we had let alone the population we have now so we're very interested in results we want to be able to point to results and in this budget uh we are building on the results we've gotten so far and uh we're hoping to achieve more so many lines in the budget we only have so mu
ch time I appreciate you talking to us about it thank you Tom coming up more than a hundred people were killed today and hundreds more injured while waiting for Aid in Gaza City the trau government released the long awaited details today of its National pharmacare plan phase one will cover a number of birth control and diabetes medications for all Canadians the Liberals and the ndps stro a deal on pharmacare last week a key condition of their supply and confidence agreement Marina Von stackelber
g reports this is how I give myself insulin 12-year-old Raina Smith needs a digital monitor to watch her blood sugar and a pump to deliver insulin thousands of dollars in medical supplies for her type 1 diabetes paid for through her parents' Private health insurance plans for now it makes me always worried about in the future because before all this um all these medications were going to get covered when I become an adult how am I going to cover this do I have to choose a job based on what cover
s and what benefits benefit uh cover insulin cover my pump worries Canada's Health Minister says she won't have anymore he's now in introduced long- awaited pharmacare legislation it commits the federal government to foot the bill for diabetes medication and devices along with contraceptives for everyone it does not promise full coverage of all drugs I think the question that Canadians are going to ask once they get an opportunity to look at that data is to say what is the most effective um effi
cient model to get to full coverage um to make sure that everybody can afford their medication and that we choose the system that's right for that Ottawa will also create a national list of essential drugs that it may eventually cover and develop an agency to bulk purchase medication all within one year of the legislation passing which it likely will with the support of the NDP who push the liberal government to bring in pharmacare and want to see all necessary medications covered it also sets a
structure for the the builds a foundation for further expansion down in the future uh for governments that want to go there and of course the new democrat RS uh uh if we're government we would want to go there Holland wary to give a cost estimate for the two types of drugs was pushed by reporters you are the minister of Health this is a question you knew you were going to get coming out today for sure so what so what are we looking at here maybe one and a half billion dollars like I think it's
you know the question is is it going to be lower than that is it going to be a little bit higher the health Minister says Canadians could start getting their diabetes medication and birth control paid for as early as next year but to get there he'll first have to negotiate funding deals with the provinces and territories so far Alberta and Quebec have both said they're not interested in the plan Marina Von stackelberg CBC News Ottawa statistics Canada has released its GDP numbers for the fourth
quarter it's the broadest measurement of everything this country produces stat scan reports the economy grew at an annualized rate of 1% as high interest rates weighed on growth but not enough to push it into recession that's can says growth in the fourth quarter was driven by a rise in exports while housing and business Investments both fell that follows a third quarter decline of half a percent in Real gross domestic product outside of 2020 when the pandemic took a sledgehammer to the economy
statan says growth last year was at its slowest Pace since 2016 later tonight most Mexicans will need a visa in order to enter Canada the liberal government is partially Reviving a requirement it lifted 8 years ago the move comes amid pressure from provinces like Quebec and Ontario and from the United States the cbc's rafy Bui Canyon reports as these Travelers landed in Canada their relatives here worried it might be their last visit for a while oh god well that's very upsetting for us because w
e are trying to make Canada a living so for our family it means another step um or another boundary because now they will have to apply in order to come here to Canada the federal government invoked broken rules Thursday when it announced it was changing them we have seen a number of claimants cross from the northern part of the border into the into the southern uh into the into the United States I want exaggerate those flows but they are significant Mark Miller also said there has been a rising
number of asyl claims from the region including a 177% increase from Mexico last year most claims rejected by the immigration Refugee board or abandoned the Integrity of our immigration system is a top priority for us but a majority of the Asylum Seekers who did come through have wound up in Quebec which was looking for the return of visas and now still wants a billion dollar from Ottawa to help with the Mexicans here I think we built the the equivalent of about 50 schools for them in the last
few years uh we have to give give them Health Care Services uh right now 30% of the uh social health is going to them the Mexican Foreign Affairs Department also reacted it said Mexico regrets this decision and believes that there were other options available before putting this measure in place and added Mexico reserves the right to act in reciprocity ottawa's acknowledging this decision has angered Mexico but says it had to act it says it wants to work with the country to bolster an agricultur
al work program offering Mexican workers new opportunities here Rafi bujan on CBC News AWA the Hamas run health authority says more than 100 people were killed today while waiting for Aid near Gaza City Witnesses say Israeli forces open fire on them Israel disputes that saying most of those killed were crushed when people swarmed the aid trucks journalist Sarah coat is in Tel Aviv with the latest absolutely horrific pictures coming in from the ground more than 100 people have been killed 700 oth
ers are wounded with Medics on the ground saying that hospitals are just completely overwhelmed and all they can do right now for the injured is provide first aid we do have a statement from the Israeli military it says that early this morning 38 trucks crossed through the Kem Shalom Crossing when they reached Gaza City they were stormed by residents resulting in dozens of people killed in what they're calling a crowd crush it says then trucks moved further north the Army saying that armed peopl
e shot at trucks and started looting saying it was at this point that soldiers fired warning shots aiming at the legs of people at some points the trucks were overwhelmed and the people driving the trucks which were Garen uh CI gar and civilian drivers uh plowed into um the crowds of people uh ultimately killing my understanding is tens of people I I don't have anything more specific to that it is unfolding Washington says it's looking into these reports calling it a serious incident while heras
is also responding saying that this could derail these hostage and ceasefire negotiations Sarah Coots for CBC Tel Aviv Vladimir Putin issued a blunt warning today to the International Community saying any direct intervention in the war in Ukraine could spark a nuclear conflict the Russian president made the ominous statement in a 2-hour state of the nation address Putin says any move to to send foreign troops into Ukraine could lead to the use of nuclear weapons and quote the destruction of civ
ilization he was responding to comments earlier this week by French president Emanuel macron who floated the idea of ke's allies sending soldiers to help with Ukraine's fight Putin spoke on a range of issues today but notably made no reference to the recent death of jailed Kremlin critic Alexi Naval naval's funeral is expected to be held tomorrow this is skatch when Rough Riders are having to play defense after some season ticket holders said their new ad campaign was way offside The cbc's ashwa
ria Duda has the details I lost my mind it was a case of stereotype after stereotype negative against girls against women the catron Rough Riders are getting some backlash over the use of girl math to sell tickets the CFL team sent out an email to season ticket holders that reads proficient and girl math it's basically free the ad goes on to say literally the best excuse to wear matching outfits and take the stairs earn the selers the team is trying to pull off the Tik Tok Trend if I pay for som
ething with cash it's free why girl math I spent $200 at one store but all the other stores we walked into I didn't buy anything so when you spread it out that was good you saved money I saved money what is this called girl math girl MTH but some longtime football fans and some marketing experts say the Rough Riders fumbled on this one take the stairs and earn the sers did it to me toxic diet culture so this rugged and masculine brand personality calling women girls and talking about things like
girl math can come off as a bit condescending um when it comes to to trends like girl math it's one thing for girls to make fun of themselves and another for a man to poke fun of you I'm assuming they're trying to get like girls interested in football and increase their viewership but I think that's interesting to not assume that hey maybe girls actually want to watch football and they're not just here to do stereotypical things that we've been told like we need to do so I think it's I think it
's a pretty out of touch odd I'm a little embarrassed for whoever made it the writers say the ad was a playful attempt at the Tik Tok Trend but missed the mark and for that they unequivocally apologize they also say women in the marketing department came up with the ad but they accept it didn't resonate with fans and quite disappointing after the writers issued their apology we checked back with an Marie sour she says she's pleased with the apology but still confused and concerned that this kind
of mistake was made made in the first place ashwar aduda CBC News sasun Canada's main stock index gained more than 100 points today boosted by gains in energy stocks while us markets also Rose here's a look at the [Music] numbers for news you can trust we have the latest on on what's happening in your community and a weather forecast you can rely on no matter where you are in Atlantic Canada I'm Amy Smith and I'm Ryan snoden join us for Atlantic tonight right after the national yeah it's going
to be chilly tonight oh and tomorrow too tomorrow as well yeah with the windchill right the wind is definitely going to be remaining persistent uh not nearly as strong as last night thankfully and I blame that wind for uh waking me up uh keeping me up through the the overnight lot of other people yeah well I'm off my game today because I meant to put this graphic in the main forecast so I'm circling back to it now yeah we've got a few minutes so let's just look at some of these peak wind gusts f
rom last night I mentioned earlier East null uh 119 km per hour there on kopic Wood Bay koville at 109 and Beaver Island at 100 plateau in there and inest County at 117 that's a lasette wind there but uh yeah pretty impressive winds for sure and in terms of the rainfall in case you missed it uh yeah we again certainly saw some heavier totals in through Digby County uh some 70 to 80 mm amounts there but uh yeah Sussex area and New Brunswick hit hard 92 uh 160 wow local reports there of up to 200
millim and we have obviously saw localized flooding in that area so unfortunately for those folks there that's all freezing up now and really causing a mess as that cold air mass really settles in under this area of high pressure uh note through the uh timeline tonight those flurry chances uh will be certainly in the mix the best chances are going to be in the north and east and in in veress uh County where we have a snow squall watch which is in effect and we linger into tomorrow as well temper
atures will range from the getting up to around the freezing Mark for the Yarmouth area for tomorrow most of us though -2 to -6 and - 7s across the Northumberland Shore and into Cape Breton there's a quick look at Saturday I want to show you that 7-Day forast in case you missed it earlier certainly looking like spring there warming up for sure okay computers well they used to be the size of a small building but now they can fit in the palm of your hand as a smartphone that's right and there is a
tech company that's well on the way to taking the next step an AI pin you can see that I have it over here okay um and I can also you know cycle through important information and navigate through the device the AI pin looks like a badge and it operates on voice commands and gestures a laser projector lets the wearer use their hand as a screen and a navigation device some of the built in Tech includes an advanc search function AI assisted me messaging language translation and a computer vision s
ystem technology yeah the future is here that's it for us tonight thanks so much for watching we'll see you next time good night [Music] yeah
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