October 7, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Check podcasts. This is an abbreviated version of check News.
Watch full Check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one Check Plus or Checknews dot CA.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'd encouraged the premier to put away his baking tricks
to bring out his bank of values.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Thousands of BC government workers take to the streets of Victoria,
marching to the Legislature with a message for those inside.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
This is a really kind of landmark, monumental decision for.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Council to buy or not to buy. That's what folks
in Qualicum Beach are pondering as the town looks to
purchase a local golf course. On the Canadian researchers, we're
on a Canadian vessel. We're with the Canadian Navy. Vancouver
Islanders are part of a team Canada traveling to the
most remote part of the planet, Antarctica. Chech News starts now.
(01:02):
Good evening, Thanks very much for being here tonight. More
than ten thousand BC government workers took to the streets
of Victoria today, marching from City Hall to the BC Legislature.
Their goal to send a message to the BC government
that they are not backing down. As tatus Leo shows
US members on the picket lines are feeling frustrated but
defiant as they demand a fair deal from the province.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Defiant bcgu members are making sure elected officials that the
BC Legislature can hear them from kilometers away. Union members
gathering in Centennial Square this morning before marching to the
lawn of the BC Legislature or elected officials are meeting
for their first day of the fall session after bargaining
(01:50):
talk failed to move forward last Monday. The union says
this march is a defining moment meant to wake up
the employer. Blocking off several city blocks along Pandora or
then Blanchard, the march turns into a sea of yellow
as it picks up more and more union members along
the way.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Just so everybody is aware, there are more than ten
thousand of us here today.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
After picking up workers at the Royal BC Museum, the
march fills the lawn of the Legislature, the greenery barely visible.
Then speakers from various unions, in a show of solidarity,
demand the province come back to the bargaining table.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'd encourage the Premier to put away his bag a
trick to bring out his bank of values.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
When you strike, our government should be sitting up and
taking notice.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Right Let them hear you in there.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The public is with us and this government is out
of step.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
The union says that twenty two thousand of its thirty
four thousand workers are now involved in job action across
the province, including those from the government run liquor and
cannabis stores, the liquor distribution branch, and commercial Vehicle Safety
and Enforcement WAT scales.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Let's see if everyone in the legislature can hear us.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
The BCGU president Paul Finch says this strike is the
union's most significant in forty years and negotiations aren't going well.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
This morning, thousands of more BCGU and Joined PA members
walked off the job, joining your strike across this province.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
The Minister of Finance says the five percent over two
years they've offered keeps up with inflation and offers better
job security. Minister Brenda Bailey adding that the province can
afford a settlement at any cost. The BCGU is striking
on the lawn at the same time the fall session begins.
Is no mistake. The strike continuing to loom as the
(03:49):
NDP government tries to make up a provincial deficit that
is now soared to twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
On checkpoint tonight, we're asking if the BC government workers
strike is impacting you, you can vote at chechnews dot
ca and we'll share results with you a little bit
later in the broadcast. While that protest was outside, inside
the legislature, it was back to business for provincial politicians.
Is the fall session kicks off today's topics, hot button
issues and the tabling of new bills looking to amend
(04:19):
BC's Intimate Images Protection Act. Corey Sitaway has more.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
With the usual ceremony introduction by members, the twenty twenty
five false session kicks off.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
It's great to be back and welcome to all the
members of the House.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
That House looking a little different this session. On the
opposition's bench after BC Conservative leader John Russtad booted Eleanor
Sterko from the party two weeks ago.
Speaker 10 (04:47):
Private sector member.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Member is content in.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Real in question period pleasantries quickly gave way to spirited debates.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Seems to think that economy and revenue can run from
ideology and unicorn farts?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Am I now allowed to use words like stupid? Incompetent,
financially illiterate.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
Or I feel like I should be paying the number
rent for the amount of space I'm occupying in our head.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
The actual orders of business was the introduction of legislation.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
The Intimate Images Protection Statutes Amendment Act.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Heece's Attorney General, Nikki Sharma, tabling a bill strengthening legislation
that protects people whose intimate images have been shared without
their consent.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
The bill will also enable the amount of damages that
an individual can smit a claim to the resolution tributal
to sorry to be increased up to seventy five thousand.
Speaker 11 (05:37):
Frustrating the bill, all Loo than fay indicate I oppose
Musson carried Minister.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
The government also tabled a new act requiring public post
secondary institutions to do more when it comes to sexual violence,
asking the sector for annual reports to strengthen their consultation
requirements and reduce barriers to people who make reports of
sexual violence. The fall session can continues until the end
of November.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Nanaimo RCMP say a forty eight year old man has
been charged with assault and dangerous driving after this incident
caught on dash cam where a cyclist shout from behind
by a motorcyclist. It happened August second, near the intersection
of Departure Bay Road and Granite Park Road. The cyclist
loses control of his bike, hitting a sidewalk, then crashing
faced first. A cyclist required medical treatment. The motorcyclist didn't stop.
(06:27):
Forty eight year old Marcel Trudeau of Nanaimo has been
charged and will have his first court appearance tomorrow. West
Shore RCMP are looking for a suspect after a series
of incidents targeting electric vehicle charging stations caused thousands of
dollars in damage. West to Our RCMP say it's investigating
those four incidents where the electric vehicle charging cables were
(06:47):
cut and stolen, happened between September thirtieth and October fourth.
The incidents all occurred between midnight and three am. Stations
have been targeted at the Peninsula co Op on West
Shore Parkway at guandafucarect Center twice and the Shell Gas
station on West Shore Parkway. The suspect vehicle is a
light colored SUV, possibly an older model Jeep Patriot, as
seen in surveillance video. The suspect is described as a
(07:10):
man with lighter colored skin, wearing all dark colored clothing.
West Door RCMP hoping you can help them find a
fourteen year old boy who hasn't been seen since Friday.
Graham Ralph was reported missing October fourth, after last being
seen the day before in Langford. He's described as five eleven,
two hundred twenty pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Police say there have been possible sighting since he was
(07:32):
reported missing, but he hasn't been found. And Campbell River RCMP,
You're hoping you can help them find a man who
has been missing since September twenty ninth, saying they are
concerned for his health and well being and that it's
out of character for him to be out of contact
for so long. Fifty year old Morgan Drew is six
foot three, two hundred pounds with short brown and gray
hair and green eyes. Please say they have information he
(07:53):
may be heading to the Taffino and Eucluelet area of
the island, and he may be driving a gray two
thousand and one Volkswagen golf. The town of qualicm Beach
is hearing from people today about its plan to buy
the Eagle Crust golf course. The town's planning director says
the eight point five million dollar purchase would be a
huge expenditure for the town, and council will have to
(08:14):
carefully consider its implications. Kendall Hansen reports.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Hundreds of gathered in Qualicon Beach for a public hearing
that could dramatically change the town's future.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
This is a really kind of landmark monumental decisions for council.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
The town has a conditional agreement to purchase the Eagle
Crest golf course that's more than one hundred and five
acres or forty two hectors for eight point five million.
For the ninety three hundred people living in qualicm Beach,
that works out to more than nine hundred dollars a person,
but it won't come to that. The town recently received
a two million dollar donation to help pay for part
(08:50):
of it. The remaining amount it plans to pay for
by selling off about ten acres of the property. It
would keep enough for a nine hole golf course to
be run by a contract.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Council will have to weigh the risk versus the reward
of undertaking this, and so that's the process we're going
through right now. We want to make sure that if
the town buys it, that the potential rewards outweigh those risks.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
But many here want their say Michelle Carey and her
husband just built their home and moved in a year
ago and are only learning now the golf course's fifth
green right behind them could be developed.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
We want verification in writing that the town will hold
some green space behind our home.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Carrie says. Two appraisals have determined they would lose fifty
to one hundred thousand dollars in property value if the
town allowed development up to their property line.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Part of the appeal to buying this lot was the
fact that that was recreational zoning and how beautiful and
elongated our views are and how peaceful that is.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Jeff Hatcher lives across the street from a section of
golf course that could be developed into a multi story building.
Speaker 12 (10:02):
I'm not excited about having that built right across the
street from me. As you can imagine, particularly when we
bought the house. I mean, it was as you see
it here, and it was very It's a lovely scene
to look out onto. Is a golf course, right.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
But Hatcher says if the property has to be sold,
he prefers the town buying it rather than a private
developer so that at least tax payers can have some
input into what happens to it.
Speaker 12 (10:24):
We assumed that it would remain in green space at
least until we were gone.
Speaker 11 (10:28):
You know.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Like, like I said, they were saying, this is once
in a generation opportunity, which is fair. I understand that
it just was maybe bad timing for us.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
The public hearing is expected to carry on into a
second day if it wants to move ahead with the
purchase agreement. The town has until November first to finalize it.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Researchers are celebrating the birth of a new orcacafe and
the endangered Southern Residence killer whale population, a rare bright
spot for the struggling JPod. The Center for Whale Research
confirmed that Jay forty two, a sixteen year old female,
has given birth to her first came now designated Jay
sixty four. The Center says the young whale was first
spotted on September eighteen, then appeared healthy and well integrated
(11:07):
with the rest of Jaypod. Researchers described the calf as
still very lumpy, a normal sign for a newborn. Jay
sixty four's arrival marks the fifth calf born into JPod
in just over a year. Well, it's difficult to process
just how climate change is affecting us, but a good
indicator lies way up north and way down south. The
(11:27):
Arctic and Antarctica are tough to get you, but Canada
has put its best brains in one boat to study
the glaciers in the most remote part of the world.
As Jordan Cunningham shows us, Team Canada has more than
a few island connections.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Not too many cruises take you to the edge of
the map. Antarctica is a place few get to go
and fewer dare to go. But for you Vix scientists,
doctor Tia Anderlini, the definition of a cruise is a
little different than mine of yours has.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I've been on cruises with Americans, with like few other
people from Europe, but this was possibly my first cruise
of all Canadian.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Last February, a Team Canada of sorts was formed for
an expedition or cruise to the most remote part of
the planet to find out how glaciers and Antarctica are
responding to climate change.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Only Canadian researchers. We're on a Canadian vessel, We're with
the Canadian Navy.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Glaciers are the great frozen barometers of climate change, and
a couple of years ago, a Canadian Coastal Observatory was
installed in Antarctica.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Right where that white dot is is.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Giving Canada a seat at the table for the UN's
Antarctic Treaty. It's Tea's job to figure out what exactly
is in those warming waters. Data that's collected and processed
here in Victoria at Ocean Networks Canada. Studying sea ice
is the literal definition of a fluid situation.
Speaker 13 (12:45):
For a while there the sea ice was growing, and
now it's shrinking quickly.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
And not for the better.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
The sea ice around Antarctica has been drastically diministered for
the last several years.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Understanding that change and the impact on biodiversity is very
important important to us and the rest of the world.
When the ice melts, it exposes clues silt and sediment
that are data points, a roadmap to where climate change
may take us. But in an age of instant information,
this research moves at a glacial pace.
Speaker 12 (13:12):
Some of the things we found so far is that
the data is difficult to work, but it's complicated.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Can't you just run it through tragic Pete.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Oh I wish man.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Wouldn't it be easy?
Speaker 7 (13:21):
But Canada now has its flag planted firmly in Arctic ice,
giving us a foundation for future research.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
As a scientist. It's special.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
In peak austral summer, the penguin to human ratio is
about ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
To one tons of penguins.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Okay, they swarm your boat, but on land you're supposed
to keep five feet away from these little guys. It's
hard to imagine a species in Antarctica having zero chill.
But you've never met a penguin.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You're just like bobbing up to you and you're like, hey, hey,
hey guy, like no backup, backup for now.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
It's easy to get swept up in it.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
You kind of get taken away by the beauty.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
But learning from the data is on the horizon.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Amazing, all right, speaking of amazing as upside time, Met
and Jeffer here this on Monday. Guys, where are you?
What's happened?
Speaker 11 (14:04):
Well, we're in the West Shore Town Center for Starters,
but exactly we're here at Market Collective, And you're right.
Everything is amazing in this store, isn't it?
Speaker 10 (14:13):
So?
Speaker 13 (14:13):
All the artists are over two hundred artists that the
collective is part of and they're all within like a
one hundred kilometer radius.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
So this is.
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Local art and I mean you're going to find just
about anything here if you're looking for a nifty gifty anniversary, birthday.
Speaker 11 (14:27):
Christmas, Christmas is coming out that far away.
Speaker 13 (14:30):
Now, so get out here. And they actually have three
locations here in the West Shore Town Center. Two years here,
five years in the Base Center. And they have a
real cool spot as well out at you know where it's.
Speaker 11 (14:43):
At ed Bart Maddox Farm, at Maddix Farm, in that neat.
Speaker 13 (14:47):
Little yeah, those neat little shops.
Speaker 11 (14:50):
So three great shops. This one actually started as a
pop up and then grew to a two year you know,
it's going to be like a three month experiment here.
Now two years later here they are, so tells you
right away how successful has been and the unique quality
of all the goods that they have. The artisans are fantastic.
We'd have talked to a couple of thee here tonight
and show you around this great store. But the real
(15:12):
focus for us today has been and all this weekend
has been on our friend Mike Walker, who sadly passed
away on Saturday, a Stacey, and it's been very, very
tough for everybody involved with such a great, great guy
and such a great, great talent, and very sad to
get that news.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Saturday, absolutely, and Paul Haysom has joined us here in
studio as we remember our cherished colleague and friend, Mike,
who has had mentioned passed away this weekend after nearly
two decades long battle with brain cancer. And I know
that I speak for all the folks who worked with
Mike here at Check and at Real Focus as well,
and that we extend our most heartfelt sympathy to his
many many friends, as family, and particularly his wife Amanda.
(15:52):
Mike was a truly lovely person. Paul, we lost a
good one on Saturday, Yeah.
Speaker 14 (15:55):
We certainly did so. He was first diagnosed twenty two
years old and he has been fighting ever since. And
what a fight he put up. And his pictures, you
see that smile, That smile is iconic. That to me
is Mike Walker. You just can't stop looking at that smile.
And he was just the most genuine, wonderful human being.
He had a mantra and work and in life, don't
(16:18):
be a jerk, be a good person, and he lived
that every single day.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, he sure did. Ed and Jeff, I know you
both were very close to Mike and this has been
a devastating weekend for you both.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
Yeah, crushing news for sure.
Speaker 13 (16:33):
We just saw him at the HARVCU we saw of
the Harvardcats several weeks ago, and of course, in true
Mike fashion, he had that degree. He was in a wheelchair,
but he had a great smile on and I asked
him how he was, and really what he wanted to
know is how I was doing and how my.
Speaker 15 (16:46):
Kids were doing. To say we lost a good one
is an understatement. The smile, the personality of the talent. Talent,
such a wonderful guy. So to his parents and his
sister and his love wife Amanda, and and all that
knew Mike.
Speaker 13 (17:02):
Everyone that knew Mike.
Speaker 15 (17:04):
No one has a bad word to say about Mike,
so he will be messed.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
Smile is iconic for sure. And I was mentioned to
Jeffer earlier how good he made you feel just by
it when anytime you talked to him, but that big
smile was glowing right back at you, and it just
you know, it just made you feel great. So love
that guy. It's it's a shame.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
We're gonna miss him, indeed, But one thing I know
for certain is that he would not want us to
be sad. He would want us to remember the smile
and the joy and the light that he brought to
all those who he touched in his far too brief
time with us. So thank you, Mike for touching us
all with your optimism, your human and of course, your
million dollar smile.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
This is a BSY news and weather.
Speaker 16 (17:42):
Update following another dramatic day in provincial politics, and my mantra,
both in life and in businesses, don't be a jerk,
and I believe in it, like it's really just be
kind and respectful. Ready, take a Nobody knows how long
their timeline is, but the more experiences you can add
to it, the richer I think your experience will be.
(18:03):
Not many people will give the chance to write their
own eulogy, so here goes in today's reception. It's all
the evidence I need to know that my time has
been well spent.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Thanks for being here.
Speaker 16 (18:15):
And if people remember me as that smiley guy who
was nice and kind and good to work with and
shared a smile with, then that's great. That's that's a
great lasting memory.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I think
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Watch full Check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten,
or anytime on Check Plus or check news Dot
Check podcasts. This is an abbreviated version of check News.
Watch full Check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one Check Plus or Checknews dot CA.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'd encouraged the premier to put away his baking tricks
to bring out his bank of values.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Thousands of BC government workers take to the streets of Victoria,
marching to the Legislature with a message for those inside.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
This is a really kind of landmark, monumental decision for.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Council to buy or not to buy. That's what folks
in Qualicum Beach are pondering as the town looks to
purchase a local golf course. On the Canadian researchers, we're
on a Canadian vessel. We're with the Canadian Navy. Vancouver
Islanders are part of a team Canada traveling to the
most remote part of the planet, Antarctica. Chech News starts now.
(01:02):
Good evening, Thanks very much for being here tonight. More
than ten thousand BC government workers took to the streets
of Victoria today, marching from City Hall to the BC Legislature.
Their goal to send a message to the BC government
that they are not backing down. As tatus Leo shows
US members on the picket lines are feeling frustrated but
defiant as they demand a fair deal from the province.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Defiant bcgu members are making sure elected officials that the
BC Legislature can hear them from kilometers away. Union members
gathering in Centennial Square this morning before marching to the
lawn of the BC Legislature or elected officials are meeting
for their first day of the fall session after bargaining
(01:50):
talk failed to move forward last Monday. The union says
this march is a defining moment meant to wake up
the employer. Blocking off several city blocks along Pandora or
then Blanchard, the march turns into a sea of yellow
as it picks up more and more union members along
the way.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Just so everybody is aware, there are more than ten
thousand of us here today.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
After picking up workers at the Royal BC Museum, the
march fills the lawn of the Legislature, the greenery barely visible.
Then speakers from various unions, in a show of solidarity,
demand the province come back to the bargaining table.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'd encourage the Premier to put away his bag a
trick to bring out his bank of values.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
When you strike, our government should be sitting up and
taking notice.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Right Let them hear you in there.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
The public is with us and this government is out
of step.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
The union says that twenty two thousand of its thirty
four thousand workers are now involved in job action across
the province, including those from the government run liquor and
cannabis stores, the liquor distribution branch, and commercial Vehicle Safety
and Enforcement WAT scales.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Let's see if everyone in the legislature can hear us.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
The BCGU president Paul Finch says this strike is the
union's most significant in forty years and negotiations aren't going well.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
This morning, thousands of more BCGU and Joined PA members
walked off the job, joining your strike across this province.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
The Minister of Finance says the five percent over two
years they've offered keeps up with inflation and offers better
job security. Minister Brenda Bailey adding that the province can
afford a settlement at any cost. The BCGU is striking
on the lawn at the same time the fall session begins.
Is no mistake. The strike continuing to loom as the
(03:49):
NDP government tries to make up a provincial deficit that
is now soared to twelve billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
On checkpoint tonight, we're asking if the BC government workers
strike is impacting you, you can vote at chechnews dot
ca and we'll share results with you a little bit
later in the broadcast. While that protest was outside, inside
the legislature, it was back to business for provincial politicians.
Is the fall session kicks off today's topics, hot button
issues and the tabling of new bills looking to amend
(04:19):
BC's Intimate Images Protection Act. Corey Sitaway has more.
Speaker 8 (04:27):
With the usual ceremony introduction by members, the twenty twenty
five false session kicks off.
Speaker 9 (04:34):
It's great to be back and welcome to all the
members of the House.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
That House looking a little different this session. On the
opposition's bench after BC Conservative leader John Russtad booted Eleanor
Sterko from the party two weeks ago.
Speaker 10 (04:47):
Private sector member.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Member is content in.
Speaker 8 (04:54):
Real in question period pleasantries quickly gave way to spirited debates.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Seems to think that economy and revenue can run from
ideology and unicorn farts?
Speaker 9 (05:05):
Am I now allowed to use words like stupid? Incompetent,
financially illiterate.
Speaker 10 (05:10):
Or I feel like I should be paying the number
rent for the amount of space I'm occupying in our head.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
The actual orders of business was the introduction of legislation.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
The Intimate Images Protection Statutes Amendment Act.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
Heece's Attorney General, Nikki Sharma, tabling a bill strengthening legislation
that protects people whose intimate images have been shared without
their consent.
Speaker 9 (05:28):
The bill will also enable the amount of damages that
an individual can smit a claim to the resolution tributal
to sorry to be increased up to seventy five thousand.
Speaker 11 (05:37):
Frustrating the bill, all Loo than fay indicate I oppose
Musson carried Minister.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
The government also tabled a new act requiring public post
secondary institutions to do more when it comes to sexual violence,
asking the sector for annual reports to strengthen their consultation
requirements and reduce barriers to people who make reports of
sexual violence. The fall session can continues until the end
of November.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Nanaimo RCMP say a forty eight year old man has
been charged with assault and dangerous driving after this incident
caught on dash cam where a cyclist shout from behind
by a motorcyclist. It happened August second, near the intersection
of Departure Bay Road and Granite Park Road. The cyclist
loses control of his bike, hitting a sidewalk, then crashing
faced first. A cyclist required medical treatment. The motorcyclist didn't stop.
(06:27):
Forty eight year old Marcel Trudeau of Nanaimo has been
charged and will have his first court appearance tomorrow. West
Shore RCMP are looking for a suspect after a series
of incidents targeting electric vehicle charging stations caused thousands of
dollars in damage. West to Our RCMP say it's investigating
those four incidents where the electric vehicle charging cables were
(06:47):
cut and stolen, happened between September thirtieth and October fourth.
The incidents all occurred between midnight and three am. Stations
have been targeted at the Peninsula co Op on West
Shore Parkway at guandafucarect Center twice and the Shell Gas
station on West Shore Parkway. The suspect vehicle is a
light colored SUV, possibly an older model Jeep Patriot, as
seen in surveillance video. The suspect is described as a
(07:10):
man with lighter colored skin, wearing all dark colored clothing.
West Door RCMP hoping you can help them find a
fourteen year old boy who hasn't been seen since Friday.
Graham Ralph was reported missing October fourth, after last being
seen the day before in Langford. He's described as five eleven,
two hundred twenty pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Police say there have been possible sighting since he was
(07:32):
reported missing, but he hasn't been found. And Campbell River RCMP,
You're hoping you can help them find a man who
has been missing since September twenty ninth, saying they are
concerned for his health and well being and that it's
out of character for him to be out of contact
for so long. Fifty year old Morgan Drew is six
foot three, two hundred pounds with short brown and gray
hair and green eyes. Please say they have information he
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may be heading to the Taffino and Eucluelet area of
the island, and he may be driving a gray two
thousand and one Volkswagen golf. The town of qualicm Beach
is hearing from people today about its plan to buy
the Eagle Crust golf course. The town's planning director says
the eight point five million dollar purchase would be a
huge expenditure for the town, and council will have to
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carefully consider its implications. Kendall Hansen reports.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Hundreds of gathered in Qualicon Beach for a public hearing
that could dramatically change the town's future.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
This is a really kind of landmark monumental decisions for council.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
The town has a conditional agreement to purchase the Eagle
Crest golf course that's more than one hundred and five
acres or forty two hectors for eight point five million.
For the ninety three hundred people living in qualicm Beach,
that works out to more than nine hundred dollars a person,
but it won't come to that. The town recently received
a two million dollar donation to help pay for part
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of it. The remaining amount it plans to pay for
by selling off about ten acres of the property. It
would keep enough for a nine hole golf course to
be run by a contract.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Council will have to weigh the risk versus the reward
of undertaking this, and so that's the process we're going
through right now. We want to make sure that if
the town buys it, that the potential rewards outweigh those risks.
Speaker 10 (09:15):
But many here want their say Michelle Carey and her
husband just built their home and moved in a year
ago and are only learning now the golf course's fifth
green right behind them could be developed.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
We want verification in writing that the town will hold
some green space behind our home.
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Carrie says. Two appraisals have determined they would lose fifty
to one hundred thousand dollars in property value if the
town allowed development up to their property line.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Part of the appeal to buying this lot was the
fact that that was recreational zoning and how beautiful and
elongated our views are and how peaceful that is.
Speaker 10 (09:56):
Jeff Hatcher lives across the street from a section of
golf course that could be developed into a multi story building.
Speaker 12 (10:02):
I'm not excited about having that built right across the
street from me. As you can imagine, particularly when we
bought the house. I mean, it was as you see
it here, and it was very It's a lovely scene
to look out onto. Is a golf course, right.
Speaker 10 (10:14):
But Hatcher says if the property has to be sold,
he prefers the town buying it rather than a private
developer so that at least tax payers can have some
input into what happens to it.
Speaker 12 (10:24):
We assumed that it would remain in green space at
least until we were gone.
Speaker 11 (10:28):
You know.
Speaker 12 (10:28):
Like, like I said, they were saying, this is once
in a generation opportunity, which is fair. I understand that
it just was maybe bad timing for us.
Speaker 10 (10:36):
The public hearing is expected to carry on into a
second day if it wants to move ahead with the
purchase agreement. The town has until November first to finalize it.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Researchers are celebrating the birth of a new orcacafe and
the endangered Southern Residence killer whale population, a rare bright
spot for the struggling JPod. The Center for Whale Research
confirmed that Jay forty two, a sixteen year old female,
has given birth to her first came now designated Jay
sixty four. The Center says the young whale was first
spotted on September eighteen, then appeared healthy and well integrated
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with the rest of Jaypod. Researchers described the calf as
still very lumpy, a normal sign for a newborn. Jay
sixty four's arrival marks the fifth calf born into JPod
in just over a year. Well, it's difficult to process
just how climate change is affecting us, but a good
indicator lies way up north and way down south. The
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Arctic and Antarctica are tough to get you, but Canada
has put its best brains in one boat to study
the glaciers in the most remote part of the world.
As Jordan Cunningham shows us, Team Canada has more than
a few island connections.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Not too many cruises take you to the edge of
the map. Antarctica is a place few get to go
and fewer dare to go. But for you Vix scientists,
doctor Tia Anderlini, the definition of a cruise is a
little different than mine of yours has.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I've been on cruises with Americans, with like few other
people from Europe, but this was possibly my first cruise
of all Canadian.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Last February, a Team Canada of sorts was formed for
an expedition or cruise to the most remote part of
the planet to find out how glaciers and Antarctica are
responding to climate change.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Only Canadian researchers. We're on a Canadian vessel, We're with
the Canadian Navy.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Glaciers are the great frozen barometers of climate change, and
a couple of years ago, a Canadian Coastal Observatory was
installed in Antarctica.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Right where that white dot is is.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Giving Canada a seat at the table for the UN's
Antarctic Treaty. It's Tea's job to figure out what exactly
is in those warming waters. Data that's collected and processed
here in Victoria at Ocean Networks Canada. Studying sea ice
is the literal definition of a fluid situation.
Speaker 13 (12:45):
For a while there the sea ice was growing, and
now it's shrinking quickly.
Speaker 10 (12:48):
And not for the better.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
The sea ice around Antarctica has been drastically diministered for
the last several years.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Understanding that change and the impact on biodiversity is very
important important to us and the rest of the world.
When the ice melts, it exposes clues silt and sediment
that are data points, a roadmap to where climate change
may take us. But in an age of instant information,
this research moves at a glacial pace.
Speaker 12 (13:12):
Some of the things we found so far is that
the data is difficult to work, but it's complicated.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
Can't you just run it through tragic Pete.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Oh I wish man.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Wouldn't it be easy?
Speaker 7 (13:21):
But Canada now has its flag planted firmly in Arctic ice,
giving us a foundation for future research.
Speaker 10 (13:26):
As a scientist. It's special.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
In peak austral summer, the penguin to human ratio is
about ten thousand.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
To one tons of penguins.
Speaker 7 (13:34):
Okay, they swarm your boat, but on land you're supposed
to keep five feet away from these little guys. It's
hard to imagine a species in Antarctica having zero chill.
But you've never met a penguin.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
You're just like bobbing up to you and you're like, hey, hey,
hey guy, like no backup, backup for now.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
It's easy to get swept up in it.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
You kind of get taken away by the beauty.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
But learning from the data is on the horizon.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Amazing, all right, speaking of amazing as upside time, Met
and Jeffer here this on Monday. Guys, where are you?
What's happened?
Speaker 11 (14:04):
Well, we're in the West Shore Town Center for Starters,
but exactly we're here at Market Collective, And you're right.
Everything is amazing in this store, isn't it?
Speaker 10 (14:13):
So?
Speaker 13 (14:13):
All the artists are over two hundred artists that the
collective is part of and they're all within like a
one hundred kilometer radius.
Speaker 10 (14:20):
So this is.
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Local art and I mean you're going to find just
about anything here if you're looking for a nifty gifty anniversary, birthday.
Speaker 11 (14:27):
Christmas, Christmas is coming out that far away.
Speaker 13 (14:30):
Now, so get out here. And they actually have three
locations here in the West Shore Town Center. Two years here,
five years in the Base Center. And they have a
real cool spot as well out at you know where it's.
Speaker 11 (14:43):
At ed Bart Maddox Farm, at Maddix Farm, in that neat.
Speaker 13 (14:47):
Little yeah, those neat little shops.
Speaker 11 (14:50):
So three great shops. This one actually started as a
pop up and then grew to a two year you know,
it's going to be like a three month experiment here.
Now two years later here they are, so tells you
right away how successful has been and the unique quality
of all the goods that they have. The artisans are fantastic.
We'd have talked to a couple of thee here tonight
and show you around this great store. But the real
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focus for us today has been and all this weekend
has been on our friend Mike Walker, who sadly passed
away on Saturday, a Stacey, and it's been very, very
tough for everybody involved with such a great, great guy
and such a great, great talent, and very sad to
get that news.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Saturday, absolutely, and Paul Haysom has joined us here in
studio as we remember our cherished colleague and friend, Mike,
who has had mentioned passed away this weekend after nearly
two decades long battle with brain cancer. And I know
that I speak for all the folks who worked with
Mike here at Check and at Real Focus as well,
and that we extend our most heartfelt sympathy to his
many many friends, as family, and particularly his wife Amanda.
(15:52):
Mike was a truly lovely person. Paul, we lost a
good one on Saturday, Yeah.
Speaker 14 (15:55):
We certainly did so. He was first diagnosed twenty two
years old and he has been fighting ever since. And
what a fight he put up. And his pictures, you
see that smile, That smile is iconic. That to me
is Mike Walker. You just can't stop looking at that smile.
And he was just the most genuine, wonderful human being.
He had a mantra and work and in life, don't
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be a jerk, be a good person, and he lived
that every single day.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, he sure did. Ed and Jeff, I know you
both were very close to Mike and this has been
a devastating weekend for you both.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
Yeah, crushing news for sure.
Speaker 13 (16:33):
We just saw him at the HARVCU we saw of
the Harvardcats several weeks ago, and of course, in true
Mike fashion, he had that degree. He was in a wheelchair,
but he had a great smile on and I asked
him how he was, and really what he wanted to
know is how I was doing and how my.
Speaker 15 (16:46):
Kids were doing. To say we lost a good one
is an understatement. The smile, the personality of the talent. Talent,
such a wonderful guy. So to his parents and his
sister and his love wife Amanda, and and all that
knew Mike.
Speaker 13 (17:02):
Everyone that knew Mike.
Speaker 15 (17:04):
No one has a bad word to say about Mike,
so he will be messed.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
Smile is iconic for sure. And I was mentioned to
Jeffer earlier how good he made you feel just by
it when anytime you talked to him, but that big
smile was glowing right back at you, and it just
you know, it just made you feel great. So love
that guy. It's it's a shame.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
We're gonna miss him, indeed, But one thing I know
for certain is that he would not want us to
be sad. He would want us to remember the smile
and the joy and the light that he brought to
all those who he touched in his far too brief
time with us. So thank you, Mike for touching us
all with your optimism, your human and of course, your
million dollar smile.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
This is a BSY news and weather.
Speaker 16 (17:42):
Update following another dramatic day in provincial politics, and my mantra,
both in life and in businesses, don't be a jerk,
and I believe in it, like it's really just be
kind and respectful. Ready, take a Nobody knows how long
their timeline is, but the more experiences you can add
to it, the richer I think your experience will be.
(18:03):
Not many people will give the chance to write their
own eulogy, so here goes in today's reception. It's all
the evidence I need to know that my time has
been well spent.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Thanks for being here.
Speaker 16 (18:15):
And if people remember me as that smiley guy who
was nice and kind and good to work with and
shared a smile with, then that's great. That's that's a
great lasting memory.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
I think
Speaker 1 (18:35):
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