October 5, 2025 • 14 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Check podcasts. This is an abbreviated version of check News.
Watch full Check newscasts week days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one Check plus or checknews dot Ca.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We have thirty days to decide the purchase of a
new park in North Couch and is bringing up strong
feelings because of who's being asked to pay for it.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Plus and we just don't feel like our work is
done until everybody on the peninsula has a family physician
or nurse practitioner.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
A charity that's opening up doctor clinics on southern Vancouver
Island isn't slowing down and is motivated to expand.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
We take as in the community.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
And tonight on island rewind.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We'll take you back to two thousand and four when
Twitter rock raised over one million dollars. Check news starts now, good.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Evening, Thank you for joining us. I'm chattis Leo.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
Scott.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Fee is off this weekend at.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
A time when physicians shortages and population growth continue to
strain care access across BC. The charity that's opening up
doctor clinics on the Santich Peninsula is eyn an expansion
this course, Sitaway reports Shoreline is charting a path to
a third clinic.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It's unique to the peninsula, a nonprofit that offers medical
care to the region.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Whole person Care Cradle Degrave.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Since opening its first clinic in Sydney in twenty sixteen,
Shoreline Medical is growing. Today it has two clinics offering
nearly sixteen thousand people on the Santach Peninsula primary healthcare
with a team of twenty five. It's home to the
region's only youth clinic, with its providers also working elsewhere
in the region providing maternity hospital, long term and pallid
(01:51):
of care.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So we wanted to make sure that we had a
solid plan going forward.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
With fourteen thousand residents still on the Santach Peninsula without
a family doctor, Shoreline is looking to expand and we.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Just don't feel like our work is done until everybody
on the peninsula has a family physician or a nurse practitioner.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
They're eying a third, more central location and expansion of
their youth services over the next three years that are
looking for help to get there.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We are pretty excited. It's like we're not putting a
shovel in the ground tomorrow, but we're preparing for it,
and you know, any community partner that is interested in
helping us with that, we would welcome the opportunity to
speak with them.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
In January of last year, Shoreline closed its walking clinic
due to overwhelming demand for its services as the province
set a new record for the number of people admitted
to hospitals. More recently, light was shed on the increase
in people, many without family doctors, walking out of the
er without being seen by a doctor.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
It's really of no surprise emergency rooms are under considerable
strain across the province.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
That strain healthcare experts say a cascading consequence from a
shortage in primary care providers, something Shoreline is trying to further.
Shore Up on the Sandwich Peninsula and I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Marsm PIA found and arrested a thirty six year old
man in connection to a stabbing. Joshua Siebel is wanted
for one count of aggravated assault. The charge against Civil's
stemmed from April fourteenth, when an individual was stabbed in
the port placed small parking lot on Friday. Officials asked
the public to help locate Siebel as his location was
unknown at the time and he had no fix addressed. However,
(03:31):
as of earlier today, rather Mounties say civil has been
arrested and it remains in police custody now.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
BC Fairies is.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Responding to numbers released by the Ministry Transportation showing that
in the last year BC Fairies faced nearly eighty thousand
dollars in fines for cancelations on ten minor routs.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
The company says they understand.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The purpose of the fines, which is to keep them
accountable and to safety and service requirements. Despite the understanding,
BC Ferries says the larger problem is getting and keeping
enough specialized workers to fill in. The company says that
the challenges are not unique to BC Ferries, citing that
in twenty twenty four, eighty six percent of marine employers
reported difficulty recruiting. In twenty twenty four, there were thirty
(04:15):
six hundred vacancies across the industry, with training programs only
supplying forty percent of the needed workers over the next
five years. The unit representing Canada Post Workers is reacting
to the latest offer from the Crown Corporation, saying that
it's making a mockery of the collective bargaining process with
its latest contract offers.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
In the latest offer, we had turned down the last
offer that was forced on us, and this offer essentially
is exactly the same, except with more rollbocks. There's a
loss of job security and a promise of job cuts.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
In a statement released late Friday, the union said it
is disappointed with the latest offer, which it calls a
major step backwards.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
The union said that they've waited forty.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Five days for offers that are what they consider worse
most than what they were ejected back in August. Canada
Post table and offer Friday that included many terms from
its previous final offer in May, including just over a
thirteen percent compounded wage increase over four years, but removed
to signing bonus and added provisions related.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
To expected job cuts.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Canada Posts went back on strike on September twenty fifth.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The federal government is providing the District of Senates with
more than two point five million dollars in funding over
five years to boost services for seniors in the region.
In Totalattawa has promised over two and a half million
dollars throughout its New Horizon for Seniors program. Local government
partners for the funding all have projects in mind to
help address the gaps in current services, such as transportation,
(05:44):
organized events, and dropping activities. Santa says it will use
that money and collaborate with municipal municipalities rather in nonprofit
partners to improve services across Greater Victoria.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
This is important because we know isolation can easily contribute
to deterioration of your physical and mental health, and so
the more we're able to build in social connections for folks,
it improves their health, their well being and their longevity.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Burdock says the funding will go a long way to
help seniors feel that they participate in activities, improve social
connections and like the Belonging in Sanwich which is Some
of the community partners eligible for funding, including the Victoria
Immigrant and Refugee Center Society, Silver Thread Services, Sanwich Neighborhood Place,
and the Greater Victoria Volunteer Society. The purchase of a
(06:35):
new trail filled park is sparking strong feelings in North
Kouchin because of who's being asked to.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Pay for it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Only homeowners directly around the nine acre lot will be
taxed for the over million dollar price take, and as
sky Ryan reports, the deadline to choose yes or No
is approaching fast.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
A hike through this trail filled lot and its towering
trees off Donnage South has for years been a calming
space for Brenda Keeks and or North Cowachen neighbors.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
This is a beautiful spot. There is almost ten acres
of beautiful undeveloped land in the middle of many big subdivisions.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
But right now it's the future of this lot. It's
privately owned and up for sale for one point two
million dollars that North Cowachen wants to make a park
that is dividing the people around it.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Why would it just be this neighborhood paid for it
when it's going to belong to all of North Calachin.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Like, why am I buying it? I don't understand.
Speaker 10 (07:36):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I can't sell my little piece of it later.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Preserving this undeveloped green space has a lot of supporting
on trail users in North Cauchin, But it's how council
plans to pay for it that have people wiled up.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I think it's a terrible idea.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
The process that North Couchin is using is not.
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Appropriate since North Couchin doesn't have the money immediately to
buy it. It's proposing a local area service town to
fund the purchase, charging only the hundreds of households within
a ten minute walk of the park one hundred and
thirty dollars extra each year for the next twenty years
to buy it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Why doesn't North couch And buy the land?
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Why do they want the neighborhood to buy the land.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
I don't feel good about it, that's for sure. Yeah,
I definitely would like it not to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's the fact that they don't want North Couchin using
this LAS to acquire land.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
But Kiks, who's become a supporter of the LAS, say
it's a different funding model that's needed in this case
because this tree law will likely sell fast on the
private market and be lost to.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
The public because we're up against a firewall of a
public sale. We don't at this for this particular instance.
We don't have the time or luxury to wait. If
it's sold privately, it just will let the tips fall
where they may and probably let all these trees go down.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
North Couch and homeowners have until October thirty first to
write in opposing the purchase, and the sale will go
ahead unless fifty percent oppose it. The future of this
treasured network of trails hanging in the balance until then, we.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
All sticking with the theme of three trees rather.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Christmas is still a ways away, but that doesn't mean
that the Christmas spirit of giving can start a little early.
The Base Center's beloved Festival of Trees is trying to
get ready and deck the halls as they're hoping sponsors
will come out and support the charity event. Their aim
is to reach a last year's goal of ninety trees
or more.
Speaker 11 (09:35):
It's a good, you know, feel good opportunity. It gets
your team together to decorate and a little bit of
competition amongst other business owners or families that want to
you know, donate a tree in honor of a child
that may be in care.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Last year, the festival raised one hundred and forty five
thousand dollars for the BC Children Hospital Foundation. This year
marks the tenth year of supporting Island Kids, families and care.
If you or your family or your business want to
sponsor your tree, you can register online at the Basecenter
dot CAA. The submarine known as HMCS Cornerbrook will be
on display tomorrow at Ogden Point. Public tours of the
(10:15):
HMCS Cornerbrook tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Have largely filled up, but there still might be.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
A few extra opportunities to see inside the submarine.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
It's returning from.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
A Canadian Armed Forces exercise in the Arctic that started
back in mid August. Family and friends will be at
Oucon Point to welcome the corner brook when it dots
at around eight am tomorrow morning, and towards will rum
between ten and three, given the community a chance to
see the navy up close.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
And here's something else you don't see every day.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's an old truck being lifted by a crane onto
the roof of an Arise office in vic West. The
local development company wasn't using the truck very much and
decided why not use it as a branding tool. A
crane was called in this week and the little truck
was hoisted up. If you're riding the Galloping Goose, you
will be able to to see it when you hit
the harbor road.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Just look up.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hope they didn't leave the keys in it, right?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Well, if your safety first, right, hopefully it just doesn't
work at all, you know, be so anyways, that's that's
an interesting way to do some marketing.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Test we haven't seen each other at all, No it's
been a while.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, yeah, you've been gone.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I've been gone, and it's great to be back here.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yes, and guess what, there's great weather.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
There is that's exciting.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
Yes, some really nice October sunshiny weather for you. Let's
take a look at our satellite radar now and you
can see not a lot to show you. So last
night some of your is getting a little bit of precipitation,
but really not much at all, some pockets to the
west coast there this morning and then moving on down.
But if you had a cloudy day today, expect to
see clearing soon. So we are looking at clear conditions
(11:46):
ahead and a strong range of high pressure moving in
and just keeping things very very sunny for at least
the next few days. So October this time of year
can often be like that. My son's birthdays actually tomorrow,
and growing up we had his little parties outside. We
had beach birthday parties for him. And there's only a
couple of times I think where the weather wasn't sunny
and nice out for exploring. But we have had pretty
(12:06):
dry conditions on a good chunk of the island, and
although September for the most part was very dry, we
did end up ending the month for Greater Victoria. Now,
September is usually our driest month in Victoria after June,
July and August. April this year was actually super dry, though,
so drier than September and the Victoria Airport ninety three
percent of normal, so that is considered normal. That's good
(12:27):
news there thirty three point five millimeters, but you can
see the difference there at the University of Victoria Environment
Canada Weather Station just sixteen point four millimeters of rain.
That's only fifty four percent of the normal thirty so
not catching off the way the airport cut up the
last few days of the month with some rainfall there,
But we have a very dry stretch ahead, likely at
least a week for many parts of the island, so
(12:47):
I'll have more details on that coming up. Now it's October,
it is starting to feel a bit like follow though
this coming week probably won't feel that fallish because we
will have above seasonal temperatures. But along with the falling
leaves this week, there was also snow falling at Mount Washington.
Michelle mcconnachy Woods captured this look at the first snowfall
of the season on the Mountain peaks taken from Campbell River.
(13:09):
Those shots, and how's this for a catch of the day.
Our Saturday Vieural wildlife photo is this great shot from
Brian Brundle of a black bear with a pink salmon
that he had just plucked out of the river. The
bears looking right at the camera and Brian says he
was keeping an eye on him the entire time. Yeah,
I bet he didn't want to share that salmon. We've
had some unbearably good viewer bruin shots, including the bear
(13:32):
on the roof that went viral last weekend.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Here's another great one.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
Jerry Hevin sent in this funny photo of a bear
cup at Stamp Fall standing up along the shore. Well,
it's mama was in the water searching for salmon. Now
it almost looks like a person to me in a
bear costume, Chattie, what do you think? And the markings too,
it kind of looks like a cat's face in those
white markings.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Trying to feel like maybe we're getting pranked. It's like
a Halloween thing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But I also know that he has such a better
posture than me, and I'm a little jealous us of
that too.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, very funny photos.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
So thanks.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
Remember to send those photos to photos at checknews dot Ca,
not our news tips email, or the upload link on
our website. I'll have your full forecast coming up and
if you like Sunshine, you are definitely going to like
this forecast.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Perfect.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Thank you, Tess. Okay, we have to take our first break,
but after.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We'll bring you the latest developments following Hamas's response to
the White House Gaza ceasefire plan. Plus conservative Sunay Takachi
is poised to become Japan's first woman prime minister.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Won this after short break.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Watch full Check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten,
or anytime on Check Plus or Checknews dot Ca
Check podcasts. This is an abbreviated version of check News.
Watch full Check newscasts week days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one Check plus or checknews dot Ca.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
We have thirty days to decide the purchase of a
new park in North Couch and is bringing up strong
feelings because of who's being asked to pay for it.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Plus and we just don't feel like our work is
done until everybody on the peninsula has a family physician
or nurse practitioner.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
A charity that's opening up doctor clinics on southern Vancouver
Island isn't slowing down and is motivated to expand.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
We take as in the community.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
And tonight on island rewind.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We'll take you back to two thousand and four when
Twitter rock raised over one million dollars. Check news starts now, good.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
Evening, Thank you for joining us. I'm chattis Leo.
Speaker 6 (01:03):
Scott.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Fee is off this weekend at.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
A time when physicians shortages and population growth continue to
strain care access across BC. The charity that's opening up
doctor clinics on the Santich Peninsula is eyn an expansion
this course, Sitaway reports Shoreline is charting a path to
a third clinic.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It's unique to the peninsula, a nonprofit that offers medical
care to the region.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Whole person Care Cradle Degrave.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Since opening its first clinic in Sydney in twenty sixteen,
Shoreline Medical is growing. Today it has two clinics offering
nearly sixteen thousand people on the Santach Peninsula primary healthcare
with a team of twenty five. It's home to the
region's only youth clinic, with its providers also working elsewhere
in the region providing maternity hospital, long term and pallid
(01:51):
of care.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
So we wanted to make sure that we had a
solid plan going forward.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
With fourteen thousand residents still on the Santach Peninsula without
a family doctor, Shoreline is looking to expand and we.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Just don't feel like our work is done until everybody
on the peninsula has a family physician or a nurse practitioner.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
They're eying a third, more central location and expansion of
their youth services over the next three years that are
looking for help to get there.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
We are pretty excited. It's like we're not putting a
shovel in the ground tomorrow, but we're preparing for it,
and you know, any community partner that is interested in
helping us with that, we would welcome the opportunity to
speak with them.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
In January of last year, Shoreline closed its walking clinic
due to overwhelming demand for its services as the province
set a new record for the number of people admitted
to hospitals. More recently, light was shed on the increase
in people, many without family doctors, walking out of the
er without being seen by a doctor.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
It's really of no surprise emergency rooms are under considerable
strain across the province.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
That strain healthcare experts say a cascading consequence from a
shortage in primary care providers, something Shoreline is trying to further.
Shore Up on the Sandwich Peninsula and I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Marsm PIA found and arrested a thirty six year old
man in connection to a stabbing. Joshua Siebel is wanted
for one count of aggravated assault. The charge against Civil's
stemmed from April fourteenth, when an individual was stabbed in
the port placed small parking lot on Friday. Officials asked
the public to help locate Siebel as his location was
unknown at the time and he had no fix addressed. However,
(03:31):
as of earlier today, rather Mounties say civil has been
arrested and it remains in police custody now.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
BC Fairies is.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Responding to numbers released by the Ministry Transportation showing that
in the last year BC Fairies faced nearly eighty thousand
dollars in fines for cancelations on ten minor routs.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
The company says they understand.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
The purpose of the fines, which is to keep them
accountable and to safety and service requirements. Despite the understanding,
BC Ferries says the larger problem is getting and keeping
enough specialized workers to fill in. The company says that
the challenges are not unique to BC Ferries, citing that
in twenty twenty four, eighty six percent of marine employers
reported difficulty recruiting. In twenty twenty four, there were thirty
(04:15):
six hundred vacancies across the industry, with training programs only
supplying forty percent of the needed workers over the next
five years. The unit representing Canada Post Workers is reacting
to the latest offer from the Crown Corporation, saying that
it's making a mockery of the collective bargaining process with
its latest contract offers.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
In the latest offer, we had turned down the last
offer that was forced on us, and this offer essentially
is exactly the same, except with more rollbocks. There's a
loss of job security and a promise of job cuts.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
In a statement released late Friday, the union said it
is disappointed with the latest offer, which it calls a
major step backwards.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
The union said that they've waited forty.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Five days for offers that are what they consider worse
most than what they were ejected back in August. Canada
Post table and offer Friday that included many terms from
its previous final offer in May, including just over a
thirteen percent compounded wage increase over four years, but removed
to signing bonus and added provisions related.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
To expected job cuts.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Canada Posts went back on strike on September twenty fifth.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Well.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
The federal government is providing the District of Senates with
more than two point five million dollars in funding over
five years to boost services for seniors in the region.
In Totalattawa has promised over two and a half million
dollars throughout its New Horizon for Seniors program. Local government
partners for the funding all have projects in mind to
help address the gaps in current services, such as transportation,
(05:44):
organized events, and dropping activities. Santa says it will use
that money and collaborate with municipal municipalities rather in nonprofit
partners to improve services across Greater Victoria.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
This is important because we know isolation can easily contribute
to deterioration of your physical and mental health, and so
the more we're able to build in social connections for folks,
it improves their health, their well being and their longevity.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Burdock says the funding will go a long way to
help seniors feel that they participate in activities, improve social
connections and like the Belonging in Sanwich which is Some
of the community partners eligible for funding, including the Victoria
Immigrant and Refugee Center Society, Silver Thread Services, Sanwich Neighborhood Place,
and the Greater Victoria Volunteer Society. The purchase of a
(06:35):
new trail filled park is sparking strong feelings in North
Kouchin because of who's being asked to.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Pay for it.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Only homeowners directly around the nine acre lot will be
taxed for the over million dollar price take, and as
sky Ryan reports, the deadline to choose yes or No
is approaching fast.
Speaker 9 (06:55):
A hike through this trail filled lot and its towering
trees off Donnage South has for years been a calming
space for Brenda Keeks and or North Cowachen neighbors.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
This is a beautiful spot. There is almost ten acres
of beautiful undeveloped land in the middle of many big subdivisions.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
But right now it's the future of this lot. It's
privately owned and up for sale for one point two
million dollars that North Cowachen wants to make a park
that is dividing the people around it.
Speaker 7 (07:29):
Why would it just be this neighborhood paid for it
when it's going to belong to all of North Calachin.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Like, why am I buying it? I don't understand.
Speaker 10 (07:36):
I'm not.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
I can't sell my little piece of it later.
Speaker 9 (07:39):
Preserving this undeveloped green space has a lot of supporting
on trail users in North Cauchin, But it's how council
plans to pay for it that have people wiled up.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
I think it's a terrible idea.
Speaker 6 (07:50):
The process that North Couchin is using is not.
Speaker 9 (07:53):
Appropriate since North Couchin doesn't have the money immediately to
buy it. It's proposing a local area service town to
fund the purchase, charging only the hundreds of households within
a ten minute walk of the park one hundred and
thirty dollars extra each year for the next twenty years
to buy it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Why doesn't North couch And buy the land?
Speaker 8 (08:11):
Why do they want the neighborhood to buy the land.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
I don't feel good about it, that's for sure. Yeah,
I definitely would like it not to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's the fact that they don't want North Couchin using
this LAS to acquire land.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
But Kiks, who's become a supporter of the LAS, say
it's a different funding model that's needed in this case
because this tree law will likely sell fast on the
private market and be lost to.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
The public because we're up against a firewall of a
public sale. We don't at this for this particular instance.
We don't have the time or luxury to wait. If
it's sold privately, it just will let the tips fall
where they may and probably let all these trees go down.
Speaker 9 (08:58):
North Couch and homeowners have until October thirty first to
write in opposing the purchase, and the sale will go
ahead unless fifty percent oppose it. The future of this
treasured network of trails hanging in the balance until then, we.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
All sticking with the theme of three trees rather.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Christmas is still a ways away, but that doesn't mean
that the Christmas spirit of giving can start a little early.
The Base Center's beloved Festival of Trees is trying to
get ready and deck the halls as they're hoping sponsors
will come out and support the charity event. Their aim
is to reach a last year's goal of ninety trees
or more.
Speaker 11 (09:35):
It's a good, you know, feel good opportunity. It gets
your team together to decorate and a little bit of
competition amongst other business owners or families that want to
you know, donate a tree in honor of a child
that may be in care.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Last year, the festival raised one hundred and forty five
thousand dollars for the BC Children Hospital Foundation. This year
marks the tenth year of supporting Island Kids, families and care.
If you or your family or your business want to
sponsor your tree, you can register online at the Basecenter
dot CAA. The submarine known as HMCS Cornerbrook will be
on display tomorrow at Ogden Point. Public tours of the
(10:15):
HMCS Cornerbrook tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Have largely filled up, but there still might be.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
A few extra opportunities to see inside the submarine.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
It's returning from.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
A Canadian Armed Forces exercise in the Arctic that started
back in mid August. Family and friends will be at
Oucon Point to welcome the corner brook when it dots
at around eight am tomorrow morning, and towards will rum
between ten and three, given the community a chance to
see the navy up close.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
And here's something else you don't see every day.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
That's an old truck being lifted by a crane onto
the roof of an Arise office in vic West. The
local development company wasn't using the truck very much and
decided why not use it as a branding tool. A
crane was called in this week and the little truck
was hoisted up. If you're riding the Galloping Goose, you
will be able to to see it when you hit
the harbor road.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Just look up.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Hope they didn't leave the keys in it, right?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Well, if your safety first, right, hopefully it just doesn't
work at all, you know, be so anyways, that's that's
an interesting way to do some marketing.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
For sure.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Test we haven't seen each other at all, No it's
been a while.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Yeah, yeah, you've been gone.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I've been gone, and it's great to be back here.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yes, and guess what, there's great weather.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
There is that's exciting.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
Yes, some really nice October sunshiny weather for you. Let's
take a look at our satellite radar now and you
can see not a lot to show you. So last
night some of your is getting a little bit of precipitation,
but really not much at all, some pockets to the
west coast there this morning and then moving on down.
But if you had a cloudy day today, expect to
see clearing soon. So we are looking at clear conditions
(11:46):
ahead and a strong range of high pressure moving in
and just keeping things very very sunny for at least
the next few days. So October this time of year
can often be like that. My son's birthdays actually tomorrow,
and growing up we had his little parties outside. We
had beach birthday parties for him. And there's only a
couple of times I think where the weather wasn't sunny
and nice out for exploring. But we have had pretty
(12:06):
dry conditions on a good chunk of the island, and
although September for the most part was very dry, we
did end up ending the month for Greater Victoria. Now,
September is usually our driest month in Victoria after June,
July and August. April this year was actually super dry, though,
so drier than September and the Victoria Airport ninety three
percent of normal, so that is considered normal. That's good
(12:27):
news there thirty three point five millimeters, but you can
see the difference there at the University of Victoria Environment
Canada Weather Station just sixteen point four millimeters of rain.
That's only fifty four percent of the normal thirty so
not catching off the way the airport cut up the
last few days of the month with some rainfall there,
But we have a very dry stretch ahead, likely at
least a week for many parts of the island, so
(12:47):
I'll have more details on that coming up. Now it's October,
it is starting to feel a bit like follow though
this coming week probably won't feel that fallish because we
will have above seasonal temperatures. But along with the falling
leaves this week, there was also snow falling at Mount Washington.
Michelle mcconnachy Woods captured this look at the first snowfall
of the season on the Mountain peaks taken from Campbell River.
(13:09):
Those shots, and how's this for a catch of the day.
Our Saturday Vieural wildlife photo is this great shot from
Brian Brundle of a black bear with a pink salmon
that he had just plucked out of the river. The
bears looking right at the camera and Brian says he
was keeping an eye on him the entire time. Yeah,
I bet he didn't want to share that salmon. We've
had some unbearably good viewer bruin shots, including the bear
(13:32):
on the roof that went viral last weekend.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Here's another great one.
Speaker 10 (13:36):
Jerry Hevin sent in this funny photo of a bear
cup at Stamp Fall standing up along the shore. Well,
it's mama was in the water searching for salmon. Now
it almost looks like a person to me in a
bear costume, Chattie, what do you think? And the markings too,
it kind of looks like a cat's face in those
white markings.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Trying to feel like maybe we're getting pranked. It's like
a Halloween thing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
But I also know that he has such a better
posture than me, and I'm a little jealous us of
that too.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, very funny photos.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
So thanks.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
Remember to send those photos to photos at checknews dot Ca,
not our news tips email, or the upload link on
our website. I'll have your full forecast coming up and
if you like Sunshine, you are definitely going to like
this forecast.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Perfect.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Thank you, Tess. Okay, we have to take our first break,
but after.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We'll bring you the latest developments following Hamas's response to
the White House Gaza ceasefire plan. Plus conservative Sunay Takachi
is poised to become Japan's first woman prime minister.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Won this after short break.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Watch full Check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten,
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