October 19, 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 we days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one Check plus or checknews dot CA.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I really worry that there won't be any twenty twenty
six midterm.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Election around the island and the US people coming together
to voice their fears of what they're calling the end
of democracy.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Agreed, Yeah, of course, I'm not sure where she could be.
I'm hoping the best for her and her family.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Braving the elements to find a missing woman. Last scene
camping on the island, friends and family desperate for answers,
and last call. After a longer season than usual, the
final cruise ship arrives in a couple of hours in
Victoria's harbor. How the season went and what will be
new next year? Good evening and thanks for joining us.
(01:07):
Huge crowds gathering in major US cities today the protest
against President Donald Trump's policies, and here on the island,
some joining the protests just outside the legislature one hundred
or so people lining the street in front of the
ledge with a message of solidarity with protests in the US.
Much of the themes are the same anti Trump policies
(01:28):
and what they are calling a threat to democracy.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I'm really worry that there won't be any twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Six midterm election.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Happy to be here to raise my voice against the
unfairness and the breach of law that's happening in the
US that I think is con creep into Canada.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
When we're in solidarity with the No Kings protests going on,
millions of people all over the United States that are
showing up to say no to fact.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Since returning to the White House, Trump has embraced an
expansive view of presidential power, using executive orders to block
funding approved by Congress and dismantle parts of the federal government,
to introduce sweeping tariffs on other countries, including ours, and
to deploy National Guard troops to cities despite objections by
state governors. Now, the president says his actions are necessary
(02:23):
to rebuild a country in crisis, and he has dismissed
claims he's a dictator or fascist as simply hysterical, But
critics warned some of the moves by the administration are
unconstitutional and a threat to American democracy.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
A sea of demonstrators covered Times Square in New York City,
united in one message, Donald Trump must go.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
What's going on in this country is just a complete travesty.
The man has lost touch with reality.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
They came with signs, they dressed in costumes, they brought
their families. What's the message today for the kids?
Speaker 8 (03:01):
This is what democracy looks like. People in the streets.
This is our country, this is our city, and this
is supposed to be a government of foreign by the people.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
The immediate feeling that you get from this crowd is
that they're peaceful and their energized. This is one of
thousands of demonstrations happening across the country. The last No
King's protests back in the summer drew millions, and all
of this estimated to.
Speaker 9 (03:25):
Be bigger than that.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
I'm here for my students who are absolutely at risk
in our neighborhoods and in our school. I have students
who are absolutely terrified to come to school. The movement
Build No Kings raises the alarm over Trump's policies, including
executive orders to end birthright citizenship, expanding powers for immigration agents,
(03:47):
and dismantling government agencies.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We want to show our support for democracy and for
fighting with us right where I'm.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Against the overreach of power, from DC to Boston to Philadelphia.
Demonstrations have been most intense in cities where Trump has
threatened to send the National Guard to curb crime. Republicans
have clapped back, calling the movement anti American.
Speaker 10 (04:15):
We refer to it by its more accurate description.
Speaker 11 (04:18):
The hate America rarely okay, And I'm not sure how
anybody can refute that.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Those at the rallies say they can.
Speaker 12 (04:25):
No, I don't feel it's I hate America.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
I feel it's I love America.
Speaker 12 (04:29):
Don't you.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
I don't feel any hate.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I think they're fighting for walking, a fight that the
No King's Movement hopes will continue beyond these demonstrations.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Back here in our region, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans,
Canada says a Hello Ferries vessel struck a humpback near Vancouver.
The company operating a high speed passenger only ferries service
between Vancouver and Nanaimo says it's fully cooperating after one
of its vessels struck a humpback in English Bay on Friday.
The DFO and the ferry company say the whale was
(05:02):
observed swimming north after being struck, but there's no other
details about the mammals. Condition regulations require operators of vessels
or fishing gear to immediately inform the Department of accidental
contacts with marine mammals. Last month, researchers found a dead
humpback near a site where it was reportedly hit by
a BC Ferries vessel off BC's northern Coast. One person
(05:27):
is in hospital tonight after a crash involving a bike
and a semi truck in Sanwich. The cyclist was riding
in the wrong direction on Douglas Street, according to police,
and then slammed into a semi truck making a left
turn on a Sandwich road near Uptown Mall. The cyclists
suffered serious injuries, officials are saying they're not life threatening.
(05:48):
The collision happened just before ten this morning. Traffic was
a slow goo for drivers and boat directions for several
hours before the crash was cleared. No other injuries were reported.
Search and rescue crews and URCNP are braving heavy rain
and rugged terrain today looking for a missing woman near Cumberland.
(06:09):
She was last seen camping near Comock's Lake on Tuesday
before she vanished. So Skyrine reports those who know the
area well are also out looking for her.
Speaker 12 (06:22):
Heading out four x four around Comack's Lake Saturday. Kenton
Graves is one of many adding their eyes to the
search for missing woman Ashley Bosma, who came out camping
in this popular wilderness area beyond Cumberland this week. That's
been missing alone out here for three days now.
Speaker 13 (06:39):
Yeah, very rugged area, quite a rough road.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
You have to drive very carefully and also use.
Speaker 13 (06:44):
A radio if you have one.
Speaker 12 (06:46):
No cell service.
Speaker 10 (06:47):
No cell service of course.
Speaker 12 (06:48):
According to RCMP, forty year old Bosma was last seen
camping on Tuesday. When she was reported missing by family
on Thursday, a search was immediately launched.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
The subject was last seen in this area, and so
we're working off that.
Speaker 12 (07:02):
Saturday, more search and rescue crews from Campbell River and
the Cormacks Valley joined the effort with trained dogs and
equipment to cover the vast areas around Comox Lake, and
those who live in the area, like Johnny Shaw, who's
the caretaker at the Cormacks Valley's Fish and Game Club,
are looking to.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I'm worried, yeah, of course, I'm not sure where she
could be. I'm hoping the best for her and her family.
Speaker 12 (07:26):
Shaw, since despite the turning weather to a heavy rain Saturday.
The temperature hasn't been too cold here yet, and he's
confident with all those looking that if Basma is out here,
she'll be found.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I survey are basically our entire one hundred and eighty
five acres, So if she was out here in our area,
I would have came across her. Right, We're a community, family,
you know, whatever.
Speaker 14 (07:50):
You call it, we're here.
Speaker 15 (07:51):
It might be the outpact, but you're not alone, it's right.
Speaker 13 (07:54):
A friend of ours, actually a family member of his,
actually went missing, but never one got found.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
So it's a little concerning to us in the Mount
Washington area.
Speaker 12 (08:05):
So he's close to home.
Speaker 15 (08:06):
Yeah, So search and rescue crews expect to be here
on the ground around Comock's Lake all weekend long as
our CMP were tips that are coming in from the
public about Bosma's disappearance.
Speaker 12 (08:18):
Anyone with information is urged to contact our CMP.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
We're learning more tonight on the Capital Regional District's plan
on a regional arts service. All but one of the
twenty four CRD board members voted in favor of the
proposed plan, but tonight Chattis Leo shows us why the
mayor of Callwood voted no and why he thinks there
are more important issues needing to be addressed.
Speaker 16 (08:43):
Theater productions on the South Island may soon have funding
help from the crd thanks to a new proposed by
law to create a Performing Arts Facilities Service. Fourty municipalities
will now go through an alternative approval process to see
if the public is on board. The proposal is designed
to provide operating and capital funding to the region's three
(09:06):
main theaters. All but one of the twenty four Cerarity
board members voted in fevor of the proposed by law.
Speaker 13 (09:13):
We looked at it. It was a limited benefit to
the City of Calwood.
Speaker 16 (09:16):
Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi voted against the proposal going to
an AAP. He understands the importance of art and culture,
but when it comes to priorities, possibly increasing taxes to
support a theater program that Collwood may barely use is
not an option.
Speaker 13 (09:31):
We just get a reset earlier this year and we said, okay,
we went from one hundred and eighty nine priorities down
to twelve. I could tell you this is one item
that did not make the list.
Speaker 14 (09:40):
What the crdy wants to do is subsidize theater. Why
aren't we subsidizing seniors that can't afford their rent.
Speaker 16 (09:48):
Kobayashi's decision to vote against the AAP is being welcomed
by a former counselor and mayor of Colwood.
Speaker 14 (09:55):
I know how hard it is to go against colleagues
and friends and make the right decision. Mayor Kobyashi and
council City Callwood Council made the right decision.
Speaker 16 (10:04):
David Sanders, advocates for seniors in the region, standing in
front of a lot where a senior home was supposed
to be under construction this year. He frustrated that some
priorities aren't being met for Saunders housing that should be
a top priority.
Speaker 14 (10:17):
Our seniors are struggling. So what is the basic essential
need in our community right now? I love theater, I
love art, we support it with our foundation. However, that's
not the basic essential.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Need this year?
Speaker 16 (10:30):
Do you will launch the AAP this winter, asking electors
if they support the creation of a new performing arts
facility service. If approved, the new service could be up
and running by twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Organizers of last weekend's Royal Victoria Marathon PEG the financial
boost to the city to be in the neighborhood of
seventeen million dollars. While those are positive residuals, there are
still some reminders along the forty two kilometer cores that
have an environmental organization calling for the race to clean
up it's act.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
At Cattle Point in Oak Bay and everywhere else, a
group of gulls is a flock. An evidence around here
suggests that a group of runners might be duly described
as a litter.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
We didn't go very far, you know, on they're just everywhere.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
The Surf Rider Foundation of Canada does its best work
with gloves and bags on the beach. But Tuesday morning
Lucas Harris found his efforts focused inland.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
So I happened to just be riding to work and
going along Beach Drive and quickly noticed the build up
of these single use plastic packages.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Little plastic packages full of gaeil to fuel the runner
on the go. On this one hundred meter stretch, we
found about twenty of them discarded in the grass. Harris says,
what's discarded here soon ends up here.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
All it takes is a rain event for this stuff
to get washed down into a storm train.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Last Sunday's Royal Victoria Marathon drew fifteen five hundred runners
to the most beautiful forty two point two kilometer course
you'll see anywhere. Respect nature should be second nature to anyone.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
But little packs of all.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Colors jet black and flavors sun river, honey. All right,
we're left behind long after the final footfalls faded.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
It's an unfortunate part of race take culture. I think
in some cases that's what runners do.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Kathy Noell is race director, and all this year's gear
has been packed away.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
She says.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
This year's green initiative involved garbage bins at the start
and finish of the course. Volunteers sorted through a mountain
of trash, diverting it from the landfill and lessening the
environmental impact.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
What was missing was the middle. Noel says.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Sixty more volunteers for the Green team were supposed to
arrive from the Mainland.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
For a couple of different reasons.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
They bailed.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
But let's not run away with any stereotypes tru or false.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Runners are a bunch of gel sucking litterbugs, no boss.
Speaker 10 (12:54):
Getting into the mind of a moving runner is tricky. Hi,
can I ask you a question about running, and it's
tough to know who the litterbugs are. There comes one
right now, it's the part of the problem.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I don't see any gels being used at the moment.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
No one else says.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Next year runners could face his qualification and bands from
the race should they be caught doing the old fuel
and fling. More cleanup is planned for Monday.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We will go out there again and do another sweep.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
It's a footprint to be lessened for next year.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
A special moment in for Victoria for several new firefighters.
Six new fire members joining Victoria Fire today being sworn
in at the department headquarters on Johnson Street with family
and friends. A special moment for the department this year.
There is a new breast badge for the department. It's
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also a moment to acknowledge the time, energy, and passion
each member puts into the community.
Speaker 11 (13:53):
Every person that puts on the Victoria Fire Department uniform
really represents the best of what the fire service has
to offer. They've endured hundreds of hours of training, scrutiny,
testing and verification before they ever show up for their
first day on the job. So we want to make
sure that we are recognizing that and that we are
celebrating those accomplishments and making sure the members of our
department are recognized for the good value in good service
(14:14):
they bring.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
To our community.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
There the department also swearing the first female deputy chief
in the history of Victoria Fire. The Victoria Fire Department's
history goes way back to eighteen fifty eight. It was
the first career fire department established west of Toronto and
north of San Francisco. Victoria's twenty twenty five crew season
coming to a close tonight with a final call by
(14:37):
the Norwegian Encore. Following the encorese departure, Victoria will have
received three hundred and eleven total calls in twenty twenty five,
which brought in just under a million passengers and three
hundred and seventy seven thousand crew members to the city.
The season started a bit early this year, back in
March when the Disney Wonder arrived for repositioning. There were
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five new calls this season, coming to the capitol for
the first time. Now, the Encore leaves tonight a minute
before midnight, and next year there'll be two new cruise
lines coming to the harbor for the first time. MSc
cruises and Virgin voyages. Well, we will be talking about
the wet weather around our island in just a moment,
(15:21):
but for some the downpour provided a bit of relief.
Video being shared with us tonight from along the first
hole at Bear Mountain in Langford. This bear getting the
run of the course. With most golfers in this region
probably avoiding the links today except for some of the
diehards with early tea off times. This bear casually walking
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along the rough and into the fairway and then at
one point decides to run off into the woods on
this very wet Saturday afternoon, but has the fairway to itself.
He's hanging out there and he runs off into the woods.
Eventually he got a hole.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
In one in that whole. Actually, yeah, putting the bear
into Bear Mountain true, yes, apples. I think he was
hoping for some apples.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Probably one of the very few only mammal animals out
there enjoying the wet weather.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Not great golf weather unless you were out very early
this morning, because yeah, the rain started later for us
in Victoria. So let's take a look at our satellite
radar and you can see the system moving in, so
it's starting last night, hitting some areas of the island overnight,
and then in the case of Greater Victoria, most areas
didn't see rain until later this morning. So there it
is now moving in and then those overnight hours, particularly
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hitting the west coast snow with those higher elevations in
purple and pink there, and then boom there it starts
to hit Victoria. So hopefully you got out early this
morning before that hit, because it was pretty wet and
cooler than normal today as well. Temperature's only around ten
degrees for Greater Victoria, so chili conditions certainly not like
the nice fall day we had yesterday, but tomorrow is
looking like it should be drier for a good chunk
(16:54):
of the island. Here's a quick look at the wind
map though, because we also had high winds with this system.
So here's how things are shaping up. And our clicker
doesn't want to work, so I'll show you the wood
map coming up. But first, today's weather photo is this
beautiful shot of the sunrise at gun Flint Lake on
Cortez Island. It was taken by Tracy Lovell. Look at
those colors and our Saturday Viewer wildlife photo is this
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next shot. Colorful shots from Janine Linning of port Albernie
of hummingbirds in the rain this October. And check out
those little beads of water balancing on the wee bird's
head there. What a great photo. And speaking of water,
check out this video from check viewer Don bro Dura Victoria.
(17:39):
Don says they have one to three hummingbirds washing up
in their gurglar rock outside their front door every morning,
but a hummingbird this week had quite the splush splash,
giving Dawn time to capture this cute video. And here's
another cute hummingbird video courtesy of check viewer Tony Pedro.
The hummingbird really seemed to love his sister's new bird
bath in Sanwich. It was also taken this month on
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a gorgeous fall day. So some beautiful videos there. Thanks
for sending those in. I'll break down the forecast coming
up because we are looking at wetter conditions. We're into
this fall weather pattern now, Scott, so not as much
sunshine in our forecast.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Okay, thanks so much for that test. Israel receives two
bodies that Hamas says are Gaza hostages, sparking outrage and
concern over the current ceasefire, the latest from that region
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Watch full Check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten,
or anytime on Check Plus or check News.
Speaker 13 (18:33):
Do ca
Check podcasts. This is an abbreviated version of check News
watch full Check newscasts we days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one Check plus or checknews dot CA.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I really worry that there won't be any twenty twenty
six midterm.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Election around the island and the US people coming together
to voice their fears of what they're calling the end
of democracy.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Agreed, Yeah, of course, I'm not sure where she could be.
I'm hoping the best for her and her family.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Braving the elements to find a missing woman. Last scene
camping on the island, friends and family desperate for answers,
and last call. After a longer season than usual, the
final cruise ship arrives in a couple of hours in
Victoria's harbor. How the season went and what will be
new next year? Good evening and thanks for joining us.
(01:07):
Huge crowds gathering in major US cities today the protest
against President Donald Trump's policies, and here on the island,
some joining the protests just outside the legislature one hundred
or so people lining the street in front of the
ledge with a message of solidarity with protests in the US.
Much of the themes are the same anti Trump policies
(01:28):
and what they are calling a threat to democracy.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I'm really worry that there won't be any twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Six midterm election.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Happy to be here to raise my voice against the
unfairness and the breach of law that's happening in the
US that I think is con creep into Canada.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
When we're in solidarity with the No Kings protests going on,
millions of people all over the United States that are
showing up to say no to fact.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Since returning to the White House, Trump has embraced an
expansive view of presidential power, using executive orders to block
funding approved by Congress and dismantle parts of the federal government,
to introduce sweeping tariffs on other countries, including ours, and
to deploy National Guard troops to cities despite objections by
state governors. Now, the president says his actions are necessary
(02:23):
to rebuild a country in crisis, and he has dismissed
claims he's a dictator or fascist as simply hysterical, But
critics warned some of the moves by the administration are
unconstitutional and a threat to American democracy.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
A sea of demonstrators covered Times Square in New York City,
united in one message, Donald Trump must go.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
What's going on in this country is just a complete travesty.
The man has lost touch with reality.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
They came with signs, they dressed in costumes, they brought
their families. What's the message today for the kids?
Speaker 8 (03:01):
This is what democracy looks like. People in the streets.
This is our country, this is our city, and this
is supposed to be a government of foreign by the people.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
The immediate feeling that you get from this crowd is
that they're peaceful and their energized. This is one of
thousands of demonstrations happening across the country. The last No
King's protests back in the summer drew millions, and all
of this estimated to.
Speaker 9 (03:25):
Be bigger than that.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
I'm here for my students who are absolutely at risk
in our neighborhoods and in our school. I have students
who are absolutely terrified to come to school. The movement
Build No Kings raises the alarm over Trump's policies, including
executive orders to end birthright citizenship, expanding powers for immigration agents,
(03:47):
and dismantling government agencies.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
We want to show our support for democracy and for
fighting with us right where I'm.
Speaker 7 (03:57):
Against the overreach of power, from DC to Boston to Philadelphia.
Demonstrations have been most intense in cities where Trump has
threatened to send the National Guard to curb crime. Republicans
have clapped back, calling the movement anti American.
Speaker 10 (04:15):
We refer to it by its more accurate description.
Speaker 11 (04:18):
The hate America rarely okay, And I'm not sure how
anybody can refute that.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Those at the rallies say they can.
Speaker 12 (04:25):
No, I don't feel it's I hate America.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
I feel it's I love America.
Speaker 12 (04:29):
Don't you.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
I don't feel any hate.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
I think they're fighting for walking, a fight that the
No King's Movement hopes will continue beyond these demonstrations.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Back here in our region, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans,
Canada says a Hello Ferries vessel struck a humpback near Vancouver.
The company operating a high speed passenger only ferries service
between Vancouver and Nanaimo says it's fully cooperating after one
of its vessels struck a humpback in English Bay on Friday.
The DFO and the ferry company say the whale was
(05:02):
observed swimming north after being struck, but there's no other
details about the mammals. Condition regulations require operators of vessels
or fishing gear to immediately inform the Department of accidental
contacts with marine mammals. Last month, researchers found a dead
humpback near a site where it was reportedly hit by
a BC Ferries vessel off BC's northern Coast. One person
(05:27):
is in hospital tonight after a crash involving a bike
and a semi truck in Sanwich. The cyclist was riding
in the wrong direction on Douglas Street, according to police,
and then slammed into a semi truck making a left
turn on a Sandwich road near Uptown Mall. The cyclists
suffered serious injuries, officials are saying they're not life threatening.
(05:48):
The collision happened just before ten this morning. Traffic was
a slow goo for drivers and boat directions for several
hours before the crash was cleared. No other injuries were reported.
Search and rescue crews and URCNP are braving heavy rain
and rugged terrain today looking for a missing woman near Cumberland.
(06:09):
She was last seen camping near Comock's Lake on Tuesday
before she vanished. So Skyrine reports those who know the
area well are also out looking for her.
Speaker 12 (06:22):
Heading out four x four around Comack's Lake Saturday. Kenton
Graves is one of many adding their eyes to the
search for missing woman Ashley Bosma, who came out camping
in this popular wilderness area beyond Cumberland this week. That's
been missing alone out here for three days now.
Speaker 13 (06:39):
Yeah, very rugged area, quite a rough road.
Speaker 10 (06:42):
You have to drive very carefully and also use.
Speaker 13 (06:44):
A radio if you have one.
Speaker 12 (06:46):
No cell service.
Speaker 10 (06:47):
No cell service of course.
Speaker 12 (06:48):
According to RCMP, forty year old Bosma was last seen
camping on Tuesday. When she was reported missing by family
on Thursday, a search was immediately launched.
Speaker 10 (06:58):
The subject was last seen in this area, and so
we're working off that.
Speaker 12 (07:02):
Saturday, more search and rescue crews from Campbell River and
the Cormacks Valley joined the effort with trained dogs and
equipment to cover the vast areas around Comox Lake, and
those who live in the area, like Johnny Shaw, who's
the caretaker at the Cormacks Valley's Fish and Game Club,
are looking to.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I'm worried, yeah, of course, I'm not sure where she
could be. I'm hoping the best for her and her family.
Speaker 12 (07:26):
Shaw, since despite the turning weather to a heavy rain Saturday.
The temperature hasn't been too cold here yet, and he's
confident with all those looking that if Basma is out here,
she'll be found.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
I survey are basically our entire one hundred and eighty
five acres, So if she was out here in our area,
I would have came across her. Right, We're a community, family,
you know, whatever.
Speaker 14 (07:50):
You call it, we're here.
Speaker 15 (07:51):
It might be the outpact, but you're not alone, it's right.
Speaker 13 (07:54):
A friend of ours, actually a family member of his,
actually went missing, but never one got found.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
So it's a little concerning to us in the Mount
Washington area.
Speaker 12 (08:05):
So he's close to home.
Speaker 15 (08:06):
Yeah, So search and rescue crews expect to be here
on the ground around Comock's Lake all weekend long as
our CMP were tips that are coming in from the
public about Bosma's disappearance.
Speaker 12 (08:18):
Anyone with information is urged to contact our CMP.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
We're learning more tonight on the Capital Regional District's plan
on a regional arts service. All but one of the
twenty four CRD board members voted in favor of the
proposed plan, but tonight Chattis Leo shows us why the
mayor of Callwood voted no and why he thinks there
are more important issues needing to be addressed.
Speaker 16 (08:43):
Theater productions on the South Island may soon have funding
help from the crd thanks to a new proposed by
law to create a Performing Arts Facilities Service. Fourty municipalities
will now go through an alternative approval process to see
if the public is on board. The proposal is designed
to provide operating and capital funding to the region's three
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main theaters. All but one of the twenty four Cerarity
board members voted in fevor of the proposed by law.
Speaker 13 (09:13):
We looked at it. It was a limited benefit to
the City of Calwood.
Speaker 16 (09:16):
Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi voted against the proposal going to
an AAP. He understands the importance of art and culture,
but when it comes to priorities, possibly increasing taxes to
support a theater program that Collwood may barely use is
not an option.
Speaker 13 (09:31):
We just get a reset earlier this year and we said, okay,
we went from one hundred and eighty nine priorities down
to twelve. I could tell you this is one item
that did not make the list.
Speaker 14 (09:40):
What the crdy wants to do is subsidize theater. Why
aren't we subsidizing seniors that can't afford their rent.
Speaker 16 (09:48):
Kobayashi's decision to vote against the AAP is being welcomed
by a former counselor and mayor of Colwood.
Speaker 14 (09:55):
I know how hard it is to go against colleagues
and friends and make the right decision. Mayor Kobyashi and
council City Callwood Council made the right decision.
Speaker 16 (10:04):
David Sanders, advocates for seniors in the region, standing in
front of a lot where a senior home was supposed
to be under construction this year. He frustrated that some
priorities aren't being met for Saunders housing that should be
a top priority.
Speaker 14 (10:17):
Our seniors are struggling. So what is the basic essential
need in our community right now? I love theater, I
love art, we support it with our foundation. However, that's
not the basic essential.
Speaker 10 (10:29):
Need this year?
Speaker 16 (10:30):
Do you will launch the AAP this winter, asking electors
if they support the creation of a new performing arts
facility service. If approved, the new service could be up
and running by twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Organizers of last weekend's Royal Victoria Marathon PEG the financial
boost to the city to be in the neighborhood of
seventeen million dollars. While those are positive residuals, there are
still some reminders along the forty two kilometer cores that
have an environmental organization calling for the race to clean
up it's act.
Speaker 9 (11:04):
At Cattle Point in Oak Bay and everywhere else, a
group of gulls is a flock. An evidence around here
suggests that a group of runners might be duly described
as a litter.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
We didn't go very far, you know, on they're just everywhere.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
The Surf Rider Foundation of Canada does its best work
with gloves and bags on the beach. But Tuesday morning
Lucas Harris found his efforts focused inland.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
So I happened to just be riding to work and
going along Beach Drive and quickly noticed the build up
of these single use plastic packages.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Little plastic packages full of gaeil to fuel the runner
on the go. On this one hundred meter stretch, we
found about twenty of them discarded in the grass. Harris says,
what's discarded here soon ends up here.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
All it takes is a rain event for this stuff
to get washed down into a storm train.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Last Sunday's Royal Victoria Marathon drew fifteen five hundred runners
to the most beautiful forty two point two kilometer course
you'll see anywhere. Respect nature should be second nature to anyone.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
But little packs of all.
Speaker 9 (12:04):
Colors jet black and flavors sun river, honey. All right,
we're left behind long after the final footfalls faded.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
It's an unfortunate part of race take culture. I think
in some cases that's what runners do.
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Kathy Noell is race director, and all this year's gear
has been packed away.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
She says.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
This year's green initiative involved garbage bins at the start
and finish of the course. Volunteers sorted through a mountain
of trash, diverting it from the landfill and lessening the
environmental impact.
Speaker 10 (12:35):
What was missing was the middle. Noel says.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Sixty more volunteers for the Green team were supposed to
arrive from the Mainland.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
For a couple of different reasons.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
They bailed.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
But let's not run away with any stereotypes tru or false.
Speaker 9 (12:50):
Runners are a bunch of gel sucking litterbugs, no boss.
Speaker 10 (12:54):
Getting into the mind of a moving runner is tricky. Hi,
can I ask you a question about running, and it's
tough to know who the litterbugs are. There comes one
right now, it's the part of the problem.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
I don't see any gels being used at the moment.
Speaker 10 (13:09):
No one else says.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
Next year runners could face his qualification and bands from
the race should they be caught doing the old fuel
and fling. More cleanup is planned for Monday.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
We will go out there again and do another sweep.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
It's a footprint to be lessened for next year.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
A special moment in for Victoria for several new firefighters.
Six new fire members joining Victoria Fire today being sworn
in at the department headquarters on Johnson Street with family
and friends. A special moment for the department this year.
There is a new breast badge for the department. It's
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also a moment to acknowledge the time, energy, and passion
each member puts into the community.
Speaker 11 (13:53):
Every person that puts on the Victoria Fire Department uniform
really represents the best of what the fire service has
to offer. They've endured hundreds of hours of training, scrutiny,
testing and verification before they ever show up for their
first day on the job. So we want to make
sure that we are recognizing that and that we are
celebrating those accomplishments and making sure the members of our
department are recognized for the good value in good service
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they bring.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
To our community.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
There the department also swearing the first female deputy chief
in the history of Victoria Fire. The Victoria Fire Department's
history goes way back to eighteen fifty eight. It was
the first career fire department established west of Toronto and
north of San Francisco. Victoria's twenty twenty five crew season
coming to a close tonight with a final call by
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the Norwegian Encore. Following the encorese departure, Victoria will have
received three hundred and eleven total calls in twenty twenty five,
which brought in just under a million passengers and three
hundred and seventy seven thousand crew members to the city.
The season started a bit early this year, back in
March when the Disney Wonder arrived for repositioning. There were
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five new calls this season, coming to the capitol for
the first time. Now, the Encore leaves tonight a minute
before midnight, and next year there'll be two new cruise
lines coming to the harbor for the first time. MSc
cruises and Virgin voyages. Well, we will be talking about
the wet weather around our island in just a moment,
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but for some the downpour provided a bit of relief.
Video being shared with us tonight from along the first
hole at Bear Mountain in Langford. This bear getting the
run of the course. With most golfers in this region
probably avoiding the links today except for some of the
diehards with early tea off times. This bear casually walking
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along the rough and into the fairway and then at
one point decides to run off into the woods on
this very wet Saturday afternoon, but has the fairway to itself.
He's hanging out there and he runs off into the woods.
Eventually he got a hole.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
In one in that whole. Actually, yeah, putting the bear
into Bear Mountain true, yes, apples. I think he was
hoping for some apples.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Probably one of the very few only mammal animals out
there enjoying the wet weather.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Not great golf weather unless you were out very early
this morning, because yeah, the rain started later for us
in Victoria. So let's take a look at our satellite
radar and you can see the system moving in, so
it's starting last night, hitting some areas of the island overnight,
and then in the case of Greater Victoria, most areas
didn't see rain until later this morning. So there it
is now moving in and then those overnight hours, particularly
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hitting the west coast snow with those higher elevations in
purple and pink there, and then boom there it starts
to hit Victoria. So hopefully you got out early this
morning before that hit, because it was pretty wet and
cooler than normal today as well. Temperature's only around ten
degrees for Greater Victoria, so chili conditions certainly not like
the nice fall day we had yesterday, but tomorrow is
looking like it should be drier for a good chunk
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of the island. Here's a quick look at the wind
map though, because we also had high winds with this system.
So here's how things are shaping up. And our clicker
doesn't want to work, so I'll show you the wood
map coming up. But first, today's weather photo is this
beautiful shot of the sunrise at gun Flint Lake on
Cortez Island. It was taken by Tracy Lovell. Look at
those colors and our Saturday Viewer wildlife photo is this
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next shot. Colorful shots from Janine Linning of port Albernie
of hummingbirds in the rain this October. And check out
those little beads of water balancing on the wee bird's
head there. What a great photo. And speaking of water,
check out this video from check viewer Don bro Dura Victoria.
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Don says they have one to three hummingbirds washing up
in their gurglar rock outside their front door every morning,
but a hummingbird this week had quite the splush splash,
giving Dawn time to capture this cute video. And here's
another cute hummingbird video courtesy of check viewer Tony Pedro.
The hummingbird really seemed to love his sister's new bird
bath in Sanwich. It was also taken this month on
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a gorgeous fall day. So some beautiful videos there. Thanks
for sending those in. I'll break down the forecast coming
up because we are looking at wetter conditions. We're into
this fall weather pattern now, Scott, so not as much
sunshine in our forecast.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Okay, thanks so much for that test. Israel receives two
bodies that Hamas says are Gaza hostages, sparking outrage and
concern over the current ceasefire, the latest from that region
when we come back.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Watch full Check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten,
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Speaker 13 (18:33):
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