July 27, 2025 • 16 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.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Ca hours away.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Will traffic mooth smoother on the pat Bay as a
multimillion dollar flyover opens for Monday's commute.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Some kind of weird adrenaline rush you get when you're
out there that you just can't compete with.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
The iconic bathtub races make us splash in Nanaimo tonight
we meet the Queen of the tubs and what keeps
racers coming back?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Super excited Host Canadian's been a long time coming and
happy that it's eventually here.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hundreds of hours and national pride on the line. Who
will represent Canada at the Little League World Series will
be decided here on the island.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Good evening, and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The United States has struck a trade deal framework with Europe,
imposing a fifteen percent US import tariff on most EU goods.
The deal includes six hundred billion US of EU investments
in the United States and significant EU purchases of US
(01:26):
energy and military equipment. This new framework comes as a
deadline for our country looms starting August first, Canada will
face the wrath of the US administration with thirty five
percent tariffs, and today the US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik
telling Fox News customs will start collecting money Friday of
(01:49):
next week. On top of the latest agreement, deals have
been announced for Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the
United Kingdom, but the US President indicating last week then
agreement with our country is unlikely and that Canada will
simply face massive tariffs starting next week. Closer to home
(02:10):
on the island, two years of construction along the Path
Bay Highway and the weight is now over. In just
a few hours, the nearly eighty million dollars Keating Flyover
will open, making way for the roughly fifty two thousand
vehicles that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Pass through every day.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Chattis Leo now with a look ahead to the opening
and the complicated pass of that stretch of highway.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
More than two years of construction and over seventy six
million dollars later, Keating Crossing has transformed from this to this.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
So it started in twenty twenty three and here we
are in summer twenty twenty five, pretty much substantially on time.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Today that the federal government is contributing more than sixteen
point seven million dollars to improve the Highway seventeen corridor
and create a new overpass at Keating cross Road in
central Sanich.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Six years after a large cash injection from the federal government,
the Keeting flyovers set to open the driver's of the
Path Bay Highway Monday morning. And the reason behind the
new highway comes from a dark.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Past, certainly in the decades past, a lot of near misses,
a lot of uncertainty, a lot of opportunity for really
bad things to happen, and on the ad occasion things
did happen.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
This section of the Path Bay Highway has been a
magnet for crashes for years, and some deadly, dating back
as far as this incident in twenty fifteen claiming the
life of a woman. The PROBLEMCE says that more than
fifty two thousand vehicles traveled this section of Patricia Bay
Highway every day.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
One hesitation, one single error and a collision canon has resulted.
There have been too many.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
ICBC data shows that from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four,
forty seven accidents occurred in the notorious intersection. Of those
forty seven. Twenty two of the accidents reported some sort
of casualty.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
You probably could find somebody who had a rather hairy
scenario or situation play out, as perhaps they misjudge the
left hand turn coming off the highway with the southbound traffic.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
The project has also faced criticism from those who live
in central Sanwich, putting the province under fire for not
going far enough.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What isn't being taken into consideration is Keating northbound, so
all that traffic is still routed past elementary school, that
traffic doesn't want to be there.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Just by public outcry, the province proceeded with just the
southbound Keating overpass. Even with the new off ramp, there
is a warning for drivers to use caution.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
So it is still an active construction zone, so still
obey the sixty kilometers. Still watch out for those workers,
keep everyone safe.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Work will continue throughout the summer and fall, including paving
the southbound on ramp, drainage improvements, and landscaping.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
A Vancouver Island man has been sentenced to three and
a half years in prison after being found guilty of
sexually assaulting a woman while she's slept on a couch
in his partner's Victoria home back in twenty twenty three.
Wayne Michael James Dick, forty two, was convicted by a
jury in October of twenty twenty four of one count
of sexual assault related to the January twenty seventh, twenty
(05:12):
twenty three incident involving a woman whose identity is protected
by a publication band. The judge sentenced Dick to a
three and a half years on the guilty charge of
sexual assault. For more details on the case and the
judge's ruling, you can read more at check News dot CAA.
Two men were injured in separate wildlife attacks in our
(05:33):
province this weekend, one in a serious grizzly bear encounter
near West Creston and another in a cougar attack near Smithers.
The bear attack happened along the Cootney River near Creston
around four point thirty on Saturday. According to the BC
Conservation Officer Service, a couple was e biking along the
river when a woman heard her husband's scream, then turned
(05:55):
to see the grizzly bear charging at her. She deployed
bear spray on only to notice a second grizzly actively
mauling her husband. After she used bear spray again. Both
bears fled the scene. The man suffered injuries described as significant,
and he was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Cranbrook,
where he underwent surgery. His current condition has not been released.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
In a separate incident earlier Saturday, a man near Smithers
was injured after a cougar approached him and swiped at
his upper body while he was working outdoors around eleven
in the morning. The man told conservation officers he punched
the cougar in the face, causing it to retreat. He
sustained minder injuries that did not require him going to
(06:39):
the hospital. Conservation officers deployed a live trap in the
area and returned today with hounds, but no cougar was located.
Guildford Island, north of Vancouver Island, will receive more than
three point two million from the federal government to help
guard against coastal flooding and shoreline erosion linked to climate change.
The funding will go towards replacing decades old shoreline protection
(07:04):
infrastructure that has reached the end of its lifespan. The
project will include armoring the shoreline with rock or other
natural materials used to prevent erosion and construction and constructing
rather a bio engineered slope. Officials say the improvements will
protect critical infrastructure and essential services in the remote coastal village.
(07:27):
A new milestone when it comes to marine protection and
education for an island nation. Years in the making, there
is now a water monitoring buoy to better protect and
learn about indigenous protected conservation areas. The initiative made in
response to threats around and in the water.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
It's being called the Blessing along the shores of the
Sailed First Nation Coastline, Sayout Fisheries is installing a state
of the art buoy developed by Access Technologies. It is
a one point seven meter floating ocean station just off
the coast of Island View Beach in Sanichton, designed to
(08:13):
collect real time environmental data in coastal waters. This will
help sayout First Nation monitor and protect their marine environment.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
We sayout take it very seriously and it's just another
amazing way for us to always be out on the water.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
The boy will now get the nation extensive real time
information about waves, ocean currents, wind, air condition, air pressure,
sunlight and water quality. The unit will run on its
own thanks to Mother Nature, powered by solar panels and
marine batteries, allowing it to run continuously even in poor weather.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
This is an opportunity for the young students, the young
learners to actually come out too and take advantage of
some of the information that's going to come up and
learn even more about weather and fly and all the
things that they need to learn.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I would really suggest suggest to other nations to have
that in their local territories. Also, although the.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Nation is touting success, the reason for installing the buoy
is more complex. So what are some of the threats
around the water that SAILED protects that maybe led to
putting this buoy in the water.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Generally it's marine shipping, the stems from the TMX pipeline
and all the marine traffic that's going through our areas
and eroding our tidelines because we're faced against so much.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
And those marine threats aren't hiding. One derlic boat along
the shoreline has been abandoned for three months. Kucki says.
The Nation removed it because they had to, knowing that
the province and the federal government likely wouldn't anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's very frustrating because you know, derelic boats are a
big thing because when they wash ashore, there's a big
environmental impact to that, to their blackwater, graywater tanks, and
you know, let alone the vessel itself.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
The nation feels certain that this buoy will help them
move forward and managing the marine territory while asserting their
Douglas Treaty right in their jurisdiction.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Described as an adrenaline soaked thrill ride that will almost
certainly make you hurt a bit. Tomorrow, Nanaimo's World Championship
Bathtub Race took off with the blast of a cannon
from Nanaimo's harbor today, as sky Ryan reports that lured
forty two daring racers who put their hearts and bodies
to the test to the cheers of thousands of onlookers.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
In turning the.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Water ahead of Nanaimo's bathtub race Sunday, jas Bilton's feeling
nervous prickling in his chest as he fires up to
do what he's dreamed of since he was a little
boy growing up here, race a bathtub to the cheers
of his hometown crowd.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Right, I'm nerves, just head elfin gold, try my basket.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
This wacky sport. I was stored fifty eight years ago
by Nanaimo's pirate mayor, the late Great Frank Nay. His
son says he would love what it's become by I
don't think he's left. The race is full of grit,
covering nearly sixty kilometers of water and facing waves up
(11:19):
to six feet high in a one person sized bathtop
with a motor, so bodies ache for days after.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
It's brutal.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I raced in ninety four and I still have a limp.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
There's just some kind of weird adrenaline rush you get
when you're out there that you just can't compete.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Itse Yeah, I grew up, and I also I've watched
it basically my whole childhood, and then I always wanted
to do it, so I finally did it.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
They're all in pursuit with the chance to ring this bell. Sunday.
Lady Smith's Trevor Short was the first across the finish
line and named the big winner, all while he cheered
for the racer right behind it.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah bye.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
First woman to receives a royal welcome Marian Stewart, who
only when her helmet comes off. Can you really appreciate
what she's accomplished. Marian's been coming for so long, like
she'll never give up.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
She's superwoman.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Her gray hair is the only tale of her age.
He's sixty nine years old, chewing up the grueling course
and testing these much younger competitors for decades.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I think this is nineteen or twenty because.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I'm adrenaline junkie.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
She's my idol, because she's one older man.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
She's still kicking.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Ass her secret, she says, keep having fun, and in Nanaimo,
this unique race is at the top of her living
bucket list.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
You're never too old, never.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
So Stuart is promising to be back next year. As
this beloved bath till brace keeps reving hearts and engines
and it's uniquely Nanaimos stop.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I wish I could have been there to see it.
Speaker 10 (13:12):
Looks unbelievable, such a crazy event.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I've never witnessed it live. I want to see it
live so badly.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
You have to go see that.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I do.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I do, And would have been a beautiful day out there,
a little choppy, we'll chop.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
You on the water, A little bit of wind still
on the water as well, but temperature white is pretty
nice and we have warmer temperatures ahead as well. Let's
take a look at our temperature map right now and
you can see what's in store. So here's how things
are looking right now that Sunday afternoon and cooling off
overnight down to green everywhere cools off really nicely overnight,
and then once again you can see the East Island,
South Island the hottest spots as well as the inland island.
(13:43):
So some areas getting up to that red mark close
to thirty degrees, other areas in the high twenties for tomorrow,
and it's going to feel hotter. And even Port Hardy,
which has been cooler only has a forecast hive around
twenty one and twenty two tomorrow, but inland areas could
be as warm as twenty seven and with the humid X,
with the humidity, it's going to feel like about twenty
nine degrees tomorrow, So some warm weather for those inland
areas on the North Island as well as other parts
(14:04):
of the island. As you can see there, you can
see some of those little pockets on the northern tip.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
I wanted to do a little bit of a comparison
because summer is very dry on Vancouver Island. It's drought
mode for Greater Victoria in summertime. That's normal for us.
This year's been exceptionally dry, with only zero point two
millimeters of rain in July and none in store for
the rest of the month. But this is how it
compares to Asoyus, which is desert. So it's the desert
area of Canada, and we're actually much drier than Assoyus.
(14:28):
So Victoria Gunzale's gets forty eight millimeters of rain, the
Sooyus gets more than double that amount in summer. And
believe it or not, it's not just summer. It's actually
for six months of the year, from April to September,
our rainfall here in Victoria is less than what the
desert gets, so one hundred and thirty six millimeters compared
to one hundred and ninety eight millimeters. Now, of course
they're much drier in winter, and overall Soyus is drier
(14:50):
than we are in Victoria. But for six months of
the year, this is our dry season, and that's why
we're so concerned about getting some rain, because we desperately
need to see a little bit of rainfall to be
normal and we're nowhere near normal for the last couple
of months. Well, today's weather photo is this quint essentially
West Coast shot from Heather Siguin of a calm morning
paddle today off Cordova Bay, and Heather says there were
(15:11):
lots of seals out there as well, So here is
some bonus breaching news for you with this shot of
seals sunning themselves. And viewers sent in lots of great
snowbird shots this week, but this one is probably the
funniest one. Sennon will see captured a wanna be snowbird
a seagull photo bombing over Victorious Inner Harbor. Now, we
don't want to call anyone out, but it does look
(15:33):
like one of those birds fell out of formation. Scott.
We have kittens coming up on petcheck today, so many
are up for adoption right now, and also a very
special guest a cameo appearance on petcheck, and I'll have
your full forecast coming up later as well as how
warm you can expect things.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
To get all right, We'll stay tuned, Thanks so much, Tess.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Facing intense international pressure, Israel allows air drops of aid
into Gaza. More on that developing story when we come back.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Watchful checknewscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten, or any
time on Checkplus or checknews Dot ca a
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.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Ca hours away.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Will traffic mooth smoother on the pat Bay as a
multimillion dollar flyover opens for Monday's commute.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Some kind of weird adrenaline rush you get when you're
out there that you just can't compete with.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
The iconic bathtub races make us splash in Nanaimo tonight
we meet the Queen of the tubs and what keeps
racers coming back?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Super excited Host Canadian's been a long time coming and
happy that it's eventually here.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Hundreds of hours and national pride on the line. Who
will represent Canada at the Little League World Series will
be decided here on the island.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Good evening, and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
The United States has struck a trade deal framework with Europe,
imposing a fifteen percent US import tariff on most EU goods.
The deal includes six hundred billion US of EU investments
in the United States and significant EU purchases of US
(01:26):
energy and military equipment. This new framework comes as a
deadline for our country looms starting August first, Canada will
face the wrath of the US administration with thirty five
percent tariffs, and today the US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik
telling Fox News customs will start collecting money Friday of
(01:49):
next week. On top of the latest agreement, deals have
been announced for Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the
United Kingdom, but the US President indicating last week then
agreement with our country is unlikely and that Canada will
simply face massive tariffs starting next week. Closer to home
(02:10):
on the island, two years of construction along the Path
Bay Highway and the weight is now over. In just
a few hours, the nearly eighty million dollars Keating Flyover
will open, making way for the roughly fifty two thousand
vehicles that.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Pass through every day.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Chattis Leo now with a look ahead to the opening
and the complicated pass of that stretch of highway.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
More than two years of construction and over seventy six
million dollars later, Keating Crossing has transformed from this to this.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
So it started in twenty twenty three and here we
are in summer twenty twenty five, pretty much substantially on time.
Speaker 7 (02:47):
Today that the federal government is contributing more than sixteen
point seven million dollars to improve the Highway seventeen corridor
and create a new overpass at Keating cross Road in
central Sanich.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Six years after a large cash injection from the federal government,
the Keeting flyovers set to open the driver's of the
Path Bay Highway Monday morning. And the reason behind the
new highway comes from a dark.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Past, certainly in the decades past, a lot of near misses,
a lot of uncertainty, a lot of opportunity for really
bad things to happen, and on the ad occasion things
did happen.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
This section of the Path Bay Highway has been a
magnet for crashes for years, and some deadly, dating back
as far as this incident in twenty fifteen claiming the
life of a woman. The PROBLEMCE says that more than
fifty two thousand vehicles traveled this section of Patricia Bay
Highway every day.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
One hesitation, one single error and a collision canon has resulted.
There have been too many.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
ICBC data shows that from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four,
forty seven accidents occurred in the notorious intersection. Of those
forty seven. Twenty two of the accidents reported some sort
of casualty.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
You probably could find somebody who had a rather hairy
scenario or situation play out, as perhaps they misjudge the
left hand turn coming off the highway with the southbound traffic.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
The project has also faced criticism from those who live
in central Sanwich, putting the province under fire for not
going far enough.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
What isn't being taken into consideration is Keating northbound, so
all that traffic is still routed past elementary school, that
traffic doesn't want to be there.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Just by public outcry, the province proceeded with just the
southbound Keating overpass. Even with the new off ramp, there
is a warning for drivers to use caution.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
So it is still an active construction zone, so still
obey the sixty kilometers. Still watch out for those workers,
keep everyone safe.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Work will continue throughout the summer and fall, including paving
the southbound on ramp, drainage improvements, and landscaping.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
A Vancouver Island man has been sentenced to three and
a half years in prison after being found guilty of
sexually assaulting a woman while she's slept on a couch
in his partner's Victoria home back in twenty twenty three.
Wayne Michael James Dick, forty two, was convicted by a
jury in October of twenty twenty four of one count
of sexual assault related to the January twenty seventh, twenty
(05:12):
twenty three incident involving a woman whose identity is protected
by a publication band. The judge sentenced Dick to a
three and a half years on the guilty charge of
sexual assault. For more details on the case and the
judge's ruling, you can read more at check News dot CAA.
Two men were injured in separate wildlife attacks in our
(05:33):
province this weekend, one in a serious grizzly bear encounter
near West Creston and another in a cougar attack near Smithers.
The bear attack happened along the Cootney River near Creston
around four point thirty on Saturday. According to the BC
Conservation Officer Service, a couple was e biking along the
river when a woman heard her husband's scream, then turned
(05:55):
to see the grizzly bear charging at her. She deployed
bear spray on only to notice a second grizzly actively
mauling her husband. After she used bear spray again. Both
bears fled the scene. The man suffered injuries described as significant,
and he was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Cranbrook,
where he underwent surgery. His current condition has not been released.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
In a separate incident earlier Saturday, a man near Smithers
was injured after a cougar approached him and swiped at
his upper body while he was working outdoors around eleven
in the morning. The man told conservation officers he punched
the cougar in the face, causing it to retreat. He
sustained minder injuries that did not require him going to
(06:39):
the hospital. Conservation officers deployed a live trap in the
area and returned today with hounds, but no cougar was located.
Guildford Island, north of Vancouver Island, will receive more than
three point two million from the federal government to help
guard against coastal flooding and shoreline erosion linked to climate change.
The funding will go towards replacing decades old shoreline protection
(07:04):
infrastructure that has reached the end of its lifespan. The
project will include armoring the shoreline with rock or other
natural materials used to prevent erosion and construction and constructing
rather a bio engineered slope. Officials say the improvements will
protect critical infrastructure and essential services in the remote coastal village.
(07:27):
A new milestone when it comes to marine protection and
education for an island nation. Years in the making, there
is now a water monitoring buoy to better protect and
learn about indigenous protected conservation areas. The initiative made in
response to threats around and in the water.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
It's being called the Blessing along the shores of the
Sailed First Nation Coastline, Sayout Fisheries is installing a state
of the art buoy developed by Access Technologies. It is
a one point seven meter floating ocean station just off
the coast of Island View Beach in Sanichton, designed to
(08:13):
collect real time environmental data in coastal waters. This will
help sayout First Nation monitor and protect their marine environment.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
We sayout take it very seriously and it's just another
amazing way for us to always be out on the water.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
The boy will now get the nation extensive real time
information about waves, ocean currents, wind, air condition, air pressure,
sunlight and water quality. The unit will run on its
own thanks to Mother Nature, powered by solar panels and
marine batteries, allowing it to run continuously even in poor weather.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
This is an opportunity for the young students, the young
learners to actually come out too and take advantage of
some of the information that's going to come up and
learn even more about weather and fly and all the
things that they need to learn.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
I would really suggest suggest to other nations to have
that in their local territories. Also, although the.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Nation is touting success, the reason for installing the buoy
is more complex. So what are some of the threats
around the water that SAILED protects that maybe led to
putting this buoy in the water.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Generally it's marine shipping, the stems from the TMX pipeline
and all the marine traffic that's going through our areas
and eroding our tidelines because we're faced against so much.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
And those marine threats aren't hiding. One derlic boat along
the shoreline has been abandoned for three months. Kucki says.
The Nation removed it because they had to, knowing that
the province and the federal government likely wouldn't anytime soon.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's very frustrating because you know, derelic boats are a
big thing because when they wash ashore, there's a big
environmental impact to that, to their blackwater, graywater tanks, and
you know, let alone the vessel itself.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
The nation feels certain that this buoy will help them
move forward and managing the marine territory while asserting their
Douglas Treaty right in their jurisdiction.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Described as an adrenaline soaked thrill ride that will almost
certainly make you hurt a bit. Tomorrow, Nanaimo's World Championship
Bathtub Race took off with the blast of a cannon
from Nanaimo's harbor today, as sky Ryan reports that lured
forty two daring racers who put their hearts and bodies
to the test to the cheers of thousands of onlookers.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
In turning the.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
Water ahead of Nanaimo's bathtub race Sunday, jas Bilton's feeling
nervous prickling in his chest as he fires up to
do what he's dreamed of since he was a little
boy growing up here, race a bathtub to the cheers
of his hometown crowd.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Right, I'm nerves, just head elfin gold, try my basket.
Speaker 8 (10:58):
This wacky sport. I was stored fifty eight years ago
by Nanaimo's pirate mayor, the late Great Frank Nay. His
son says he would love what it's become by I
don't think he's left. The race is full of grit,
covering nearly sixty kilometers of water and facing waves up
(11:19):
to six feet high in a one person sized bathtop
with a motor, so bodies ache for days after.
Speaker 9 (11:26):
It's brutal.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I raced in ninety four and I still have a limp.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
There's just some kind of weird adrenaline rush you get
when you're out there that you just can't compete.
Speaker 7 (11:34):
Itse Yeah, I grew up, and I also I've watched
it basically my whole childhood, and then I always wanted
to do it, so I finally did it.
Speaker 8 (11:41):
They're all in pursuit with the chance to ring this bell. Sunday.
Lady Smith's Trevor Short was the first across the finish
line and named the big winner, all while he cheered
for the racer right behind it.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah bye.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
First woman to receives a royal welcome Marian Stewart, who
only when her helmet comes off. Can you really appreciate
what she's accomplished. Marian's been coming for so long, like
she'll never give up.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
She's superwoman.
Speaker 8 (12:20):
Her gray hair is the only tale of her age.
He's sixty nine years old, chewing up the grueling course
and testing these much younger competitors for decades.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I think this is nineteen or twenty because.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I'm adrenaline junkie.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
She's my idol, because she's one older man.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
She's still kicking.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Ass her secret, she says, keep having fun, and in Nanaimo,
this unique race is at the top of her living
bucket list.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
You're never too old, never.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
So Stuart is promising to be back next year. As
this beloved bath till brace keeps reving hearts and engines
and it's uniquely Nanaimos stop.
Speaker 9 (13:10):
So cool.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I wish I could have been there to see it.
Speaker 10 (13:12):
Looks unbelievable, such a crazy event.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I've never witnessed it live. I want to see it
live so badly.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
You have to go see that.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I do.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I do, And would have been a beautiful day out there,
a little choppy, we'll chop.
Speaker 10 (13:22):
You on the water, A little bit of wind still
on the water as well, but temperature white is pretty
nice and we have warmer temperatures ahead as well. Let's
take a look at our temperature map right now and
you can see what's in store. So here's how things
are looking right now that Sunday afternoon and cooling off
overnight down to green everywhere cools off really nicely overnight,
and then once again you can see the East Island,
South Island the hottest spots as well as the inland island.
(13:43):
So some areas getting up to that red mark close
to thirty degrees, other areas in the high twenties for tomorrow,
and it's going to feel hotter. And even Port Hardy,
which has been cooler only has a forecast hive around
twenty one and twenty two tomorrow, but inland areas could
be as warm as twenty seven and with the humid X,
with the humidity, it's going to feel like about twenty
nine degrees tomorrow, So some warm weather for those inland
areas on the North Island as well as other parts
(14:04):
of the island. As you can see there, you can
see some of those little pockets on the northern tip.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Well.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
I wanted to do a little bit of a comparison
because summer is very dry on Vancouver Island. It's drought
mode for Greater Victoria in summertime. That's normal for us.
This year's been exceptionally dry, with only zero point two
millimeters of rain in July and none in store for
the rest of the month. But this is how it
compares to Asoyus, which is desert. So it's the desert
area of Canada, and we're actually much drier than Assoyus.
(14:28):
So Victoria Gunzale's gets forty eight millimeters of rain, the
Sooyus gets more than double that amount in summer. And
believe it or not, it's not just summer. It's actually
for six months of the year, from April to September,
our rainfall here in Victoria is less than what the
desert gets, so one hundred and thirty six millimeters compared
to one hundred and ninety eight millimeters. Now, of course
they're much drier in winter, and overall Soyus is drier
(14:50):
than we are in Victoria. But for six months of
the year, this is our dry season, and that's why
we're so concerned about getting some rain, because we desperately
need to see a little bit of rainfall to be
normal and we're nowhere near normal for the last couple
of months. Well, today's weather photo is this quint essentially
West Coast shot from Heather Siguin of a calm morning
paddle today off Cordova Bay, and Heather says there were
(15:11):
lots of seals out there as well, So here is
some bonus breaching news for you with this shot of
seals sunning themselves. And viewers sent in lots of great
snowbird shots this week, but this one is probably the
funniest one. Sennon will see captured a wanna be snowbird
a seagull photo bombing over Victorious Inner Harbor. Now, we
don't want to call anyone out, but it does look
(15:33):
like one of those birds fell out of formation. Scott.
We have kittens coming up on petcheck today, so many
are up for adoption right now, and also a very
special guest a cameo appearance on petcheck, and I'll have
your full forecast coming up later as well as how
warm you can expect things.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
To get all right, We'll stay tuned, Thanks so much, Tess.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Well.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Facing intense international pressure, Israel allows air drops of aid
into Gaza. More on that developing story when we come back.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
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