July 23, 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, what Days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one, Check plus or checknews dot CA.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Initially Cruz thought it was ammunition was exploding. Well, what
it was was the lithium batteries were exploding.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Fire officials say a fast moving fire and view Royal
represents a dangerous trend.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
So it's really really crazy for us to think that
this is what this could be.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
A Victoria couple is denied boarding a porter flight. They
believe their issues what the airline might be connected to
the way they look.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
What we do know is that most people who drown
never intended to enter the water.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's National Drowning Prevention Week. The latest numbers tell us
that we need to do more to keep ourselves safe
around the water. Check News starts now, good evening, Thanks
for being here tonight. A fire at the Fort Victoria
RV Park posed a challenge for firefighters. Yesterday, a trailer
(01:16):
and shed filled with appliances, propane tanks, and lithium batteries
went up in flames explosions, impacting as many as ten
other trailers. Fire officials say this blaze is part of
a growing trend. Mackenzie Reid reports trailers oh No.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Flames and smoke can be seen billowing from this trailer
at neighbors watching concern.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Quite an intense fire in a very short period of time.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Fire Cruisberg called just before three pm yesterday to a
fire at the Fort Victoria RV Park, right across the
street from the View Royal Fire Hall.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
On arrival, a shed beside the trailer was fully involved
and had been consumed. The trailer was fully involved in fire,
and the one beside it was catching fire, which is
a bit odd for the response on he said.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
While they were trying to quickly douse the flames, firefighters
could hear popping sounds coming from the engulf shed.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Initially Cruiz thought it was ammunition was exploding. Well, what
it was was the lithium batteries were exploding and they
were actually leaving the property and landing up to ten
trailers away and starting secondary and third fires.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Hers says they found hundreds of lithium batteries, propane tanks
and appliances in the shed, which likely caused the rapid
spread of the fire.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We're still trying to conclude why there were so many
batteries in the shed. But obviously when they started to
burn with the propane tanks up against the trailer, you
do the math. It's pretty well an unstoppable fire right
off the bat.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
No one was injured in the fire, and it's not
known how it started. But Cruse say this blaze is
just one of money and a new dangerous trend.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We're seeing more and more fires involving these batteries.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
I believe it was this cord.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Just last month, of Lansville family home almost went up
in flames after a lithium battery exploded in their garage,
and in December, lithium battery self detonated in the Dashwood
fire Chiefs home near Qualicum Beach.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Battery wasn't plugged in, it wasn't hooked into anything.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
It was literally loose sitting on the floor.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Hurst says people need to ensure that any e bike, scooters,
or other lithium battery operated devices are purchased from a
reputable source and are ULC tested and certified.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
If you are going to be charging lithium batteries, I
don't recommend you charge them inside your home. While the
people have taken their e bike batteries. They're in the garage,
they're in the living room. I would be plugging them
into an outside plug and I'd have them outside undercover.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
He adds Lithium battery technology isn't going anywhere, so it's
up to us to ensure they are stored and you safely.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Two wildfires that sparked on Vancouver Island this week are
now being held. BC Wildfire says the Comok's Lake wildfire,
which was discovered on Monday afternoon, is currently five point
six hectares in size, and as long as the weather
and winds stay consistent, crews will have the upper hand. Meanwhile,
the Nanaimo River Road fire that also flared up on
Monday is also being held. That fire is three hectores
(04:06):
in size, burning just west of River Canyon Community Park.
BC Wildfire reminds everyone to call their hotline if you
think you spot a wildfire at one eight hundred and
sixty sixty three five five five five, or you can
text Star fifty five to fifty five on your cell
phone and quite the commotion in Sydney this afternoon, when
(04:26):
crews were called to a fire along Beacon Avenue, smoke
could be seen coming from an old tobacco shop which
recently moved. The space is being renovated for a new restaurant,
fittingly called Fry Guy's Bistro. Sydney Fire is looking into
the cause, but says it's not criminal or suspicious in nature.
No other businesses were impacted. They were trying to fly
to Toronto for a funeral. Instead, the married couple were
(04:48):
denied boarding and weren't allowed to rebook because of an
unspecified security risk. Porter Airlines has given check News a
number of explanations that an air passenger rights advocate says
lacks true. As Cory sit Away tells us, as left
the locals concern that they were really turned away because
of how they look.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Dawson L. Duke is bald, tattooed. I'm proud of it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Get more tattoos and cause more of a respectful ruckus.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
So is her husband. When you have a closer look,
her tattoos tell a story of devotion.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Normal community members with a strong Christian faith. So it's
really really crazy for us to think that this is
what this could be.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
July sixteenth, she and her husband were denied boarding a
Porter flight to Toronto for a celebration of life.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
The security lock remains on your booking. We can't let
you on this flight.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Despite trying to get answers. Leduke, a hospitality manager in
the capital city, says the Porter check in agents stonewalled them,
giving no further explanation.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I think where I started to get an inkling of
something's not right.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
Porter is now saying they were denied boarding because they
did not have the credit card used at purchase. Nowhere
on Porter's website that we could find is a policy
that the original credit card used at booking has to
be shown. But Porter does say that passengers agree to
the conditions of carriage, which states you may be required
to present the credit card used to purchase your tickets
at check in, but doesn't specify that you may be
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denied boarding if you don't have the card used to
buy the ticket. Regardless, an airline passenger advocate says, the
conditions of carriage are irrelevant and illegal to actually enforce.
Speaker 10 (06:26):
The only legally buying document is whatever is in that tariff.
Nothing else.
Speaker 9 (06:30):
Porter's tariff or terms and conditions doesn't mention such policy.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
And that's a serious matter when airlines or businesses just
pull terms and conditions out of thin air and claim
that the passenger agreed to it. That's a problem.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
Canada's Transportation Act specifically prohibits applying terms and conditions not
set out in the tariff. In other words, advocates say
Porter was prohibited by law from applying it.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
What is clear that the airline is not saying a
full story, and the reason I believe it's there as
your full story is because they are referring to terms
and conditions that are non existent and are fictionary.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Porter agents also marked them as a no show, a
series of actions that's left Leduke wondering if the real
reason they were denied boarding was because of how they look.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It's hard for us to acknowledge that this could be
a discriminate like a discriminatory practice.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
Porter denies this and says they've provided the couple compensation
and an apology. Leaduke says even that's not the case,
saying no one directly from Porter has reached out. She
says they've only been able to deal with a third
party helpline, and so far, despite being roughly out thirty
five hundred dollars, they've only been given flight vouchers for
a future round trip they won't be taking. Despite all
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of this.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We forgive them and we hope to receive some sort
of public acknowledgment saying hey, sorry, we messed up. If
we don't receive that, it's gone to bed and it's
in God's hands now.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Luduk is finding grace, hoping and waiting for an honest
explanation and meaningful apology discriminating.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
A report from a homelessness count last year in Nanaimo
has been released, and it's not good. That report shows
the number of people living without homes has tripled in
the city in the last decade, and the reports authors
say the six hundred and twenty one people counted are
a minimum, that the numbers are really much higher. Kendall
Hansen reports we now.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
Have a better sense of how many people are homeless
in Nanaimo. In November of twenty twenty four, this nanama
First nation led the latest point in time count. It
recorded six hundred and twenty one people. Craig Kambitts is
currently staying in a shelter and says the number is low.
Speaker 12 (08:48):
It's probably way more than that.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
You know, what would you pick the number up?
Speaker 12 (08:52):
That was the guest stage, I would say at least
twenty two hundred or something like that.
Speaker 11 (08:56):
At Rise Bridge, an organization that helps the vulnerable, it
believes a more accurate number would be double what was
counted there.
Speaker 13 (09:04):
Magna events that they coordinated were happening at the same
time in the city that our center was open as
a drop in center, and on that day we saw
two hundred and seven people mainly on house or piccariously
on hows that were there, and none of them had
participated in the count.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
The data shows of those counted, three hundred and twenty
were unsheltered, one hundred and seventeen were sheltered without permanent housing,
and a handful of others were staying in hospitals, prisons
or someone's home. Nanaimos mayor says he too, is certain
the number is low.
Speaker 14 (09:36):
We know that we are one of the harder hit communities,
not as hard as Courtney, for instance, in terms of
per capita, but I would argue way worse off than
the City of Vancouver, which has tremendous resources, provincial and local,
that have been put into dealing with the problem.
Speaker 11 (09:51):
Krog is hoping is provincially funded and planned social housing
opens like this facility on Victoria Road. People won't be
stuck living in tents or out doors.
Speaker 14 (10:01):
That we will see a significant improvement. Those are several
hundred units and that is going to help a lot.
Speaker 15 (10:08):
But we're waiting just the overall feeling and community that
were worse off than we ever have, and yet the
funding and the budgets continue to go to administrative salaries,
to research into enforcement. That's not helping us get anywhere.
We can have all the police in the world, but
if people are starving and don't have their basic needs met,
it's not going to change the dynamic.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
Kmbit says he needs housing that bands continued drug and
alcohol use.
Speaker 12 (10:36):
Sure, you can leave and you can come back with
a Kasha beer and some drugs, and you're stuck in there.
There's nothing positive for a guy like me. He's cut
way back down from trying to get his life back together.
I'll just get depressed and you will probably join them.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Cambit says people should be sympathetic for the un housed,
as many people are just a few paychecks away from
being in the same place.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well, it is the time of year when many of
us spend our time cooling off at our favorite beach,
lake or river. But now is also the time to
be aware of the risk. Grace Miller tells us what
we need to know about staying safe on or near
the water.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Most people know that if you're going out for a swim,
there is risk. There used to be a lifeguard.
Speaker 16 (11:17):
And so we're out in the water and I'm normally
on the lake paddleboarding, and all of a sudden, this
storm just blew in into the valley and we the
paddleboard tipped and I just could not. I felt already
treading paddling and try and get up, and I didn't
have a life jacket on. So just to think that
a really strong swimmer can be out there treading water
and really pushing themselves, so to have that wearing a
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life jet really at all times is so important.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
This is National Drowning Prevention Week, the annual check in
reminding all swimmers that if you don't know the risk,
a trip to the watering hole, even if you don't
plan to jump in the water, can be deadly.
Speaker 15 (11:52):
The most important thing is that we look at the
numbers that are out there and really quite tragic that
we continue to see drownings every year.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Last year, there was ninety eight accidental drowning deaths in BC.
More than half of those incidents happened during the summer,
and seventy seven percent were men.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
But what we do know is that most people who
drown never intended to enter the water.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
The leading cause for drowning last year was twenty two
percent with people falling into the water. Thirty three percent
of incidents happened in rivers and twenty four in lakes.
Speaker 17 (12:26):
We really have to be more observant in more respective
of water, whether it be a pool, or in the
ocean or into a lake.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
The good news is the number of drownings in BC
is trending down eighteen percent from last year. That said,
the factors at play remained the same. Drugs or alcohol
consistently contribute to forty percent of cases overall and in
more than fifty percent of incidents involving people nineteen to
sixty nine years old.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
See drinking and swimming do not mix, and they do
not mix just in the way that drinking and driving
doesn't work, Kaida, So encourage people to leave the alcohol night.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Most people we talked to you today acknowledge swimmers need
to be prepared.
Speaker 18 (13:08):
When we bought our house, I remember the realtor of
actually trying to talk us out of buying our house
out before we had a child, and he said, well,
if you have a child and being on the water
is very dangerous, so if it probably isn't a house
you want to buy.
Speaker 19 (13:19):
And we feel comfortable with them being in calm water,
getting a little bit of distance with us, and then
just keeping an eye out to making sure that you're
putting in safe positions.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And if you go for swim and BC, don't be
surprised to see more warnings. Events are planned all week
across the province to raise awareness about water safety.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Beach goer has found more than just sand and sun
at Willow's Beach. Today, excavation crews lined the shores to
start a planned outfall construction project. As of yesterday, Cruise
from dawn Man Excavating and the District of Oak Base
started setting up fencing, equipment and materials at the end
of Esteven Avenue to begin the outfall replacement. During construction,
happening between seven am and seven pm, beach will remain
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open to the public, but each users are asked to
follow signage for detours and avoid the fenced off areas
on checkpoints. And I want to know do you typically
spend time near or on the water in the summer.
You can vote at checknews dot Ca and we will
share with the results with you a little bit later
in the broadcast. An impressive mural of Ozzy Osbourne is
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being touched today on Fort Street between Blanchard and Quadra.
Archer is the mural artist who wanted to pay his
respects to Osbourne, who passed away yesterday at the age
of seventy six. Archer has been an Ozzie fan since
he was young, but actually got to work with him
back in nineteen ninety nine for Ozfest when he painted
the backdrop at his concert. He also gave Ozzie and
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Sharon Osbourne a personal picture he created and Ozzy couldn't
believe it was free.
Speaker 12 (14:51):
She enrolled it.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
She goes, look what arch has given us, and he said, oh,
that's lovely, lovely, get the check book. She goes, no, no, no,
it's a gift, Ozzie, and oh it's lovely. How much
as much as you want. He couldn't fathom the whole
gift concept. I mean, I don't even know what I'm
going to do with this yet, but all I know
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is that I had to do it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Archer says he is the first mural artist to do
this in honor of Ozzie. He also made murals for
Eddie van Halen and Queen Elizabeth on the very days
they passed away. All Right, it is up outside time,
upside time, outside time. And if you're going to be outside,
do you want an ice cream?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (15:39):
You do, sure do?
Speaker 20 (15:41):
And then daylight today, cone cup, handful, whatever you like.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
That's right.
Speaker 17 (15:46):
So word Better Acres ice Cream right across from the
Barton Banker here on Government Street, and they're busy in there,
and rightfully so because they have some of the best
ice cream on the island.
Speaker 20 (15:56):
Yeah, so it's kind of odd that here we are
standing in front of the Better acre Is ice Cream
with no ice cream.
Speaker 11 (16:01):
What's what's the deal with that?
Speaker 13 (16:03):
Sorry?
Speaker 20 (16:04):
Sorry, orr conas here all here we go, all right, I.
Speaker 17 (16:10):
Don't know if it happens for everyone.
Speaker 20 (16:11):
Like that, Okay, awesome, all right, customers.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Sorry, well you were very quick with.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
What are you?
Speaker 20 (16:20):
So that's it, he's not saying, but that's a story.
Speaker 21 (16:23):
So what do we gotta eatrawberry summer strawberry chocolate.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
That's right.
Speaker 17 (16:28):
And this is all gluten free.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Not? All of it?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Actually, the cones especially, I'm quite proud of that. I
have to say.
Speaker 20 (16:34):
Yeah, I love what you do. At the base of
the cone. You've dropped in a one of your farm
fresh raspberries to act as a stopper for any leakage.
Speaker 11 (16:41):
Right, picked this morning by my mom. Isn't that great?
Speaker 20 (16:45):
So you don't have to worry about the ice cream
leaking out down your elbow. It's very difficult to liqu
an elbow. You have to actually have somebody you do
it for you.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (16:52):
Yeah, we're not using jelly beans there, Yeah right, good,
all right, So we're gonna find out more about Lori
Joyce and bitter Is ice cream. It's a great story.
Thank you, all family owned and operated, all natural, gluten
free again, because.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I just want to eat well ice cream.
Speaker 20 (17:10):
Okay, Well, while you're doing that, why don't we show
you a chance to get a great prize for a
great event coming up?
Speaker 17 (17:16):
Yeah, Artistry is going on a government house this weekend.
Speaker 20 (17:22):
Yeah, if you like to win some tickets exactly.
Speaker 17 (17:25):
It includes lunch and a VIP blanket and a gift basket.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
You get to bring some friends along.
Speaker 17 (17:30):
It's the VIP package.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
You go to contests who have a chocolate.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
On my mom and lives.
Speaker 22 (17:35):
There's someone your nose, but you want to get that
great causes a check News dot C I'll take that
back is down here artistry this weekend.
Speaker 17 (17:45):
But right now I suggest you get down to the block.
We are the nineteen hundred block ten nineteen government straight
and c Eddie and I have the eighties.
Speaker 11 (17:57):
I made that to taste like our childhood.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Like, yeah, all right, well you better eat those up
before they melt.
Speaker 11 (18:05):
Guys, Okay, enjoy.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
We'll see you in a couple of minutes. Also still
to come on check News tonight, three people trapped underground
after a mining accident in northern BC. Will have the
latest on that and this.
Speaker 21 (18:16):
Every time he opens his mouth, he is demonstrating that
he doesn't understand how tariffs work and he doesn't care
if his absurd tax like are hurting our economy and
our small businesses.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Dozens of American business owners and politicians come together telling
Canadians they didn't ask for this fight. That story's next.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
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, what Days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one, Check plus or checknews dot CA.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Initially Cruz thought it was ammunition was exploding. Well, what
it was was the lithium batteries were exploding.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Fire officials say a fast moving fire and view Royal
represents a dangerous trend.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
So it's really really crazy for us to think that
this is what this could be.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
A Victoria couple is denied boarding a porter flight. They
believe their issues what the airline might be connected to
the way they look.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
What we do know is that most people who drown
never intended to enter the water.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's National Drowning Prevention Week. The latest numbers tell us
that we need to do more to keep ourselves safe
around the water. Check News starts now, good evening, Thanks
for being here tonight. A fire at the Fort Victoria
RV Park posed a challenge for firefighters. Yesterday, a trailer
(01:16):
and shed filled with appliances, propane tanks, and lithium batteries
went up in flames explosions, impacting as many as ten
other trailers. Fire officials say this blaze is part of
a growing trend. Mackenzie Reid reports trailers oh No.
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Flames and smoke can be seen billowing from this trailer
at neighbors watching concern.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Quite an intense fire in a very short period of time.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
Fire Cruisberg called just before three pm yesterday to a
fire at the Fort Victoria RV Park, right across the
street from the View Royal Fire Hall.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
On arrival, a shed beside the trailer was fully involved
and had been consumed. The trailer was fully involved in fire,
and the one beside it was catching fire, which is
a bit odd for the response on he said.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
While they were trying to quickly douse the flames, firefighters
could hear popping sounds coming from the engulf shed.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Initially Cruiz thought it was ammunition was exploding. Well, what
it was was the lithium batteries were exploding and they
were actually leaving the property and landing up to ten
trailers away and starting secondary and third fires.
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Hers says they found hundreds of lithium batteries, propane tanks
and appliances in the shed, which likely caused the rapid
spread of the fire.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We're still trying to conclude why there were so many
batteries in the shed. But obviously when they started to
burn with the propane tanks up against the trailer, you
do the math. It's pretty well an unstoppable fire right
off the bat.
Speaker 6 (02:39):
No one was injured in the fire, and it's not
known how it started. But Cruse say this blaze is
just one of money and a new dangerous trend.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
We're seeing more and more fires involving these batteries.
Speaker 7 (02:50):
I believe it was this cord.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
Just last month, of Lansville family home almost went up
in flames after a lithium battery exploded in their garage,
and in December, lithium battery self detonated in the Dashwood
fire Chiefs home near Qualicum Beach.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Battery wasn't plugged in, it wasn't hooked into anything.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
It was literally loose sitting on the floor.
Speaker 6 (03:11):
Hurst says people need to ensure that any e bike, scooters,
or other lithium battery operated devices are purchased from a
reputable source and are ULC tested and certified.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
If you are going to be charging lithium batteries, I
don't recommend you charge them inside your home. While the
people have taken their e bike batteries. They're in the garage,
they're in the living room. I would be plugging them
into an outside plug and I'd have them outside undercover.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
He adds Lithium battery technology isn't going anywhere, so it's
up to us to ensure they are stored and you safely.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Two wildfires that sparked on Vancouver Island this week are
now being held. BC Wildfire says the Comok's Lake wildfire,
which was discovered on Monday afternoon, is currently five point
six hectares in size, and as long as the weather
and winds stay consistent, crews will have the upper hand. Meanwhile,
the Nanaimo River Road fire that also flared up on
Monday is also being held. That fire is three hectores
(04:06):
in size, burning just west of River Canyon Community Park.
BC Wildfire reminds everyone to call their hotline if you
think you spot a wildfire at one eight hundred and
sixty sixty three five five five five, or you can
text Star fifty five to fifty five on your cell
phone and quite the commotion in Sydney this afternoon, when
(04:26):
crews were called to a fire along Beacon Avenue, smoke
could be seen coming from an old tobacco shop which
recently moved. The space is being renovated for a new restaurant,
fittingly called Fry Guy's Bistro. Sydney Fire is looking into
the cause, but says it's not criminal or suspicious in nature.
No other businesses were impacted. They were trying to fly
to Toronto for a funeral. Instead, the married couple were
(04:48):
denied boarding and weren't allowed to rebook because of an
unspecified security risk. Porter Airlines has given check News a
number of explanations that an air passenger rights advocate says
lacks true. As Cory sit Away tells us, as left
the locals concern that they were really turned away because
of how they look.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Dawson L. Duke is bald, tattooed. I'm proud of it.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Get more tattoos and cause more of a respectful ruckus.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
So is her husband. When you have a closer look,
her tattoos tell a story of devotion.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Normal community members with a strong Christian faith. So it's
really really crazy for us to think that this is
what this could be.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
July sixteenth, she and her husband were denied boarding a
Porter flight to Toronto for a celebration of life.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
The security lock remains on your booking. We can't let
you on this flight.
Speaker 9 (05:40):
Despite trying to get answers. Leduke, a hospitality manager in
the capital city, says the Porter check in agents stonewalled them,
giving no further explanation.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I think where I started to get an inkling of
something's not right.
Speaker 9 (05:53):
Porter is now saying they were denied boarding because they
did not have the credit card used at purchase. Nowhere
on Porter's website that we could find is a policy
that the original credit card used at booking has to
be shown. But Porter does say that passengers agree to
the conditions of carriage, which states you may be required
to present the credit card used to purchase your tickets
at check in, but doesn't specify that you may be
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denied boarding if you don't have the card used to
buy the ticket. Regardless, an airline passenger advocate says, the
conditions of carriage are irrelevant and illegal to actually enforce.
Speaker 10 (06:26):
The only legally buying document is whatever is in that tariff.
Nothing else.
Speaker 9 (06:30):
Porter's tariff or terms and conditions doesn't mention such policy.
Speaker 10 (06:34):
And that's a serious matter when airlines or businesses just
pull terms and conditions out of thin air and claim
that the passenger agreed to it. That's a problem.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
Canada's Transportation Act specifically prohibits applying terms and conditions not
set out in the tariff. In other words, advocates say
Porter was prohibited by law from applying it.
Speaker 10 (06:56):
What is clear that the airline is not saying a
full story, and the reason I believe it's there as
your full story is because they are referring to terms
and conditions that are non existent and are fictionary.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
Porter agents also marked them as a no show, a
series of actions that's left Leduke wondering if the real
reason they were denied boarding was because of how they look.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
It's hard for us to acknowledge that this could be
a discriminate like a discriminatory practice.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
Porter denies this and says they've provided the couple compensation
and an apology. Leaduke says even that's not the case,
saying no one directly from Porter has reached out. She
says they've only been able to deal with a third
party helpline, and so far, despite being roughly out thirty
five hundred dollars, they've only been given flight vouchers for
a future round trip they won't be taking. Despite all
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of this.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We forgive them and we hope to receive some sort
of public acknowledgment saying hey, sorry, we messed up. If
we don't receive that, it's gone to bed and it's
in God's hands now.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Luduk is finding grace, hoping and waiting for an honest
explanation and meaningful apology discriminating.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
A report from a homelessness count last year in Nanaimo
has been released, and it's not good. That report shows
the number of people living without homes has tripled in
the city in the last decade, and the reports authors
say the six hundred and twenty one people counted are
a minimum, that the numbers are really much higher. Kendall
Hansen reports we now.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
Have a better sense of how many people are homeless
in Nanaimo. In November of twenty twenty four, this nanama
First nation led the latest point in time count. It
recorded six hundred and twenty one people. Craig Kambitts is
currently staying in a shelter and says the number is low.
Speaker 12 (08:48):
It's probably way more than that.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
You know, what would you pick the number up?
Speaker 12 (08:52):
That was the guest stage, I would say at least
twenty two hundred or something like that.
Speaker 11 (08:56):
At Rise Bridge, an organization that helps the vulnerable, it
believes a more accurate number would be double what was
counted there.
Speaker 13 (09:04):
Magna events that they coordinated were happening at the same
time in the city that our center was open as
a drop in center, and on that day we saw
two hundred and seven people mainly on house or piccariously
on hows that were there, and none of them had
participated in the count.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
The data shows of those counted, three hundred and twenty
were unsheltered, one hundred and seventeen were sheltered without permanent housing,
and a handful of others were staying in hospitals, prisons
or someone's home. Nanaimos mayor says he too, is certain
the number is low.
Speaker 14 (09:36):
We know that we are one of the harder hit communities,
not as hard as Courtney, for instance, in terms of
per capita, but I would argue way worse off than
the City of Vancouver, which has tremendous resources, provincial and local,
that have been put into dealing with the problem.
Speaker 11 (09:51):
Krog is hoping is provincially funded and planned social housing
opens like this facility on Victoria Road. People won't be
stuck living in tents or out doors.
Speaker 14 (10:01):
That we will see a significant improvement. Those are several
hundred units and that is going to help a lot.
Speaker 15 (10:08):
But we're waiting just the overall feeling and community that
were worse off than we ever have, and yet the
funding and the budgets continue to go to administrative salaries,
to research into enforcement. That's not helping us get anywhere.
We can have all the police in the world, but
if people are starving and don't have their basic needs met,
it's not going to change the dynamic.
Speaker 11 (10:30):
Kmbit says he needs housing that bands continued drug and
alcohol use.
Speaker 12 (10:36):
Sure, you can leave and you can come back with
a Kasha beer and some drugs, and you're stuck in there.
There's nothing positive for a guy like me. He's cut
way back down from trying to get his life back together.
I'll just get depressed and you will probably join them.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
Cambit says people should be sympathetic for the un housed,
as many people are just a few paychecks away from
being in the same place.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Well, it is the time of year when many of
us spend our time cooling off at our favorite beach,
lake or river. But now is also the time to
be aware of the risk. Grace Miller tells us what
we need to know about staying safe on or near
the water.
Speaker 7 (11:12):
Most people know that if you're going out for a swim,
there is risk. There used to be a lifeguard.
Speaker 16 (11:17):
And so we're out in the water and I'm normally
on the lake paddleboarding, and all of a sudden, this
storm just blew in into the valley and we the
paddleboard tipped and I just could not. I felt already
treading paddling and try and get up, and I didn't
have a life jacket on. So just to think that
a really strong swimmer can be out there treading water
and really pushing themselves, so to have that wearing a
(11:39):
life jet really at all times is so important.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
This is National Drowning Prevention Week, the annual check in
reminding all swimmers that if you don't know the risk,
a trip to the watering hole, even if you don't
plan to jump in the water, can be deadly.
Speaker 15 (11:52):
The most important thing is that we look at the
numbers that are out there and really quite tragic that
we continue to see drownings every year.
Speaker 7 (12:00):
Last year, there was ninety eight accidental drowning deaths in BC.
More than half of those incidents happened during the summer,
and seventy seven percent were men.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
But what we do know is that most people who
drown never intended to enter the water.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
The leading cause for drowning last year was twenty two
percent with people falling into the water. Thirty three percent
of incidents happened in rivers and twenty four in lakes.
Speaker 17 (12:26):
We really have to be more observant in more respective
of water, whether it be a pool, or in the
ocean or into a lake.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
The good news is the number of drownings in BC
is trending down eighteen percent from last year. That said,
the factors at play remained the same. Drugs or alcohol
consistently contribute to forty percent of cases overall and in
more than fifty percent of incidents involving people nineteen to
sixty nine years old.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
See drinking and swimming do not mix, and they do
not mix just in the way that drinking and driving
doesn't work, Kaida, So encourage people to leave the alcohol night.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Most people we talked to you today acknowledge swimmers need
to be prepared.
Speaker 18 (13:08):
When we bought our house, I remember the realtor of
actually trying to talk us out of buying our house
out before we had a child, and he said, well,
if you have a child and being on the water
is very dangerous, so if it probably isn't a house
you want to buy.
Speaker 19 (13:19):
And we feel comfortable with them being in calm water,
getting a little bit of distance with us, and then
just keeping an eye out to making sure that you're
putting in safe positions.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And if you go for swim and BC, don't be
surprised to see more warnings. Events are planned all week
across the province to raise awareness about water safety.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Beach goer has found more than just sand and sun
at Willow's Beach. Today, excavation crews lined the shores to
start a planned outfall construction project. As of yesterday, Cruise
from dawn Man Excavating and the District of Oak Base
started setting up fencing, equipment and materials at the end
of Esteven Avenue to begin the outfall replacement. During construction,
happening between seven am and seven pm, beach will remain
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open to the public, but each users are asked to
follow signage for detours and avoid the fenced off areas
on checkpoints. And I want to know do you typically
spend time near or on the water in the summer.
You can vote at checknews dot Ca and we will
share with the results with you a little bit later
in the broadcast. An impressive mural of Ozzy Osbourne is
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being touched today on Fort Street between Blanchard and Quadra.
Archer is the mural artist who wanted to pay his
respects to Osbourne, who passed away yesterday at the age
of seventy six. Archer has been an Ozzie fan since
he was young, but actually got to work with him
back in nineteen ninety nine for Ozfest when he painted
the backdrop at his concert. He also gave Ozzie and
(14:45):
Sharon Osbourne a personal picture he created and Ozzy couldn't
believe it was free.
Speaker 12 (14:51):
She enrolled it.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
She goes, look what arch has given us, and he said, oh,
that's lovely, lovely, get the check book. She goes, no, no, no,
it's a gift, Ozzie, and oh it's lovely. How much
as much as you want. He couldn't fathom the whole
gift concept. I mean, I don't even know what I'm
going to do with this yet, but all I know
(15:14):
is that I had to do it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Archer says he is the first mural artist to do
this in honor of Ozzie. He also made murals for
Eddie van Halen and Queen Elizabeth on the very days
they passed away. All Right, it is up outside time,
upside time, outside time. And if you're going to be outside,
do you want an ice cream?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Yes?
Speaker 11 (15:39):
You do, sure do?
Speaker 20 (15:41):
And then daylight today, cone cup, handful, whatever you like.
Speaker 10 (15:46):
That's right.
Speaker 17 (15:46):
So word Better Acres ice Cream right across from the
Barton Banker here on Government Street, and they're busy in there,
and rightfully so because they have some of the best
ice cream on the island.
Speaker 20 (15:56):
Yeah, so it's kind of odd that here we are
standing in front of the Better acre Is ice Cream
with no ice cream.
Speaker 11 (16:01):
What's what's the deal with that?
Speaker 13 (16:03):
Sorry?
Speaker 20 (16:04):
Sorry, orr conas here all here we go, all right, I.
Speaker 17 (16:10):
Don't know if it happens for everyone.
Speaker 20 (16:11):
Like that, Okay, awesome, all right, customers.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Sorry, well you were very quick with.
Speaker 10 (16:19):
What are you?
Speaker 20 (16:20):
So that's it, he's not saying, but that's a story.
Speaker 21 (16:23):
So what do we gotta eatrawberry summer strawberry chocolate.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
That's right.
Speaker 17 (16:28):
And this is all gluten free.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Not? All of it?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Actually, the cones especially, I'm quite proud of that. I
have to say.
Speaker 20 (16:34):
Yeah, I love what you do. At the base of
the cone. You've dropped in a one of your farm
fresh raspberries to act as a stopper for any leakage.
Speaker 11 (16:41):
Right, picked this morning by my mom. Isn't that great?
Speaker 20 (16:45):
So you don't have to worry about the ice cream
leaking out down your elbow. It's very difficult to liqu
an elbow. You have to actually have somebody you do
it for you.
Speaker 12 (16:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 17 (16:52):
Yeah, we're not using jelly beans there, Yeah right, good,
all right, So we're gonna find out more about Lori
Joyce and bitter Is ice cream. It's a great story.
Thank you, all family owned and operated, all natural, gluten
free again, because.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I just want to eat well ice cream.
Speaker 20 (17:10):
Okay, Well, while you're doing that, why don't we show
you a chance to get a great prize for a
great event coming up?
Speaker 17 (17:16):
Yeah, Artistry is going on a government house this weekend.
Speaker 20 (17:22):
Yeah, if you like to win some tickets exactly.
Speaker 17 (17:25):
It includes lunch and a VIP blanket and a gift basket.
Speaker 12 (17:29):
You get to bring some friends along.
Speaker 17 (17:30):
It's the VIP package.
Speaker 12 (17:32):
You go to contests who have a chocolate.
Speaker 11 (17:34):
On my mom and lives.
Speaker 22 (17:35):
There's someone your nose, but you want to get that
great causes a check News dot C I'll take that
back is down here artistry this weekend.
Speaker 17 (17:45):
But right now I suggest you get down to the block.
We are the nineteen hundred block ten nineteen government straight
and c Eddie and I have the eighties.
Speaker 11 (17:57):
I made that to taste like our childhood.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Like, yeah, all right, well you better eat those up
before they melt.
Speaker 11 (18:05):
Guys, Okay, enjoy.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
We'll see you in a couple of minutes. Also still
to come on check News tonight, three people trapped underground
after a mining accident in northern BC. Will have the
latest on that and this.
Speaker 21 (18:16):
Every time he opens his mouth, he is demonstrating that
he doesn't understand how tariffs work and he doesn't care
if his absurd tax like are hurting our economy and
our small businesses.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Dozens of American business owners and politicians come together telling
Canadians they didn't ask for this fight. That story's next.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Watch full check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten,
or anytime on check Plus or checknews dot Ca.
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