October 9, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Check podcasts. This is an abbreviated version of check News
watch full Check newscasts week days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one Check plus or checknews dot Ca.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
And unfortunately government is still unwilling to return to the
table with an affair offered to negotiate. That's really forced
our hand.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
More striking BC government workers are on picket lines in
more locations across the province that job action escalates.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
We couldn't afford a hotel, we couldn't drive back and forth.
We just needed to be close to Jesse.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Construction is underway on a new home for families with
sick kids in Nanaimo General Hospital, but money is still
needed to pay for it.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
So I thought, why don't we match them together and
see what happens. So we decided to make a traffic jam.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It may be the only traffic jam that everyone will love.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Check News starts.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Now, Good evening, Thanks for being with us tonight. S.
British Columbians may be feeling more of the impacts relating
to the government workers strike, from renewing your driver's license,
buying a beer to some students not getting their loans.
(01:20):
The strike has officially hit the public domain and the
pressure is mounting for the government to react. Corys Itaway has.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
More six weeks into a public workers strike. Job action
continues to ramp up. As of today, all public liquor
and cannabis stores in BC are behind picket lines and
more offices like Service BC are shut down.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Unfortunately, government is still unwilling to return to the table
with an affair offered to negotiate. That's really forced our hand.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Talks broke down between government and the union once again
last Monday. The impact now of twenty five thousand members
participating in job action is direct disruption in multiple sectors.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
This is pretty important.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Funds to people.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Student loans are inaccessible with student adbc's application system offline,
and payments to students delayed by the public sectors strike action.
The post Secondary Education Minister is saying today though more
than forty six thousand students have already received their funding due.
Speaker 9 (02:19):
To the job action, we don't have the numbers, but
we do know that the majority of students have already
received their funding for.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
The whole semester.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Sunner says. Institutions are working with students to defer deadlines
to wave late fees and to offer emergency financial help.
The assurances are also coming from the Attorney General today,
whose in house lawyers that deal with judicial reviews are
on strike, impacting human rights tribunals and the residential tendency branch.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
We have a team that's engaged in making sure that
our justice system can keep functioning. We have we're making
sure that the resources that we can allocate to do
that are being done and people are checking in with
me on that.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
BC's Finance Minister Brenda Bailey reiterating today governments focus on
reaching an agreement that fits into its current fiscal restraints.
Speaker 10 (03:05):
We have an offer on the table that keeps workers
whole with inflation and also increases the wage for the
lowest workers.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
We feel that this is a reasonable offer, particularly in
these times.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
As of September, the provincial government says it's in the
red to the tune of a record high eleven point
six billion dollar deficit, something bcg u's president says isn't
the fault of its members.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
One of the things that's particularly I think upsetting to
civil servants is that they've made some bad choices here,
particularly with the civil service. We've seen a massive expansion
of the exclude bureaucracy In the civil service. The ratio
of high level excluded managers to frontline workers used to
be one to four, now under this government's one to three.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
The union wants wages increased and help workers deal with
the rising costs of living and inflation. For now, the
two sides apparently still miles apart. The impacts to British
Columbians are likely to drag on.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The BC government wants to sue the makers of e
cigarettes and vaping devices to try and recover money for
the healthcare system. For more, Let's bring in Rob Shaw
at the BC Legislature now, where all this certainly sounds familiar.
What did the government do on this.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Issue today, well, Stacey.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
New legislation introduced today will enable the government to sue
vaping companies the same way as to successfully sued the
manufacturers of cigarettes and opioids. Attorney General Nikki Serama today
saying vaping manufacturers have targeted youth with flavors, with ads,
with marketing campaigns and involving social media influencers, as well
as not being transparent about the contents of the vaping
(04:38):
juice and how addictive they are with their nicotine content.
BC has already put in place regulations against flavored vape
products and they're technically banned on school grounds, or that
they wouldn't know that from their rampant use. There follows
a move last year by the province to not only
to actually only allow nicotine pouches for sale behind pharmacy
(04:58):
counters as well.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Here's the age today.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
But we are getting better at these lawsuits. VC's leadership
over the years from tobacco to the opioid class actions
have shown that repeatedly these types of legislation are winning
in court all the way up to the Supreme Court
of Canada. And we're getting better and we're winning, and
so this sets us up for being able to take
on these companies in court.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Could be significant money here.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
BC just won three point six billion dollars from tobacco
companies for harms from cigarettes. That money was supposed to
be earmarked back into the healthcare system to recover costs
prevent future harms instead of just got rolled into general
revenue to produce the deficit this year. The Attorney General
says that might happen in the future with vaping settlements
as well.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Stacey is a government that has.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Not only sued the opioid manufacturers, the tobacco companies, now
the vaping companies, also going after social media companies and
even companies that manufacture energy drinks as it uses the
power of its.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Lawyers in government to try and recover some money. It's daisy,
all right.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We'll see how this plays out, Rob, Thanks so much.
Construction day is about to begin on a home for
families with children going through medical care at Nanaimo Regional
General Hospital. Now Victoria, of course has Dennie's Place and
Campbell River has Qualeau House, but there's never been a
similar resource in Nanaimo until now. Although money is still
(06:22):
needed to fund it. Kendel Hansen reports.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Way very nice officials are breaking ground in Nanaimo and
a much needed home away from home for families of
children undergoing medical care. Very good, located on the same
property as Nanaimo's hospital and excavator is in place to
start construction tomorrow on the ten million dollar project, the
largest of its kind on Vancouver Island.
Speaker 12 (06:47):
It is going to be our largest home away from
home at sixteen bedrooms.
Speaker 11 (06:52):
The project started with Sherry Shanahan, who in April of
twenty thirteen, was rushed to Victoria after their daughter, Jesse,
was born nine weeks surly at two pounds and twelve ounces.
Shanahan says her family's financial situation added to their stress
at the time.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
The next day, I was discharged from the hospital with
nowhere to go. We couldn't afford a hotel, we couldn't
drive back and forth. We just needed to be close
to Jesse. That's when the social worker told me about
Janie's Place.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
Shanahan says it was a relief to stay there for
a month, but when Jesse was transferred to Nanaimo to
be close to home, she met a family staying in
a motor home from another part of the island. Days
after Jesse left the hospital, she died suddenly. Within months,
Shanahan began her dream of creating a home in Nanaimo
like Jennie's place in Victoria. It's going to be named
(07:42):
after Jesse.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
It's really hard when you lose a child and you
don't want them to be forgotten. And even though she
was born so young and so early, she was such
an impact on me and my family, and so to
see her name on the house and to drive by
and know that she's always with me, even if it's
through this house and through helping others. It's going to
just be so impactful.
Speaker 11 (08:03):
But despite raising seven million dollars, the foundation is still
looking to raise the final three million to pay for
the three story, fourteen thousand square foot home.
Speaker 12 (08:13):
We continue to have conversations with community leaders, families ats
who have gone through a similar experience, and we know
that once they hear that this is actually going to happen,
that really the community will just wrap its arms around
the house.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
It's expected Jesse's House will be completed in the spring
of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Mounties and Nanaimo are hoping to identify a woman who
suspected of stealing another woman's cane that holds significant sentimental
value while shopping at Woodgrove Center last month. We heard
from Lorie Bennett a few weeks ago, whose treasured wooden
caine was stolen. The cane was handmade by a carver
fifty five years ago for her husband, Ken's mom, who
passed it along to Laurie before she died two years ago.
(08:59):
The couple was sitting at a coffee shop on September
twenty third with the cane just eight feet away when
it was taken. The theft was caught on security camera
and today RCNP are releasing a photo of the suspect.
If you recognize her, called Nanaimo RCMP on their non
emergency line. Police are looking for dash can video after
a hit and run on the Trans Canada Highway in
(09:19):
mill Bay late last month. Police say on September twenty eighth,
about eight twenty pm, two northbound vehicles collided at the
intersection of the Tch and Nightingale Road. It caused a
Mazda three to spin, hit a light pole and roll
onto its side. The driver was taken to hospital with
non life threatening injuries. The other vehicle, a white Mercedes
Benz SUV, didn't stop. If you can help, call Shanigan
(09:41):
Lake RCMP.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Until last year, it was against Santich by law to
have a lemonade stand in your front yard. Well that's
since been changed and it's all thanks to Sandwich's gem Lady.
Her little stand has grown into a thriving small business
and as Jordan Cunningham shows us, she's earning her street cred.
Speaker 13 (10:03):
Pardon and double negative. But you will never not see
her coming, what's favorite color?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Really?
Speaker 13 (10:11):
Catherine Little has made a lifetime of turning negatives into positives.
Check Viewers first met her in twenty nineteen. She'd been
injured in the line of duty working law enforcement in Vancouver,
so she came home and started picking raspberries.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I asked my husband to make me a stand, and
the next thing you know, I'm making jam.
Speaker 13 (10:27):
Then selling jam before being shut down by the District
of Sanwich, who said any roadside stand on private property
breaks a bylaw. Believe it or not. Before Catherine took
a stand, any kid with a stand, lemonade or otherwise
was breaking a bylaw. They put it in an arder
this morning, just when he thought her business was toasted,
when most people's knees would turn to jelly, she found
(10:47):
the jam to take on Sandwich Council had eventually won.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Someone else would have given up because it took.
Speaker 13 (10:53):
Five years, which brings us here to present day.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Cadboro Bay when now we're in thirteen stores and Pepper's
was the very very first one. So we always launch
a new product with Peppers.
Speaker 13 (11:03):
They've got a new one launching this week, and since
the road to success is always under construction, Her latest
edible spreadable is an ode to the road that passes
Peppers and a snarled traffic in Cadburo Bay for months.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
You know what my best sellers are all my red jams.
So I thought, why don't we mash them together and
see what happens. So we decided to make a traffic jam.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
Everything red you can think of jammed in a jar.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb, cranberries, and cherries.
Speaker 13 (11:30):
She dished out samples to Peppers customers. But the crew
test for traffic jam is the streets and the people
that made this mess and are now reshaping the road
make way for the jam, lady, traffic jam for you guys.
Oh my god, the hands that spread blacktop are now
spreading traffic jam on a cracker.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
It's got a good tang to it, a.
Speaker 13 (11:51):
Small tree for a job well done. It's better than
smuckers to truckers. In fact, only one thing could make
it better.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Yeah, peanut butter. That can go with this at all?
Speaker 13 (12:00):
Not today, but maybe down the road. Speaking of the road,
that original stand still stands and prices haven't budged. It's
still five bucks guaranteed. You'll see your coming see a
jam lady to a store near you.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, we know the jam lady has got talent, certain
talent on Vancouver Island, and I know ed and Jeff,
you're going to tell us about even more talented folks
this evening.
Speaker 14 (12:26):
Well, yeah, another round here, another Wednesday has arrived, So
another edition of Islands Got Talent, not a jam per se.
But of course all these acts have I'm sure, been
jamming away getting their act shined up, ready to present,
and we're ready to show you these three acts we
have tonight, all vying for the one thousand dollars grand
prize tonight, which you'll be able to vote on for
(12:47):
a chance to win a two hundred dollars gift card
from the old farm Market.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah, let's right.
Speaker 15 (12:51):
So last week was a week number one. We had
a tie. Believe it or not, We had about almost
three thousand people vote, So get those votes coming in
again tonight.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
At the upside of.
Speaker 15 (13:00):
Check news Dot say the Pacific Choir Choir of Ladies
between the age of forty and in the early nineties,
I think they were fantastic. They're singing their choreography, so
they'll be in the final which is live by the
Way here at the Czech Studios on Wednesday, October the
twenty ninth. So the Pacific Choir and the crash Out
it's a high school band. They were the two finalists
(13:22):
that will move on to next Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Tonight, we have three new ones for you.
Speaker 14 (13:26):
We do so we're happy to have the Emergency Exit,
another great young band, a couple of well young people.
Let us five or so in the band about you
Yeah yeah, we think that fifteen to sixteen, same age
as these shirts. Anyway, they are a part of the
show here tonight. We also have Lucas Lucas Goodman, who
(13:47):
plays a great portable piano downtown.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
You might have seen as a busker down the Yeah.
Speaker 14 (13:53):
When he's not studying biology at you Vig.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
That's the Smarty Pants.
Speaker 14 (13:56):
Yes.
Speaker 15 (13:57):
And then we've got Rick Benn.
Speaker 13 (13:58):
Rick Benn we're bringing down from Campbell River.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
We'll actually a video from Campbell River.
Speaker 15 (14:02):
He does country covers and rock covers. But he's got
an original tonight. I think it's called Dancing in the.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
Kitchen the dancing never too old to Dance in the
Kitchen blues. So we'll see how that one turns out tonight.
Speaker 13 (14:19):
But we're looking for more talent.
Speaker 15 (14:20):
By the way, if you've got a town, you've been
sitting back saying I don't know if I want to
send my video in, just take your iPhone, get a
video into us.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Just go to checknows dot Ca.
Speaker 15 (14:29):
There's a button there that says Island's got talent, send
those videos our way. But we have three great ones
coming up for you a little later on on the ipside.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
All right, looking forward to that. Thanks, gentlemen, we'll see
you soon. Also to come on check tonight. We'll tell
you how Canada's twenty five most wanted criminals all ended
up in the same place in Vancouver. And this, this
building is a physical expression of reconciliation in action. It's
(14:57):
expected to change the face of Canadian law, the new Indigenous.
This law wing at the University of Victoria is now open.
I'll take a look inside
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Next Watchful check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
And unfortunately government is still unwilling to return to the
table with an affair offered to negotiate. That's really forced
our hand.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
More striking BC government workers are on picket lines in
more locations across the province that job action escalates.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
We couldn't afford a hotel, we couldn't drive back and forth.
We just needed to be close to Jesse.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Construction is underway on a new home for families with
sick kids in Nanaimo General Hospital, but money is still
needed to pay for it.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
So I thought, why don't we match them together and
see what happens. So we decided to make a traffic jam.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
It may be the only traffic jam that everyone will love.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Check News starts.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Now, Good evening, Thanks for being with us tonight. S.
British Columbians may be feeling more of the impacts relating
to the government workers strike, from renewing your driver's license,
buying a beer to some students not getting their loans.
(01:20):
The strike has officially hit the public domain and the
pressure is mounting for the government to react. Corys Itaway has.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
More six weeks into a public workers strike. Job action
continues to ramp up. As of today, all public liquor
and cannabis stores in BC are behind picket lines and
more offices like Service BC are shut down.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Unfortunately, government is still unwilling to return to the table
with an affair offered to negotiate. That's really forced our hand.
Speaker 7 (01:49):
Talks broke down between government and the union once again
last Monday. The impact now of twenty five thousand members
participating in job action is direct disruption in multiple sectors.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
This is pretty important.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Funds to people.
Speaker 7 (02:03):
Student loans are inaccessible with student adbc's application system offline,
and payments to students delayed by the public sectors strike action.
The post Secondary Education Minister is saying today though more
than forty six thousand students have already received their funding due.
Speaker 9 (02:19):
To the job action, we don't have the numbers, but
we do know that the majority of students have already
received their funding for.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
The whole semester.
Speaker 7 (02:26):
Sunner says. Institutions are working with students to defer deadlines
to wave late fees and to offer emergency financial help.
The assurances are also coming from the Attorney General today,
whose in house lawyers that deal with judicial reviews are
on strike, impacting human rights tribunals and the residential tendency branch.
Speaker 9 (02:44):
We have a team that's engaged in making sure that
our justice system can keep functioning. We have we're making
sure that the resources that we can allocate to do
that are being done and people are checking in with
me on that.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
BC's Finance Minister Brenda Bailey reiterating today governments focus on
reaching an agreement that fits into its current fiscal restraints.
Speaker 10 (03:05):
We have an offer on the table that keeps workers
whole with inflation and also increases the wage for the
lowest workers.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
We feel that this is a reasonable offer, particularly in
these times.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
As of September, the provincial government says it's in the
red to the tune of a record high eleven point
six billion dollar deficit, something bcg u's president says isn't
the fault of its members.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
One of the things that's particularly I think upsetting to
civil servants is that they've made some bad choices here,
particularly with the civil service. We've seen a massive expansion
of the exclude bureaucracy In the civil service. The ratio
of high level excluded managers to frontline workers used to
be one to four, now under this government's one to three.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
The union wants wages increased and help workers deal with
the rising costs of living and inflation. For now, the
two sides apparently still miles apart. The impacts to British
Columbians are likely to drag on.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
The BC government wants to sue the makers of e
cigarettes and vaping devices to try and recover money for
the healthcare system. For more, Let's bring in Rob Shaw
at the BC Legislature now, where all this certainly sounds familiar.
What did the government do on this.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Issue today, well, Stacey.
Speaker 8 (04:14):
New legislation introduced today will enable the government to sue
vaping companies the same way as to successfully sued the
manufacturers of cigarettes and opioids. Attorney General Nikki Serama today
saying vaping manufacturers have targeted youth with flavors, with ads,
with marketing campaigns and involving social media influencers, as well
as not being transparent about the contents of the vaping
(04:38):
juice and how addictive they are with their nicotine content.
BC has already put in place regulations against flavored vape
products and they're technically banned on school grounds, or that
they wouldn't know that from their rampant use. There follows
a move last year by the province to not only
to actually only allow nicotine pouches for sale behind pharmacy
(04:58):
counters as well.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Here's the age today.
Speaker 9 (05:01):
But we are getting better at these lawsuits. VC's leadership
over the years from tobacco to the opioid class actions
have shown that repeatedly these types of legislation are winning
in court all the way up to the Supreme Court
of Canada. And we're getting better and we're winning, and
so this sets us up for being able to take
on these companies in court.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Could be significant money here.
Speaker 8 (05:25):
BC just won three point six billion dollars from tobacco
companies for harms from cigarettes. That money was supposed to
be earmarked back into the healthcare system to recover costs
prevent future harms instead of just got rolled into general
revenue to produce the deficit this year. The Attorney General
says that might happen in the future with vaping settlements
as well.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
Stacey is a government that has.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Not only sued the opioid manufacturers, the tobacco companies, now
the vaping companies, also going after social media companies and
even companies that manufacture energy drinks as it uses the
power of its.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Lawyers in government to try and recover some money. It's daisy,
all right.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We'll see how this plays out, Rob, Thanks so much.
Construction day is about to begin on a home for
families with children going through medical care at Nanaimo Regional
General Hospital. Now Victoria, of course has Dennie's Place and
Campbell River has Qualeau House, but there's never been a
similar resource in Nanaimo until now. Although money is still
(06:22):
needed to fund it. Kendel Hansen reports.
Speaker 11 (06:26):
Way very nice officials are breaking ground in Nanaimo and
a much needed home away from home for families of
children undergoing medical care. Very good, located on the same
property as Nanaimo's hospital and excavator is in place to
start construction tomorrow on the ten million dollar project, the
largest of its kind on Vancouver Island.
Speaker 12 (06:47):
It is going to be our largest home away from
home at sixteen bedrooms.
Speaker 11 (06:52):
The project started with Sherry Shanahan, who in April of
twenty thirteen, was rushed to Victoria after their daughter, Jesse,
was born nine weeks surly at two pounds and twelve ounces.
Shanahan says her family's financial situation added to their stress
at the time.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
The next day, I was discharged from the hospital with
nowhere to go. We couldn't afford a hotel, we couldn't
drive back and forth. We just needed to be close
to Jesse. That's when the social worker told me about
Janie's Place.
Speaker 11 (07:22):
Shanahan says it was a relief to stay there for
a month, but when Jesse was transferred to Nanaimo to
be close to home, she met a family staying in
a motor home from another part of the island. Days
after Jesse left the hospital, she died suddenly. Within months,
Shanahan began her dream of creating a home in Nanaimo
like Jennie's place in Victoria. It's going to be named
(07:42):
after Jesse.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
It's really hard when you lose a child and you
don't want them to be forgotten. And even though she
was born so young and so early, she was such
an impact on me and my family, and so to
see her name on the house and to drive by
and know that she's always with me, even if it's
through this house and through helping others. It's going to
just be so impactful.
Speaker 11 (08:03):
But despite raising seven million dollars, the foundation is still
looking to raise the final three million to pay for
the three story, fourteen thousand square foot home.
Speaker 12 (08:13):
We continue to have conversations with community leaders, families ats
who have gone through a similar experience, and we know
that once they hear that this is actually going to happen,
that really the community will just wrap its arms around
the house.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
It's expected Jesse's House will be completed in the spring
of twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Mounties and Nanaimo are hoping to identify a woman who
suspected of stealing another woman's cane that holds significant sentimental
value while shopping at Woodgrove Center last month. We heard
from Lorie Bennett a few weeks ago, whose treasured wooden
caine was stolen. The cane was handmade by a carver
fifty five years ago for her husband, Ken's mom, who
passed it along to Laurie before she died two years ago.
(08:59):
The couple was sitting at a coffee shop on September
twenty third with the cane just eight feet away when
it was taken. The theft was caught on security camera
and today RCNP are releasing a photo of the suspect.
If you recognize her, called Nanaimo RCMP on their non
emergency line. Police are looking for dash can video after
a hit and run on the Trans Canada Highway in
(09:19):
mill Bay late last month. Police say on September twenty eighth,
about eight twenty pm, two northbound vehicles collided at the
intersection of the Tch and Nightingale Road. It caused a
Mazda three to spin, hit a light pole and roll
onto its side. The driver was taken to hospital with
non life threatening injuries. The other vehicle, a white Mercedes
Benz SUV, didn't stop. If you can help, call Shanigan
(09:41):
Lake RCMP.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Until last year, it was against Santich by law to
have a lemonade stand in your front yard. Well that's
since been changed and it's all thanks to Sandwich's gem Lady.
Her little stand has grown into a thriving small business
and as Jordan Cunningham shows us, she's earning her street cred.
Speaker 13 (10:03):
Pardon and double negative. But you will never not see
her coming, what's favorite color?
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Really?
Speaker 13 (10:11):
Catherine Little has made a lifetime of turning negatives into positives.
Check Viewers first met her in twenty nineteen. She'd been
injured in the line of duty working law enforcement in Vancouver,
so she came home and started picking raspberries.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I asked my husband to make me a stand, and
the next thing you know, I'm making jam.
Speaker 13 (10:27):
Then selling jam before being shut down by the District
of Sanwich, who said any roadside stand on private property
breaks a bylaw. Believe it or not. Before Catherine took
a stand, any kid with a stand, lemonade or otherwise
was breaking a bylaw. They put it in an arder
this morning, just when he thought her business was toasted,
when most people's knees would turn to jelly, she found
(10:47):
the jam to take on Sandwich Council had eventually won.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Someone else would have given up because it took.
Speaker 13 (10:53):
Five years, which brings us here to present day.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Cadboro Bay when now we're in thirteen stores and Pepper's
was the very very first one. So we always launch
a new product with Peppers.
Speaker 13 (11:03):
They've got a new one launching this week, and since
the road to success is always under construction, Her latest
edible spreadable is an ode to the road that passes
Peppers and a snarled traffic in Cadburo Bay for months.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
You know what my best sellers are all my red jams.
So I thought, why don't we mash them together and
see what happens. So we decided to make a traffic jam.
Speaker 13 (11:24):
Everything red you can think of jammed in a jar.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Strawberries, raspberries, rhubarb, cranberries, and cherries.
Speaker 13 (11:30):
She dished out samples to Peppers customers. But the crew
test for traffic jam is the streets and the people
that made this mess and are now reshaping the road
make way for the jam, lady, traffic jam for you guys.
Oh my god, the hands that spread blacktop are now
spreading traffic jam on a cracker.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
It's got a good tang to it, a.
Speaker 13 (11:51):
Small tree for a job well done. It's better than
smuckers to truckers. In fact, only one thing could make
it better.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Yeah, peanut butter. That can go with this at all?
Speaker 13 (12:00):
Not today, but maybe down the road. Speaking of the road,
that original stand still stands and prices haven't budged. It's
still five bucks guaranteed. You'll see your coming see a
jam lady to a store near you.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Well, we know the jam lady has got talent, certain
talent on Vancouver Island, and I know ed and Jeff,
you're going to tell us about even more talented folks
this evening.
Speaker 14 (12:26):
Well, yeah, another round here, another Wednesday has arrived, So
another edition of Islands Got Talent, not a jam per se.
But of course all these acts have I'm sure, been
jamming away getting their act shined up, ready to present,
and we're ready to show you these three acts we
have tonight, all vying for the one thousand dollars grand
prize tonight, which you'll be able to vote on for
(12:47):
a chance to win a two hundred dollars gift card
from the old farm Market.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Yeah, let's right.
Speaker 15 (12:51):
So last week was a week number one. We had
a tie. Believe it or not, We had about almost
three thousand people vote, So get those votes coming in
again tonight.
Speaker 6 (13:00):
At the upside of.
Speaker 15 (13:00):
Check news Dot say the Pacific Choir Choir of Ladies
between the age of forty and in the early nineties,
I think they were fantastic. They're singing their choreography, so
they'll be in the final which is live by the
Way here at the Czech Studios on Wednesday, October the
twenty ninth. So the Pacific Choir and the crash Out
it's a high school band. They were the two finalists
(13:22):
that will move on to next Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Tonight, we have three new ones for you.
Speaker 14 (13:26):
We do so we're happy to have the Emergency Exit,
another great young band, a couple of well young people.
Let us five or so in the band about you
Yeah yeah, we think that fifteen to sixteen, same age
as these shirts. Anyway, they are a part of the
show here tonight. We also have Lucas Lucas Goodman, who
(13:47):
plays a great portable piano downtown.
Speaker 11 (13:50):
You might have seen as a busker down the Yeah.
Speaker 14 (13:53):
When he's not studying biology at you Vig.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
That's the Smarty Pants.
Speaker 14 (13:56):
Yes.
Speaker 15 (13:57):
And then we've got Rick Benn.
Speaker 13 (13:58):
Rick Benn we're bringing down from Campbell River.
Speaker 6 (14:01):
We'll actually a video from Campbell River.
Speaker 15 (14:02):
He does country covers and rock covers. But he's got
an original tonight. I think it's called Dancing in the.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
Kitchen the dancing never too old to Dance in the
Kitchen blues. So we'll see how that one turns out tonight.
Speaker 13 (14:19):
But we're looking for more talent.
Speaker 15 (14:20):
By the way, if you've got a town, you've been
sitting back saying I don't know if I want to
send my video in, just take your iPhone, get a
video into us.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Just go to checknows dot Ca.
Speaker 15 (14:29):
There's a button there that says Island's got talent, send
those videos our way. But we have three great ones
coming up for you a little later on on the ipside.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
All right, looking forward to that. Thanks, gentlemen, we'll see
you soon. Also to come on check tonight. We'll tell
you how Canada's twenty five most wanted criminals all ended
up in the same place in Vancouver. And this, this
building is a physical expression of reconciliation in action. It's
(14:57):
expected to change the face of Canadian law, the new Indigenous.
This law wing at the University of Victoria is now open.
I'll take a look inside
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Next Watchful check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten
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