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00:07:29We're getting rid of about 30 staff from several programs. And Langara University has issued 69 reduction notices to staff. Like KPU, these schools say declining international enrollment is the main cause. And because B.C. mandates them to not run deficits, they're choosing to cut staff.
00:07:59They're doing the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of getting a degree by tens of thousands of dollars.
00:09:05Police say,
00:09:35and gang investigators.
00:10:05And in B.C.
00:10:35As the flag, as the flag, they're doing the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost.
00:11:05They're doing the most in New York City and Astra, the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost of the gases.
00:11:07, and they're using our friendly decirə, if you're using the cost of PPE should guys, vit competencies, but also skills.
00:11:09And we're trying to measure the cost of the cost of the cost of the cost.
00:11:10We'll be looking at home.
00:11:11Victoria to address community safety and street disorder. For anyone who knows me you know that
00:11:17I take a very compassionate approach to social challenges in our communities but I also think
00:11:24it's really important that everyone in community can enjoy public spaces and so through that lens
00:11:31I will be tackling these challenges head on. She also oversaw the reintroduction of school
00:11:36liaison officers in Vancouver something that is now happening in Greater Victoria schools too.
00:11:40Outgoing Chief Del Mannix says he has full confidence in his successor though he points
00:11:45out that she can't solve the city's problems herself. I can tell you no police chief as as
00:11:50great and as accomplished as Chief Wilson is is going to be able to do it alone. Wilson says she's
00:11:55excited to head on patrol with her new officers to start learning more about the region. Catherine
00:12:00Marlowe CBC News Victoria. A potentially precedent setting court case kicked off earlier in Ontario
00:12:08a group of landlords is trying to quash Hudson's Bay's plans to sell dozens of leases to a
00:12:13billionaire in BC. Ruby Liu was listening in court earlier in the day as the lawyer for the Bay argued
00:12:19she should be able to take over 25 leases. Liu plans to transform the locations into a new department
00:12:25store chain. The landlords though oppose that plan claiming Liu doesn't have the financing or a
00:12:31detailed business plan. Emergency officials say 12 people were sent to hospital after two boats
00:12:37rammed into each other on Okanagan Lake near Kelowna. BC Emergency Health Services said they got a report
00:12:44just before 9pm Wednesday night where two boats crashed near the William Bennett Bridge. Officials
00:12:50say five patients were in stable condition seven in good condition. It's not yet clear what caused this
00:12:55crash but police say they have confirmed impairment and weather or not factors. In New Westminster
00:13:02crews were busy battling an early morning house fire. The home is located on Queen's Avenue and 10th
00:13:08Street. Firefighters say it was a vacant single-family home. They say no one was hurt. They knocked it
00:13:15down quickly in the first half hour or so and then there's been spot fires still just it's we're unable to
00:13:20go inside because of the structural integrity of the house is compromised. It's not yet clear what
00:13:26sparked that fire. An exemption that allows Canadian retailers to ship their products to the U.S. duty-free
00:13:33is set to end this week. It's called the de minimis exemption and it was targeted by U.S. President
00:13:38Donald Trump in an executive order signed this summer. As Paula Duhacik explains small businesses in Canada
00:13:44say they're the ones who will pay the price. So all our best sellers get put right close to our
00:13:49packing station. The end of the de minimis exemption could mean a big hit to sales for this Brampton
00:13:55clothing maker. Right now about half its online orders are to customers in the U.S. Americans love
00:14:01your t-shirts. They love our t-shirts. Tell me about your hoodies. These hoodies t-shirts and sweatpants
00:14:06are 100 percent made in North America with U.S. cotton knit dyed and cut right here in Canada but even so the
00:14:14end of this critical trade exemption means he expects to pay significant new fees to get the
00:14:19product into the U.S. As little as the shipment is valued at even if it's $50 there's a nearly $20 fee
00:14:27to just get it across the border so that you know that will bring about a lot of resistance from
00:14:34U.S. clients. I'm sure we'll lose customers. It's still very hard. This trade lawyer says the end of
00:14:40de minimis is a big deal. Up till now companies could send up to $800 worth of goods into the U.S.
00:14:45duty-free but thanks to an executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump that exemption is ending
00:14:51Friday. It hits so-called mom and pop shops disproportionately and many of them who have
00:14:58relied on these low value shipments to the United States as part of their bread and butter for survival
00:15:04are being hit by this. That could be the reality for this Vancouver-based retailer. There's definitely a
00:15:11chance the business doesn't survive this. She's trying to make sense of the new rules but in the
00:15:16meantime is taking drastic measures. We have cut off all of our shipping to the United States
00:15:22because right now with the amount of risk and lack of information shipping to the states we can't
00:15:31justify it. The Canadian Apparel Federation says it will be a big adjustment for businesses to move
00:15:37forward in a world without de minimis. For now this t-shirt maker is mulling its next move which will
00:15:44likely involve a renewed focus on the Canadian consumer. Paula Duhacek, CBC News, Brampton, Ontario.
00:15:52Wildfire smoke does not stay the same once it leaves the flames. As smoke drifts, chemical reactions can
00:15:59make it even more toxic. And as meteorologist Johanna Wagstaff explains, scientists are now working to
00:16:05pinpoint when and where the health risks are greatest to try to build that into future forecasts.
00:16:11This smoke is fresh and already dangerous. But get this, it may actually be worse for your health
00:16:17a few days from now.
00:16:21I'm standing in front of the active Sailor Bar fire about two hours northeast of Vancouver. It's just
00:16:27one of the many wildfires that have impacted Canadians this summer, the second worst season on record.
00:16:32So if you've experienced poor air quality recently, you're not alone. Think about smoke drifting from
00:16:38Manitoba into Ontario or haze in Newfoundland that started in Nova Scotia or BC skies darkened by fires
00:16:45in Washington. Turns out distance matters. Because as smoke travels, it changes. When smoke particles react
00:16:53with other molecules in the air, they undergo a chemical process called oxidation. The process of adding an oxygen
00:16:59molecule to a compound and losing an electron. So these compounds with only one electron are unstable
00:17:06and highly reactive. We call them free radicals. More and more research shows that when you inhale them,
00:17:12those free radicals can damage cells and tissues. And the longer smoke lingers in the atmosphere,
00:17:17the more of these free radicals are made, making it all the more toxic to breathe.
00:17:21So you can imagine that this wildfire plume is like a reaction vessel. And lots of different
00:17:28processes are happening induced by the water, induced by the sun, induced by the wind and these oxidants.
00:17:36So the molecules that we're breathing are not the same. When the plume has age is what we call it.
00:17:42One study compared two smoke compounds. One that forms right when that fire starts burning and one
00:17:48that forms later when smoke reacts with pollution like nitrogen oxides in the air. So researchers
00:17:54actually exposed human lung cells to both and the results were clear. The old smoke was far more toxic.
00:18:00Here's where it gets tricky. It's not just about how old the smoke is. It's also about how much of it
00:18:06you're breathing. Concentrations usually drop as a plume travels. So sometimes the risk can actually be
00:18:11lower the farther away you are. But there's this sweet spot or more like sour spot where the smoke
00:18:17has had time to build up those toxic free radicals and is still thick enough to make it into your lungs
00:18:22in harmful amounts. It's a question that is debated at the moment. Is it worse to be exposed to aged smoke
00:18:30or to fresh smoke? And that will also depend on what the smoke is. So is it from a burning home?
00:18:36Is it from a burning forest? Scientists are working hard to figure out exactly
00:18:40where that zone is for each fire and they hope to start building that into smoke forecast soon.
00:18:46I mean here's the thing. In the end it doesn't matter if the fire is right behind you or coming
00:18:51from across the country. If air quality is poor the risk is real. And remember that this is about
00:18:56repeated exposure. This is a chronic problem. So if we are exposed more and more which is the case
00:19:01with a lot of Canadians across the country now and we are exposed to the smoke over and over again
00:19:07and that's what is problematic. Wildfire smoke is bad for our health. But science is telling us it's
00:19:12even worse than we thought. And it doesn't get better with distance. It gets more toxic over time.
00:19:24Taris Madabi is here with a first look at the weather. What is going on on that map sir?
00:19:29Well I wanted to talk a little bit about this weak low that we have sitting over Washington just driving a
00:19:34little bit of that cloud that we're seeing. So that precipitation leaving us really with unsettled
00:19:38conditions across much of southern BC and the potential for lightning in the days ahead. We'll
00:19:42talk more about that later in the show. I want to zoom into Vancouver for a moment to talk about
00:19:46the fact that we have seen some drizzle, some showers in places. Victoria got a little bit more
00:19:51rain than we were expecting this morning. So that is something to note. And that did linger
00:19:54for more northern areas into the afternoon. We may see some more showers over the next couple of days.
00:19:59But as you'll notice, it's very scattered. This model doesn't have much coming to Vancouver.
00:20:03But we may see some things pop up over the next few days. And that's just going to be
00:20:07how it is for the next little while, Dan. Okay, Taris, thanks. Thank you.
00:20:12Still ahead, a win for Team Canada, the first ever women's para hockey world championships in Slovakia.
00:20:18And BC helped make it happen. That story coming up next.
00:20:29So
00:28:11Now...
00:28:12That's a highlight...
00:28:13and enforce safe sport rules.
00:28:15Canada's Secretary of State for Sport said in a statement,
00:28:19abuse and maltreatment have no place in sport,
00:28:22and that the government will carefully analyze the full preliminary report.
00:28:26A national summit will be held in Ottawa next month,
00:28:29bringing together sports organizations, coaches and athletes.
00:28:33The Commission's final report is expected next year.
00:28:36Philip Lushanok, CBC News, Toronto.
00:28:38There is a look at the day that was in Revelstoke with a train idling somewhat.
00:28:46There was some sunshine peeking through that smoky sky though,
00:28:49and Darius will have your BC Wide Weather Forecast coming up.
00:29:08There is a lot of sunshine in Canada.
00:29:12I think it's a country that has been when you're south.
00:29:15The President's Alumni of Columbia,
00:29:16the community of St. Louis has been in Australia,
00:29:19and we were very, very much in the audience.
00:29:20That's great news to see you.
00:29:24After the summer of St. Louis,
00:29:26we were very close to the county of St. Louis,
00:29:28but we were very close to the city of St. Louis.
00:29:30We did not have the county,
00:29:32but we had a county of St. Louisric's,
00:29:34and at the road, we were at the county of St. Louis,
00:29:35and we were at the county of St. Louis.
00:33:36That's right.
00:33:37Well, it's a young garden.
00:33:39Oh, it is.
00:33:40And look at it.
00:33:40It's just beautiful.
00:33:41Well, you see, this is what I really love.
00:33:43Let me just get up in here a minute because it's the Eddie's White Wonder and it's got
00:33:48those four petals.
00:33:50It's a dogwood.
00:33:51Now, the garden has come in here.
00:33:53The garden has come a long way since it opened, but it was no easy task.
00:33:58Our Tano, she, but Nagar toured the garden and learned about its surprising origins.
00:34:02I'm at Van Dusen Botanical Garden, I'm at Van Dusen Botanical Garden, right in the heart of Vancouver.
00:34:07And this tree behind me was planted in 1975 by Mr. Van Dusen himself.
00:34:12Now, this tree and the garden both are turning 50 this Saturday.
00:34:17But what's right now a garden wasn't always planned as a botanical garden.
00:34:21So, we're surrounded here by the Great Lawn, as we call it today, but it used to be golf greens.
00:34:28In the early 1900s, this was the original location of the Shaughnessy Heights Golf and Country Club.
00:34:34It was owned by Canadian Pacific Railway.
00:34:36By mid-century, the golf club was in trouble.
00:34:39The company wouldn't extend its lease and had other plans for the land.
00:34:43But Vancouverites came to its rescue.
00:34:45And then in the late 1960s, 89 individual citizens formed the Vancouver Botanical Gardens.
00:34:51Association, and they advocated for it to become a botanical garden, and not just a standard park.
00:34:57And so, we created this.
00:34:59On August 30th, 1975, the garden opened to the public.
00:35:03It was named after W.J. Van Dusen, who paid for a third of its cost.
00:35:10A lot of the sculptures that you can find throughout the garden have been donated as part of symposiums and exhibitions over the year.
00:35:17Just lots of hidden gems and stories that you can find as you walk through the garden.
00:35:22In fact, much of the landscaping is exactly how it was planned all those years ago.
00:35:26Areas like the formal rose garden, rhododendron walk, the hedge maze, which is super popular for families.
00:35:33Those all existed since 1975.
00:35:36A lot of the beautiful lakes, such as the one we're standing right in front of Livingston Lake, were also part of the original plans.
00:35:42The signature Elizabethan maze is also an original feature.
00:35:46It's been around since the beginning and was designed by Roy Forster, the first garden director and curator.
00:35:52And it's one of just a few in North America.
00:35:57It's a very unique feature, all made of natural cedar trees.
00:36:01So, Emily, you've told us a bit about the history of the garden, what it was before and all the parts of it.
00:36:07But this place right here seems like the future of the garden.
00:36:10So, tell us more about where we are right now.
00:36:13Yeah, so this is the Learning Garden.
00:36:14It just opened last year and this is one of the only places where people can actually get their hands in the soil and really learn about how to grow their own food and where food comes from.
00:36:27What do you hope this amazing, beautiful place is going to look like in the next 50 years?
00:36:32Our mission is the same, to connect people to plants and to connect them to nature and for them to learn about some of these important themes like sustainability and growing their own food and being able to practice that in their daily lives.
00:36:44From golf club to cherished green space, the Van Duesen Botanical Garden is still a draw for locals and visitors 50 years after it was first planted.
00:36:54Tanushu Bhatnagar, CBC News, Vancouver.
00:37:02Most Canadians can remember how bad the wildfires were two years ago.
00:37:06Now, a new report shows that in 2023, Canada recorded its worst air pollution in a quarter century, a serious threat to people's health.
00:37:14And as Jennifer Youn explains, it also looks at how climate change can fuel pollution.
00:37:212023, the worst wildfire season in Canada's history, scorched millions of hectares and forced thousands out of their homes.
00:37:29Now, a new report says wildfire seasons like those are also reversing decades of progress on air pollution.
00:37:37Between 2018 and 2022, less than 5% of the Canadian population breathed in air polluted beyond national standards.
00:37:45In 2023, that number ballooned to more than half.
00:37:50Air pollution is like the zombie that we thought we had killed.
00:37:54Climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is driving air pollution in North America, says one of the study's authors,
00:38:01because it sparks more intense and frequent wildfire seasons.
00:38:07We had an air pollution problem and we had a climate problem.
00:38:10And it was easiest to think of them as separate and distinct problems.
00:38:14And I think what's being revealed is that they're much more closely intertwined.
00:38:22There are likely more smoky summers ahead, says this researcher.
00:38:26This is really high levels of pollution that are unsafe, but it is something that's becoming more common.
00:38:33The health impact of that smoke can shorten life expectancy by two years, say study authors.
00:38:39The damage that happens to the lung and the stress that it puts on our bodies in terms of the cardiovascular system is quite significant.
00:38:49Governments can and should clean up the air by fighting climate change, say researchers.
00:38:54But individuals must also take action.
00:38:58We can't wait for governments to deal with this problem and let people just suffer these diseases.
00:39:04Air filters can help.
00:39:05Experts also recommend you check the air quality before going outside and do it frequently during wildfire season
00:39:11because air pollution levels can change from morning to afternoon.
00:39:16Jennifer Yoon, CBC News, Toronto.
00:39:18Meanwhile, officials in Nova Scotia say the Long Lake wildfire has now destroyed 20 homes in the last weekend in the Annapolis Valley.
00:39:26They warn that fire remains out of control and now covers more than 82 square kilometres.
00:39:32Here's the CBC's Julia Wong with more on the damage it's caused in the firefighting efforts so far.
00:39:38It's the first time we're getting an assessment of the extent of damage done to homes by this wildfire.
00:39:43Now, this fire started more than two weeks ago and it's about 82 square kilometres in size.
00:39:49It flared up over the weekend, growing dramatically after Hurricane Aaron changed wind behaviours.
00:39:55In addition to the 20 destroyed homes, officials say 11 other buildings like garages and sheds are also gone.
00:40:02They say other homes have also been damaged, but officials were not able to provide an exact number.
00:40:07This wildfire continues to burn out of control with crews attacking it both from the air and on the ground.
00:40:14More than 500 properties were evacuated because of the threat this wildfire posed.
00:40:19Officials are calling it a success that more homes weren't lost.
00:40:24Note that a lot of the work done by the crew's week previous to that certainly aided in that as well with the breaks they built
00:40:30and the containment that they did have, they held that fire for part of that day until it was just overwhelmed by the weather.
00:40:38It is a very difficult time for the residents that are within Annapolis County
00:40:42and our hearts have broken for the members and the families that have lost their homes or damaged property.
00:40:51Crews here are keeping a close eye on the weather with some worries that it could take a turn for the worse again.
00:40:56There is no word yet on when evacuees will be allowed back home.
00:41:01Officials are saying that safety is a priority and they aren't committing to any firm timelines.
00:41:07Julia Wong, CBC News, Bridgetown, Nova Scotia.
00:41:11The memorial outside a Catholic church in Minneapolis is growing after two children were killed
00:41:16and 18 others injured in a shooting yesterday.
00:41:19The two dead have now been identified.
00:41:21And as Ashley Burke explains, investigators are painting a disturbing portrait of a shooter obsessed with mass killings.
00:41:28But the question of why now and why these kids looms large.
00:41:34A father's agony.
00:41:36Jesse Merkel's son, one of the victims of a shooter, police say was obsessed with the idea of killing kids.
00:41:43Yesterday, a coward decided to take our eight-year-old son Fletcher away from us.
00:41:49Because of their actions, we will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play with him.
00:41:58Fletcher and 10-year-old Harper Moiske both killed.
00:42:02Police say the shooter fired more than 100 rounds of ammunition through church windows right at children,
00:42:08celebrating their first week back at school.
00:42:10I told my two buddies to get down and to get under the pew.
00:42:15And I knew that I had to try to keep as many people around me as I could safe.
00:42:19Some hid, others ran to a nearby room.
00:42:23We all started to help, like putting tables on the doors, locking the doors, putting all this stuff on the doors as much as we could.
00:42:32We had one kid that covered up another kid and took a shotgun blast to his back.
00:42:41As Minneapolis mourns, police searching for a motive.
00:42:45They say the shooter hated many people and many groups except one.
00:42:49The shooter idolized some of the most notorious school shooters and mass murderers in our country's history.
00:42:55Police say the attacker, 23-year-old Robin Westman, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
00:43:01Federal officials have referred to her as transgender.
00:43:06She was a former student whose mother worked at the parish.
00:43:09There is no question in this case that this shooter intended to terrorize the children.
00:43:15That terror, now part of the latest push to ban assault-style weapons in the U.S.
00:43:20We need everybody to demand this because no longer can any elected official say
00:43:27we will not take care of the guns that are killing our kids.
00:43:31The White House says there needs to be early intervention to identify potential school shooters.
00:43:37I think it's time for us to start asking some very hard questions about the root causes of this violence.
00:43:45Ashley Burke reporting from Washington.
00:43:47The White House says it has fired the head of the top U.S. public health agency less than a month into the job.
00:43:53She was appointed by Donald Trump himself, and her lawyers say only the president can dismiss her.
00:43:59As the CBC's Lisa Shing reports, the crux of the matter hinges on American vaccine policies.
00:44:05Susan Monara's head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
00:44:10The administration seemed to clash with U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:44:15According to her lawyers, she was fired because she couldn't get behind sweeping changes
00:44:21the administration is making to U.S. vaccine policy.
00:44:26In a statement posted on X, they said when she refused to rubber stamp unscientific, reckless directives
00:44:34and fired dedicated health experts.
00:44:36She chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda.
00:44:41Now, reportedly, the firing comes as the administration tried to pressure her to resign.
00:44:47Have a listen to the administration on this.
00:44:50This woman has never received a vote in her life,
00:44:52and the president has the authority to fire those who are not aligned with his mission.
00:44:56A new replacement will be announced by either the president or the secretary very soon.
00:45:00Monara's tenure has been incredibly short.
00:45:03She was confirmed by the Senate just a few weeks ago.
00:45:07Have a listen to what she said during her Senate confirmation hearing
00:45:11on her beliefs supported by the scientific community.
00:45:15I think vaccines save lives.
00:45:16I think that we need to continue to support the promotion of utilization of vaccines.
00:45:21I have not seen a causal link between vaccines and autism.
00:45:25Now, this is just the latest.
00:45:27After months of upheaval at the CDC, there have been budget cuts.
00:45:31Hundreds of people have been fired.
00:45:33Earlier this month, a shooter opened fire at the agency's headquarters in Atlanta,
00:45:39killing a police officer.
00:45:41And after the firing of Monara's, several other senior officials at the organization resigned.
00:45:48So the agency has been left without leadership in this period of uncertainty.
00:45:55And a lot of these developments are concerning to the scientific community,
00:45:59saying that medicine is being politicized, considering RFK Jr. is a vaccine skeptic,
00:46:06and he wants to limit access to vaccines.
00:46:10And so the scientific community, as well as others,
00:46:14say that all of these actions are concerning for public health
00:46:19and could risk lives in the process.
00:46:22Lisa Sheng, CBC News, Washington.
00:46:24Russia has carried out its biggest assault on Ukraine since Vladimir Putin met with Donald Trump earlier this month.
00:46:31Hundreds of drones and missiles were launched, mostly targeting the country's capital.
00:46:36At least 21 people have been killed and almost 50 wounded.
00:46:39Among the damaged buildings, European Union offices.
00:46:43Our prior Stewart is in Kyiv.
00:46:45In the morning light, it was only too clear just how violently lives had been shattered only hours earlier,
00:46:55as stretcher after stretcher confirmed the growing number of dead.
00:47:00Our place was on the fifth floor, said this man.
00:47:04As he watched rescuers try and clear away an area around his balcony,
00:47:09he told CBC News that he had been unable to reach his wife.
00:47:15This was taken from inside one of the apartments after the initial explosion, but more followed.
00:47:23Residents said that after the missile hit the building,
00:47:26the shelter filled with smoke and some residents headed outside.
00:47:30But a few meters away, there was a second missile strike.
00:47:34If we get one minute later to the underground, we will already be dead.
00:47:39Andre Luti was injured by the second blast when he was leaving the shelter,
00:47:43which he had been going to more often because of the rash of deadly attacks through July.
00:47:49I'm so hopeful that our Europe and America and Canada partners will help us a lot.
00:47:56So they understand that humanity reasons, the real terrorist actions they did to us.
00:48:04By that he means Russia.
00:48:06Moscow said it only targeted military factories and bases, but damage was strewn through Kyiv,
00:48:13including at the office for the EU delegation to Ukraine.
00:48:17Condemnation was swift.
00:48:18This again is a clear signal that Putin, he is willing to continue doing this,
00:48:26continue hitting out at innocent civilians in Ukraine.
00:48:30The White House said President Trump wasn't happy about the attacks, but wasn't surprised either.
00:48:36And then went on to point to Ukraine strikes on Russia's oil refineries.
00:48:41These are two countries that have been at war for a very long time.
00:48:44Trump has said he's considering tougher sanctions on Russia,
00:48:48but that doesn't mean much to the anguished families here.
00:48:52Ryder Stewart, CBC News, Kyiv.
00:48:55What is with all the lizards?
00:49:00After the break, we'll take you to Greater Victoria,
00:49:02where European wall lizards are popping up more frequently.
00:49:06Stick with us.
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00:57:59Okay.
00:58:24Here we have a move.
00:58:26The first of the show is a little bit.
00:58:30You're welcome.
00:58:32She's climbed the podium several times, but a Canadian Olympic champion recently ran into trouble on a very challenging B.C. hike.
00:58:39A heartwarming story of how she pushed through after this.
00:59:02A heartwarming story of how she pushed through after this.
00:59:32A heartwarming story of how she pushed through after this.
01:00:02A heartwarming story of how she pushed through after this.
01:00:08A heartwarming story of how sheёт to consume her body.
01:00:15She has converted to the fühltive shemanas in terms of paralysis from the bleeding that probably is near loss.
01:02:22Quite a story to tell.
01:02:23I'd say Clara Hughes, who's won medals in cycling and speed skating, was hiking the popular tourist attraction when, just a few days in, she suddenly found herself barefoot.
01:02:33So I was hiked the West Coast Trail last week. We're having a great time.
01:02:37It was the morning of the third day when things turned into quite an adventure.
01:02:43It was still dark when we started out and we had to cross a small river that was low flow on low tide.
01:02:50And I, for some reason, decided to take my shoes off. Never, ever did I think that I needed to secure my shoes on my pack or something like that because it's just a little easy river crossing.
01:03:03And I was almost at the other side when I stepped on a round rock that totally moved under my foot. And the next thing I knew, I was in the water and I knew immediately that shoe was gone.
01:03:17I was like wading out into the waves, looking for my shoe, praying to the gods of the hiking world, earth, please give me my shoe. What am I going to do? And it was nowhere.
01:03:29There was a fellow on the other side of the river, and he saw these two women on the other side of the river scanning and screaming. And my new friend, Steve, who was standing there, asked me what happened.
01:03:42And I was like, I lost my shoe. I have one shoe. And he literally looked at me and said, don't worry, someone's going to help you out here. I'll spread the word. We're going to find you a shoe.
01:03:51His son, Marley, who's 15 years old, had donated his very cherished, very weathered, ripped and torn and worn out Crocs to me. They were size 10, a little bit small, but I put my foot in and I just said, you know what, this is going to work.
01:04:08I'm just going to try this out. And as I walked and walked, I realized it was kind of working out and it was actually pretty comfortable because it was so worn out.
01:04:16It was literally like a slipper. The only annoying part was I had to like empty it out very frequently because it would fill with rocks and sand from the beaches.
01:04:25And two days later, we finished the trail. So I have a new trail name. All hikers know that hikers get trail names on the trail. My new trail name is Crockfoot.
01:04:34So, yeah, that's my story.
01:04:40Crockfoot. Good Lord. But nice, Steve and everybody else helping around.
01:04:43Yeah. So my trail name was Timber because I stepped on a boardwalk.
01:04:47I stepped on a boardwalk and my foot went right through it.
01:04:50Actually, I have a photo here. Take a look. This is the state of some of the boardwalks.
01:04:54You can see why a foot would go right through it.
01:04:56And yeah, here's here's me and my friends on the trail.
01:05:01No, that's the five day forecast. There we go. There you are.
01:05:04On the trail. Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:06And you're the one on the front. Yeah, that's me.
01:05:08Highly recommend it. You can't shave, though.
01:05:10So thanks for being with us tonight on CBC Vancouver News at 6.
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01:05:21And Janela Hamilton will be your host here at 6 tomorrow.
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