CBCN - Monday, May 27, 2024 - 12:00 a.m. (ET) - Segment #27

>>> It is time to look at the national weather forecast for the final week of may. Let's turn to chris murphy at the weather network. >> Reporter: the national forecast. First the big picture nationwide. We have fairweather on the east coast. Range showers on the west coast. A nice bump up and temperatures in the prairies and in ontario and québec, stormy weather. We have widespread showers. We have already had rounds of thunderstorms and we will get more of that and the trailing cold front of that low is also bringing some stormy weather further east in the U.S. showers and thunderstorms. Another round coming in this afternoon. North of the gta it is certainly possible but especially the cottage country, ottawa and the valley and into western québec. And perhaps another round this evening targeting around the st. Lawrence seaway. We will have to watch that and up towards central ontario with most of the showers and thunderstorms diminishing by the evening. And tomorrow there will be some scattered showers. Thunderstorms will be more isolated. It will be cooler tomorrow and then a drier and cooler trend for wednesday and thursday. This is the risk of showers and thunderstorms. Again, the best chance is western québec and eastern ontario but we cannot rule out central areas as well. Large hail and potentially heavy rain and damaging wind. And where we will get multiple rounds of thunderstorms and sick if it could rain, especially in eastern ontario and throughout québec. Tomorrow will be your risk across the maritimes and there could be a few rounds of storms as well even beginning earlier in the day around fredericton and st. John and later in the afternoon towards halifax. Heavy rain in newfoundland and wind tuesday night. The low-pressure system will bring a few days of scattered rain showers across coastal B.C. the thunderstorm threat is in northeastern b.c., northwestern alberts. >> Announcer: the weather update dispatch you by... [dramatic] Announcer:What's new? What's breaking? What's really going on? Cbc News Network.All the news. Live. This Is Pretection.The everyday skinprotection ritual that protects your skinfrom mosquitoes. Pre-BBQ Pre-Walk Pre-Everything off! PreventionIs The Best Protection sc Johnson ( ) (Wincing) Get started for free on eharmony. Must be 18 or older to join. Get who gets you. eharmony. It's Chicken and Ribfest at Swiss Chalet. Our marinated bbq Back Ribs are cooked low and slow to fall off the bone perfection. And basted in your choice of sauce. Starting from only $17.99. Hurry into Swiss Chalet. ( ) ( ) When you're looking for effective pain relief choose Tylenol. It's clinically proven to start working in 15-20 minutes. ( ) Tylenol. ( ) ( ) The infiniti qx60 exemplifies modern luxury. With powerful suv performance, three rows of comfort, and a sleek-yet-daring design. ( ) Lease a 2024 qx60 from 0.99% apr for up to 24 months. Visit INFINITI.ca. ( ) My brother and I started Duradek when that wardrobe was- groovy. For 50 years now, we've been waterproofing decks and balconies so people can relax and enjoy rain or shine. Duradek. Some things never go out of style. (Horn honking) Hi, Dad! (Vehicle departing) How's your visit with Noah going? He took out my Jag! (Chuckle) But he doesn't know how to drive stick. He doesn't? (Tires screeching, thud) Ah, f... Fix Auto! The first words that should come to mind after an accident. Hey! Wake-up. The words in your head, you're the only one that can hear them. Say it! Yes. I. Can. Move! Feel it. Hold onto this feeling. Yes I can, Yes I must. Watch me! Start your 30—day home trial at OnePeloton.ca. Terms apply. [rock] we're legendary Man: You don't scare me. Look out! [explosion] Ain't nobody gonna stop me. Stadium announcer: We have a new world record.

Arena announcer: She scores! Both: Oh my God. Woman: We're a team. [woman yells indiscernibly] we're legendary We fight the best we can. Stadium announcer: Unbelievable. Announcer:Stories that make you think. -Will you lower prices? Announcer:If it matters in your home -I'm going to get in more debt. Announcer:or to this country

-Affordable housing. -Climate change. Announcer:it's onCanada Tonightwith Travis Dhanraj. Watch onCBC News NetworkandCBC Gem. [ ] >> Andrew: hello, I'm andrew nichols. This is cbc news network. We want to tell you about an amber alert. Two children, ages two and three were adopted -- abducted about three kilometres east of québec city. The suspect is a 40-year-old man. The amber alert does not specify the suspect's relation to the children. The public is asked to be on the lookout for 2013 white honda civic. The license plate is 53 vac. Anyone who sees a suspect, the toddlers or the vehicle should call 911. >>> Overseas now, israel says they will investigate its military over an airstrike in rafah overnight. The hamas run health ministry says the attack killed orgy five palestinians who were sheltering in the area. The informal tent encampment was reduced to ruins on sunday night. The gaza health ministry says more than 20 of those killed were women and seniors. The same officials also said almost 250 people were wounded. The airstrike has sparked global outrage and happened less than three days after the U.N. world court ordered israel to abandon its offensive in rafah. >>> Sarah coates joins me live in tel aviv. Take us through what happened in rafah and the reaction. >> Reporter: this was an area that was declared as a safe zone. An area where many people were sheltering. They were describing absolute horrors. There are pictures of people pulling others out of fire to wild paramedics on the ground have told afp that bodies were absolutely ripped to pieces. We have heard some reaction from the israeli prime minister. He has come out to say that this is a tragic era also further reaction from the israeli military says it did not expect the strike to harm civilians, adding before the attack, many steps were taken to reduce the chances of harm to uninvolved people, including a visual aerial inspection and the use of precision weaponry and intelligence operations adding the i.d.f.'s top-tier fact-finding mechanisms will investigate. We have also heard from the u.n.'s p palestinian refugee agency. He is the director of unrwa. He has come out to say that a number of unrwa employees are actually missing. A little earlier, the group were posting on x. That no one is safe, no place is safe, adding that gaza is like hell on earth. We have also heard from the e.u.'s foreign policy chief who has announced the reactivation of an E.U. border mission. Let's take a listen to what he said a little earlier. >> This is really a dilemma. How the international community can make it implementable and enforce the info mente of this. -- enforce the implementation of this. >> Reporter: there was a barrage of rockets fired by hamas from rafah into central israel including right here in tel aviv, activating red alert sirens for the first time in these months. They were forced to rush to shelter. The iron dome missile defence systems did intercept a number of these incoming rockets. Not all of them and one rocket hitting a home further north of where I am standing, injuring one person. >> Andrew: we are also hearing about an egyptian soldier killed near gaza's rafah border. What can you tell us about that? >> Reporter: both that the egyptians the israelis have confirmed saying that they have opened an investigation into the incident and they are communicating. We do have a statement from the egyptian military posted on x. A little while ago saying the egyptian armed forces are conducting an investigation through the competent authority regarding a shooting incident in the border area in rafah, which led to the martyrdom of one of their personnel. Important to note here that there is no mention of israel in this statements. It certainly brings into question the decades long peace

treaty tween these two nations and also potentially causing problems for the potential cease-fire and a hostage talks that potentially could get underway this week even that egypt has been one of the key mediators and all of this. >> Andrew: sarah, thank you. >>> Here at home, the university of toronto has taken legal action against pro- palestinian demonstrators after they ignored a deadline this morning to take down their encampments. The protesters remain on-campus on campus this hour and the tents that have been there for almost a month are still in place. Meagan fitzpatrick is at the university university entrance me live. What is happening where you are right now? >> Reporter: it is pretty quiet here now but earlier this morning there was a large rally held just before the encampment in front of convocation hall with supporters of the catchments, including a number of labor unions that helps organize the rally. The rally was being held in response to the trust past of trespass notice that have been issued to the testers of today evening ordering them to evacuate by 8:00 am this morning. As you can see behind me, they have not left. The university issuing a statement this morning. Here's part of what it said... The school says they continue to engage in discussions. They held a long and productive meeting yesterday with representative of the camp they will meet again today. That is scheduled for 5:00 pm today. The school is saying they remain hopeful they can reach an agreement and the unauthorized encampment to an end. The university has been saying all along since encampment started that the student protesters are trespass. The school has said they have been patient but it is now time for this encampment to end. They say they have allowed this to go on, allowed students to exercise their right to freedom, that they consider -- their right to protest but they do consider this private property and say that will policies are being violated and that they have taken over the encampment using this space to the exclusion of use by other students. They also say they received reports of hate beach and harassment connected to the encampments. Those complaints were forwarded to toronto police. The school had warned that there could be repercussions for continuing to issue that trespass notice on friday, which obviously has been ignored with the encampments still going this morning. >> Andrew: how are students responding to all of this? >> Reporter: the protesters say that the offer from the school that was made on thursday they in response to their demands wasn't good enough. They did not consider it offer. They said it was a first offer. The school, their demands include having the university divest from any investment from the school's endowment fund or other financial and that are invested in companies that have ties to companies that support the israeli military. They want the university to disclose their investments and they want university to cut any academic ties with certain israeli institutions. The university is saying they will not meet that demand about cutting ties with certain academic institutions but they have offered to set up an advisory committee to look at divestment and set up a working group to talk about disclosure. The students are saying they don't want committees, they want commitments. They want the school to immediately commit to divesting. Here's more of what we heard from one of the student organizers about the latest court action that the school is now pursuing. >> The university went to court and sought an injunction to essentially compel the court called the police because they don't want to do that. They understand it is optically horrible and terrific for them to call police on there own students so they are trying to use the courts to compel the lease to come here which again, we find truly quite appalling that they are doing all these things instead of meeting with their students and committing to divesting. >> Reporter: the school has said they want to avoid having police involved in clearing this encampments. The school has also warned that students participating in the encampment could face disciplinary action including suspension, expulsion and disciplinary action could also be taken against faculty supporting the encampment the school has warned. There were faculty apps the rally this morning. For now, andrew, we await any outcome from today's meeting between the student protesters

and the school and then, meanwhile, we are expecting tomorrow lawyers for the parties involved to have a meeting to essentially set a date and time for the injunction hearing to happen. >> Andrew: thank you. >>> Meanwhile, at the university of québec and montréal in downtown montréal, a québec superior court judge has approved at least in part an injunction the school is seeking against the pro- palestinian encampments there. Here is the from the campus. >> Reporter: in the decision by the judge, the partial injunction request says protesters need to stop locking doors, windows and let the fire department have access into the buildings. The campanile to be to metres away -- the camp needs to be two metres away so they can access the building in and out freely. I want to show you what it looks like right now. This is what it looks like it all the entrances around this part of the campus. It has been blocked off like this and this is why the injunction request was filed so these excesses that were blocked are not blocked any more. People are having trouble getting in and out of the buildings and this encampment started as a protest to the injunction request filed by mcgill against the mcgill encampments. At that time, people at this encampment were saying they would not fight people from -- wouldn't invite people to be here if the other encampment got dismantled. So people here at this encampments are calling for more measures than the other encampments. They want all universities in québec to cut ties with israel. They want the province to abolish the bureau they have in tel aviv as well. They say that they don't have any ties with israel, no firearms, no framework with israel and they sayhat the won't be reacting to the judgment just yet. They want to study it and see how it goes and protesters here say they are in it for the long haul and that even though the mcgill encampment is still there and still going, they are still not going down here. It is in solidarity with all the encampments across the country and all the other encampments that have still stayed standing up until this time across the world and they said they will not leave until their demands are met and police presence is here at all the entrances, at the campus, police presence is here. Police say they will not step in because they don't have authority to. They said the campus security could give tickets, but they are not allowed to do anything because that is not the injunction request and they are just here to monitor the situation and make sure everything remains safe and peaceful. >> Andrew: to talk more about this and the wider campus movement we are seeing, I want to welcome a legal commentator who is on the law faculty at the university of montréal and a partner at a law firm. I appreciate you taking the time to speak to us. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Andrew: what is your response to the judge's partial injunction at the university basically saying that the encampments that is blocking entrances or windows and such that it needs to come down? >> I think it was pretty predictable because freedom of speech is very important. It is protected by the canadian charter of rights but it has some limits. One of those limits is the security. And in that particular case, the court decided that there were some problems with windows that were blocked, with doors that were blocked as well. It is not an injunction asking for the encampment to leave, it is just a partial injunction saying, you can still protest if you like, but please do it properly. >> Natasha: please do it properly. Please find somewhere else to do it so you are not blocking exits be mac correct. >> We know the university of toronto's president said this morning that lawyers are seeking an injunction against the encampments there that they are still negotiating after that morning deadline passed. How with the threat of an injunction affect negotiations? >> It depends on where they are because it is important to remember that each and every case is unique. You cannot take the situation of mcgill and bring it to the university of toronto. It is a matter of evidence each and every time depending on the security act depending on hatred speech, if that is the case. If not, I would say that they probably have no chance to win that injunction and probably the students and other protesters like professors know that.

I guess there will be no influence on the negotiation. >> Andrew: it's interesting you mention that. The university has said there have been examples of hate speech, five or six or so. Said is that kind of reach the bar that the encampment has to come down? It is somewhat like mcgill and that it is on the main campus but it is on a lawn, I don't think it is really blocking entrances or anything like that. The university has said it is not providing other people with the right to use that area because there is some fencing there. What do you make of all that? Or check freedom of speech is pretty hard to assess. It is a very subjective -- it is very subjective. Are five or six hateful messages enough to shut down the whole encampment of many hundreds of people? Probably not. If it is not a trend, I would probably predict that the court will not ask for the shutdown of the encampment. But if this is a trend, that is the other way around. >> Andrew: let's talk a little bit more about the charter. How do the courts balance protesters' rights around freedom of speech and assembly and university's property rights? >> That is a pretty good question. University campus are not classic property. In the sense that I can go take a walk at mcgill campus, I can go take a walk at the university of toronto campus tonight if I like. Likely it is open to the public. It is not like my condo here, for instance which is very, very privates. And the other thing that we need to understand is the freedom of speech is protected by the canadian charter of rights but the property rights are not, which means that in almost any case, freedom of speech should prevail over property rights on less there is some -- unless there are some limits that we talked about, like the security or the hatred speech. >> Natasha: I want to ask you another aspect of the university of toronto which you probably find interesting. There is a trespass notice by the university of toronto that also says students might be suspended and expelled, that faculty might be subject to measures up to and including termination. What do you make of that threat by the university university administrators? [ Laughter ] >> There is an expression in english, you confirm this for me, it is idle threats. >> Andrew: okay. >> This is where we are right now. Legally speaking, it doesn't make sense at all. I would say that it is very egregious of ufc -- uft to use those threats to repressive freedom of speech unless, obviously there were problems with security or hatred speech, that would be something else. But if this is not the case, you cannot suspend in anyways a student who just used his or her freedom of speech protected by the charter. And frankly, with more regards of what we think about the situation in gaza, I think that I feel very good in a way seeing that some of our youth are protesting outside to get -- to make the world better. I would be ashamed if I was getting those threats. >> What you make of that as somebody -- have we seen anything like this where a prestigious canadian university would make a threat like that to terminate professors? >> That is the first time I have heard that. As you said, there are some professors that are protesters as well. Will they fire them? Why is that? His freedom of speech still mean something in this country or not? Is that still the case that you can leave those people alone unless there is problem with security or hatred speech? >> Andrew: always great to get your insight. Thank you very much. >> Right back at you. >> Andrew: a jewish girl his school in toronto welcomed back students today after shots were fired at the building over the weekend. Police say they are looking for multiple suspects and the hate crimes unit has opened up an investigation. Earlier today, a solidarity rally took place ahead of classes.

Copyright protected and owned by broadcaster. Your licence is limited to private, internal, non-commercial use. All reproduction, broadcast, transmission or other use of this work is strictly prohibited.

Transcripts