CBLT - Friday, May 24, 2024 - 06:00 a.m. (ET) - Segment #2

[ ] >> David: peter, thanks so much. It is friday today. May 2-4. May 24th. Another steamy one today. Sunny though. 27 is the high. Looking into the weekend, saturday, likelihood of thunderstorms through the later afternoon and into the evening saturday. Let's check in jennifer allen. >> Jennifer: things aren't moving if you're making your way in from barrie. The heaviest delays on southbound 400 from mapleview to innisfil beach road where the 2 right lanes are closed for some road work. Construction on the westbound 401 past weston in the express through kipling has wrapped up and volume is gone. It is getting busy travelling on the westbound 401 from whitby. From the 412 to approaching salem. Eastbound 401 slows through dixie in the collectors and approaching the 427 to dixon due to long-term construction. Construction east of port union close the transfer to the express along with the right lane in the express in that area. Eastbound gardiner is slowing east of parkside to east of dufferin. >> Jill: a few things this morning. The 4:00 deadline that the university of toronto has made after giving an offer to protesting student whose have taken over part of its downtown campus. The pro palestinian encampment was first formed on the 2nd of may. We're going to look at the cost of day care specifically through the lengs of one toronto day care signed on to the national program and now in such financial difficulty that its board is considering closure. We're going to update you on the story with a woman from rae ajax. She had her citizenship revoke and it is now british columbia and become a canadian set sen for the second time. Her odyssey at 6:30. >> David: jill, thank you very much. Grief is a topic that can be uncomfortable. It can also be something that is experienced by a large number of people across the G.T.A. across the country. The canadian grief alliance working towards an action plan to improve supports for those who are grieving and they conducted a national survey asking about 4,000 people about their experiences with grief. Got paul adams on the line. A cochair of the canadian grief alliance. Paul, good morning. >> Hi. >> David: this survey was asking something about -- just going to do that all over again, paul. I'm fumbling my own words. Paul, good morning. >> Good morning. >> David: this survey deals with something all canadians or virtually all canadians will deal with in their life and what is grief. At some point in their life. What are the results of what you heard from canadians? >> I think the biggest single takeawe way, a despairty between people an are grieving would like from those around, from their families and friends and coworkers and what they experience. When we asked them what could help them, a big thing was people asking asking them about their loss people asking about their experience. People stepping up and offering help in a practical way and continuing that over a longer period of time than we typically do and I think the lesson here is that a lot of us -- I know I'm guilty of this myself is somebody has lost someone or maybe they've lost a job or they lost a pregnancy and you think, oh, I don't want to upset them and the truth is that 83% in our poll said they wanted to be asked about their loss, but grief is very isolating. It puts you in yourself and disconnects you from those around you and really what people want is that connection. >> David: that connection, stepping up as you call it is stepping into the uncomfortable. >> Absolutely. A lot of the people that spoke to us in our survey told us that they -- something they didn't like were the kind of phrases they felt cut off connection and conversation. Everything happens for a reason. God has a plan. These kinds of phrases phrases we use are waiting of saying I

don't want to hear any more an your experience or anybody -- ways of shutting off the discussion rather than opening up so it's really -- demanding something of all of I think to think of the people around us who are suffering in this way and saying you know, can we take another step even if it's a difficult step, to step inn instead of step back. >> When it comes to grief and survivor's guilt, what are the things that don't get as noticed? >> I think one of the big things that people don't recognize or understand is that grief involves many emotionse besides sorrow. Sorrow is the social sanctioned emotion we feel when we're grieving but people may be irritable, may be angry, feel guilty there are all kinds of other feelings. They may feel numb. All sorts of other feeling that are expressions of grief. We need to be attentive at. When people feel they're confined to expressing their grief in only one way, this is another way of isolating them. You know, unintentionally, obviously but it is intensifies that feeling of isolation that the grieving have. >> David: who are you calling on here? You're calling for some kind of action but is it for all of us when we're faced with these moments with our friends and family and our colleague to do better, to make that connection or broader than that? >> It's -- I think it's both. I think we all need to understand better what grief consists of so when we're facing it ourselves we recognize that it's a different experience than maybe we've learned. We need to better understand grief and we need more grief counsellors, more training for grief groups. More avenues that people can find to support them because not everyone has a rich social network around them they can rely upon. >> Why are you involved in this? >> My wife susan died of breast cancer eight years ago. And -- from there I became an advocate for better palliative care. At the beginning of the pandemic we realized there's a pandemic of grief that goes alongside this pandemic of covid and we felt there need to be greater con sousness on the part part of the public and greater services and programming and push the government to do more and government and health system to do more and the public to understand better. >> Thank you. >> Jennifer: things are heavy if you're travelling from barrie on southbound 400 filling in from mapleview to innisfil beach road due to road work reducing through one lane through that area. Moving freely into the city. The eastbound 401 slows from the 410 to east of dixie in the collectors. Through to that long-term construction at dixon. Farther east, the transfer to express is closed east of port union. Along with the right lane in the express. That's as a result of some construction that just started up. Westbound 401 slows from the 412 to approaching salem. Mccowan to kennedy in the express. Beyond that it continues to work well. Not seeing much in the way of delays with just some slight volume approaching yonge in the collectors. Southbound don valley parkway gets sluggish from the 401 to approaching lawrence. I'm also seeing volume beginning to build from bloor to approaching dundas there may be a problem in that area but so far, still remains quite low. The toronto-bound q.e.w., slowing down from eastport to brant and busy from cawthra to dixie. David, the eastbound gardiner slows from parkside through to strachan into that long-term construction zone. >> David: jennifer, thank you very much. Before he went on to become a k-pop idol in keyhole harmony,

he grew in markham. Tonight the band making a visit for a headline show, here's p1 harmony with their track "fall in love." [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] >> David: just a quick note about the june 7th strike deadline from T.T.C. operators. Just a note this is the earliest date a strike could happen. It doesn't mean a strike will happen. Some important context that the two previous unions that have been in negotiations with the T.T.C. where there's been a threat of a strike, both unions able to resolve their contracts and get a new collective agreement. The T.T.C. hopeful that will happen in this case. Just a recap, june 7th doesn't mean it's going to happen but the earliest point at which it could happen. Well, this mega hit song has been dominating the charts. Think about me [ ] >> David: espresso by sabrina carpenter. The hit of the summer. But it could have competition from taylor swift and billie eilish. What is the magic formula that gets everyone listening but what it turns it into an ear worm. A cbc producer who goes by baby o. Olivia, good morning. >> Good morning. Hello. How are you? >> David: doing well. I like your energy this morning? >> I love espresso. I just drank a whole bunch. >> David: that's gonna do it? That's how we survive at this hour. What makes a song of the summer? >> I would say a summer pop hit has to be unapoll jetically unr self indulgent. A big singleble chorus. Are you hearing it outside of the car window, hearing at barbecues, parties. These are the things that make a summer pop hit. >> David: throw some examples at me. >> You know, you at the park.

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