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I lost a brother. And I just, I can't, I feel like I can't admit it to myself, you know, because if I do, then it's like... I'll never be able to be happy again... and I wanna be happy again. Mitch and I are getting married. - Wow! That... Congratulations. Lou, that's amazing. Good for you. That's... (Dry chuckle) I actually just... broke up with Jen. - What? - She, um, she wanted to move in with me in Vancouver, and I guess she had it all planned out. The problem was I had no idea, so... She just kinda... dropped it all on me and um... so yeah, that's over. (Chuckles) - (Laughs) We are such self-destructive losers. Both: (Laughing) - You're right, we are. (Chuckles) - Do you think we'll ever just... allow ourselves to be happy again? - I hope so. You deserve it. (Blows out his breath) (Birds chirp, Remy barks in the distance) (Vehicle approaches) - Hey, Lyndy, can you go in and play with Katie for a minute? I'm just gonna talk to Nana Lily, okay? - 'Kay! - Thanks, sweetie! (Car door opens) - Hey! Where'd you get off to this morning? - Amy, I'm sorry. Don't kill me. You are the one that told me to call Wade. I did, and I happened to mention how amazing Howler was doing, how you fixed him. I remember that you said that Howler wasn't ready to race. I told Wade that, but... there was a race this morning and he entered him - news to me. - You've gotta be kidding me. - But it's okay! Guess why. Because he won! He... he won big. (Laughs excitedly) So I want you to have it, please. Might be, I dunno, it can make up for some of last year, and... or at least all of the hard work that you've done working with-- - I'm not taking this, Lily. Okay? If you think that money can make up for everything that's happened in the last year, then you are out of your mind. You need to get outta here. Leave, please, Lily. - I didn't choose to be away from you, Amy. I came here to tell you that. That I had no choice. None. You said you'd figure out what was wrong with Howler. Well, guess what? The horse needed help to get over his trauma. He needed help from you, from a specialist. Well, so did I. I lost my son and I needed help. So, why can't you understand that need in people when you can see it so well in horses? (Door bangs shut, engine starts) (Car rumbles backwards, gravel crunches under tires) (Car rumbles away) (Whoosh) - (Whispers) I'm sorry. (Multiple explosions boom and rumble) (Mickey whinnies in panic) - Mickey! Come back! Mickey! (Loud explosion booms) (Grunts softly, another explosion booms) (Flames whoosh) (Dramatic music plays)

[ ] >> Natasha: hello, everyone. Welcome inside the cbc news room. I'm natasha fatah. One of canada's worst environmental disasters is getting worse. That's according to a new report out. It points to how residents of grassy narrows first nation are getting sick over three generations. It found that industrial waste from a paper mill is combining with another toxic compound, mercury, to create methyl mercury, which accumulates in fish and poisons people who eat that fish. It can cause neuromuscular problems and lead to death. CBCs meagan fitzpatrick was at today's news conference where the study wassen unveiled. >> Reporter: this was led by a professor at western university and produced by the council for the grassy narrows first nations, various levels of government, as well, and the researcher says he's sharing the findings publicly with the council because of the emergency because of what they found in this study. We've known for a long time now that the river was essentially contaminated with tonnes of mercury, making the residents of grassy narrows sick, and what this experiment was looking at was the wastewater currently being pumped into the river from the mill that's operating there, and finding that that wastewater has high levels of sulphate and organic matter, and when those two ingredients, let's call them, mix with the mercury laden sediment on the bottom of this river, that creates methyl mercury, which poisons the fish and then poisons the residents of grassy narrows. Officials are saying it's the high production of sulphate and mercury that are producing this experiment. Take a listen to what the researcher said about it. >> We can look at the corollay. If we reduce the sulphate matter, take those two ingredients out of the reaction, mercury levels in fish will come down. >> Reporter: now he's not in this report listing out a set of recommendations. He says that's not his area of expertise in terms of recommendations or policy or remediation, those efforts, but as you heard him say, this -- what's happening isn't helping the problem, which has been existing for -- for decades, and so he's hoping that people pay attention to the findings of this report. He's saying that his view, that the best available science should be applied to tackling big problems. >> Natasha: what kind of reaction are you seeing to these new findings? >> Reporter: well, cbc has reached out to the mill that currently operates there, the dryden fibre canada is the name of the company. They have said they can't comment because they haven't seen the study. They haven't had a look at the findings. Cbc also spoke to chief rudy turtle of grassy narrows first nation. He said he's very disappointed. >> Well, we're very disappointed but we're not surprised. The community always felt that there was more being poured into our river and we were concerned about it, but it is very very very, like I said, very disappointing. >> Reporter: disappointed but not surprising. As youhe said, members of the community have been advocating for years for compensation as well as potentially shutting down the mill altogether. The government has committed billions of dollars to build and operate a mercury care home for the residents of grassy narrows which can cause seizures, neurological damage, a number of health care issues. Part of the response that we've heard from government is

reiterating the effort to get that care home built for residents of grassy narrows first nations. >> Natasha: CBCs meagan fitzpatrick in toronto. >>> And officials from the environment canada is holding a press conference. Let's listen? >> >> -- listen in. >> -- and that tends to lower the number of hurricanes. However, the warmer water in the atlantic tends to increase the number of hurricanes, named storms and hurricanes that we see over the course of a particular season. So we had these two competing factors, there was a lot of competition in terms of which would be the dominant one, and it turns out the dominant feature from last year was that warm water because we ended up getting those 20 storms and hurricanes, as well. If you look at the atlantic last year, water temperature was certainly above normal, and then temperatures were above normal in the pacific. I want to show the current anomalies in the atlantic. That is going to be a major contributor to this year's hurricane season, and we know that from last year weather ended up being the dominating factor. If you look at the water, water temperatures are getting colder than they were last year, which is what's called la nina. Not only are we getting rid of el nino that we saw last year, but we're getting la nina, and that's why we're expecting a very active hurricane season next year. They're calling for 18 to 25 named storms and hurricanes, four of those will become major storms. They always try to achieve a 70% confidence in their forecast. This year, it's actually up to 85 that they've achieved with these numbers, so very high confidence that it will be a very active season this year. What does this mean for canada? Well, the canadian hurricane centre has a response zone. We don't necessarily issue a statement on every storm out there, but we do issue a statement on every one that enters our cone.response zone. If we look at the total number of storms that enter our response zone, we get about 45% of overall storms that form in the atlantic that come into our response zone. If you translate into those numbers that we saw earlier, again, looking at a potentially active season overall in the atlantic, however, the percentage of those storms, although the average is 35, the -- on any given year, that average can vary wildly. So even though we might be looking at an active season, we can't see how many storms will be in the atlantic. Storm season starts on july 1 and extends into november. We've had storms in every month

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