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might actually prefer noisy environments. >> It occupies a piece of your mind and therefore you don't have to use that piece for anything else. So it depends on whether your aspiration is to be distracted or your aspiration is to focus. If what you want is to be distracted and not too much in touch, have a busy schedule and a lot of noise. >> Likewise for people with adhd actually. While the distraction of sounds can make it harder for some people to focus, for some people with this condition, it can actually have the opposite effect. >> People with adhd often respond well to a lot of stimulus which is why adhd in general is treated with stimulants. For some people with adhd, a certain level of sound actually helps them to concentrate. So some people with adhd will keep a headphone in one ear a lot of the time because that allows them to focus on what else is going on because if their whole mind is exposed, then it goes into chaos. >> It really looks like to be less about the sounds themselves, more about our individually learned meanings and relationships with particular sounds. And it's at least in part about gaining greater control over where we point the microphone of our personal attention. >> Hallie: I'm wondering if pleasant sounds can offset some of the negative effects of noise. [ Laughter ]. >> Yeah, you know, both andrew solomon and nina crouse talked to me about leveraging the sounds we have learned to like to at least partially offset the ones in our world that we don't. Both talked about how we can do this more consciously by first actually paying closer attention to our sonic environ because we habituate to it. And then playing an active role with the sounds that sustain us. Sometimes we do have to do our best to block out or reduce those noise invasions as much as we are able to, through ear protections or sound baffling or even relocation. Much more often, the best we can do is to listen and learn about ourselves and our own personal thresholds to give ourselves the silent breaks and positive distractions we need when our world gets too loud and to amplify the amount of our attention that we dedicate to finding and feeling more joyful noises. So as much as hearing my children argue grates on me, I absolutely love just hearing them play quietly together or laughing or running. Those little breaks, those interjections of joy in my life, I really try to seek those out. >> Hallie: mark, thank you so much for this. >> Thank you. >> Hallie: that is mark henick, author of "so-called normal: a memoir of family, depression and resilience". He is cbc's mental health columnist. [ ] >> Hallie: light rain falling in ottawa. The rain will stop but it will stay windy with winds 30 gusting to 50 km/h from the southwest. Today's high 26° under a high U.V. index. Doug hempstead joins us with the tale of the morning commute. >> Doug: so far on the ontario side not all that problematic. Volume remains light and efficient. No slowdowns on the eastbound or westbound 417. No problems coming in from or through orléans. Over in gatineau it is heavy on the bend approaching la vérendrye heavy right through la vérendrye and eases off closer to maloney and then heavy all the way down to st. Louis. Thick as well on draveurs bridge into hull. The westbound 50 heavy at times from out beyond la vérendrye into hull. No issues or collisions. I'll take another look after david's newscast. >> Hallie: thanks, doug. You're listening to "ottawa morning." it's 6:30. [ ] >> David: this is cbc news. [ ] >> David: good morning. It's mostly cloudy and 17°. I'm david gerow and here is the latest from the cbc ottawa newsroom. Mark sutcliffe is hosting the annual mayor's breakfast this morning. There will be a number of people in attendance, including treasury board president anita anand. Also in attendance is cape, the canadian sorksassociation of professional employees. And they are looking to speak

with anand about the recent policy shift to bring public sector employees into the office three days a week instead of two. The president of the association. >> Instead of wasting billion ss on this plan, there are many more positive uses for those billions of dollars. We're advocating for a flexible approach that would allow employees to negotiate with their employer the formula suits them best. >> David: by september 9, all federal public servants need to be in the office at least three days a week. That applies to all full time, part-time, students, and casual workers. It does not apply to those hired before march 16, 2020. >>> City council says O.C. transpo needs to do harder to win back the trust of riders. St. Laurent was closed for the second time this year, first because of loose concrete falling on the tracks and now because of leaking water. As elyse skura reports, city staff are confident the station is safe. >> We had an incident in january and here is another incident. >> Elyse: riley brockington keeps telling people it is safe. >> I keep telling people the infrastructure and the structure is safe. >> Elyse: the city's infrastructure department says this latest issue is not like what happened in january. >> The falling concrete was not a concern that was raised. >> Elyse: this time the culprit is a water leak. There hasn't been a full tunnel inspection since 2020 when a report raised concerns over loose concrete, water damage and corrosion, similar to problems found recently. But staff say those problems were fixed. Still, councillor shawn menard wants to know when inspectors check the tunnel again in january, why didn't they find this? >> I really want to know why we were told in april that this was in compliance and had been inspected and was essentially good to go when we're seeing this issue just one month later. Why were councillors told that at committee. >> Elyse: in january the inspectors say they were focused on the tunnel since their top concern was getting trains running again. In other words, they could not have found the platform problems then because they weren't looking in the right place. Elyse skura, cbc news, ottawa. >> David: after an ottawa courtroom spent days watching social media videos from the protest that became known as the freedom convoy, lawyer for the accused pat king says they need to be understood in a wider context. King faces nine charges, including intimidation and mischief for his role in the weeks-long protest two years ago. >> David: a lighter side of pat king was shown by his lawyer. She played videos of him helping police officers, directing traffic and stressing the need to keep the protests peaceful. It was a sharp contrast to the argument crown prosecutors have been making. They are trying to show king used his influence over protesters, encouraging them in 2022 to join him, even after authorities told people to stay away. To make their case they have shown over 30 videos from king's own social media which at the time had an audience of more than 300,000. During afternoon testimony, an ottawa police officer who has liaised with protesters told the court there were different groups coming to the city, making it hard to know who was in charge of what. The judge-alone trial continues today, but isn't likely to end until later this summer. When it does, the justice overseeing it will have up to six months to deliver a verdict. Prosecutors signalled they could seek a jail term for king up to five years. David fraser, cbc news, ottawa. >> David: the mayor of a township where three people were killed in a tragic boat collision say the communi continues to grieve. Three young adults died. The accident happened in a narrow channel in buck bay. The mayor offered his condolences to the family and friends of the victims. He said the township will be holding a barbecue on saturday, june 2 as an opportunity for police, and the community and family and friends to come together. >> I want to give my condolences to the family and friends of this senseless tragedy on bob's lake. Our thoughts and prayers are with all the families and our community who feel the sadness and the pain of young lives who ended so soon. Life is so fragile. >> David: he says while he didn't know any of the victims personally, his sons did go to school with some of them.

>>> Experts are warning people to be prepared for summer storms. David arama, director of the wsc survival school in ontario remembers the powerful derecho school two years ago. He was at the school when it struck. >> I had to grab the adults and the kids and send them into our -- I don't want it's a bomb shelter, but we have a basically that's concrete for our lodge. And I got everybody down there right in time. I'm afraid to say if a bunch of them were on the docks when that tornadic derecho came through, we would have had multiple casualties. >> David: he says to pay attention to both weather alerts and the skies. If the clouds turn dark and become different colours and appear puffed up, that is a sign of a powerful storm, the same with wind blowing in different directions. That is your cbc news. Here is doug with a look at traffic. >> Doug: it is quiet on the 417 headed into downtown ottawa, no issues eastbound or westbound. But where things are busyiest is over in gatineau. Not just heavy traffic. There are two collisions and they're sort of both affecting the ramp taking you from the westbound 50 to the macdonald-cartier bridge. One collision, the first one, is right beside the casino basically as you're going past lac-leamy on the 50 and the second one is sort of afterwards, right as you're getting onto the 5 and heading on the macdonald-cartier bridge. What's that doing is backing up the westbound 50 and making it very slow. It starts on the bend approaching la vérendrye and heavy at times all the way into hull. Once you get close to maloney, all of a sudden it's crawling because of that collision. So if you're coming from grauts into hull, take grbere and fournier and you can get around all of this. If you don't get on the westbound 50 anywhere after montée paiement. I would take grbere, I would exit the 50 at montée paiement and take grbere all the way down to fournier. That would be your best bet to avoid all that traffic. If you don't want to, more power to you. Coming in from or through orléans, the westbound 174 is fine. On the single-lane stretch a little bit busy, but nothing to freak if you see something I should know about, you can call me and tell me about it at 613-288-6900. I'm back with more in 20 minutes. >> Hallie: thanks, doug. The rain has ended. The wind 20 km/h. The forecast calling for a high of 26°, U.V. index high. Clear tonight, windy, the low of 14°. Sunshine in the forecast tomorrow with a high of 21°. This three days of hot weather seems to be slightly fading. Welcome news to many of us. Krystalle ramlakhan joins me with business news. Canada /*. >> Krystalle: good morning, hallie. >> Hallie:ANA'S banking regulators worried about a risk to financial systems. What's going on? >> Krystalle: it says high interest rates and their effect on mortgages are critical threats to banks. In its annual risk outlook, the office of the superintendent of financial institutions says high interest rates continue to pressure homeowners, consumers, and businesses, and that's prompting banks to adjust their lending practices. So of course we know as homeowners renew their mortgages, they could potentially face a payment shock due to higher interest rates compared to when they last secured their loans. Higher interest rates typically allow banks to charge more on loans, but it is weighing on profits. That's because demand for loans decreased. More borrowers are defaulting on debt including credit cards and auto loans. Banks have had to increase the amount of money they set aside for potential loan losses. Now, inflation is easing, increasing the chances that the bank of canada will start cutting interest rates in the months ahead, but it could take years before borrowers see meaningful relief. Even if the central bank reduces rates this summer, senior bank executives and economists expect rates to fall slowly. Maybe even over years. Other top risks identified include risk from commercial real estate lending, corporate and commercial debt and social and political conflict. So the regulator says a major geopolitical event could disrupt markets and then create instability for institutions. It says political tensions and the polarizing effect of geopolitical issues has the potential to make canadian institutions a target for politically motivated attacks. >> Hallie: okay.

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