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- William, whatever happens, I love you. You know that, don't you? - Yes, yes. Julia, I-- - All rise. Please be seated. - The jury has come to a conclusion in the case of the Crown versus Dr. Julia Ogden. Mr. Foreman, would you kindly read your verdict? - Of the capital crime of murder, the Jury finds the defendant, Dr. Julia Ogden... guilty. (murmurs and exclamations) - Thank you, sir. Would the accused please stand? Dr. Ogden, despite your stellar reputation and diligent work for the Toronto Coroner's office, the nature of this crime is such that I have no recourse but to sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you are dead. May God have mercy on your soul. Court is adjourned. - William...?! - Julia, I'll get you out. No matter what happens, I will get you out! I'll get you out. (slow clapping) Gillies? Look out! Excuse me! Out of the way, please! Excuse me! Look out! - Excuse me! Let me through! - Excuse me. Did you see a man come out here, with a straw hat on? Are you sure? - Murdoch! Murdoch, what the hell's going on? - Sir, it was Gillies. I just saw James Gillies! Closed Captioning bySETTE inc. Michael J. Fox:When we see Team Canada on the world stage, we're witnessing pure greatness. What we don't see is their struggle. We don't see Maude Charron being forced to change weight classes after she wonOlympicgold. Hugo Houle persevering through the tragic loss of his brother. Or Andre de Grasse dealing with all the doubters. Including himself. What we don't see makes us who we are. We're all bravely facing the odds in our lives. Now bravery is our victory. - -[crowd cheers] >> Announcer:Transforming the country into one massive obstacle course. >> Here we go. >> Announcer: Gruelling competitions. >> This is a steep peak. It's no joke. >> This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life. >> Announcer: Game changing twists. >> Brace yourselves. >> This is my worst nightmare. >> Fierce rivalries. >> If we could just get in there. >> Break his little heart. >> I'm about to lose it.

>> Maybe don't eavesdrop. >> I can't shut my ears off. >> Well then shut your mouth off. >> I love it. >> Announcer:Canada's Ultimate Challenge, watch free onCBC Gem. >> Announcer: this is cbc calgary news... >> Good evening, I'm rob brown in the cbc calgary studio. A majority of albertans say it's difficult to meet their monthly household expenses. That's according to a new poll commissioned by cbc news. It marks a significant change from past years of polling on the same topic, and it's pretty troubling when you consider that calgarians are carrying the highest average personal debt loads in the country. Robson fletcher has our top story. >> Pollster janet brown has been asking albertans the same question since 2018: how easy or difficult has it been for you to meet your monthly expenses? The answers have varied over the years, but she's never seen results like those in her latest poll. For the first time, most albertans now say it's somewhat or very difficult to pay their bills. >> Used to be it was pretty common for, you know, 40% of people to say it's difficult. Now it's crept above 50%. That's a statistically sixth change and worth watching. >> Reporter: mark parsons, chief economist with atb financial, says inflation has started to ease across canada, but albertans are still being hit by big increases in the cost of housing. >> Alberta's been witnessing faster growth in rent, and a big part of that is alberta's getting a population drive where other provinces around and that's interprovincial migration. More and more people are coming here to alberta from other provinces. >> Reporter: brown says young people in her poll were finding it especially difficult to pay their bills while older folk who are more likely to already own their homes tended to be more financially comfortable. Robson fletcher, cbc news, calgary. >> Rob: that cbc commissioned random poll of 1200 albertans was conducted between may 1, and may 15, margin of error plus or minus 2.8 percentages points 19 times out of 20.

>>> Here's something else putting the squeeze on albertans, the cost to fill it up jumped up this week. Many calgary stations have raised prices more than ten cents a litre. That saw drivers lining up at this southeast costco where it was about 20 cents cheaper. >> I saw on the news this morning that there was an increase that cannot be explained why. But it's not like you have a choice. They have you where they want you anyway. >> Reporter: in next guy we spoke with says it can be explained. Patrick dehaene is is the head of petroleum analysis at gaza buddy >> There ever been some refinery snags, south of the border, and that's causing prices to go up fairly dramatically here. But I believe it's temporary. There should be relief in the next couple of weeks as long as these refinery issues can get sorted out south of the border. >> Rob: you might be wondering if the province will be offering relief on the gas tax again. Remember it reinstated the 13 cents per litre tax in april. Well, potential of the tax, or at least lowering it, that's tied to the price of oil and at this point the price isn't high enough to reduce that tax. >> The cost of living is the key political issue in canada these days. It's what's fueled the controversial housing rezoning by-law the city just passed. Pierre poilievre has been using the issue to climb up in those polls, and while the alberta government does have an affordability action plan most of the measures that might help you have either expired, like the gas tax relief, or are celt to kick in down the road. So could this be a problem for danielle smith and is the ucp? Let's ask the thursday political panel. >> Joining us this week, kelly cryderman of the globe and mail, max fossett is here, national observer, canada's national observer and jen gerson of "the line." I'll start with you, jen. What gow make of it? We have albertans clearly struggling and the province by my measure not really paying a price for it in any way, the provincial government. >> Not yet. I think the risk is that you'll have a provincial government that falls into a similar trap that the federal government's run into where you have a government that's more and more wrapped up in its nearby ideological issues, bill 20 trying to make municipal governments partisan. The stuff that really only a small section of the base really cares about, meanwhile, the vast majority of albertans are dealing with bread and butter cost of living, quality of life problems. And if you don't have a government responsive to knows issues, we've seen what happens to the federal government and how quickly a government can lose popularity if people feel the issues that government cares about are wildly out of step with just the basic quality of life stuff. >> Rob: it is interesting, considering the ucp in the lead up to last play's election was really seized with these costs of living issues, so what are we to take from the fact that it doesn't seem to be now, other than it does have an agenda, but it was in touch at some point, max, with where the populace was at on this. >> I think they understand the next election is many years away and people with attention spans are right now focused entirely on ottawa. The ucp has benefitted, and in part they've created it, but they have it amazing reality distortion field called justin trudeau where all of our attention, all our political frustration in this province seems to get directed east to ottawa and the ucp gets a free ride on a lot of things that are happening here in terms of cost of living. But if you listen to the polls, and I think we should, he will probably be gone by next -- call it october, and at that point -- >> Trudeau. >> Yes, and at that point a lot of the attention will shift back to alberta and danielle smith: what are you doing for us? If you look at the data alberta since 2019, hourly wages are down whereas most of the country they're up. Inflation is almost a full percentage point higher in alberta right now than anywhere else in the country. The alberta advantage has become the alberta disadvantage, and there's only so long that they have that reality distortion field before they have to start answering some real questions. >> Staying with the cost of living and the province's approach to this, what can it do? I mentioned that affordability plan, it had tax relief in there. They're looking at the electricity system in hopes of bringing it down. What's the big headline political move that they could make to help you? >> I think they have to do something serious on affordable housing. Talking to danielle smith she seems to think that building transit or trains between cities and decades from now, making red deer a city population of one million people is going to solve the housing crunch. She talks about there being lots of lands and what I'm not

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