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behind them as the last canadian team? Will you jump on the edmonton bandwagon such as it is? This is hamilton-based wrapper cadence weapon and a song called connor mcdavid. [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] >> Stephen: you get the point there. It's a song about connor mcdavid, thank you to cadence weapon for that one and of course he was raised in edmonton and works out of hamilton now. The oilers host game three, the series tied at one game a piece. Now a best-of-five series. Twenty-seven minutes after 6:00 and krystalle ramlakhan joins us with the first look at business. Good morning to you. >> Krystalle: good morning. >> Stephen: major grocery chains under a lot of scrutiny as of late because we've been seeing prices rise and continuing to rise and now we have even more political pressure on those businesses. >> Krystalle: that's right. A house of commons committee studying food prices is recommending the government consider policies to tackle excessive net profits in the food industry. The committee says the government should look at the sectors of the flute -- the food supply chain that are monopolies as prices for both farmers and consumers have gone up. In a new report the committee repute -- revealed its research and the causes of food inflation including the high-profile testimony of grocery executives over the past that group -- several months. The leaders of loblaw, metro, sobeys owned empire, walmart and costco have all faced questions from mps over the side of their profits -- size of their profits. Ours groceries say they have not profited from inflation. There are a range of recommendations, lowering the barriers, strengthening competition when it -- comes to mergers and making the grocery code of conduct mandatory. This industry led code is intended to help level the playing field for smaller companies. It's meant to be voluntary but in recent months pressure has grown to make it law as not all the major groceries appear to be willing to sign on. Loblaw, the largest grocery in the country announced its plans. As long as all the other stakeholders do as well. Loblaw and walmart said they were concerned the code would increase crêpe -- prices. Walmart says they are reviewing the latest drafts of the code. >> Stephen: all right. I want to jump straight to chucky cheese because we talked about it a little while ago. We had a story about retiring their animatronic band but not so fast I guess is the headline here. >> Krystalle: yes. There has been some outcry so now the restaurant says they will keep a few more of them. It had planned to phase out the robot performers at all but 2 of the 400 locations at the end of the year. The company wanted to update the experience and they had filed for chapter 11 in 2020 and since then focusing on modernizing but a few fans got a hold of the chief executive on his personal phone to appeal for the survival of the life-size animal mascots. >> Stephen: okay. We will talk more in the next hour. Thank you so much. >> Krystalle: thank you. >> Stephen: krystalle ramlakhan with a look at

business. We will hear for -- more from her in an hour from now. Right now charis hogg with an update on the road. >> No stalls or crashes to tell you about and today will be cloudy with a chance of showers over northern sections of metro vancouver with a high of 16. I'll be back after the news with another look at traffic and weather. >> Stephen: thank you.

coming up we will hear about a facebook user who discovered that their account have been hijacked. That is coming your way. Stay with us. The news is next. [ ] >> Good morning, it's 11 degrees and mostly cloudy in vancouver. Nine and mostly cloudy in victoria. At the top of the news thousands of people forced from their fort nelson homes more than two weeks ago and can soon return. The evacuation order is being lifted at 8:00 this morning. Fort nelson, rob fraser says people will need to gas up and bring essential supplies with them as they returned. >> Bring a few days of food and essential supplies you will need because there maybe supply shortages. All of our stores are all trying to get their trucks in here to make sure that they have full shelves for everybody. That may take a few days so bring some supplies and the essential things that you think you might need. >> Urging drivers to be careful and buses will start transferring some people home tomorrow. >>> An abbotsford woman who has been displaced twice by separate disasters is calling for more mental health supports. Danielle lost one home to the floods three years ago and another to the massive fires. >> I ran out into the hallway and screamed fire trying to get as many people away as possible. >> Her brain and heart were dismayed when she lost everything including one of her cats. It devastated her finances and her physical and mental health. >> I hear the fire engine and I panic. >> Reporter: bc needs to provide free counselling to those who lose their homes. Both during and long after the disaster. Johnny morris is the ceo of the canadian mental health association and says counselling is vital to recovery. >> The mental health impact of displacement or disaster persists six or seven years after the event. >> Reporter: the emergency ministry says psychological support teams are deployed to affected communities. They strongly encourage renters to purchase insurance. Cbc news, vancouver. >> The rcmp confirming 2 are dead after a plane crash near squamish on friday. There is no word on why the plane went down. Names of the victims have not been released.

>>> It's been three years since the reveal of more than 200 possible burial sites of the grounds of the former kamloops indian residential school. As jennifer reports, this date comes amid a rise in denial. >> We see this denial at 2 moments, the announcement in 2021 and/or insured day. >> Sean carlton is an associate professor in indigenous studies at the university of manitoba and study some of the legacies of the residential school system and the increasing trend towards denialism. >> It is not the denial, an attempt to distort or shake public confidence. >> We don't need to see them exhume bodies to know what happened. >> Using church and state documents have already confirmed more than 4000 deaths at schools. >> Reporter: last thursday they close their offices for a day of reflection to mark the revelation of the missing. Carlton asked people to do research, challenge denialism with facts and have difficult conversations with friends and family. Jennifer norwell, kamloops. >> For the second year in a row, bc scored a barely passing grade. One of the key takeaways was jump in food insecurity. As michelle gomez reports, food banks in the province have demand skyrocketing. >> Reporter: receiving a d+ grade on the report card. The report issued by food bank canada found almost 22 percent of british columbian's reported being food insecure up from around 17 percent last year. The executive director of food banks bc had this to say. >> Not able to give as much. There may have been people who were donating who may need to consider access. >> Reporter: many using the food bank in surrey since arriving in canada six months ago. As an international student she says she would not be able to make ends meet without the food bank. >> It is very difficult without money. I don't have a good job here. And still surviving here. >> Reporter: half feel they are doing worse financially compared to the previous years. Michelle gomez, vancouver. >> 6:35 and that is the cbc news. >> Stephen: thank you robert zimmerman. >> You are welcome. >> Stephen: robert zimmerman in this cbc vancouver newsroom. How do you feel about the new streaming channel? >> I love every second of it. >> Stephen: if people are watching now we are on a split screen. Can you see that? >> My four head look shiny. >> Stephen: you might want to powder that. No? They are not here? >> Too early for makeup. >> Stephen: the tv guys get makeup. Perfect, charis is now buffing your head and that is really nice. >> I could reach over and buffet for you if you'd like. >> The triples split screen. >> Stephen: and now the overhead shot. This is greg doing this from some room somewhere. I like the overhead shot. It looks like we are about to steal something. I saw you take that can of beans, charis, put it back. >> I'm sorry, I get hungry in the morning. >> Stephen: we are having way too much fun with this. We have had this going for a while now but we've officially launched it, the screaming channel as I like to call it. You can see everything, all of our weekday radio programs will be right here on this channel. It is exciting. A whole new thing. >> Super exciting. >> Stephen: and of course "on the coast", three to six every day. There are probably 1 million other ways to watch it as well. Just dan here at the queen elizabeth plaza and stare through the window. I will pull up the blinds. It's tinted lass as well. We are like a mysterious car driving by like the cops will stop us because it's too dark. [ Laughter ] >> Stephen: we are still on the radio or you can ask your smart speaker to play cbc radio one vancouver or as I say play

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