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cheaper deal. Interesting. Okay. Thanks for that. Appreciate it. That's faisal karmali portfolio manager. The popowich karmali advisory group. >> It is 7 o'clock. You're watching ctv morning live. Well concerned calgarians after their vehicles were damaged by potholes. Mason with those details in a moment. But first, let's talk weather. >> And we are going to see more rain. It's tricky because the surfaces do some services love to have that moisture and these freeze-thaw cycles that we've been going through and there's, as we know, do not love it as much as 3 degrees right now in the rook. I know that it's certainly greening things up. If you're trying to figure out when to mow, I would say early next week, you should be able to your school day forecast presented by webber academy, learn more about the webber academy debate in leadership summer camp for students aged 11 to 17 at webber academy dot ca 13 degrees today that is still below seasonal and we're looking at it risk of some showers and thunderstorms and potentially some funnel clouds and parts of alberta. I'll tell you where in a moment. >> I showed you that have a look at traffic centre street north between beddington boulevard in bennington drive reduced to one lane in each direction from 93 for transit construction. Also various northbound lane closures on 4 street continue between 11th and 8th avenue southwest for utility work. >> Here is a win and a live look here. Yeah, this is your foot 22nd avenue in the southeast. Traffic volume. >> Building, but still moving quickly through there. City had been filling potholes for several months now. But last night, a large one left drivers stranded. >> Mason depatie joins us live. >> Well, jefferson, the potholes just behind me on the underpass on 16th avenue near sarcee trail it's been somewhat fix, but there remains a large hole there with some pylons next to it. And ctv news got here yesterday, there were several drivers who had to pull off into this runoff area because the damage to their vehicle, many of them had bent rims say they all call 3, 1, to get the pothole fixed. Of course, this isn't only the big one in the city. Ctv news got emails about several other large ones. It's been a busy spring for road crews in the city. They filled more than 6700 possible so far this year. That comes after a record-setting last year with a field 3. 33,000. >> City of calgary prioritizes pothole repairs based on several factors like safety impacts, severity and location. City says hyper relocations are repaired within 5 business days of inspection o media priority spots, along with alleys and lower priority roads will how their potholes fixed within one to 2 months of inspection for the people that end up hitting them, though it's a tough, an upsetting experience. >> Under the overpass and then I hear this bang in my car. And I jumped and my partner's beside me and we both looked at each other and were like, oh, my gosh. And then we pulled off. And there's 5 other cars parked up there. I parked there right out of my car because I thought i. Blew my from bumper out. And I look at my tire. >> And jefferson ctv news has reached out to sea to see how many potholes they still need to fill. As of their last update earlier this month, they say they've received 4,000 request. That's up about 15% from last year. Ok, thanks mason. >> 3 adults were injured in a multi-vehicle collision last night. Ems responding just before 9 to pay an and 84 street southeast 8 to be the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No word yet on what led to the collision. A deportation hearing is set to be held in calgary today for the truck driver who caused the humboldt broncos bus crash. >> A lawyer for jaskirat singh sidhu says he expects the hearing to be short because the rules are clear with little flexibility. Sidhu, a rookie truck driver from calgary ran a stop sign into the path of the junior hockey team's bus at an intersection in saskatchewan in 2018. 16 people were killed, 13 others injured. Sidhu was sentenced to 8 years in prison and granted full parole last year. Several rallies planned this weekend to protest the provincial government. Jacqueline wilson is in this morning with more jacqueline. >> It serves and organizers are calling it the enough is enough. The ucp protests and they have organized a province-wide day of action for tomorrow. Protests will take place in 8 cities and town. So calgary, edmonton, red deer medicine hat, lethbridge, grande prairie, sylvan lake and for million calgary's protest is going to be at city hall. That one is from 2 until 4:00pm. Organizers say that their mission is to address the policies and actions of the united conservative party. Some of the policies that are at issue is bill 20, the alberta pension plan, coal mining on the eastern rockies and put a tax on education, health care and vulnerable albertans. Now organizers do say that they want to keep things peaceful while expressing their discontent with the government. >> I'm an rn and I'm seeing I've seen the effects of these years of ucp government has had

on the health service and now it's going to be even worse than that bill 22, they're planning to completely implode. It. >> Jefferson, I have reached out to the premier's office for their response to these protests. But haven't heard back white. Yes. Thanks, jacqueline. >> Dairy farm on it, just taking action after controversial online comments by 2 orchestra members last month, last month rather, the cpo said. >> It was made aware of, quote, deeply troubling comments posted online that do not represent the views of the calgary philharmonic. >> Now it says following an independent third-party investigation. It's taking action. It won't comment further, but the globe and mail is reporting clarinetist. Slab coach popovich and oboist alex klein of and fired both musicians biographies have been removed from the cpo website for years. A medical clinic specializing in geriatric care has visited seniors in their homes. But changes to provincial billing is forcing the clinic to stop the practice, leaving about 150 calgary seniors without a doctor. Here's bill macfarlane. >> Lynn has been here for year shirley for about 2 in an independent seniors complex near fish creek up until now, their doctor came to see them in their apartment soon as the system that for the past decade. >> It was feasible. But with recent changes, no longer really operable. Last year, the province to go, she did a change to billing codes. What amounted to a 10% cut, followed by another 10% cut this april. A 3rd cut is expected later this year. Now doctor tanner rebels team of physicians will and home visits in august. They don't drive. >> The service of a doctor coming and tending to their needs on site is so important. That you can't put a price on that. >> Riddle says his average patient is 88 and has about a dozen health conditions. The visits say patients maintains their quality of life. >> They're not having to go to urgent care or emergency rooms are overcrowded or end up in the hospital, keeps them out of the hospital. How is that not saving the government money. >> Health minister adriana lagrange said thursday the billing rate was negotiated with physicians and she's open to feedback. We continually. >> Make sure that the rates are meeting the if it's not working for physicians. And we definitely need to look at it. >> The home care medicine model sees fewer patients in a day about half the number in a busy clinic. But that doesn't capture the extra time spent with each complex case or the benefit of regular visits and extra information gathered from being patients. Homes. The loss of preventative care only to increased demand on hospitals. Has the seniors angry to our elected officials know what's going on. I mean, did they pay attention or they just worrying about getting the next pope talking about our parents, our grandparents. >> One day, it's going to be you or me. >> We asked ourselves colin carrie, you want for those who raised u.s.. >> Bill macfarlane, ctv news. Calgary. Calgary catholic school board has approved its budget with a 21.5 million dollar deficit. The 2024 25 budget. >> Is being balanced by reserve savings. The board says provincial funding fall substantially short of meeting the needs of students, especially with enrolment growing by thousands each year. With the calgary stampeders season set to kick off. There's a push to get more fans to the stadium, including a campaign aimed at women. The steps are trying to get 100 women to commit to 2 seasons tickets each before the home opener on june 7th as part of the 200 club seasons. Tickets are one person or offered a discounted rate of $995 for the 10 games 11. If the team makes the playoffs, they will also get unique benefits, including a speaker series to sideline experiences and the possibility a flying with the team charter for an away game. It's right behind the visitors bench. So people in section 2, we have an important job to do. We have to cheer on our team. >> And you know, rattle up the opponent and it's a short season, it's for everybody and it's affordable. You know, I think this opportune to be part of the 200 club. If you have an arctic that your tickets, you should join us. >> If you want to review things first, there's a chance this saturday afternoon when the stamps preseason kicks off one of calgary's largest rooftop gardens is about to bloom. Southcentre mall is once again partnering with micro habitat and hunting farms to create a space for the growing season. Me. >> Rooftop garden will benefit made by momma look charity supporting families facing challenges by delivering frozen meals the season. The garden will host 150 plants yourselves. Port neal programs either come about local food insecurity. >> We know with the recent stats from food banks, canada, over 25% of canadians are food insecure right now. And when you layer that with different crisis situations and makes it even more challenging. >> We have a big commitment to sustainability and has what community and this is the you can see the number one

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