CFCN - Monday, May 27, 2024 - 07:30 a.m. (ET) - Segment #11

lanes on 5th avenue between 3rd and second street southwest will be closed to northbound traffic blocked a second street until june 10th. This is due to utility relocation for the greenline. Also centre street between 36 and 43rd avenue reduced to one lane in each direction from 9 to 3. Here's a live shot of deerfoot trail at barlow in the southeast. Traffic slow moving from the ira strong bridge to barlow, a groundbreaking pilot project is looking to transform how we treat cancer surgery in alberta. Mason depatie joins us now. >> From the foothills hospital mason, tell us about this treatment. Well, jefferson, it's called the santa make project in uses special, making its to drastically improve cancer surgery. The patient experience magnetic seed about the size of a grain of rice is inserted at the tumour site in marks where it is for doctors once in the. It doesn't move around or cause any pain. The new tech replaces traditional choirs to mark tumours, which can be uncomfortable or get dislodged. This allows for less urgent, uncomplicated scheduling, fewer imaging appointments and invasive procedures. All the patients under anaesthesia for the make seed doctors can also mapped the lymph nodes. This eliminates the need for painful radioactive injections typically used to map the often quoted as being worse than the surgery itself. The oncologist leading the project hopes the pilot will show the benefits of magnetic markers leading tissues across the province. The goal is to eventually be able to leave a make see that the biopsy allowing patients to go directly to surgery or chemotherapy. Jefferson, the calgary health foundation and alberta councillor foundation. We'll be announcing funding for the pilot later this morning at 10 a 5.7 million dollar price tag. Okay. Thanks, mason. >> Canadian blood services, new calgary location is opening today. They had to move because eau claire mall is the demolish for the green line. The new down donor centre is at 207 9th avenue southwest in penn west plaza. Complimentary parking is available for donors at the calgary tower say composting facility expansion is breaking ground today. Jacqueline wilson is in this morning with the details. Jacqueline. >> Yes, service in the calgary compost facility is actually one of the largest of its kind in canada. And this morning, it is breaking ground on construction of a mix. Spansion too, increase the processing capacity and to meet the city's growing needs. Now the city started building the compost facility in 2015 at the shepherd waste management site. And then the green cart collection process began in 2017. The facility processes upwards of 145,000 metric tons of residential food and yard waste and do water soils every single year. And so it's expansion will provide and additional 60,000 tonnes of capacity per year. On top of that, the expansion includes an anaerobic digestion launch will that will turn food and yard waste into renewable natural gas. Anderson. Construction on this expansion is expected to be completed by late 2025. But the groundbreaking start this morning. 9.30. Thanks, jacqueline summer travel season is approaching and canadians are getting ready. New date indicates people are willing to spend despite the rising cost of living. Here is kamil karamali. >> Despite economic pressures that looks like canadians are willing to dish out more for travel this summer. >> Deloitte canada summer outlook shows that this year canadians are willing to travel despite these economic challenges, more than three-quarters of canadians surveyed said they plan to spend the same or more on summer vacation this year, while only 18% won't be travelling at all. With the average canadian willing to pay roughly $2400 for their summer trip this year. But while travellers are planning to spend more this summer, they're also prioritizing keeping trips local 3 quarters of canadians plan to stay in the country. While two-thirds of those planning a road trip this summer. And of those hopping on a plane, nearly half will fly within the canada, but people we spoke to a toronto's pearson airport say cheaper prices for international travel has them going abroad this summer. >> I'm going to so the tickets >> Going to miami to get crews in bahamas. Honestly, the price is right. >> Here at pearson, the airport says the summer season really picks up in the late june where it gets busier than christmas with more passengers per day. Kamil karamali, ctv news, toronto. >> 0, 5, 100 people rallied at city hall on saturday and opposition to provincial government policies >> This was one of several protests in cities and towns across the province. Protesters say the ucp isn't listening to albertans and they are demanding accountability and transparency. The issues include the alberta pension plan, coal mining on the eastern slopes of the rockies. And what protesters say are taxed on education, health care and vulnerable albertans. >> We've had enough of the lies we've had enough of the deception that gaslighting and a lot of the decisions that the ucp and people inside the party are promoting and supporting have nothing to do

with evidence or science or expertise. It's all fear and pandering. >> The campaign to some water, it and I came through was a far right wing person who supports people like david parker our right to people in alberta. >> In a statement on friday, the gets and said the party supports the right to peaceful and lawful protest. More than 13,000 runners from around the world participating in the calgary marathon on sunday. And they were also celebrating the 60th anniversary of the event. Here's tyler barrow. >> Early sunday morning, reese's hit their mark and we're off and canada's longest-running marathon, thousands of people out here, the it's absolutely amazing. >> A lot of hype around it. Really cool side is fun to laugh along the way and get cheered on its. Yeah, it was >> Participants ranging in age from 11 months, all the way to 88 years old. The over 13,600 participants is the largest field in the last 10 years. And taking the crown in the full marathon. Jordan claim from london, england winning his first marathon in a major city who didn't mind running back after a mishap with the finish line. >> Cards I guess I saw the times last year and I thought it could be possible. You never know who's going to time out. >> For the first time ever, there was a 60 kilometre ultramarathon category helping mark the event 60th anniversary for cohen in a calgary I born raised >> It's really fun to be here supporting, you know, with an awesome tradition in the city. >> Well, summer after victory, others for chasing something a group of 11 men raising money for my toe canada trying to set a guinness world record for fastest half marathon by a link team. >> You can see it's only a metre between us and there's no stretch. With the configuration is really, really important. And we kind of went in a bit of a zigzags. >> The team ran a time of an hour and 19 minutes breaking the previous record of an hour. And 26 minutes. More importantly, they raised over $30,000, which will go towards helping patients and families impacted by mitochondrial disease. A genetic disorder which affects the body's ability to produce energy, helping people like blain son evan. >> More people we had to well, the the toppers going to be, but also that the more awareness to create. Tyler barrow, ctv news, calgary. >> If you are planning on heading out for a run a walk or just says sitting watching the kids to play some sports tonight or yourself, some pretty good conditions and will say the same thing about the early part of the day tomorrow before things do start to change and deteriorate a little bit with this pattern breakdown. But let's start with where we are. We have 4 degrees right now in bragg creek and then 6 degrees in okotoks 10 degrees in corner brook, multigenerational homes now selling in corner brook. It is 11 degrees in strathmore, 10 degrees in airdrie sitting at 15 in fort mcmurray. And when we take a look at those there's a lot of stability. There's an upper. >> A level. >> Ridge right now, that's over top of northern alberta and it extends into the territories and then it's anchored by a couple of low is now it's it, I suppose by definition it's an omega block, but it's not a really well balanced way, which while we are stagnant right now, we're not staying stagnant. We're going to see this break down a little bit easier than some of those omega block swill. And that means we're going to that trial off its in the pacific crack into southern british columbia become our main weather maker, that main weather maker will change with our temperatures are looking like. So today's daytime high of 20 will turn into 23 for tomorrow. If you look at the country, you can see our ridge well-defined pushing to the east and then in behind it. We have cooler air with that country has that should trough starts to take over and brings in some cooler air around the counter clockwise circulation of that low pressure system at the base of the trough. 23 degrees for tomorrow and then a degree difference for those daytime highs down to 15 on wednesday, more rain starting possibly late tuesday, but into wednesday and then into thursday and for friday will see the start of our warm up again. A return to sunshine 16 degrees. The incredible photos sent in from ritchie. This was from friday night and that rain, if you're driving around, you probably noticed it was looking incredibly ominous and parts of the city are you are for our viewer photo brought to by realty making real estate easy. And as we take a look at our cheapest gas, if you have to fuel up this morning. Cheapest gas in the northwest wind. 54.9 to this gas brought you by 5th avenue votes like it. I'm more than what you're looking for is the only 5th avenue folks like in calgary averages when 61.0 in the canadian average one

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