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writing is on the wall. >> Gutting the services that are delivered a durham hospital, including cuts to emergency department hours and the closure of all inpatient bed. We'll make it unviable. We know that this is a plan, but to close it all together. >> South bruce grey, health centre president and ceo nancy shaw says the board had no choice but to move inpatient beds out of the durham hospital due to the chronic and worsening nurse shortage. And she says the hospital corporation has no intention of closing durham's hospital either, but that's not stopping west grey from heading to court to try and keep durham's hospital beds in town and trying to secure its future. It seems like this is all that we're going to be able to how we're going to be able to negotiate, certainly not a way that we want to from queen's park. Scott miller, ctv news >> A retrial began today for a man previously found guilty of murdering a rival dog breeder with more from the first day of proceedings in st. Thomas hears nick paparella. >> Boris panovski now 79 years of age stood next to his lawyer when he pled not guilty to first-degree murder and attempted murder after a trial in goderich in 2018. The one-time dog breeder was found guilty. But 3 years later, he was granted this retrial, which was moved to st. Thomas in her opening address. Crown attorney kelsey good told the court that in september of 2014. 70 year-old donato frigo and his wife eva, where in huron county for a bird dog event. She said they were on horseback when mister and missus frigo were ambushed and shot by the gunman. Donato was shot twice the second, which was execution stout. Eva survived the crown said the court will hear of a prior deep-seated grads that boris panovski had with donato frigo. You'll hear that mister panovski blame mister frigo for the loss of his esteemed reputation in the bird dog world. The crown said evidence will show that in the weeks and months before the shooting, panovski planned the murder, saying mister ski was that gunman who killed in auto frigo and attempted to murder eva. Earlier the court heard that panovski biden ticket to macedonia the day after the shooting. >> And that he took $10,000 out of his bank account. He was arrested when he returned. The first witness called was opp identification. Officer jeffrey my it, he told the court that moments after the shooting, he spoke with 3 goes wife and said she was distraught. She was very anxious. She wanted us to go and find that person who shot her husband. >> The re trial is slated to last 6 weeks in st. Thomas. Nick paparella ctv news. >> Provincial police in eastern ontario say they've recovered millions of dollars worth of classic cars. Originally reported stolen from lambton county, lantern county opp say million dollars worth of cars were reported stolen last year on may 14th. Police say they raided a property near belleville, discovering numerous vehicles. 2 men face multiple charges. Provincial police say they've charged 2 people after a suspicious lottery win in mitchell. Police say a winning $50,000 ticket was stolen by an employee last december. According to opp, the prize was claimed by an associate of that worker, the 44 year-old woman from mitchell and a 51 year-old stratford woman were arrested, then released with future court dates. At london city hall acknowledgement from local leaders that london's homeless service hub plan may have been overly ambitious. Darryl newcomb has more on the evolving expectations. >> We need leadership to what seems to be a sputtering vision for the homeless. Meanwhile, we ourselves have turned the page on how to use and are pursuing these other uses. The owner of 7.43 wellington road told the planning committee his proposal to open a service hub for homeless londoners on the site was derailed by delays rolling out the application process. I just want to give you a bit of reality. The london development institute, a lobbying organization for local developers, then admitted that there's a lack of interest by most property owners to host a hub division was. >> Up to 15 knots. That's not ever going to happen. I think we're in realistic terms. We're hoping that the city can get to a lot to get to 5. >> The whole of community response to homelessness set a goal of eventually opening 600 highly supportive housing units and up to 15 low barrier service hubs where people can stabilize today, just 2 hubs and about 100 housing units of open for finding it hard to find suitable >> We can see that today and quite frankly, I think we're finding it hard to find

suitable operators, operators with the expertise. Several committee members expressed concern that the emergency care establishment zoning required for a hub location may not actually be appropriate given how hubs are probably going to operate. Initially, the official zoning description of an emergency care establishment specifies that people are to stay there. Generally less than 6 weeks for now. And in the near future, people entering a hub may have to stay there until highly supportive housing units become available. There's only so much through put the you can have from a hub. >> If you don't have housing units available for people to move into. The deputy mayor believes the city might have to develop a special zoning descriptions specifically for hubs. What we're really trying to do is kind of lb a square peg into a round hole with some zoning around emergency care facilities. In the meantime, expectations are being revised for the homelessness strategy. We were never going to have 15 hubs. 15 hubs was the cadillac grandiose plan. Daryl newcombe, ctv news. Meanwhile, mayor josh morgan says he wants to shift focus away from the number of final hubs that get built to the number of people there able to help. >> Our checkbox at the end of this is did we create x number of jobs? You know, it's not, it's did we get people off the street and into proper housing, that will be the focus that I have a note community to continue be the focus. >> The whole of community response, regardless of what the numbers are in between. >> It was a beautiful day, a nice fresh start this morning. Lots of sunshine. The temperatures hitting 25 degrees at the london airport this afternoon, a bit cooler as we headed north 21 in wiarton mount forest 22 on the hour in goderich sarnia, 26 degrees, a beautiful evening underway. We have a nice a ridge of high pressure in through the tennessee and ohio valley. And it is keeping us nice and clear low pressure system to the north will is state of the north. Gorgeous night under way. Temperatures nice and comfortable clear conditions in the winds easing off 15 degrees by midnight. I'll take you through the forecast will start nice and sunny tomorrw, but we have some showers for the weekend. I'll tell you the timing. And when the best time to get outdoors will be stay with us. >> Thanks very much, julie. Also coming up, it's official. The wnba is expanding to toronto and the months of speculation. What that means for the women's game in canada. Plus, how the london knights are preparing down in second offer their opening match at Dreaming of living close to a golf course? Then you need to get your dream lottery ticket. Get it by midnight tonight. That is the deadline for the bonus draw. A chance for you to win $45,000. We are here at the Sky lounge of the dream condo here in Port Stanley. We'll go inside shortly and show it off to you. But in the meantime, I wanted to chat with Kayla from the Children's Health Foundation to find out how the lottery helps our hospitals. Well, sharing Dream lottery really is a win win. Proceeds from every ticket support our local hospitals. It's an incredible source of funding for us to invest in patient care, research, equipment and education. And since 1996, Dream Lottery has raised over $59 million. $59 million! See what your ticket can do. Get yours by midnight tonight. You want to be in for a chance to win $45,000 in that bonus draw. And remember, you have a chance at a pretty cool grand prize, to For 55 years, Conway Furniture has been Southwestern Ontarios source for quality furniture, mattresses and flooring. Visit our spacious and tastefully decorated showroom for todays trends and colours. Rest test a recliner or luxury mattress and get ideas for your home. Our staff is there to help with your projects from custom upholstry to custom flooring. Start your shopping at ConwayFurniture.com, but dont miss a visit to Conway Furniture, Line 86 just East of Listowel. Ultimate Bath Systems is a little bit different because we don't do any kind of cover up work at all. We do a fresh installation, brand new materials right down to the studs. We also install all of our own wall systems, which are manufactured right here in our own facility. We use premium quality materials to make sure that we can give a proper warranty. And theyll know for peace of mind that everything in their house is brand new and top quality. you're getting exactly what you're paying for from beginning to end. We've got a bathroom for every budget (music) Closed captioning is brought to you by Braam's Custom Cabinets. 40 years of creating beautiful locally built cabinetry for Southwestern Ontario. BraamsCustomCabinets.com monday night memorial cup coverage brought to you by the western fair. >> The london knights have

arrived in saginaw for this year's memorial cup. Their first game is saturday as they look to take home london's 3rd national championship. Brent lale will be covering the entire tournament for us from second on the begins our coverage with a look at the knights preparation for junior hockey's top prize. >> Knight's equipment manager chris meta is preparing for up to 12 days on the road. We try to cram everything from the just room into a few trunks and you know, with hopefully I've ever been to the saving grace. He's being to the memorial cup before you know what they supply, what they don't supply. One fortunate thing is it's 3 hours up the road. So. Happened forget something you know of someone can skew back or some. Coming up the break. And while the equipment team prepares behind the scenes, the players prepare on the ice. >> Goalie michael simpson went to the tournament last year with peterborough. Whatever team can got out, managed to find a way to get through it you know, kind of battle of it all the little things that you have to do during that stretch, like, you know, sometimes, yeah, you know, tally gets a gets all gets time, I think it's all part of it. >> You know, I think I think the guys take 12 days inn hotel to the other lift that trophy hopeful that a laundry machine there leading to some laundry. I'm not talks more anything we can you know, stay one of the unique aspects of the memorial cup is you rarely know anything about your opponents. >> Luckily for london may face saginaw 10 times this season. >> But they had to do a deep dive into the western and quebec league champions. The coaching staff will make sure everybody's very go deals, watch lot of tape on. >> No drummondville motion moose jaw. So it's a it's something that we enjoy to do and that the players with joy of of the. The experience at the memorial cup. I think it's a help eco experience. So I think we soak it all in and make sure have a chance to win the world cup will be one of those. It's great for the kids, they're all excited. You know. >> None of these have been there and and and you know, it's, it's the big dance, it's it's that that's the big tournament. A year. You know, a lot of teams don't get there. So pretty fortunate that were there and hopefully we can keep it going. Brent lale, ctv news. >> Complete coverage of the london knights at the memorial cup, including all weekend will be available on our website. Ctvnewslondon.ca. There will also be viewing parties at dundas place during each night's game during the tournament. The first one is saturday afternoon for their matchup with drummondville. >> And admission is free. >> The new pro sports franchise is coming to toronto. It's the first wnba expansion outside the united states. And as mike walker reports represents a significant milestone for women's sport in canada. >> Toronto, welcome to the w. >> After much anticipation, it's official. The wnba is coming to toronto. This is an incredibly important occasion and a historic one. >> I'm thrilled so many of you are here to celebrate this game, change this game-changing day for not only women's basketball, but for sports in canada. Kilmer sports ventures headed by mlse minority owner and chairman larry tanenbaum has been awarded the league's 14th franchise. A team tanenbaum says will be canada's and will inspire the next generation in will complete the pathway for women in this country. >> They will see heroes that look like them in person and on the air all summer long. >> Toronto has been on the league's radar for some time following the raptors championship run scotiabank arena. So that last year for the wnba first-ever preseason game in canada. We've seen time and time again that toronto is home to dedicated and enthusiastic basketball fans will never forget last year at scotiabank arena, I attended our toronto game lots of people coming up to me and saying thank you for making my dreams come true. The inaugural season will tip off in 2026 with home-court for the yet to be named team at coca-cola coliseum in games, occasionally played in montreal and vancouver tree. Suresh, who has been the raptors vp of basketball operations, announced today as the team's president are so excited for. >> That girls and women of canada and the people that love and support them to love and support us. We're going to play across canada, different we look forward to doing that in a way that no other its professional sports team in canada has ever done. Mike walker, ctv news, toronto. >> The london lightning are back on home court tonight in the basketball super league final. After splitting the first 2 games against kitchener, the bolts, even their series against the titans on sunday with a one 11 106 win game 3 of the best of 5 series

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