CFTO - Monday, May 27, 2024 - 08:00 a.m. (ET) - Segment #1

>> Anne-Marie: it's monday, may 27th. Total destruction. This is what's left of a refugee camp in rafah after idf attacks sunday night. At least 45 people have been killed including women and children. >> The students are steadfast in our demands for divestment and disclosure. >> No backing down. Talks have gone nowhere and now we will see how the u of t plans to enforce its deadline for pro-palestinian protesters to clear off campus. >> A saskatchewan man is at the peak of his game and the view from the top is life changing. From the summit of the world's tallest mountain. Stay with us, canada. "your morning" starts right [upbeat theme music] >> Anne-Marie: good morning, canada. Welcome to "your morning." I'm anne-marie mediwake. >> Lindsey: good morning, I'm lindsey deluce. >> Kelsey: I'm kelsey McEWEN. Happy monday. >> Lindsey: it is 8:01 eastern. That means the deadline for pro-palestinian protesters to leave their encampment at the university of toronto is officially here. But there are no signs that the protesters going anywhere. I want to show you the scene this morning. On campus, the tents are there. The signs are still up. Protesters are expected to hold a rally right now. The 8 o'clock deadline to call on the school to meet their demands, negotiations were held over the weekend. The encampment leaders are giving school officials their counter effort. The school says it will seek a court injunction to force them to leave. We are watching that this morning closely. >> Search and rescue efforts are happening right now after an idf attack sunday night. 45 people have been killed and many women and children are among the dead. The idf say they targeted and killed two hamas figures. The strike comes two days after the international court of justice ordered israel to immediately halt its military operation in rafah where hundreds of thousands of people have been sheltering. The first long-range attack since january. Those rocket attacks were intercepted by air defence systems.

>>> People forced out by fire in fort nelson, B.C. are being told to be careful. >> Traffic is going to be heavy. Even if people spread themselves out evenly. Be patient. >> An evacuation order will be lifted at 8 o'clock this morning local time. The local emergency room will be open. Stores will be open. Gas stations will be open as well. The entire community was cleared out may 10th because of the parker lake fire burning nearby. Four homes were destroyed. 6 properties damaged. The fire is still considered out of control. They are telling people in fort nelson, you will still be under an evacuation alert. >> Tomorrow for the first time ever, a question will be asked in an indigenous language inside the ontario legislature. Ndp deputy leader will rise in the chamber to ask a question in og cree. His family, friends and indigenous leaders will be at queen's park to see the historic moment. It will also be a birthday present for his mother who turns 79 years old tomorrow. >> Imagine thinking you scored a champion winning goal only to have it called back. >> Lindsey: they thought that was it because it was the second overtime. They thought they won it all when they scored. The celebration already started. The goal was called back. Goaltender interference. And then this happened a minute later. Boston scoring to a deciding fifth game. Boston will have home ice advantage for wednesday's game. >> One saskatchewan man is proving the journey to the top is not an easy one, but worth it. >> You leave at 8 p.m. It's pitch back for the majority of the time. >> Lindsey: he reached the summit of mount everest early this month. He made it at 5:30 this morning. Proudly waving a saskatchewan flag. He is already eyeing another summit, too. >> Kelsey: we used today go camp every summer. It's stunning. I saw it from very far away as a child. I have such admiration for people who do this. My brother yesterday did a 12-hour run yesterday that involved a lot of walking. He said to his credit, he was just happy he made it through. He sent me a step reader at the end of the day. It was more than 80,000 steps. The next day, because they were in the golden day, he said I just went on a water fall hike. >> Anne-Marie: your brother is so active. >> Kelsey: at one point when he had 50,000 steps, I was like at 3200. >> Anne-Marie: good for him. >> Kelsey: kudos to you if you are doing any kind of training. We are going to collingwood. We are showing this community because later on today, there is a chance of seeing pretty significant rainfall. It has already started to rain there this morning. The plants benefitting from all of this moisture. It's going to come down at such an intensity later on. If you have any new sprout lings and you want to give them cover, it would be advisable to do so. Heavy rain coming in from the southwest of ontario is just picking up in intensity as it moves its way up across lake erie. What our computer models are forecasting is that it continues to intensify. The severity of this could continue to increase into eastern ontario. This morning... We have almost three pockets of rain. Southwest ontario, central communities heading into eastern ontario and southwest québec. And then heading over the great lakes toward sault Ste marie. Those three areas continue as we go into midday today. By lunch-time, it will be a fullout rainfest. All the way toward the prince edward county area. Southwest québec, again, you will see thunderstorms building

into the region. Also tracking through the montréal area toward the eastern townships. As we head into the mid-afternoon, this is particularly concerning. For the likelihood of that severity to jump up. Hail will be a big concern here. 2 to 3 centimetres in diameter, due to the fact that there will be a bit of corkscrewing in that cloud allowing that hail to develop. It's also possible we could see rotation within this as well. The same region that had the rotation and tornado warnings last week through the kawarthas heading eastward toward ottawa region. Keep that in mind. It's a good day -- I said it so many times this spring already. Good day to keep your push notifications on. As we go into the evening, the storms will persist. Ask they linger and they continue in intensity as we head into tomorrow morning. That band, that front sitting over our maritime provinces, stretching up toward labrador and backing into ontario and québec. We will see more showery-type of rainfall tomorrow. If you are in northwest ontario, you will hang on to that cloud. Once this clears, we are set to see a dry end to the week. Wednesday, thursday, friday, looking dryer than initially forecast. Something to look forward to there. For atlantic canada, ahead of the front arriving tomorrow morning, a fairly sunny day ahead. Already, though, environment canada has issued a wreckhouse wind warning for the southwest of newfoundland in advance of that cold front. When it arrives tuesday night in newfoundland, winds will pick up at 100km/h. Knowing that, this is already issued more than 24 hours in advance. For now, here is a look at your local forecast. Channel channel-port aux basques . >> Anne-Marie: canada has a two tier system when it comes to public washrooms. It's not only difficult to find a public bathroom, the problem becomes more desperate when you phase more physical and economical barriers. Joining us this morning from halifax on why public restrooms are so important is lezlie lowe. Journalist and author of "no place to go." >> Good morning. >> Anne-Marie: according to a 2021 public toilet index report, canada has 18 public toilets for 8,000 people. Toronto has 300. How did the pandemic impact how we understand the importance of public restrooms and toilets? >> I felt like the pandemic was a really big opportunity for people to start to understand the really deep need for public bathrooms in our cities because it was a time when everybody was faced with this kind of lack of access. People had pretty good access before who commuted by car, had short commutes and would go into their offices and had their coffee shops. Those changes happened on a broad societal level and people really understood, I felt, what was happening for people who had less access. We saw a lot of cities making changes during covid. Providing temporary options for people. What I hoped would come out of that would be a big change in the way cities approached public bathrooms. We have seen the needle move a tiny bit. >> Anne-Marie: we started out this interview by describing a two tier system for public bathrooms, what does that mean >> We all think of public bathrooms in the way that we use public bathrooms. If you have good access, you think access is great for anybody. If you have poor access, you are not able to live your life the way you might normally live your life. Bathrooms are set up for people who are not caregivers, who are housed. Who are middle class, which sounds ridiculous.

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