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(Announcer speaks wordson screen) >> Announcer: this is global news morning. >> Speaker: made a bad decision to not he was or wasn' coming. >> Jennifer: fans let down as the fans make soccer tickets t see one of their finest, but messy, does not plan to show up. Good morning I'm jennifer palma, thanks for joining us today. The completion dates for two major infructure projects in metro vancouver are being pushedied in a friday afternoon handout from the b-c government, touting milestones for the pros. Catherine urquhart reports. >> Catherine: the 2.83 billion dollar broadway subway line was scheduled to open in 202 then it was delayed to 2026. And now it's expected to be operational in 2027, frating would be users and businesses >> Speaker: I had to reduce hours, we used to open from 9 to 9, we couldn't afford the rent and wage and everything, all the expense is the same, our sales belts, I had to lay off some people, reduce hours, reduce inventory. >> Catherine: and then there's the new 1.37 billion dollar patullo replacement bridge. Construction challenges have pushed its expected opening to 2025. >> Speaker: the problem is everytime these projects either go behind schedule or over budget or both, that restricts other capital projects from being undertaken without a hit to our deficit.>> Catherine: later openings on the two mega projects couldn't be helped, according to bc's transportation minister. >> Speaker: we had some unavoidable delays, first one in a century pandemic made it difft to staff up to keep going to figure out safe work prots, and the also you know there's been conflict around the world block shipping lands, the red sea has not been in function we have parts coming that are eded in stages of the construction. >> Catherine: along the broadway subway line, it's costing people. >> Speaker: our sales dropped about 30 to 50%, average 30 some days 50 per cent compared toruction. >> Catherine: final price tags on the two mega projectsare still unknown. Catherine urquhart, global news. >> Jfer: soccer fans will head to the whitecaps and inter miami game today, but the main attraction will not be t. Famed soccer player, lionel messi. There are a lot of upset fans, including an eight-year-boy from langford. >> Speaker: I was like so excited to go see him play, I could noeep. >> Jennifer: carter's parents say they spent thousands dollars to bring him to vancouver to see messi play against whitecaps. Now that messi's not coming they say they feel let down by the vancouver club, the league, and messi himself. >> Speaker: it was kind of the whitecaps and his fault, cause the whitecaps used him for that, and the cover for the tick and het didn't show up. >> Speaker: the cost of living is so expensive today, its so hard to surviv this province, people saved up have this opportunity and now they're going to what I'm going to call is a regular whitecaps game and they would have paid 10 times what a normal seat would cost. >> Jennifer: messi is currently nursing a minor leg injury. The roughly four-thousand people evacuated from fort on are being told to be patient as it could still be days before they're allowed back home. A public meeting was held friday afternoon, to inform residents that essential services are slowly being restored after the to the parker lake wildfire nearly two weeks ago. The targetbegin a phased return is monday or continuing their patrols. >> Speaker: they don't know the difference between someone driving down the road unless they are in some kind of a vehicle that's identified as a fire service personnr somebody who's supporting the fire service, they don't know the difference between them anda looter so they are stopping people in our community. >> Jennifer: rain is in the forecast for this weekend. A notorious high-risk sex offender who disared from a halfway house last fall has beensentenced for breaching his supervision orders. Randall hopley went missing for 10 days in 2023, after cutting off his ankle monitoring device. Was also charged with using a computer at a public library in november of 2022 to access material that violated the terms of helease. Hopley pleaded guilty to three charges, the crown wanting a

four-year sentence, defence wag two years. The judge gave him 29 months. >> Speaker: I think he should have been put away for the rest of his existence, personally, but for some reason keep giving sex offenders light charges and light sentences, I don't understand it at all. >> Speaker: hould be permanent, they should be held on a permanent level, they should never be released, they should be under a continuation custody order permanently. >> Jennifer: with credit for time served hopley's sene is 18 months. He received another six months trial, to be served at the same time. International students are moreble housing while studying in canacompared to canadian-born students. Cording to 2021 data from statistics canada, more than 60% of the nearly 15 thousand international students in surrey, are in what's call unsuitable housing, to be deemed suitable housing, under the national occupancy standards, each adult in the dwelling must have their own bedroom, if they aren't part of a couple. >> Ser: I think these things are taken way too lightly when it comes to international students because it's an assumption that they really need it and they'll just take whatever is given to them. >> Speaker: generally, it's felt that there's not enough housing available and that they havebeen living like sardines at times all bunched together. 7, 8 of them maybe living in 2,3 bedroom basements. >> Jennifer: cheema says students need to understand they hao follow certain rules and regulations, but if landlords are taking advan of or exploiting them, there are organizations they can reach out to for help. The pne has revealed the naming rights partner for its amphitheatre: freedom mobile. Pne, ceo, shelley frost announcing the ten-year namingrights agreement during a ground breaking ceremony friday. This also marks the beginning of a 2 year partnership between t wireless provider and the fair. The outdoor concert space is expected to open in 2026. The bc cancer foundation I unveiling its new care andresearch pavilion in victoria. This expansion adds 12 thousand square feet to the existing cancer centre across the street, creating a space for more supportive care services and treatment, mainly surrou patient and family counseling. The building was purch and renovated solely through bc cancer foundation donor funding a first in the foundation's history. Despite the large addition one patient says it's not enough, and that the government can't rely on donor dollars to address the treatment backlog. >> Ser: I mean there are certainly services and supports that it's going to offer that are needed, but we're still in a situation where people are dying on waitlists to get treatment and we know that the services that this facility is going to essential care. >> Speaker: when we think about cancer care often we think about chemotherapy radiation surgery, but in fact it's the whole person that needs e cared for including those supportivecomponents, the mental health piece, so really having that in a separate space will reallyeding that additional support. >> Jennifer: the pavilion is sche by this time next year. 7:08 A.M. on a saturday morning but a good morning to you. >> Steph: good morning, happy saturday a bit of soggy weekend overall but we are shaking off these morning owers, so stay is the best day of your weekend especially this afternoon. We seeing that unsettled weekend long but tomorrow is worse than today and I will tell you all about that, sitting at 10 degrees look like working a little bit of a pause already, were looking at mostly cy skies for the afternoon hours with bs in those clouds, the rain is going to stop today, so morning showers and cooler temperatures across the entire province, we should be at 19 degrees last year very warm but only making it to 15 and then we are getting lower than that as wad into your day tomorrow.so it is going to be cooler here's a flashback to yesterday's hotspot at fort nelson with the mid-20 mark and then the hotspot the country was windsor or, ontario so warm in weather warnings and and your day tomorrow and down the c and you are moving in with the rain, so and upwards of 10 millimetres today with the coasta regions, where the net that ran through tvernight beginning and then into your day tomorrow, easing ishowers by

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