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what the future holds and what the city has planned. Blake, dallas. >> Blake: all right, thank you, meghan. There are some new developments in the ransom ware demand against london drugs after a recent cyberattack. >> The online group lockbit demanded that the company pay $25 million by today or stolen data would be released. According to one cyber security analyst, the initial demand disappeared from the group's website on wednesday. The retailer said it would not pay up. Something some experts say could be risky. >> Digital data is something that can be stored and copied and shared. So what guarantee do they have that that data would not surface again five years from now, ten years from now? >> Blake: london drugs says it is paying for up to two years of credit monitoring for its employees. >> Dallas: calgary police released a photo of a man believed to be responsible for a hit-and-run crash in bridgeland last month. >> Blake: police hope that sun recognizes the man. Believed to be driving an older model honda odyssey van. >> Dallas: april 27th, investigators say a man fell in the parking lot of a gas station on 4th street northeast. He was run over twice by the van when it reversed and drove off. The victim taken to hospital suffering life-altering injuries. Anyone with information is asked to call police or crimestoppers. >>> A calgary man faces charges after allegedly making unwanted sexual comments while exposing himself to a teenager. >> Blake: the incident happened in the men's change room at the thornhill aquatic and recreation centre in huntington hills earlier this month. Police say the teenager who did not engage with the 64-year-old man left and told his mom about the incident. The man is now facing charges including committing an indecent act. >> Gas prices are seeing a 20-cent spread across the city right now. >> Blake: yeah. It's selling as high as $1.62 a litre and as low as $1.42 a litre depending where you fill up in the city. Energy and gas expert dan McTEAGUE says there's no clear reason for the range in prices. >> Dallas: he does say the gas stations replacing the cost of the fuel, the prices should be around $1.44 a litre, and he says that the prices right now are on par with other communities across western canada the U.S. midwest. >> If you're getting gasoline in calgary for under $1.52, you're doing well. If you're in edmonton, buying $1.50, you're in the lead, not the gas station. So take advantage of it while you can. Things like this don't always happen and they don't always last. >> Blake: gas prices are 2 to 3 cents a litre back in edmonton. >> Dallas: would not make sense to spend your gas money up to edmonton to get the lower prices and drive back. Don't do that. >> Leslie: really? You could go to west edmonton mall and stay in the tiki room which is a bucket list item. What did you say? 1.42. >> Blake: yeah? >> Leslie: I'm a gas hawk, and I'm always looking and noticing, and I've not seen that, and looking up where it is. I got 1.45 yesterday, and it was 2 cents a litre on wednesday. I buy my gas on wednesdays or saturdays when you get the discount, and that took it to 1.45 and I walked away patting myself on the back. Now I'm interested who has 1.42. Certainly 1.61's out there and watching for that, and a big picture on the map. Not much to slow you down. This has just happened. This is a look at 16th avenue. This is westbound 16th avenue right near sait, right around 11th street in the northwest part of the city, and eastbound there, and westbound there, and lacks like getting through in a single lane. Hard to get a grip of what is going on here. Looks like various emergency crews on scene. Single lane traffic getting through. Lots of people walking around. Brandi is going to try to make her way to the scene. She was on the other side of the city, and she may be making her way to the scene. We'll check with her in a moment, and I wanted to show you in the north part of the city. It's been up and down here, and I watched southbound deerfoot 64th, and McKNIGHT boulevard, and got busy, and bunchy, and started to open up a bit again. And we're in the open up phase of our drive to work in the northeast part of the city. I'll keep an eye on that, and we'll get to bunchy -- probably 20, 25 minutes or so. That is your ok traffic. Let's go to brandi. Brandi, you're on your way to 16th and 10th. Did you manage to make it there yet? >> Not quite there yet.

we're on the other side of the city, and did make it to 16th and crowchild, and this stretch of the road, and the southbound lanes, making their way the bottom part of the screen, and quite a bit of space in between vehicles, and a nice break for crowchild trail after we had the sank sinkhole that caused the delays, and nice flowing traffic in the kensington area. Get your diy on during the get-ready for summer sale at home hardware with deals on paint and power tools only to june 5th. Up in global 1, I'm brandi warren. >> Tiffany: thank you so much, brandi. We're getting a break from that rain. Even the lower lying cloud cover. That's why brandi and crew up in global 1 are able to fly which is great to have them with us again this morning. 6° is what we are currently sitting at, with a light northwesterly breeze, and 10 to 20 kilometres an hour, and temperatures in and around the city this morning, between 5 and 7°. Taking a look up at red deer. They're currently at 6°. It's 0 in banff. 6 in lethbridge. And 3 in medicine hat. Daytime highs today for the southern half of the province ranging between 8 and 14°. So still a cooler day but in the coming days, we're going to see temperatures warming up. That risk of showers and thunderstorms continues, but temperatures do get better and better. We could -- or we are seeing, pardon me, some snow at higher elevations to the west of us, otherwise scattered showers across central alberta, and sourcescattered showers and possible thunderstorms for central and southern alberta, and as we make our way through the day today, temperatures tomorrow, and 15° for red deer, and 16 for medicine hat, and 17 for lethbridge, and 13 for banff. As mentioned, could see some possible thunderstorms tomorrow as well for southern alberta, and that includes us here in calgary, and high of 15°, and 40% chance of seeing the thunderstorms throughout the day tomorrow. Saturday, very similar. 16°, and 40% chance of seeing some thunderstorms. Could see a bit of rain lingering into sunday morning, and keeping an eye on that because it's the calgary marathon which we will hear more about. And 18° is the high on monday, and 20 on monday, and 23 on tuesday, and very nice warm start to the work week next week. Blake, dallas. >> Dallas: sure is. Thanks, tiffany. Calgary's population is up more than 6%. According to statistics canada, there are nearly 96,000 more people here than there were at the end of 2022. >> Blake: that is putting a lot of strain on the city's housing market. In an update to a city committee, councillors told 5 of the 8 recommendations in the housing strategy have been completed, including citywide rezoning, and making parcels available to affordable housing providers. >> Dallas: since the strategy's approval, market conditions are worse, and vacancy rates tumbled to 1 the 1.1%. Ward 8 councillor courtney walcott says the city is moving fast, there is no solution. >> We'll see more people in need, and that will keep growing until we see the system stabilizing, and it will be a while because the need is so prevalent. >> If it's nonmarket housing, and we're delivering through the nonmarket housing is nominal. >> Blake: ward 10 councillor andre chabot says he doesn't believe that the strategy is doing enough to help calgarians who are really struggling, and need subsidized housing. >> Dallas: and the plan is moving forward to encourage calgarians to build more secondary suites, and the city is offering thousands of dollars in incentives. >> There are a lot of tight parameters. Councillors are warning there are tight parameters about what the money has to be used for. >> They need to know the rules of the safe suite before they design it. The building permits, the inspections at the end, and a lot of parameters making sure whoever is living in the secondary suite or basement suite is doing so safely. >> When you look at the cost of new homes, the cost of renovations is very high. You look at the incentives there, are the incentives enough to say yes, I want to jump in to make it happen. >> Blake: so the motion will go to council later this month. If approved, the city would pay up to $10,000 when the suite is registered. There could be an additional 5,000 for those who meet certain accessibility requirements and up to $1,250 for energy efficiency improvements. >> Dallas: we spoke to basement builders calgary who say a new basement suite reno that meets the standards would cost at least $80,000. >> I think a lot of homeowners would love an incentive program to be able to alleviate some of the costs. Right now, we are at about 25% of the basement developments. We do 240 a year, and 25% of them right now are all basement suites. Compared to last year, that's up about 22%. >> Blake: mark graham says he'll be even busier if the

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