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>>> That is our newscast for this friday. Thank you for joining us. I'll be back later tonight with ctv national news at 11. For ongoing coverage tune to "ctv news channel"." >>> I'm heather butts. Your local >> It's friday, may 24th. This is ctv at 6. Here's what's making news tonight. >> Summer construction. I cry says a lot housing pushes

newcomers to consider leaving. >> A mix of sun and cloud, less humid with the chance of a few showers this weekend. >> From our maritimes news centre, this is ctv news at 6:00. Is todd battis. >> Good evening as we head into the heavy driving and tourism season. We're learning getting around halifax is going to test motorists. >> Construction is closing a portion of downtown for months. Combine that with bridge closures and it could be a long hot summer. Ctv's jonathan macinnis reports. >> It's going to be a summer of detours and patients for drivers around halifax. Starting june 17th, the section of barrington street from upper water to duke street will be closed for 6 months. >> Barrington street has to be lowered significantly in terms of great. We have to install new services in barrington street to marry with the new aligned barrington street directly behind me. As well. We need to redevelop the on-street transit. >> A contingency plan is in place to limit the disruption. It's all part of the city's 122.6 million dollar redevelopment plan for the cogswell district of the same day that we're closing barrington street cogswell street will open. >> And it will provide a detour route connecting to barrington street to the north directly behind me. There is another major project. Motorists will need to plan for the 60,000 vehicles a day across the U.K. variant. >> They'll need to find another route for 3 weekends in june and one in july, when the span will be closed for maintenance will be replacing bearings. We're going to be repaving the entire middle lane and we've got to scrape it all down to steal. >> And then there's multi layers is very different than the construction that goes on at a bridge on a highway and we're doing a bunch of overhead inspections of of cables motorist are preparing for both construction projects. It's going to be a pain for people getting downtown. >> Because that is a major artery and certainly people going across the bridge on weekends. A lot of traffic. The bus stops on barrington street will be relocated, but will be close to the existing stocks. >> The cars will project is on schedule to be finished by the end of 2025 the time once the barrington street project is complete at the end of this year, it will be connected to the newly realigned cogswell street that you see here behind me. Both will then be permanently open and this portion of the overall project will be complete. >> Jon, you mentioned it earlier. Patients going to need it. John, downtown halifax >> New brunswick could lose a 5th of its teachers and its english school districts over the next 5 years due to retirements. Ctv's laura brown tells us there are calls for recruitment plan. >> Of the new brunswick teachers association, 6500 members. 1200 are eligible to retire within the next 5 years. A large number at a time when the province is already running short on qualified teachers. Teachers are stretched really, really thin right now and not having the the enough resources at times can really be, can really be during. And peter legacy claims the situation could become a real crisis. >> If decision makers don't act now. And I do have, you know, concerns that it gets lost, maybe over the summer months and teachers are in the same place come fall. The system is relying on supply teachers like you see says the english school districts have issued 1011 local permits to certified supply teachers who have a varying degree of post-secondary education of those 164 are under the age of 50 summer. Universities have not feel dollar education seats that we've asked them to do that the department of education did release a long-term report last month, promising to address the issues facing the system, which includes a recruitment and retention plan. But legacy feels it needs more urgency. Hogan promises he's trying some things were going to empower districts because districts to >> Give contracts right away and will ensure that the money is there for the contract. Hogan admits the province has been behind the game, watching other provinces hire new brunswick train teachers who haven't been offered contracts. >> Another problem making matters worse. Violence in schools. I would think that teachers are seeing increases in but I think we see that in our community as well. >> A video surfaced last week showing 2 teens in an altercation office school property. It sparked questions on how prevalent violence among youth has become. It's getting worse. We find out why hogan said during his time as a principal, he dealt with cases of bullying or violence more times than he can count. He did say there's data that shows that schools that are resource with behavioural

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