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encampment removed from their downtown montréal campus last week but were denied due to a lack of urgency as it is not blocking access to the school. The encampment outside of uqam science complex now has about 40 tenths. >> We've asked the court to reject injunction altogether. We don't believe that given the results last night to allow the passage of any emergency exit we don't leaders any urgent need for the court to intervene on questions. >> Reporter: justice louis-joseph gouin said he will likely not give his decision on the injunction request until monday, but did say that he wants to ensure that the protest remains peaceful. >> The judge as before things got started was encouraging parties to try to discuss things among themselves and try to arrive at certain conclusions perhaps which would simple fire his path that the they could agree to things and he doesn't have to order them. >> Reporter: in montréal, gareth madoc-jones, city news. >> Announcer: still ahead, on city news. >> Amazon has been a very welcome addition to our province and our economy. >> Reporter: calgary is welcoming its first new amazon robotics fulfilment centre. How the new facility will help the province's growing labour market. >> I think it's sad that we are losing this and replacing it with something else remic the saddledome, a lipid plaza, and changes to canada limbic park. Why some calgarians feel the city's olympic legacy I Closed Captioning is brought to you by lotto 6/49 The next Gold Ball jackpot is $54 million! Plus, the Classic $5 million jackpot. You've been waiting to get outand drive a New Nissan,great offersare ready So, check out all the latesttech, features and thrills - it's all happening right now. Now, at Nissan, lease select models from as low as 2.99% for 24 months. ( ) It's Leon's Storewide Super Sale! Save up to 50% on furniture. Save up to 50% on mattresses. Plus, get an l2 washer and dryer set for only $998 including a 2 year warranty! Ends Wednesday! Okay, and root beer to drink? No. [gasping] What? He didn't get root beer? I'm getting frozen root beer. Oh! Try frozen a&w root beer with sweet cream. A refocused healthcare system in Alberta means... Some of the people in this waiting room won't have to be here. This family could have a practitioner to call their own. These patients could have more continuing care options. This person could be accessing mental health treatment. Leaving fewer people in Urgent Care who can now access more timely acute care. Giving every Albertan the care you need, when and where you need it. Learn more at Alberta.ca/FocusedCare a message from the Government of Alberta. We were born from a deep desire to create positive change, together. One-hundred-fifteen years later, that impact is felt everywhere. It's where we've made innovations accessible to those who need it most. Where we've championed truth and justice... for all. Where we've mapped out futures... we're already living. From here to here and even here. We're not just transforming lives. We're shaping the world. Abel: Hi, I'm Abel. Mom: I often forget to mention that he's an amputee because Abel will try any activity he can. Abel: My arm helps me with basically everything! Mom: He doesn't see what he can't do, he sees what he can do. Abel: Yeah, this is helping. Mom: The War Amps has just given him the ability to do all the activities every kid can do. Abel: When youdonate to The War Amps, you help kidslike me. Thank you! Ram Power Days are here.The power to choose fromthe most awarded truck brand over the last five years. Like Ram Classic.As versatile as it is capable. Ram 1500, voted bestlarge pickup in Canada. Or Ram Heavy Dutywith a no-charge Cummins. And you don't pay for 90 days. The power is yours.The time is now. Get 20% off msrp on Ram Classic for up to $14,200 in discounts. Plus get 4.99% financing. Its been a long time comin... You dont win it to keep it, you win it to be a part of its history!” and I always knew Always hard to see the difference between winning and losing!” Got a heart of steel (crowd erupts) Ta da da daaaa Stanley Cup Champions!” You know we waited such... a long time, long time! (celebration cheers) Ta da da daaaa The quest for the hardest trophy in win in sports!” Well here it is... Here it is! Announcer: M.A.S.H. the comedy that changed television.

>> Reporter: the truck driver behind the tragic humboldt broncos bus crash has officially been ordered to be deported. The decision for jaskirat singh sidhu came down today at an immigration and refugee board hearing. Jaskirat singh sidhu's lawyer said all deport jaskirat singh sidhu is prove he's not canadian and that he committed a serious crime. Jaskirat singh sidhu drove through a stop sign and into the path of the junior hockey team's bus back in 2018, killing 16 people and injuring 13 others. He was sentenced to ate years in -- he was sentenced to eight years in prison and granted full parole last year. Jaskirat singh sidhu is a permanent resident originally from india. His lawyer says the deportation process could take months or even years. >> Amazon has been a very welcome addition to our province and our economy. >> Reporter: calgary celebrating the facility's first new amazon robotic fulfillment centre facility would create over 1,600 jobs welcome news for province labour market welcome to keep pace with the population. >> We know this matters not only to job creaters and investors, which the many people were moving to alberta and finding work. >> Reporter: calgary is currently the fastest growing city in the country, but the unemployment rate spiked in april. Mayor jyoti gondek said the new 2.8 millions square-foot facility will help manage that growth. >> The city has to be firing on all cylinders when it comes to managing that growth right now. We have make sure people places to live, we have to make sure that people have ways to get to work. We have to make sure we have implement opportunities. >> Reporter: the mayor also hopes the new facility we'll help local businesses within calgary reach more customers. >> It's leveling the playing field for a lot of small businesses because it is allowing them to get their products out to market quicker and they are able to compete with some of the large big-box retailers. >> Reporter: amazon has grown as up -- it's albert and workforce from 402,019 woman -- workforce from 4000 in 2019 workforce from 4000 in 2019 to 6000 workers this year with plans to expand further this year. >> In alberta the growth and number of jobs go up. We will begin to to go up overall. >> Reporter: the company hopes technology in the new facility we'll help advance productivity in the workspace by using automated systems and robots to help employees pack and ship customer orders faster. In calgary, margo rubin, city news. >> I actually thought it might be ai generated. >> Reporter: but the image is real rcmp is no allowing indigenous officers to wear the ribbon skirt as part of the dress uniform, but the move to advance cultural change has sparked outrage. Some people say that the move is simply pandering while others say, given the rcmp's history and reputation among indigenous peoples, that makes this a bad look. >> The rcmp, one of the first jobs that they had was to push the indigenous peoples onto the reservation and force them to say there. That another job later on when they had to go to the community, grabbed the children, and bring them to residential school and put the parents in jail if they didn't give up their children. >> Reporter: according to the native women's association of canada, a ribbon skirt symbolizes sacred tradition and are an embodiment of resilience to colonial cultural erasure. Rcmp said the move to add ribbon skirts came from indigenous officers themselves. In a statement to city news rcmp said the idea came from the women indigenous network, noting that there are 311 regular rcmp members who self identified indigenous women, non binary and two spirit the statement adds the ribbon skirt the women led initiative supports employee pride sports cultural change in the organization in hopes to build and mend relationships of indigenous people and communities. Na'kuset, a cree woman and sixties scoop survivor said that she understands why indigenous women within the rcmp would want to wear the ribbon skirt, but feels that the rcmp is passing the work of reconciliation off to indigenous women. >> If it's indigenous led, it means that the rcmp as an institution isn't doing the work, it's the indigenous people that are putting it forward that are making this initiative that are wearing the ribbon skirt and the rcmp is like, yes, good. Reconciliation. >> Cultural transformation and reconciliation is not a cop in a ribbon skirt. It's the restitution of indigenous land and life the ending of state sanctioned violence and systematic violence as we know it. >> Reporter: assistant professor and red river métis dr christian boss is writing a book on the history of policing.

she said the rcmp relationship with indigenous peoples remains uncomfortable adding a people -- -- uncomfortable adding police want to wear the ribbon skirt, more progress on reconciliation must happen. >> If it was ever appropriate, it would be when these colonial institutions adopt and fulfil all 94 calls to action set out in the trc as well as the calls to justice for support and the final inquiry for missing -- to missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. >> Reporter: in ottawa, xiaoli li, city news. >> Reporter: as calgarians prepare for a busy travel season, they have been warned of possible airport disruptions. It comes us more than 9,000 unionized workers with the canada border services agency voted overwhelmingly for a strike mandate. The union said 96 percent of their members voted in favour of taking job action calling it a last resort. The union president said one of the key issues is aligning cbsa wages with other law enforcement agencies. In a statement, the federal government saying that it is fully committed to reaching a fair and reasonable agreement for border services employees. Mediation sessions are set for early june but if no deal is reached, you could see delays at land borders and long lines at airport security heading into the summer time. >> That building is known around the world for calgary. >> Reporter: as a group of calgarians continue to try and preserve one of calgary's most iconic fixtures of the city skyline, that saddledome, changes at canada olympic park and at olympic plaza have some feeling the city's olympic legacy is begin to fade. >> That's our culture, I'm fifth-generation albertan and that is our heritage when that is off the landscape, we will hurt our image worldwide. >> Reporter: but the dome is not the only piece of olympic infrastructure set to come down. In 2018, the ski jumps at cop were decommissioned due to a lack of funding and olympic plaza undergo a major -- plaza is about to undergo a major redevelopment some people feel calgary slowly losing its olympic legacy that helped shape the city into what it is today. >> It's very sad actually I'm shocked that we've been doing things like that especially saddledome. >> Calgary is progressively changing infrastructure all the time, let's not forget our history let's not forget to keep it raw there for people to see and understand. >> Reporter: the calgary municipal land corporation has launched an online survey giving calgarians a chance to have their say on what the revamped olympic plaza should look like. As for the saddledome replacement, groundwork for the new arena has already begun the final design has yet to be released one member with save our saddledome said he hopes the new building will feature some saddledome charm. >> With a new design some way to honour the saddledome it is such an important part of calgary original calgarians involved in their. >> Reporter: the new event centre expected to be completed by 2027 while the new look olympic plaza is set to open in 2028. In calgary, city news. >> Reporter: independent presidential candidate robert f. Kennedy junior is speaking at the libertarian convention friday in washington dc. This year's theme, become ungovernable. The presumptive gop nominee is scheduled to speak at the same convention on saturday he ramped up his attack on kennedy in recent weeks. >> Republicans, get it out of your minds they were gonna vote for this guy because he's conservative. He is not. >> Reporter: a new poll that showed that voters who did not vote for trump or biden in 2020 might be considering kennedy in 2024. Kennedy challenge trump to a debate at this season's convention but it's unlikely to happen. Meanwhile, president joe biden and trump are prepping for their first presidential debate next month, it's happening earlier than expected, giving kennedy less time to qualify. >> I think president biden does not particularly want to see me on stage. Present trump said he's happy to have me there if I meet the criteria. >> Reporter: it's unclear if his independent run would hurt trump or biden at the polls. Kennedy who only had ballot access in a handful of states as he expected to meet debate criteria and has accused trump and biden of working to exclude him from the debate stage. In order to qualify for that first debate hosted by cnn on june 27, canada does kennedy -- june 27, kennedy must appear on enough state ballots to reach the 230 electoral vote threshold.

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