CKEM - Wednesday, May 22, 2024 - 08:00 p.m. (ET) - Segment #1

[sigh] My heart was like this [thumping]. Right to the chalice. Now weve got to to go into week 2! Yep. This divison is going to be tougher. Come on! If we keep belieiving we can turn things around. Come on Wrexham. [chanting] Its an edge of your seat season. Welcome to Wrexham. All new Thursday's at 10. on fx and Citytv+. >> Kelly: we are going to finish up with something we came across on social media. This is "what I'm liking"." an organization californians were using washers and dryers to help kids read. The organization places books in laundromats where kids might be stuck for hours. It's called literacy in the laundromat. Say hello to carter and ian who watch in bakersfield. What's up? Hi. This is a great idea. I could have used this when I was a kid. I was very bored. There's only so much you can do play with those baskets on wheels. You're still in high school, right, carter? >> I am a proud junior at french high school your bakersfield. Even in high school the importance of literacy is not lost on me. I am so proud to be the chairman of the youth literacy committee. We are the committee that deals directly with youth related literacy initiatives, gets youth engaged with a youth related issue. One of my favorite initiatives is addressing the laundromat. Like you mention, there's so many times when kids have to go to the laundromat and spend: countless hours sitting there doing nothing. It's a good way to engage with our rural communities as well and getting books in the hands of kids so they can read. Hopefully boost our literacy rate. >> Kelly: absolutely. I think my hatred of quarters started at the laundromat. The organization as other projects too. >> Absolutely. The goal is to improve the lives of the community through literacy so we do that in multiple ways. Reading, writing, math, basic adult education, citizenship, esl, courier skills. We try to be the literacy safety net and that's why it's so important to include youth voice voice. The county is down when it comes to literacy rates post-pandemic. 35% of kids reading at standard. So when we think about especially as carter talked about, the rural community. Only 45% of current county residents speak english. When we think about needing to get multiple languages out there, culturally reflective material, it is so great. They give us ideas of where we can bring in these types of interventions. Even though the quarters are little annoying, I've noticed kids still like to read. They run up there and grab those books and what a unique idea to place literacy in a unique environment so that we are reaching kids no matter where they are at in the books are free. If the kids decide I want to take it home, we are all for that. We also administer the dolly parton imagination library. We are focused on early childhood literacy especially for zero to five. 11% of the population is enrolled in the dolly program. We're doing everything we can. >> Kelly: that is so incredible. Not everyone can afford books. It's really cool they could to take them. I can't let you leave. Carter, your mullet is so amazing. You win for best pair of debate. I was trying to be serious because it's very important thing you're doing but I'm like, that party in the back is making me so happy right now and it feels like home. Thank you so much, carter. Thank you, ian. It sent cool initiative, cool program. I'm liking your post. Makers of precise, the go-to precise pen of "the kelly clarkson show," they're going to be writing the council a check for $1,000. >> Thank you so much. Keep up the good work. Thanks so much. >> Kelly: thank you to our guests. Simu liu, luke newton, rebecca, alecia, stray kids. Have a great day. If it's not, change it.

broadcasting from treaty 6 territory, also home to many diverse first nations, inuit and metis peoples. This is citynews. [ ] >> The only thing living in this house is a flock of pigeons. What we hear from neighbours about the city's response to derelict properties. >> Not fit for any human habitation. >> People do not realize just how much training we bring when you call 911. >> Reporter: we are given an up close look at the life-saving tools and equipment used by paramedics each and every day on the draw peermak. >> Reporter: it is your typical alberta spring wheat you never know what kind of whether you're going to get the rest assured greenhouse to say even if there is a chill in the air in the sun is hard to find it is still a really good time to get your plants in the ground. [ ] >> Reporter: a family carving across into a tree, the beginning of a memorial for a teenager found fatally wounded tuesday night in the far northwest corner of edmonton. Homicide detectives say paramedics tried to save the injured 15 year old and near 137th avenue and 184th street just south of st. Albert. He died on seen around 9:30 pm. The teen's mother witnessed her son's death. She is not ready to speak on camera but she tells city news that her son died a hero. They had been arrested a man on scene who they say was known to the victim. Meanwhile saint alpert public schools confirming the death of a grade nine student, lowering flags at lauren aikens junior high school on wednesday. >> Reporter: it is derelict homes like these that are being taxed even more by the city, neighbours here tell us the city needs to clean up places like this. >> We have people set up encampments in the front yard of the abandoned house. That was a little weird. >> We have a shepherd, my brother does, not a fan. But of them that I keep to myself. >> Reporter: people that think upon commonwealth stadium says they have had problems with boarded-up and derelict properties like this -- these, adding their happy to see the city of edmonton charging the owners of these homes nearly three times the normal rate. >> There were a lot of these homes in canada right now. Nice to get people in them. >> Reporter: since announcing the tax over three months ago, 15 percent of edmonton's derelict homes have been cleaned up, in addition to higher property tax rate, those are enforced by law says nearly 500 tickets have gone out to problem property owners as well. Just north of commonwealth stadium community leaders on alberta avenue say this crackdown on dilapidated properties is something that they have been waiting 20 years for, the homes of more than eyesores, they are a safety hazard, particularly for admittance vulnerable. >> These are not homes that are fit for any human habitation. They are derelict. Frolic apart, half of the basement is completely gone. Once we called a fire to come help and they said they would not go into the structure because it was so unsafe. >> Reporter: she added she would like to see the city enforce the same rules on derelict commercial properties next. Reporting from edmonton, darcy ropchan, city news. >> Reporter: a busy may long weekend for rcmp in the admitted region. Strathcona rcmp had to go over 500 tickets drink an enforcement blitz including six roadside sanctions for impaired driving at a text -- check stop in sherwood park saturday night. Also sang speeding on the anthony hand they posed a significant risk to the public. >> Reporter: front-line workers are using national paramedic services week as an opportunity to show the tools and equipment that ems practitioners use each and every day on the draw peermak alberta paramedic students spent the day getting hands-on experience learning what they need to know before heading into a real-life emergency. >> All of the equipment. Everything so much more real and more exciting to get out there working. >> Reporter: from loading the stretcher into an ambulance to practising their stitching skills, the interactive day gives paramedic students a glimpse at the real world. >> People do not realize just how much training we bring when to call 911 and how much we able to do. >> Reporter: paramedics of the first to respond to emergency calls at each day on the job could be different right. Public education officer and paramedic ian says it is important to be prepared for that. >> And I don't one call comes in, the dispatchers giving you a rough idea of what it is you're responding to. What to get to that event it is your job as a paramedic to effectively create a differential diagnosis and identify what is going on with these patients and develop a treatment plan to actively manage that event.

>> Reporter: jessica is a paramedic student about to begin her ambulance practicum. She is excited to put her skills to test in the real world. >> Honestly I just really hope that I can touch and make a positive impact on as many people as I can. >> Reporter: and edmonton, laura krause, city news. >> Reporter: new data translate on the population growth in alberta. Statistics canada shows the population and the image and region growing by over 60,000 last year, the estimate representing a 4 percent growth. But the boom is more pronounced and around calgary with a population of nearly 100,000 representing a 6 percent growth. It is estimated 2023 was the largest year on record for population growth in alberta. >> Reporter: when it comes to spring weather and edmonton alberta it has its ups and downs. A frost warming to multiple days of rain over the weekend, but this householder and north edmonton says if you're looking to plant a garden now is a good time. >> I have limited my friend flowers to things that are more weather resistant. >> Reporter: edmonton governors want some sunshine after a number of days with rainfall and frost warnings. The elements are changing constantly making it difficult to garden. >> We started out pretty nicely with and all of a sudden we got a real cold interval and that is what we are in right now. >> Reporter: the cold and wet weather is not stopping some from starting their own gardens. Groceries are expensive and a garden can be a good investment if it works out. >> I am just figuring it out, trying to see what I can grow and what I can't grow. >> Reporter: coleman says frost warnings should not be an issue for those living at the city. Those in more rural areas seem to keep an eye on their plans if they are already in the ground. >> We benefit from all of the heatsink that goes in the houses during the daytime. It is released at night. The incident of possible night frost is very, very low. Further out that may be a different story. >> Reporter: this year also marks the 25th year front yards and blum, a citywide competition that awards gardeners with about the art -- breast yards. Coleman says he is excited to see what the season blooms. >> Looking forward to a busy time. >> Reporter: from edmonton, adam ziccarelli, city news. >> Reporter: cooler whether weather means a majority of firebrands it alberta have now been lifted. The banter about fort mcmurray and grande prairie have been downgraded to advisories where permits are required for burns outside a fire pits and fireworks are prohibited. So more restrictions and advisories remain in and around edmonton. >> Reporter: one of edmonton's oldest hotels showing off a new, more modern look, the fairmount hotel mcdonald began renovations on the majority of their roofs two years ago. The hotel, which stood next to the river valley since 1915 it says the updated rooms still maintain the hotel's historic touches with each room including an image from the edmonton archives to show the hotels over one century-old connection to the region. >> We could call it a little bit of an update to the ged. >> Reporter: of bertens without a high school diploma good to register for a new adult education credential, formally known as a ged. General education development. The new program will be known as the canadian I don't education credential or see abc which is a partnership amongst the provinces with consideration of indigenous perspectives and adversity. >> Some of the things we are seeing in classrooms right now is there is a greater diversity than we have ever seen and learning needs, and all sorts of needs for the students. We are seeing teachers that are just struggling to balance all of that and to meet the needs of all of their students. >> We are able to make sure that perspectives from different communities, cultural communities, first nations, métis, in u.s., francophone perspectives and dynamics are thought about in terms of the development of a credential, something that the team was able to look at specifically and incorporate within the new credential as well. >> Reporter: alberta's education minister also stresses that this will offer postsecondary institutions a recognizable credential they could rely upon allowing voters to easily apply for higher education. Yet consider, calgary ranks fifth in average income with no high school education. Clearly some albertans do not feel they need more schooling. For those who do... >> Sure they are earning minimum wage, but we also know that the minimum wage is not necessarily what we would refer to as a living great right now either. And so what are the doors that open for them if they do not

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