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sports fans in vancouver. It started with disappointed canucks fans and I'll soccer fans are reacting to news that soccer superstar lionel messi would not be making the trip with inter- miami for saturday's match here at B.C. place against the whitecaps. On thursday afternoon into miami confirmed lionel messi along with other famous players would not be attending. Some fans had travelled halfway around the world just to catch the stars life and action. >> A flying again for the game as part of our holiday. The ticket to the game, we paid, I think it was about four or five times the normal price. It was a friend's 50th birthday present. >> Reporter: he is not the only one who bought tickets to the special for a loved one. >> A 540 daughter -- $540 for tickets which is quite a lot of money considering there in the nosebleed section. But super excited. We did many birthday celebration with my dad, I bought him an lionel messi jersey to bring to the game. >> Reporter: it is believed that lionel messi is resting ahead of an event that gets away next month. >> We would love to have the possibility to play against a very strong and quality player. >> Reporter: social media has been flooded with disappointed soccer fans. Some who flew in to see lionel messi play, and some tick -- ticket holders not impressed with the whitecaps under the situation. >> The chance of lionel messi of a cure was at best 5050. Would disappointed be the most was that the whitecaps and the mls for they knew that obviously. And yet they still chose to inflate the prices by some three, 400 percent. >> Reporter: as a consolation if you can call it that all food and beverage at B.C. place will be half off on saturday night and anybody under the age of 18 gets a free kids meal combo. >> If you bought tickets in whatever way, you should come and see where this is all about. The atmosphere will be great, a lot of people. We as supporters do a lot better the more people are in the stands. >> We do treat fans like second-class citizens I think we have the same in australia, at least a bad taste in your mouth. I think that is the most appropriate way to put it. >> Reporter: the opening kickoff and saturday at 7:30 pm. Many tickets of a rebid resort of the discounted rate. And vancouver, kate walker, city news. >> Nima: convicted sex offender randall hopley has been ordered to spend 18 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to breaching the conditions of his long-term supervision order twice. During a provincial court. In vancouver, judge jennifer alton ordered him 29 months in jail with 11 months credit for time served. Copley first made headlines in 2011 for abducting a three year old and was policed in 2018 on a long-term supervision order. In november last year he went missing from his halfway house, prompting a ten-day manhunt. He was arrested after turning himself in which was a mitigating factor in the sentencing according to the judge.

>>> Looks like getting across the border could soon be a little bit more difficult as you nice border guards and other staff and voted in favour of strike action. The public service alliance of canada did not specify a date for the strike but said things will likely ramp up in june. The union said workers with the canadian border services agency has been without a contract for over two years with key issues including fair wages and stronger protections around work hours. The director of the border policy research institute at western washington university says it to post a pandemic changes may be playing a part the extended bargaining process. >> The border is now back to where it was prepandemic, we don't have arrive can. There is a lot of new technologies that are coming on player. I think some of what is perhaps drive think the discrepancy, at least from the border policy perspective is the canadian federal government and the provincial government for that matter are moving to automate more systems at the border. That would of course remove the need for many border officers in particular. That is also point of contention. >> Nima: advocates for the victims of canada's most prolific serial killers are urging the rcmp did not destroy 14,000 pieces of evidence. The evidence in the case against robert pickton, currently sits in an rcmp storage facility, and currently takes up substantial amount of space and they say it is driving a budget cost. >> Victim advocates and lawyers say it needs to be preserved to help bring justice to families that have not seen a conviction for the death of their loved ones. The victim remains in a coma at a québec hospital after being attacked in prison earlier this week. >>> The truck driver but -- behind the horrific bus crash with the humble to junior broncos team has been ordered to be deported. The decision kid this morning at immigration and refugee board hearing in calgary for jaskirat singh sidhu. Sidhu's lawyer, michael green, is it all that is required to deport sidhu as proof that he is not canadian and he committed a serious crime. He beare road through a stop sign into the path of the junior hockey teams bus at an intersection in 2018, killing 16 people and injuring 13. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison and granted full parole last year. Sidhu is from india has published resident status in canada. Green said there are still other legal procedures to come on the deportation process could take months or years.

>>> With several big events coming to vancouver the next few years like a fee for world cup and taylor swift concert, to city councilors are hoping to propose her to convert empty commercial spaces into pot or capsule hotels could solve a major shortage of hotel rooms in the city's downtown core. Angela bauer has more. >> This is a concept that has been around for more than four decades in japan. >> One city counsellor empty office spaces and two-part hotels. This could be the site of vancouver's first ever pot hotel. >> We have a dire hotel shortage in the city of vancouver. In the coming years we're looking at seeing more accident 2026. >> Reporter: with the fee for world cup coming to vancouver and concerts like taylor swift this year visitors from out of town will need a place to stay that will not break their bank. Vancouver city counsellor sarah kirby young says with more people working from home since the pandemic the city has seen an increase in office space vacancies. >> This is one way to look at adaptive reuse of surplus existing office space that we have as well as deliver some new rooms more quickly than you would build a good traditional hotel. I think a smart solution to be able to deal with our office space on the hotel shortage at the same time. >> Reporter: a pot hotel is essentially a tiny room with the bed and shared amenities which are already operating out of richmond and whistler. Kirby young says pot hotels are a fraction of the price of a traditional hotel, and ideal for people who want to hotel room just to sleep. >> We see the impact on the legal air b&bs, people do not have anywhere to stay, desperately trying to find somewhere to stay. So we want to make sure we have enough hotel rooms for visitors. >> Reporter: kirby young says she and councilor lisa will be bringing forward a motion to a city hall meeting next week. And vancouver, angela bauer, city news. >> Nima: the leader of the B.C. united party says B.C. conservative leader has rejected a noncompete agreement in order to defeat the provincial ndp come october. The proposed agreement would have seen the two parties agree not to run candidates against each other, not to attack each other, and not merge with each other. Falcon says rust had rejected the reasonable offer a pretty good risk another david eb led government. Multiple polls have shown a united trailing far behind the conservators which at the -- as of this time last year did not have a single seat in the legislature.

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