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allowing the harassment to continue. We report. >> Reporter: he describes himself as a proud jewish community member, but now after 17 years of teaching at mount royal university, he is beginning to feel unsafe. >> There was a group of students in early december who went looking for jewish professors. Now we have jewish faculty who are scared of going to campus and jewish students who are terrified of going to campus. >> Reporter: on december 1st police charged one woman with causing a disturbance at the university's faculty of arts building. >> One was very aggressive making allegations of anyone who supports the state of israel is a baby killer and these sort of things. >> Reporter: he says that anti-semitism on campus is increasing since the hamas attacks on israel and followed in gaza. He claims university administration has done nothing to rep manned students who promote hates of any kind and that the school's mandatory equity diversity and inclusion training ignores anti-semitism entirely. >> We're seeing criminal activity as a result of this. I point my finger directly at mount royal university for allowing the atmosphere to exist. >> Reporter: the university says it is aware of the december incident and cooperating with police adding that since then mru has had no further reports of similar behaviour and that campus security services monitoring the environment in an effort to keep our campus safe and welcoming for all. But in the wake of protests at universities across the country, some call on academic leaders to take a direct stand against hate. >> It is such a scary time for jews around the world. >> Reporter: local rabbi says that peaceful protest rights must be protected by universities all while facilitating civil conversations to mitigate safety issues. >> It will be very important for us to continue those kind of contacts and allow them to grow and flourish so healing can take place. >> Reporter: as for this professor he fares no reprisal for his critisism. >> I won't be silent. >> Reporter: ctv news, calgary. >> Starting this summer, ontario is speeding up its expansion of alcohol sales. >> On september 5th, convenient stores like this one, will be able to sell beer, cidar, wine and ready to drink alcoholic beverages. >> 450 licensed grocery stores will be allowed to sell coolers and cases of beer. By the end of october, every convenient grocery and big box store in ontario will have the option to sell beer sider wine and ready to drink alcoholic beverages.

>>> For more on this let's bring in professor at mcmaster university school of business. Professor, welcome. Thank you for being here. Starting september 5th, consumers can start seeing convenient stores selling wine, beer, and coolers. Is this a step in the right direction? >> So, officially governments are not trying to increase the sale of alcohol. What they are trying to do is try to make it more convenient for those who gather it. You can go to the beer store and the lcbo but you can get a corner store close to you with hours that are probably even more extended than what you get in other places. I think it is a step in the direction of consumer friendliness. Does it mean that will be a more efficient distribution system. If you have a smaller number of stores distributing it will be quicker. Than a larger number of stores. >> What does this mean for the lcbo? >> They don't change that much. We're not allowing those corner stores to sell full blown alcohol. The rums, the gins of the world. They can only do premixed cocktails. Rum and coke in a can so to speak or wine. And I think wine is of the three things they are allowing probably the least important. In other words when consumers want something they really need beer on short notice. It is not necessarily they are having a wine emergency. So the lcbo will remain in the distribution business. They are the source of getting alcohol of that type into restaurants. I don't think they'll have as much of an affect as clearly the beer stores will be affected. >> The province is getting the $225 million to bridge the transition. Saying it will help keep stores open and protect jobs. Is this actually necessary? >> Well, I'm going to say yes but in an odd way. Currently the province has a deal with the beer store that is set to expire in 2026. Now in essence the province says we would like to cause that agreement to expire earlier obviously in 2024 and there would be a penalty if you're going to make an agreement end earlier than planned this money that is being spent on the beer store as it said is to keep the stores whole, to keep employment levels up because nobody knows how much of the volume will switch from the beer stores to the convenient stores. I should also point ut you correctly said that stores have the option to sell these products. They are not mandated to sell. And there is a cost for the convenient stores to get into the business. Coolers that can lock. Training of employees so they are not selling product to people who obviously consume too much alcohol. So I'm not sure that every store just because they have the option to do it is going to say yes. >> And do you think this expansion could affect prices? >> Yes, again, in two odd ways. First the government does have a minimum. If you think you're going to see a buy one get one free special not going to happen. They aren't trying to lower that price that dramatically. But how much people add as a mark up they'll have flexibility. You will probably see sales of some sort on beer and wine and these spirits in a can. And you probably will be able to earn extra points if you have a favourite points program. Something like that. I think yes but anyone who thinks it will be 50 cents a beer it won't happen. >> All right. That's our time. Thank you very much for being here. We appreciate your time here today. >> Thank you. >> A new amazon ware house has now opened in calgary and it is the largest in canada. The building is set to bring thousands of jobs and innovation to the city. We have the details. >> Reporter: situated in the east shepherd industrial area, it is a massive facility. 2.8 million square feet to be exact. You might recognize the logo. Amazon's newest ware house is focused in on robotics. That means storage and retrieval of orders are done automatically. Don't worry that hasn't completely cut out humans. >> In alberta over all, we have grown from about 4,000 employees which were with amazon in 2019 to 6,000 people currently employed. >> Reporter: amazon reps say that is 6,000 person work force will soon become 7,500 once the ware house is full. Politicians in calgary have some work to do.

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