CBC News: The National | Cross-border tourism, Manitoba heat, Gas prices
tonight is red tape at the border keeping tourists away from canada a lot of work it's a complicated process what's set to change tomorrow and what isn't also tonight heat on the streets we were halfway done the race and it finally was called off dangerous conditions in manitoba on pole on the front row here in montreal a showdown in montreal and seeking accountability for childhood trust betrayed i don't think there's a day that goes by that you don't remember this is the national good evening i'm ian hannah mansing a coveted restriction canadians have lived with since last year is being lifted starting tomorrow travelers within the country can board a plane without proof of vaccination but for those coming into canada one hurdle remains the arrive can app and everything that comes with it a questionnaire proof of vaccination or else mandatory quarantine talia ricci shows us that for those who depend on tourism it's more than an inconvenience warmer weather and weekend foot traffic have returned but for specialty shops like this one in niagara falls things aren't quite back to normal i think we have to take a little more step to make it easier to come in and out that will help the whole entire tourism in niagara region according to this business owner what's still missing are the american tourists in the border there were some challenges with the arrive canada application tourism is the lifeblood of border cities like this and to get it fully flowing again mayors are calling for the arrive can app to be scrapped but the transportation minister says the app will stick around for now we continue to have a vaccination requirement for international travelers and this is a tool to ensure that the arri that the passenger has the documents required the government recently dropped a number of travel health measures but filling out this app and providing the address of a place a traveler could quarantine remains in place the mayor of niagara falls says the extra red tape is threatening their economy between july 1st and labor day is when we make 80 percent of our revenue and unfortunately the messaging going back in the us right now is that it's very difficult to get into canada and a lot of people are making the choice to not come those who did still come say losing the extra step would have saved them time a lot of work it's a complicated process i wish it was just coming and go without all these you know these hoops that you have to jump through the cbsa says it plans to add customs declarations to the arrive can app this tourism expert says in the meantime it should be paused it's just causing lots and lots of delays and a lot of frustration for people who are trying to go back and forth across our border and businesses say potentially stopping people like this from paying us a visit i love this place it's beautiful talia richie cbc news niagara falls ontario travel snags aren't restricted to canada more than one thousand flights out of the u.s were canceled over the weekend thousands more delayed my first fight was delayed more than two hours they didn't tell them why it was canceled but they canceled everybody's flight we had people that were in front of us and behind us trying to rebook and they had no options either a surge in demand coupled with a shortage of staff have stranded travelers and upended plans the u.s transportation secretary has urged airline executives to take steps to avoid massive travel disruptions ahead of the july 4th holiday weekend as canadians get ready for summer road trips everyone knows they'll be paying a lot more at the pump take a look at the average national gas price one year ago today sitting at just over one dollar and 30 cents a liter but fast forward a year and what a difference that number now above two dollars the high cost of fuel isn't just an issue for those paying at the pumps as david thornton explains it's helping the opposition impress the government when it comes to inflation across the country drivers are feeling the strength it does impact a lot the like the budget just like now you have to think about it he's not the only one it takes money away from from other stuff correct you cannot spend it somewhere else we count every every trip we make you know we go out less for months the conservatives have called for a pause on the gst the government collects each time drivers fuel up we need mr trudeau and christian freeland to start spending more time thinking about canadian families rather than for them give them a break of the pumps conservatives say this could save canadians as much as eight cents a liter they also point to provinces like alberta it introduced a provincial fuel tax holiday and inflation fell the ndp wants the government to support low-income families through rebates and benefits and tax big oils record profits that profit is an obscene level we need to put a limit on it tax some of it return it to canadian taxpayers the finance minister acknowledged gas prices are a concern but has not said what the federal government will do i didn't come here today to announce new measures we are very much leaving the door open to further action freeland's u.s counterpart says the biden administration is prepared to go further president biden wants to do anything he possibly can to help consumers gas prices have risen a great deal and it's clearly burdening household yellen says the u.s is considering a federal gas tax holiday and while it's unclear if canada will do the same freeland and yellen are meeting in toronto on monday and affordability is on the agenda david thornton cbc news gatineau we have an update tonight on a horrific attack on a toronto city bus police say they're now investigating it as a possible hate crime we have a 33 year old man under arrest that person has been identified as tenzin norbu of toronto the attack happened friday in the city's west end toronto police say a man poured flammable liquid on a female bus passenger and lit her on fire she remains in hospital in critical condition with severe burns the suspect is set to appear in court tomorrow he now faces several charges including attempted murder ottawa wants to know how hockey canada settled a lawsuit over an alleged gang sexual assault the parliamentary hearing is tomorrow but cbc news got an exclusive look at the organization's books jonathan gatehouse reveals what's there there are some numbers that hockey canada is eager to share with the public like the 385 000 registered players across the country but when it comes to more sensitive figures like revenues and taxpayer funding it divulges few if any details financial statements obtained by cbc news pull back that veil showing that hockey canada received 14 million from ottawa in the past two fiscal years including 3.4 million in emergency
coveted wage and rent subsidies helping the not-for-profit organization to a 13.5 million budget surplus last year adding to a war chest of stocks bonds and cash now worth more than 153 million dollars while paying no income tax public and political outrage over the alleged 2018 sexual assault by players who attended a hockey canada gala in london ontario is driving monday's hearings as well as a federal audit of the organization's books hockey canada didn't respond to a cbc news request for an interview or to written questions about its finances this expert on sport and public policy says canadians deserve more transparency from those who run the national game they owe an account a reporting of of what happened and in the light of the parliamentary inquiry an account of how that settlement was paid out jennifer speaking jennifer dunn heads the abused women's center in london she says there was already ample evidence that hockey's culture needs to change there's like a locker room mentality where it's almost as if these young guys are essentially brought up with no value for a woman's life and while dunn understands the focus on public funds there's another number she wants people to keep in mind every 17 minutes in canada a woman is sexually assaulted hockey canada needs to pay attention to that there will be an element of theater to tomorrow's hearings because the likely answer about where the settlement money came from is on plane display there are references to sexual misconduct liability insurance in hockey canada's annual reports a pricey hedge according to financial statements the organization pays more than nine million dollars for all types of insurance each and every year jonathan gatehouse cbc news toronto in montreal today the canadian grand prix was back for the first time since the pandemic began twenty of the world's best formula one drivers took to the track matt damore now with the race and a city ready to embrace it lindsay young got to the track early we drove all the way from ohio and we have grand or general admission passes so we wanted to be the first ones here so that we can choose our seats hours later she and tens of thousands of other f1 fans got the moment they'd waited for the canadian grand prix returns to the formula one calendar it's lights out and away we go grand prix weekend finally back in montreal while it's busy down at the racetrack it's the same story here in downtown montreal where race fans and owners of hotels bars restaurants and shops have been gearing up for a very busy weekend bartender dave laniman's poured drinks for a packed house ready to celebrate it was to the point where you've got lineups down the street the phone's ringing off the hook everyone's everyone's in a great mood though so it's really really nice to see even the staff is excited just for the the aspect of being this busy again the grand prix brings in millions of dollars to the economy with about half of the visitors coming from outside quebec great news for covet weary and labor-strapped shops restaurants bars and of course hotels our staff worked you know longer hours some of our hotels were like 100 booked the average booking rates or occupation rate is 96 97 there was plenty for visitors to do downtown including a tire changing practice station people can even try out a simulator to see how they would do on the track i'm pretty good at this but the main draw was the real race and the heart pumping finish he sees the checkered flag and will know what it's like to win the canadian grand prix reigning world champion max verstappen made the best of his pole position advantage capping off this comeback weekend with a first place finish matamul cbc news montreal an unwelcome scramble last night for 53 families in quebec's saginay region they're the latest we ordered under their homes in a neighborhood where a landslide struck on monday and swept away an emptied out house 24 families were ordered to leave initially officials say conditions are dangerously similar to what they were in a nearby community back in 1971 when a landslide killed 31 people the current evacuation order could last weeks even months sweltering heat today in manitoba some of it spilling into neighboring provinces in winnipeg the high temperatures forced the cancellation of a marathon while it was being run peggy lamb shows us that in other ways the sun is getting in the way of fun a strong start today for runners in the manitoba marathon their first event held in person since 2019 but around 90 minutes into the race when the temperature climbed past 30 degrees organizers had to cancel the event it's a terrible decision to have to make but that's why it's my job right it's my job to keep people safe it's my job to make sure that we all make good decisions on race day some of us don't because we put in all of those those months of training we were halfway done the race and it finally was called off the police marshal said it was over so it was sort of sad disappointing but some marathoners did continue to the finish line it was probably the hardest race i've ever run at seven miles i actually started i was about to drop out i started walking southeastern saskatchewan and northwestern ontario are also feeling the scorch with temperatures hitting above 30. in manitoba humidex levels have reached above 40. and yet despite
how hot and humid it is here some people are still determined to enjoy the outdoors at this park winnipeggers are under the sun celebrating indigenous people's day at an outdoor concert but the heat did lower the turnout disappointed a little but i mean what can you do about the weather you mean people want to stay inside because it's so hot i mean so i respect it it's okay it's unfortunate it's been such a hot day but at least some people have come out to enjoy everything and they've done such a nice job especially for the performers the heat is expected to stick around until tuesday hitting a high of 30 degrees on monday but after that people here should feel some relief peggy lamb cbc news winnipeg at least 25 people are dead after major flooding in northeastern bangladesh over the weekend millions of people have been left without homes in low-lying parts of the country those were hit by the worst monsoon floods in decades over 100 000 people have fled but officials say more than 4 million remain stranded army personnel are assisting with search and rescue startling reports today of mass killings in ethiopia's oromia region over 200 members of the amhara ethnic group are believed dead witnesses and the regional government blame a rebel group known as the oromo liberation army it wants to break away from ethiopia which is already fighting against separatist rebels in the tigre region of the country the head of nato said that the war in ukraine could last years and the chief of uk's army said the british should be prepared to fight a land war with russia just two western officials echoing ukraine's call to drive russia out we will retake everything declare the ukrainian president after a visit to the front lines in the south at a funeral for well-known activist turned soldier keys mayor was also defiant be ready to talk with russians about some compromise if last russian soldier left ukraine a call is backed up by western weapons but an adviser to ukraine's defense minister told rosemary barton live they are still out gunned we need more heavy weaponry we need more long-range artillery we need more air defense systems we need more tanks and we need them fast civilians continue to flee ukraine's east the reality written on their faces shelling it's very scary she says we decided to leave russia's invasion reducing the region to ruins oscar-winning canadian screenwriter and director paul haggis has reportedly been arrested in italy according to multiple media reports haggis is facing allegations that he sexually assaulted a young woman during a two-day time period in a statement haggis lawyers said italian law forbids them from discussing the evidence but they are confident the allegations against him will be dismissed as debate continues over the fairness of transgender women participating in women's sports a major move from the global body governing competitive swimming chris glover has the details thomas pulling away just months after trans trailblazer leah thomas made history in the pool thomas wins the ncaa championship the first transgender woman to win an ncaa division one female title is learning her goal of competing in the women's category at the olympics won't happen very important moment for us swimming's world governing body voting today to look at creating a new category to include trans women it is a policy that is based on science starting monday transgender competitors in women's races must have completed their transition by the age of 12. that's the time at which males really cement their advantage developmental biologist emma hilton says puberty brings a surge of testosterone for males that medications later on cannot even out these small changes that happen to transgender women when they suppress testosterone aren't enough to create kind of equality with the female body some fear the rule may unduly accelerate important decisions the fact that individuals have to transition before that point which is not always typical for children to transition that early but multiple female olympic medalists race to call this a positive step prioritizing the competitive cornerstone of fairness however it is also my hope that a young gender diverse child can walk into a swimming club and feel the same level of acceptance queer sports advocates condemned the decision as discriminatory and harmful in a statement to cbc news the american lgbtq group athlete ally said the new policy will not be enforceable without seriously violating the privacy and human rights of any athlete this move from the world of swimming comes as at least 18 u.s states are taking steps to ban or limit transgender sports participation chris glover cbc news washington more allegations are emerging that a former rcmp officer assaulted multiple teenagers while on the job i never complained because i was told that i would be killed we hear for the first time from some of the alleged victims california's drought could affect more than just hot sauce some are pointing to a canadian solution and camps are about to start but there's a catch staffing has been the single biggest challenge in the industry we're back after this those are workers at an apple store in maryland who voted nearly to one to unionize this weekend it makes it the first american apple store to do that two months ago in new york the first u.s amazon warehouse unionized and in recent months will have dozens of starbucks in the u.s many kids are returning to summer camp this year for the first time since the pandemic began after two years of restrictions enrollment is high but staffing shortages are threatening to spoil the fun jamie strashen reports the demand has been very high we've had wait lists since november with coveted restrictions easing howie grossinger says parents are eager to get their children back outside in less than two weeks the owner of camp robin hood hopes to welcome about 700 eager campers to the sprawling property just north of toronto a hundred percent staffing has been the single biggest challenge in the industry grossinger says while camper enrollment is high it's been hard for many camps across canada to find staff i'm probably looking to fill anywhere between 10 and 15 spots which is not typical for this time of year for me in quebec the municipality of lapesh told families it had to scrap all its summer camp programs we receive on average every year about 60 cvs we've received 15 this year in bc the provincial camp association says many of its members still need to fill about 50 percent of their positions we don't have the adequate supervision to run this number of kids and and we might have to turn people away which is a heartbreaking we hate that that's a camp director's worst nightmare thieston says there's a number of factors for one kovit disrupted the in-house training many camps rely on to fill jobs suddenly we had a summer and a bit of no camp experience and you had this demographic of young adults who found other opportunities so swim lessons crossinger says that more than ever he's working to attract canadians of different backgrounds them being able to tell the story of their work experience to their parents so their parents can support this work experience because some parents who don't know what it's like to work at camp will say no i think you should work at the local big box or the mall he and owners across the country are doing all they can to ensure they have the staff in place to make this summer special for kids jamie strashen cbc news toronto next on the nationals 16 years ago a man came forward with allegations an rcmp officer had assaulted him in a lot of ways it has destroyed who i was or who i could have been today more are speaking out we investigate what the rcmp knew and what they did about it next welcome back tonight a difficult but important and very personal story about allegations of sexual assault dating back decades made by men and women who were teenagers at the time most didn't know each other but all point fingers at the same man a former mountie paul hunter began investigating more than 15 years ago tonight some of those making the allegations will have their stories told publicly for the first time there was never a moment that was anything that was less than sickening and frightening and disgusting to me through that whole period graham wilson is effectively the reason this story is being told this video is from 2007 we'd sat down with him because his godmother in british columbia cold called me one day and said can you talk to graham he's a mess graham then told me that when he was a teenager back in the 1980s he'd been sexually assaulted raped by a mountie though the accusation was unproven then graham told me there were multiple other victims but even then 20 years later nobody outside the police knew who they were or how to find them it's only now that we can finally tell their stories i was repeatedly assaulted and victimized and stalked by constable don cook while he's wearing his rcmp uniform we're going to hang a left here definitely abbotsford was my home i you know played my hockey here and then of course bob callan is one of the other men and women now alleging sexual assaults by that mountain he took us to one of the places where he says it happened to him as a young teen a hockey rink in abbotsford bc don cook the mountie was also callan's hockey coach that's him on the right with callan's team in 1985. cook also coached this team with younger players the team sponsored by the rcmp itself it's been been a long time and i don't think there's a day that goes by that you don't remember kind of things that have happened and things that uh will never go away and you'll remember for the rest of your life and they're not always the members you want to listen to that's very remember that's for sure callan has described assaults in the showers in cook's sports car at cook's house he has never before spoken publicly about any of it he and others complained to police in the 2000s but no charges followed fear of stigma kept him and others from speaking out publicly likewise fear of retaliation did you complain at the time i never complained because i was told that because of his position because of his knowledge with policing that i would be killed i would be i would vanish i would be nobody would ever find me he told you that yes he did if i said anything to anybody there's a hundred dollar bill on the counter back in 2007 it was graham wilson's call to cbc that led us eventually to bob callan and callan in turn led us eventually to another man tom thiessen who like callan is now speaking out but asked that his face be hidden yeah no yeah i'm sorry yeah he told us that as a 14 year old cook befriended groomed then sexually assaulted maybe not wrestled but held down and basically raped right and yeah i mean it's very sick in fact he says cook befriended thiessen's whole family so much that teeson's parents put cook's photo on the wall at the teeson home where it hung for years it sickened tom but he kept quiet as the alleged assaults continued including its alleged multiple times in this farmer's field near tom's house while cook was on duty you're in his police cruiser yeah always in his police cruiser he's assaulting you in a police cruiser yeah that's correct several times although cook was investigated but never charged over the years and at different times wilson callan thiessen and a former teammate of callan travis pierce each launched civil suits against cook and the rcmp wilson told us he and his family complained about cook in 1982 but police say they have no record of that tison told us another rcmp constable cook's roommate once found him in cook's bed and did nothing two cops two mounties in the house one of them is sleeping with a 14 year old boy and the other one does nothing yeah that's correct a decade later that other mounty a fellow coach with cook on one of those hockey teams pulled out his gun at an rcmp detachment on vancouver island put it to his head and pulled the trigger and now from newfoundland's south shore where cook was transferred in 86 more allegations two women tell cbc news cook cultivated malicious sexual relationships with each of them as teenagers in a statement one of them writes he kept telling me to relax and trust him one says he once locked her terrified in an rcmp holding cell one voice missing in all of this is that of don cook long gone from abbotsford having faced questions lawsuits and a criminal investigation for years he's been living a life for the most part quietly and far away in ontario to be clear don cook has always denied sexual misconduct in fact in 2010 he sued the mounties for wrongly investigating him calling the rcmp strongly homophobic and said he now suffers depression and panic attacks from all the stress the suit was settled privately he said bob callan is angry and bitter because cook once banned him from the hockey team and that wilson once failed a lie detector test and is unreliable and his story untrue we reached cook by cell phone to offer up an on-camera interview i'll speak to my lawyer i think that would be appropriate he'd be the one that would respond cook's lawyer later wrote to cbc underlining cook was investigated but never charged and that cook who's now retired strenuously denies ever sexually assaulting anyone did he say anything at that the rcmp declined comment on this story but has long disputed liability last week it entered into talks toward a settlement with callan thiessen and pierce sad part is you know he'll always seems like you'll always have a small pca you know sometimes that's hard to let go because you beat yourself up so much to think so many things of you know how you should have got out of it or what you should have done different or why were you in that position you know for him to be you know you you to be so vulnerable it makes me very angry that nobody listened and uh that he's still out on the street and i believe he's probably still doing what he did to us and and you know every everybody has to pay and that the system didn't stop them when they when they should have if the rcmp settles it's all too late for graham wilson he abandoned his lawsuit years ago then effectively he disappeared off the grid until 2017 when someone found his body dead in a trailer in a homeless encampment he'd overdosed on fentanyl in a lot of ways it has destroyed who i was or who i could have been my capabilities the things that my dreams it destroyed all my dreams anything i wanted to do my life i never did out on the ice bob callan every now and again still laces up and smashes that puck around these days it's with his grown son both hardened by years of chasing justice and a system they say betrayed and failed those who spoke out callan's only goal now he says is simply for canadians to know this story and learn from it paul where does this story go next well the short answer is that mediation that could result in a settlement is ongoing between those making the allegations and the rcmp as ever if there is a settlement reached there would likely be a non-disclosure aspect to it as is usual in such circumstances um to be clear don cook the former mountie is not part of the mediation process and again to this day he denies he's ever sexually assaulted anyone all of this paul has been playing out for years why has it taken so long allegations about crimes that happen behind closed doors or in other private places are complicated and allegations about sexual assault and speaking publicly about them for obvious reasons are particularly difficult especially so when the alleged incidents are decades old these lawsuits have been winding their way through the system for the better part of a dozen years those making the allegations have been slowed down by process but they have never wavered in their determination to see this through and while their names have been public at various times over the years because of court documents it took them until now to speak out because it's hard to speak out about this graham the first person in our story did speak to us of course years ago but at the time he was the only one which makes our job complicated as i say in the piece we've now spoken directly with a number of others some are in our story others are not but only now are those who did speak out able and willing to do this publicly because they felt it important enough to go on the record and for others to hear their story and so here we are all right paul thank you you're welcome after the break california's drought is destroying crops and it's having an impact on our grocery shelves we'll look at the home-grown solutions and our ancestors used to live off this food so it's just that much better you know a first nations community goes back to its roots to tackle food security that's next some california crops are getting destroyed by severe heat and drought it's resulted in shortages here in canada and has even forced a popular condiment out of production night sing takes a look at that and how canadian farmers could help it's limiting the amount of ground that we can farm it's the amount it's limiting the amount of the intensity that we can farm california farmers are struggling in the third year of the worst crowd on record leading to water restrictions for farmers the changing climate has caught up with the world famous sriracha hot sauce this summer hoi fong foods its producer in california has suspended production after extreme heat and drought hit the hot pepper crops the company uses for pepper and tomatoes it's really more about heat stress uh we get you know last week we had 103 degrees so that's about 40 41 degrees celsius and um pollen does you know pollen basically aborts you know at this stage so you don't get fruit or flower set at these temperatures hot peppers have been affected along with other vegetables and grains twenty percent of all of canada's crop imports come from california worth 2.8 billion
dollars in 2021 and crop failures there could lead to price hikes and empty shelves here all this brings new urgency to helping canadian farmers produce our food closer to home we could rely on more canadian crops um and developing them more i think we should definitely you know seek out canadian fruit and veg when we go to the grocery store ottowa farmer hico craigsman grows several varieties of hot peppers and makes a popular line of hot sauces but he says investment is critical to boost production here if there were ways that that was actually being invested in greenhouses for example here in canada you can actually get a lot of the vegetables that are now being grown in the southern parts of the world in this place as well the drought in california shows the importance of local farms like craigsman's to help keep canada's food supply stable inayat singh cbc news toronto a former chef in alberta is using food to connect students with their indigenous identity his pilot project brings meat from animals that have been hunted into the meal programs of schools on first nations travis mcewen shows us the care that's being taken and the benefits this program brings to students how many of you have skinned the bear before nobody close to 40 students watch as a black bear is skinned and butchered it was killed the night before and this meat will be used for sausage a traditional food in their creek culture come in close you need to be watching for the students it's captivating something many have never experienced it's cool how they they leave the paws there in the head on the hide jason big charles is a land-based knowledge educator teaching the traditional ways to use indigenous foods like dry meat in the smoker it was cut thinly by the students and is slowly cooked over a fire we've slowly been losing that that sustainability and that food security as we've been colonized and westernized so now we rely on the grocery store in a nearby tent harvested meat is then cooked up for lunch and dinner a shift from the processed foods clifford gladu saw dominating the diets of students i became diabetic so i wanted to make a change in the community so that's why i started planning to get rid of processed foods and i wanted to bring in more healthy options for our students lando soon discovered many kids at the schools hadn't had moose meat and traditional foods once his elders ate as they lived off the land and didn't rely on the grocery store it's pretty shocking to me like me right i never had so much traditional foods when i was younger because i lost that identity right and i wanted to i didn't want the students to lose that his solution includes taking meat killed by indigenous hunters and getting it into schools and having it prepared in traditional ways for students at least once a month it took a lot of effort for gladiu to get the traditional foods pilot up and running for the past two years prior to that there is nine months of consulting which included elders provincial and federal dietitians environment safety officers and even fish and wildlife it's not as simple as a hunter shooting an animal and just bringing it into the school it needs to be hunted on traditional lands hunters and cooks need to fill up forms meats need to be bagged and labeled all the paperwork is sent to indigenous services canada to be logged la due even learned how to inspect the meat so that samples aren't needed students have a say in what they want julia whitehead is the junior chief of little buffalo school around 450 kilometers northwest of edmonton he appreciates the efforts to get students eating foods like moose meat as he considers it comforting you acknowledge the fact that our ancestors used to live off this food so it's just that much better you know larue is proud of the work he and others have done to get to this point but it may also benefit other first nations students as well i'm kind of speechless like because we are leading the way to bring all this back it's been tough to get the program started but gladu says it's been worth it when he sees students connecting over traditional food just as their elders did before them travis mcewen cbc news near little buffalo after six decades of arts and advocacy buffy say marie shows no signs of slowing down tomorrow on the national she chats with adrian about atrocities against indigenous peoples the pope's upcoming apology tour and her life as an entertainer and activist watching other interviews you have given over the years as a journalist i find it really uncomfortable because i can see you being open and being strong and yet i sometimes i see a bit of a dismissal or not really hearing you the little indian girl must be mistaken i kind of yeah she's nice and she's cute we like her right but she's really mistaken it can't be true dear god tell me that doesn't still happen to you of course it happens all the time it happens every day about a lot of things you can see the full interview tomorrow on the national and you can dig deeper into the life and legacy of buffy st marie in a new cbc podcast buffy it premieres tomorrow on national indigenous people's day you can hear it on the free cbc listen app or wherever you get your podcasts next a father of seven whose talent broke ceilings in canadian sports i'm gonna quit soccer and take care of my family why we're honoring retired soccer player terry felix next in our moment well here's a look at the vancouver whitecaps from back in the 1980s and on that team terry felix canada's first indigenous soccer player to go pro tonight terry was honored at the inspire awards but the dad of seven was not just recognized for what he did on the field it's the decision he made off of it that made it a moment fit for father's day i never told my kids what i did and they never really felt the impact of it growing up we weren't allowed to play in non-native soccer leagues there was one tournament in chilliwack that allowed us to enter and then i started for the vancouver wine caps i was ready to join the national team we're going to the olympics at the same time my daughter was going to be born i thought i'm going to quit soccer and take care of my family i quit that day when i was 24. i got seven kids to my dad terry felix today i am a proud son what you've achieved and you've accomplished in your lifetime is truly amazing dad i'm so proud of you thank you so much for being such a great wonderful father i decided my family over soccer and soccer's gone and my family is still here so i made a really good decision there have been a lot of great tributes to fathers on social media throughout the day and then that one uh so nice as well having moved here after the white caps in the i guess 70s and 80s in the north american soccer league i've heard a lot about the team but never heard about him until tonight that is the national for june 19th good night you
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