Tonight an emergency meeting as Haiti spirals further into chaos armed gangs in the streets thousands trapped the international push to restore order as time runs out inside a Canadian city in the grips of an overdose crisis I thought you were dead you are allowing that disaster to happen outside the church we break down.
A life or death search for answers and a royal apology for a family photo fil this image was designed to sort of qu those rumors and of course it just took a very very different turn why some say this case is far from close from CBC News this is the national with Chief correspondent Adrien Areno thanks for joining us Canadians in Haiti.
Are being told to shelter in place the situation on the ground growing more dangerous as gangs now control the capital how to break their grip and restore order is the focus of multiple countries including Canada at an emergency meeting in Jamaica tonight prompting new promises of money for a multinational security Mission and.
Humanitarian Aid the fear in the region is that catastrophe is near Evan Dyer now with the escalating crisis and the response tonight Hades police are outnumbered and fighting a losing battle they've lost control of the airport and the sea port gangs have the city completely surrounded more than 80% of Porter prins.
Is under gang control only the middleclass District of ponville is still held by police and the daily battles between cops and gangs are taking innocent lives the International Community is witnessing what's happening to us says this man France the United States and Canada are are witnesses to.
It US Canadian and Caribbean officials met in Jamaica to discuss standing up a new Haitian government and sending foreign police and troops the fear of the situation in Haiti worsening to become a civil war is now a real one the US pledged an additional $100 million to pay for a security Mission only the Haitian people can only the.
Haitian people should determine their own future not anyone else but all of us here we can help haian factions though remain far apart the Caribbean Community was hoping for just one proposal from Hades political and Civic leaders but instead they got at least four and maybe as many as seven and at the same time we're trying to.
Address the reality that exists today on the streets what do you do about the gangs I mean do you bring them in or do you make them part of the equation the backbone of a proposed multinational force will be made up of police from Kenya but Kenya wants its police to protect infrastructure and not go out to battle The Gangs Canada is.
Supporting that force with money and resources and training and uh we're going to do everything we can to restore order but right now um is we couldn't have an election because there's too much insecurity and too much violence the situation in Haiti's capital is so far gone it's not clear how any police force can retake the city even if the.
Multinational Force finally comes together it would currently only have about 3,000 police about onethird the size of Haiti's own outnumbered Force so Evan if the idea is to take on the gangs this multinational force would need real numbers behind it not just money but but real boots on the ground that's right Adrian that's why we've heard talk of.
Reaching out to the gangs uh offering a general amnesty to gang members and perhaps even giving them a seat at the table where Haitians are supposed to decide their future government and paradoxically the gangs have achieved something most Haitians wanted and that is that they seem to have driven a very unpopular prime minister Ariel lri from.
Power but that doesn't mean most Haitians want the gangs to have a say in what comes next you know the gangs are hated and feared by ordinary Haitians but uprooting them is going to be very hard it may need both a political and an economic solution rather than just force all right everyone is watching Evan Dyer reporting in Ottawa thank you thanks.
There is no end to the violence unfolding in the Middle East tonight Ramadan has arrived but a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has not Margaret Evans is there for us tonight Smoke on the horizon in Gaza there was no silencing of the guns is the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Arrived in Rafa an air strike hit this house and its residence just before the dawn prayer says Abdul Latif Barat pointing to belongings hanging in the trees in one of the city's crowded tent camps ribbons were hung to greet Ramadan but the holy fasting month throws the hunger spreading across Gaza into sharp relief in the past I would prepare the.
Table to eat at Sunset says Hal Abu Zeda but today there's no food the UN Secretary General urged Waring parties to respect the spirit of Ramadan and embrace peace fors leaders have appealed for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the immediate release of all hostages but the most compelling calls.
Have come from the families of the victims of this war on both sides he says but many of the Israeli hostages family say the UN isn't doing enough to pressure Hamas or to condemn the militant group's use of sexual violence on October 7th yarden gonan was part of a delegation flying to New York on Monday.
To Lobby the UN Security Council her sister Romy is still thought to be held in Gaza a rally in Tel Aviv over the weekend highlighted her case and 18 other female captives a un report released last week said there was con vincing information that some of the hostages were subjected to rape and.
Sexualized torture that may be ongoing you can't really breathe properly after that the breakdown of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas has been devastating none of us knows what is written in the negotiations offers I think that my sister doesn't have a price she's not something that I can put a tag on and say ah this is what.
You worth no she doesn't have a price with negotiations stalled Israel's prime minister continues to insist that he will push ahead with a military offensive in Rafa Margaret Evans CBC News Tel Aviv here in Canada there are warnings tonight about dangerous Avalanche conditions after a treacherous weekend.
One skier died in Alberta while in BC there was a remarkable rescue Georgie SMI takes us through what happened and what could lie ahead in Alberta's Rocky Mountains two men were hit by an avalanche while Backcountry skiing on Sunday only one was able to dig himself out the body of a 19-year-old man from BC has now been recovered makes us uh.
Think about things and certainly have a a higher respect for the outdoor and what the environment can do for you and to you on the same day rescuer Jim lorri expected the worst when a distress call came in from a man looking for his wife after an avalanche in the NorthShore mountains any Avalanche call is quite serious we fully expected by the time we.
Got there that it was going to be a totally different outcome and we'd be looking for a body the pair was snowshoeing when a slope gave way the man eventually spotted the tip of his wife's Snowshoe when the husband dug his wife out she was initially unconscious and quite blue cuz she wasn't getting uh enough oxygen but she was breathing.
Fortunately and and a long time had passed it had been easily probably 20 minutes possibly more that she was buried in the snow it is a total miracle that she is alive when Rescuers arrived they first warmed the woman up and then brought her down the mountain she's recovering at home in BC's mountains the risk of avalanches is high especially on.
The coast LS we' been driven by large amounts of snowfall most areas had over a meter of snow on the weekend causing dangerous conditions and we're expecting another big snowfall on Monday night he says people should stay out of of the back country until conditions improve all that snow comes after months of hardly any so the temptation to get in.
The mountains is high in spite of the dangers Georgie Smite CBC News Vancouver there is still a lot of intrigue tonight about a certain photo of the Princess of Wales even after she apologized and admitted to altering it herself this was the photo released over the weekend one of the first glimpses of Katherine in months but look a little.
Closer you'll see part of a sleeve is missing a zipper slightly off and Katherine's hand blurry so those are just a few of the anomalies that eventually led to the photo being retracted Chris Brown now with the image that backfired and why the controversy isn't going away on a day to celebrate the.
Commonwealth the theme of the event was resilience of the 75-year-old institution and it would seem of Britain's royal family with King Charles out undergoing cancer treatment Queen Camila led the Royal delegation to Westminster Abbey but it was the also absent and recuperating Catherine Princess of Wales and her Mother's Day.
Photo that upstaged the main event news agencies issued a dramatic sounding kill order for the photo after eagle-eyed social media sleuths saw Clues it had been digitally altered among them was that the sleeve of Princess Charlotte's arm had partially disappeared and a zipper on Catherine's sweater was misaligned the Princess of Wales hasn't.
Made any public appearances since abdominal surgery in January and the internet was already in overdrive with rumors about how well she's recovering this image was designed to sort of c those rumors and to make everyone feel very reassured that she's fine and with her children and enjoying Mother's Day like many others and of course it just.
Took her a very very different turn the the mystery of who altered the photo and why was answered by Katherine herself tweeting I do occasionally experiment with editing I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion with the crow whether that put the issue to rest appeared to depend on what you thought about the monarchy in the first place.
They say they want to be part of publicans of being open and honest but they're not open and honest who picking holes in everything aren't they you know can't you just get on with life the king meanwhile sent video greetings to the Commonwealth ceremony in recent weeks I have been most deeply touched by your wonderfully kind and sful good wishes.
For my health after the apology Catherine was glimpsed in a vehicle with William Kensington Palace has indicated she'll return to Duty after Easter and this Royal author expects only then will the speculation be put to rest I think that's the moment where the Press do decide okay is this more serious than we think or that we back on track.
Kensington Palace said the Mother's Day photograph was taken by Prince William last week but they will not release the original which means it's impossible to assess what parts have been changed or enhanced Chris Brown CBC News London the head of Corrections Canada will face questions from MPS next week about why convicted murderer Luca magnat was.
Transferred out of a Maximum Security Prison how and why does a sadistic murderer and rapist get moved to medium security this comes after Revelations earlier this month that magnata was actually moved in 2022 Luca magnata was convicted of killing and dismembering international student Jun Linn in 2012 he's now in the.
Same medium security facility where serial killer Paul Bernardo was transferred to that set off its own political Firestorm American lawmakers will vote this week on a bill that could effectively ban Tik Tok in the US supporters of the bill called the social media platform a threat to National.
Security because of its parent Chinese parent company Katie Simpson has more now on the move and why it could hurt some Canadians singing off key is part of how Mark Gano makes a living as a content creator better known as snarky Mary the Canadian Tik tocker has an impressive 4.6 million followers he's worried that.
Will change if the US band Tik Tok a large part of my audience about 75% of it is Americans so in the event that Tik Tok does get banned there goes 3/4 of my audience American lawmakers vote Wednesday on a bill demanding Tik tok's Chinese parent company bite dance sell the platform within 5 months or face restrictions amounting to a ban the.
Problem is not Tik Tok or the videos the problem is the algorithm that powers it is controlled by a company in China that must do whatever the Chinese Communist Party tell tells them to do and they accuse bite Dan of sharing data with China to spy on Americans something Tik Tok denies I have seen no evidence that the Chinese government has access to.
That data they have never asked us we have not provided like Dance come on do the Tik Tok is wildly popular in the US with 170 million users I understand how to get things done Joe Biden's reelection campaign team recently opened an account which is surprising since Biden backs a ban do you still support ban and TI would you sign that bill if.
They pass it I'll sign it this is becoming an election campaign issue as Donald Trump says he's now against a ban a flipflop he shared during a phone interview with CNBC but the thing I don't like is that without Tik Tok you're can make Facebook bigger and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people Trump's change in position comes.
At the same time that Tik Tok is ramping up its lobbying against the bill working with influential conservatives including Trump's former White House adviser and a republican Mega donor Katie Simpson CBC News Washington well tonight marks exactly four years since the moment the world changed the official start of the.
Pandemic while the threat has changed covid-19 is still affecting many Canadians Lauren P looks at where things stand and why vaccine uptake remains critical covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic four years after that declaration from the World Health Organization Co is still on many Canadians Minds it doesn't feel like it.
Was four years ago but I mean I'm happy that we are where we are I think that was a very powerful impact on people's life I just don't want to get sick I got races to run so I just can't get sick researchers say staying up to date on covid vaccines remains one of the best ways to protect yourself and a new American study suggest more frequent.
Vaccination for high-risk populations like older adults and anyone imuno compromised could help reduce the burden of severe illness it becomes less about the number of doses you've gotten and more about the time since your last vaccine dose or infection the study's co-author says protection wains over time leaving higher risk groups more.
Vulnerable if you just look at the the data on severe disease and who's being hospitalized and dying right now um it's almost same pattern that's been present the entire pandemic and I think that's quite striking Canada's overall covid death rates have dropped dramatically since 2020 but older age groups are still bearing the brunt with nine in 10.
Total deaths among those aged 60 and up I think we'll see new guidance this Canadian immunologist expects a spring vaccine push here for higher risk groups since Co is still circulating year round at least for now I suspect we'll get to a place place where it's more seasonal than it has been scientists do remain hopeful that Co will become less of a.
Threat over time but for now it's still sending some Canadians to hospital and leaving others with lasting Health impacts official guidance from Canada's national vacine advisors high-risk Canadians can get another spring dose Lauren P CBC News Toronto Calgary's former mayor nahad nchi is now running to lead Alberta's NDP he told CBC News.
Network Power and politics why he's entering the race I realize that the current government that we've got no surprise to folks uh who have seen me on this show is taking us down the wrong path I've said that they're not only incompetent but they're immoral and they're dangerous then she joins five other candidates to replace outgoing NDP.
Leader Rachel notley he served three terms as mayor of Calgary up until 2021 the new leader will be announced June 22nd well new research is showing a rising number of mounties are struggling with mental health issues I have had to help assist with suicidal employees were humans first the risks this poses to officers and the.
Urgent call for more services next Plus on the front lines of a drug crisis with few answers where do they go for help and and how do they get it an Ontario City struggles to find a solution and later a rare Beauty caught on camera over the years I've seen hundreds of thousands of ravens I have not seen a white raven like that the.
Mythical creature soes in our moment we're back in two wow well that overnight Inferno destroyed several homes north of Toronto the fire started in a house under construction before spreading to the two next door everyone inside those homes made it out safely police say the damage is estimated at more than $12.
Million there is growing concern tonight about the mental health of Canada's mounties a new report suggests RCMP officers are suffering more and more Sam Samson looks at those worries not just for the individual members but for the force itself Pelican arrows kraton to Shambo Lake GRE Pi any Detachment in Saskatchewan and RCMP Sergeant Joy.
Prince has been there melfor from the James Smith humble from The Humble Broncos crash the sergeant leads mental health programs for Saskatchewan RCMP members helping them with things like depression anxiety panic and worse I have had to help assist with suicidal employees where humans first and taking care of ourselves and our mental health.
Will benefit not just us but will benefit our families now a new report suggests Prince's job is needed more than ever University of Regina researchers found 65% of RCMP officers showed signs of one or more mental health disorder 5 years ago it was 50% the report paid for by the mounties union suggests RCMP officers are six.
Times more likely than other Canadians to have a mental health disorder if we don't address those kinds of challenges we end up at increased risk for the officers having any number of different kinds of compounding challenges they could end up off on leave in which case we're reducing the number of officers that we have available researchers.
Suggest that increase could be due to factor like a record high number of unfilled positions the pandemic and more natural disasters forcing officers to do more with less but also possibly a culture shift more officers just sharing how they feel the union hopes this report pushes the RCMP to increase existing programs.
And access to help like online counseling it's not just with the RCMP it's right across uh all First Responders and um it highlight highlights the fact that hey okay there's something going on in these Services here and we need to figure out what it is the RCMP says it takes mental health injuries seriously in a statement.
The police force described several ongoing programs and Pilots including its own process to get members back to work after traumatic events the union says that's great but the ask is for more a request the RCMP says it's reviewing Sam Samson CBC News Regina Lily Gladstone may have missed out on a win of the Oscars but she's.
Definitely been making her mark on the red carpet it's so exciting to be able to have that connection with Lily um and to celebrate her massive achievements and moments her unique indigenous fashion combinations next plus a city in the throws of a life and death crisis I know that I'm going to potentially run into an overdose but to have six in less.
Than 5 minutes desperation frustration and a sense things cannot get any worse this is the epitome of a revolving door 48 hours in Belleville Ontario the national breaks down the story shaping our world next if I didn't have my violin from school I don't know what I would do the.
Last repair shop took home the Oscar for best short documentary last night a big win for Nova scotia's Ben proudfoot who co-directed the film it's about the volunteers who fix School issued musical instruments in La for students like Porsche who join the filmmakers on stage Porche is is what it's all about right it's what all these repair people in the.
Film do their work for it's why we made the film is so that young people like Porche can have equal access to musical education this Mark's proudfoot second Oscar win the 33-year-old won the same award in 2022 for the short Doc the queen of basketball another big winner Emma Stone took home best actress beating out Lily.
Gladstone but the indigenous actor has already made made history this award season and as MA gber salasa shows us she did so while sharing the spotlight can we have you one this Lily Gladstone's red carpet looks stunned and inspired putting indigenous designers on the same stage as some of the world's best known luxury Brands I am wearing.
Joe big mountain with a Gucci The Killers of the flower Moon Star has made award season history the six ofate setap and namu actor is the first indigenous performer to win the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama and the first to earn the SAG award for an outstanding performance by a female.
Actor in a leading role along the way in magazines and on the red carpet she's been wearing indigenous designs bringing the bling in beaded jewelry and striking a pose in standout looks among those that made the cut to dress the star is annab design designer Leslie Hampton Hampton who is based in Toronto designed this look worn by Gladstone in.
Variety magazine so this is what we sent and this dress as an option for the star to consider for the Oscars it's so exciting to be able to have that connection with Lily um and to celebrate her massive achievements and moments that are happening right now not only for her but for indigenous people and it's an exciting time f or the many.
Indigenous designers tapping into new or traditional methods you'll see that with like quill work and bead work and uh ribbon skirts Sage Paul says what's happening in fashion right now is Monumental to see indigenous made garments and fashion and accessories on the red carpets on the runways even indigenous models it's inspiring uh we.
Can see younger Generations be seeing themselves represented in those spaces they two could one day make their own mark on future award Seasons to come Mak celest is CBC News Toronto now it's time to dig deeper into the story shaping our world raw scenes of Despair and anger as drug deaths push a small City further.
Into crisis we are the ones that are are being killed off by this drug a community Torn Between the impulse for empathy and patience pushed to the Limit she goes right over to my customers goes into their pockets and takes their money and one officer's Frank assessment I think that the systems failed a lot of communities not just bille this is the.
Breakdown Belleville Ontario made national Headlines by declaring a state of emergency Omar Dei Pacho spoke to everyone he could there to make sense of this daily human tragedy we're talking about people dying in dumpsters for following breaking news out of Ontario the city of Belleville has declared a state of emergency we.
Lost four people in 40 days to life on the streets I thought you were dead I thought you were dead animal tranquilizer and killing us all chaos chaos destruction and lack of Law and Order the city is dealing with an overdose crisis last Saturday I had to call 911 go find an address now cuz someone was OD out back the mayor says.
That the city's emergency services and Health Care system are close to a breaking point I'm walking by people smoking Fentanyl every day and it's just nonchalant people nodding off nearing death and you know it's just a another stroll in the park how did a small town in Ontario make National headlines my producer Ryan.
And I we wanted to know and so we drove to Belleville to meet up with the people witnessing it firsthand like in November it was very much a similar situation with a lot more people all going down than there ever was now we just got to Belleville and the mayor is about to have a press conference where we're hoping to find.
Out the latest on the emergency situation in this city police say they've intercepted some drugs the majority of those drugs were coming from the GTA belleville's mayor wants to open a new center but we need a lot more money he wants residents to help pay for it and that's adding to their frustrations it's aimed at the people.
Running the center I you 90 people up and down the street 89 of them were so frustrated and angry because you are allowing that disaster to happen outside the church okay how can we keep our businesses running a good you know that good question's been going on for two years that's not acceptable anymore this is Belleville Ontario in a state of.
Emergency and this is the epicenter of the overdose crisis couple weeks ago on this Block in the span of about an hour a bunch of people started to collapse it's a city at a Breaking Point and we wanted to find out how it got so bad that's Jennifer Cormier JJ she agrees to show us around she's the head of the John Howard Society runs the Drop in.
Center she's taking care of a lot of people um you okay take a couple deep breaths for me okay okay Wayne has lips were blue earlier okay so when the drop in initially was opened it was for 15 individuals who needed to be off the street because of.
The uh provincial rules and that's grown now to 200 so we see about an average of 108 to 115 Unique Individuals every day the city says the solution is moving all of this across town to alhamra square run Services 24 hours a day and boost JJ's Staffing but that plan is still about a year away and some residents they want this all of it gone if we were.
To close up the drop in today and say we're going to wait until one Al Hamra is O um eight months to a year down the road from what the mayor was saying right eight months to a year these individuals are going to end up in people's backyards we get the sense that there's nowhere else to go um I've been.
Homeless for six years and before these guys open we had nothing nowhere to go and gave banned from everywhere and once it's open it's just like home like during the day it keeps us warm and safe last couple of weeks have been a wakeup call people tell us the violence it's gotten worse they've had to hire security guards I'm prepared for my job.
I prepare I know that I'm going to potentially run into an overdose or two but to have six in less than 5 minutes was frightening and they weren't responsive and it just it was really overwhelming we keep hearing the drugs are are changing animal tranquilizers benzo diazines they're not the drugs that people were used to people are just.
Seeing it because it's here on the streets but you've been living it for much longer how do you understand what's happening right now it started four years ago this just didn't start recently for any of us this is backfired and bit every single one of us everybody we love and know is dead not everybody is a statistic we um are not pieces of.
Garbage we are a part of the community it is us that is that we are the ones that are are being killed off by this drug a month and a half ago I overos and between the staff here and a couple of the family Big Brothers here the CPR that they had to do was extensive because of the Tran it absolutely put me out to the point that they didn't know.
What to do so in order to save me it not only took two different Naran injections and a nasal it's extensive CPR her lips were purple her cheeks were purple her nose was purple I F I flipped her over and I thought I thought you were dead I thought you were dead I know and it takes longer to bring them back because it's a different drug so it like.
We she died like three times everyone we talked to here told us they need a safe place to call home but they also tell us if they can't kick fentel first they're not going to be able to keep their place you're talking about the cost of housing is just out of this world and then you're talking about all those other systems that have broken down and.
There's no resources so where where do they go for help and and how do they get it we're family we're family here you know I walk hardest part for me every day is shutting that door so if this is your family and your family's on the streets when you do get housing how difficult is it to move on because in a sense it's like from what you've been.
Telling me I'm leaving them here to to die housing it's supposed to be the solution but for the people who live on the streets they see that as an impossible choice between shelter and the family that they've come to know on the street streets but for the people who live and work downtown they say it's a situation that just can't go on okay.
So this is our mro okay we've been here for 16 years remember the residents who were angry with JJ and the state of Bridge Street we wanted to understand where that frustration was coming from part of our challenges are we have just like a little Community tip pot people will come in they will uh steal the money this particular individual that I.
Have on video she's been in here five times she's going goes right over to my customers goes into their pockets and takes their money and I I don't have we don't have the budget to hire extra people to to stop that last Saturday I had to call 911 at 5:30 cuz someone was oding out back and you know I I feel have compassion for that but it's very.
Challenging when you're trying to run a business over to the right here it used to be our stairs we had a a man and a wife living there um and they for how long for they were there for 2 weeks they just literally wouldn't leave because I had started giving them food there's no one in this community that doesn't want to help but it's at a level.
That it's so difficult and we are enabling it we met a lot of other people downt toown they wanted us to know what's been happening outside their doors and then they showed us this okay go find an address now I've already called somebody I'm on the phone with them.
Now what's been the impact on this town from from where you're staying chaos chaos destruction and lack of Law and Order smashed Windows uh people defecating uh you can say homeless but I think a lot of that is uh addiction uh problems uh urinating anywhere uh casting garbage everywhere just a lack of respect for a community that feeds.
Them what seems to be happening here that's really affecting all of us is the drug culture and the drug dealing and the theft that happens with that I personally feel that the one program that we have up the street is is kind of broken because it's really overflowing down into the businesses and it's and it's really affecting their livelihood.
My worry is that um if it doesn't change for the better uh people are really going to burn out and our community will suffer okay but let's take a step back here for a second because to be clear this issue is really concentrated on a few blocks of downtown in a small city of about 50,000 people that can feel like a a lot.
But not everyone is at the end of their rope and people went out of their way to tell us that for me the general feeling is uh a lot of sympathy really I mean this is part of our community this is these are people that are loved ones to um lots of you know friends and family other employees other businesses that we have these are all you know known people.
And we I don't feel that um we're really doing enough back on Bridge Street some people tell us this is their Hometown and and they've lost a lot of people that last round of overdoses it took Sarah's husband Channing they found him in a dumpster in four years this started with my dad and ended with my husband my mother died two weeks before him FAL.
Overdose at 60 years old janning was only 38 he just turned 38 that's a thread we keep hearing loss and a lack of support me myself I always wanted to be a a family man I had that dream and and we were introduced to certain drug and it went to hell I um for me to get clean and stay clean I need a stable.
Home being out here it's just massive depression all the time you get stuck in that rut and you finally give up like they pretty much given up there has to be housing that's affordable to begin with and supported and so I think until that happens you're just creating a revolving door when we come back Omar checks in.
With someone on the front lines who feels like he is caught in an impossible situation how do the people that are in charge not see that they're the ones causing some of this why he says the system is failing at almost every turn that is next on the breakdown we've shown you how a drug.
Crisis brought open suffering to Belleville Ontario everybody we love and know is dead now an officer gives his candid first hand description of a system just set up to fail cuz right now that type of a person cannot look after themselves and they are being left on the street here's Omar Dey Peko with the conclusion of his 48 hours in Belleville.
And an assessment of the proposals to fix this this is the epitome of a revolving door I I talk to people about the bail system and they go well what do you mean they let hardcore drug dealers out that have guns on them Constable Aaron Crawford we've been wanting to talk to him since we got here and just before we.
Need to head back he gets the green light to go on camera how do you describe what's happening here right now in Belleville um I would say that this is the Crux of um poor policy and poor decision um all come to a head all at the same time um you have uh a legal.
System uh that's incredibly soft on crime and on criminals you have a mental health system that's quite frankly failing uh taxpaying and non-tax paying citizens here in Ontario and um things are kind of at their breaking point this is the result you have people that are unmedicated unwell and they're medicating themselves.
With drugs on the street uh fentanyl uh they're using fentanyl because they don't want to feel anymore they're defeated he tells us he's been watching things go from bad to worse knows most people by name either because he's tried to save them or because he's arrested them over and over again I mean if I charge someone for theft or mischief.
They go to the courthouse they get get released because they're trying to fund their addiction if I take them to the hospital they don't get held because they're in a drug induced psychosis it just seems that there's just nowhere for these people to go we ask him about those concerns that the residents brought up about the thefts.
The break-ins the vandalism it's either I bring them to court get them charged or charge them and they're not had held accountable for the criminal act that they're doing um um and again I think it's because of out of reasons of compassion um but then they're also not being uh.
Institutionalized I could introduce you to a couple people probably at 60 Bridge who would ramble on and make no sense would not be able to have a full-fledged conversation like you or I are having right now and that's because of their mental health issues and for me not to be able to bring someone to a place that can actually look at after that person.
Cuz right now that type of a person cannot look after themselves and they are being left on the street that is frustrating picking up the same people for the same crimes day after day he says he tries to get them help instead of laying charges but there is no help anywhere so after a few arrests eventually it comes to a head.
Where we're charging people for the crimes that they're committing smashing Windows thefts um all the things that probably you're hearing are affecting the downtown area and we're sending them to the courts and the courts are essentially saying this person may be doing these things because they're in a mid in the midst of a mental health.
Crisis and that would bring us to our bail system uh so our bail system um people are getting released left right and center for the same crimes over and over and over again has the system failed you your city I think the systems failed a lot of communities not just.
Bille just look at the last two weeks I mean we're talking about people dying in dumpsters we're talking about people that are dying on the front of a sidewalk uh that they've been released to um I just shake my head at at people who I just shake my head and kind of go why how do the people that are in charge.
Not see that they're the ones causing some of this so we head back to Bridge Street right behind the church we're starting to see this building in a whole new light everyone's concerned no one's got an answer my hope is that we as a community can collectively come together and say okay what can we do that works for everyone and you know I understand.
I'm I'm a mother I have a child I understand that mindset of not necessarily wanting your child to see this but the harsh reality is this is real it's real these people are real and this isn't just a bevel issue this is Countrywide we are seeing it everywhere the states everywhere and you know so there's obviously there's more to it.
Than just a church before we leave town we have to see the sight of this new center and this is it underfunded and a long ways away from being of any help it's been the end of a full two days here in Belleville and we've spoken to everyone who would speak to us everyone's got a different idea of what a solution looks like but like this one.
They're all long-term the one thing that everyone seems to agree on is that the systems that were supposed to be in place to prevent this from happening they failed and it's the people who live here who are paying the price this is really interesting uh police in Canada by the way rarely speak quite that candidly on camera as that officer did.
Omar tells us a constable in his story wanted to speak out so badly that he texted his chief directly for permission something he has never done asking to share with the public what he sees on a daily basis the chief who's retiring in June told him to go ahead it matters and people need to hear this coming up a white Raven That's Got.
Alaskan stopping in their tracks over the years I've seen hundreds of thousands of ravens I have not seen a white raven like that a rare creature in our moment I feel so inspired right now Nationals here we come you set me up I have to do whatever it takes to save my.
Team how could you do this there will always be Downs can you get up she looked at me like she hated me you don't learn K-pop you become it join me for commotion available now on CBC listen or wherever you get your podcasts clearly that bird is just waiting for its picture to be taken that is a white Raven spotted in Anchorage.
Alaska with its white feathers its piercing blue eyes it certainly stands out from the flock tonight this beauty is Our Moment it's a really impressive and really rare bird what I saw in the video was a gorgeous all-white Raven flying down a street in a Anchorage over the years I've seen hundreds of thousands of.
Ravens I have not seen a white raven like that I think it's not an albino on a technicality it has blue eyes how special is a black bird that comes in white that's incredibly striking and then to add aqua blue eyes I think that's incredibly cool and incredibly beautiful and the incidence of plumage abnormalities like lism is about 130,000.
Birds it's become very famous and my understanding now is that people are traveling from across Canada in the United States to see a white Raven so it doesn't really matter if it's a true albino for people this is a very special bird Ravens are known as tricksters they're they play a special part in indigenous culture and this is just.
Perhaps another example of a raven pulling one over on us what a great picture that was by the way so white Ravens you know it's not so easy for them they don't have the same camouflage as as some of the other birds they certainly St stand out to Predators but the fact that this one has been around for a few months suggests its.
Survival skills are pretty good for all of us here at the national thanks for being with us you can watch anywhere anytime on the free CBC News app And subscribe to the National's YouTube channel I'm Adrien Areno take care.
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