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00:00:00connections and municipal politics is a really high bar
00:00:03simply because we have so many races going on, there's a
00:00:07lot for voters to deal with, and young people especially tend to just
00:00:11shut that out, so to the extent to which you could get even a handful of
00:00:15new voters that are younger uh would be, i would claim that would be
00:00:18success.
00:00:20a what kind of future
00:00:21of do Albertans want for their province? the upcoming referendum will reveal where
00:00:25voters stand. to
00:00:27of learn what the choices mean, stay tuned to CBC news for full
00:00:30coverage, the Alberta Referendum, October 19th,
00:00:34of make informed
00:00:36a of choice.
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00:02:42of in of ice agents inundated the twin
00:02:43cities,
00:02:46whistles blew and tear gas billowed across the
00:02:50streets and the
00:02:52of people of Minneapolis clashed with mammoth immigration enforcement
00:02:56operation.
00:03:00of The scenes that played out on these streets, including the killings of
00:03:03US citizens, Rene Good and Alex Preddy, dominated
00:03:07international headlines. Now, roughly nine months later, could
00:03:11that immigration
00:03:12of crackdown, operation Metro Surge, tip the scales
00:03:15in a crucial mid-term race here in
00:03:17Minnesota. The snow
00:03:21in the ice long
00:03:22of gone, but the fear lingers. Do you
00:03:25a see the what happened here? Operation Metro Surge,
00:03:27in any way impacting the midterms? Yeah, I think it's galvanizing people, I think
00:03:31it's also scaring people, so the people that are
00:03:35motivated to do something about it need to step up, because some people might be
00:03:39afraiduh even come out. Thank you.
00:03:43There's
00:03:44of a crucial seat up for grabs that could determine who has control
00:03:47of the Senate, Donald Trump's Republicans, or the
00:03:49Democrats. The Trump administration has tried to
00:03:53limit mail-in voting and access state voter registration
00:03:57information, and there are fears it may deploy. sorp other federal
00:04:01agents to the polls, you have the right to remain
00:04:04silent,
00:04:08what you don't like a
00:04:09whistle? it felt like the
00:04:13world was ending or it felt like my world was
00:04:16ending. shale camo rushed out into the street when
00:04:20ice officers came for her neighbors. do you really think you're
00:04:24doing good that this is like good for our
00:04:27of community and the country? oh you oh you "you can look at
00:04:32of me. I've not experienced federal agent
00:04:35intervention in that way, and I never thought it would be so close to my
00:04:38house. She is one of thousands of
00:04:42Minnesotans who
00:04:43of signed up for training to observe ice. She's trained to become
00:04:47what grassroots groups call democracy defenders, and they're
00:04:50organizing to make sure people's right to vote is
00:04:53protected. Operation Metro surge, what role did that play in
00:04:57your decision to be uh..." democracy defender,
00:05:01ever since metro surge happened, i've really been focused on
00:05:05how do we defend ourselves from the next threat? it's
00:05:09a really hard conversation about like what, is
00:05:13possible for us when we've already seen state
00:05:16violence take away to members of our
00:05:19community, so it's also these conversations about
00:05:23like what is your risk level, if that were to be
00:05:27the situation at the polls, you know, if they try and charge and take
00:05:31a ballot box, if they physically stop people from entering the
00:05:34polls, and so these handwritten notes to
00:05:38neighbors, hi neighbor, southeast neighbors for democracy defense
00:05:42is a... group in the neighborhood working to ensure we can vote safely in the upcoming
00:05:45election, enlisting others to secure the
00:05:49vote, I'm just trying to go around and meet neighbors to kind of
00:05:53talk about like what we might do, like if Ice were to show up at the
00:05:56pools or you know if like the administration were
00:06:00to do more confusion about you know
00:06:04how to vote, are you guys interested in all and being in the network?
00:06:08great, hi secretary simon, it's me
00:06:12too. kitty: all right. Steve Simon is Minnesota's secretary of
00:06:15State. One of his jobs, maintaining the fair and free access to
00:06:19the vote, no matter what might happen, storms, floods, power
00:06:23outages, now new possibility. I've had this
00:06:27job for a while, and never ever before have I had
00:06:31to seriously think about the prospect that our own
00:06:34federal government will be instigator of something that could
00:06:38interfere with the freedom to vote. What are the contingency plans
00:06:42that that you have? place if there is some sort of federal overreach, so
00:06:45just a couple weeks ago our state attorney general and I met with other attorneys general
00:06:49and secretaries of state in Detroit. Several weeks before that we
00:06:53met in Milwaukee and had to think about and plan for various
00:06:57scenarios that would include federal interference. Now I want to make clear,
00:07:01this isn't a prediction on our part, but it is a precaution we
00:07:05feel we have to take. And as it turns out, Minnesota could
00:07:08play a pivotal role in the balance of power in Washington. with a
00:07:12senate seat up for grabs, and then you've got Flanigan who's
00:07:16in Larry Jacobs is a political scientist at the University of
00:07:19Minnesota. Minnesota could be the decider. It had been
00:07:23assumed that Minnesota would be safely
00:07:27democratic uh in terms of new senator being
00:07:30elected, but now we're seeing polls and it's a toss-up,
00:07:34so that's going to be perhaps a deciding factor in whether the Democrats
00:07:38and Donald Trump maintain control the US senate. I will protect
00:07:42what's... fair and safe, standing with our law enforcement
00:07:45officers. Republican Michelle Tofoya, a well-known former
00:07:49NFL reporter, surprisingly neck-in-nack with Democrat
00:07:53Peggy Flanigan a seat long considered safe for
00:07:56democrats. We need to rip ice
00:08:00apart and stop them from terrorizing our
00:08:03communities, both running on platforms that include
00:08:07immigration enforcement, but with very different
00:08:10stances. But just how... the given issue metro surge will
00:08:14be in the minds of voters, hard
00:08:15to know. we've had a war in Iran, we've got
00:08:19gas prices going through the roof, so the metro surge has
00:08:23faded, I think in the minds of of good number of voters, and
00:08:27he says democrats in the state have lost ground over other
00:08:30issues. what we've seen is that the republican criticism the
00:08:34democrats in Minnesota for fraud, um, wasteful
00:08:38spending, has really begun to catch up. Many of... "the
00:08:42conservative leaning immigrant communities who helped propel the Republicans to
00:08:46power in 2024, latinos and African and Arab
00:08:50voters were caught in the crosshairs of Metro
00:08:53surge. what about the communities that
00:08:57were targeted by ice? could that be an x-factor in the senate race for
00:09:00example? we may have very, very close senate race decided
00:09:04by small percent and the impact of Donald
00:09:08Trump's metro surge um and the immigration policy in
00:09:12general." could be just what's needed to tip the race
00:09:16away from Republicans and towards the
00:09:19Democrats.
00:09:25One of those groups, the Somali community.
00:09:28Inherently Somali is are very religious, very conservative
00:09:32community, and that conservatism uh drew me
00:09:36to Republican
00:09:38Party.
00:09:42Salmon fiiki even rallied for the GoP, that's him standing
00:09:46behind Trump in July of
00:09:472024.
00:09:51Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the US.
00:09:54President Donald Trump repeatedly targeted and insulted them
00:09:58during metro surge. The Somalian should be out of here. We're going to go the
00:10:02wrong way if we keep taking in garbage, causing some like Salmon Fiki
00:10:06to change how they vote. What was the moment for you
00:10:09where you turned away from the Republican Party? do you remember that
00:10:13moment? uh, the moment it was when Trump was sitting in his
00:10:16office and he called the somali community
00:10:19garbage, that was the the thing that
00:10:23broke the camel. is back, do you think that the
00:10:27somali vote could be the the tipping point here um for the
00:10:31democrats if if they don't show up in the numbers they previously have for
00:10:35Republicans? Somalis are typically very
00:10:38politically engaged and especially if
00:10:41they if they feel a threat then
00:10:45they respond in the
00:10:47election. As it turns out,
00:10:51some other Minnesotans feel the same way, even if it isn't,
00:10:55dominant issue at hand. Metro surge is certainly one
00:10:59the factors, but there's there's a lot them uh, pretty much every day,
00:11:03everything you read, you just uh, can't believe what's
00:11:06happening, and yet, despite the steady
00:11:10drum beat of new controversies and outrage, it's clear as
00:11:13Minnesotans still visit the memorials to two their own killed
00:11:17by federal officers, the ripple effects from metro surge
00:11:21varied and profound and hard from many to
00:11:25ignore as the state starts to
00:11:27vote.
00:13:30Uh, this is an important day for Alberta and for Canada.
00:13:34Bold ambition to grow the oil sands is adding urgency to
00:13:38resolve decades-old problem, Tailing's
00:13:41ponds. We can't allow to go any more time.
00:13:44Uh, they are at capacity. They hold toxic mining water,
00:13:48and now oil sands companies are eager for government approval to
00:13:52treat the fluid and release it back into the... river, it is a situation
00:13:56of environmental racism, controversial, especially for those who
00:14:00live downstream, but for industry, something has to give.
00:14:04these uh tailing facilities are not meant to be
00:14:08permanent parts the
00:14:09landscape. all day,
00:14:13every day, every few seconds, air cannons fire
00:14:16along with scarecrows to keep wild life from
00:14:19landing. tailing's ponds are toxic and have been
00:14:23ever since the first oil.
00:14:24sand's mine was built six decades ago. The problem
00:14:28isn't going away, but getting worse. The amount of Tailing fluid
00:14:32keeps increasing, jumping by 50% over a 10-year
00:14:36period from 2014 to
00:14:382024. Numbers that will only grow
00:14:42as Alberta develops a new pipeline to the west coast with Ottowa
00:14:46support, and pursues an ambicious growth plan for the oil
00:14:50patch. We are determined to make the most the opportunities to before us
00:14:54and to deliver on our ambition to double Alberta's
00:14:58oil production, the province and industry are
00:15:01pushing for the same solution known as treat and release,
00:15:05essentially use technology to filter and clean up the
00:15:08water, then pour it back into the Athabaska
00:15:11river. For Lenny Hansen, the
00:15:15Athabaska has always been a part of his life. This
00:15:18river houses lot of wildlife. For 33 years
00:15:22he worked in the oil sands and now in retirement. I think it's
00:15:26a great idea, and I've seen what they
00:15:30do and how they
00:15:31do it,
00:15:31and I think it's a, it's a really good
00:15:33process, there is so much bitch.
00:15:37in the area, including on river banks, that there is always going to
00:15:41naturally be some oil in the river. treated water, for
00:15:45him, there's no concern. it's going to be cleaner than the water that's here. the
00:15:48treat and release discussion is white hot in this region.
00:15:52it's
00:15:53also a non-starter, says this may leader. he's part of a company
00:15:57that aims to treat tailing's ponds, but the water would then be
00:16:00reused, not discharged. living in the heart the
00:16:04oil sands, we have... had generational
00:16:08trauma associated with water. release is not something
00:16:12that uh, my ownership, my
00:16:16leadership, and my community could ever support. tailings have always
00:16:20been a significant concern of ours. if anything, this first
00:16:23nation's chief wants oil sands development to slow
00:16:27down, not speed up. doubling means doubling the size of
00:16:30tailing spons today, means doubling the amount of water
00:16:34withdrawals, means doubling the amount of emissions. um and so
00:16:38doubling the problem uh is what we see. the prospect the
00:16:42tailing's water being treated and released back into the river is a
00:16:45threat, she says, to the quality of life in her community.
00:16:49tailings hold vast amounts of salt, heavy metals and
00:16:52hydrocarbons, risk, she says, from human health to
00:16:56aquatic life. it is a situation of environmental racism. we often
00:17:00say, if the if the rivers flew in
00:17:04the opposite direction, you know, to non... um
00:17:08indigenous communities would things be like this, her
00:17:11community has been involved in talks with government and industry about
00:17:15this problem for many years, but she now feels political
00:17:19pressure to act. it's going to take as long as it takes to to develop
00:17:22strong regulations to protect what matters most to your
00:17:26nation, and now it's like hurry up, get it done. the oil
00:17:30sands is the only industry in the country that's not allowed to release treated
00:17:34water, a complete ban for this one sector. cannot
00:17:38say to industry, we want you to double production and then not give them
00:17:42the tools to be able to do proper treat release. the Alberta government is
00:17:46ready to move, it needs Ottawa's help though, since
00:17:49waterways fall under federal jurisdiction. we can't allow to go any more
00:17:53time. uh, they are at capacity. companies say they have the
00:17:57technology and expertise to treat the tailings. what they
00:18:01need is regulations, so they know what standards have to be reached
00:18:04in order for the water to be released back. to the river.
00:18:08Various technologies are being tested and developed, which scientists have
00:18:12said are promising. Various air and water monitoring
00:18:16programs are already in place. If we take these elements together, we think
00:18:20that gives confidence that a treatment technology is effective, environmentally
00:18:24protective and capable of building delivering long-term results.
00:18:28We have some experts, part their push is the need to clean up the
00:18:32land. And these Tailings facilities are not meant
00:18:36to be permanent. parts the landscape in the in the
00:18:39region, we have full intention of actually turning those
00:18:43tailings ponds into reclaimed sites, and so that's
00:18:47why we're looking for that treat release. By the end the year, the Alberta
00:18:51government plans to layout exactly what quality standards have to be
00:18:54met for the water to be released, then it's up to the federal government to
00:18:58adopt those regulations, suggest changes or keep the ban
00:19:02in place. For now, Ottawa is tight lipped, the federal environment
00:19:06minister refused. interview requests, the department wouldn't provide
00:19:10any timeline a decision, the natural resources minister
00:19:14wouldn't provide any specifics either. uh, we will do the work
00:19:18to make sure we have the right regulations uh with respect to
00:19:22tailing ponds. there's no clear direction for what Ottawa will
00:19:25do as pressure continues to build. the federal government really needs to
00:19:29take things these things seriously. the solution isn't just to keep doing nothing and
00:19:33put our head in the sand, the solution is to actually prove out the science.
00:19:38And that can be done, we're very innovative
00:19:40people.
00:21:43Did you know that Quebeck is the leading cranberry producer in Canada
00:21:46and amongst the most prolific growers in the world. "the province is
00:21:50the leading producer of organic cranberries globally, and there are
00:21:54several hundred of bogs like these across the province producing
00:21:58cranberries, so let's find out how they're produced and why
00:22:02bogs are so important. the water harvest allows us to take the
00:22:06fruit out without hurting the plant for next year. also, the cranberry
00:22:10has very thick skin, and if you look at the middle of
00:22:13it, you see four air pockets.
00:22:17these air pockets are what makes cranberry boiant." so without that
00:22:21air it would not float to the top, so you really need that tough skin
00:22:24to to resist the water pressure and the air pockets to allow
00:22:28it to float. we also have installed in here drainage and
00:22:32irrigation systems to keep them from droughts to heat protection and
00:22:36even frost protection um
00:22:38and again it allows us
00:22:39to raise the water to harvest the cranberries. quebec's cranberry operations are mainly
00:22:43in the santo de quebec region and the province produces more than
00:22:47250 million pounds annually. Harvesting season
00:22:51usually runs from late September to late October, but the process is
00:22:54year-round. In the winter, the fields are flooded to protect the buds from
00:22:58the cold. The springtime is where most the fertilization and monitoring
00:23:02happens. The flowering begins in the summer, and once the
00:23:05cranberries turn red, growers can harvest fresh cranberries used for
00:23:09juices, snacks and dinner staple during the North American holiday
00:23:13season. Really, the difference is in our seasons, so we have
00:23:17a relatively cooler... summer and very
00:23:21cold winter, that allows the winter part allows us to fight the
00:23:25pests that you would naturally find in the bogs without using any
00:23:29pesticides, so lot the larvas, lot the fungy that affect
00:23:33the cranberry quality are destroyed by the colds during the winter, that's why
00:23:37Quebec uh organic production is so strong, so when the cranberries
00:23:41leave the bog, they go into this truck and then they're headed to get some
00:23:45cleaning so you can eat them or make your sauce or do whatever you do
00:23:49with cranberries. but how do we get here? so first the bog gets
00:23:53filled with water, uh, the the fruits get detached by the tractor
00:23:57to be then brought to this corner by some booms and from there it goes through the
00:24:01pump, pre cleaned and to the truck. Schneider's farm is part
00:24:05of agricultural coroperative operated by Ocean Spray, which
00:24:08partners with local family cranberry farmers in Quebec and
00:24:11elsewhere. In 2025, Quebec's cranberry season had
00:24:15record year, this year it was a bit of a downyear because of
00:24:19his. and a drought in the summer, next year, growers are
00:24:23hoping for better season, so there are plenty of cranberries for
00:24:27you to use in your juices, your sauces and simply just for you
00:24:30eat.
00:24:34it's an annual tradition for many at the daily bread food bank, sorting through
00:24:38thousands of pounds of cans, cooking oils and household products
00:24:42donated by the community last month. this is fourth year, the
00:24:46fourth year we're doing this, you see more and more people coming and like more people rec'.
00:24:50izing the issue
00:24:51and it's just like really cool to see the community work
00:24:54together to like help. the daily bread splits up its annual food
00:24:58sort into two parts: 200 volunteers in the morning and 200 in
00:25:02the afternoon. their goal is to sort the 185,00 pbs
00:25:06of food donated over the last month. it sounds like lot of food, but for
00:25:10the daily bread, that's less than a day's worth of distribution. here's the
00:25:13difficult news, we distribute about 200,00 lbs of
00:25:17food every single day, every... single week, the volunteers
00:25:21and staff the Dailybread food bank uh provide about million meals
00:25:25for the city of Toronto. That's obseene, we shouldn't be doing that. Daily bread says
00:25:29one in 10 Torontonians currently rely a food bank and one in
00:25:33three their clients are under the age of 18. elected officials
00:25:37and mayoral hopefuls came out to sort and share their plans for tackling food
00:25:41affordability. Olivia Chow, reiterating her commitment to
00:25:44expanding
00:25:45the school food program. We are working to make sure that people
00:25:49don't need food. bank in the first place by feeding more
00:25:52kids, making life more affordable,
00:25:56lowering the costs on TTC and building
00:26:00more housing that people can afford. Bradford says, while the city
00:26:03can't control grocery prices, he'd work to lower property bills. Provide
00:26:07some property tax relief, first year in office, a
00:26:11$300 reduction to the water bill, uh, make it a little
00:26:14bit more affordable, and of course to cut the municipal land
00:26:18transfer tax for the average home price here in Toronto. This volunteer
00:26:22is also regular client the Food Bank. She says despite having a
00:26:26job, but she doesn't earn enough to make Ends meat. You can't rely on
00:26:30your basic income anymore, it is. better you use the food bank so you don't
00:26:34end up touching into your savings or your rent for next
00:26:37month. It's reminder that a long weekend of abundance for
00:26:41some, not every neighbor's Thanksgiving meal looks the same. Mercedes gastin
00:26:45Biday, CBC News,
00:26:46Toronto.
00:30:08are you taking this threat? it's the uncertainty that's the biggest issue.
00:30:11Canada, we got
00:30:13you.
00:30:24Homeland security agents have raited the home of Minnesota congresswoman
00:30:27Ilhan Omar. Sources tell the associated press this is related to an
00:30:31ongoing criminal. investigation into Omar's immigration history.
00:30:35Omar is a frequent target of political and personal attacks
00:30:39by President Donald Trump and today's raid is being condemned by many as an
00:30:43abuse of power by his administration. Journalist Nick Harper is watching
00:30:47this for us. He joins us from the US capital. Nick, walk us through the situation around
00:30:51this morning's raid. Yeah, Mark. We got word of that
00:30:55early morning raid.