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Good evening, and welcome to News Night. I'm Emma McIntosh.

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And I'm Bryce Turner. Coming up on tonight's show our winter weather forecast and how students with seasonal affective disorder are preparing.

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It sure does seem like winter out there with below zero temperatures and dreaded snow.

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Quite a shock after the spring like weather on Friday.

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Maybe Santa Claus brought it with him at Sunday's parade.

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Well, I guess we have four months of winter to deal with it. Oh, well, that's just part of Canada's climate.

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More on winter weather later. But first, we have some breaking news of a sexual assault at an off campus student residence. Our top story of the night, Toronto students living in student housing learned today that sexual assaults and bullying were happening on their very own doorsteps. An email was sent at 4pm today from the general manager and president of the company who said steps were being taken to prevent further harassment. With more on this story, we're joined live by Dan Marino. Dan?

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We have just received where the campus cooperative residence is taking action due to a sexual assault and bullying problem. The student housing company has students from Ryerson, U of T and OCAD. Students living in the seven houses in the company's subdivision received urgent emails this afternoon. They say they're looking at their anti harassment policies and how they deal with violence. They gave no details of what happened or how many cases there were. They said nothing about calling the police. They just stressed about communication between themselves and students. We were able to reach one student who told us he hope they kick those bastards out, whoever did this. It is not clear at this time whether the problems relate specifically to a few houses or all of them. We were unable to reach the Co Op office as they close at 4:30pm. Back to the studio. 

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For the sixth year in a row the TTC is hiking fares. Yesterday, the board voted in favor of a 10 cent fare increase to take effect January 1. The board hopes to freeze fares in 2018. New prices are expected to raise at least $27 million for the TTC, but the agency will still be in the red. TTC chair Josh Cole said the increase really sucks. The cost of tokens, Metro passes and senior and student fare will all go up. 

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Modernization is an opportunity to do things better for people and at the same time to save money.

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John Tory is looking to save taxpayer money with a new modernization plan that he announced this morning. The plan will see more city services offered online resulting in the use of less office space. Tory has proposed implementing five full service hubs instead of the current 41 individual service counters by 2021. The city estimates that reducing the total number of service counters and making more transactions available online will save the city about $8 million annually.

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Canada's International Trade Minister chrystia Freeland said today that the Trans Pacific Partnership or TPP will not go forward without the United States. US President Elect Donald Trump said yesterday that he'll withdraw his country from the TPP on his first day in office. The TPP is a trade deal between 12 countries including Canada. Trump said the deal would be a potential disaster for the US.

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Instead, we will negotiate fair bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores.

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The TPP took five years to negotiate.

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The federal government plans to eliminate coal fired electricity by 2030. That's 10 years faster than originally planned. Yesterday, federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said coal emissions make up 10% of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. Provinces can adapt the plan if it leads to an equal environmental outcome, McKenna said.

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So in some cases, they'll have no impact on jobs because there'll be an equivalency agreement to bring on more clean power and reduce the coal so that you can make an equivalent impact.

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McKenna said the plan will reduce emissions by as much as taking 1.3 million cars off the roads would.

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if you're procrastinating about purchasing a new winter coat because you remember last year being unseasonably warm, don't count on it for this season. The weather network has issued its winter forecast and is predicting a more traditional Canadian winter with cold temperatures and stormy weather for most of the country. Most of Ontario, as well as the prairies and Western Quebec are going to be colder than their average winter temperatures. Precipitation will also be above average with rain, snow and sleet all possible throughout the season.

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A massive water shortage has led to Bolivia's government declaring a state of emergency yesterday. It is the worst drought in 25 years and the water shortages have the government making funds available to alleviate the crisis. It is affecting the country's agricultural sector and its families. Protests are broken out in major cities throughout Bolivia. The president of Bolivia has said that water is a human right and the government has an obligation to use money to provide it for the people. It's been estimated that the drought has affected 125,000 families as well as 360,000 heads of cattle.

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A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Japan's Honshu island on Tuesday. The quake triggered tsunami warnings and almost 2000 homes lost power. The tsunami warning stretched along the same coastline that was devastated by enormous waves in 2011, after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the area. A cooling pump system at one nuclear plant stopped briefly due to the quake but no abnormalities or change in radiation levels were reported. Three people have been reported injured and tsunami warnings have since been dropped.

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Although summer break is months away, some Ryerson students have already started planning. Students with the Alternative Spring Break group we're on the second floor of the SLC running a bake sale today to raise money for their volunteer trips to India and Nepal. Reporter Sawyer Bogdan has more.

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A lot of student groups at Ryerson hold fundraisers. Today, students with the Alternative Spring Break group could be seen on the second floor of the SLC selling baked goods to raise money for their upcoming volunteer trip next May. Sophia Smith, one of the group's members likes that it gives students an alternative to their regular summer break activities.

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I've done a lot of traveling in the past, but it's mostly been to places like Europe and like beach vacations. And this time, I wanted to travel with a purpose and actually use my time to help other people and kind of make a difference.

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Smith will be part of the team going to Nepal while the other half of the group will be going to a rural region in India.

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We pay for our flights there. And then the money that we're raising is going to go towards like in country supplies for the different types of construction that we will be doing there.

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The 12 students in Nepal are going to be staying as a group in one of the local houses while helping with earthquake relief. Although it's going to be far from home, the only concern Smith has is what she's going to eat.

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I wouldn't say that I'm scared of anything but one thing that I always have to be cautious of when traveling I'm vegetarian. And so just food is always an issue for me when I travel just making sure I get enough protein.

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Sidney Bartos, another volunteer is part of the team being sent to the southern state of Corolle in India. She found the opportunity to get involved with the group to be a great chance to travel more. 

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Well I personally got involved just because I'm really interested in travel. And then I also am really interested in sort of the social aspect, so the volunteering and really it's you know, it's traveling with a purpose. And that was something that really, that really enticed me. 

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The two teams will be in Nepal and India for an entire month, helping out local communities. The group runs several fundraisers throughout the year, including silent auction and pub night to prepare for their trip in May. For News Night, I'm Sawyer Bogdan,

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The ex girlfriend of the men convicted for killing Tim Bosma has pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by willingly destroying evidence in the murder. Christina Nuages trial was set to start today on the charge of accessory after the fact of murder. Bosma was murdered in 2013 after taking two men for a test drive in a truck he was trying to sell online. Bosma's father said he welcome new just guilty plea because it spares the family from another trial full of graphic details about his son's death.

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A school bus full of elementary school students crashed yesterday in Tennessee. Five students died. The bus driver is in custody and faces five charges for vehicular homicide, reckless endangerment and reckless driving. Kurt Kelly, the interim superintendent of the Hamilton County Schools spoke to reporters today about the casualties. He talked about the toll it has taken on the families of the children.

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It is it's the toughest thing that you will ever do in your life. There are no words that you can say but let me say that our hearts are this are going out with the families. This is the toughest thing that you can do. And hopefully with time but this is something that you will never get over with but we're just reaching out and try to do whatever we could in terms of work so confident support to the family.

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The driver identified as John Bennie Walker, who is 24 years old has been cooperating with investigators. Police have said he may face additional charges in the coming days.

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Susan Rike was in her kitchen when a stray bullets shot by police went through her window and lodged itself one inch from her spine. And police won't reveal the name of the officer responsible. Rike says the officer should face a charge of criminal negligence. She is seeking a judicial review of the Special Investigations Unit decision to protect the officers identity. The SIU said they could not comment because the matter is currently before the courts.

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Austrian police have arrested a man they say is the culprit behind a robbery that failed before it began. The man went into the Vienna bank with a gun in hand and hood hiding his face. But a police spokesman said the would be robber didn't realize he was too early and the bank hadn't opened yet. Passersby call for help when they noticed a suspect hiding his pistol under newspapers. Police say the man's plan getaway vehicle with a motorized scooter.

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If your wallet is hurting from expensive phone bills from Canada's major phone companies, Wind mobile's latest announcement might be good news. News Night reporter Sal has the story.

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When it comes to getting fast cell phone coverage for cheap, you need to make pretty big sacrifices. But that could be about to change with upgraded speeds coming to Wind mobile. For years Wind mobile has been the only alternative to companies that charge 80 plus dollars like Rogers and Bell for cellphone plans with data. But as many users users will say their service isn't the best.

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Personally not a win. But I've heard it's really choppy and at points unreliable.

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That could be about to change. Wind announced on Monday that there'll be launching a new 4g LTE service for data the summer. Already offered on bigger networks the upgrade could finally bring wind up to speed with its competitors.

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I've had friends who live in the GTA live in Toronto and they've had nothing but complaints about the service they get. 

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Wind also announced that they'll be changing their name to Freedom Mobile as a subsidiary of shock communications. While students are showing at least some interest telecommunications expert Robert Huitema is skeptical on how much of a big deal the upgrade is. 

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The onlyway you can get more customers is to take them away from other other other suppliers and this is what TELUS has done. They have a different name. It's called Kudo. Okay that's really talking to Telus. Bell does the same thing, they've got Virgin Mobile. So the they have to anyone in this business Shaw included with their with their new Freedom Mobile product have to be competitive, and usually they're competitive on new customers because they give them really, really good rates.

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Freedom mobile has already taken some steps to be more competitive inToronto's mobile industry. This year, the security exclusive coverage in Toronto's downtown subway stations. But whether this upgrade will solve Freedom's, spotty coverage problems, we'll have to wait and see the Sal Farooqui for News Night.

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With a cold winter around the corner people are already falling into a slump. Madonna Dennis talks to Ryerson students and figures out what's up.

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Anyone can get hit with the winter blues, but for some there's a little more to it. Two to 6% of Canadians will experience seasonal affective disorder in their lifetime. They'll experience anything for mood swings during the fall to spring season. This is because of the lack of sun in the winter. Elisa Ellie, a fourth year business student shares her experience

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Because I took an entire course on depression and wasn't talked about once.

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That was Hira Sandu a second year psychology student who took a course on depression here at Ryerson. Sandu encourages people to be more self aware of what they say to their peers.

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When you get someone who comes up to you and says that to you, you need to have a right response. Like my response at that time was like, wait, that's a thing. Like you just need to be mindful of the fact that just because you don't go through it or you don't know about it. That doesn't mean other people don't.

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Ryerson offers various on campus counseling services as well as different resources to help cope

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for Newsnight. I'm Madonna Dennis, because the Toronto Eaton center is so close to Ryerson, you think students would want to splurge this holiday season, but some students are keeping their budget to a minimum. Reporter Morgan Bock neck has the story.

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Black Friday is this week, marking the beginning of the holiday spending season. According to the Toronto Eaton center, there's always a rise of spending during the holidays. This year, however, sales are expected to go up 3% more than a typical season according to the Globe and Mail. We spoke to students about how the Christmas season affects their shopping. Sociology student Casey says that she feels a need to spend more.

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Just because there's like a lot of expectations. And there's a lot of like pressure, like the words and stuff to buy more.

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But the response we heard most was that students are finding more creative ways to save on gifts. Carmen, a sociology student says that the pressure the spend is pointless. 

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It's kind of like endless spending. Like there's no need for it. It's just, this is a way that you're supposed to show love and gratitude for one another.

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Carmen finds making gifts has a better emotional return.

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So I think there's like also a personal touch to the fact that the other person knows the time and effort that you put into it. 

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Daniel Geltz a student in fashion design says he does feel the pressure to spend more during the season, but he tries not to focus on price. 

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My personal approach to it is trying to instill meaning in not not in price but in personal value and personal approach to giving that person that gift.

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Now, credit card companies may not make any money off of this, but students seem to believe that spending time with family is priceless. I'm Morgan Bock Nick for News Night.

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It's hard to escape Christmas shopping without the stores downtown.

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Not to mention Black Friday specials. 

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Watch your wallets, everyone.

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This has been News Night. I'm Emma McIntosh.

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And I'm Bryce Turner. Thanks for tuning in. Coming up next current affairs with Lisa Cumming. 

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Good evening. I'm Lisa Cumming  and you're listening to current affairs. This has certainly been an exciting week in Toronto. There's trouble brewing in Olympic paradise and with the World Cup, the Raptors and Kanye West as well. The arts community is certainly abuzz with seasonal festivities and we're kicking off tonight's show with a new development at the Christmas market. A new booth tucked away at Toronto's Christmas market holds a new entrepreneurs dream. John Tomori, a former engineer is selling his organically produced maple syrup for the first time at the market this year. Natasha Herman has the story.

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It's that time of year again, and Toronto is as festive as ever. The annual Christmas market and the Distillery District encourages families to come together and enjoy this special time of year. The Christmas market is a valued tradition for residents in the city. Guests can enjoy a variety of food and drinks, go shopping, or listen to carolers like Nicole Daly.  

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[Music: live caroling Santa Claus is Coming to Town]

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The people love it. Like the people love it, especially when they're walking in the street and we're just in a corner and they see us and we start singing. They just go crazy. Oh, carolers.

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Vendors are a huge part of the Toronto Christmas market. Some booths have been here for the last several years. Ashley Greenville is working at the gingerbread booth at the market.

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This is the seventh year that this booth has been here. It's got a bit of a renovation with this new look. This is the first time it looks this nice.

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This booth has both treats for kids and pets. The booth features miniature gingerbread houses that attached to mugs.

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So these are edible postcards for dogs. They're made out of raw hide. And I would say the best sellers are mostly the cookies. And and the they call these Mug Mates. 

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As many vendors have been coming to the market for several years. This is john Tamori's first year. John owns and runs Pefferlaw Creek farms for three years with his brothers, Ben and Tony Tamori making organic maple syrup.

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We've been making maple syrup since we were kids at my parents place. And that's been we've been doing that for about 25 years now and the farm we have quite a few more trees on that property. So we started, we started tapping those trees three years ago and we've sort of grown into a commercial scale and now we produce it for large events like this. And for other customers who want local maple syrup that's sourced in Ontario and 100% pure.

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From engineers to maple farmers, the Tomori brothers are working to make themselves a well known name. John Tamori quit his job two years ago to pursue the maple farm full time, being the first brother to run the farm.

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I grew up in my parents place where there is about 20 acres. I love working in the forest working with my hands and and also just agriculture generally. Not to mention, I am able to apply my I'm a chemical engineer by profession, so I'm able to apply a lot of the skills and the education that I've received to what we do. Because the design and implementation of our collection systems is it's a pretty, it's an industrial process at that level, I guess you could call it. And it takes a fair bit of design and just strategy to properly lay out everything.

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The Pefferlaw Creek farm has been owned by the Tamori family for six years now. However, neither of them imagined the amount it would grow to be.

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Three years ago, my brothers and I just went for, we didn't spend a whole lot of time at the farm before there was no house on it, there's nothing like that. So we would occasionally go there maybe once every two or three months. But there's one time where we went to the farm and we did a really nice walk through the forest and we just were blown away by the maple trees there. And we said, Wow, this is our opportunity to make maple syrup. You know, a full time profession and that day on we started just started making plans we we pulled a lot of really long days where we would be working in the evenings and on weekends to get the the installation started. And then it just got to a point where we added another forest that was you know, adjacent to us and we added a whole bunch of attach so it justified me quitting as the first one. And that's that's how it started and we're just kind of progressing and adding things like this. This market to just increase the viability so one of my brothers can join me, hopefully next year so.

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Although he pursued a career in engineering, he found his passion in maple farming. However, his engineering background hasn't been forgotten.

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There's a well, it's it's suddenly when you go from a I would say engineering can be a little bit more one dimensional, so I have a set skill set and I have a set sort of repertoire of duties, right. And I would say that when I went into this full time, I had to do everything. I was doing business administration, sales, marketing, you know, operations, I'm installing pipes and doing all this stuff, right? So for me it was a big learning curve and also just forcing myself to do things that perhaps I wasn't used to doing in the past. Like just sales and marketing is something I never touched as an engineer and I had to jump into stuff like that so.

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But Maple farming is no easy task.

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To we'll collect all the sap will bring into one spot and we'll put it through a couple of filtration units to clean it and concentrate it and then we'll put it through a wood fired evaporator. So we'll we'll boil it for a lengthy amount of time and then we'll produce final syrup. Starts the sap comes out of the trees at about 2% sugar and we finish it at 66%, so there's a lot of boiling and water removal but nothing is added along the way. It's just a question of removing the water.

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While other farmers usually harvest in the fall, maple syrup is produced in the spring.

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Usually the majority of the syrup is produced in two months. So sap in the trees will flow in the spring, so that'll start with the first thaws of the spring. And then the sap will start moving up and down the trees and then we tap the trees and we start bringing that out. And that season goes till the trees will actually bud so when the leaves start growing on the trees, basically. And that usually will last about two months.

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75% of the world's maple syrup is made in Quebec. Oh, it makes Pefferlaw Creek Farms, maple syrup different is how it's produced.

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So there are a couple of things producers will use different agents for cleaning their tubings tubing systems and lines that we don't use anything. There's also things like the cleaning of your pen, some producers may use synthetic phosphoric acid, whereas we'll use food grade vinegar, things like that. So there are a couple there are a number of things and there's also tapping practices. We make sure that we we never tap trees that are too small and never put more than two taps into a tree. So that's the sort of a sustainable tapping procedure that gets you into the organic grown.

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John's booth will be at the Toronto Christmas market until December 22. The Pefferlaw Creek farm is located in Oxford, Ontario is open all year round. For News Night, this is Natasha Herman.

24:14  
Looking for a free way to enjoy contemporary art? Well Harbourfront Centre has you covered. Their Art Gallery called the Power Plant is open to the public all year round. Currently there they are showcasing art by three artists for their fall exhibition. Noushin Ziafati has the story.

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Welcome to the Power Plant. Its name comes from what it used to be an actual power plant. It was transformed into an art gallery in 1987. For the Power Plant's fall 2016 exhibition, three major solo exhibitions are presented by artists Ito Bharata,  Latif Cha  and Maria Loboda. Bharata's exhibition called folky, which means false guide inFrench uses her recent work around fossils and natural history in Morocco to examine the authenticity and forgery of artifacts. One of broughtest pieces is a colorful collection of Berber carpets from Morocco that correspond to painted sections of the wall. Quintin Quickshanks is visiting the gallery today. He likes Bharata's carpet piece because of how vibrant it is.

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I really think it's interesting like texture and color. So it's kind of my forte.

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Another piece by Bharata is a short documentary film called Faux Start that is projected onto the wall. It focuses on predators who create fake fossils to create an illusion of what a Moroccan experience is, according to gallery attendant Octavio Contrera. 

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People see the fossils like in the in the tourist market, and I mean, even if they are fake, they would still buy them just because it fits into that narrative that they've created for them.

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Cha's solo exhibition called crossfade confronts viewers with a sky that is literally falling. Visitor  Zach Burdwan likes that piece the most because of the way it is crumbling to the ground. 

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The exhibit in the hall crossfade with all the like crumbling, painting of like the sky in the clouds is kind of cool.

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The Power Plant's fall exhibition is open until January. The gallery is open from 10 in the morning till the afternoon from Tuesdays to Sundays. For News Night, I'm Noushin Ziafati. 

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Women in Toronto's art community get the support they deserve from each other. Myself and Sydney McKenna spoke to women working in creative industries around the city about their art and what it takes to be a female artist in a patriarchal industry.

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Hey guys. Come on in. Welcome to my studio. 

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I'm Sydney. 

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And I'm Lisa, and this is Girl Talk. For this episode, we got together with three lovely ladies who all help to outline a story of women in the arts. The struggles, the fruitions and everything in between. 

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Women have faced decades of adversity in the arts industry and all industries for that matter. We felt it was important to highlight their stories.  

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First, we talked to Bree Hoi, a fourth year creative industry student, and well, she can tell you what she does.

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Um, well, I started sewing by hand little things like pillows and stuff. When I was nine, taught by my nanny. She gifted me a sewing kit, for I think it was my ninth birthday. And we used to sew together and she would sew things like on larger scale with her sewing machine, and I would sit beside her and stitch my little pillows. And she would help me, it was very cute. And then I kind of abandoned that for a few years again, and then I just kind of continued doing it. I bought hoops, which worked out a lot better and then it just kind of came into fruition. Needlepoint was used in the first wave feminism through like women's suffragettes would make political needle points and to use flags, kind of as they marched for their rights to vote. Which I think is really beautiful, yeah.

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Did you do any sharing, distributing through at Bunz at all, like doing trading or bartering for your pieces? 

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When it first started out, I wouldn't get people to pay me money, because like, almost there was a part of me that didn't think it was worth it. Which kind of speaks to art as a female and I felt like, I could just trade other people for their art and other things like that.

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In embroidery, which is traditionally a woman's craft. And then like, have you ever had something like that where you've told people and they've maybe reacted in a way that you weren't expecting?

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I generally don't tell people unless they ask. So I've had like a few men asked me like if I'm an artist, and I'll be like, yeah, I do embroidery. And they're like, oh, okay, and they just don't really feel interested anymore. So it's just like, okay. 

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We were interested if other women had similar experiences to bring their treatment by men when pursuing their craft, we met up with Victoria Long in Trinity Bellwoods Park on a sunny Saturday afternoon. Here's what she had to say.

29:23  
My name is Victoria Long and I graduated, I think, two years ago, from York University's film production program. So much of the time, whenever I'm new on set, and like, I go somewhere to like, try and fill the paperwork or whatever they're like, okay, like, you must be makeup. And I mean, again, it's frustrating I'm always so tentative to talk about this stuff, because it is so subtle, a lot of the time. And whenever you bring it up to guys, or whenever I have a lot in film stuff, they're always just like, oh, really went, nah, that's not true. Or they're like, I know, a lot of female camera people. 

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And I'm like, Oh, cool. Well, like, that's awesome. I personally have never worked for a female cp. I've really, yeah, I've just found such a difference in working on projects that have had female like leaders and, and stuff in terms of like, the tone of the set too. I just feel like sometimes there's more respect, and like, to all levels, as opposed to being like this hierarchy thing that's like, well, you're a worm, cuz you're a camera sister. You know, like, you don't mean anything or whatever, it's just like, everyone is a person. And like, maybe that's because, like, the oppressed don't want to be the oppressor, like women know how it feels to be, like, treated like shit all the time. In the past year, I've really been fortunate to be able to connect with a lot of like, female, creative people in the city and artists, and entrepreneurs and, and work on projects with them. And I've been able to work on a lot of really great like, female driven projects. And these are ones where I actually get to do more stuff and that's exciting.

30:55  
I am in the All Girls to the Front, art that is in Take Time Vintage right now in golf. And it's all female run. And everyone who's in the show is a female, mostly local, which is really cool. And I was born and raised in Guelph, so it's nice to kind of go back to that.

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That's Bree again, telling us about some of the shows she's in right now.

31:19  
So I have a few pieces there for the next month and then I'm gonna be in Graven Feathers holiday craft show and have a bunch of pieces there. Oh, yeah. And I also have two pieces in the round, which is the show at Graven Feather now.

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We were interested in exploring some of these primarily female art collectives around the city. So we headed down to Graven Feather on Queen West, an art gallery studio and workshop space where Bri works. We met Pam Lobb.

31:58  
Usually there's a girl over here, oh, and then the rollers on it. Yeah.

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My name is Pam Lobb and I'm the director of the space. Started out with three of us in the space, so I'm also a co-founder. But the other two members have gone on to different things and now I run this space on my own. It's been formally almost a full year that I've been doing it on my own. And, yeah, it's been really neat. It's allowed for a lot more room for new people to come in, and a lot of change to happen. About the time that we opened there were quite a few other spaces that opened. All different, but there's a lot of other female entrepreneurs that I was able to link up with right away. Which has been exciting to grow our businesses alongside theirs and have a very open exchange of, you know, everything from more formal stuff about talking about curating shows to more practical stuff of how do you do your accounting. And everyone's been super open to sharing, you know, getting together for coffee and trading either materials or ideas or tips.

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Coincidentally, the night we were visiting Graven Feather, Bree was teaching an Embroidery Workshop to a group of six young women. As we pushed and pulled our needles conversation unfolded and we learned more about the craft and what it means to Bree. 

33:31  
What time is it? It's 6:43. And it goes until?  8:30. Cool. 

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Tonight, the workshop is called bloom in a room, which is embroidery based and each participant gets a four inch hoop, and we're going to make little gardens on it. So one of my favorite ones that I've made a couple of in the past two months is the Shiny Diva Cup. Which is called an ode because I love my Diva Cup, and I hope everyone loves a Diva Cup. And basically it's just an outline of a Diva cup with kind of like the sparkle emojis around it, so I love that one.

34:23  
Thank you. 

34:24  
Thank you for having me. No problem, so glad I could help.  Yeah, thank you. 

34:30  
Bye, night.

34:36  
That's it for this week of Girl Talk. We'll hit you with more lovely ladies and their work soon.

34:40  
Kanye West is in the news again. What a surprise. This time it is following his hospitalization Monday night after a disastrous concert two nights before. Rachel Arhan is here with more on the situation.

34:54  
Kanye West is back in the headlines after a call was made to police Monday afternoon. An anonymous source supports the case turned into a medical emergency. This is all taking place on the heels of West's concert Saturday night in Sacramento, or lack thereof. He actually walked off the stage after having performed only three songs and spending a good chunk of his time ranting about some of his famous peers. Let's take a listen to some of this rant, where he decided to call out Jay Z.

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Jay Z you still ain't call me. Just call me. Talk to me like a man. 

35:46  
Wes had another concert last week where he took the time to share his praise for Trump. A move that caught many of his loyal fans totally off guard. It seems as though Kanye has been spiraling downwards, dealing with a lot of issues since his wife Kim Kardashian was robbed last month in Paris. Now after Monday night, Kanye has canceled all the rest of his concert dates for the Pablo or for the Life of Pablo tour. Kanye has always been a polarizing character. But this last month has left a lot of people seriously debating epi suffers from mental health issues. He has never took the time to deal with the stress of being famous bringing more of these issues to the surface. Or is it just the infamous Kardashian curse that has finally taken its toll on the newest adult male addition to the family. No one knows for sure so at this point, all we can really do is what we always do hope that Kanye West will be okay. Back to you guys in the studio.

36:37  
Lots is happening in sports TFC playing tonight, but we start with the Raptors in the news a lot these days. Matt Amha has the latest.

36:46  
Thanks Lisa. The NBA league office yesterday I decided to uphold a controversial call at the end of the Raptors kings contest Sunday night. A Terrence Ross game tying buzzer beater was called off at the end of the game, with the referees deciding a discrepancy with the clock. The call sent the league into an uproar and the front office's refusal to concede any wrongdoing has many in shock.

37:06  
 And if I'm not mistaken for people in the arena responsible for starting the clock three referees and the official timers.

37:12  
The Toronto Raptors controversial loss on Sunday night has contributed to them losing for the last five games. We now go to Daniel Marino who says this is not an isolated incident.

37:20  
Last week the Raptors went on the road to take on Cleveland and then had to come right back to Golden State the next night. No one in the NBA this season has added to game stand that lopsided. Last year the playoffs against Cleveland Raptors went almost a full four quarters without going to the free throw line. That's unheard of in today's NBA. Between bad calls that always seem to go against the Raptors in big games and unfair scheduling, enough is enough. Canada's market for basketball is growing. Toronto loves its Raptors, please MBA, stop treating them like they're that Canadian team that doesn't draw or doesn't matter. At least give them a chance to earn some respect. On Dan Marino back to the studio.

37:59  
The Olympics following the release of urine samples from the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics have found 75 athletes guilty of doping violations. 40 who are medalists made mostly of Russian and other bordering Eastern European countries. News of this follows recent allegations of Russian state sponsored doping claims that nearly forced the IOC to ban the entire Russian Olympic team at this year's Olympics in Rio. Medals are currently being redistributed to those deprived despite on the podium, with most saying that we're witnessing a rewriting of Olympic history.

38:29  
The IOC will not hesitate to punish anyone within its reach responsible for using or providing doping products or methods.

38:36  
American men's soccer coach Juergen Klinsmann has been fired. The move comes a week after the team's disappointing four nil loss to an underwhelming Costa Rican side. The team's first home last in a World Cup qualifier and 15 years. This follows back to this follows back to back top 15 World Cup finishes surprising to some considering its territory usually set aside for some of the sports European powers. American coach Bruce Arena coach of the US men national teams 2002 World Cup quarterfinal team has been reassigned in his place. That's all for sports. Back to you, Lisa.

39:08  
The UFC is coming back to Toronto for the first time in four years on December 10. It has been a long time since Dana White called the city the mecca of mixed martial arts. In the first ever edition of the new podcast the fifth round host Daniel Marino talked to one of the true pioneers of the sport in Canada.

39:38  
Welcome to the very first edition of the fifth round, where we talk all things mixed martial arts. I'm your host, Daniel Marino, and this week's episode is kind of a special one. With the UFC finally returning to Toronto, I headed over to inner city MMA to talk to head trainer Professor Shaw, Franco. I hope you enjoy it. It's a unique perspective on the sports growth in this country for a man who was a karate prodigy 20 years before enemy's inception.

40:09  
My name is Sean Franco. I'm a professor of Brazilian jujitsu, a MMA Professional MMA coach, and I was a international karate competitor.

40:21  
How long have I been around martial arts? I guess I started around nine I'm 51 now so it just got to be like 41 years. And I guess when I started, it was very intense on full time and I just from nine years old all the way to adulthood, and it's become my profession. I'm the youngest of 11 and my older brothers were into martial arts, into karate. We're all fans back in the day of Bruce Lee. He was still alive when I was a kid and saw all the charisma and and everybody thought it was magic, what you could do with martial arts and that really interested me.

41:12  
So in all the years he has been involved in MMA, just how much is the sport changed?

41:17  
The MMA landscape has changed in the fact that it's become really big business. And for us, it was just a challenge. There was no money involved like the money was the money's still not good for what what the guys do or how they work, but it was a challenge. I always thought karate was that was it? It was this is it. I'm like Bruce Lee, I can beat anybody. But when we start seeing the UFC, we're like, oh, hey, this is real. And we really got interested. So the change the biggest change, I can see it's big business. It's show business. Now the guys are even better, better athletes better trained, better technique, better psychology at it. It's just the evolution of it is gone through the roof from my vantage point. In the in the scene in Canada, I was one of the founding as they say the pioneers or founding fathers. I think I was one of the guys who sort of helped rally getting MMA legal in Ontario. And at one point, I guess we were the top team in Canada.

42:30  
So then why hasn't the UFC been back here for so long?

42:34  
I think if you really investigate the sport of mixed martial arts in Ontario, it comes down to one gentleman and that's the sports commissioner Ken Hiachi. Ken Hiachi has been heard to say that he would never have mixed martial arts in Ontario. He doesn't think it's a good sport. He didn't think it was a legitimate sport and he kept it out of Ontario as long as he could 14 years. And then the pressure from from just the fans the pressure from business people. When the UFC comes in town, they say it's a $50 million bonus for the city that it goes into the into that town. And I think that that pressure forced Ken Hiachi the sports commissioner of Ontario to allow MMA to be in Ontario, I'm not gonna block and jab.

43:32  
But the big show is UFC which is a lot of prestige, a lot of free tickets for Ken Hiachi and, and a lot of money for the commission. They allow that. So what they're doing, I believe, is putting the Ontario athletes at a real disadvantage by having this stringent sort of we don't really believe in this but since these big shows come in and making money, we're gonna allow it. And I think that's why the UFC has not been so adamant to come back to this great markets, a huge market, the most international city in the world. Everybody loves martial arts in Toronto and I believe it's Ken Hiachi that's a big problem. When the commissioner stops smaller organizations from hosting events here, it can lead to people holding their own unsanctioned fights. Unsanctioned MMA can be very dangerous.

44:20  
So if you have the proper gloves, you have the proper people with the proper experience. I think think fights aren't as violent as people think they are and if you have a good camaraderie and a good spirit for everybody involved, people don't get hurt. That being said, anything can happen. You can make a mistake, something happens. So I would rather see it become bigger on in front instead of behind and I think that's sort of happening now.

44:52  
Franco says that the bad reputation MMA used to have as being too violent is gone now that people are more educated on the sport. John Mccain calling MMA human cockfighting is a different part of the path.

45:04  
Obviously, that's through ignorance. The guy doesn't know he's never taken a class he doesn't understand. It's probably it is, by far the most technical sport in the world. There's so much technique and so much knowledge that you have to know. And it's such a vast array of things that can be done. So, the human cockfighting. That's somebody who's not educated on it, for sure, but I think I think it's getting better. I think that I think people are seeing it as a legitimate sport.

45:39  
Franco says fighters have personality. Now. That being said, with Franco being around since the beginning of a sport that puts such a big emphasis on respect, I couldn't help but ask what he thought of superstar Connor McGregor's antics outside of the octagon.

45:53  
That's That's a really good question. Does Connor McGregor have bad influence on martial arts? And I don't think so. I think a lot of it is WWF. I think a lot of it is like, they go out in front of the curtain. And they're like, I'll kill you. I hate you. And they go back the curtain. They're like, oh that was great. You did a great job. So guys are like well, I hate Connor. But he's making me more money than I've ever made before. I think when he gets out there, he's not faking it. I think he just gets into character and goes with it. So I appreciate it his show. Imagine watching a professional wrestling show when they're just like wrestling. 

46:34  
According to Franco, McGregor is just a part of a new generation that has more access to the knowledge they need to excel at MMA. 

46:40  
Oh, I see martial arts constantly growing from the time I was a kid. I see the technique and the technology to teach martial arts becoming better. And I see people because of YouTube and because of the internet have access to huge reams of information that when I was growing up, we didn't.

47:01  
Before I left, I asked him what do you would want to say to a kid who is thinking of taking martial arts. He said that in the end, martial arts will only take you wherever you want to go. 

47:11  
That's the most important thing. Not not the martial arts, but the person who is expounding it.

47:19  
So there you have it, an awesome guy with an awesome message about an awesome sport. Thanks for listening to the fifth round. I'm Daniel Marino, and I'll see you next week. Bye fans.

47:45  
Ryerson University's Faculty of Communication is invited to attend the Journalism Course Union's pub talk event this year. So I sat down and spoke with Melissa Bernardo, the VP for the Journalism Course Union about the possibility of the event going university wide. Hi, Melissa, thank you so much for speaking to me today.

48:03  
Hi!

48:04  
I so I'm going to talk to you about pub talks. First, I wanted to ask you, what feedback Did you receive last year from last year's pub talks? And did anyone get a job that you know of?

48:14  
I don't know if anybody specifically got a job after pub talks after they got into contact with any of the professionals. But people do actually I guess after pub talks, get the professional contact information, and then plan to meet for coffee, and that sort of thing. So I would say that it's a possibility that people could get jobs from pub talk. But I haven't heard of anyone yet.

48:38  
Of course, and how do you figure out who to approach for this kind of event? 

48:42  
Well, the JCU, the Journalism Course Union, me basically at our meetings, talk about it as a group and we each come up with one person to the group. And collectivelywe say if the person's good to contact or not good contact, and then we simply send an email to them and get in contact with them. So for this year, for example, we have people from CBC coming, from Hello magazine, Health Canada, and we just want to get a variety of people too so we make sure that we don't pick too similar professionals, yeah.

49:20  
Okay. And is this an event where people can let's say hustle for jobs and kind of approach professionals and ask them about internships or is this just to get advice?

49:30  
Um, it's, it's a little bit of both. So um, I remember from my experience, I approached professionals to ask them, for example, what are you looking for in a journalism student? What are you looking for? Like for an as an intern, and they basically tell you kind of like the process. I guess what you need to do to get the internship, so yeah.

49:56  
Okay, and paint me a picture. What is the event going to look like this year? Do you guys know where you're going to be having it.

50:01  
Yeah. So this year, our events going to be held this Monday at Joey's right next to the Eaton center, and in their little event space, kind of in the basement, and it's just, it's a really cool vibe. It looks really nice. It's a professional atmosphere. And basically, each professional is sitting at their own table. And then all the journalism students are going like coming to pub talks are going to be put into little groups. And it's kind of like a speed dating thing, where they go to each professional, and they have a certain amount of time to talk to each professional.

50:35  
Okay, and so we're a university with more than one faculty and students who are interested in more than their degree. Could this kind of event be opened up to the whole university?

50:45  
I think that's a great idea. So last year, what happened was, we opened it up to journalism students first and then when we noticed we had some extra tickets to sell then we opened it up to FCAD. But definitely, this year, we're planning to open it up to FCAD right now as well. Um, we haven't really talked about opening it up to all of Ireson, but I think that would be a great idea to talk about at our next meeting. 

51:10  
Lovely. Well, thank you so much for speaking to me today and have a great rest of your day.

51:14  
Thank you, you too. 

51:15  
Thanks.

51:18  
It's starting to get cold outside and the importance of a hot meal is growing. The Daily Bread Foodbank kitchen helps provide hot meals for people all across the city of Toronto. The organization has many volunteers and several full time staff members. Reporter Ashley Pooch has more about these individuals that dedicate their time to helping others.

51:39  
Pick up our delivery and head back. 

51:43  
Many people might believe that Toronto's Daily Bread Food Bank headquarters would be filled with loads of food donations and people sorting them. What might come as a surprise to many is the bustling kitchen where volunteers help prepare hot meals to be sent out to various places in need around the city. In charge of the giant industrial kitchen, located at the back of the food bank warehouse, is Matthew Meal, the Food Services Manager. He spent the past 12 years working in the UK, and cooking around different countries in Europe.

52:13  
During the last few years that I was in the UK, I started working with some nonprofits that were helping refugees and asylum seekers adjust to new lives and rebuild their lives and get them access to the services that they needed. And it really kind of struck me through that, because I was still working part time in restaurants, how much food was costing. How much food we were throwing away in restaurant kitchens, and how little access some of the other people that I was working with had to food. And so when I returned to Canada, I wanted to kind of meld together my kitchen experiences and social justice side of things. So started actually volunteering at in a Regent Park member agency, in the kitchen there.  And kind of through there heard about the role here and applied and that was pretty much perfectly what I was looking for right bringing those two aspects together. So we make about four to 5000 meals a week, for meal programs around the city. We make soups and casseroles of various kinds, cool them freeze and down shift amounts, we're really working on developing the food that we send out to be more nutritious filling and just better, in general.

53:31  
The kitchen has five full time staff members, and relies heavily on volunteers to help get the work they need done.

53:38  
A lot of the days is working with the volunteers, getting them tasks to do, teaching them some new skills, hopefully, entertaining thing, you know, fun place to work.

53:47  
One of those volunteers is Teresa Hedley.

53:50  
I love helping people, it's just a joy for me, especially when I see the look on their face that they appreciate what you've done. It just makes me feel really happy. Do something for society, because that's what it's all about. There's many people out there who are hungry, you know, and you come and you put stuff together for them and they receive it when they come to the food bank. And that makes them feel good. That's what it's all about.

54:14  
Teresa has only been working at The Daily Bread Food Bank for a couple of weeks. She felt that she needed to get up and do something while she's not working. 

54:22  
For me, it's a sense of worth, I'm doing something you know, to help somebody else. You know, it's not like I'm sitting at home wasting time. Not that I waste time, but I mean you know, just give you a sense of worth and it's good. You never know when you're going to be in need of help. When you know how to help, then when you get to that place, you realize that you don't look down on anyone because they need help. Because we all need help at some point in our lives.

54:50  
Neil believes the whole experience is highly rewarding.

54:53  
Knowing that that food is helping people who have trouble accessing good food, get access to good food is hugely and richly rewarding. We recently had our AGM, and a lot of the people from member agencies that people who run meal programs around the city and everything. After dinner, I was wandering through cleaning up and two people from different member agencies came up and said a really big thank you and actually gave me gave me a hug. Like a physical hug and smiled and said food that you guys are making this so good and so important to us. And that's huge difference. Making me tear up a little bit right now. We shared a couple of tears then as well and finally hugs. It was really beautiful to just know that people appreciate it and that we're doing good work and we're trying to do our best. Hopefully, everybody understands that people who benefit from our production, from our services are people from all walks of life. Their university educated people, for people with disabilities, they're everyday people, right? And this can happen to anyone at any time. So the reason I kind of say that is I have to find there's a lot of judgment out there sometimes about you know, people who have to use food banks or people who really need help accessing good food and to not cast any judgment. 

56:21  
Both Neil and Hedley encourage anyone of any age to go to the Daily Bread Food Bank and help volunteer in the kitchen. They believe it's one of the most rewarding experiences they could have. This has been Ashley Pooch for News Night. 

56:39  
Thanks, Ashley. That concludes the current affairs section tonight. Have a good one.