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Thought to be its outside limit, as it zipped along the creature would dip its tail to produce forward thrust.
Flying fish use their talent to escape predators.
They also use it to find good weather because they do not have what we have, ladies and gentlemen, Claire Martin.
And tomorrow we'll bring you the Loch Ness Monster or something. That's amazing. Thanks very much, Peter.
Oh, suddenly it's a good thing to be a fish out of water.
On the forecast map for the eastern half of the country, it continues to be cold and unsettled.
We've got one system, just a glancing blow of moisture to parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,
but another area of low pressure is pooling that cold air right back through Ontario and parts of Quebec.
Sudbury, even as far south as Barry, you may see some mixed rain and snow through the overnight period.
13 degrees in Thunder Bay, brighter in Canora, and then look at these daytime highs all the way up through the mouth of St. Lawrence, well below seasonal.
Temperature's not bad in New Brunswick, but it will be wet outside of that through many in Atlantic Canada.
In through the western half of the country, we've still got cool air as well.
Frost warnings in effect again from the Par all the way down through the southern portions of Manitoba.
You'll see sunshine at least tomorrow.
And this area of low pressure is going to bring some wet weather into parts of Alberta.
In fact, it could be a pretty good rainfall event, especially in northern BC, northern Alberta.
17 degrees in Vancouver, 16 in Victoria.
There's the wetter weather showing its way into Alberta, a breezy one as well.
Southern Saskatchewan, central Alberta, and temperatures are really quite nice in through parts of Manitoba, and finally some sunshine as well.
That's your forecast.
To now, Peter, back to you.
All right, Claire, thanks very much.
Claire Martin at the CBC News Weather Center in Vancouver.
And that's The National for this Tuesday night.
I'm Peter Mansbridge.
Thanks for watching.
Tonight, wanted tourists.
High dollar, struggling U.S. economy.
Bottom line, fewer people are coming to spend their money here.
Kennedy's struggle.
He's helped millions and millions of people in so many ways at so many different times.
Tributes for an icon of American politics.
Ted Kennedy battles brain cancer.
Jackpot.
Dirty money in, laundered money out.
Our hidden camera shows how casinos were used to clean the proceeds of crime.
And green sweep.
There's no reason for this to be here.
What can you do to reduce the garbage that ends up in landfills?
Spring cleaning, the eco-friendly way.
National.
Here is Peter Mansbridge.
Good evening.
The images and the message are familiar.
Come visit Canada.
Whether you love the outdoors or the arts, it's a country worth seeing.
But regardless of how we've built it, they're not coming.
Today, clear evidence that tourism to Canada has plummeted, hitting record lows.
Kavard guled now on why visitors have checked out and a new strategy to get them back.
At the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls, it is possible to spot that increasingly rare species, the foreign tourist.
And I think Canada is a nice country and it's not so stressful.
But outside and across Canada, travelers are becoming scarce.
In March, Canada had the lowest number of foreign visitors since records were first kept back in 1972.
Travel from the U.S. alone is down almost 14 percent compared to the same time last year.
Americans aren't coming for quick visits because gas is expensive, the border is annoying, and the Canadian dollar makes it all too much.
Just because everything that's in Windsor is here and I save a lot of money just doing it here and then going across the bridge or the tunnel.
At the Canadian end of the tunnel, Windsor's famous tunnel barbecue restaurant is cutting staff.
I used to see maybe one out of every three customers was somebody coming from the States and now we're lucky if we have two a day.
In Banff, it's the long haul traveler who has gone missing.
The busloads of tourists from Asia don't crowd the counters the same way anymore.
We used to get probably 15 buses coming through in a day and now we're probably getting only two.
The number is 30 billion dollars a year.
This expert says the industry gets little respect even though he says one out of every ten jobs in Canada is tied to tourism.
Eighty percent of the businesses in the tourism industry being small to medium size, less than 20 employees,
this means that it's not only laying off a few people but also people going bankrupt and losing their livelihood.
Good afternoon folks, you are now cruising at an altitude of 14 feet.
In Toronto, local tourism officials are adjusting their strategy, knowing they can't fill the empty seats by selling the city as cheap and cheerful.
So this summer, they'll be searching for those rare, big spending travelers who book longer, pricier trips.
Also the dollar means that Toronto isn't a bargain destination anymore.
Back with the butterflies, the tourists who do come are struggling with sticker shock.
Here in Canada it's really expensive.
Even these honeymooners from Cleveland aren't completely happy.
Gas prices are horrible.
And how's your dollar doing here?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
This summer, Canadians may be about to discover just how important their tourism industry is, now that it appears to be growing increasingly fragile.
Havard Gould, CBC News, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
There was encouraging new information today about a drug that can help prevent prostate cancer, the most common cancer among Canadian men with nearly 25,000 cases this year.
The drug is finasteride.
It's been around for years, but as the CBC's health reporter Maureen Taylor explains, researchers have now given it a major reevaluation.
It's not every day we hear about a pill that can ward off cancer.
Not only does finasteride help prevent prostate cancer, it's more effective and less risky than originally feared.
We found that the drug actually worked to reduce the incidence of prostate cancer and more importantly, did not increase the incidence of high-grade cancer.
Finasteride is used to treat male baldness and enlarged prostates.
It lowers male hormone levels, which shrinks the size of the prostate.
In 2003, the drug was found to reduce a man's risk of getting prostate cancer by 25 percent, but a closer look at that data shows it's actually 30 percent.
Initially, there were concerns that when men taking the drug did develop prostate cancer, the tumors were more advanced than in men not on the drug.
But researchers now believe the drug doesn't induce more aggressive tumors, it just makes them easier to find because the drug is shrinking the prostate.
It's easier to find a cherry pit in a cherry than it is in a watermelon.
So, the perspective of finding a tumor, it's much easier in a smaller prostate.
76-year-old Hans Holflin was given finasteride for seven years in the original trial, and he's still cancer-free.
If a doctor were to come to me as a result of some diagnosis he'd made and want to prescribe finasteride, then I'd certainly take it.
Montreal urologist Dr. Fred Saad has already been prescribing finasteride to his higher-risk patients, people with a family history, or African-Canadians.
But he expects to see it used even in older men who have no risk factors.
If we're worried about having prostate cancer, well, there is something that we can do to be proactive to try to reduce that risk.
Finasteride is cheaper in the U.S. where it's available as a generic, and the patent expires in Canada in a few years.
Finasteride is not without side effects.
Some patients experience impotence and breast enlargement, although those disappear once the drug is stopped.
Maureen Taylor, CBC News, Toronto.
A sudden and stunning new development on the Ted Kennedy story tonight.
The last of the surviving members of the famous Kennedy brothers has been diagnosed with brain cancer.
His doctor said today the seizure the Massachusetts senator suffered over the weekend was caused by a malignant tumor.
The news hit hard on Capitol Hill, sadness at the news transcending party lines.
Neil McDonald reports.
Ted Kennedy is up, surrounded by his family, and reportedly in good spirits.
But malignant glioma, the type of tumor Kennedy's doctors have discovered in his brain, is effectively a death foretold.
Perhaps a few years. More than half of glioma patients die within 18 months.
Ted, my dear friend, I love you.
So do a lot of other Americans.
Ted Kennedy has been charging from the political left as long as most here can remember.
Nearly 50 years in the Senate and patriarch of a clan that gave Americans two political martyrs.
Kennedy's conservative opponents said a prayer for him when the news came today.
Our concerns go out to his wife Vicki and all the members of the Kennedy family who've experienced so much tragedy in their lives.
And everyone remarked on his legendary resilience.
We're confident he's going to be back here. So we wish he and Vicki and the family well.
Kennedy collapsed on Saturday. For three days the hospital said only that he'd had a brief seizure.
Today, confirming the tumor, his doctors said the usual course of treatment includes combinations of various forms of radiation and chemotherapy.
Not an easy prospect for a 76-year-old man, especially one who'd remain such a force in his party.
Just recently he made headlines by lining up early behind Barack Obama's presidential run.
I'm proud to stand with him here today and offer my help, offer my voice, offer my energy, my commitment.
Now, for the time being, at least, Kennedy's crusades for immigrant rights, for health care, for the working poor, and for education will have to pause.
Every one of us knows what a big heart this fellow has.
He's helped millions and millions of people in so many ways at so many different times.
And from Kennedy himself today, an uncharacteristic silence. Neil McDonald, CBC News, Washington.
Well, it's where you go hoping for a lucky break.
But apparently some individuals have been going to Canadian casinos to break the law, using the venues to launder millions of dirty dollars.
The CBC's Dave Saglunds has been investigating this story.
He reports now on one case and the concern that there are many more like it.
It was a textbook drug bust.
In 2004, Leonard Rowe was arrested for trafficking millions in cocaine, crystal meth, and ecstasy.
Also seized, hundreds of thousands in cash hidden in safety deposit boxes.
He was very smart. He really understood the process of trying to hide dirty money.
Rowe was pouring big bucks into luxury cars and pricey condos.
Then, a surprise.
His mother in the bail hearing had said that there was a substantial amount of money that she made in the casinos.
Turns out Rowe's mother was a frequent slots player at casinos across southern Ontario.
And she went to court with receipts, claiming she won all that cash.
But the RCMP were suspicious and seized casino data on her gambling history.
They charged her with money laundering.
In sworn statements, the Mounties said they believe she funneled millions of dollars of drug money through casinos.
They would go in under the threshold of $10,000, play various machines, and then at some point cash out,
get the stumps from the machines, the little cards, and then ask for a check.
And then from that check, they would put it in a bank account.
We could do it once or twice a day.
Kelly McDougald is the CEO of Ontario's lottery corporation.
All of the people within all of our facilities, whether it's slots or racetracks or the big resort casinos,
are trained in terms of looking for suspicious behaviour.
We decided to test just how difficult money laundering might be.
With hidden cameras and $30,000 in 20s, we went back to the two casinos Leonard Rowe's mother liked to visit.
In plain view, we pumped bill after bill into the slot machines.
No one approached us or asked what we were up to.
We didn't gamble much. We just loaded up the machines,
hit the cash out button, and took our voucher straight to the cashier.
With a simple piece of ID, in a few minutes, we walked out with official casino checks.
Ontario regulators say we did show up on OLG's radar,
but they won't tell us whether anyone reported us to FinTrac, the federal money laundering watchdog,
let alone if there was any meaningful investigation.
According to the RCMP, in the Leonard Rowe case, OLG certainly didn't file suspicious transaction reports,
and Joe Peel says the case reveals a major loophole.
I'm sure that many other criminals out there know as much as Leonard Rowe and are doing the same thing.
In the end, Leonard Rowe pleaded guilty to a string of charges, including money laundering.
In exchange, the RCMP dropped the case against his mother,
so this casino connection has never been fully examined in court.
But security insiders tell us that there is so much money flowing in and out of Ontario casinos every day,
it is impossible to distinguish, let alone investigate, every high roller who might be looking to clean their dirty money.
Dave Seglund, CBC News, Milton.
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A couple more primaries in the U.S. presidential race tonight,
and you may be asking yourself, will this finally be the night it all ends?
Well, no.
Hillary Clinton's chalked up another big win in Kentucky and vowed again to fight on.
The CBC's Allison Smith is in Louisville tonight.
Allison.
Well, Peter, the party and the fight have already moved on from this party room tonight.
But you know, the odds have been stacked so steeply against Hillary Clinton for so long,
the pundits have all but declared her out of the game, yet she continues to fight.
So we came to Kentucky to find out what keeps Hillary Clinton and her supporters still going strong.
They've been making baseball bats in Louisville for more than a century.
The legendary Louisville Slugger, an all-American symbol of hard work,
a fighting spirit and a never-say-quit kind of attitude that a lot of Kentucky voters admire.
Just ask Hillary Clinton supporters.
She's not giving up.
Hey, we women, honey, we gonna settle, ain't that right?
We keep all, keep on.
I will survive.
There's a discordant, even sad tone around the edges of the campaign,
but a determined and fiercely loyal core of supporters is urging Clinton on.
And just simply because I want to vote for a woman president, just to vote for her, nothing else.
If she doesn't get in, okay, I still voted for a woman to be president.
Yet even here, at a Clinton rally, there's also a dispirited recognition of the hard political reality.
Hopefully something will happen to help her out, you know.
Clinton's campaign events are small by Obama standards, about a thousand supporters here,
covered by a diminishing stable of reporters.
There were a lot of people who wanted to end this election before you had a chance to vote.
Clinton appears unfazed, and again tonight showed she's still winning votes, still winning states, and won't speak of quitting.
This continues to be a tough fight, and I have fought it the only way I know how,
with determination, by never giving up and never giving in.
Clinton confidently holds out hope that if she fights to the end, she might eke out an edge in the popular vote.
Still, even that can't make her a winner. It's the delegate count that matters, and Obama's got that almost sewn up.
Tell everybody she's our best bet of being McCain, and thank you so much.
At Clinton's campaign offices, the slimmest chance keeps her volunteers committed.
And there might be a possibility that she could win, but that's what I'm holding out for.
The slugger metaphor for Clinton is out. She's a fierce competitor, but some Democrats are finding it increasingly hard to watch someone they admire play what is almost certain to be a losing game.
I think it's embarrassing to Hillary, and I think her pride won't let her get out right now.
Clinton's pride, perhaps, and her legions of supporters are keeping her in this race.
And as much as Obama would like to declare this over, he cannot be seen to be pushing her off the field.
And so, Peter, this historic race continues, at least until the last primaries in June.
All right, Allison, thanks very much. Allison Smith in Louisville, Kentucky, tonight.
For several months last year, many Canadians were wondering what was going on in Quebec.
Tyrants of intolerance filled the media as the province hosted public hearings into how religious minorities are seen and treated.
Now, parts of the report into those hearings have been leaked.
And as Susan Bonner reports, who it was leaked to is causing almost as much anger as what it says.
Most of the time, cultural communities fit right into the tableau of modern Quebec.
Life here is good, he says.
But it doesn't take much to find the fault lines of language and cultural politics that can so divide this society,
like the leak of a report into how Quebec can better accommodate its religious minorities.
The conclusion cannot be that the majority of Quebec is wrong in its desire to preserve common values or a common identity.
This is what has Quebec's opposition leaders and others upset.
Headlines screaming out for French Quebecers to learn English, be nicer to immigrants, and learn more about them.
Montreal's English language newspaper received a leak of sections of the report due out later this week.
For me, it's unacceptable that Quebecers, that they have everything, they refuse to learn the language. I mean English.
This call in radio shows how its phone lines light up in seconds.
Callers venting about everything from immigrants who don't do enough to integrate into Quebec society,
to no longer being masters of their own house.
For over a year, Quebecers have grappled, publicly and painfully, with religious practices that some see as out of place.
Public hearings across the province laid the groundwork for the report.
Where is this so-called crisis that's threatening the society?
This Muslim leader says what he has seen of the report strikes the right balance for Francophones and minorities.
There has to be respect of the values from both sides, the report says.
They talk about certainly there's extremists on both sides, and we have to be careful from them.
Quebec is not the only place in Canada struggling with minority issues, but because French Quebecers see themselves as a minority,
the cultural angst here takes on a power all its own.
Susan Bonner, CBC News, Montreal.
More deaths are being mourned in China tonight.
Officials now say that more than 40,000 people were killed in last week's earthquake,
and that number will almost certainly go up as 32,000 others are listed as missing.
Eight days after the quake, people were still being pulled out from under the rubble.
This miner survived 170 hours trapped under a hillside.
The stories of survival like his are becoming more rare.
Earlier we had a story about how the high price of fuel is stopping some Americans from driving to Canada for visits,
but those high fuel prices are also driving the stock market to new heights.
Canada's largest stock exchange, the TSX, hit a record high today, breaking through the 15,000 mark for the first time.
Ron Charles on what these gains might mean for the average investor.
Mind you, it's only an overall gain of $166.
In a borrowed room at this Toronto funeral parlor, the Scarborough Investment Club gets together for a lively discussion.
There's been some extra vigor in their investments lately, up 19% over last month.
A lot of that is thanks to the Toronto Stock Exchange hitting a new record high.
I'm surprised that after the March drop in the market that it's recovered so quickly and reached its high.
That has been the case really, ups and downs like a roller coaster. It's been incredible really.
This number tells it all. Today the stock market crossed its latest psychological barrier, closing above 15,000 points for the first time ever.
But this is likely the only number that matters to a lot of Canadians right now, the price of gasoline,
driven up by those skyrocketing oil prices that have in turn fueled the stock market's rise.
Still, economist Patricia Moore says in the grand scheme of things, Canadians are coming out ahead.
When oil and gas prices move up, Canada, the Canadian economy is actually a net beneficiary,
despite the trying times for consumers at the gas pumps. But I think for investors it's definitely a great story.
Just ask people living and working in Canada's oil patch.
The stocks that I own are through the roof and it's just been great for me.
This is a hard working town. A lot of people are working a lot of long hours keeping up with this before it's gone.
You have to take chances.
Back at the investment club, tonight's discussion turns to how to best cash in on that oil boom before it's too late.
Ron Charles, CBC News, Toronto.
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