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Good evening, I'm Hillary Brown. The Toronto Blue Jays expected to be a
World Series contender earlier this year have fired their manager Jimmy Williams
and Ken Daniels is here with more on that and Ken this is no surprise and I
wonder did Daniels I mean did Williams really expect to be around for the
opening game at the Dome Stadium? I hope I'm around. Did Williams, I'll tell you
the fans you know every time he walked out there Jimmy Williams would be booing
the fans would be booing Jimmy Williams he'd be going out there with his hands
in his traditional down down his pants so he'd always walk out he just didn't
seem to have the look of a manager and I think the fans picked up on that. Now
Williams obviously expected to be here the fans wanted him gone some time ago
and according to a Pat Gillick the Jays general manager Jimmy Williams was quote
too nice of a guy and too honest a person and quote Jimmy was maturing
according to Gillick and that's why he returned this season when all really
were calling for his scalp but blowing a ninth inning lead to California May the
6th two weekends ago started the termination of Williams in motion and
following this past Saturday's loss to the Twins in Minnesota Williams fate was
sealed. Now it was obvious the players just weren't going to win for this man so
Cito Gaston the hitting coach takes over as interim manager and Gillick today
stressed the interim because he is looking outside of the organization
admitting this afternoon moving Williams from third base coach to head of the
class was a huge blunder. We think one of the problems that we had was Jimmy
making the transition from the coaching staff to the managerial position that
might have been a mistake on our part but anyway we don't feel we feel it was a
pitfall and we don't want to make the same mistake. As for Jimmy Williams his
record with the Jays over three plus seasons was a winning one but he was
never able to win the entire shooting match or more often than not pull out a
victory in the late innings where a manager really does make a difference.
Basically Williams inherited a team in 1986 with all the parts in place but
from there he had his problems. Jimmy Williams pitching moves while they were
constantly questioned. The George Bell fiasco well documented George laid down
the lot not Jimmy. If only Jimmy were as forceful with his players as he
occasionally was with umpires. We thought Jimmy was maturing as a manager we
thought that he was fitting into you know fitting into the seat very well but
but sometimes the best way plan they don't work out. So hitting coach Cito
Gaston becomes interim manager until a replacement can be found and when asked
if the players quit on Jimmy Williams Cito replied. I don't think so I think
the guys was playing as hard as they could probably too hard. I guess with
Rance and Mosby they probably just trying too hard. Blue Jays have offered
Jimmy Williams another job within the organization but so far he is yet to
give them a reply. As for a new manager Pat Gillick says he wants one with Major
League experience and will make up his mind within the next few weeks. So we'll
see who that is going to be right now though let's get a fans viewpoint of all
of this as we take you to the streets of Adelaide and Jarvis and there is Larry
Grossman and Larry you're on this show one and a half weeks ago and at that
time you said the Jays had to get rid of manager Jimmy Williams this must be a
pretty happy day for you. Well it is unfortunately I guess they waited seven
more losses than I think they needed to and now they're even farther behind the
eight ball but now the onus on the players they've got a manager they like
at least on interim basis and I think they have to produce and I'll bet you
they produce I bet they win the series against Cleveland. Well okay a long way
to go after Cleveland and the big question now Larry is are the inmates
running the asylum and what I mean by that is you remember back a year ago
when George Bell said hey I'm gonna be here longer than Jimmy Williams he is.
Yeah but let's remember if managing a team were easy you wouldn't have to pay
these managers what you pay them you pay them to manage the George Bells as
surely as you and pay them to manage the Fred McGriffs who are easy to manage
and I considered last year to be a failure of Williams because everyone knew
every fan knew that George was a unique kind of guy and the teams that win are
the teams that have managers that can manage the tough guys get the most out
of the George Bells he failed to do that and in fact he allowed that situation to
deteriorate into a negative one. I don't think Aston will make that mistake.
Well Cito's not gonna be around very long according to Pat Gillick Andy and
as we saw earlier he admitted it was a mistake from within do you agree
with that they have to go outside now? Well you know we we remember what
happened with Joe Morgan and with the Red Sox last year he too was I think the
third base coach brought in on an interim basis and they went on a what 18
out of 20 win streak and he became the permanent manager. It's hard to tell from
this vantage point about the chemistry of a team maybe Gaston can make them feel
good enough about themselves just to relax and play to their abilities
because in my view in what I call the Norris division of baseball if this
team just played to its abilities it should win by well couldn't win by 10
games now but should be able to win it. In any event you need a manager more
highly skilled I think in how to handle ballplayers than Williams was. Who knows
about Cito? All right we're gonna wait and see thank you very much Larry
Grossman for joining us and sure Larry and everybody else going to be down at
the ballpark and pretty pretty happy now I think more or less relieved that it
switched a name Dick Williams has been mentioned. Could we handle another
Williams in Toronto? I don't know. Gonna wait and see. All right thank you.
Still ahead on CBC at 6 tension in Panama. The country is bleeding to death.
The economy is in shambles and we're all just scared to get to talk or walk out
the street because we don't know what the hell is gonna happen in this country.
The American ambassador urges the Panamanian Army to overthrow General
Noriega for the good of the people.
A company based in Milton just west of Toronto has been charged with six counts
of violating the Environmental Protection Act. The charges follow an
inspection of a truck seized last week in Sarnia. Rob Miller reports. The truck
was seized by Canada Customs late Friday night at the Blue Water Bridge after
Ontario Environment Ministry officials received a tip from the Michigan
Department of Natural Resources. A waste disposal company in Alpena Michigan had
turned back the shipment of waste solvents because it feared those
solvents might contain PCBs. The truck did originate in Canada. It was going to
the US. It was turned back at the receiving site in the US because the
material was off spec and the ministry did ask Customs to detain that truck at
this port. The ministry did take samples which they split with us. AIMCO's sole
wreck of Milton Ontario faces six charges of illegally receiving, handling,
and releasing PCB waste to a transport company. It faces a maximum fine of
$50,000 for each count if convicted. The company will appear in court on June 15th.
This whole episode is not the result of the federal government crackdown looking
for tainted gasoline at border points. However, TESOL was in Sarnia heading a
team of Environment Canada inspectors who will be making random checks of fuel
tankers at border crossings across Ontario. We are going to be doing random
checks at all border crossings between Ontario and the United States and we
won't be giving advanced information exactly where we'll be because those
are supposed to be a secret. To make it easier for inspectors to check for toxic
chemicals, the federal government announced today only 31 of Canada's 120
border points will be open to bulk fuel shipments. The Blue Water Bridge will be
one of those, but fuel shipments will now be more closely monitored. Rob Miller,
CBC News, Sarnia. And there was more fallout over the toxic fuel issue at
Queens Park today. Both the federal and provincial governments are now running
tanker checks at the border, but the opposition is keeping up pressure over
the matter. Paula Lennardin is standing by live at Queens Park. Paula? Hillary, as
you know, Ontario Environment Minister Jim Bradley met with his federal
counterpart, Lucien Bouchard, last week and together they coordinated a series
of random border checks and they took samples at gasoline stations.
Ontario tested 20 samples over the weekend. The result? No PCBs in any of the
samples taken. The federal government also tested samples with the same result.
These results do not prove that no toxic wastes are being hidden in virgin fuels
and imported into Canada, as has been alleged, or that we should not continue
to look for them. We shall. But the opposition continued to hammer at the
minister, saying what was happening now was too little too late. Bradley has
admitted he's actually been investigating allegations of toxic gas
bootlegging since January. The government closed dozens of border points over the
weekend to trucks carrying fuel. So that instead of closing the border after the
horses gone, there would have been a chance of catching people back in
January when the minister himself knew about this problem. I repeat to the
member, as I did last week, that there was no concrete evidence of this happening,
that in fact, in fact they represented, in fact they represented allegations at
that time and suspicions at that time and nothing more. When asked whether all
this publicity would be hindering his investigation, the environment minister
conceded that yes it might be, but that the people involved in this scam couldn't
hold on to their stocks forever and that they'd be caught eventually. Also in the
house today, the government released a study conducted and done after the
rather very tragic murder of a young group home worker. Last year, Krista Sepp,
a group home worker in Midland, was murdered by this 18 year old and a 16
year old female young offender. She'd been alone at night in charge of both of
them. Her tragedy followed another murder of a group home worker. Three years
earlier, Cila Regrock of Ottawa was also a victim of a night attack. Today, the
Social Services Ministry came out with recommendations to prevent similar
tragedies. Better training for staff and higher wages for them. The average wage
is $20,000 a year. Better training in college programs and a funding pool for
group homes so they can double their staff at night if they feel it's
warranted. It is neither necessary nor appropriate to have double staffing at
all times under all circumstances, but there are times when they want to be
able to do it when they feel it's necessary and that's the one I want to
speak to. Sweeney has no details as to how much it'll cost to implement the
recommendations, but he says he'll review them over the next two weeks and
then make an announcement as to how to improve security at Ontario group homes
for high-risk and non-high-risk inmates. Hillary, back to you. Thank you Paula.
Metro police are on the lookout for three men suspected of carrying out a
violent attack on a Toronto man. The incident happened this weekend while a
man was walking with his young son and it has caused the man to think twice
about living in Toronto. Rona Zawa reports. At 630 Saturday evening, 33-year-old
Leonard Phillips was beaten and stabbed in front of his four-year-old son. I
didn't want this. It was unprovoked. I didn't swear at the guys. Today he's
lying in bed with a concussion, a stitched up ear and cuts and bruises all
over his body. Like you're afraid to let your kids go out and play. You don't know
what's gonna happen. You know, it's just ridiculous. This is where the incident
took place. Phillips was visiting his father-in-law in this North York housing
development. He says he was walking with his son to a nearby playground when a
car sped by. His wife says he asked the driver to slow down. The guy jumped out
of the driver's seat and attacked my husband. He fought back. There was also
passengers in the back seat. They got out and they just stopped. They attacked him.
My father found him laying in the parking lot in the corner. There were
reports that hundreds of people gathered during the fight and that there was a
lot of name-calling between blacks and whites. Today in the neighborhood there
were arguments over the size of the crowd and what exactly happened. He ran
around here and then this guy hit him right as he reached here. Where are we going to police?
Right down to it again. Who's he is? Nobody shot, no beer bottle. As he reached around the corner this guy backed him up and hit him with a stick.
I would really hesitate to say that anything was racially motivated. The police are
looking for three black male suspects. Back at the hospital Leonard Phillips
says he's had enough of Toronto. Oh I'm definitely gonna leave Toronto. I've been
thinking about it for a while but just just put the ice on the cake. I'm going.
Ron Izzallo, CBC News, Toronto.
We'll be back a little later with the weather. Two from the old world.
Well it's finally bicycling weather in our city and that means it's time for a
refresher course on bicycle safety. The City of Toronto's cycling committee has
launched its annual campaign aimed at cycling safety. This fast-paced commercial
will air on Toronto TV stations starting today. It shows a cyclist zigzagging
through the streets of Toronto doing his best to break the rules of the road. The
cycling committee says that more than 3,000 cyclists in Toronto have been
injured in the last four years. The committee says that attitudes between
drivers and cyclists must change. Some of them think a bicycle is not a legal
vehicle and it doesn't matter if you break a few rules of traffic regulations
or safety rules and some drivers attitude is that all cyclists are
irresponsible and none of them belong on the road. The slick TV ad cost a hundred
eighty two thousand dollars and will air for seven weeks. Well it's police week in
Ontario and to kick things off there was a parade and rally today in front of City
Hall but as Bill Harrington reports things didn't go exactly as planned.
Three police forces are represented Metro, Provincial and the Mounties. The
police arrived promptly at noon at Nathan Phillips Square but a sudden halt
is called. The officers are left cooling their heels on the edge of the square
waiting for someone who is less prompt. No explanation is given to the crowd but
word is passed to the Metro Police male chorus.
Oh, do you have a short song that you could do?
The time has come, let us begin, with all our voices joining in.
All the voices except the Premier's that is. Officials confer nervously wondering how long they can stall the opening of
police week and a man in the audience asks me if the chorus will take requests.
I just want to ask them if they play the Maple Leaf forever. The Maple Leaf
forever? Yeah, you're taking requests while you're waiting for Mr. Peterson?
Well we'll take any requests we don't necessarily honor them but. Well Ed said
he wanted to hear the Maple Leaf forever. I would too, it's not part of our
repertoire though. Even the police horses are getting twitchy but don't worry
here's another request. The old main river. See that gentleman in the coat there
his name is Jim he's from England. Oh yeah. And he wants you to play, to sing
Old Man River. Aha, wrong choir. The Saints come marching in. The Saints come marching in.
My bony is over the ocean. Oh yeah.
Give my regards to old Broadway. This isn't exactly what they asked for it may have
resulted from the free trade deal or maybe they're just getting desperate
waiting for Peterson. Mr. Mayor what what happened to the Premier I'm glad you
made it anyway. Oh he's right there. Is he always here now? Yes he's here. We can
proceed. Oh yeah here he is. We're ready to go. Oh great.
Okay everything is back in motion again. The band is allowed into the square. It's
a really good ceremony to get Police Week underway. And as for the Premier? Well he
doesn't explain why he was late but he sympathizes with all the policemen who
have to stand around and wait for him. You know it is not easy to be a police
officer today. Perhaps he was held up when his carburetor clogged on some of
that adulterated fuel his administration failed to stop at the border. Phil
Harrington, CBC News, Police Week. Coming up on CBC at 6 murder allegations
against the Noriega regime in Panama and Mikhail Gorbachev visits China as tens of
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In China the Sino-Soviet thaw has begun with the historic visit of General
Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to Beijing. Gorbachev's itinerary has been changed
however he will not go to Tiananmen Square as planned because tens of
thousands of students are pressing their demands for Glasnost style reforms of
the Chinese system. Patrick Brown reports. Mikhail Gorbachev arrived on time to
find a last-minute change of plan. The National Anthems, the children with
bouquets and the Honor Guard were as scheduled but this formal greeting by
President Yeung Shun Koon was supposed to have taken place in Tiananmen Square.
The square is otherwise occupied by hundreds of thousands of people
supporting student hunger strikers. This epic demonstration began two days ago.
People have been arriving in droves to prevent any attempt to clear the square
by force after negotiations between student hunger strikers and government
failed. It would have taken a major military operation to clear the square.
The government decided otherwise and today soldiers were sitting down
singing for the students. Fraternization by popsicle though was too much for
their commander. This column of reinforcements for the demonstrators is
made up of teachers, writers and scientists and the ordinary people of
Beijing. The protest is gaining a wider base of support. The only serious police
activity was around the Great Hall of the People where Gorbachev attended a
banquet. The agenda for this first summit between the Soviet Union and China after
30 years of hostility and suspicion includes their mutual border, regional
conflicts like Cambodia and Afghanistan and trade. Gorbachev at his most
diplomatic made only the obliquest of references to what's happening outside.
Today we have the opportunity to drive through the streets of the
capital he says and to meet residents. Our greatest impression is one of openness
towards us, towards the Soviet people and we respond in the same spirit.
Gorbachev is very much a hero to the protesters who are demanding political
reform in China along the lines of what he's been doing in the Soviet Union.
What's happening out here on the square is about the future of China. What's
happening inside is the reconciliation of two communist superpowers after 30
years. That will have an impact on the entire region and on global politics as
well. Patrick Brown, CBC News, Beijing. And in Mongolia on the border between the
Soviet Union and China, Soviet soldiers are starting to pack up and leave on
trains loaded with guns and missiles. The withdrawal is part of a Soviet
promise to ease tension on the border between the two countries. It was time to
coincide with Gorbachev's visit to Beijing. The American ambassador to Panama is
urging the Panamanian army to force the dictator General Noriega out of office.
Arthur Davis says that when Noriega loyalists set upon the aging Guillermo
Ford, the opposition's vice presidential candidate, they meant to kill him. Davis
is in Washington where he and Bush are discussing the Panamanian situation as
NBC's Martin Fletcher reports, things in Panama are quiet but tense. The call is
becoming increasingly urgent among the opposition in Panama, a call for justice.
They claim Army Chief General Manuel Noriega robbed them of their victory in
last week's election. The Catholic Church, much of the middle class and the poor
want Noriega out, so does Washington. President Bush's wish that the people of
Panama will throw out Noriega seems at this stage wishful thinking. The
opposition doesn't want violence and the army still backs Noriega. That leaves
economic sanctions and the Marines. President Bush sent 2,000 more in to
back up the 10,000 already based here. Their mission is to protect American
citizens and installations. But it's also a not so oblique warning to General
Noriega. It's nice to come in on the side of the good guys, you know what I'm saying?
What he means is the Marines could be used to back up the opposition to force
out Noriega. Many in the opposition say America created the Noriega problem so
let America sort it out. In the meantime of course the country is bleeding to death,
the economy is in shambles and we're all just scared to death to talk or walk out
the street because we don't know what the hell is gonna happen in this country.
The sense of uncertainty is growing as the US Marines take up defensive
positions on American bases. The opposition want America to solve their
problem but peacefully. Martin Fletcher, NBC News, Panama. Argentina has a new
president. His name is Carlos Menem and he belongs to the Peronist Party. He is
the first Peronist to head Argentina's government since 1976.
Joe Schlesinger reports. The name is Menem, Carlos Menem, and his supporters are
celebrating the election as president of Argentina but they're also celebrating
the return of Peronism to Argentina. Menem is heir to Juan Peron and his wife
Evita who in their heyday in the 40s and 50s ruled the country with iron-fisted
repression and open-handed welfare programs. But Menem has promised not to
return to either. He says he's a Democrat. As for the handouts that Peron's
indulged in, Menem won't be able to afford them. Argentina is broke. Indeed
that's why Menem won. Inflation is running at 33% a month and the
printing presses at the Mint can't keep up with a needed flood of new bills. The
current president Raul Alfonsín is being credited by all sides with
bringing the country out of mercy dictatorship into democracy. But his
economic record defeated Eduardo Angelos, his chosen successor, and saw the
slum-born Menem, the son of Syrian immigrants, a Muslim converted to
Catholicism, where in December become the first Peronist president in 13 years. The
question is whether Menem with his reputation as a playboy can manage to
reverse the economic slide Peronism and military dictatorship brought to Argentina.
Joe Schlesinger, CBC News, Buenos Aires.
Overseas traffic in London was moving slowly today when it moved at all. That is
because public transit wasn't operating. The people who drive London's buses and
subway trains staged a one-day strike to back their demands for a 14% wage
increase. Management says that it can't offer more than 7%. Taxi companies
reported heavy demand and waits of up to two hours. In Washington today, US
President Bush backed his anti-drug rhetoric with a commitment of money. The
White House wants to arrest more violent criminals and it wants to keep them in
jail longer. That will take more cooperation from state governments and
the people who run American cities. But as Neil McDonald reports, some people say
the Bush plan doesn't go far enough. George Bush described himself today as
the first president since Abraham Lincoln, who's been able to stand on the
steps of the Capitol with a war going on only three kilometers away. He was
referring to Washington's epidemic of drugs and murder. Drug-related killings
are on the rise across America and Bush swore in his inauguration speech to
clean up the mess. Today he told families of murdered policemen he's ready to keep
his promise. Violent and repeat offenders have calculated that crime
really does pay. That our criminal justice system is a crapshoot where the
risks are worth the rewards. Well it's time we change the odds and up the
stakes enormously. The administration is spending 1.2 billion dollars to up those
odds. A billion of that will go to building new prisons. Federal prison space
will be expanded by 80%. The government also intends to hire nearly a thousand
new federal agents and 1,600 more prosecutors. Bush says he wants plea
bargaining ended for federal firearms offenses and he wants Congress to
stiffen sentences. Anyone who uses a semi-automatic for crime or so much as
has one on them during a crime will do an automatic 10 extra years in federal
prison. No probation, no parole. And there's also the question of gun control.
Always a sensitive one in America. A killing spree at a California playground
last January brought a national outcry to ban semi-automatic so-called assault
weapons but legally they're hard to distinguish from semi-automatic hunting
rifles. And Bush was facing heavy opposition to any kind of ban from the
powerful National Rifle Association which he belongs to. So he came up with a
compromise that gun control advocates are already describing as useless. Bush
is proposing to limit the number of bullets in any semi-automatic weapons
magazine to 15. Neil McDonald, CBC News, Washington. Coming up on CBC at 6,
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The country's largest women's group says the federal budget is an attack on women
and children. Members of the National Action Committee on the status of women
were in Ottawa today to outline their fears to MPs but they were only able to
talk with the opposition parties. As Julie Van Dusen reports the group was
snubbed by the Conservatives. It's an annual event. Members of the National
Action Committee meet with parliamentarians to get MPs views on the
record. This year the budget is the prime concern. We're very concerned about this
regressive budget which is really an attack on women and children and
families. The women told members of Parliament that cuts to social programs,
unemployment insurance, the shelving of a daycare program hit women hardest. The
Liberals agree. With this budget and with this government the kind of taxation
that's being levied upon Canadians in general is regressive and unfair. The NDP
predict this budget marks the beginning of the end of universal programs. And
then if they get away with it today and I kid you not they will be means testing
Medicare tomorrow. So pensions may be today, Medicare tomorrow and we ain't
gonna let them get away with it. Historically all three parties meet
with the National Action Committee at their annual forum. The Conservatives
were invited but for the first time they declined to participate. And if one of the
parties decides that we are not a constituency that they want to address
then they can live with the consequences of that decision. That is very useful for
us to know especially by the time of the next election. In the House of Commons
status of Women Minister Barbara McDougall was asked why she did not appear before
the women's group this morning. She said her preference is to meet with the
executive privately. Besides she says the National Action Committee does not
represent the views of all Canadian women. Well I don't think that the women
of Canada have one voice. The National Action Committee and other groups
against the budget have invited opposition members to join them on a
train ride across Canada. Next month they plan to whistle-stop their way across
the country in the hopes of building support for their fight against a budget
they call the most regressive in Canadian history. Julie Van Dusen, CBC News, Ottawa.
In the meantime renovations to the Prime Minister's home may have to be put on
hold. The chairman of the official Residences Committee says the work might
have to wait until better economic times. Planned renovations to 24 Sussex Drive
include a new kitchen, even more closet space and central air conditioning. More
than a hundred and fifty thousand dollars has already been spent on plans
for the renovations but no actual work has taken place. The legendary Canadian
businessman E.P. Taylor is dead. He died yesterday on his estate in the
Bahamas. He was 88. Taylor helped establish the Argus Corporation, a
multi-million dollar holding company now owned by Conrad Black, but he was also
known as a breeder of champion racehorses. Allison Smith looks back at a
remarkable life and career. E.P. Taylor was a symbol of the Canadian
establishment, successful horse breeder, avid racing fan, business tycoon. He built
his business empire from a small family-owned brewery in Ottawa. With the
end of Prohibition in the late 1920s, Taylor saw his chance to make money and
with the flair and business acumen that marked his entire business life, Taylor
began buying, merging and taking over companies such as Carlings and O'Keeffe
breweries. Ultimately, he controlled the biggest beer empire in the world. I
suppose everybody who achieves anything does it in the early stages for money in
the industrial financial world. I think the motivating principle though is
accomplishment, sense of accomplishing something and doing something
instructive. During World War II, Taylor worked closely with the government
overseeing the supply of arms and war materials for Britain. It was after the
war that Taylor formed the company that would become one of the most powerful
corporations in Canada, Argus Corporation at number 10 Toronto Street. It invested
in chemical companies, pulp and paper, brewing, companies such as Massey
Ferguson, Hollinger Mines and Dominion stores. Taylor was eventually pushed out
of Argus by another member of the Canadian establishment, Bud McDougald, but
by then Taylor was spending most of his time in the Bahamas at Leiford Quay, an
exclusive and luxurious holiday resort that he developed. Taylor was perhaps one
of the most visible and best known members of the Canadian establishment.
Much of that was because of his keen interest in horse racing. He owned
Northern Dancer, the most successful thoroughbred in Canadian horse racing
history and the first Canadian horse to win the Kentucky Derby.
EP or Excess Profits Taylor, as he was sometimes called, was a confident man,
ruthless if he had to be, but friendly and good-natured. I'm interested in it. I
really try to keep only do things that I'm interested in and deal with people
that interest me and possibly I interest them. I think that's the solution of
being happy. Allison Smith, CBC News. More than a hundred forest fires are still
raging out of control in northwestern Manitoba and the province has declared a
state of emergency near the town of Cowan. This afternoon one fire with a
wall of flames 50 meters high threatened to destroy the tiny community. Residents
were forced to leave their homes yesterday. They took refuge in a
community center in the nearby town of Pine River. It'll be some time before
they can go home. The fires have destroyed 425,000 hectares of forest.
That is an area 10 times the size of Metropolitan Toronto and officials say
it is still early in the forest fire season. And earlier today I spoke to our
reporter Steve Pakin who is on temporary assignment to the National now in the
town of Cowan on the border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Steve, what is it like
out there now? I mean how bad is it? Hillary, it's a good news and bad news
situation. Every now and then the firefighters seem to have things under
control. We're in a tiny town now called Cowan which has been threatened for the
last two days. They move everybody out and now it seems that everything is fine
but as I look behind me every now and then as I do things seem to be out of
control again. So it's hard to say. So is the air it's thick with smoke where you
are? Well it's unusual. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. About half an hour
ago, maybe an hour ago, it wasn't a heck of a lot to see. Then in the last say half
an hour it looks like we're surrounded by about four or five different fires
that have broken out in different areas and every now and then the thick smoke
just starts billowing all over the place. And what's the state of the town
itself? I mean are the houses standing? Most of them are. The vast majority of them
are. There has been some damage but not so much thanks to the people who are
flying overhead and dropping water bombs all over the place. A chicken coop was
destroyed, there were a number of chickens that were destroyed, a couple
of houses have been destroyed but for the most part these folks are very lucky so
far. Now the authorities haven't ruled out arson in these fires have they? No
in fact it's the opposite they've ruled it in. They've come right out and they
have said that they know that most of the fires were started either by arson
or by carelessness and that's what is of course so distressing to so many people
who've had their lives very much disrupted by all this. Have any charges
been laid yet? Not yet. But you expect they will be soon? The investigators are
obviously on it very carefully and the one thing they are watching out for
believe it or not is looting. There are a lot of RCMP around here who are making
sure that while all these houses are empty they're also safe. Alright Steve
thank you very much. Thank you Hillary good night.
And coming up on CBC at 6 entertainment tonight with Regina Hickelsabo. Thanks
Hillary. Country duo Foster and Lloyd bring their country funk to Toronto.
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Hickle-Sabo the Nashville duo Foster and Lloyd have broken down the traditional
country barriers. They play country with a real edge. Stu Patterson has their
story. Fat Lady Sings from the second album by Foster and Lloyd. These guys are
based in Nashville but they're making music waves worldwide.
You can feel the premonition, intuition don't mean a thing.
With their brand of music Foster and Lloyd are trying to expand interest in
country by appealing to new markets. They're selling a lot of records doing
that. A big you know mission for us almost is to bring people from who are
familiar with rock and roll maybe particularly roots rock who are not
familiar with the country music at all and bring them over. We see ourselves
from the country angle trying to bring in a younger audience to the film.
Foster and Lloyd have a formula for success. Well with this group you get a
smooth southern blend of voices and guitars. They write their own material so
you're getting fresh melodies. The music is aimed at both country and rock
audiences. The main thing that you think about is making sure it's a good even
record you know. Everything that you want to say is being said and everything
musically that you want to do is being done. If you start thinking too much
about that radio fodder kind of thing that chasing a trend you're always going
to end up a day late and a dollar short. Foster and Lloyd the horseshoe tonight
Scarborough's Graceland Friday night. Throughout history jewelry has always
been more than just decoration. It's an art form that tells us something about
society through the materials that the artists use. Today I met some of Toronto's
future jewelry makers at George Brown College. They do it for fun and they do
it for money with 22 karat gold or burnt brass. No matter the material jewelry
making is a passion for these students. It's not just enough that it's gold or
that it's diamond that the workmanship has value that the ideas which go into
the piece have a lot of value and that sometimes those ideas can be expressed
better in another material. I cut a groove. Beata Hanowitz experiments a lot
with other materials. For instance she'll pour chemicals over the metals she works
with. I like to do things that are a little bit out of the ordinary with my
metal. For instance if I were working with gold or silver I would not always
give it a high polish. I would do something different to it like I'd sand
blast it or or perhaps melt the edges or or try to tarnish it to see what kind of
an effect I can get with that. But some in this class still enjoy working with
the more traditional materials. I guess I like high quality things. I like to live
my life that way. I don't make large flashy pieces with you know a pound of
gold and hundreds of diamonds. I mean this piece is very small. The graduating
jewelry class is going to be putting its best creations into a show that opens
today at the Kensington Silver Studios. Things like this lovely necklace called
enough rope to hang yourself which also doubles as a noose. That's it for
entertainment but before we go here are a few things happening tonight.
And it was such a nice day here that we went to the zoo for the weather today
and it is brought to you tonight by Toby Stiles and the flamingos. Hi Hillary and
welcome back to the zoo. As you can see it's a gorgeous day here for for the
real flamingos. These aren't the pink ones that fit on your plastic on your
lawn. Tonight they tell me it's gonna be partly cloudy a slight chance of rain.
Tomorrow again partly cloudy but fairly warm and the rest of the week just
gorgeous just terrific zoo weather. It's a good time of year because our baby
animals are being born and this Saturday we're opening the world's largest
exhibit of animated dinosaurs so the weather couldn't be better. And now back
to you and thanks for coming to the Metro Toronto Zoo. Thank You Toby Stiles
and the flamingos. This is CBC at 6 and coming up in sports more on the firing
of Blue Jays manager Jimmy Williams. I think Jimmy did probably as much as he
could do here. We just haven't played well. We haven't hit well. We haven't
pitched well. We haven't played good defense.
Hello again everyone as we told you earlier Blue Jays fans will have to find
someone else to pin the losses on. Jimmy Williams the man many referred to as the
donkey in the Blue Jays slide has been dismissed with hitting coach Cito Gaston
taking over as interim manager with a full-time replacement to be named
within two weeks. Williams has been offered another job in the organization
and he has until seasons end to decide if he wants to stay on with the Blue Jays.
General manager Pat Gillick admitted that with the Jays still just six back
despite their brutal record a change had to be made now and while Gillick said
Williams firing is not part of an entire house cleaning there are changes on the
way. The club wasn't responding in the manner we felt it should. Any of the other
certainly some of the players that we have on our roster we would like to to
move them or exchange them for other players but as you all well know that
isn't as easily easier said than done but I think there will be some additional
roster changes in the next week ten days. And I think Jimmy did probably as much
as he could do here we just haven't played well we haven't hit well we
haven't pitched well we haven't played good defense and that's when this ball
club wins is when we pitch well and play good defense and score some runs and we
haven't we haven't done that I don't know what I can do to change that but
I'm one chef in the lineup around a little bit and hope that some of the guys
started to hit a little bit. They're gonna have to. Cito understands the situation as for
Gillick he refused to name names that he is considering to take over from Cito in
the next few weeks but Gillick did say the person would have major league
experience as either a manager or player perhaps Lou Pennella, Bob Baylor, the Jays
are at Execution Stadium tonight to begin the three-game stand with the
Cleveland Indians highlights at 11. While golf fans in this area are
certainly looking forward to the week of June 19th right after the US Open it's
the Canadian Open at Glen Abbey. The Oakville course continues to be home to
the premier Canadian event and today at the Abbey the man who won this event 50
years ago when it was held in New Brunswick paid a visit and he can still
swing with the best of them. Here's Don Martin. The Canadian Open always brings
back a former winner usually the defending champion in advance of the
tournament but this year they went back a half century to honor the champion of
1939 Harold Jug McSpadden who won the title at Riverside Golf Club in New
Brunswick and after 50 years the memories are still vivid. I played real
well the first two rounds about 67 and 69 or something and I had 72 to 3 or
something like that but I kept the ball in play and kept right on the track.
McSpadden eventually lost his sight and his golf memorabilia in a house fire a
double cornea transplant restored his vision and today the RCGA restored a few
memories with a video scrapbook.
In the 30s McSpadden was one of the gold dust twins along with Byron Nelson who
won an amazing 11 tournaments in a row and took home only $45,000. That's as much
as some of today's pros charged for a Monday Pro-Am. Well I wish I was 50 years
younger. I'd have lots of fun but I couldn't wait. And besides with the swing
still intact even at age 80 Jug's money-winning days may not be over. I looked
at my computer the other day and it says I'm gonna last another 16 years I might
be I might be back. You got a few checks left. I sure have. This is Don Martin
reporting. Well last night's game one of the Stanley Cup Finals certainly didn't
start out like most expected it took four quick goals until the defensive
battle we all expected took place. The game was tied at two in the third period
when Theron Flurry breaks in on goal off a pass from McCowan and beats Wath through
the legs one that he should have had and why did Calgary win this game by a
final score of 3-2. Saves like this one from Mike Vernon here robbing Peter
Swabota with the big glove as the flames taken over. In between periods I just said
hey just settle down get back into your net and just play your type of game and
I think in a second period they they outshot us I think they had about 14
shots on that so which helped me a bit get involved in the game and things like
that and build my confidence. We can play better I mean we have to play better if
you think you've played your best and you ended up in losing cause and you're
in much bigger trouble than you thought. And finally updating our top story once
again Jimmy Williams is no longer the Blue Jays manager replaced today by
Cito Gaston also 45 years old Cito the hitting coach but Cito Gaston will stay
on as interim manager until the Blue Jays find a replacement and just one
more note to tell you about Joe Primo former Leaf Great died today so
certainly sad news for Maple Leaf fans. All right Ken thank you and with a look
at tonight's CBC at 11 here's Ona Fletcher. Hillary it's the annual fundraiser
tonight for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and they hope to raise
half a million dollars in tonight's event. Interim party leader Andy Brant
will be giving a speech about taxes and we'll have all the details on CBC at 11.
Back to you Hillary. Thank you Ona and that's it that is all for CBC at 6 for
Monday May the 15th for everyone on the show. Thank you for watching I'm
Hillary Brown have a good evening good night.
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