一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS- Rosie Macleman chosen as Canada's Olympic flag bearer

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Full of Olympic fans gathered on Parliament Hill got to meet the Prime minister, but they were all there for the big announcement which Canadian athlete go carry the Maple Leaf in Rio next month.

“Rosie Maclean! Olympic gold medalist from London in 2012, competing trampoline again this year and representing Canada. “

Maclean was Canada’s only gold medalist in those games, now she is clearly ruled this new honor, leading Canada’s three hundred fourteen other athletes at the opening ceremony.

“Rosie! Rosie!”

“Standing here, going into my third games. I’m filled with so much prize and so much gratitude that towards even can begin to describe it.”

“For the 27 years’ old trampoline gymnast had the tough year getting to this point last summer at practice, she suffered concussion after hitting her head on the side of the trampoline. She recovered from that to compete and win gold at the Panan Games in front of her own home town crowd in Toronto. But then another hit the head, have to battling the headache, dizziness and lights sensitivity. Credits to coach’s and therapist are helping to her come back to competition.

“With the support of everyone around me, I was absolutely able to keep on pushing and there are definitely times when I didn’t know if this gonna to be possibilities.”

Canada’s Olympic chief Curt Hannett says, Maclean’s difficulties through make her those Olympics choice an excellent for flag bear.

“Her personal experience, her overcoming the diversity, injuries and concussions that had plain her, almost prevent her from compete at the 2015 Panan Games, where she shine so well. You know she just epitomize that you know what I think actually Canadians look for in their athletes.”

With flag waving tips from the Prime Minister Maclean got the practice the role she’ll play in two weeks.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS- Sidney Crosby brings Stanley Cup Home to N.S.

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A huge welcome to celebrate Cole Harbour’s hometown hero. Pittsburgh Penguins’ captain Sidney Crosby’s hoisting the Stanley Cup. This is all about the triumph and the trophy. The community came out. Fans lined to the drive way into Cole Harbour Place. While he held the summer hockey camp, all doing their best to score a moment with Crosby and the Cup.

“I love Pittsburgh Penguins and I’m here to see Sidney Crosby.”

“And how do you feel about seeing the Stanley Cup?”

“So excited!”

“I’m going to make him sign this jursey.”

“If they win the cup. I said I promise you I bring you down the parade. So we are here today, enjoying the day and this is great for everyone.”

“And how do you feel about that, Brent? Are you excited?”

“Yah, I’m really happy to be here.”

“He is such a sincere, genuine, nice, good person. He does so much for the kids, the community and hospital.”

“It’s great for Canada, great for Nova Scotia and he’s class asset, love him.”

And the feeling is mutual.

“I would want come back to this. And there’s a definitely special feeling, felling the pride. You know, sense of our community here.”

This isn’t the first time Crosby brought the cup to Cole Harbour. The last time was in 2009 and this crowds hoping for more parades. The road getting here wasn’t easy. Crosby and the team had sluggish start to the season, but in the end they climb to the top.

“The season has lots of up and downs. You know, you sat together as the teams for, before each other through it. You know you can win when it’s all settled down. So that’s what we do.”

The second time, it seems is sweeter.

“A lot of guys don’t get the chance to play for the Stanley Cup. So I think this time around, I appreciate even more. I appreciate sites like this, an especial day.”

So for fans here.

“Yes, next year. I’m casting on it.”

They are hoping it’s not in another 7 years for Crosby Stanley Cup hat trick.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-“It makes me think that one day I can go to Wimbledon too” Milos Raonic’s young super fan

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Summer Curtis, Summer’s father was actually Milos Raonic’s old coach. He taught him for about ten years and Summer during that time was able to meet him as well.

“What was Milos like?”

“He was extremely kind, he would play games with me sometimes. And when my Dad was giving him a lesson and he was fighting, sometimes I would get to go to watch him.”

“Did you ever beat him?”

“No, I never beat him.”

“What is it like now, having played against him and seen him all of those years to see him in this finals today?”

“It’s really incredible seeing like he was, when he was training to how he is now. It’s really awesome and incredible. Seeing how he made all the way to the Wimbledon finals.”

“How was inspiring his by his journey been in tennis for you.”

“His journey is extremely inspiring. He trained with my Dad and I trained with him now. So that’s really awesome and it makes me thinks that one day I can go to Wimbledon too.”

“Yah, you have big dreams and what do you think he’s doing for tennis in this country?”

“He has certainly a big impact on tennis here in Canada. Everyone is here to cheering for him and I know many of my Mom and Dad’s friends are also cheering for him. Texting them say congratulations and everyone is really excited here in Canada.”

“OK, well. Thank you so much for talking with us. That’s Summer Curtis, just one of many people here who knows Milos Raonic personally and are extra curious and excited to see how this game ends.

咖啡有点难

来了加拿大这么多年，当有人问我 "Do you drink Coffee?" 我仍然会回答说："Not really"。虽然满大街的Starbucks多得就象上海当年的永和豆浆，办公室里的Coffee Machine永远安静得在那里Stand by。我从来就没有正真关注过咖啡这样东西。

昨天突然看到一个Email, Subject: New Coffee Machine 2nd Floor (TESTING)。接着就看到了一个有半人高的新Coffee Machine出现在了小厨房里。一个简单的触摸屏在中间,两个选项，Coffee Drinks和Hot Beverages。因为好奇我按了Hot Beverages, 然后就出现了vanila latte, vanilla mocha, long expresso ...

"咦?难道latte和mocha不是Coffee?"

上网Google-What's the difference between Latte and Mocha?

这是Google的结果

Latte: An espresso drink that consists of espresso, steamed milk, and foam. In a latte there is a greater percentage of steamed milk than foam.

Mocha: An espresso drink that consists of espresso, steamed milk, foam, and chocolate syrup.

还有一张图

所以Latte和mocha都是Espresso+Steamed Milk+something else。而且这张图上的都是。而Espresso，就是那杯小小的超苦超苦的浓缩咖啡。

于是开始挨个尝试各个品种，知道自己到底在喝什么，感觉真好。。。。。。

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-Canada Post Strike

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In the past, in many industries, workers in Canada could count on defined benefit pensions. In recent year, the shifting economy and fudging stock markets encourage many private employers to drop those plans. A change that by large hasn’t hit the federal government sector. Marion Pottalac, after 37 years at Canada post says she enjoys the security that comes with the defined benefit pensions. “It’s knowing that every month I have money coming to my bank account.”

Now with Canada post, our federal found corporation seeking to eliminate defined benefit pensions for new hirers. Some believe it’s the time to exam all federal pensions. “So if we look at that example, what you gonna potentially see is in all these defined benefit pensions, Canada post probably the most the example you think of the pensions the highest risk being on the tax payers. These defined benefit pension plans are very large that tax payers have to cover.” Labour is watching closely but so far expressing little concern that what is going on the Canada Post is the beginning of a large scale battle. “No other concord operations comes to the bargain table seeking to get rid of defined benefit plan. So this is very troubling in regarding to their strategy. So I’m at the lost to understand their strategy.”

“We are probably not going to see much for pushing defined contribution in the public sector.” This professor thinks Canada post is unique in a tough spot in trying to reduce pension obligations because email is taking over. “If you look Canada post, you think where is going to be in ten years? Probably is going to have fewer employees.” Still some worry Canada post show down quick starts something you believe that putting workers later. “I want to tell these young workers that the pension worth fighting for.” How much the fighting will be over pensions Canada post, how serious management there there is about getting rid of defined benefit pensions that still will be decided.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-Denture Lawsuit

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Class action lawsuit has just been filled in Canada over dental cream that hold force teeth in place. It’s ledge there’s enough zinc some creams cause brain damage. CBC’s Lisa Johnson has the details.


Amanda Deve’s remembered been healthy, able to job, ride a bike and work 12 hours a day, that end for her in May 2007.

“I was actually like I have a stroke. And it happened at work. And I lost all use of my voice and my wends, couldn’t walk or talk.”

For more than a year that she couldn’t walk or spend time with her grandkids. Treatment has helped he get back on the job, but her hands and voice still tremble and even the bright light from our TV interview triggered her symptoms.

“Just what a pain way, I had to stop.”

Deve’s blame her denture cream for making her sick. It contains zinc, which’s already been in the subjective several class action lawsuits in US.

“If you use fishing poly cream and other dental cream been diagnose with the zinc poisoning.”

This week the merchant law group filed class action lawsuit in three provinces including BC.

“We’ve been contacted by several hundred people. I think the estimation likely in the thousands of people that maybe effected.”

Now zinc is a mineral found in foods and lots of products. But it’s said high dose that can have serious side effects. The lawsuit claim the problem with these cream is that there’s no warning that contain zinc and no information on how much is safety use. Neither company will comment on the lawsuit. Classes make cline which make poly grain stop shipping product containing zinc last Feb. And when customers excessive zincing take would lead tingling, enormous and difficulty walking. Products in gamble makes fix dent which still contain zinc. The company says the product the safety use as directed as warning bout excessive use on some tooth.

“How’s your headache now?”

“Oh, it’s a lot better.”

Deve’s says the warning coming too late for her.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-Skytrain Troubles

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It was a rough morning commute today. Tens of thousands of commuters across metro Vancouver were late for work. After two sky train lines ground a hauled, official shut down on most of the system losing communication with the two trains. Here’s Debra Goble with what happened and why.


With school back in and most people’s summer vocation is just distant memory. The reality rush hour came back in, full forth this morning.

“Well, I’m not sure, if I’m going to make it anytime.”

It was just after 7:15, when the sky train went down, leaving tens of thousands of people scrambling to get where they were going.

“I’m from King George and I’m going to water front, but I have to like transfer here, so to other place.”

“I’m gonna be late for school.”

Extra buses were called in.

“I waited for like 15 minutes.”

“I say 45 minutes.”

For those already aboard, one of the 56 sky trains in service. It meant being stuck for anywhere between 2 and 30 minutes.

“Headache though and frustrating.”

“People get notorious?”

“Oh, no.”

It was a tough commute. All was because of a small piece of metal on the part of the track known as the loop.

“You see the thick wire running alone? That’s the loop and that communicates between train and the central computer. And what happened this morning is there was something in the railway didn’t belong there. It was picked up by the train and it took out one of those loops. When that happens the computer loses his contact with the train. And when that happens the automated system shuts down until we find out what the deal is with the train. Obviously, you don’t want trains bumping into each other.”

Translink says that didn’t and won’t ever happen because safety precautions like the one that was implemented today work. Still was about 4 hours before the sky train was completely back to normal.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-Sick Postal Carriers

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Their slogan is we deliver, but people are wondering where’s the mail. Workers at the Canada post brought a problem to our attention, mail is been held up because of staffing decision. Tim Weeks has the story.


While letter carriers were delivering the mail today, their Union was delivering a warning. It says Canada Post hasn’t been back filling workers become ill or take leave and Union says that means undelivered mail piles up.

“Non delivery has wrong unifications of the community of course. Cause people depends on GST cheques and family allowance cheques and various other correspondence and they depend on Canada post for that service.”

Canada post says it is a challenge dealing with the unplanned absent workers but the cooperation says if your cheque is in the mail, it will still get through.

“Definitely, if there are important mail items like that we’re getting them out. We’re taking you know the necessary matches to make sure that customer services is not jeopardize for important mail.”

However, the union said it has a growing list of ingrivence indicate that Canada post has not been covering rules adequately. They call it policy of non-delivery.

“Meeting customers expectation is nothing out of the ordinary for Canada post.”

Canada post says there’s no non-delivery policy, but official say with the growing use of email, the over all volume of mail has dropped and they’re trying to adjust the number of hours to work to match that but service they argue is been maintained.

“From where the items is coming from, that is either a 2,3 or 4 day delivery standard and we’re meeting those 96% of the time, either meeting or exceeding that number.”

The Union meanwhile says it’s been documenting several unstaff routs that and they say if the mail is been delayed it’s not just incontinence.

“Well in fact, Canada post Act states and its active legislation that if you intensively delay the mail, it maybe editable fines or resulting up to five years in prison.”

Canada post says if the customer don’t get the mail for a few days, it could be because nothing were sent to them.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-Smoke Health Hazard

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Well, where there’s a fire, there’s smoke and lots hazard. Drifting from British Columbia, halfway across the country, as Susana De silva reports. Those fire’s reign in BC raising health concerns through out the west.


These pictures were taking by a member of fire crews. He’s been all that first line for 22 days, providing first aid.

“Need go to bed, need get up and do it all over again. So you know, they’re amazing.”

With massive fires burning through the province. It’s going to take a lot more help to get them out. The government has announced more than 300 fire fighters are being brought in from Alberta and the North. Cruises were able to get back in the air today and the high winds have passed, leaving fire officials optimistic.

“It’s cooler outside, anyone in the area is definitely feeling that. I think temperature’s at time I were see was minus 2, in the past 24 hours. That’s good news for us.”

More than one thousand people have been ordered out of their homes. So far only 2 houses has been lost along with the handful of barns, but the smoke is affecting thousands more. In Calgary, Edmonton, as far east as Regina, smoke blinded the cities, leading the air quality advisories. Back in Lake Williams BC, only 8 kilometers from the huge fire, the smoke is also heavy.

“Well, pretty smoky.”

That smoke however isn’t stop children in William Lake from playing outside.

“This is being so smoky, you can’t even see that drive way.”

And concern is for those with lounge conditions or other illnesses. The hospital in Williams Lake closed most of its entrances to keep out the smoke and cancelled all elective procedures.

“I was going to get some blood work done.”

“What happened?”

“And they told me, wasn’t urgent. So to come back the next week, keep an eye on the weather.”

Fire official say with the cooler temperature and with no lighting in the forecast. They are optimistic, they can get better handle on the biggest fire threatening BC communities. But still there’s every little rain in the forecast, that’s truly what’s needed here now.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-New Housing Delays

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The winter Olympic may ahead months ago, but the social housing units that at the athletes village remain empty. As Tim Week reports, aviks say bureaucracy red tapes is keeping those who need a home out.


Rather than a chaotic scene of hassle and bustle, the athlete village is more like a ghost town. Giant birds are perched at the center, to the people who are flocking to these sweets. 252 units were satisied for with social housing half to be subsidized and half to be let out the market rental, there are all sitting empty. When critics say that people who need that housing now.

“Truly frustrating seeing was meant to be really a central piece of Olympic Legacy, not be treated in the way that it should be.”

The city social housing units are to be managed by a none profit group, but housing organization say they haven’t see any request for proposals. One of the reasons for that is the question mark of the rentals. For those sweets, one bedroom will cost $1600 a month, a two bedroom for $1900 a month, and a four bedroom are rent for almost $2400 a month. Those units are supposed to be offer to health care and public safety workers first. The city calls it a priority focus. But that priority focus is creating complications between the city of Vancouver and BC housing. And that is resulting delays.

“There needs to be a movement from both organizations. We can’t have bureaucracy’s pointing each other. Bureaucratic aren’t gonna answer anything.”

Another groups began to discussions with city 7 years ago concerning the Olympic social housing. Aviks say the original promise of 20% of the village units for low cost of housing will eventually went down to 5%, just by sometimes workers protest. So sweets are still empty, the city is current taking names for the market housing and created a waiting list for a subsidized housing. The city says the talks are on the way to the BC housing to resolve the delays.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-1997 Pickton Incident

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Could lives have been saved if the polices has acted differently in the Robert Pickton case. That debate has bean again after the lifting of the publication ban late yesterday. The decision is allow us to review that information the jury did not hear. Information that somebody may find disturbing. Tim Weeks reports.


He’s convicted of killing 6 women, charge with murdering another 20 and police believe in total Robert Pickton may have killed 49 women. But one women has escaped him back in 1997. A protester has been taken to pickton’s farm, testified he handcrafted and tried to kill her. She’s lash picked, throw and broke free, stumbles towards the highway where she was picked up and taken to hospital. Pickton was charged with attempted murder, but the charge was later state.

“Do you know why this charge was state?”

“I can’t comment on that.”

Someone wonder what might have happened has the charge may have been pursuit.

“They could save many lives, many, many lives. This would been all over with a time ago, and I still have my sister here.”

Lillian beaudoin, sister of Diana Water one of the women pickton charge with killing. Pickton was also investigated in the killing of Jean Dell, the name give to the woman was found in Mission. And investigator was link saw marks on it to cuts on three other sketch on the pickton’s farm. Searchers later found Jane Dell’s raven heel bone at the farm, mix with piles of dirt, animal bones and remaining of other women. She would’ve been the 27th women pickton was charge with murdering, but the judge excluded the evidence link to pickton’s saw, police believe Jean Dell look like this. But who she is remains mystery. Well the trial is on, people could see pickton and Juries will show the odds of his home. His bed was leapt hand cut, there’s a horse on the wall. But soon video tape interview will be released what pickton tell police when asked about all the murder women that he plan to reach 50, but he got sloppy. Lillian Beaudoin thought all victim deserve of hearing a court, and none of the murder charge should be state.

“It is not fair for the families, and it is not fair for the victims.”

She says she wants the full public inquired, Primer Gordon Campbell says they’ll make a decision on that soon.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-Crash Victim Mourned

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Well tributes to a much loved airdrie high school teacher are growing fast, Skye Mcgowan died in a weekend crash in terrace BC. That crash is surrounded in confusion, and that’s left many people who knew Skye Mcgowan is specially upset. The CBC’s Mary Katherine has the story.


There’s a lot of heart behind this class project. It started with one piece of Bristol board.

“When I first come to this school as a new student, he was kind of the one who was always in the haul way, always highfiving and saying hi, making sure you really feel welcome.”

That friendly teacher was 44 year old Skye Mcgowan or Mgow as some students called him.

“You believed when no one else dead, love and remember always.”

Those words could’ve also been written by Jordan Schaffland himself.

“A lot of times I feel like giving up and a lot of times I feel like, you know, why am I still here and has to be an importance of me being here, or I wouldn’t be here. So having been told not to give up, not just from anybody, but from a teacher who care so much.”

The false news that Mcgowan’s wife was also killed in the accident, started humming around Facebook and spread to at least one major newspaper.

“Finding out that it was in the news, that was the wrong information, a part just from Facebook, really make a lot of people upset.”

Reports also say Mcgowan’s son was driving the car. Christa Harriman called mutual friends to find out what happened.

“They said, no he was alone, his kids are young, they won’t driving him. His wife is alive, she’s been contacted with the teacher from the school here.”

A school students here say won’t be the same without Skye Mcgowan.

一起听新闻、学英语-CBC NEWS-River Runs Black

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Things are going from bad to worse in British Columbia’s fire zone. It’s not just the growing number wild fires now around four hundreds, but get this, the water in rivers in southern BC is turning a murky black. Susana DA Silva’s site first hand. She joins us now from Lillooet.


Ina, many here in Lillooet say looks like something out of movie, a local river has turn black, likely cause by nearby forest fires and it caused a lot of concern. This is normally per steam blue water. So clean you can see every rock on the bottom.

“Oh, I’ve never seen a water like this before be in up here for 25 plus years.”

At 11 am, fisher man notice the water drastically changing color and pull there nets. Some noticing there were something wrong with the fish.

“Well, fish online and fish on net is struggling like crazy, but there are no struggle at all.”

This is an important tradition fishing area, for several unbridgenal communities.

“Well, my main concern is fire returned, it is possible be, but I like to verify myself.”

The worry is that today’s rain has cause toxic fire retarded and charge ground to run into the river. There are certainly a lot of that around, the jungle mountain fire covers more than 50 hundred hatra. Cruises are struggling to control it.

“Reach and confirm hot spot of black melting, all the area is about 50,000 feet inch off the main guard.”

But they aren’t easy to spot.

“Sometime you don’t even see the smoke occurred at that a time. There’ll be a little flys, flying around and that’s usually a sign of heat there. The bugs are hopping around the hot spots.”

Some relieve from arrived of the formal fire fighters from Alberta and Ontario. But now there’s another crisis to mending attention.

“There’s tons of fish, that’ll probably be, either been toxic poisoned or what I just don’t know.”

Fire officials are trying to confirm this is the result of run off from fires. The department of fish of ocean says, it is telling anyone to pull their nets from the water, the most people are, because they’re not willing to take any chances.