. >> more police activity in ottawa where officers are investigating claims that well known senators were paid hundreds of thousands in fraudulent expenses. it's a scandal that has cost conservative prime minister stephen harper, his chief of staff, and rocked his government. >> canada is considered one of the more transparent and clean political systems. but actually all kind of things have always gone on below the surface. what's unusual is some things are surfacing. >> it's all having an impact, according to opinion polls, politicians are viewed with growing cynicism and mistrust. >> whether it's here at city hall for canada's largest urban government, in quebec or ottawa, it's all a far cry from the peace, order and good government that canadiens traditionally expect from their leaders. al jazeera, toronto. >> allegations of misbehavior among monks have caused a stir in thailand. the country's governing religious party is investigating a video which shows supposedly modest monks living the high life. >> a simple life of poverty and meditative prayer. a traditional image of buddhi

>> my best friend's dad owns the largest rafting company on the ottawa river, and one year he said, heyck, i'm going to try kayaking, and do you want to give it a shot? and ten minutes into the boat, i knew i loved this sport and i wanted to do it for the rest of my life and i have not gotten out of the kayak since. >> you are doing some incredible stunt work or trick work or what do you call it? >> freestyle kayaking. that i are short boats to do tricks and the big waters and the waves make it easier to get more air. >> this is dangerous, and how long does it take to get to do this? >> well, i have been paddling for just over 10 year, and so it depends how much time and effort you put into it. >> nick, how much physical work do you have to do to prepare your body to do this? what is the regiment like? >> well, you'd be surprised you work out every now and then and go for the bike, but mainly kayak alone and paddling alone will keep you in shape. >> do you have super big muscles? >> you want me to take the shirt off? >> well, okay. sure. >> i'm not opposed. >> oh, he is ripped. >> oh, y

area, called pembroke, ontario, right on the ottawa river, which divides quebec and ontario. and that -- my dad was a lutheran pastor there, and we'd eight children in the family. and it was kind of an odd thing today it sounds almost like child abuse, but at the time, in our family, at least with the six boys, it was assumed that when you were 14 or 15 years old, you were pretty much ready to go out on your own. and my parents were both u. s. citizens who had emigrated to canada. and nobody ever said it in so many words -- and i'm sure canadian viewers will not be glad to hear this, but they'll understand -- is that it was just taken for granted when we were children in our family that canada was for childhood. you know, and then when you grew up, you went to the states. and so -- well, i -- i knocked about. i went to nebraska, to a church-related lutheran school, where my sister and brother-in-law were. and i got kicked out of there, actually. they didn't tell me that you weren't supposed to have panty raids on a girls' dormitory or beer parties in the dormitory, and so for

when bickell was drafted to ottawa, their scout said he's a project. he could be great.d toews and toews and quick having a good conversation there. remember, toews dropped down and in to quick just before that play happened. >> now patrick sharp will take the draw. wins it for the kings. scuderi. hossa. sent it to the front. it was blocked. hossa. now kicked along the boards. taken here by leddy with a shot and a save made by quick an he holds it. >> this is all marion hossa behind the net. we talk about pavel datsyuk being maybe the best feet in the game. backside pressure, lifting sticks. that's hossa. scuderi. and then strong on the short side. think he's done yet? not yet. lifts the stick again and back to leddy. >> good quick stick speed by leddy. defensemen practice that every day in practice. got a good shot away. handzus and carter on this faceoff. handzus wins it cleanly. oduya. sends it back in deep. handzus. working against regehr. carter comes back to help out. angles it off the boards and penner. hjalmarsson. and came outside the zone and brought back in of

notifications to the owner of the canada post boxes, who happens to be the post master general in ottawa. they take them over a week period and canada post has a contractor go out. we have two kinds of mailboxes in canada. one are the drop boxes that the mail carriers use, those are the gray ones that are mostly getting tagged: other ones red letter boxes where you are dropping off your mail. those have been wrapped now and we found very little graffiti on the wrapped boxes. we are quite excited that canada post is going to be changes their policies with respect to the gray boxes and they are actually eliminating them. >> that's what we're seeing in arizona, utility companies, whether it's gas, cable, water, their boxes are being tagged. the utility companies making millions of dollars in profit don't want to pay for the clean up because they consider themselves the victim. >> we started serving tickets on them. >> interesting too as far as the boxes, the can canadian postal service has come up with a very busy deco design that is really, it looks very, very nice but if you put a tag on

. >> there have been grumblings out of ottawa in the past that canada should consider using the oil sandsous trade disputes with the united states. do you think america's taking canada for granted on the oil sands? >> absolutely, and i think most people--most canadians believe that. >> and the canadians have alternatives. the chinese, for example, are just dying to get a piece of the sandbox. >> i've been contacted personally by chinese delegates that want to get into the plant sites here and want to see and want to invest. >> what do you think about the chinese interest in the oil sands up in alberta? >> i first thought they were tire kickers, but i think they're serious buyers. [horn honks] >> and the millions of chinese who've moved from their bicycles to traffic jams are driving up the demand for oil. it's virtually insatiable, and the canadians want to step up production quickly. what's holding them back is labor, the shortage of it. >> we need another 100,000 people here in fort mcmurray. >> that's why one oil company has built a runway to fly workers daily from civilization to fort

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paula newton, cnn, ottawa. >>> more than 100,000 people have been evacuated, as paula newton just reportedjoins us on the phone now, nancy ruder. nancy, thanks for joining us. where are you right now? >> caller: i'm sitting in a dry house up high on a hill in calgary, alberta. >> so, explain to us what happened. the fire department showed up at your door to evacuate you? did you expect that? what did they tell you? >> caller: yeah, we actually got a call from a friend yesterday afternoon, saying oh, my gosh, are you guys all right? i heard that your community was one of, you know, a whole bunch that were being evacuated. and we said, oh, my goodness, we've heard nothing. nobody's come by and we checked online and the radio. then they said those communities that were affected by the flood in 2005, when we had the bad flooding, would need to be evacuated. so, we were kind of not so worried because we thought we were only two blocks from the smaller of the two rivers in calgary, the elbow river, and we didn't have any problem then. so, we thought, okay, this will be fine. but then, all of a s

encouraged exploration of new ways to a minister that may be easier than currently available such as ottawajectors ought. and is working to have priority assistance to manufacturers that working on assessing the new ways. to finish my remarks our society faces too important to challenges we must balance its efforts to reduce the abuse and addiction than harm families and to read douce access to paid medications and those that need them but we must act now. these are not simple issues and there are no easy answers. given the complexity of the issues surrounding this problem real and enduring progress will require a multifaceted approach for full engagement of all parties. fda continues to prioritize our efforts to combat this significant public health crisis and we welcome the opportunity to work with our federal partners and the advocacy organization, patients and families to turn the tide of the devastating epidemic. thank you for your continued interest and for the opportunity to testify regarding a the fda contributions on this issue. >> pitcher man now recognizes dr. clark for five minu

july with our canadian counterparts who will be here in washington, d.c., and i will be traveling to ottawa hopefully with a colleague from the food and drug administration to also work with them. >> so you'll be monitoring it >> absolutely. >> and would you be averse to providing periodic reports to this committee, to the staff of this committee? >> i'd be happy to. >> about that ongoing effort. let me just ask you, on your four pillars in your testimony, the last pillar was the enforcement piece, and, you know, despite the salacious nature of the covers of these magazines, i submit to you that i could help you locate the bad actors. they advertise. and it's not hard to pick them out of a crowd. so i hope you're focusing some efforts on disrupting the supply chain, because, again, these people are not shy about telling you who they are and where they are, their hours of operation, their prices and a discount coupon. >> you can see, certainly, broward county, florida, was the kind of epicenter of this. they had 90 of the top 100 prescribing and dispensing -- >> this magazine is from broward

same thing in the european capitals and ottawa, too, is here any concerted nato option there? >> well, i don't have a list of options to review for you since they are all on the table. i guess you could assume that any option you might ask me about within reason and logic would be on the table. what we tend to talk about here are what actions might be taken in response to assessments, more corroborated evidence about the use of chemical weapons, for example. what actions might be taken with regards to further assistance to the syrian opposition given the circumstances in syria. and given the assessments we constantly make about what the impact of a decision like that would be. weigh in t going to on specific options and whether they are being considered because as the president has said, with a caveat on the exception of -- option of putting boots on the ground, the president has said all options remain on the table. >> there are discussions also, are there, with -- >> we talked about this issue with our allies and partners all the time because it is of such great concern to t

and i will be traveling to ottawa, hopefully with a colleague from the fda, to work with them. >> would you be averse to providing. e-work ports to this committee? periodic reports to this committee? the last pillar was the enforcement piece. ofpite the salacious nature the covers of these magazine, i submit to you i can help you .ocate the bad actors they advertise. it is not hard to pick them out or crowd. i i hope you are focusing some efforts on disrupting the supply chain because these people are not shy about telling you who they are and where they are and their hours of operation, their prices. >> you can see in florida, that was the epicenter of this. they had 90 of the top 100 dispensing facilities. >> i was not going to identify the question, but since you did, are there efforts to make over- the-counter preparation, like an inhaler? >> we think it is important to understand how best to use it. much largerng as a group of federal agencies to understand the best uses of it as a regulator. my job in that discussion is not it should be used and instead to lay out the regulatory p