CTV National News | Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024: FIFA World Cup in Canada; Where is Mansour Shouman?

FIFA announces Canada will host 13 games during the 2026 World Cup, five former world junior players will appear in an Ontario courtroom to face sexual assault charges and a B.C. woman hopes to inspire others to cross goals off their bucket lists.

CTV National News: FIFA World Cup in Canada (0:00)
CTV National News: WJC sexual assault trial
CTV National News: U.S, Middle East tensions
CTV National News: Where is Mansour Shouman?
CTV National News: Maritimes buried in snow
CTV National News: N.S. fighting climate change
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Tonight Canada scores 13 games in soccer’s biggest Tournament Toronto and Vancouver we are Canada welcoming the World Cup it’s just going to fill the streets with so much energy American air strikes in the Middle East with a blunt warning from Washington this was the beginning of our response plus a Canadian company’s contentious plan to fight climate

Change early results that I would call a huge success and resistance we have drawn A Line in the Sand CTV national news with Heather buts good evening as this country prepares to welcome the world’s best soccer players FIFA revealed today Canada will host 13 games during the 2026 World Cup officials rolled out the road map for one of the biggest sporting events on the planet giving the massive

Fan base added excitement knowing when and where to watch matches will be held in 16 host cities within Canada the US and Mexico 48 teams will take part over five weeks a historic moment for this country as the men’s soccer showcase comes to Canada for the first time ctv’s

KL carali reports will be held in Toronto and with that the beautiful game made a historical stride in Canada the first ever FIFA World Cup match on Canadian soil will be in Toronto we’ve had a lot of success in that Stadium especially in the World Cup qualifying so we’re super excited Toronto’s

Unofficial Ambassador making the pitch to the world please feel free to visit Canada we are the nicest people you will ever meet in your life both Toronto and Vancouver will host five group stage matches Team Canada will have its first match in Toronto on June 12th and then

Two in Vancouver on June 18th and the 24th both cities will host a knockout round game July 2nd with Vancouver being home to an additional match in the next round I’ve already got my name on the uh waight list we’ll bring more people to the game you’ll uh

Bat the game more hosting the games is expected to cost Toronto roughly $300 million the city and Province committing roughly onethird Ottawa hasn’t chipped in yet but the payoff expected to produce over 300 million in economic impact create 3,300 jobs and bring in tens of thousands of visitors beo field

Says it’s added more than 177,000 new seats making the new capacity limit over 45,000 for Vancouver the price tag was expected to be up to 260 million the city has implemented a hotel tax until 2030 expected to offset most of the costs BC Place will have a limit of over

54,000 fans they’re estimating that’s a billion dollars probably into um into British Columbia so this is something that’s going to be just a fabulous opportunity and although there’s a lot of buzz in Canada it’s actually the us that’ll have much of the spot light during The Knockout rounds with the

Quarter and semi-finals taking place in US cities and the World Cup Final in New Jersey on July 19th Heather thanks KL a high-profile investigation involving Canadian hockey players enters its next phase tomorrow lawyers for the five former World Juniors will be in a London Ontario courtroom a first appearance for

Sexual assault charges that have garnered International attention and put a spotlight on the Sports culture ctv’s Heather Wright is in London with what to expect the first appearan is set for tomorrow inside this London onario Courthouse the players are not expected to attend instead their lawyers will

Speak on their behalf this is really just a checkin it’s an opportunity for everybody to uh say whether or not they have councel it’s an opportunity for the crown to indicate how long uh the disclosure process will take each player faces one count of sexual assaults while New Jersey devil Center Michael McLoud

Faces an additional charge of being party to the offense Carter Hart Alex feron Cal foot Dylan Dubay and McLoud all surrendered to London Police late last month and have since been released they’re accused of sexually assaulting a young woman in a hotel room following a hockey Canada Gala in 2018 a case that

Was closed by the London Police Service but reopened in 2022 following outrage that a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim was quietly settled by hockey Canada what happened between February 19 and uh this month is really unclear and I think that uh as the case unfolds the

Public will find out more and more about uh in fact in fact what led to these charges and what led to the delay London Police will hold a news conference tomorrow where those questions are likely to be asked the players maintain their innocence and their lawyers say they will vigorously fight these charges

This is not representative these allegations of what takes place in our game NHL commissioner Gary bman was asked about this case during the All-Star Weekend saying the league will wait until the judicial process is over to make any decisions some believe the NHL should take a stronger stance I’ve

Yet to see anyone make any clear statement um saying we will not tolerate this and there will be repercussions the court appearance tomorrow will likely be brief it’s not expected that any pleas will be entered and it could still be some time until a trial date is set

Heather ctv’s Heather Wright in London the US is vowing more retaliation for the deaths of American soldiers in the Middle East at the same time the US uses Force it’s also trying diplomacy as the Secretary of State travels to the region again ctv’s Jeremy Chiron reports after a second round of strikes

Against Iranian back Targets in as many days today the US is vowing further action in the Middle East we intend to take additional strikes uh and additional action to continue to send a clear message that the United States will respond when our forces are attacked or our people are killed us and

UK military forces struck dozens of Targets in Yemen Saturday night and hit weapons they say the houthis were preparing to launch against ships in the Red Sea the mission carried out with the help of Allied countries including Canada just a day after American forces hit Targets in Iraq and Syria in

Response to the killing of three US soldiers We are continuing to go after their ability uh to hit us uh and in the case of the houthis to hit international shipping we are trying to take away their capability make it harder for them to throw these punches uh again well we

Think we’ve achieved good effects in in both rounds of these strikes us officials maintain they are looking to deescalate tensions in the region despite accusations from adversaries they are fueling the conflict houthi supporters rallied in Yemen today the rebel group has vowed retaliation and says the attacks won’t deter them from supporting Palestinians

In Gaza where today they are sorting through the rubble after the latest round of strikes Israel has promised the war won’t end until Hamas is destroyed prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet today 17 of hamas’s 24 combat battalions have been dismantled US Secretary of State Anthony

Blinkin began his fifth visit to the Middle East since the War Began today expected to make diplomatic efforts towards the release of remaining hostages and an extended humanitarian pause Heather Jeremy thank you it’s in the war torn Enclave of Gaza that a Palestinian Canadian journalist Mansour Shuman has gone missing today people

Gathered in Toronto to bring awareness to the issue and call for help in his safe return ctv’s Beth mcel has more free free Palestine on Toronto streets as calls for the conflict between Israel and Hamas to end rages on the safety of Mansour showman a 39-year-old Palestinian Canadian husband and father

In Gaza may hang in the balance disappearing two weeks ago his supporters say we just done a kind of a doo do do right now Family spokesperson zahira Samar is a friend and colleague who had been communicating with showman daily as he created updates for social media about the situation on the ground

In Gaza sumar says days after losing contact there was more troubling news um and that’s when we got hold of the three eyewitnesses that said on Tuesday when he was making his way from Han Unice to Rafa um we saw him being arrested by IDF no one at Global affairs Canada or in

The government says showman was arrested by Israeli forces his wife and children previously left Gaza taking refuge in Abu Dhabi where his mother lives sick with worry she made this audio recording played for the crowd please please don’t stop forget Mansour speak about him every day every day every day speak

About about him counselor officials at Global Affairs as well as in the field have been in touch with the family the minister s talked to the family this week and have assured the family that we are doing everything we can to find out this person’s whereabouts a statement

From Global Affairs Canada says due to privacy considerations no further information can be disclosed while Showman’s supporters and mother wait she can’t function she can’t sleep to learn where he is tonight Global Affairs Canada says conselor officials continue to monitor the situation closely and remain in direct contact with family

Members Heather Beth thank you for this a brutal winter storm is hammering Eastern Canada where police in a number of communities are urging people to stay home in Halifax drifting snow is causing poor visibility forcing delays and cancellations for air Travelers schools are already planning to be closed

Tomorrow some parts of Nova Scotia have received more than 80 cm of snow this weekend on hard hit Cape r Island a local state of emergency has been declared with the mayor calling on provincial and federal governments for help ctv’s Jesse Thomas reports there’s so much snow that’s fallen in parts of

Cape Breton this weekend that it’s trapping some people inside their homes like this video in glaz Bay from Pam leader that shows heavy snow sliding from the rooftop closing them off from the outside most certainly yeah there are people who have not been able to get

Out they might not be physically able to get out and actually remove snow um so their doors like I said the snow is up more than halfway on my patio doors you can’t just push that open it’s part of the reason the cape Bretton Regional Municipal Council voted early this

Afternoon to declare a local state of emergency we’ve never seen this much sow snow in such a short period of time and I think that’s really problematic right that’s that’s what we’re dealing with here it was so fast so Furious and it’s not done unfortunately snow has

Blanketed the region and the scenes are unbelievable like this front lawn flamingo in Cox Heath near Sydney River that has disappeared right before our eyes fully submerged under the snow and although there’s not many people outside and on the roads McDougall says the local state of emergency gives the

Municipality authority to limit travel in the region they want people to stay home being home is the safest place that you can be we need to give space to our Public Works departments to do the important work of of Road clearing and there’s other Incredible video from around the maritimes like this scene

From anig ganish where David mcginness has been digging out this weekend he says he’s never seen this much snow parts of Pei were digging out too the stalled out snow system is really leaving its Mark cbm’s mayor says they alone don’t have the resources to deal with the sheer amount of snow and

Blowing snow it’s why they’re seeking support from upper levels of government uh so the province federal government anybody who can help um we will we will need all hands on deck Jesse Thomas CTV News Halifax a powerful storm is crushing California sparking extremely rare hurricane force wind warnings for the

State dangerous Winds of up to 160 kilometers an hour pounding some areas trees toppled over on cars as More Than A month’s worth of rain is expected to fall in the next few days while along the Nevada border people in the mountains are bracing for what could add

Up to nearly 2 m of snow coming up up an unusual plan to fight climate change it’s basically an open experiment with the environment one Canadian company’s Drop in the Ocean the future sight of an electric vehicle battery plant near Montreal is sparking controversy demonstrators are concerned construction will destroy wetlands and wooded areas housing endangered species people are demanding an independent environmental assessment that will set a really bad precedent in Quebec if the biggest industrial project in Quebec

History doesn’t go through a proper independent environmental assessment work on the North bolt site has resumed after a superior court judge rejected an injunction to stop demolition Canadians will be hearing a lot more about the experimental work of a Nova Scotia based company with an unusual plan to fight climate change the

Bold idea looks to help the ocean better absorb carbon dioxide but it’s also facing scrutiny and opposition from some groups who question its safety Avis favro reports over the last few months a Canadian company has flushed over 278 tons of this magnesium hydroxide from a mine in China into the Waters of Halifax

Harbor it’s part of a study by planetary Technologies to see if this Canadian firm can fight climate change using the oceans without harming water and Wildlife all the preliminary results say that there was Zero Effect on any ecosystem uh within within the harbor um and so that I would call a huge success

It’s a form of what’s called Marine geoengineering called ocean alkalinity enhancement that magnesium is a laxative but it also dissolves in the waters to make them less acidic allowing them to naturally soak up more carbon from the atmosphere here there’s been little public discussion in Canada about the

Tests of this technology but when the company launched a similar study in the southwest coast of England it encountered this today we have drawn A Line in the Sand huge resistance from local communities and environmentalists the more we learned the more worried we got we were worried

About the feasibility of this as a solution to climate change we were worried about the water chemistry we were worried about uh the impacts on the ecosystem and we were worried about the fact that there’s no governance nationally or internationally really for this in response the UK government

Commissioned a report due out soon to evaluate the firm’s testing plans meanwhile other scientists have urged this technology should be pursued with caution it’s basically an open experiment with the environment you’ve got no way of um of controlling things or or or um or switching things back if

Uh if it doesn’t go to plan and members of the international green organization announced they intend to regulate projects like this due to the potential for effects that are widespread long lasting or severe but the company insists it is moving slowly and carefully with Scientists from Dal

Housey University there is no way that we know enough to go and do this at you know tremendous scale but nobody’s Pro proposing that we do that I think right now what we’re proposing is that we do it at very small scales and that we

Learn learn and that we go along and we move forward the company meanwhile says it will be expanding its water testing to other yet unnamed Canadian communities this year with most people unaware of the controversies around this new technology Avis faos CV news Toronto trillion dooll Tech Empire

Facebook turned 20 years old today the social media giant has connected people online and made mountains of money from advertising on February 4th 20 4 founder Mark Zuckerberg launched the facebook.com from his Harvard dorm the platform exploded in popularity growing to three billion active users Facebook now Under the Umbrella company meta has

Encountered numerous privacy and user safety issues just days ago Zuckerberg was grilled by US senators to improve child safety still ahead a dating service of sorts the program looking to line you up with a cuddly compan compon who enjoys long walks and Kibble shelter dogs need love or at the very least a date now Winnipeg’s Animal Services branch has delivered a unique program to help ctv’s Manitoba bureau chief Jill mcashan explains maybe you’re looking for a brown-eyed Beauty sit a good listener or the quiet type Winn a pig’s animal

Services has a doggy date for you the doggy date program is super cool it’s fun and it’s Innovative participants can either take the dog for a day a weekend or they can take it up to a week designed for people who can’t accommodate a dog permanently but love

To spend time with them daters can choose from one of the available shelter dogs from posted photos or request to be matched by animal services staff so I’m just going to ask you a few questions applicants are screened and then they decide the date and people can take

These dogs to home they can take them to their workplace green spaces today Mac is the lucky dog he has been chosen for a date which comes with the essentials a collar leash food and a flashy adop me vest and this dog is in good hands Tera

Chatel has two shelter dogs at home one she found through this program Bo I actually brought home on a doggy date and never returned him a lot of the misconceptions is that you know ALS shelter dogs have uh behavioral issues and things like that and I’ve spent like

A lot of time with a lot of different shelter dogs and like that isn’t the case I think that if you would when you meet a dog give an opportunity to let a dog decompress and you know see their demeanor and their personality they have like so much to give Animal Services

Doesn’t track how many dates turn to adoptions but through the doggy date photos submitted on their social media channels they see the inspiration the cost of this this date a deposit which is the same as the adoption fee which could turn a day into forever Jill mcashan CTV News

Winnipeg now that might be something you want to put on your list after the break an inspiring account of committing to Crossing things off your List we leave you tonight with a bucket list of sorts the ever evolving agenda of things you want to do in life tonight ctv’s Adam sawatsky shares the Journey of a Vancouver Island woman hoping to inspire others to not only write things down but cross them off the list for as

Long as she can recall Sharon Steven Smith has been compelled to make lists write everything down that you want to do in your life doesn’t matter how ridiculous it is from childhood through to her early 20s Sharon’s list of life goals was relatively consistent ride a motorcycle go to Africa work with the

Primates and one day I’m going to read a children’s book while she worked as a nurse for a few years before becoming a realtor for almost 40 Sharon always returned to her list like when she bought a motorcycle sight unseen didn’t even have a license never even sat on a

Motorcycle yet 3 weeks later Sharon had taken lessons earned her license and rode from Vancouver Island to a major bike rally in South Dakota so it was very un usual to see a woman in those days and the the trucks and everything would go by me and they they’d give me

The thumbs up like there’s a crazy woman on a bike Sharon crossed Africa off her list three times after returning to University as a mature student partaking in archaeological digs and inspiring a marriage proposal the chief wanted to buy me for three camels and four goats I

Said first of all is that a good price or not before I commit as for studying primates Sharon traveled to Borneo to do research with the world’s leading ape expert and befriended a rescuer rangang named Herby oh he was a real character we had lots of fun now 20 years after

Crossing offshore sailing with Calico cats offer list the Expedition has inspired the now 80-year-old to cross off write a children’s book too you better get crack in here you haven’t got that many more years left that’s how I look at things but Sharon is also sharing runy and Trudy’s Grand sailing

Adventure with the public with the hope that publish in the true story will inspire readers of all ages to embrace the unfamiliar and live a courageous life we have one life let’s make the best we can and no matter what’s on your list Sharon says just commit to do it

The great thing is once you check the list off and you think okay next Adam sansy CTV News view Royal just start that list that’s our show for this evening I’m Heather Bots for all of us at CTV national news thank you for watching Omar and Sandy are back

Tomorrow and I’ll see you again on Friday good Night