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VOCM News Morning Update October 16th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. RNC has laid 45 additional sex-related charges
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  Speaker 1: against a man accused in an investigation involving dozens of
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  Speaker 1: young women and girls on the Northeast Avalon. A publication
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  Speaker 1: ban is in place to protect the victims. Linda Swain reports.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation was launched in February following a report involving
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  Speaker 2: a young person at a home in the metro region,
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  Speaker 2: which led to charges against a 45-year-old man. RNC say
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  Speaker 2: electronic devices were seized and further investigation identified another 15
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  Speaker 2: young people and five adult victims. Investigators laid 45 additional
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  Speaker 2: charges against the accused this week, including 15 counts of voyeurism,
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  Speaker 2: 14 counts of possession of material depicting child sexual exploitation
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  Speaker 2: and sexual interference, sexual assault, and being a householder permitting
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  Speaker 2: sexual activity. A full list of charges can be found
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  Speaker 2: at vocm.com.
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  Speaker 1: The premier says more information on promised cost of living
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  Speaker 1: measures will be released over the next few weeks. Here's
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  Speaker 1: VOCM's Richard Duggan.
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  Speaker 3: The province has raked in hundreds of millions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: in excess revenue from oil this year, and they have
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  Speaker 3: indicated that the plan is to use it to provide
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  Speaker 3: relief on cost of living pressures. Tony Wakeham wouldn't provide
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  Speaker 3: any specifics on what measures the province is looking at,
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  Speaker 3: only to.
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  Speaker 4: Say, The Minister of Finance likes to talk about many levers,
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  Speaker 4: and I think we'll pull.
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  Speaker 1: A few of them.
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  Speaker 3: Wakeham states that the measures will go hand-in-hand with the
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  Speaker 3: fall fiscal update, and spoke vaguely when asked if the
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  Speaker 3: measures will be rolled out before or after the House
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  Speaker 3: of Assembly opens on October 26th. I think that you'll
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  Speaker 3: see some things before and some things during and some
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  Speaker 3: things after.
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  Speaker 1: Ottawa's Atlantic Fisheries Fund has been renewed for another five years.
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  Speaker 1: Over $ 300 million has been set aside for the funding stream,
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  Speaker 1: which will go towards projects in each of the Atlantic provinces.
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  Speaker 1: It is cost-shared with 60% of the money coming from
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  Speaker 1: the federal government and the rest from the provinces. Ottawa
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  Speaker 1: says eligible projects must fall within four pillars, market diversification, innovation, infrastructure,
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  Speaker 1: and science partnerships. Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson says the
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  Speaker 1: funding will help harvesters diversify their catch to adjust to
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  Speaker 1: the ongoing trade war with the United States.
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  Speaker 4: So very much it is tailored to the realities of
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  Speaker 4: the various aspects of the sector. And so, yes, for
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  Speaker 4: some harvesters, it's going to need to be at a
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  Speaker 4: very basic level in terms of how do I cope
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  Speaker 4: with this? How do I adjust to this reality? In
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  Speaker 4: other instances, it will be much more of expanding on
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  Speaker 4: work that they're already doing.
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  Speaker 1: A food analytics expert says a cyber attack like the
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  Speaker 1: one that recently targeted grocery store chains in France is
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  Speaker 1: possible here. Some 700 food retailers in that country were
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  Speaker 1: struck earlier this week by hackers who remotely turned up
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  Speaker 1: the heat in thousands of coolers and freezers, causing significant
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  Speaker 1: food losses and even starting fires. Sylvain Charlebois of the
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  Speaker 1: Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University says... Similar cyber attacks
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  Speaker 1: have already occurred in this country, including one affecting Sobeys
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  Speaker 1: in 2022.
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  Speaker 5: Most of our grocers have actually been cyber attacked already. Sobeys,
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  Speaker 5: I think, was the most known case. It happened two
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  Speaker 5: years ago. And it is my understanding that they had
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  Speaker 5: to pay a $ 25 million ransom on top of that.
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  Speaker 5: So it is a real threat to our grocers and
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  Speaker 5: not just our grocers, but the entire food supply chain.
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  Speaker 1: Charlebois suspects that the incidents in France were precipitated by
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  Speaker 1: a ransom demand that the grocers refused to pay. He
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  Speaker 1: says grocers typically have a number of systems in place
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  Speaker 1: to protect their inventory, but there are still vulnerabilities.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't want to scare anybody, but food safety-wise,
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  Speaker 5: there's also some concerns there. I mean, they could have actually,
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  Speaker 5: you know, bring up the temperature to 50 degrees and
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  Speaker 5: bring it down again. after four or five hours, allowing
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  Speaker 5: bacteria to culture, and that could actually compromise the safety
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  Speaker 5: of many products, making people sick without the grocer even knowing.
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  Speaker 5: So there's lots of things that can actually happen that
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  Speaker 5: can actually represent a risk for not only grocers, but
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  Speaker 5: for consumers.
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  Speaker 1: Millions of Canadians will be crossing their fingers later tonight
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  Speaker 1: as the Lotto Max jackpot sits at a record $ 90 million.
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  Speaker 1: It's the most money on the table since last year
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  Speaker 1: when a pair of friends from Ontario won over $ 80 million.
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  Speaker 3: On the draw.
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  Speaker 1: On top of the big jackpot, there are 18 $ 1
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  Speaker 1: million prizes plus chances to win on the tag and twist.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets can be purchased at local retailers, online at ALC.ca
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  Speaker 1: or via the ALC app. Ontario has issued another $ 22, 500
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  Speaker 1: in fines against SeatGeek Canada for alleged violations of the
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  Speaker 1: province's ticket resale rules. The penalties include $ 15, 000 for allegedly
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  Speaker 1: exceeding face value and $ 7, 500 for failing to disclose a
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  Speaker 1: ticket's total purchase price. That's your news, I'm Sarah Strickland.