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VOCM News Afternoon Update October 9th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local news now, a VOCM News Update. I'm Sarah Strickland.
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  Speaker 1: A Bonavista man has been charged after allegedly hitting speeds
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  Speaker 1: of up to 200 kilometers an hour on the Trans-Canada Highway.
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  Speaker 1: RCMP clocked the 59-year-old at twice the posted speed limit
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  Speaker 1: while he was racing eastbound near Long Harbor around 11.30
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. His license was suspended and his pickup was
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  Speaker 1: seized and impounded. Speeds of up to 200 kilometers an
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  Speaker 1: hour mean that your vehicle is covering more than 55
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  Speaker 1: meters every second. That does not allow appropriate reaction time
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  Speaker 1: in the event of a road hazard as your brain
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  Speaker 1: cannot react fast enough to take safe evasive action. RCMP
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  Speaker 1: say the impact force is also dramatically increased in the
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  Speaker 1: event of a collision. The mass eviction of an apartment
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  Speaker 1: building on Brazel Street in St. John's due to serious
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  Speaker 1: life safety deficiencies is putting added strain on an already
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  Speaker 1: tight emergency housing situation in the capital city. A dozen
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  Speaker 1: or so rent-paying tenants have to find somewhere else to
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  Speaker 1: go after the city shut down 91 Brazel Street, formerly
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  Speaker 1: known as Harborview Apartments. That's a concern for Doug Pawson
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  Speaker 1: of N Homelessness St. John's. He says the building has
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  Speaker 1: been a serious concern for some time. He says there
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  Speaker 1: are many more people who had been living there who
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  Speaker 1: are being preyed upon by a criminal element which is
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  Speaker 1: operating out of the building. Pawson is particularly worried that
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  Speaker 1: an encampment will emerge as the criminal activity that had
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  Speaker 1: been taking place there shifts elsewhere.
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  Speaker 2: But it won't be what we saw a few years ago.
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  Speaker 2: It won't be a protest encampment. It'll be one that's
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  Speaker 2: underpinned by a lot of violence and criminality. And I
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  Speaker 2: see a lot of potential for exploitation, trafficking of weapons, drugs,
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  Speaker 2: and humans. And this has played out around the country.
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  Speaker 2: So this is something that we know is a real threat.
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  Speaker 2: The other likelihood of this is, again, shifting the activity
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  Speaker 2: of criminals out of that building just disperses it around
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  Speaker 2: the city.
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  Speaker 1: Canada's economy posted a second consecutive month of job losses
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  Speaker 1: in September, pushing up the unemployment rate and offsetting what
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  Speaker 1: had been a hot streak for the labor market earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the year. Here's Michelle Zetikian.
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  Speaker 3: Statistics Canada says the economy lost 68,000 positions in September,
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  Speaker 3: coming off a loss of 42,000 in August. The unemployment
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  Speaker 3: rate ticked higher to 6.5%. Before the back-to-back losses, employers
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  Speaker 3: had collectively added 181,000 jobs from April through July. CIBC
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  Speaker 3: Economics says the weakness in the jobs data might be
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  Speaker 3: more of a reflection of data volatility than the impact
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  Speaker 3: of new U.S. tariffs, but it does support its call
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  Speaker 3: for the Bank of Canada to continue holding its key
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  Speaker 3: interest rate for the rest of the year. Michelle Zedekian,
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  Speaker 3: the Canadian Press.
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  Speaker 1: The rate in Newfoundland and Labrador was 9.1 last month
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  Speaker 1: compared to 8.6 in August. That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.