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VOCM News Evening Update October 6th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Zach Power. Police have arrested a second person in
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  Speaker 1: connection with an assault in Torbay last Thursday. RNC cordoned
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  Speaker 1: off parts of Motion Drive following reports that a woman
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  Speaker 1: received non-life-threatening injuries the day prior. That search warrant resulted
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  Speaker 1: in the seizure of two long guns and ammunition. Police
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  Speaker 1: have now arrested a second suspect in connection with that incident.
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  Speaker 1: 26-year-old Cody Kareen, who is facing several charges, including careless
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  Speaker 1: use of a firearm, assault, and uttering threats to cause
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  Speaker 1: bodily harm or death. A full list of charges against
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  Speaker 1: Kareen can be found at VOCM.com, and he was held
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  Speaker 1: to appear in court. The Federal Minister of Industry believes
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  Speaker 1: that the Churchill Falls Agreement with Hydro-Quebec will go ahead
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  Speaker 1: after the sovereign artiste Cabardic-Bacquois won their election last night.
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  Speaker 1: The PEQ formed a minority government with the governing CAAC
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  Speaker 1: being wiped off the map. Premier-elect Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon has
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  Speaker 1: stated that he will look at the deal and bring
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  Speaker 1: it back to the Quebec legislature for a vote. Melanie
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  Speaker 1: Joly believes that the deal is good for both sides.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to Churchill Fall, it is the biggest
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  Speaker 2: investment in clean energy in the entire history of North America.
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  Speaker 2: And it is also in the interest of the government
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  Speaker 2: of Quebec because it will also... allow more power to
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  Speaker 2: develop the economic potential of different industries in Quebec.
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  Speaker 1: The town of CBS says it understands residents' frustration over
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  Speaker 1: what it calls a lack of progress on the Seal
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  Speaker 1: Cove bridge replacement and says that the contractor returned to
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  Speaker 1: the site yesterday to prepare for drilling operations. Last month,
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  Speaker 1: the town issued an update saying that the contractor was
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  Speaker 1: waiting on the arrival of equipment to the site to
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  Speaker 1: complete necessary drilling. The town state said it's taken steps
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  Speaker 1: to require the contractor to resume and complete the work
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  Speaker 1: without further delay. Seal Cove Grocery and Liquor Express has
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  Speaker 1: recently raised concerns about the construction, saying that sales are
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  Speaker 1: down 30% and it could force them to close. The
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  Speaker 1: list of electronics that you can recycle in Newfoundland and
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  Speaker 1: Labrador has expanded. Office equipment, e-scooters, handheld power tools, and
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  Speaker 1: toys have been added to the provincial program. They joined
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  Speaker 1: a list that already includes several household appliances, such as
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  Speaker 1: vacuums and microwaves. Michelle Marley, who is the Newfoundland and
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  Speaker 1: Labrador head of Recycle My Electronics, says that many of
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  Speaker 1: the items contain valuable metals and plastics that can be
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  Speaker 1: extracted to reuse in other devices.
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  Speaker 3: There's actually a lot of really good things in those
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  Speaker 3: electronics that can be recycled and used again. Again, you've
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  Speaker 3: heard a lot today about the circular economy. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: things like glass, plastic, steel, some of the bits and pieces,
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  Speaker 3: like there's a lot of silver, there's gold, there's so
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  Speaker 3: many good things in there that can be extracted and
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  Speaker 3: put back into the manufacturing supply chain. So that's really important.
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  Speaker 1: Natu News. I'm Zach Power.