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VOCM Morning Update August 11th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. The final preparations are being made as
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  Speaker 1: the town of Ganderer gets ready to commemorate the twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifth anniversary of the nine to eleven terrorist attacks. Exactly
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  Speaker 1: one month from today, it will be twenty five years
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  Speaker 1: since the devastating attacks in New York which killed thousands
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  Speaker 1: and reduced the Twin Towers to rubble. The kindness shown
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  Speaker 1: to stranded passengers in the wake of that tragedy has
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  Speaker 1: made the town of Gander an important part of the
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  Speaker 1: history of nine to eleven. Two events are planned. There
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  Speaker 1: will be a commemorative event on September eleventh, but the
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  Speaker 1: night before a special event is being held at Gander
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  Speaker 1: International Airport. It's called Untold Stories and will feature first
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  Speaker 1: hand accounts from the plain people, as well as local
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  Speaker 1: residents and others. Mayor Percy Farwell says, there are so
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  Speaker 1: many stories to tell from nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 2: So we've found this on a number of ovacasions. Had
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  Speaker 2: an event where where we you know, stories that you
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  Speaker 2: perhaps haven't read in one of the books are seen
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  Speaker 2: in the musical or something. Because all these perspectives are
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  Speaker 2: there and they're all interesting and unique in their own way.
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  Speaker 2: So we provide that opportunity to have those lesser known
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  Speaker 2: stories told.
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  Speaker 1: Police say a bomb threat that briefly shut down part
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  Speaker 1: of downtown Halifax yesterday was directed at the United States
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  Speaker 1: Consulate Halifax. Police say the consulate received the threat on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday evening. Authorities found the suspect's vehicle yesterday morning in
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  Speaker 1: the Park eight at Purdy's Wharf, the same building in
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  Speaker 1: which the Consulate is located. Police then evacuated the parkade
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  Speaker 1: and several neighboring streets until they confirmed the vehicle did
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  Speaker 1: not pose a threat and took the fifty four year
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  Speaker 1: old suspect into custody. Officials with Equinox Gold have approved
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  Speaker 1: a plan to begin construction on an expansion to the
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  Speaker 1: company's Valentine gold mine in central Newfoundland. The company says
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  Speaker 1: the second phase expansion will increase production by about twenty
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  Speaker 1: five percent. The project. It includes an upgrade to the
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  Speaker 1: plant and more haul trucks to support higher production. Equinox
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  Speaker 1: says the expansion will cost about four hundred thirty six
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  Speaker 1: million dollars and construction will take twenty four months. As
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  Speaker 1: back to school shopping season ramps up, most parents are
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  Speaker 1: planning to purchase items in store as opposed online, according
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  Speaker 1: to annual research from the Retail Council of Canada, Beth
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  Speaker 1: Vegan Reports.
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  Speaker 3: The report indicates that back to school is a four
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  Speaker 3: point five billion dollar industry, driven by around six million
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  Speaker 3: K to twelve students across the country. They say that
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  Speaker 3: the average household spends between six hundred and seven hundred
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  Speaker 3: and fifty dollars per child when electronics are involved, and
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  Speaker 3: ninety nine percent of parents plan to do that shopping
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  Speaker 3: in store. The cost of living crunch is reflected in
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  Speaker 3: the numbers too, with eighty five percent of parents stating
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  Speaker 3: that they are actively seeking out deals when choosing where
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  Speaker 3: to shop. For many families, back to school planning is
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  Speaker 3: already well underway. By late July, sixty one percent of
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  Speaker 3: parents either already start at shopping or stated that they
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  Speaker 3: will be beginning soon. Those timelines also vary by the
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  Speaker 3: age of the students. The Council says parents of young
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  Speaker 3: children tend to begin their shopping earlier, while those shopping
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  Speaker 3: for high school students are more likely to do so
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  Speaker 3: without any advanced planning. Meanwhile, the report also notes the
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  Speaker 3: use of AI is creeping into how parents are planning
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  Speaker 3: for September. The Council states that forty four percent are
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  Speaker 3: either already using it or are very interested in using
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  Speaker 3: it to help build lists, compare prices, or to identify
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  Speaker 3: where to start.
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  Speaker 1: A partial solar eclipse will be visible from Atlantic Canada tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: depending on the weather. Edward Gleeson, a science educator, explains
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  Speaker 1: what a solar eclipse is and what makes it so special.
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  Speaker 4: We receive about one billionth of the Sun's energy to
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  Speaker 4: give it. Put in perspective, one second is one billion
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  Speaker 4: to thirty two years, and it's ninety three million miles
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  Speaker 4: away on average, and the Moon is much smaller, but
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  Speaker 4: it's still much larger than we can fathom. And just
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  Speaker 4: so happens that they're going to align in just such
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  Speaker 4: a way so that one will block another, sincely what's
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  Speaker 4: happening is the tapering shadow of the Moon is sweeping
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  Speaker 4: across Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Gleason stresses the importance of protective eyewear should anyone choose
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  Speaker 1: to go outside and catch the show. Proper protective glasses
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  Speaker 1: are necessary even during partial eclipses. He says, the only
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  Speaker 1: time it's safe to remove these glasses during an eclipse
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  Speaker 1: is during the moment of totality, which won't happen on
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  Speaker 1: this particular day. In fact, Wednesday's eclipse is only expected
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  Speaker 1: to be about fifty three percent of the way covered.
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  Speaker 1: This week's partial eclipse is expected to be viewed at
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  Speaker 1: its maximum around three point thirty The next total solar
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  Speaker 1: eclipse viewable from this province won't happen again until July seventeen, eighth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty two o five. That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.