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VOCM News Morning Update October 22nd · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local News Now, a VOCM News Update.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Zach Power. What's being called the first phase of
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  Speaker 2: the provincial government's new affordability measures will be announced later
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  Speaker 2: this morning. While government does not specifically say what kind
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  Speaker 2: of relief measures it will provide, the event is taking
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  Speaker 2: place at the Enel Hydro Building. Premier Tony Wakeham and
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  Speaker 2: Finance Minister Craig Party will provide those details at 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: VOCM news will be there and it will be broadcast
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  Speaker 2: live across the VOCM Big Land FM radio network. The
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  Speaker 2: price of all fuels is down slightly this morning. Gas
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  Speaker 2: drops by about three and a half cents per liter.
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  Speaker 2: Diesel is down by half a cent per liter. Both
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  Speaker 2: furnace and stove oil also fell by half a cent
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  Speaker 2: at midnight. The next fuel adjustment is set for midnight tonight.
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  Speaker 2: The RCMP is warning the public of a new scam
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  Speaker 2: making its rounds where fraudsters are pretending to be police officers.
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  Speaker 2: Police in St. John's have received calls from people who
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  Speaker 2: say that they've received calls from spoof numbers that look
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  Speaker 2: like legitimate RCMP detachments. The scammers claim the person is
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  Speaker 2: a victim of a financial crime and attempt to obtain
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  Speaker 2: their banking information. They also say that the victims should
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  Speaker 2: send their details to for their banking information to an RCMP.gov
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  Speaker 2: email address, which looks similar to the official one used
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  Speaker 2: by Mounties. RCMP reminds the public that officers will never
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  Speaker 2: ask for money over the phone, and you should never
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  Speaker 2: give out your personal information to unsolicited callers or emails.
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  Speaker 2: If you believe that you've fallen victim to a scam
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  Speaker 2: or this scam, you are asked to contact your local
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  Speaker 2: police detachment. A 39-year-old man who was wanted by police
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  Speaker 2: was arrested and charged. following a traffic stop in Bunyans
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  Speaker 2: Cove Tuesday night. Claire and Valera CMP set up what
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  Speaker 2: they're calling a proactive checkpoint on the main road where
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  Speaker 2: they stopped a man who was driving with an expired
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  Speaker 2: driver's license. The man, who was subject to an active warrant,
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  Speaker 2: was taken to custody without incident. He's scheduled to appear
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  Speaker 2: in court in December. The Registered Nurses Union will be
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  Speaker 2: holding another vote for its union executive after information was
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  Speaker 2: brought forward to its membership about problems identified in the
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  Speaker 2: last union executive election. VOCM's Brian Medour has more.
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  Speaker 3: Stephanie Windsor was elected as the new president of the
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  Speaker 3: RNU in July. Kimberly Parsons elected Vice President, Tony Moores
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  Speaker 3: the new Secretary-Treasurer. The union, which is holding its biannual
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  Speaker 3: convention in Cornerbrook this week, says new information came to
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  Speaker 3: light showing that a record number of people voted who
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  Speaker 3: were not eligible to vote or who were eligible but
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  Speaker 3: didn't get a chance to vote. The RNU says that's
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  Speaker 3: because membership records were not accurately transferred during the 2023
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  Speaker 3: amalgamation of four separate health authorities into one. The union
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  Speaker 3: says it dug into the information and was able to
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  Speaker 3: confirm the problem. A motion was brought forward at the
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  Speaker 3: convention to do a re-vote, which was accepted by an
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  Speaker 3: overwhelming majority. A new election for the union executive will
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  Speaker 3: be held at the end of November. Brian Medore, VOCM,
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  Speaker 3: Local News Now.
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  Speaker 2: Are to blame for a drop in profits for its
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  Speaker 2: 2025-26 fiscal year. ALC's profits were down by nearly $ 5
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  Speaker 2: million from the previous year. Despite the drop, ALC did
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  Speaker 2: see a $ 492 million profit last year. CEO Dallas McCready
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  Speaker 2: says that more people are turning away from traditional video
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  Speaker 2: lottery terminals, a decline of nearly $ 10 million. He says
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  Speaker 2: less foot traffic in bars and restaurants are to blame.
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  Speaker 1: The economic challenges, people, I talked to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: bar and restaurant owners, and, you know, it's not just
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  Speaker 1: that the video lottery play is down, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: visits to their businesses are down. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: economic impact is certainly having an impact on the video
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  Speaker 1: lottery business the most. And then there's some of that
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  Speaker 1: play is just shifting to the online play. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we obviously get some of that, but, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it also goes to the illegal operators.
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  Speaker 2: The woman in charge of review of salaries for MHAs
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  Speaker 2: says that high pay raises across the country led to
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  Speaker 2: a decision to recommend a salary increase for politicians. The
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  Speaker 2: Member's Compensation Review Committee recommended that the base salary of
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  Speaker 2: MHAs be set at $ 117, 000, a nearly $ 22, 000 increase. Heather
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  Speaker 2: Jacobs says in some cases, legislatures increase their provincial salaries
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  Speaker 2: by almost $ 50, 000. And Newfoundland and Labrador continues to lag
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  Speaker 2: behind other jurisdictions.
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  Speaker 4: All Canadian jurisdictions have increased the salaries of their legislatures
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  Speaker 4: since 2024. In particular, Nova Scotia and Ontario, both of
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  Speaker 4: whom had frozen the salaries of their legislatures. In 2025,
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  Speaker 4: Nova Scotia increased the salary from $ 89, 235 to $ 115, 000. Ontario
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  Speaker 4: increased its salary from $ 116, 550 to $ 160, 000. That's your news.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Zach Power.