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VOCM News Morning Update September 25th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local news now, a VOCM News Update.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sarah Strickland. It's a mix of up and down
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to the PUB's latest pricing adjustment. Gas
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  Speaker 2: is up 4.7 cents per liter. Diesel drops by 6.7
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  Speaker 2: cents on the island and nearly 4 cents in Labrador West.
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  Speaker 2: Furnace oil decreases by nearly 6 cents, while stove oil
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  Speaker 2: in Lab West is down by roughly 2.5. Propane used
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  Speaker 2: for home heating is up by about two cents per liter.
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  Speaker 2: Bikers and drivers participated in a drive past Ascension Collegiate
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  Speaker 2: in Bay Roberts yesterday in support of a student who
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  Speaker 2: was assaulted in a video that was shared to social media.
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  Speaker 2: Two students have been charged in connection with the incident,
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  Speaker 2: and RCMP say more charges are possible as the investigation continues.
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  Speaker 2: Traffic honked their horns and revved their engines as they
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  Speaker 2: passed by the school yesterday afternoon. For years, the NLTA
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  Speaker 2: has been raising concerns about increased violence in schools, calling
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  Speaker 2: for greater staffing and resources to address the problem. Area
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  Speaker 2: MHA and justice critic Pam Parsons says, government needs to
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  Speaker 2: do more to support schools and school communities.
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  Speaker 1: We do know, we've heard for quite some time, that
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  Speaker 1: classroom sizes are getting too large. So the more that
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  Speaker 1: we can do to have these conversations, because safety is paramount.
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  Speaker 1: everybody deserves to work and grow and play and learn
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  Speaker 1: in an environment where they are safe, where they're respected,
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  Speaker 1: where they're included, and where they can thrive ultimately. And
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  Speaker 1: I mean, violence has no place in the classroom, in
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  Speaker 1: the hallway, in a bathroom, in the workplace, in the home,
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  Speaker 1: on the playground, you name it. So the more that
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  Speaker 1: we can do to enhance safety of everybody involved, students, teachers, staff,
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  Speaker 1: school community, residents as a whole, it's something that we
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  Speaker 1: can always be improving at. And I'm calling on Minister
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  Speaker 1: Dean to sit down and to figure out exactly how
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  Speaker 1: we can improve conditions in all schools across Newfoundland and Labrador.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers Association
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  Speaker 2: says the violent assault shared on social media is just
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  Speaker 2: one of an average of 23 incidents happening every day.
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  Speaker 2: Dale Lamb raised concerns about the overall level of violence
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  Speaker 2: shortly after the RCMP and Bay Roberts arrested two young
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  Speaker 2: people in connection with the video. Lamb says violent incidents
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  Speaker 2: are becoming more prevalent within the school system and teachers
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  Speaker 2: and principals are increasingly having to rely on police intervention.
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  Speaker 3: Overall, the trend would be in our communities to see
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  Speaker 3: an increase in RCMP or RNC involvement because they're the
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  Speaker 3: forces that are equipped. to handle the situations and to
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  Speaker 3: know what the repercussions should be for these situations. This
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  Speaker 3: past year, 2025, there were an average of 23 violent
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  Speaker 3: incidents per day here in our Newfoundland and Labrador schools.
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  Speaker 2: The province says the tender for previously announced highway twinning
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  Speaker 2: projects on the island is expected to be issued within
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  Speaker 2: the coming weeks. Linda Swain has more for VOCM News.
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  Speaker 4: Government was responding to a recent online petition launched by
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  Speaker 4: the sister of a young woman killed in a highway
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  Speaker 4: crash last spring. Faith Power's sister Erica and her boyfriend
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  Speaker 4: Kerry Sargent passed away in a collision in central Newfoundland
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  Speaker 4: in April. The tragedy prompted Faith to launch an online
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  Speaker 4: petition asking government to extend the divided highway right across
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  Speaker 4: the island. The province's highways have taken a terrible toll
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  Speaker 4: this year with numerous serious and fatal crashes. In December
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  Speaker 4: of last year, government announced that it was abandoning the
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  Speaker 4: previous P3 model for a traditional procurement model. The province
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  Speaker 4: says the tender to twin 15 kilometres of the Trans-Canada
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  Speaker 4: Highway at Bishops Falls and an extension to the divided
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  Speaker 4: highway 40 kilometres beyond Whitburn will be issued in the
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  Speaker 4: coming weeks. The first RFP for those projects was originally
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  Speaker 4: issued last summer.
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  Speaker 2: The provincial government is launching a new way to renew
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  Speaker 2: the photo on your driver's license online. Government Services Minister
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  Speaker 2: Lloyd Parrott will be in Clarenville today to launch the
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  Speaker 2: new photo renewal service, which will be done through MyGovNL.
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  Speaker 2: The launch is happening at Bakery 56 at 2. A
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  Speaker 2: new report about the Tumblr Ridge shooting is raising questions
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  Speaker 2: about what information ChatGPT allegedly provided to the teen accused
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  Speaker 2: in the attack. An article in Mother Jones magazine says
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  Speaker 2: 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar received harmful information and found ways
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  Speaker 2: to get around the chatbot's safety restrictions. B.C. Attorney General
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  Speaker 2: Nikki Sharma says the allegations are deeply concerning and strengthen
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  Speaker 2: the case for mandatory safeguards on artificial intelligence. American country
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  Speaker 2: music star Riley Green is set to perform at the
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  Speaker 2: halftime show of this year's Grey Cup. The Canadian Football
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  Speaker 2: League says Sarah McLachlan will sing the national anthem. She'll
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  Speaker 2: perform while the Canadian Forces Snowbirds return for their last
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  Speaker 2: official flypast before the fleet retires. The Grey Cup is
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  Speaker 2: scheduled for November 15th in Calgary. That's your news. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Sarah Strickland.