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VOCM News Morning Update September 21st · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. Prime Minister Mark Kearney and French President
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  Speaker 1: Emmanuel Macron are off to the United Nations this week
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  Speaker 1: to further explore areas in which to collaborate following a
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  Speaker 1: meeting yesterday just a few kilometers off the south coast
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  Speaker 1: of Newfoundland. Carney's visit to St. Pierre-Miquelon was the first
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  Speaker 1: of any Canadian Prime Minister, and each of the leaders
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  Speaker 1: spoke warmly of the cultural and historic ties between the
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  Speaker 1: two countries. Carney and Macron have directed their space agencies,
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  Speaker 1: defense industries, and ministries to develop and share common space infrastructure,
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  Speaker 1: including launch systems and ground reception and control infrastructure. Ottawa
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  Speaker 1: and the province have already pledged funding to NordSpace to
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  Speaker 1: help develop a spaceport in nearby St. Lawrence. A new
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  Speaker 1: strategic partnership was also launched between the Canadian Chamber of
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  Speaker 1: Commerce and French Chamber to build greater business ties and
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  Speaker 1: trade between the two countries.
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  Speaker 2: I want to salute the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and
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  Speaker 2: the Chamber de Commerce et d'Industrie France who are embarking
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  Speaker 2: on a strategic partnership to bring our business communities closer
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  Speaker 2: together and to serve our citizens better.
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  Speaker 1: Newfoundland and Labrador's Serious Incident Response Team, which investigates complaints
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  Speaker 1: against police, has dismissed a case in which a woman
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  Speaker 1: claims she was injured while in police custody in Labrador.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Medour reports.
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  Speaker 3: The woman was removed from her residence in the Happy
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  Speaker 3: Valley Goose Bay area last March to the holding cells
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  Speaker 3: where she was combative. She admitted in her claim that
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  Speaker 3: she had consumed alcohol and cannabis prior to her interaction
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  Speaker 3: with the RCMP officers. and was unable to clearly recall
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  Speaker 3: all of the circumstances that led to police intervention. She
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  Speaker 3: told CERT-NL that she was upset and intoxicated and had
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  Speaker 3: resisted officers' attempts to place her in a cell. She
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  Speaker 3: said she was hanging onto a cell door when an
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  Speaker 3: officer kicked her in the back of the leg, causing
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  Speaker 3: her knee to dislocate and resulting in significant pain. Moreover,
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  Speaker 3: she said the officer laughed and that RCMP declined to
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  Speaker 3: call for emergency medical assistance. Stephen Ring, the director of
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  Speaker 3: the agency, found that the video recordings and witness testimony
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  Speaker 3: did not support the allegations that she was kicked or
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  Speaker 3: that officers laughed at her. He also found that there
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  Speaker 3: was no delay in obtaining medical attention.
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  Speaker 1: The RNC is expected to give local car meets some
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  Speaker 1: added attention following a shocking incident last Thursday on Kenmount Road.
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  Speaker 1: A red Corvette was caught on video doing donuts in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of traffic on Kenmount Road, coming close to
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  Speaker 1: colliding with a number of other vehicles. The incident prompted St.
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  Speaker 1: John's City Councilor Tom Davis to call for a greater
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  Speaker 1: police presence at local car meets. RNC Constable Steph Myers
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  Speaker 1: says public safety is of utmost concern.
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  Speaker 4: We'll give those groups some extra attention just to ensure
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  Speaker 4: public safety, just given the recent driving behaviours twice alone
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  Speaker 4: that we saw from that. However, there are people that
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  Speaker 4: abide by the road, so we're not deterring people from
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  Speaker 4: enjoying their vehicles and meeting up. It's the dangerous driving
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  Speaker 4: behaviours and putting the public at risk that we're concerned with.
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  Speaker 1: The owner of a local trucking company says he'll be
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  Speaker 1: forced to raise prices if oil remains high and the
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  Speaker 1: federal excise tax returns. Ottawa extended its tax relief earlier
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  Speaker 1: this month to early in the new year in an
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  Speaker 1: effort to keep costs down. Akita Equipment General Manager Alex
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  Speaker 1: Driscoll says his company has already had to raise fees
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  Speaker 1: over the past year to keep up with the soaring
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  Speaker 1: cost of fuel. Analysts are warning that prices will climb
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  Speaker 1: even higher due to continued limited supply. Driscoll says like
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  Speaker 1: most businesses, as costs rise, so does the amount they charge.
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  Speaker 5: As this war continued to progress, We've had to slightly
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  Speaker 5: increase and marginally. Do I think that the price has
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  Speaker 5: impacted everything out there? Consumer goods? Absolutely. And I think
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  Speaker 5: that if it continues to escalate, we're going to continue
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  Speaker 5: to see more prices continue to go up.
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  Speaker 1: Google has joined other AI industry giants reporting a recent
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  Speaker 1: security incident involving a new model. The company says Gemini
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  Speaker 1: got unauthorized access to the internet, hacking three real websites
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  Speaker 1: during a test. However, they say the model stopped itself
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  Speaker 1: each time. It's not the first so-called breakout incident from
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  Speaker 1: an AI model. Last week, OpenAI reported six new incidents
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  Speaker 1: and said it was a disturbing and concerning behavior. Ed
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  Speaker 1: Sheeran opened his concert in Philadelphia Saturday with a message
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  Speaker 1: about Gaza during controversy swirling around supporting acts withdrawing from
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  Speaker 1: his latest tour. Sheeran began the concert on stage alone
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  Speaker 1: with no opener and was later joined by other musicians.
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  Speaker 1: The English singer-songwriter said he wants his music and shows
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  Speaker 1: to be about unity and humanity, not politics. Several opening
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  Speaker 1: acts departed from his loop tour after rapper Macklemore was
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  Speaker 1: dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments on stage. That's your news,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland.