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VOCM News Update Late-Day June 16th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm zach Power Government has filed a request to intervene
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  Speaker 1: on a hearing on the decision of Marine Atlantic as
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  Speaker 1: an essential service. Government says it respects collective bargaining process. However,
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  Speaker 1: it is concerned that a long standing designation in Marine
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic as an essential service could be reconsidered by the
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  Speaker 1: Canada Industrial Relations Board. Marinelnik is the island's link to
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  Speaker 1: the mainland and is considered part of the Trans Canada Highway.
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  Speaker 1: The province says that it's vital for transportation of food,
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  Speaker 1: fuel and medical supplies. It says the essential service designation
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  Speaker 1: and if it's changed, would fundamentally affect long term reliability
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  Speaker 1: of the service on the island. The number of opioid
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  Speaker 1: related deaths send new from landin Labrador has dropped to
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  Speaker 1: its lowest levels since twenty nineteen. Data from Stats Canada
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  Speaker 1: shows that there was twenty four opioid related deaths in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, down from forty seven in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: four and thirty seven and twenty twenty three. The number
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  Speaker 1: of deaths per capita were among the lowest in Canada,
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  Speaker 1: with pi yukon the Northwest Territory all recording smaller numbers
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  Speaker 1: the people who visited a hospital for opioid poisoning rows
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  Speaker 1: slightly from fifty nine to sixty one. The province's new
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  Speaker 1: Child and Youth I Have a Kid is very concerned
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  Speaker 1: with the recent revelation that a local child was targeted
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  Speaker 1: and coherce by an extremist group online through a popular
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  Speaker 1: gaming platform. RNC issued a warning the parents after connecting
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  Speaker 1: two recent calls the capital city is downtown to a
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  Speaker 1: group seven sixty four, an online group that recruits and
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  Speaker 1: targets young people to hurt themselves. Wilma mckinnis, a social
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  Speaker 1: worker by profession, has worked with the Child in Youth
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  Speaker 1: AVOCAT for the past eight years and says it's important
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  Speaker 1: for children to understand that they have rights and to
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  Speaker 1: be informed about potential dangers, no.
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  Speaker 2: Matter what the threat looks like in terms, if it's online,
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  Speaker 2: if it's a perpetrator. We need to arm our children
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  Speaker 2: with the best knowledge possible, you know, and such a
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  Speaker 2: big piece of that is them knowing that they're that
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  Speaker 2: they have rights, so they have a right to have
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  Speaker 2: a voice and to be protected and to be cared
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  Speaker 2: for right and not to be not to be harmed.
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  Speaker 2: So you know that's such a strong base that we
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  Speaker 2: that we need them to know no matter what comes
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  Speaker 2: on the horizon.
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  Speaker 1: And your Recruitment campaign has been launched to help address
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  Speaker 1: urgent need for more foster families. GMRID says that they're
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  Speaker 1: currently some nine hundred children and young people in care
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  Speaker 1: across the province and a critical need for people to
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  Speaker 1: step up to provide safe, stable and supportive homes. Minister
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  Speaker 1: Jodi Wall launched a You Foster a Future campaign to
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  Speaker 1: raise awareness. He says increasing compensation for foster families should
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  Speaker 1: help attract more caring homes.
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  Speaker 3: We realize the important role that foster families play in
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  Speaker 3: our province to children in youth and care. We can't
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  Speaker 3: expect them to do that on a budget from twelve
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  Speaker 3: years ago, So it was it was one of the
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  Speaker 3: first things that we discussed when it came to the department.
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  Speaker 3: It was a you know, it was a there was
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  Speaker 3: a need there and I'm happy to have that filled
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  Speaker 3: and to make a difference into the foster families that
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  Speaker 3: currently are there.
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  Speaker 1: Not your news Power