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VOCM News Evening Update October 28th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Zach Power. RNC have arrested and charged a 28-year-old
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  Speaker 1: man with sexual assault after a cab driver alerted police
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  Speaker 1: to an altercation in his taxi. RNC were contacted on
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  Speaker 1: Monday and the pair involved in the interaction had left
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  Speaker 1: the scene before police had arrived. It was determined that
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  Speaker 1: a sexual assault had occurred and the Child Abuse and
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  Speaker 1: Sexual Assault Unit was called in to investigate. RNC say
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  Speaker 1: officers became aware of another sexual assault involving the same
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  Speaker 1: suspect that had occurred a week earlier. The accused has
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  Speaker 1: been charged with two counts of sexual assault, one count
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  Speaker 1: each of sexual interference, obtaining sexual service for a person
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  Speaker 1: under the age of 18, and fraudulently obtaining transportation. The
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  Speaker 1: MHA for St. John's East Kitty Vitty was ejected from
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  Speaker 1: the House of Assembly following a testy exchange between NDP
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  Speaker 1: leader Jim Dean and Housing Minister Chris Tibbs. Timm was
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  Speaker 1: questioning government's commitment to housing and homelessness and suggested that
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  Speaker 1: the formation of an all-party committee to find solution was
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  Speaker 1: the answer. That notion rejected by Tibbs leading to a
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  Speaker 1: heat exchange and an accusation of harassment that led to
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  Speaker 1: a point of privilege from the NDP leader.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say this, we hope to get some
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  Speaker 2: more respect. From the NDP, from the party across the way,
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  Speaker 2: they've shown Newfoundland and Labrador housing people in the past.
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  Speaker 2: We've had some disrespect shown to the people of Newfoundland
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  Speaker 2: and Labrador housing, the people that work, that do the
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  Speaker 2: work on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Minister Timps responded to the NDP saying that they were
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  Speaker 1: mistreating his staff, saying that they were entitled. Din rose
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  Speaker 1: on a point of privilege following a point of order
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  Speaker 1: from government house leader Lloyd Parrott seeking the withdrawal of
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  Speaker 1: the accusation from Sheila O'Leary. That minister was speaking untruths.
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  Speaker 1: She refused and was ejected from the legislature by Speaker
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  Speaker 1: Paul Lane. I'm just asking you to retract the statement
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  Speaker 1: that you specifically said that the minister just spoke on truths.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I heard you say.
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  Speaker 1: I will not retract the statement. Residents, advocates, and supporters
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  Speaker 1: held a rally outside Confederation Building over the lunch hour
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  Speaker 1: to send a message to government to keep Horizons 106 open.
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  Speaker 1: Government will be shutting down the facility in December, leaving
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  Speaker 1: residents uncertain about what's ahead. Rally organizer Mary Wall spoke
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  Speaker 1: to dozens who turned out, saying that the for-profit system
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  Speaker 1: does not work.
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  Speaker 2: We're promised a transition to safer housing, to better housing,
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  Speaker 2: that this was a transitionary period, and that they.
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  Speaker 1: Would go, and now they're going into a place that
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  Speaker 1: is for-profit.
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  Speaker 2: It's for profit, and let's face it, for profit prisons,
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  Speaker 2: for profit private shelters, they just have not been working.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, a 25-year-old man is dead, and two young
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  Speaker 1: men are in hospital with serious injuries following a single-vehicle
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  Speaker 1: crash near South Brook last week. Emergency responders were called
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  Speaker 1: to the scene on the TCH around 10.15 Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: One passenger was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver
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  Speaker 1: and a second passenger were taken to hospital. with what
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  Speaker 1: are being described as serious and possibly life-altering injuries. The
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  Speaker 1: investigation is still ongoing. And that's your news. I'm Zach Power.