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VOCM Morning Update July 17 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. You're getting less bang for your buck
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  Speaker 1: at the gas station this morning. Gas is up another
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  Speaker 1: two point six cents, putting the price over two dollars
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  Speaker 1: a leter in most areas. A bit of a break
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  Speaker 1: for those who rely on diesel as prices on the
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  Speaker 1: island have been lowered by three point two cents and
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  Speaker 1: two and a half cents in Labrador West for a
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  Speaker 1: soil decreases by about two point seven cents, while stove
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  Speaker 1: oil is down by almost two cents. There's little to
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  Speaker 1: no change in the price of propane. A twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: year old woman has been charged with resisting arrest and
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  Speaker 1: assaulting a police officer after a recent incident in Happy Valley.
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  Speaker 1: Goose Bay. Police responded to reports of an unwonted person
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  Speaker 1: making threats at a home in the community around eight
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  Speaker 1: o'clock Wednesday evening. Police located the woman nearby. She reportedly
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  Speaker 1: refused to comply with the officer's demands and physically assaulted
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  Speaker 1: an officer. The accused is facing three counts of assault
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  Speaker 1: a police officer and one count of resisting arrest. The
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  Speaker 1: federal government has announced six hundred and seven million dollars
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  Speaker 1: for a national action Plan to end gender base violence.
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  Speaker 1: Federal Minister Rishie Valdez made the announcement yesterday along with
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  Speaker 1: her provincial counterparts, including an L Minister Leela Evans. Evans
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  Speaker 1: says she expects this province to receive thirteen million dollars
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  Speaker 1: based on the last round of funding and hopes to
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  Speaker 1: use that money to support programs across the province.
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  Speaker 2: Do we have a lot of programming in place that
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  Speaker 2: we want to be able to continue to support and
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  Speaker 2: also too, is we actually as part of our declaration
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  Speaker 2: of gender based violence as an epidemic, we do have
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  Speaker 2: this task force has just started and we want the
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  Speaker 2: task force to work to identify the supports the programming
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  Speaker 2: that we as a province needs to put in place.
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  Speaker 1: The federal government also announced seven hundred thousand dollars to
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  Speaker 1: support a crisis support hotline. The provincial government says it's
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  Speaker 1: spending some thirty one million dollars to build three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty four new affordable rental units. Government made the
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  Speaker 1: announcement yesterday, saying the units will be built at thirty
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  Speaker 1: three sites across the province, with some of the funding
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  Speaker 1: coming from an unrealistic project back in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Housing Minister Jody Wall says the units will be through
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  Speaker 1: NL Housing and will be built in eighteen to thirty months.
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  Speaker 3: So we have some units that based on forty two
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  Speaker 3: thousand or less, we have some based on thirty eight
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  Speaker 3: thousand or less. So this is this is important for
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  Speaker 3: the people to province for the families who are working
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  Speaker 3: struggling at times. This this will certainly give them that
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  Speaker 3: hope and optimism that these new units will be available
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  Speaker 3: and for that in that price range.
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  Speaker 1: A family from Boat Harbor on the Buren Peninsula have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of local cabin owners to thank after running
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  Speaker 1: into trouble while on a recent excursion in the Long
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  Speaker 1: Harbor area. Brad Dente's wife Laura slipped on a rock
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  Speaker 1: and broke her leg as the family set up to
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  Speaker 1: have a lunch near the local swimming hole and waterfall.
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  Speaker 1: Dentee's son sought help at a local cabin, but they
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  Speaker 1: still needed to get Laura out of the area in
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  Speaker 1: order for first responders to reach her. He says, local
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  Speaker 1: cabin owners couldn't do enough to help keep Laura comfortable.
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  Speaker 4: And we got blankets and the restore he had back
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  Speaker 4: against the cliffs. One of the gentlemen who he's eighty seven,
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  Speaker 4: he left me, went to his dabin and got a
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  Speaker 4: pan and we put the when we filled it with
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  Speaker 4: water and kip filling and then towels and everything, put
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  Speaker 4: on her leg and put her foot into the pan
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  Speaker 4: of water and at Detroit to keep her because, like
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  Speaker 4: I say, our biggest fear was that she was going
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  Speaker 4: to pass out or our shacking, and so we knew
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  Speaker 4: we had to get her red to sawn her because
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  Speaker 4: we're all we're all dying with the heat.
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  Speaker 1: They're dead anyway, he says. They managed to get her
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  Speaker 1: across the water and a rubber dinghy supplied by another
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  Speaker 1: cabin owner, which they fashioned into a stretcher. Once they
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  Speaker 1: got to the other side.
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  Speaker 4: One of them actually actually walked across the pool. Was
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  Speaker 4: about probably fight for the ladder there, and after we
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  Speaker 4: gather into Robert Inky, one of the gentlemen actually walked
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  Speaker 4: across the pool with her gun and the Robert Ink
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  Speaker 4: herass to the other side where the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: scaffold and got her all. Obviously, it turned out to
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  Speaker 4: be a great stretcher actually, because otherwise I don't know
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  Speaker 4: how he would have got her across the.
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  Speaker 1: List that was there, so, he says, by the time
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  Speaker 1: they got to the road near English Harbor, the ambulance
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  Speaker 1: had not yet arrived, and they decided to put his
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  Speaker 1: wife in the RCMP cruiser for transport to the highway,
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  Speaker 1: where an ambulance showed up to take her to hospital
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  Speaker 1: in Clarenville. She was later transferred to Saint John's for
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  Speaker 1: follow up treatment. Dente calls the people who came out
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  Speaker 1: to help angels. Prime Minister Mark Kearney says Canada will
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  Speaker 1: share the Gordy Howbridge's net toll revenue with the US
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  Speaker 1: for the first fifteen years, but only after operating costs
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  Speaker 1: are deducted. Carney says those net revenues are expected to
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  Speaker 1: be minimal or even negative in the early years as
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  Speaker 1: traffic builds. After the fifteen year arrangement ends, Canada will
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  Speaker 1: keep all toll revenue until the bridge's full construction debt
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  Speaker 1: is repaid, after which revenue will be shared with Michigan
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  Speaker 1: under the original agreement. That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.