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VOCM Morning Update August 14 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. Ten children died and many more were
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  Speaker 1: injured in Canada last year as the result of crashes
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  Speaker 1: involving e bikes and east scooters, a startling statistic that's
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  Speaker 1: prompting governments to take action. The provincial government is seeking
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  Speaker 1: feedback from the public as it prepares to draft legislative
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  Speaker 1: amendments to the Highway Traffic Act to address the proliferation
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  Speaker 1: of the machines, many of which are virtually silent and
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  Speaker 1: can travel at high speeds. Government Services Minister Mike Goosney
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  Speaker 1: says government's aim is to make sure users, particularly young people,
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  Speaker 1: are safe.
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  Speaker 2: We really want to bring in some tools for the
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  Speaker 2: enforcement side to be alien act so you know that
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  Speaker 2: people are protected.
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  Speaker 1: M and L Vice President Isabelle Fry says it's become
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  Speaker 1: a growing problem in many municipalities right now.
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  Speaker 2: There are some shared use trails. There's the Waterford River
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  Speaker 2: Trail that goes all the way from downtown Saint John's
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  Speaker 2: all the way through Paradise through Mount Pearl to go.
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  Speaker 2: But with this technology now, this is happening so fast
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  Speaker 2: that we're still trying to catch up in terms of
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  Speaker 2: regulations because on these shared use trails. We also have
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  Speaker 2: walkers and pedestrians, and when you have a bike that's
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  Speaker 2: going pretty fast on the trail, it can be scary.
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  Speaker 2: So it's all a matter of trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: where we are, what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: A dal Housie political scientist believes it was in everyone's
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  Speaker 1: best interest to get a renegotiated Churchill Falls agreement before
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  Speaker 1: the next provincial election in Quebec. Lori Turnbull says the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of a Quebec election is unknown and there is
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  Speaker 1: too much uncertainty. If a deal is not finalized before then.
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  Speaker 3: A minority government is possible, a key Q minority is
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  Speaker 3: definitely possible, and so then that just kind of throws
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  Speaker 3: everything up in the air. So I think it was
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  Speaker 3: definitely in everyone's interest to get this sorted out now
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  Speaker 3: people to do the same.
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  Speaker 1: Ontario's premier is drawing a line on data centers, saying
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  Speaker 1: companies behind the AI boom will have to pay their
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  Speaker 1: own way for electricity. Doug Ford says while the industry
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  Speaker 1: is vital to the future economy, Ontario won't hand out
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  Speaker 1: incentives or let new facilities become a burden on other ratepayers.
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  Speaker 1: The Independent electricity system operator says requests from data center
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  Speaker 1: projects have doubled since March, reaching roughly seven thousand megawatts,
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  Speaker 1: more than a quarter of Ontario's peak demands. US federal
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  Speaker 1: investigators say broken engine parts shattered a window on a
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  Speaker 1: plane shortly after takeoff in Greece last month. The incident,
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  Speaker 1: involving European budget carrier Ryanair, caused a sixty one year
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  Speaker 1: old man's head to be sucked into the hole in
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  Speaker 1: the fuselage before his fellow passengers pulled him to safety.
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  Speaker 1: The National Transportation Safety Board says in its report release
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  Speaker 1: yesterday that parks flew out of the engine after a
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  Speaker 1: fan blade broke the window and damaged the fuselage in
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  Speaker 1: several other places. It says it found bird remains inside
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  Speaker 1: the engine, suggesting the plane may have struck birds during
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  Speaker 1: take off. That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.