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VOCM News Evening Update September 28th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local News Now, a VOCM News Update. I'm Zach Power.
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  Speaker 1: The RNC is requesting the public's help as it investigates
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  Speaker 1: a break-in in Paradise over the weekend. Police say a
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  Speaker 1: home on Paradise Road was broken into sometime between 10 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: on Friday and 11.45 Sunday night. A number of items
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  Speaker 1: were taken, including an antique shotgun, which is not believed
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  Speaker 1: to be working, and ammunition for a rifle. RNC are
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  Speaker 1: hoping to identify and speak to the driver of a
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  Speaker 1: red Hyundai Accent, which was seen in the area at
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  Speaker 1: the time. Anyone with information is asked to contact the
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  Speaker 1: RNC or Crime Stoppers. The owner of a CBS property
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  Speaker 1: that was destroyed by a fire Saturday night says the
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  Speaker 1: RNC and the town council were well aware of the
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  Speaker 1: home that had become a trap house. Jesse Cave told
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  Speaker 1: VOCM Open Line with Brian Callahan that he had rented
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  Speaker 1: the house to a friend, but the situation soon degenerated.
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  Speaker 1: leaving him with little to no recourse. He claims that
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  Speaker 1: he sought help from the RNC and the town of
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  Speaker 1: CBS after handing out notices of eviction that were all ignored.
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  Speaker 2: It's well known by the RNC and the town of
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  Speaker 2: CBS and everything as a trap house. Now, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I had nothing to do with the trap house. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I rented the house out to the tenants, right? We're
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  Speaker 2: good friends of mine. I rented it out and it
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  Speaker 2: all spiraled out of control.
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  Speaker 1: Green Party leader Elizabeth May believes that a recreational lobster fishery,
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  Speaker 1: similar to a summer food fishery for cod, could be
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  Speaker 1: sustainable for all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. May presented a petition
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  Speaker 1: in Ottawa last week calling on government to create what
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  Speaker 1: she describes as a conservation-based recreational lobster fishery. She says
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  Speaker 1: based on evidence she's seen so far, the science suggests
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  Speaker 1: that the local population could easily support a non-commercial fishery
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  Speaker 1: going forward.
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  Speaker 3: There have been studies that look at how healthy is
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  Speaker 3: the lobster population and could it sustain not a commercial
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  Speaker 3: fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador, but a recreational fishery or
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  Speaker 3: basically local non-commercial family consumption. And it certainly looks as
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  Speaker 3: though the current population of lobsters is strong enough for
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  Speaker 3: a conservation-based fishery of that kind.
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  Speaker 1: The province's fish processing sector is being hit hard by
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  Speaker 1: a labor crunch, and the problem is only expected to
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  Speaker 1: get worse as the population continues to age. Not according
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  Speaker 1: to a new report by Food Processing Skills Canada, which
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  Speaker 1: says that labor shortages are going to hit the local
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  Speaker 1: food processing sector harder than any other province. Kevin Elder,
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  Speaker 1: who's with the organization, says that government has significant work
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  Speaker 1: to do in order to recruit the necessary number of
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  Speaker 1: workers by 2035.
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  Speaker 4: And the hiring challenge that is there is massive, too.
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  Speaker 4: You're almost hiring everyone that's currently working in the sector
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  Speaker 4: again in another nine years, which is a huge ask
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  Speaker 4: for the industry. For Newfoundland and Labrador, they had the
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  Speaker 4: highest percentage of their food and beverage manufacturing workforce that's
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  Speaker 4: over 55, which was 41%, and no other province is
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  Speaker 4: above 33%. And they also had the fewest people under
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  Speaker 4: 25 working in the sector at only 9.5%, and no
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  Speaker 4: other province was in the single digit.
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  Speaker 1: And that's your news. I'm Zach Power.