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VOCM News Midday Update September 17th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Zach Power. Environment Canada has issued a special weather
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  Speaker 1: statement for the weekend with strong winds expected for St. John's,
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  Speaker 1: the northern portion of the Avalon, the northeast coast, and Clarenville.
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  Speaker 1: Winds could get as high as 110 kilometers an hour
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  Speaker 1: and even higher in some areas. Winds exceeding 119 kilometers
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  Speaker 1: an hour are considered to be a hurricane force. Environment
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  Speaker 1: Canada meteorologist Allison Shepard says that the weather system will
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  Speaker 1: bring some rain, but the real story will be the wind.
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  Speaker 2: Many areas could see winds, you know, up to or
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  Speaker 2: exceeding 100 kilometers per hour. And of course, with all
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  Speaker 2: the trees still having their leaves, that can definitely cause
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  Speaker 2: some damage. So people who still have lots of things
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  Speaker 2: outside might want to consider putting that away because those
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  Speaker 2: winds definitely could cause some damage.
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Mark Carney received sustained applause during a speech
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  Speaker 1: at the European Union in France this morning. He welcomed
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  Speaker 1: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's invitation for Canada
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  Speaker 1: to become the EU's first associate member.
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  Speaker 3: Just as dominance is the arrogance of the hegemon, perfection
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  Speaker 3: is the enemy of the good. The economics of this
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  Speaker 3: are clear. The leverage of the powerful in an exploitive
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  Speaker 3: relationship collapses well before complete independence is achieved because diversity
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  Speaker 3: confers advantage. The objective is not self-sufficiency, it's collective resilience.
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  Speaker 1: The Baltic Three is another step closer to finally being
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  Speaker 1: removed from Cedar Cove. The bulk carrier ran aground under
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  Speaker 1: the cliffs in February of 2025 during a storm. Last week,
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  Speaker 1: a large portion of the ship was removed and brought
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  Speaker 1: to shore will be cut up into pieces. Bruce English
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  Speaker 1: of the Canadian Coast Guard says that watching the ship
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  Speaker 1: get dismantled has been a very eye-opening experience.
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  Speaker 4: It's simply amazing. It's just simply amazing. You can almost
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  Speaker 4: go down one side of the vessel and look across
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  Speaker 4: the ship now, and the stern piece has separated from
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  Speaker 4: the bow. Where the crinkle or the buckling was, that
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  Speaker 4: happened over the weekend, but it's all still chained together.
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  Speaker 4: It's still chained towards the shoreline, so it's still coming
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  Speaker 4: as one piece, but that little bit of buckling has
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  Speaker 4: separated it.
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  Speaker 1: So far, some 5,700 tons have been removed, which equates
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  Speaker 1: to about 50%. A new study suggests that diverting intoxicated
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  Speaker 1: people from emergency rooms to a safe recovery place can
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  Speaker 1: help them free up valuable health care resources and offer
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  Speaker 1: more sustainable care. The study, published in the Canadian Journal
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  Speaker 1: of Public Health this week, evaluated the first two years
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  Speaker 1: of a non-medical stabilization and connection center in Toronto launched
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  Speaker 1: in 2022. Dr. Kate Heyman is the medical director of
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  Speaker 1: the emergency department at Toronto General Hospital. and says that
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  Speaker 1: the center helps them focus on caring for people, who
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  Speaker 1: many of them are experiencing severe overdoses, as well as
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  Speaker 1: other kinds of emergencies like strokes and heart attacks.
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  Speaker 2: The stabilization center means that those beds are available for
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  Speaker 2: other patients who are sicker and who need to be
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  Speaker 2: seen in the ED.
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  Speaker 1: The center was created to redirect people intoxicated by alcohol
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  Speaker 1: or opioids who don't normally require medical attention out of
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  Speaker 1: the ER to a 10-bed facility with support workers. And
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  Speaker 1: that's your news. I'm Zach Power.