Latest / VOCM On Demand / VOCM Afternoon Update August 22
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- 0:00Speaker 1: At eleven thirty. We have sunshine and metro temperature now
- 0:03Speaker 1: twenty degrees. I'm Brian Madore. Police are looking for information
- 0:07Speaker 1: on a woman who's gone missing in eastern Newfoundland. Jill Bidgood,
- 0:12Speaker 1: who's sixty three and is originally from Ontario, was last
- 0:16Speaker 1: seen at her home on Maine Road in Mayberley in
- 0:19Speaker 1: August thirteenth. She's five feet nine inches tall, weighs about
- 0:22Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty pounds and has short and very curly,
- 0:26Speaker 1: dark hair. Botavista RCMP say friends told them she often
- 0:30Speaker 1: hikes the trail between Maberly and Little Catalina. Anyone with
- 0:35Speaker 1: information asks to contact the RCMP at four six, eight
- 0:39Speaker 1: seven three three three.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Well.
- 0:42Speaker 1: After a lot of hoopla trade deal between Canada and
- 0:44Speaker 1: the United States was imminent, it all fell through at
- 0:48Speaker 1: the last minute. That means the terraces are on and
- 0:51Speaker 1: Canada will impose matching tariffs. PM Mark Kearney expected to
- 0:56Speaker 1: have more to say on the matter in the next
- 0:57Speaker 1: day or two, but he says government will will introduce
- 1:00Speaker 1: additional measures to support Canadian workers and businesses, building on
- 1:05Speaker 1: the nearly twenty five billion in support provided over the
- 1:08Speaker 1: past eighteen months. Carney adds that our economy is creating
- 1:13Speaker 1: jobs at four times the rate of the United States.
- 1:16Speaker 1: In Canada's exports to non US markets are on track
- 1:20Speaker 1: to double over the next decade. OURCMP looking for electronic
- 1:25Speaker 1: footage after several vehicles in Grand Falls, Windsor were broken
- 1:28Speaker 1: into Thursday and Friday. The vehicles were parked on McCarthy Street,
- 1:33Speaker 1: Ivanyze Road and pedal drive. Items taken include a wallet
- 1:38Speaker 1: and a credit card. Anyone with surveillance asked to contact
- 1:41Speaker 1: our CMP in the town. Four eight nine twenty one
- 1:45Speaker 1: twenty one. Provincial MDP leader Jim Dinn says he'd rather
- 1:50Speaker 1: see American alcohol kept off the shells in Newfoundland Labrador,
- 1:55Speaker 1: stating that a bottle of US liquor will not see
- 1:58Speaker 1: the inside of his home as long long as Donald
- 2:00Speaker 1: Trump is president. Dinn says, well he understands Premier Tony
- 2:04Speaker 1: Wakem's decision to go along with Ottawa on the matter.
- 2:08Speaker 1: He would fully support the premier if he chose to
- 2:10Speaker 1: keep the ban in place.
- 2:13Speaker 2: No, we shouldn't bring if he said, we're not going
- 2:15Speaker 2: to bring it back by all means. But I would
- 2:18Speaker 2: rather see all the shelves. But in the interest if
- 2:21Speaker 2: you follow the negotiations. No, there's no clear path, and
- 2:25Speaker 2: I understand it the difficulty of this situation, but I
- 2:28Speaker 2: will tell you my feelings, Sir. I will not be
- 2:31Speaker 2: buying it. At the same time, I suspect there will
- 2:33Speaker 2: still be a lot of American alcohol left on the shells.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Police have arrested a sixty year old man for drunk
- 2:40Speaker 1: driving after he was caught riding his all terrain vehicle
- 2:43Speaker 1: through Harbor Grace without any lights on. RCMP nabbed him
- 2:47Speaker 1: at about ten thirty Thursday night on Kelly's Road. They
- 2:51Speaker 1: took him to the detachment where he failed the breathalyzer.
- 2:53Speaker 1: His driver's license is gone, as is the machine at
- 2:57Speaker 1: your news. I'm Brian Madore.