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VOCM Mid-Day Update August 18 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. One person was taken a hospital with
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  Speaker 1: undetermined injuries following a two vehicle crash at Monday Pond
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  Speaker 1: Road and Columbus Drive yesterday afternoon. Rncsay the call came
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  Speaker 1: in around twenty after four. An suv ended up on
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  Speaker 1: its side in the middle of Monday Pond Road, while
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  Speaker 1: a second vehicle came to arrest against a nearby home,
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  Speaker 1: causing damage to the structure. The collision caused some traffic
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  Speaker 1: delays in the area. The cause of the crash is
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  Speaker 1: under investigation. It was deja vu for former Premier Roger Grimes,
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  Speaker 1: who was among the many dignitaries on hand for yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: Churchill Falls announcement. Grimes was involved in negotiations with Quebec
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  Speaker 1: on the development of Goal Island more than two decades ago.
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  Speaker 1: He says yesterday's announcement was the fourth related to Churchill
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  Speaker 1: Falls in Goal Island since he started his political career
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine. Premier Brian Tobin and Quebec's Lucien
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  Speaker 1: Bouchard paid a visit to Churchill Falls in nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight to announce a framework on expanded development at Churchill Falls.
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  Speaker 1: That was followed by an agreement in principle reach between
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  Speaker 1: Grimes and then Quebec Premier Bernard Laundry on the development
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  Speaker 1: of Gull Island in two thousand and two.
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  Speaker 2: I did one myself with the Premier Laundry Andrew Furies.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I attended that one and now Premier wakem
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's one of those things that we've
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  Speaker 2: been trying to get a resolution to for a long
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  Speaker 2: long time. And my only hope is that you know,
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  Speaker 2: at some point this thing actually works. Because I'm a
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  Speaker 2: pro development person, I see great potential for all of
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  Speaker 2: us in the province if we get this done and
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  Speaker 2: get it right.
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  Speaker 1: The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales in July
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  Speaker 1: we're down compared with a year ago, but edge slightly
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  Speaker 1: higher month over month. Here's Michelle's at again.
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  Speaker 3: Chrias says home sales last month we're down five point
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  Speaker 3: three percent from the previous year, but ticked up zero
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  Speaker 3: point five percent when compared with June. Senior Economists says
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  Speaker 3: that below the surface of the headline national numbers, markets
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  Speaker 3: across the country are generally moving back toward balance. The
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  Speaker 3: national average sale price of a home sold in July
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  Speaker 3: was nearly six hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, inching
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  Speaker 3: up on a year of for a year basis. Michelle
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  Speaker 3: Zaidikian The Canadian Press.
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  Speaker 1: The Calgary Zoo says a one year old grizzly bear
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  Speaker 1: scaled an over three meter high habitat fence and was
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  Speaker 1: briefly on the lamb. The Zoo's director of Animal Care,
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  Speaker 1: Health and Welfare, Colleen Baird, says she was surprised that
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  Speaker 1: Fitts was able to get out of the enclosure well.
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  Speaker 1: This review is underway.
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  Speaker 4: Both Fitz and his brother Turner will remain safely and
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  Speaker 4: comfortably in the regular backa house space. For more than
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  Speaker 4: three decades, we've had successfully cared for bears in this habitat,
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  Speaker 4: including rizzly bears, across all life stages.
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  Speaker 1: A quick search found him nearby and he was safely returned.
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  Speaker 1: That's your news. I'm Sarah A strick Lend