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VOCM News Afternoon Update October 6th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local news now, a VOCM News Update.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sarah Strickland. The Parti Quebecois completed a dramatic political
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  Speaker 2: comeback by winning the Quebec election. Karen Rebo has the details.
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  Speaker 3: Four years after winning only three seats in the legislature,
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  Speaker 3: the PQ last night won 59, enough to form a
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  Speaker 3: minority government under leader Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon. The separatist leader
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  Speaker 3: told supporters during his victory speech in Montreal, that he
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  Speaker 3: will work with Quebec's English speakers and Prime Minister Mark
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  Speaker 3: Carney when it serves Quebecers. He's also pledged to hold
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  Speaker 3: a third sovereignty referendum, but only after Donald Trump leaves
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  Speaker 3: the White House in 2029. Charles Maillard's Liberals will form
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  Speaker 3: the official opposition for the third straight election, while the
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  Speaker 3: Quebec Conservatives, led by Eric Duhem, will make a historic
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  Speaker 3: entry into the legislature and gain official party status with
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  Speaker 3: its 19 seats. The CAQ, which has governed the province
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  Speaker 3: for eight years and entered the campaign with 79 seats,
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  Speaker 3: was wiped off the map and ended the night with none.
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  Speaker 2: The province's fall flu and COVID vaccination program will be
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  Speaker 2: rolled out in a couple of weeks. Chief Medical Officer
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  Speaker 2: of Health Dr. Janice Fitzgerald says the program will be
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  Speaker 2: rolled out later this month, noting that more information will
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  Speaker 2: be released shortly.
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  Speaker 4: As in other years, generally speaking, it starts like that
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  Speaker 4: third week in October.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it'll be in the next couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: that we'll be coming out. So stay tuned. A 49-year-old
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  Speaker 2: man from Gamboa is facing several charges following a violent
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  Speaker 2: incident involving Glovertown RCMP. Lindsay Lush was arrested Sunday after
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  Speaker 2: allegedly threatening someone with a weapon and striking two police
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  Speaker 2: officers with a blunt object. One officer, who suffered minor injuries,
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  Speaker 2: was treated at hospital. Lush is charged with several offenses,
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  Speaker 2: including assaulting police with a weapon and resisting arrest. Energy
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  Speaker 2: Minister Lloyd Parrott believes the sale of Suncor's stake in
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  Speaker 2: the Terranova, White Rose and West White Rose projects to
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  Speaker 2: UK-based Ithaca Energy is a good thing for Newfoundland and Labrador.
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  Speaker 2: The sale has a price tag of over $ 1 billion.
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  Speaker 2: Suncor's stake in Hebron and Hibernia is unaffected. Parrott says
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  Speaker 2: he's extremely excited and happy with the news, noting that
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  Speaker 2: Ithaca is a major player in the North Sea and
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  Speaker 2: they are familiar with operating in conditions similar to the
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  Speaker 2: province's offshore.
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  Speaker 4: Suncor, obviously we've heard for years that they're looking for
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  Speaker 4: an exit to get back out to west into the sand,
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  Speaker 4: which is their wheelhouse. So this is good, this is good.
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  Speaker 4: And Suncor still remains a player here through Hibernia and Hebron.
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  Speaker 4: But this is the first new entrant we've had into
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  Speaker 4: our oil and gas in a long time. And it's exciting.
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  Speaker 4: It's very exciting to have someone new coming in. And
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  Speaker 4: it shows that they not only believe in Newfoundland and Labrador,
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  Speaker 4: but they believe in the basin and they believe in
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  Speaker 4: the long-term viability of itself. I think it's great news
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  Speaker 4: for Newfoundlanders and Labradoreans.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors allege an Air Canada employee provided the doctored way
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  Speaker 2: bill that enabled what investigators have called one of the
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  Speaker 2: largest gold heists in Canadian history. Here's Jason White.
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  Speaker 1: The Crown Attorney told court Parm Paul Sidhu was one
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  Speaker 1: of the inside men with the knowledge and access to
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  Speaker 1: help carry out the 2023 heist at Toronto Pearson Airport.
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  Speaker 1: Another man picked up more than $ 22 million in gold
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  Speaker 1: and currency from one of the airport's cargo bays. The
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  Speaker 1: driver who picked up the gold had an airway bill
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  Speaker 1: for a shipment of fish. But prosecutors say that document
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  Speaker 1: was altered with a handwritten number for the gold shipment.
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  Speaker 1: Sidhu has pleaded not guilty to theft and conspiracy charges.
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  Speaker 1: Jason White, the Canadian Press.
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  Speaker 2: Starbucks is facing a lawsuit over sugar and sugar-free protein drinks.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Lisa Dwyer.
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  Speaker 5: Starbucks is facing a consumer lawsuit over claims that the
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  Speaker 5: protein drinks labeled as sugar-free on its cafe menus may
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  Speaker 5: actually contain more sugar than a Reese's peanut butter cup.
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  Speaker 5: The federal lawsuit alleges that Starbucks sells eight protein beverages
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  Speaker 5: in the U.S. that are marketed as sugar-free. but contain
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  Speaker 5: varying amounts of sugar, and says that Starbucks is violating
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  Speaker 5: federal labeling regulations. Starbucks says that the sugar in the
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  Speaker 5: drinks come from the protein-boosted milk it uses. The company
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  Speaker 5: says it does not add sugar to the drinks, and
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  Speaker 5: it uses sugar-free syrup for flavoring. I'm Lisa Dwyer.
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  Speaker 2: The list of electronics you can recycle in Newfoundland and
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  Speaker 2: Labrador has expanded. Officials announced that office equipment, e-scooters, handheld
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  Speaker 2: power tools, and toys have been added to the provincial program.
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  Speaker 2: They join a list that already includes several household appliances
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  Speaker 2: such as vacuums and microwaves. Michelle Marley with Recycle My
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  Speaker 2: Electronics says many of these items contain valuable metals and
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  Speaker 2: plastic that can be extracted and reused in other devices.
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  Speaker 6: There's actually a lot of really good things in those
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  Speaker 6: electronics that can be recycled and used again. Again, you've
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  Speaker 6: heard a lot today about the circular economy. So, you know,
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  Speaker 6: things like glass, plastic, steel, some of the bits and pieces,
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  Speaker 6: like there's a lot of silver, there's gold, there's so
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  Speaker 6: many good things in there that can be extracted and
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  Speaker 6: put back into the manufacturing supply chain. So that's really important.
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  Speaker 2: That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.