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VOCM News Mid-Day Update Sept 23rd · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke at the
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  Speaker 1: United Nations yesterday, and in stark contrast to U.S. President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's critical assessment of the U.N. and its purpose,
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  Speaker 1: Carney argues a multilateral approach to global challenges is necessary.
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  Speaker 1: The United Nations was formed after the Second World War
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  Speaker 1: to bring countries together to find solutions to common problems
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  Speaker 1: facing humanity. Kearney says if a multilateral system fails to
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  Speaker 1: reflect the realities of the time, it won't stand the
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  Speaker 1: test of that time. However, the need for multilateral cooperation
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  Speaker 1: is very much alive.
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  Speaker 2: Climate emergency is intensifying, AI advancing faster than our capacity
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  Speaker 2: to control it, pandemics spreading across continents in weeks. Financial
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  Speaker 2: shocks can disrupt markets and economies in hours. Armed conflicts
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  Speaker 2: destabilizing entire regions, forcing millions to flee from their homes.
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  Speaker 2: Global checkpoints paralyzing supply chains. And no country, no one country, country,
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  Speaker 2: no matter how powerful, can manage these challenges alone.
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  Speaker 1: Dalhousie University political scientist Laurie Turnbull says the prime minister
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of experience internationally, having served as the
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  Speaker 1: governor of the Bank of England for years. Despite his
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  Speaker 1: profile on the world stage, Turnbull says Carney's attendance in
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  Speaker 1: the House of Commons is low and he has some
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  Speaker 1: challenges ahead here at home.
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  Speaker 3: Even with the Building Canada Strong Act that they introduced
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  Speaker 3: this Monday, all kinds of stuff in there is going
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  Speaker 3: to hit the wall, right? Like there's even if the
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  Speaker 3: bill goes through and I suspect it will in the
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  Speaker 3: end but there's difficult pieces in there for some folks
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  Speaker 3: right like the the whole piece around the minister being
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  Speaker 3: able to bring a strike kind of take a stronger
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  Speaker 3: action with respect to strike action on for federally regulated
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  Speaker 3: workers like we have a constitutional right to collective bargaining
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  Speaker 3: in Canada that's something that's going to have to be
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  Speaker 3: worked out I think in the bill and questions will
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  Speaker 3: come at the government on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Both RNC and RCMP are urging people to call them
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  Speaker 1: directly if they are aware of criminal activity. In recent years,
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  Speaker 1: the tendency to post images and video to social media
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  Speaker 1: has taken off, yet in some cases, a formal complaint
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  Speaker 1: is never received by police. Law enforcement can't investigate what
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  Speaker 1: they have not been notified about, and posting to social
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  Speaker 1: media does not automatically prompt an investigation. RNC Constable Steph
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  Speaker 1: Meyer says if you witness or are aware of criminal activity,
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  Speaker 1: report it directly to police. The sooner, the better.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly call us or report it.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot help people if we don't know what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in our communities, and we rely heavily on the
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  Speaker 1: public to know what's happening and how to respond. English
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  Speaker 1: actor and producer Robert Pattinson says he's amazed a dramatization
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  Speaker 1: of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator hasn't already been made.
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  Speaker 1: Pattinson stars in Primetime, a movie that explores the controversial
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  Speaker 1: sting operation that led to the show's cancellation. Chris Hansen,
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  Speaker 1: the show's host during its run from 2004 to 2007,
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  Speaker 1: has objected to the film, which he hadn't seen, calling
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  Speaker 1: it an insult. To Catch a Predator arrives in theaters tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.