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VOCM News Morning Update September 1st · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. Highway crashes in RCMP jurisdiction claim the
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  Speaker 1: lives of 14 people between January 1st and July 15th
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  Speaker 1: of this year. Road closures as the result of serious
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  Speaker 1: collisions on the Trans-Canada Highway this summer have some drivers
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  Speaker 1: asking why some investigations take longer than others. There have
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  Speaker 1: been a high number of fatal collisions on the province's
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  Speaker 1: highways this year, from moose to vehicle collisions. The toll
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  Speaker 1: on the highways this year has been grim. Many recent
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  Speaker 1: incidents resulted in extended highway closures as emergency responders attended
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  Speaker 1: to the scene and investigators conducted their work. In some cases,
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  Speaker 1: no detour was available, resulting in lengthy backlogs. RCMP say
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  Speaker 1: they recognize that highway closures can be frustrating and a
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  Speaker 1: decision to close the highway is never taken lightly. Road
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  Speaker 1: closures are necessary for the safety of first responders and
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  Speaker 1: to allow investigators to do their work. Each collision scene
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  Speaker 1: is assessed and while designated detours are considered, they're not
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  Speaker 1: always possible, say police. According to the RCMP, additional delays
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  Speaker 1: may be necessary to allow for debris or damaged vehicles
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  Speaker 1: to be removed or hazardous fluids to be cleaned up.
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  Speaker 1: That process can be complicated by larger debris fields, the
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  Speaker 1: recovery process, spilled cargo, and the potential for fuels and
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  Speaker 1: other environmental contamination. A Quebec man has been arrested and
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  Speaker 1: charged for allegedly making a bomb threat at Wabush Airport.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Linda Swain for VOCM News.
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  Speaker 2: The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was called to the airport around
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  Speaker 2: 8 Sunday night after a passenger had been removed from
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  Speaker 2: an aircraft. The airport was evacuated and searched, but the
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  Speaker 2: threat was determined to be unfounded. 30-year-old Sylvestre Brienne Essimo
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  Speaker 2: Saint-Ange-Volland has been charged with public mischief, uttering threats, causing
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  Speaker 2: a disturbance and breach of probation. He was held in
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  Speaker 2: custody to appear in court.
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  Speaker 1: The president of Memorial University's Faculty Association is accusing MUN
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  Speaker 1: President Janet Morrison of trying to diminish the university with
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  Speaker 1: recent job cuts. Memorial last week quietly issued an update
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  Speaker 1: on its cost-cutting measures, outlining in the Gazette the elimination
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  Speaker 1: of 107 positions from management to faculty and staff. Erica
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  Speaker 1: Mercer says that's something everyone needs to be worried about.
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  Speaker 3: They call it reorganization, restructuring. They have all these fancy
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  Speaker 3: words for it. But the fact is people are being fired.
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  Speaker 3: People are losing their jobs. And, you know, we all
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  Speaker 3: pay for it. The students are paying for it. The
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  Speaker 3: province as a whole, our future, our economy is paying
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 1: Mercer says with the job cuts, Munn is sending tuition
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  Speaker 1: dollars elsewhere.
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  Speaker 3: So all these cuts are not helping the university. It's
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  Speaker 3: just part of a downward spiral, really, to shrink and
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  Speaker 3: shrink and shrink. regardless of how many students we have,
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  Speaker 3: we owe them an education. This is our phase-on debt, right?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're here exactly to provide these students with
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  Speaker 3: an education. Whether there's fewer of them or not, I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's fair to tell the students, the youth
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  Speaker 3: of Newfoundland and Labrador to say, well, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: if you're interested in classics, sorry. If you want to
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  Speaker 3: do a master's degree in that, well, too bad, you'll
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  Speaker 3: have to leave.
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  Speaker 1: The federal Liberals went 3-for-3 in Monday's by-elections. Karen Rebo reports.
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  Speaker 4: Daniel Gobe will represent Quebec's Chicoutimi-le-Fjord riding, snatching a previously
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  Speaker 4: Conservative-held riding to give another parliamentary seat to Prime Minister
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  Speaker 4: Mark Carney's narrow majority. Liberal Tanvir Shanawaz won Toronto's Beaches
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  Speaker 4: East York after previously running the constituency office for former
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  Speaker 4: MP Nate Erskine-Smith. And in British Columbia... Longtime Liberal political
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  Speaker 4: staffer Braden Cayley will represent the riding of North Vancouver Capilano.
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  Speaker 4: Near-complete results suggest he took over 58% of the vote,
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  Speaker 4: handily beating five rivals. Conservatives came a distant second. The
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  Speaker 4: Conservatives finished in third place behind the Bloc Québécois in
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  Speaker 4: Chicoutimi and third behind the NDP in Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: Business leaders near the U.S.-Canada border are hoping new tariffs
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  Speaker 1: between the two countries won't have long-lasting effects. Here's ABC's
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  Speaker 1: Jared Kofsky.
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  Speaker 5: Plattsburgh, New York, is just an hour south of Canada,
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  Speaker 5: second largest city of Montreal. Plattsburgh even calls itself Montreal's U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Suburb.
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  Speaker 5: But Gary Douglas, who runs the local Chamber of Commerce,
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  Speaker 5: says he fears the local economic impact of new 50%
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  Speaker 5: tariffs between the U.S. and our neighbors to the north.
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  Speaker 3: It's a standing hell.
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  Speaker 1: Fundamentally divorced, Washington seems to be for the reality of
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  Speaker 1: the U.S.-Canada economic relationship.
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  Speaker 5: The Trump administration says Canada has been taking advantage of
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  Speaker 5: the U.S., but in Plattsburgh, officials say their economy is
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  Speaker 5: dependent on Canadian trade and tourism. Jared Kofsky, ABC News,
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  Speaker 5: New York.
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  Speaker 1: That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.