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VOCM News Evening Update October 14th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Local News Now, a VOCM News Update. I'm Zach Power.
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  Speaker 1: A 31-year-old woman has been ticketed and her vehicle has
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  Speaker 1: been seized following a traffic stop on the TCH on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: RCMP and Whitburn were contacted by drivers who reported a
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  Speaker 1: vehicle on the Trans-Canada Highway driving erratically. Police pulled over
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle and the driver was unable to provide a
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  Speaker 1: valid insurance. The St. Bernard's woman has been ticketed for
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  Speaker 1: driving without insurance and her vehicle has since been impounded.
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  Speaker 1: Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson is laughing off an allegation
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  Speaker 1: that she gave a finger to the opposition on the
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  Speaker 1: House of Commons floor last week. The alleged incident occurred
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  Speaker 1: during a heated exchange on Canada's relationship with France and
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  Speaker 1: reports indicating that the EU nation was interested in pursuing
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  Speaker 1: snow crab fisheries off the continental shelf. Thompson dismissed that
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  Speaker 1: notion that she flipped the bird on VOCM open line
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  Speaker 1: with Brian Callahan. Absolutely not. And you think otherwise. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: Thompson calls the controversy surrounding the crab fishery not an
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  Speaker 1: active story. A pothole on the Beer and Peninsula Highway
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  Speaker 1: is causing havoc for drivers who are calling for action
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  Speaker 1: to finally have it addressed. Corey Brown told VOCM open
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  Speaker 1: line with Brian Callahan that he struck the unmarked road
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  Speaker 1: hazard on September the 12th.
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  Speaker 2: It was a dark, rainy night. When we passed by
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  Speaker 2: Mile Hill, anybody from Burien Plains will know where Mile
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  Speaker 2: Hill is, we struck a pothole, busted my tire, zero signage.
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  Speaker 2: My father had to drive two and a half hours
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  Speaker 2: to come pick us up. We repaired the tire, drove
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  Speaker 2: back to St. John's Sunday, and still no signage.
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  Speaker 1: Brown says that he was shocked to notice that the
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  Speaker 1: same pothole was there weeks later. and him and his
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  Speaker 1: family traveled to the Buren Peninsula for the Thanksgiving weekend.
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  Speaker 1: They noticed a vehicle had pulled over on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road with two busted tires from the very
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  Speaker 1: same pothole. The opposition is questioning the government's use of
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  Speaker 1: public funds to purchase souvenir keychains for students who took
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  Speaker 1: part in a pilgrimage to Beaumont Hamel. CBC is reporting
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  Speaker 1: that Minister Andrea Barber spent over $ 1, 000 on 150 custom
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  Speaker 1: yellow rubber boot keychains made by a company on the
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  Speaker 1: West Coast. The company is said to have connections to
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  Speaker 1: a PC candidate. Barber, who was well-known on social media
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  Speaker 1: before becoming a public servant, is known for wearing yellow
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  Speaker 1: rubber boots in her posts. Liberals are questioning the decision.
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  Speaker 1: Tourism and culture critic Bettina Ford says that students had
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  Speaker 1: traveled to Europe to learn more about the Battle of
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  Speaker 1: Beaumont-Hamill and the sacrifices, and the trip should not have
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  Speaker 1: been remembered with a token that reflects the minister's personal interests.
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  Speaker 3: When public funds are used, Those kind of promotional items
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  Speaker 3: should reflect Newfoundland and Labrador's identity, not an individual's personal branding.
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  Speaker 3: Make no mistake about it. Yellow rubber boots, they are
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  Speaker 3: the minister's signature brand.
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  Speaker 1: And that's your news. I'm Zach Power.