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VOCM News Morning Update October 1st · 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. Just a couple weeks after an historic
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  Speaker 2: meeting between French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Mark
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  Speaker 2: Carney on the French islands of Saint-Pierre-Miquelon, the federal government
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  Speaker 2: is strongly encouraging the French government from abandoning its proposal
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  Speaker 2: to launch an exploratory snow crab fishery. Fisheries Minister Joanne
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  Speaker 2: Thompson took to social media yesterday to express her disappointment
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  Speaker 2: with the proposed fishery beyond the 200-mile limit on the
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  Speaker 2: extension of Canada's continental shelf. She says Canada and France
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  Speaker 2: have well-established ways of working through fisheries issues, and while
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  Speaker 2: Canada and France met at NAFO's annual meeting last week,
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  Speaker 2: the matter was not raised by French officials at the time.
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  Speaker 2: Thompson says DFO is working with Global Affairs Canada on
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  Speaker 2: next steps, and she's disappointed that France intends to take
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  Speaker 2: that action unilaterally. A flight from Dubai to Israel in
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  Speaker 2: which the co-pilot attacked the captain in the cockpit is
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  Speaker 2: raising a lot of concerns. The plane dropped 17,000 feet
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  Speaker 2: in about two minutes, a terrifying situation. Passengers intervened, going
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  Speaker 2: into the cockpit to rescue the otherwise doomed aircraft. The plane,
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  Speaker 2: which reached speeds of 700 miles per hour, was close
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  Speaker 2: to tearing apart. The flight landed safely in Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: The federal government has announced a new initiative to attract
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  Speaker 2: more people from the Francophone community to the province. Nearly $ 350, 000
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  Speaker 2: has been set aside for the project over the next
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  Speaker 2: two years. The money will be used to create pathways
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  Speaker 2: for those who speak French and who are bilingual to
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  Speaker 2: come to this province, which government says will help with
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  Speaker 2: population growth and labor market needs. There will be targeted
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  Speaker 2: overseas recruitment as part of the program, with the aim
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  Speaker 2: of attracting people in the fields of education, early childhood education,
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  Speaker 2: and health care. Provincial Francophone Affairs Minister Lynn Paddock believes
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  Speaker 2: people will want to move from French-speaking countries like France
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  Speaker 2: and Belgium to Newfoundland and Labrador.
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  Speaker 1: What we've found with the organizations that are here supporting it,
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  Speaker 1: if you're welcoming and if you put supports in, people
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  Speaker 1: will stay. When we had the discussion on immigration and
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  Speaker 1: Francophone nationally, ultimately it's about employment. And if people have
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  Speaker 1: a job that they can come to, then they can
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  Speaker 1: build a life.
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  Speaker 2: There's a slew of provincial government announcements set for today.
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  Speaker 2: VOCM's Richard Duggan breaks down where they will be and
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  Speaker 2: who will be there.
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  Speaker 3: The premier is on the west coast today for a
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  Speaker 3: pair of events. Tony Wakeham's first stop will be in
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  Speaker 3: Stephenville for an announcement about fire protection vehicles and equipment.
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  Speaker 3: That's taking place at the town's fire department beginning at
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  Speaker 3: 10 a.m. Then at 1.30, the premier, along with Health
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  Speaker 3: Minister Jody Wall, will be at the Cornerbrook Community Health
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  Speaker 3: Center for an event focused on long-term care. Meanwhile, several
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  Speaker 3: other announcements are happening today in various parts of the province.
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  Speaker 3: Minister Wall will hold an event to talk about the
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  Speaker 3: expansion of addictions treatment and recovery services at the Humberwood
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  Speaker 3: Treatment Center in Cornerbrook at 10.30 this morning. Labrador Affairs
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  Speaker 3: Minister Leila Evans will be in Nain for an infrastructure
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  Speaker 3: announcement taking place at noon at the Sandbanks Building. And
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  Speaker 3: Forestry Minister Pleeman Forsey and Environment Minister Andrea Barber will
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  Speaker 3: announce funding at the Volunteer Fire Department in St. Anthony
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  Speaker 3: at 4 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: A sexual assault trial is set to begin for Nova
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  Speaker 2: Scotia-based actor Mike Smith, best known for playing Bubbles on
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  Speaker 2: the TV comedy Trailer Park Boys. Smith has pleaded not
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  Speaker 2: guilty to one count of sexual assault that stems from
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  Speaker 2: an alleged incident in 2017. The actor was charged in
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  Speaker 2: October of 2025, but court documents do not provide details
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  Speaker 2: of the allegations. The documents show that Smith has been
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  Speaker 2: ordered not to communicate with or visit the female complainant,
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  Speaker 2: whose identity is protected from publication. Music and L-Week kicks
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  Speaker 2: off in St. John's today. The four-day event is a
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  Speaker 2: celebration and showcase of the local music scene. It all
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  Speaker 2: starts with an awards gala at the convention center tonight
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  Speaker 2: where there are 117 nominees up for awards in 36 categories.
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  Speaker 2: There will also be performances at venues across the downtown
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  Speaker 2: as well as workshops and panel discussions today through Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: The Newfoundland contestant on MasterChef Canada may have had her
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  Speaker 2: time cut short, but she is looking back on the
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  Speaker 2: experience fondly. Rebecca Abbott, a 38-year-old Gander native, was eliminated
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  Speaker 2: from the program Tuesday night in the second episode.
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  Speaker 4: I felt amazingly blessed. I feel like I represented myself,
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  Speaker 4: truly who I actually am, a jokester, and wear my
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  Speaker 4: heart on my sleeve and a big crybaby at times.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just so proud. I can't believe someone with
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  Speaker 4: anxiety such as myself who struggles daily and two very
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  Speaker 4: small kids was able to do it all and just
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  Speaker 4: show everyone that moms are good at things too.
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  Speaker 2: And that's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.