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VOCM Morning Update August 15 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Richard Duggan in the news. There were extensive backlogs
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  Speaker 1: on the TCH yesterday following a serious collision east of Goobies.
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  Speaker 1: The collision happened yesterday afternoon east of Jackspond near the
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  Speaker 1: Southern Harbor exit. Both lanes of the highway were shut down,
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  Speaker 1: resulting in traffic being reduced to a standstill for hours.
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  Speaker 1: The highway reopened after seven thirty last night. There's no
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  Speaker 1: word on the extent of any injuries at this time.
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  Speaker 1: An investigation is ongoing following an incident on Naskapie Crescent
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  Speaker 1: in Saint John's last night, the result in the arrest
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  Speaker 1: of one person. The rn C responded around seven thirty
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  Speaker 1: pm after someone called to report lots of screaming before
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  Speaker 1: their phone line got disconnected. Police arrived on the scene
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  Speaker 1: in numbers due to what they say was a large
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  Speaker 1: number of people present. They arrested a thirty nine year
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  Speaker 1: old man who had an active warrant. The investigation continues.
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  Speaker 1: A thirty year old man is in custody after the
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  Speaker 1: RNC say he put up quite a struggle during his arrest.
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  Speaker 1: Police recalled to a home on Saint Clair Avenue just
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  Speaker 1: before ten am yesterday to reports of a man who
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  Speaker 1: was causing a disturbance, threatening people and refusing to leave
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  Speaker 1: the area. After what's described as an extended struggle, the
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  Speaker 1: accused was arrested. The officers alleged they were kicked and
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  Speaker 1: scratched during the altercation and once suffered minor injuries. The
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  Speaker 1: man has been charged with three counts of assaulting a
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  Speaker 1: police officer, resisting arrest, and assault with a weapon. He
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  Speaker 1: was helped for court. All fuel prices are down slightly
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Gases down by just over a cent and
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  Speaker 1: diesel is dropped by about two and a half cents.
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  Speaker 1: Furnace oil on the island has decreased by just over
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  Speaker 1: two cents, and stove oil in most of Labrador has
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  Speaker 1: dropped by just under two cents. The provincial government has
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  Speaker 1: increased the one time subsidy for those seeking fertility treatment.
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  Speaker 1: The funding is being increased from twenty thousand to twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine thousand dollars. Local obstetrician and Associate Professor of Obstetrics
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  Speaker 1: and Gynecology at mun doctor Sean Murphy says anything to
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  Speaker 1: help reduce barriers for those seeking fertility treatment is welcomed.
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  Speaker 2: Anything we can do to kind of remove obstacles to
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  Speaker 2: people accessing fertility care and good quality, high access to
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  Speaker 2: fertility care is important and this will will help kind
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  Speaker 2: of move things forward in that direction. It'll remove another
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  Speaker 2: barrier to fertility care. And as we work towards heven
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  Speaker 2: IVF in our own problems, we'll continue to work with
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  Speaker 2: the minister in our team and I like just to
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  Speaker 2: deliver that care here in province. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: it's a fantastic investment in families of our problems.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Diana Murphy with mun's Obstetrics and Gynecology Department cause
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  Speaker 1: the funding increase a good step forward.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the ultimate goal for us would be the
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  Speaker 3: offer to treatment here in New for Land. Traveling for
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  Speaker 3: IVF treatment is still quite stressful being a wife from
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  Speaker 3: your support system, but I think it's a great step
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  Speaker 3: forward in allowing the treatments to come here. And with
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  Speaker 3: the work we've been doing with the current government and
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  Speaker 3: previous governments as well, I think slowly we get further
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  Speaker 3: closer and closer to having that here, which I think
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  Speaker 3: is great for our patients and it's I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: been the ultimate goal of both of us and other
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  Speaker 3: doctors in the past of breaking the service here, so
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  Speaker 3: I think it is a great step forward.
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  Speaker 1: News. I'm Richard Duggan.