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VOCM Afternoon Update August 16 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. I'm Ahelia artists. We now have a timeline
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  Speaker 1: on the hydro deal between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador.
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  Speaker 1: Information has been coming in dribs and drabs on the
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  Speaker 1: new deal to develop hydro assets in Labrador and replace
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  Speaker 1: the existing agreement which does not expire until twenty forty one. However,
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  Speaker 1: Quebec requires confirmed access to future power needs now, as
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  Speaker 1: does Newfoundland and Labrador, as several significant mining projects await.
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  Speaker 1: The deal comes down Monday afternoon with Premiers Tony Wakem
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  Speaker 1: and Christine Fraschett, who will have her Energy Minister and
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  Speaker 1: the President and CEO of Hydro Quebec alongside her. The
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  Speaker 1: notification of the news conference from the Government of Newfoundland
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  Speaker 1: and Labrador does not mention his Energy Minister or Hydro CEO.
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  Speaker 1: The announcement is set for one forty five Tomorrow afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: The location of the news conference has not yet been revealed.
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  Speaker 1: VOCM News will be there and will broadcast the news
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  Speaker 1: conference live. The RCMP stops several drivers throughout the province
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  Speaker 1: last Thursday for excessive speeding. Police clocked one of those
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  Speaker 1: vehicles at more than double the speed limit. According to police,
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  Speaker 1: the most agreed who as instance happened on Whitless Bay Line.
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  Speaker 1: Just after seven thirty Thursday night, they stopped a vehicle
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  Speaker 1: for going one hundred and seven kilometers an hour in
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  Speaker 1: a fifty kilometer an hour zone. The driver, a forty
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  Speaker 1: seven year old man from Brigis, was also found to
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  Speaker 1: have an expired license and no insurance. He was ticketed
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  Speaker 1: for the infractions and his vehicle was impounded. The RCMP
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  Speaker 1: stopped several other vehicles for excessive speeds throughout the day.
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  Speaker 1: Just after ten am, officers in Central were passed on
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  Speaker 1: the TCCH by an suv traveling one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: five kilometers an hour and one hundred kilometer an hour zone,
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  Speaker 1: and two hours later police clocked a driver going one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight kilometers an hour in an eighty
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  Speaker 1: kilometer an hour zone along the Bay Desbois Highway near
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  Speaker 1: the intersection with the TCCH. The first driver was from
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  Speaker 1: Cornerbrook and the second was from New Brunswick. In both cases,
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  Speaker 1: they were ticketed and the vehicles were seized. Meanwhile, around noon,
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  Speaker 1: the RCMP received a report of a dangerous driver who
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  Speaker 1: had a near miss, nearly causing a collision on the
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  Speaker 1: TCCH near Glenwood. In that instance, the driver was ticketed
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  Speaker 1: for passing when it was unsaid to do so. A
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  Speaker 1: sensational historic murder trial that still resonates to this day
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  Speaker 1: will be featured at a special event August twenty ninth
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  Speaker 1: and thirtieth in Cupids. FIO CM's Linda Swain has more.
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  Speaker 2: Catherine Mandeville Snow was hanged on July twenty first of
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  Speaker 2: eighteen thirty four. She was the last woman to be
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  Speaker 2: executed in Newfoundland and Labrador after being convicted in the
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  Speaker 2: murder of her husband, John Snow of Port de Grave.
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  Speaker 2: John Snow disappeared in August of eighteen thirty three, and
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  Speaker 2: rumors soon started to spread that he had been murdered,
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  Speaker 2: although his body was never found. Catherine, her cousin Tobias Mandeville,
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  Speaker 2: and one of Snow's servants, Arthur's Spring, were implicated in
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  Speaker 2: the disappearance. Spring and Mandeville later confessed, but Snow always
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  Speaker 2: professed her innocence in the murder. While Mandeville and Spring
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  Speaker 2: were hanged in January of eighteen thirty four following their conviction, Catherine,
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  Speaker 2: who was pregnant with her eighth child, was temporarily spared
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  Speaker 2: the hangman's noose until after giving birth. Lynda swayin VOCM
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  Speaker 2: Local News.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's your new I'm a Halia artists