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VOCM News Afternoon Update October 27th · 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. The province's justice minister has confirmed that
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  Speaker 2: police officers with the RNC will start wearing body cameras
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  Speaker 2: next year. Helen Conway-Otenheimer says the program will start being
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  Speaker 2: rolled out in the 2027-28 fiscal year. She says the
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  Speaker 2: groundwork was laid for the program in the spring budget
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  Speaker 2: with the introduction of the new Digital Evidence Management System,
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  Speaker 2: also known as DEMS. Conway Ottenheimer says there are about
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  Speaker 2: 400 active users of that system within the RNC. She
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  Speaker 2: calls the rollout of body cameras phase two of the project.
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  Speaker 3: Which we'll be getting in 27-28 but there was approximately 900,000
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  Speaker 3: allocated in budget 26 for that initiative and that's for
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  Speaker 3: the actual implementation of the body worn cameras. for the
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  Speaker 3: RNC officers.
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  Speaker 2: Conway Ottenheimer believes the implementation of body cameras goes to
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  Speaker 2: the heart of public trust between residents and police.
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  Speaker 3: A fundamental objective is with respect to transparency and accountability
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  Speaker 3: and so this will be a very important tool in
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  Speaker 3: terms of building that confidence in our police force.
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  Speaker 2: A brand of residential snow clearing equipment has been recalled
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  Speaker 2: due to the risk of electric shock. Benchmark electric snow
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  Speaker 2: throwers sold at home hardware stores across Canada have been
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  Speaker 2: recalled after reports of broken power cables. Health Canada says
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  Speaker 2: it's received 19 reports of broken cords. There have been
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  Speaker 2: no injuries reported. Those who own the product are asked
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  Speaker 2: to contact home hardware for instructions on how to get
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  Speaker 2: a refund. One of the greatest curlers to ever represent
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  Speaker 2: the province and the country is kicking off a book
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  Speaker 2: tour today. Brad Guju is promoting his memoir, Guju, the
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  Speaker 2: Making of a Champion, which officially launches today. The book
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  Speaker 2: details his 25-plus year curling career, highlighting major milestones like
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  Speaker 2: his Olympic gold medal, world junior championships, and world championships.
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  Speaker 2: Gujoo says he started writing the book at the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of his final season noting that looking back on his
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  Speaker 2: career brought up some fond memories of his early playing days.
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  Speaker 1: So I started the journey with Stephen back in last
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  Speaker 1: September right at the beginning of my last season and
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  Speaker 1: you know when we were talking about writing the book
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would be a good journey to go
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  Speaker 1: back and look at some of the great things we've
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  Speaker 1: done over the course of my career also some of
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  Speaker 1: the mistakes and and hardships we had along the way.
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  Speaker 1: And then even when we were talking about it, I'd
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  Speaker 1: go back to my teammates and say, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about this event or that moment. And
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  Speaker 1: then we would build on that. And there was things
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  Speaker 1: that I didn't even remember that happened. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was a nice experience for us as a team.
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  Speaker 2: Dictionary.com has chosen its word of the year for 2026.
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  Speaker 2: It's maxing, a term used to describe, quote, pursuing an
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  Speaker 2: activity to the fullest or optimizing a certain aspect of
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  Speaker 2: your life. It's often used in conjunction with other words
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  Speaker 2: like money-maxing, protein-maxing, or cozy-maxing. That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.