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VOCM Mid-Day Update August 10th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. The federal Conservatives are calling on Ottawa
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  Speaker 1: to extend its gas tax holiday. In April, the federal
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  Speaker 1: government announced it's temporarily suspending the fuel excise tax to
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  Speaker 1: help Canadians with the rising cost of gas and diesel.
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  Speaker 1: The pause is in effect until Labor Day. While in
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  Speaker 1: Saint John's last week, Leader Pierre Poliev says people in
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  Speaker 1: Newfoundland and Labrador are still struggling with the high price
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  Speaker 1: of fuel. He believes that's contributed to the high price
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  Speaker 1: of groceries and other goods in the province.
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  Speaker 2: On behalf of all Conservatives, I am officially calling on
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  Speaker 2: Mark Carney to cancel his planned gas tax hike in September.
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  Speaker 2: Canadians cannot afford yet another ten cents a leader at
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  Speaker 2: the pump. Cancel the hike, mister Carney, and leave and
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  Speaker 2: get rid of all gas taxes for all of the year.
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  Speaker 2: To save Canadians twenty five cents a leader, twenty bucks
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  Speaker 2: a fillip, and five hundred dollars by Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Porter Airlines as a flight was canceled last week after
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  Speaker 1: a child refused to buckle up. Don Mitchell, reports.
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  Speaker 3: An airline spokesman says in an email that its plane
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  Speaker 3: left the terminal in Victoria on Thursday and was headed
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  Speaker 3: to the runway for departure to Toronto. However, a young
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  Speaker 3: child was standing in their seat and would not secure
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  Speaker 3: their seat belt, in what the airline caused an unsafe situation.
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  Speaker 3: The crew elected to return to the terminal and have
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  Speaker 3: the two passengers disembark. It added that the time needed
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  Speaker 3: to bridge the aircraft to plan the duo retreat baggage,
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  Speaker 3: and submit new flight plans, and it was too late
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  Speaker 3: to depart since the runway closes at twelve thirty am.
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  Speaker 3: Passengers had to wait for another flight later the next day.
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  Speaker 3: Don Mitchell, the Canadian Press work.
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  Speaker 1: Is underway to have a Saint John's welcome sign situated
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  Speaker 1: outside Mary Brown Center as a way to help residents
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  Speaker 1: form an opinion on where it should be placed for good.
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  Speaker 1: The eighty thousand dollars sign has been sitting in storage
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  Speaker 1: for the last year after plans to erect it in
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  Speaker 1: Bannerman Park were shot down by the public. Mayor Danny
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  Speaker 1: Breen says it will be going outside the Mary Brown
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  Speaker 1: Center for now while they await feedback from residents on
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  Speaker 1: a permanent location.
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  Speaker 4: We felt the better that if we were able to
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  Speaker 4: install it somewhere so people could actually see the sign,
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  Speaker 4: see how it works, see what's involved in it, and
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  Speaker 4: see why some of the things that we laid out
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  Speaker 4: as qualities that we wanted to see in the space
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  Speaker 4: where it could be located are important. So we've done that.
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  Speaker 4: I expect the next couple of days so we will
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  Speaker 4: be installed there and the people can begin to pick
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  Speaker 4: their comments on or engagement.
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  Speaker 1: Any feedback can be submitted through Engage Saint John's until
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  Speaker 1: September eighteenth. The UK and France are preparing for another
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  Speaker 1: heat wave as western Europe sets new temperature records. Both
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  Speaker 1: countries have put out heat related warnings as temperatures are
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  Speaker 1: forecast to climb to thirty six celsius later this week.
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  Speaker 1: Across Europe. The extreme heat began in May and has
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  Speaker 1: contributed to major wildfires, prolonged drought, and new national temperature records,
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  Speaker 1: as well as thousands of projected heat related deaths. That's
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  Speaker 1: your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.