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VOCM Mid-Day Update August 20 · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon. I'm Brian Madore. Provincial government has announced a
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  Speaker 1: major cabinet shuffle, number of key ministers being shifted to
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  Speaker 1: different portfolios. Jody Wall is the new Minister of Health,
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  Speaker 1: taking over from Leela Evans, who maintains her other ministerial
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  Speaker 1: portfolios including Labrador Affairs, Indigenous Affairs and Women in Gender Equality.
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  Speaker 1: Deputy Premier Transportation Minister Barry Petton is adding municipal and
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  Speaker 1: community engagement to his duties. He's also the Deputy Government
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  Speaker 1: House Leader. Finance Minister Craig Party has been sworn in
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  Speaker 1: to take on additional duties as the province's Chief Information Officer.
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  Speaker 1: Energy Minister Lloyd Parrott also responsible for red tape reduction,
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  Speaker 1: Government Services, Labor and Workplace NL Chris Tibbs moves from
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  Speaker 1: Municipal Affairs and the Environment portfolios to Social Supports, Housing,
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  Speaker 1: Poverty Reduction and Disabilities. Andrea Barber moving from Tourism, Culture
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  Speaker 1: and Record Creation to Environment and Climate Change. Mike Goosney
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  Speaker 1: is the new Minister of Tourism and associated responsibilities. Town
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  Speaker 1: of Holyrood having trouble finding where all the water is going,
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  Speaker 1: but until it does, it's imposing restrictions to reduce consumption.
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  Speaker 1: Viacm's Beth Fagan on that the conception.
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  Speaker 2: Bay Town says the wells are pumping the water, so
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  Speaker 2: availability is not the issue, it's the loss of water.
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  Speaker 2: Holyrood has used leak detection equipment but found no leak
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  Speaker 2: and did a manual inspection of known trouble areas but
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  Speaker 2: again found nothing. The graft from the water system shows
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  Speaker 2: the same pattern of water loss over the twenty four
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  Speaker 2: hour period of each day over the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: A temporary water ban is now an effect to allow
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  Speaker 2: the town to further investigate and replenish supply. That means
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  Speaker 2: non essential outdoor use such as washing cars, filling swimming
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  Speaker 2: pools and washing driveways is prohibited. Newly seated or soldid
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  Speaker 2: Lanne can be watered, but only at certain times.
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  Speaker 1: Expect shovels in the ground as early as this spring
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  Speaker 1: if the definitive agreements on Churchill Falls are signed by
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year. That's according to Premier Tony Wakem,
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  Speaker 1: who says they intend to get hydro development works started
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  Speaker 1: as soon as.
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  Speaker 3: Possible and all of the prelim work that goes ahead
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  Speaker 3: of that to get started right away. And the great
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  Speaker 3: news is, of course, the federal government has agreed to
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  Speaker 3: send this to their Major Projects That's the key for this,
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  Speaker 3: right when they have agreed to send these projects to
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  Speaker 3: the Major Projects Office, that is a tremendous benefit for Dufland.
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  Speaker 1: And Labrador and one of the biggest big box stores
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  Speaker 1: celebrating another strong second quarter performance. Still shares in Walmart
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  Speaker 1: slid four percent before the opening bell on Wall Street.
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  Speaker 1: Excluding the wellness category, which includes Walmart's pharmacies, comparable sales
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  Speaker 1: increased by three and a half percent in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 1: That's your news. I'm Brian Ador.