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VOCM News Evening Update October 27th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Zach Power. The province's justice minister has confirmed that
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  Speaker 1: police officers with the RNC will start to wear body
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  Speaker 1: cameras next year. Helen Conway-Ottenheimer says the program will start
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  Speaker 1: to be rolled out in the 2027-28 fiscal year. She
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  Speaker 1: says the groundwork was laid for the program in the
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  Speaker 1: spring budget with the introduction of a new digital evidence
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  Speaker 1: management system known as DEMS. Kamoi Ottenheimer says that there
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  Speaker 1: are about 400 active users of that system with the RNC,
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  Speaker 1: and she calls the rollout of the body cameras Phase
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  Speaker 1: 2 of that project. She believes that the implementation will
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  Speaker 1: go to the heart of public trust between residents and police.
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  Speaker 2: A fundamental objective is with respect to transparency and accountability.
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  Speaker 2: And so this will be a very important tool in
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  Speaker 2: terms of building that confidence in our police force.
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  Speaker 1: Clocks fall back in the province this coming weekend but
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  Speaker 1: a number of jurisdictions have decided not to follow with
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  Speaker 1: the tradition causing difficulties for some organizations. Environment Canada says
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  Speaker 1: because of the time zone changes in some provinces and
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  Speaker 1: territories times may not appear accurately on its website although
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  Speaker 1: the content of the alerts and forecasts remain accurate. Environment
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  Speaker 1: Canada says that it is in the process of updating
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  Speaker 1: the system to reflect those changes. The Minister of Finance
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  Speaker 1: says a windfall from excessive oil revenues will eliminate the deficit,
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  Speaker 1: adding that government has received more than $ 600 million a date.
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  Speaker 1: In April, the provincial government projected a $ 688 million deficit
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  Speaker 1: for this fiscal year, but sky-high oil prices have continued
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  Speaker 1: to eat away at the debt. That oil windfall is
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  Speaker 1: what government says allowed it to temporarily cut the provincial
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  Speaker 1: portion of the HST on diesel and gasoline starting December 1st.
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  Speaker 1: Craig Pardee says that they're still crunching the numbers on
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  Speaker 1: the added revenue, noting that 80% of which will be
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  Speaker 1: used to knock down the provincial debt. He says the
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  Speaker 1: previous government had some debts deferred to this year and next,
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  Speaker 1: which means they had to carefully plan the budget.
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  Speaker 3: And what the deficit means is that we don't have
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  Speaker 3: to borrow that money. The only thing being someone to
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  Speaker 3: say that, well, you're still going to borrow money next year.
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  Speaker 3: We do. But part of the fiscal update, I'll try
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  Speaker 3: my best to explain that any debt that's out without
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  Speaker 3: sinking funds is not paid off. got a term, whether
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  Speaker 3: it be 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, some government
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  Speaker 3: at some time, that debt will come right back to
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  Speaker 3: you in your fiscal. Well, boy, we've got it coming
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  Speaker 3: next year and the year after. A lot of debt
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  Speaker 3: that was pushed out that is coming back.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, a brand of residential snow clearing equipment has
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  Speaker 1: been recalled due to the risk of electric shock. Benchmark
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  Speaker 1: electric snow throwers sold at home hardware stores across Canada
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  Speaker 1: have been recalled. After reports of broken power cables, Health
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  Speaker 1: Canada says it's received 19 reports so far to date
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  Speaker 1: and there have been no injuries. Those who own the
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  Speaker 1: product are asked to contact Home Hardware for instructions on
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  Speaker 1: how to get a refund. And that's your news. Your
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  Speaker 1: weather forecast is next.