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VOCM Morning Update August 10th · VOCM On Demand

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  Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Strickland. Several things can happen now that the
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  Speaker 1: courts have rejected a joint submission. In a case of
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  Speaker 1: impaired driving causing death, Rodney Constantine pleaded guilty to the charge,
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  Speaker 1: which stem from a crash on Empire Avenue in Saint
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  Speaker 1: John's which claimed the life of Mark Squires, a passenger
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  Speaker 1: in the car. Constantine pleaded guilty, but the judge rejected
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  Speaker 1: a joint submission from the defense and the Crown for
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  Speaker 1: a four year sentence. He felt it was too lenient
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  Speaker 1: and ordered the lawyers to go back to the drawing board.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Murray, a retired Crown prosecutor, says the justice system
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  Speaker 1: expects judges to abide by such submissions unless it is
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  Speaker 1: so out of whack that it would bring the system
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  Speaker 1: into disrepute. He says the Crown and defense can now
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  Speaker 1: come up with a new proposal, do more research and
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  Speaker 1: present justification for the original proposal of four years, or
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  Speaker 1: change the guilty plea.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, if the judge
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  Speaker 2: doesn't except joint submission, he's supposed to give the accused
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  Speaker 2: person a chance to consider applying to withdraw their guilty. Fleet,
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  Speaker 2: and that happens sometimes too, and sometimes the sentencing hearing
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  Speaker 2: just goes ahead. So I mean there are a variety
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  Speaker 2: of things there that can happen. If a joint submission
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  Speaker 2: is rejected.
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  Speaker 1: The case resumes in about five weeks. The opposition Liberals
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  Speaker 1: have laid a tall task at the feet of provincial government.
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  Speaker 1: It should cover the costs of school supplies for all
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  Speaker 1: younger children. Back to school time is upon us and
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  Speaker 1: it can be a difficult proposition for some families as
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  Speaker 1: very few of the supplies needed go down in price.
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  Speaker 1: Leader John Hogan says government can take a meaningful step
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  Speaker 1: towards addressing the rising cost of living by providing free
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  Speaker 1: school supplies for all Cada nine students starting this September.
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  Speaker 1: Hogan's government put in place a one hundred dollars subsidy
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  Speaker 1: for the last school year when oil prices were modest
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  Speaker 1: compared to this year. Every extra dollar on a barrel
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  Speaker 1: of oil boost government's coffers by about twenty five million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Hogan also notes that revenue from a new Churchill Falls deal,
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  Speaker 1: which is expected soon, will give government additional leverage. Data
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  Speaker 1: from the World Health Organization shows Canada has half as
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  Speaker 1: many measles cases as the United States, despite Canada having
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  Speaker 1: a population only about one tenth the size of its neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: The WHO is alerting that the Americas need to strengthen
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  Speaker 1: their vaccination surveillance and rapid outbreak response measures amid rising
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  Speaker 1: measles cases across the region. As of mid July, the
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  Speaker 1: WHO recorded just under forty seven thousand, five hundred cases
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  Speaker 1: of measles right across the Americas. That's three times higher
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  Speaker 1: than the total reported cases for all of last year
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  Speaker 1: in the region. About twenty two hundred cases were reported
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, while eleven hundred were reported in Canada.
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  Speaker 1: Police say an eighty year old woman has died as
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  Speaker 1: the result of the wildfire that has forced the evacuation
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  Speaker 1: of thousands in British Columbia's Okanagan region. Don Mitchell reports.
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  Speaker 3: Tick to Narcimpisa, the woman was attempting to escape at
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  Speaker 3: the time. In a statement, Mounties added that the resident
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  Speaker 3: of Meadow Valley, northwest as Summerland, had been trying to
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  Speaker 3: evacuate with a family member when she died suddenly due
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  Speaker 3: to the fire. The death was reported early Saturday morning
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  Speaker 3: by a witness who is also evacuating. The BC Coroner's
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  Speaker 3: services investigating the nature of the woman's death. Don Mitchell,
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  Speaker 3: the Canadian Press.
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  Speaker 1: A Saint John's Bace Company has big plans for developing
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  Speaker 1: a marine port and industrial subdivision near the tip of
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  Speaker 1: the Great Northern Peninsula so that it can become a
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  Speaker 1: player in Arctic preparedness and response. Brian Madoor reports.
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  Speaker 4: Great Northern Port Inc. Says Cremia Harbor is ice free
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  Speaker 4: for seven eight months of the year and while it
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  Speaker 4: lies within the municipal boundaries of the town of Saint Anthony,
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  Speaker 4: it says Saint Anthony Harbor is not the ideal location
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  Speaker 4: for servicing the new Arctic. A company says as the
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  Speaker 4: Far North opens for more commercial and domestic traffic, they'll
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  Speaker 4: be further demand for emergency support in search and rescue GMP,
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  Speaker 4: says Klemaya Harbert. Marine port will provide a range of
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  Speaker 4: services such as wharf, fueling, warehouse and laydown areas, as
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  Speaker 4: well as maintenance and repair requirements. The infrastructure to be
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  Speaker 4: built will include a large warehouse, a fuel tank, farm,
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  Speaker 4: emergency response building service DOC and access road upgrades. It
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  Speaker 4: hopes to begin work next year and finish in twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Jury selection begins today in the case of wrap icon
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  Speaker 1: Tupac Shakur's killing, which has been unsolved for decades. The
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  Speaker 1: man charged in Shakur's nineteen ninety six killing in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: Dwayne Keith D. Davis, faces one charge of murder with
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  Speaker 1: a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or
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  Speaker 1: assist a criminal gang. The trial will bring to a
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  Speaker 1: head one of the biggest mysteries in the hip hop
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  Speaker 1: world that ripped the public for decades. Many considered Chakour
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  Speaker 1: to be one of the most influential rappers of all time.
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  Speaker 1: That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.