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VOCM News Evening Update Oct 12th · 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. An innovative medical transportation aircraft produced by
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  Speaker 2: Evis Air will be on display at a major aviation
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  Speaker 2: show in Las Vegas later this month. The Metamax 1900D
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  Speaker 2: was developed by the company around the Beechcraft 1900D platform.
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  Speaker 2: CEO Ian White says they've taken what was originally designed
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  Speaker 2: to be a passenger airliner and modified it to accommodate
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  Speaker 2: a dual stretcher system and a bariatric stretcher system, which
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  Speaker 2: is made for larger and heavier people.
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  Speaker 1: Traditionally, medevac aircraft have been kind of small and not
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  Speaker 1: able to... Moving to larger patients has been a struggle
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  Speaker 1: in the past. We found this aircraft has been uniquely
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  Speaker 1: situated for that mission. And some of the platforms that
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  Speaker 1: we've sent out across Canada have been recruited for service
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  Speaker 1: to South America, all over North America and parts of
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  Speaker 1: South America and the Caribbean to bring back these bariatric
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  Speaker 1: patients because... The access to other aircraft is so limited.
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  Speaker 2: White says people have been blown away by how spacious
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  Speaker 2: the aircraft is.
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  Speaker 1: We're fielding calls all over North America, New Zealand, Australia.
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  Speaker 1: We have agreements now in New Zealand as well. So
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  Speaker 1: there's agents in New Zealand that are marketing this aircraft.
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  Speaker 1: And believe it or not, we didn't go looking for them.
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  Speaker 1: They found a video of us on YouTube and they
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  Speaker 1: reached out to us.
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  Speaker 2: A journalist who delved into the world of chips, VLTs,
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  Speaker 2: and casinos is warning that gambling is becoming an epidemic
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  Speaker 2: in Canada. Rob Chernick, the author of A Losing Hand,
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  Speaker 2: examined the various jurisdictions across Canada for a book, including
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  Speaker 2: Newfoundland and Labrador. He says stronger public awareness is needed
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  Speaker 2: to reduce the human cost. Recent evidence in Ontario shows
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  Speaker 2: a trend of related emergency room visits, self-harm risk, and
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  Speaker 2: acute harms among younger men. But not all provinces have
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  Speaker 2: that data, Newfoundland and Labrador being one of them.
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  Speaker 3: When we legalize and we expand gambling, there's always a risk.
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  Speaker 3: And so you have to say to yourself, is it
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  Speaker 3: worth that risk? And if you don't know the numbers
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  Speaker 3: like this, you don't know if it's worth the risk.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's important to note that Newfoundland and
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  Speaker 3: Labrador is the only province without a physical casino.
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  Speaker 2: Chernick says getting information from this province was not easy.
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  Speaker 3: And for a long time, the line was they were
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  Speaker 3: not going to open an ALC online casino. And then
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  Speaker 3: they did quite quietly. And when I asked the government why,
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  Speaker 3: they kind of tiptoed around it. So I think it's
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  Speaker 3: just important to know that This expansion keeps happening and
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  Speaker 3: people aren't necessarily looking at this data and making decisions
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  Speaker 3: based on that.
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  Speaker 2: An iconic local restaurant is celebrating three quarters of a
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  Speaker 2: century since serving its first plates of fish and chips
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  Speaker 2: to the public. Chess's Fish and Chips first opened its
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  Speaker 2: doors on October 29, 1951 with a snack bar on
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  Speaker 2: Harvey Road in St. John's. A native of Newtown Bonavista Bay,
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  Speaker 2: Chess Barber started it all by steaming out of the
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  Speaker 2: narrows each morning to catch enough fish to get him
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  Speaker 2: through the day and return in time to serve his
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  Speaker 2: hungry dinnertime customers. Along with his wife Betty, that little
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  Speaker 2: snack bar soon grew with the flagship store on Freshwater
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  Speaker 2: Road opening in 1958. It remains in operation today. Barber
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  Speaker 2: passed away in 1991 at the age of 62, and
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  Speaker 2: the business that still bears his name is celebrating 75
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  Speaker 2: years in operation. The family-run business has since grown to
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  Speaker 2: three restaurants in St. John's, one in Mount Pearl, and
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  Speaker 2: one in Bay Roberts. People may notice a number of
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  Speaker 2: emergency responders at St. John's International Airport tomorrow, but it'll
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  Speaker 2: all be part of a training exercise. The event, held
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  Speaker 2: every two years, helps to ensure the airport and its
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  Speaker 2: partners are ready to respond in an emergency. The exercise
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  Speaker 2: takes place between 7 and 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. Airport
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  Speaker 2: operations will not be affected. Up next, your BOCM weather forecast.