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VOCM News Afternoon Update October 28th · 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. A 25-year-old man is dead and two
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  Speaker 2: young men are in hospital with serious injuries following a
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  Speaker 2: single vehicle crash near Southbrook last week. Emergency responders were
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  Speaker 2: called to the scene on the TCH around quarter after
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  Speaker 2: 10 Thursday night. One passenger was pronounced dead at the scene.
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  Speaker 2: The driver and a second passenger were taken to hospital
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  Speaker 2: with what are being described as serious and possibly life-altering injuries.
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  Speaker 2: An investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing
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  Speaker 2: and the office of the chief medical examiner has been engaged.
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  Speaker 2: The NL Medical Association says the use of Teladoc, a
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  Speaker 2: virtual medical service, is accelerating in Newfoundland and Labrador and
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  Speaker 2: that's of serious concern. Linda Swain reports.
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  Speaker 1: The NLMA says the province's growing reliance on private virtual
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  Speaker 1: care is a symptom of an ongoing doctor shortage. Association
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  Speaker 1: President Dr. David Metcalfe says virtual care was never intended
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  Speaker 1: to replace a patient's access to a family physician or
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  Speaker 1: become a permanent substitute for emergency care. Instead, three years
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  Speaker 1: after the program was first introduced, more communities are depending
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  Speaker 1: on the virtual platform to keep emergency departments open. Metcalf
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  Speaker 1: says that's not a sign of success, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: the standard patients should expect in a modern health care system.
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  Speaker 1: The NLMA has been calling for the release of a
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  Speaker 1: comprehensive physician health human resource plan since 2018, which includes
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  Speaker 1: targets for the number and distribution of needed physicians across
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  Speaker 1: the province.
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  Speaker 2: Labels put on Foods by Health Canada are getting more
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  Speaker 2: people to turn away from unhealthy food on grocery store shelves,
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  Speaker 2: according to one think tank. The federal government recently mandated
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  Speaker 2: new front-of-package nutrition symbols to highlight foods high in saturated fat,
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  Speaker 2: sugar or sodium. A new poll commissioned by the Canadian
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  Speaker 2: think tank SecondStreet.org shows that consumers are not only noticing
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  Speaker 2: the labels... but are actually putting the junk food back
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  Speaker 2: on the shelf. Secondstreet.org President Colin Craig says the labels
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  Speaker 2: have changed the mindset of nearly half of shoppers.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's pretty interesting. About 84% of Canadians have noticed them.
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  Speaker 3: And one of the follow-up questions we asked was, well,
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  Speaker 3: did it affect your behavior? Because that's the whole point
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  Speaker 3: behind the government's rationale for requiring packaged food products to
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  Speaker 3: have these labels, is to warn people if they're high
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  Speaker 3: in sodium saturated fats or sugar. And what we found
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  Speaker 3: was that about half of Canadians indicated that, yes, it
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  Speaker 3: led to them deciding to purchase a healthier product.
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  Speaker 2: A California appeals court has upheld actor Danny Masterson's convictions
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  Speaker 2: and prison sentence for sexually assaulting two women at his
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  Speaker 2: home in 2003. In an 89-page ruling, the three-judge panel
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  Speaker 2: unanimously found that the That 70s Show actor had failed
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  Speaker 2: to demonstrate that the lower court made errors that would
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  Speaker 2: warrant granting him a new trial. Masterson was sentenced to
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  Speaker 2: 30 years to life in prison in a 2023 retrial
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  Speaker 2: alleging he assaulted two women. That's your news. I'm Sarah Strickland.