Corner Brook

Andrew Parsons, former MHA, has stepped into a league president role.

And we'll be talking about what's going on on the west coast of this province at the Cornerbrook Civic Center and some of the issues there.

New Structure Review report is out from Memorial University looking at ways that they can, well, streamline their budget.

We'll be speaking to Jennifer Locash about that a little later in the show.

Was there any thought of putting the league possibly on pause or maybe playing some more games in the metro region to make up for the loss?

No, I don't think that was a consideration.

I mean, it was basically right up until very recently, this was a case of everybody thought Cornbrook was going to be involved.

And it wasn't until just last week that the decision was made.

So yeah.

I was in Cornerbrook when Fiona hit, which obviously you wake up and you're seeing your neighbor's houses get destroyed.

It's a lot.

And then also hearing from my family, hey, we got evacuated.

Yeah, it's always nice to talk to folks on the West Coast.

When I say West Coast in this program, people think Cornerbrook as opposed to the West Coast of the country.

Is it Vancouver? Where are you today?

You know what? I really am right out on the West Coast.

And this, you know, disservice as well.

You know, I think when you are in certain, you know, professional groups in Newfoundland, whether you're in Corner Brook or whether you're in St. John's or Clarenville or Grand Falls, the names around those negotiating tables usually are known names to you.

You know, everyone kind of knows Jerome.

Yeah.

And you guys played the west coast of Newfoundland as well, right? Did you give us more of the

north? Cornerbrook? No, it's about halfway up.

Oh, right, okay, right, right, right.

Fair

How are you? Good, good.

First of all, I'd like to reach out in solidarity to QP4386, 4386 in Corner Brook and their lockout.

We're having similar issues in the marine and dock industry.

We're having a protest today I'd like to speak about at noon.

How can workers have confidence that Ethica will respect fundamental labor rights in Newfoundland and Labrador if they are potentially violating international human rights laws abroad? Furthermore, we demand to know if Ethica will strictly maintain the binding local commitments made by Suncor where they pocketed $250 million for the Terranova refit that was done in Spain alongside an additional 250 million dollar public royalty break from our provincial government public money must secure decent local jobs not subsidize unaccountable corporate handovers dignity begins with accountability both at our docks and within our natural resources and our theme is touch one touch all and we demand the manifest our local poor here in st john's we won't be involved really in shipping military cargo to the Mediterranean, but we support our dockers across the globe.

in this protest today, and we support human rights for people who need accommodations as well.

Yeah, you took the first question right out of my mouth just there, just wondering to what extent we do accommodate or our ports around Newfoundland and Labrador, or even specifically St. John's, I guess, and I guess Corner Brook.

I mean, the larger of the two, to what extent? I mean, we know we're looking at a lot of defense contracts, but whether or not what's going directly to the Mediterranean, and as you said, The connections that Ithaca has to supply of arms and interest in Gaza is a lot on that, Chris, to say the least.