Monday Oct 19th

Obviously, the focus of the country, and you heard Michaela play the interview with Tom Osborne earlier, is what has happened in Alberta at the Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.

As Mr. Osborne said at the moment, no reports of any Newfoundlanders and Labradorians injured, though we're all Canadians, as he said, and four young men have passed away.

Nineteen people in critical condition will continue to follow the story.

Thirty-nine, I believe, others receiving different degrees of injuries.

Tough, tough, tough weekend for the people of Wainwright.

And certainly we have lots of listeners in Alberta who are from this province and no doubt are connected to the people in Wainwright.

The positive out of everything, I think, that the tragedy that happened is the response from everything that has been published so far or aired so far.

Comprehensive community, national response to help save, try and save the lives of those who were impacted all over Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Hospitals were mobilized.

First responders were mobilized to make as big a difference as they could in these moments of tragedy.

There's certainly lots of questions to be asked, including why the military were training when there were fires that were known about happening.

That would seem to be a key question that needs to be answered.

The military saying there will likely be something called a board of inquiry that will look into what happened.

Not looking to point blame at anybody today and perhaps never, but we do need to know the answers as to what happened and why these young people lost their lives.

There are still people that are struggling to hang on.

There were some very moving speeches today by the prime minister, the leader of the opposition and other party leaders talking about the tragedy, remembering the four soldiers who had fallen, commending those who were there to respond.

We've got a conversation coming up shortly with Kent Morrison.

Kent is the CTV morning anchor in Edmonton.

He was in Wainwright.

I was sitting in for Vashi earlier today and had the chance to speak with Emil here.

That conversation, he got on the scene yesterday, so he will take us through what it was like and how people are doing up there.

And if you have questions or concerns or would like to speak about it, we will try and get your comments on.

But that certainly is a focus today.

The other focus also in Alberta, which has impacts as well on Newfoundland and Labrador, is the referendum.

We've talked about it for a few days.

Obviously, the focus of the country, and you heard Michaela play the interview with Tom Osborne earlier, is what has happened in Alberta at the Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.

As Mr. Osborne said at the moment, no reports of any Newfoundlanders and Labradorians injured, though we're all Canadians, as he said, and four young men have passed away.

Nineteen people in critical condition will continue to follow the story.

Thirty-nine, I believe, others receiving different degrees of injuries.

Tough, tough, tough weekend for the people of Wainwright.

And certainly we have lots of listeners in Alberta who are from this province and no doubt are connected to the people in Wainwright.

The positive out of everything, I think, that the tragedy that happened is the response from everything that has been published so far or aired so far.

Comprehensive community, national response to help save, try and save the lives of those who were impacted all over Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Hospitals were mobilized.

First responders were mobilized to make as big a difference as they could in these moments of tragedy.

There's certainly lots of questions to be asked, including why the military were training when there were fires that were known about happening.

That would seem to be a key question that needs to be answered.

The military saying there will likely be something called a board of inquiry that will look into what happened.

Not looking to point blame at anybody today and perhaps never, but we do need to know the answers as to what happened and why these young people lost their lives.

There are still people that are struggling to hang on.

There were some very moving speeches today by the prime minister, the leader of the opposition and other party leaders talking about the tragedy, remembering the four soldiers who had fallen, commending those who were there to respond.

We've got a conversation coming up shortly with Kent Morrison.

Kent is the CTV morning anchor in Edmonton.

He was in Wainwright.

I was sitting in for Vashi earlier today and had the chance to speak with Emil here.

That conversation, he got on the scene yesterday, so he will take us through what it was like and how people are doing up there.

And if you have questions or concerns or would like to speak about it, we will try and get your comments on.

But that certainly is a focus today.

The other focus also in Alberta, which has impacts as well on Newfoundland and Labrador, is the referendum.

We've talked about it for a few days.