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TRAFFIC ADVISORY: Bay St. George RCMP advises motorists that Route 490 (Stephenville Access Road) is currently closed between Carolina Ave and Harbour Drive, as crews recover a large vehicle. An update will be provided when the road reopens to traffic.

. @VOCMOpenline with guest host Linda Swain is now available @ vocm.com/2019/08/01/ope……& wherever else podcasts are available.

@TedBlades Thanks Ted!

Charm, humility, a breath-taking depth and breadth of knowledge, and - most importantly - the patience of Job. Paddy Daley brought all that and more to his 16 years in the big chair at @VOCMOpenline. Thank you. It won't be the same without you there . You'll be missed.

Paddy Daly here. This is my last post from this account, handing back to the station. If you’re interested you can a follow and contact my new account @paddywasonradio thanks again for everything! I’m truly grateful for the support. Here’s to our bright futures!

@ForNL6 @TimWalshx I didn’t know there was a spring election coming and you think if I was going to run I would have done it last year?

@TimWalshx @VOCMOpenline Wouldn’t be surprised for a fed liberal run come spring …

Enjoy retirement ⁦@VOCMOpenline⁩ 🎉🎉🎉 vocm.com/2026/01/27/pad…

Thanks everyone for your support over the years!

@PeteSoucy Thanks, Pete.

@VOCMOpenline A champion and guiding light of insight and honesty for information and discourse in Newfoundland & Labrador. Thank you Paddy for showing how it’s done. Always on top of any issue, and open to all perspectives. I tip my hat and applaud in gratitude. Onward - all the best, sir.

Some personal news coming off the top of the show this morning.

@drewfoundland thanks boss, appreciate it.

@SheldonP haha

@VOCMOpenline too early in the day to be mentioning Margaret Thatcher, at least give us a warning

@boates02 @NFPower same thing at our house last evening

@NFPower Hi there! What’s going on with the power in the Mount Cashel/Ennis Avenue area? My neighbourbood’s power has cut out 5 times for approx. 30 seconds in the last 4 hours. Voltage regulator gone bad? Can’t get thru to the outage phone # @VOCMOpenline

@DrewBar10631078 ugh

@VOCMOpenline OMG did you see the latest quote from Trump "Canada lives because of the US, Remember that 'Mark'" I miss sensibility

@nukefoundland sorry, just seeing this. bloody site was trying to refresh itself for over 10 minutes on my end.

Could you ask the gentleman about the base rate increase of 72% before muskrat falls @VOCMOpenline ?

@TjBrinston both got a richly deserved shout-out yesterday morning!

@VOCMOpenline can you do a curling shout out for me please. Big congrats to team Perry and team Locke. They represented MUN at the AUS curling championships and both came home with the title and banner. They now go to U sports in Regina in February.

@kaebee23 pretty sure that's what I said?

@VOCMOpenline it’s a staffing issue Paddy, it’s not an emergency room issue. Doesn’t matter how many doctors or nurses are working in the ER, if there are no staffed beds upstairs for them to go too.

@labradorkillick oh no. Do you know what happened? any further context?

@VOCMOpenline did you see this? So sad...! facebook.com/share/1AgbpJHy…

@Deb0304 cheers!

@VOCMOpenline Ok that must be the one we would use then. Thank you, Paddy! Great show again today!

@VOCMOpenline how do we contact Dennis Browne in his position of consumer advocate? Do we use his email at the law office? That's the only email I can find but it feels wrong to email his work email. 🙂

@nukefoundland somewhat I guess

Morning @VOCMOpenline do you got a handle on the Weather Normalization Reserve?

@0hVolvo @GerriLynnMackey @VOCMNEWS whoa