{"id":912589,"date":"2026-09-28T08:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912589\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:22:13","slug":"force-nl-pleased-to-see-churchill-falls-mou-going-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/912589\/","title":{"rendered":"FORCE NL Pleased to see Churchill Falls MOU Going Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/benjamin-oates.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"FORCE NL Pleased to see Churchill Falls MOU Going Ahead\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benjamin Oates (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>FORCE NL \u2013 a group made up of young entrepreneurs and professionals \u2013 is pleased to see the Churchill Falls MOU going ahead. <\/p>\n<p>Ben Oates says while it \u201cain\u2019t over\u201d until the deal is finalized, he was interested to see how the debate in the House of Assembly played out this month. <\/p>\n<p>He says the interesting part for him was that government \u201cdid not seem terribly interested in building cohesion around their own deal. They seemed to just want to play a game of \u2018mine\u2019s bigger than yours\u2019 and right now it\u2019s about building cohesion\u2026not about comparisons to an MOU that no longer exists.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Oates takes comfort in the fact that the deal is likely to go through in the Quebec legislature regardless of what happens in next month\u2019s provincial election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Benjamin Oates (VOCM News) FORCE NL \u2013 a group made up of young entrepreneurs and professionals \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-912589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}