Canada's Legal Weed, Job Openings Record & Harry Potter Parody - Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Wednesday, October 17th, 2018!
Today, we're talking about the largest country yet to legalize marijuana and the record number of job openings in the U.S.
Plus: Uber's valuation, Lyft's subscription service and Facebook's next in-home device.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes.
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Sources:
Canada's Legal Weed: CBC, NYT, CNBC, NBC News
Texas Flooding The Weather Channel / Michael Aftermath The Weather Channel
Cost of College: WSJ
Job Openings Record: MarketWatch, U.S. Dept. of Labor
Lyft Subscriptions: The Verge
Facebook's Next Device: Cheddar, TechCrunch
Twitter Error TechCrunch / YouTube Down: CBS News, Twitter
Harry Potter Parody Play: The Verge, CNET
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. |
| 0:06.0 | All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:08.3 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:11.0 | Today we're talking about the largest country yet to legalize marijuana |
| 0:14.7 | and a record number of job openings. Plus Uber's Value LIF's subscription service |
| 0:20.0 | and Facebook's next in-home device. Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 0:26.0 | Today is Wednesday, October 17th. |
| 0:28.0 | You ready. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's do this. |
| 0:31.0 | All eyes on. do this. |
| 0:34.3 | All eyes on Canada today. |
| 0:36.1 | It is now officially the largest and highest profile country to allow and regulate legal recreational |
| 0:41.6 | marijuana. |
| 0:42.6 | As the clock struck midnight there, |
| 0:44.4 | CBC showed people already lined up and ready to buy at stores. |
| 0:48.6 | NBC news says more than 100 legal pot shops are now open across the nation, but that's pretty small compared to what |
| 0:55.2 | will surely be a growing marketplace. |
| 0:57.9 | In fact, the NBC's host Jim Kramer said he thinks legal marijuana might be the most disruptive force since Amazon, |
| 1:05.2 | although plenty of other experts say it is over-hiked and overvalued. |
| 1:08.9 | Either way, the New York Times points out each province is doing it a little differently. So some are saying you have to be 18, |
| 1:15.8 | others say 19, they can also choose their own quantities allowed in smoking locations, |
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