Juno News - Alberta takes aim at Trudeau’s handgun ban

Alberta's Chief Firearms Officer has some strong words for the federal government who last week announced a ban on the importation of handguns for the civilian market. Gas prices in Alberta have dropped after Premier Jason Kenney asked Canada's Competition Bureau to investigate whether there was price fixing going on. We ll be taking a look at the premier's former chief of staff who left the provincial government to take a job with a non-profit that receives provincial funding, but then only weeks later signed a contract with the Province for 119 dollars per hour for 119 hours per hour. We ll also look into the ongoing fight between Athabasca University and the Alberta government which has taken a new turn, and of course we ll have our update on the UCP Leadership Race.

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emanuel i'm happy to report

00:00:17.040 that i'm back home in edmonton after a couple weeks on the road i was actually surprised with

00:00:21.440 how much i missed edmonton so certainly happy to be back and reporting from home once again

00:00:26.800 let's take a look at today's topics alberta's chief firearms officer has some strong words for

00:00:32.000 the federal government who last week announced a ban on the importation of handguns for the civilian

00:00:36.880 market gas prices in alberta have dropped after premier jason kenney asked canada's competition

00:00:42.320 bureau to investigate whether there was price fixing going on we'll be taking a look at the

00:00:46.880 premier's former chief of staff who left the provincial government to take a job with a

00:00:51.760 non-profit that receives provincial funding but then only weeks later signed a contract

00:00:56.560 with the provincial government for 119 dollars per hour we'll be taking a look at the ongoing fight

00:01:02.400 between athabasca university and the alberta provincial government which has taken a new turn

00:01:07.360 and of course we'll have our update on the ucp leadership race and we'll be taking a look at

00:01:12.160 a controversial essay that has taken leftist twitter by storm let's move into today's topics

00:01:17.520 alberta chief firearms officer terry bryant has said the trudeau government's ban on importing

00:01:22.400 legal handguns will have no impact on crime the federal government announced last week that handguns

00:01:28.960 for the civilian market will be barred from importation as of august 19. this was a directive

00:01:34.080 issued without the oversight of parliament meaning mps were not given the opportunity to vote on this

00:01:38.880 it was simply passed by the federal government but brian said the directive continues a pattern of

00:01:44.080 ottawa which is quote attempting to eliminate firearms ownership of all kinds one slice at a

00:01:50.400 time end quote the chief firearms officer invited any minister responsible for the directive to spend

00:01:57.040 a weekend with brian at shooting events to see the people ottawa is impacting brian says it's probably not

00:02:02.880 the people ottawa expects it is let's talk about gas prices gas prices in alberta have plummeted okay

00:02:08.880 that might be being a bit generous but they have gone down quite a bit since jason kenney asked canada's

00:02:13.840 competition bureau to investigate whether there was price fixing in the province here in edmonton

00:02:18.960 prices at some gas stations are about 50 cents per liter lower than they were last month at this time

00:02:25.040 so that's some huge savings being passed on to consumers you guys might remember we talked about

00:02:30.080 this a couple weeks ago the premier asked for the investigation after it was revealed that prices in

00:02:35.760 alberta in cities like calgary and edmonton were actually higher than they were in ontario's greater

00:02:41.200 toronto area now that's significant because prices in alberta are typically cheaper than they are in

00:02:46.320 ontario due to a regulations but b our proximity to refineries as well the alberta government earlier

00:02:53.840 this year removed the provincial sales tax from the cost of gas and kenny said we were just not

00:02:58.800 seeing those costs being passed on to consumers hence why he requested the investigation and now we've

00:03:03.920 seen gas prices certainly plummet i'd also note that the drop in gas prices is coinciding with the

00:03:09.680 drop in world oil prices so two things to consider there hey guys this is the story that we're going

00:03:13.440 to be watching over the next couple of weeks i'm curious to see what happens here and what direction

00:03:17.840 this takes there's been an ongoing fight between athabasca university and the alberta provincial

00:03:22.640 government athabasca is an online university and the provincial government has said they wanted 65

00:03:28.960 of the institution's staff to be based in the small town by the 2024 2025 academic year and they

00:03:35.600 threatened to pull 41 million in annual funding if the university did not agree to meet the residency

00:03:41.280 target now for those of you who aren't aware the reason of the red residency target is to sort of

00:03:46.160 bolster the town's you know economy i don't know if you guys are familiar with athabasca it's about

00:03:51.760 two hours north of edmonton i visited recently it's very cute there's not a whole lot to do there for

00:03:57.440 someone who prefers maybe a bit more of a city life so the university has been really low to implement this

00:04:04.000 target and there's been a lot of back and forth between athabasca and the province on this now the

00:04:09.600 province is saying that they're willing to be flexible on the 65 target and they might not

00:04:14.320 necessarily pull the funding so we're going to have to keep our eyes on this to see what happens

00:04:19.200 if they're able to reach an agreement that might see some of the executives return to the area or not

00:04:24.800 okay guys now it's time for our ucp leadership race update at the beginning of the week angela pitt

00:04:30.800 resign as raj and sonny's campaign chair i think this is pretty devastating for the sonny campaign

00:04:36.000 because the campaign has really struggled to gain momentum and traction sonny has been pulling pretty

00:04:42.160 low and she's been positioning herself as the antidote to danielle smith who is the front runner 1.00

00:04:47.840 now on sunday pitt resigned citing a need to realign with her values and with her constituents values

00:04:54.080 meanwhile ucp leadership candidate todd lowen wants an investigation into all the covet bonuses that were

00:04:59.440 paid out so as we know dina henshaw as we talked about last week was paid about 228 000 in a covet bonus 0.96

00:05:06.880 on top of her salary she took over well over half a million in 2021 but she wasn't the only one who got 0.91

00:05:12.400 a coveted bonus in fact 107 alberta management employees collected 2.4 million bonuses in 2021 2.4

00:05:20.400 million i don't know about you guys i certainly did not receive a bonus during the covet 19 pandemic

00:05:26.000 i actually probably made a lot less considering inflation the cost of everything was so much higher

00:05:30.320 while my wages stayed exactly the same so todd lowen wants an investigation into how these bonuses

00:05:36.000 were paid out and the ndp agree with him also writing a letter to the auditor general this week

00:05:41.200 requesting an investigation i thought todd lowen's response to this was so funny he wrote on facebook

00:05:46.720 quote the awkward moment when even the ndp follows my lead it won't earn rachel notley a spot in my cabinet

00:05:53.840 but thanks for coming on board anyway ucp front runner danielle smith is starting to rack up the 1.00

00:05:59.120 endorsements alberta labor and immigration minister casey maddu endorse smith and his riding of edmonton

00:06:05.280 southwest at a smith campaign event on thursday night that makes maddu the second cabinet member

00:06:10.800 and seventh ucp mla to endorse danielle smith and that includes two ucp mlas who for first endorsed

00:06:17.920 travis taves but then pulled those endorsements to back smith and that of course is service alberta

00:06:23.520 minister nate glubish and emily pat run okay guys let's end today on a bit of a lighter note

00:06:29.120 you guys might have heard about this essay that's taking the alberta press gallery and left his

00:06:33.040 twitter by storm people are absolutely outraged over this essay so here's what happened there was

00:06:38.800 a her vision inspires contest which the alberta government agreed to post the essays on their

00:06:43.760 website and two female ucp mlas also helped judging in the contest there were three winners and the

00:06:51.280 third place winner was a basically an essay that urged women to have children which is as you know

00:06:57.280 very controversial in the year 2022 the essay said albertan women are taught that children are a

00:07:03.520 burden while importing foreigners to replace albertan culture and albertan people essentially 0.99

00:07:09.600 the essay also wrote that men and women aren't exactly equal because women have the unique ability 1.00

00:07:15.200 to bear children and obviously there's a bit of a biological difference and the essay writer wrote that

00:07:20.240 modern culture really chooses to ignore this difference or to rewrite it and the essay said

00:07:25.920 men and women have an important role in preserving their speeches and culture and women often regret

00:07:31.120 having children later in life i'm sure you guys won't find it surprising that people were outraged over

00:07:36.240 this essay they couldn't believe that it was third place it was later revealed that there were two other

00:07:41.680 essays that did not place in the contest and people couldn't understand how this essay placed above

00:07:46.640 those others that did not place and of course the ucp mlas that were involved in the judging have been

00:07:51.680 forced to apologize so i'm wondering what do you guys think is this essay as controversial as everyone

00:07:57.280 says it is was it wrong to have chosen this person to win third place or does she maybe have a point or

00:08:03.360 you know maybe she just has some different thoughts but she should still be allowed to express those

00:08:07.760 let me know what you guys think you know where you can reach me on twitter or facebook

00:08:11.520 that's all i have for you today thanks so much for tuning in and we'll catch up next week

Juno News - August 13, 2022

Alberta takes aim at Trudeau’s handgun ban

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