Juno News - Freedom activist released after peaceful protest

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emmanuel we have a lot of

00:00:15.780 really great material for you guys today so let's jump right into today's topics an alberta freedom

00:00:20.760 fighter says he was released from rcmp detainment after hundreds of protesters showed up to the

00:00:25.140 detachment where he was being held to protest for his release the head of alberta's rcmp

00:00:29.820 says plans for provincial policing is harming its members two united conservative party leadership

00:00:35.120 candidates dropped out of a recent leaders forum at the last minute you'll find out why today we'll

00:00:40.160 have of course our usual ucp leadership update and the alberta prosperity project has absolutely

00:00:45.700 eviscerated candidate leela ahir after she accused them of being racist homophobes all that and more

00:00:51.180 in today's episode let's jump into today's topics coutts border protester alex van hirke says the

00:00:56.640 alberta rcmp dropped a condition which would force him to end contact with his best friend

00:01:01.540 and fellow coutts border protester after 200 people showed up to an rcmp detachment to protest his

00:01:07.880 detainment on thursday evening true north reported that 30 to 40 protesters gathered outside the rcmp

00:01:13.140 detachment in fort mcleod alberta to demand van hirke's release as the night went on that crowd

00:01:18.160 swelled to about 200 people who protested until van hirke was released around 9 p.m van hirke told me he

00:01:24.000 was being detained for obstruction of a peace officer during demonstrations at grace life church

00:01:28.460 you guys probably remember the protest at grace life church where james coates was the pastor the

00:01:33.500 rcmp went and erected barricades around the building to keep the community from continuing to meet in

00:01:39.100 breach of the cova 19 restrictions van hirke went the day those barricades were being erected and he's

00:01:44.340 been photographed holding one end of a barricade while the rcmp are holding another end the rcmp told

00:01:49.920 van hirke's family on thursday he would be released within a matter of hours but complications began

00:01:54.300 after van hirke turned himself in at this point the rcmp added an additional charge of mischief over

00:01:59.660 five thousand dollars stemming from the coots border blockade van hirke said he knew the charge

00:02:03.520 was coming and was still willing to sign the documents until he saw a condition on the last

00:02:07.900 page demanding he sees all contact with marco van hoogenbos i probably butchered that last name

00:02:13.060 i'm sorry marco marco is his best friend of 13 years who as i mentioned was also in attendance at the

00:02:18.120 coots border protest van hirke told me he wouldn't sign the documents but the rcmp were eventually

00:02:23.500 forced to release him as the crowd swelled and he told them the crowd would continue to grow and the

00:02:27.520 situation would escalate until he was released when i chatted with van hirke on friday morning he was

00:02:32.620 feeling very encouraged and he told canadians it's time to rise up against tyranny quote the power is in

00:02:38.580 the people but the people have to be there to do it the head of alberta's rcmp says a proposal for

00:02:44.180 provincial policing is harming its members last week i told you guys about justice minister tyler

00:02:49.400 shannon's blueprint for provincial policing the proposal has not yet been confirmed it's just an

00:02:54.320 idea at this point from the province but they said they want to have a transition ready in case it's

00:02:59.100 needed now deputy commissioner curtis zablaki said the province's proposal is impacting morale

00:03:05.040 and causing staff concern for their future quote quite frankly it's been very disruptive and

00:03:10.660 distracting for all our employees our staff are concerned about their futures and the futures of

00:03:15.540 their partners and their families he told the canadian press let's move into the controversy of

00:03:20.820 the week i'm sure you guys have heard about the alberta prosperity project by now it's a group which

00:03:25.180 advocates for alberta independence they hosted a debate on thursday evening with rebel news in

00:03:30.140 edmonton but only three candidates attended just brian gene todd lowen and daniel smith bothered to show up

00:03:35.900 rebecca schultz and travis taves dropped out late last week saying they did not know the event

00:03:40.500 was going to be a fundraiser for the app which supports alberta independence travis taves campaign

00:03:45.620 chair also told cbc news his team didn't realize what the app advocates for which is interesting

00:03:50.900 because on the first page of the app's website it states the road to freedom and prosperity is

00:03:56.300 through independence huh interesting guys let's talk a little bit about what we're going to be

00:04:01.120 watching in the weeks ahead at the app debate on thursday night danielle smith said she supports

00:04:05.980 biological men participating in biological women's sports in some instances candidates were asked

00:04:11.100 about how they feel about gender transitions for minors as well as transgenders competing in sports

00:04:17.660 danielle smith said she thinks there should be testosterone testing to determine who can compete 0.88

00:04:22.060 in biological women's sports i think there should be a maybe it's a testosterone level testing so that 1.00

00:04:27.340 if you're above a certain level that perhaps and there are some women as well who have a very high 0.90

00:04:31.660 level of testosterone too she also said she has a non-binary family member the other candidate said

00:04:37.420 men should compete with men and women should compete with women i'm interested to hear what

00:04:42.220 the other candidates have to say about this issue as well what do you guys think what is the solution

00:04:47.180 to biological men who want to compete in biological women's sports is there a place for them or not

00:04:51.980 all right let's move into our ucp leadership race update we've already talked a lot about the

00:04:55.900 candidates today of course they are dominating the headlines in alberta these days no surprise there as

00:05:00.620 someone will be replacing premier jason kenney as premiere on october 6 but ucp leadership

00:05:06.300 candidate and front runner danielle smith started off the week by responding to a voicemail a rude 0.99

00:05:10.860 voicemail someone left claiming to be from the smith campaign smith said the voicemail is fake in the

00:05:17.340 voicemail the caller makes fun of the user for being vaccinated and un invites them to a smith campaign

00:05:23.340 event for their apparent communist political views in the days since this controversy has emerged the

00:05:28.700 twitter user who posted the clip has protected their tweets so i actually wasn't able to pull

00:05:32.380 the clip for you guys today smith responded by saying the voicemail is clearly a prank

00:05:37.420 and she told people to avoid jumping to conclusions this isn't the only incident we've had this week

00:05:42.860 candidate leela ahir says her personal and public facebook accounts have been hacked and are being

00:05:47.660 used for sexual exploitation it hears accounts were first hacked last week and it seemed like a bit

00:05:52.940 of a joke at first she had a photo of a green laborghini being updated on her public facebook

00:05:57.500 page a lot of people got a bit of a laugh about it but in the days following that breach grew much

00:06:02.860 more sinister as hackers began using her personal account to quote purchase nefarious and disgusting

00:06:08.380 content under my name end quote that's what a hear said what this means is that the hackers were

00:06:12.700 posting child porn to a hear's private facebook page and she was getting notifications in the middle

00:06:17.580 of the night from facebook that her account was abusing facebook's policies the leadership candidate

00:06:22.860 held a tearful press conference about the incident this week take a listen to whomever perpetrated

00:06:28.860 this attack on myself and my family you will not win i will not back down danielle smith also

00:06:40.780 responded to the hack saying quote there has been an uptick in underhanded attacks on conservative

00:06:45.980 woman in the last week however i note that not everyone thinks here is sincere some people have

00:06:51.340 reached out to me to say this is all a ploy for attention because she's pulling solo in the ucp

00:06:56.460 leadership race right now she's pulling at the very bottom along with candidate rajansani who as i've 0.68

00:07:01.420 told you guys in previous episodes has positioned herself as the antidote to danielle smith the front 1.00

00:07:07.260 runner danielle smith let's move into the alberta politics funny moment of the week the alberta

00:07:12.540 prosperity project has absolutely eviscerated leela here after she accused him for being responsible

00:07:17.900 for racism white supremacy and homophobia i hear declined to attend their debate on thursday night

00:07:24.140 with rebel news in edmonton but she said candidates that did participate are responsible

00:07:28.060 for quote white supremacy homophobia and racism end quote the app clapped back in a statement dennis

00:07:34.220 moji president said a here is following in the footsteps of premier jason kenney who has similarly

00:07:39.260 mischaracterized dissidents of his leadership he also said a here is likely to lose her seat in the

00:07:44.460 next election in a statement to true north modri wrote quote both missy here and mr kenney have

00:07:50.220 failed to understand that their poor performance lack of integrity lying and spineless failure to stand

00:07:55.580 up for albertans have been at the root of the app movement he also said quote should we be surprised

00:08:00.540 that miss it here has such appalling cognitive dissonance and lack of decorum of course not she's at the 1.00

00:08:06.620 the highest echelon of cancel culture an isolated socialist ideology from which she refuses to be

00:08:11.820 educated end quote ouch i would not want to be on the receiving end of that statement though i will

00:08:17.020 say some of you are equally as ruthless online okay everyone that's it thank you so much for tuning

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Juno News - August 27, 2022

Freedom activist released after peaceful protest

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