Juno News - Hinshaw hired in British Columbia

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emanuel i hope that you guys

00:00:14.160 are having a great weekend so far let's take a look at what happened this week in alberta politics

00:00:19.120 dino hinshaw has been hired in bc there's a new public safety strategy for edmonton

00:00:24.240 and finally the ucp's recovery plan for addictions and homelessness is hitting a big milestone this

00:00:31.040 month all that and more happening now on the alberta roundup okay guys let's dive into this

00:00:36.480 first story here because i know you guys are gonna have a lot to say about it alberta's former chief

00:00:40.800 medical health officer dr dino hinshaw has been given a six-month contract in bc as the deputy

00:00:46.720 provincial health officer i'm sure you guys remember that during the united conservative

00:00:50.640 party leadership race this past summer danielle smith now the premier campaigned on promises to 0.96

00:00:55.520 do away with dino hinshaw and the coven 19 restrictions she implemented smith made good

00:01:00.640 on those promises very quickly after being elected and hinshaw was turfed in november but the bc

00:01:06.080 government says hinshaw will quote support the work of the office of the provincial health officer

00:01:11.200 dr bonnie henry while filling in for another deputy provincial health officer in a statement henry wrote

00:01:17.360 quote i feel very fortunate to work alongside such talented and dedicated public health experts

00:01:23.520 and i know their expertise will be a great assistance as we emerge from the pandemic and

00:01:28.480 continue to address the many public health challenges facing the province under hinshaw's leadership

00:01:33.520 during the coven 19 pandemic the kenny government implemented vaccine passports and closed schools

00:01:38.640 and churches for a while and you guys likely remember the backlash hinshaw received when it was revealed

00:01:43.280 that she took home a 228 000 covid bonus in 2021 and that was on top of her over 360 000 salary

00:01:52.160 so in 2021 she took home well over half a million dollars let me know in the comment section below

00:01:58.000 what you think about hinshaw getting hired in bc another big story this week is that the alberta

00:02:02.720 government announced measures to improve safety in edmonton if you guys live in edmonton you know how

00:02:07.760 unsafe the city can be especially if you need to use public transit so the alberta government made an

00:02:12.640 announcement to that effect earlier this week take a listen to those comments now when the provincial

00:02:16.720 government announced the edmonton task force i made it very clear that action must be taken

00:02:22.720 immediately today i'm proud to share that we are doing just that in partnership with the edmonton

00:02:29.600 police service elberta sheriffs are being redeployed to the downtown streets and keeping edmontonians

00:02:35.840 safe by establishing a more visible presence with more boots on the ground we can deter crime and

00:02:42.640 make albertans who live work and visit these communities feel safe with the help of alberta

00:02:49.360 sheriffs eps can run these patrols seven days a week and cover a larger geographic area a larger area may

00:02:56.800 include specific lrt locations the pedway system and other areas of high crime and social disorder and that

00:03:03.680 announcement was met with a positive reaction from edmonton's chinatown community representatives

00:03:08.560 said that crime has cost them millions of dollars in damages in the past in the past year chinatown has

00:03:15.760 suffered numerous and unprecedented safety issue in our community we have suffered from

00:03:25.760 millions of dollars worth of property damages we have loss of businesses we have lost our personal

00:03:37.120 safety aspect of everything and including life itself so with this action by the province and the police

00:03:50.080 i would like to thank you because without action there will be no moving forward moving on to

00:03:55.520 our next story here for those of you who have kids at home you might be following the federal and

00:03:59.120 provincial government's efforts to provide ten dollars a day child daycare in november 2021 alberta

00:04:04.960 and ottawa agreed on a 3.8 billion dollar deal to reduce child care to ten dollars a day in the

00:04:10.640 province within five years the original deal included plans to open 42 500 new non-profit spaces tuesday's

00:04:18.400 announcement would add an additional 22 500 spaces with the hopes of having them operational by 2025 to

00:04:25.040 2026 the deal officially called the canada alberta canada wide early learning and child care agreement

00:04:31.200 that is an absolute mouthful i feel like they could have come up with a better name

00:04:34.560 it's expected to save parents between 450 and 635 dollars per month for each child receiving full-time

00:04:41.840 care that's an absolutely massive amount of savings it's good news for parents who rely on those spaces

00:04:47.200 okay moving into our daily comment roundup last week we spent a lot of time going over the cbc story

00:04:52.720 you guys remember the details i'm sure cbc has written two stories alleging that the premier has

00:04:58.000 in some way or another put pressure on the justice minister and crown prosecutors regarding cases

00:05:03.440 related to the covet 19 pandemic and the coots border blockade no emails or evidence of other

00:05:08.720 exchanges between the premier and the crowd prosecutors being inappropriate has been uncovered

00:05:13.120 and the premier has called the cbc's reporting defamatory and asked them to issue a retraction and an

00:05:17.920 apology the cbc is standing behind their reporting as we discussed last week and here's what you guys

00:05:23.600 had to say about it sub if you are unapologetically pro-life said anyone with even a smidge of common

00:05:28.800 sense knows government funded equates to government shell their reporting here did nothing but strengthen

00:05:34.960 this beautiful lady's support sincerely looking forward to our upcoming provincial election in may

00:05:40.960 just so i can vote for this woman al ducho 357 wrote the cbc has been a liberal laundromat for decades

00:05:48.480 not just defund but criminal charges applied i tried to find a couple comments that were in support

00:05:53.840 of the cbc but i'm sure you guys will be shocked to learn i just couldn't find any okay moving into

00:05:58.800 what we're watching in the weeks to come i think this is a really important story because it relates to

00:06:02.560 public safety in our cities across alberta and of course across canada but alberta is really the

00:06:07.760 only province that's taking serious action to address the crisis of homelessness and addiction

00:06:12.320 right now in fact the united conservative party government's first major project in their efforts

00:06:17.280 to stem this crisis is opening later this month it's the size of a football field and it's the

00:06:22.320 first of its kind in alberta it's also the first of states massive recovery communities currently being

00:06:27.760 built by the province i was able to go get a tour of it earlier this week and so we're going to show

00:06:32.080 some of that footage for you now i also spoke to marshall smith about the recovery community he is

00:06:37.200 alberta premier daniel smith's chief of staff and he's also a recovered addict of 17 years

00:06:41.760 a couple weeks ago i wrote a profile on marshall who spent four years living on vancouver streets as

00:06:46.400 a homeless drug addict if you guys haven't read that profile already you should absolutely go check

00:06:50.400 it out in the past four years marshall has been guiding the ucp's approach to homelessness and addiction

00:06:55.600 he says previous governments of all political spectrums haven't had the political will to

00:07:00.160 appropriately plan fun and build a proper system of care for those struggling but that's about to change in

00:07:06.160 alberta as the province trades what he calls decades of neglect for a breathtaking system

00:07:11.840 of care marshall told me the province hopes to build 11 in total but details on other facilities

00:07:17.440 are not yet public the facilities cost around 20 million dollars each to build and programs can

00:07:23.360 last from one month to one year depending on the client's needs and finally you guys i just wanted to

00:07:28.400 end the show on a positive note for you guys i'm sure most of you will be relieved to hear this we've

00:07:32.400 been covering the house of colvin's public safety committee for a while and the liberal government's

00:07:36.480 very last minute efforts to ban hundreds more models of semi-automatic shotguns and rifles

00:07:42.080 including those primarily used by hunters sport shooters and farmers while on friday morning after

00:07:47.440 weeks of very loud opposition from both the conservatives and the ndp the liberal government

00:07:52.640 withdrew those amendments i've no doubt that some of you will be breathing a sigh of relief your hunting

00:07:56.960 rifles are safe for now okay guys that's all i have for you today thank you so much for tuning

00:08:01.600 in don't forget to comment below and let me know what you think about hinshaw taking a job in bc

00:08:06.640 i hope that you guys have a great rest of your weekend and god bless

Juno News - February 04, 2023

Hinshaw hired in British Columbia

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