Juno News - Inside AHS’ bid to rehire Deena Hinshaw

00:00:00.000 Hey everyone, welcome back to the Alberta Roundup.

00:00:02.080 I'm your host, Rachel Emanuel.

00:00:03.940 Did it snow where you guys live this week?

00:00:06.000 I cannot believe the weather

00:00:07.100 that we're having here right now.

00:00:08.940 I am very grateful that it did not snow

00:00:11.060 in my Calgary neighborhood.

00:00:13.360 I don't know what to make of you Albertans,

00:00:14.820 but this is some crazy weather

00:00:16.300 and you guys just seem to soak it up.

00:00:18.900 I know it seemed like a quiet week

00:00:20.560 in Alberta politics this week,

00:00:22.060 but I promise you I have some very juicy content

00:00:25.220 for you today.

00:00:26.300 Here's a look at today's topics.

00:00:28.700 An unvaccinated woman who's been denied

00:00:30.640 a life-saving organ transplant

00:00:32.200 now has the option to receive that transplant in the US.

00:00:35.980 Danielle Smith met with her federal counterparts this week

00:00:38.740 and the United Conservative Party government

00:00:40.720 is following on its campaign promise

00:00:43.100 to pause the fuel tax till the end of the year.

00:00:46.200 I have some more details

00:00:47.620 on the Alberta arson investigation.

00:00:49.960 And finally, Dina Hinshaw is back in the headlines.

00:00:53.240 You guys are not gonna wanna miss this.

00:00:55.560 All that and more happening now on the Alberta Roundup.

00:00:57.880 Okay, guys, up first,

00:01:08.420 we're gonna start with a story

00:01:09.400 of an unvaccinated Canadian woman

00:01:11.280 who's been denied a life-saving organ transplant.

00:01:15.560 And she has now been given new hope by the United States.

00:01:19.080 You guys follow this story with such interest

00:01:21.820 and I'm so glad that I finally have

00:01:23.840 a positive update for you.

00:01:25.160 This week, Sheila Annette Lewis announced

00:01:27.580 that an American hospital, specifically one in Texas,

00:01:30.640 has agreed to give her the organ transplant

00:01:33.040 that she needs to continue living.

00:01:35.980 However, it is not going to come at a cheap cost.

00:01:39.540 It is going to cost her about 600,000 USD.

00:01:43.300 Lewis told me that before she can even be put on the donor list,

00:01:46.420 she will require $100,000 American worth of testing 0.93

00:01:50.980 to prove that her body is still healthy enough.

00:01:54.060 So she is looking to fundraise this entire amount.

00:01:56.960 It is a massive amount of money, you guys.

00:01:58.900 If you wanna support her,

00:02:00.380 you can find her GoFundMe.

00:02:01.720 We're gonna link it up here so you can take a look at that.

00:02:04.600 I will say that it was climbing very steadily.

00:02:06.860 So she needs that first $100,000. 1.00

00:02:08.880 They won't even begin the testing

00:02:10.300 until she pays the full amount.

00:02:11.680 When I looked at the GoFundMe on Wednesday,

00:02:14.280 it was sitting at under $25,000.

00:02:16.920 I went again and looked Thursday morning

00:02:18.800 and it was sitting at about $35,000.

00:02:21.580 So an increase of $10,000 in less than 24 hours.

00:02:25.460 That's pretty good.

00:02:26.420 I hope that we can continue pushing that forward for her

00:02:28.880 so that she can get the treatment 1.00

00:02:30.360 that she so desperately needs.

00:02:32.040 As I have explained to you guys on this show many times before,

00:02:35.240 Lewis was removed from the top

00:02:36.820 of the organ donor transplant list

00:02:38.660 because she refused to be inoculated against COVID-19.

00:02:42.880 And in November, the Alberta Appeal Court admitted

00:02:45.340 that it is a virtual certainty

00:02:46.840 that she will die without that organ.

00:02:49.640 The doctors, the names of the hospital,

00:02:51.400 and the organ that she needs

00:02:52.680 are all under a publication ban.

00:02:55.100 Moving into our next story here,

00:02:56.920 Alberta Premier Daniel Smith

00:02:58.200 met with her federal counterparts.

00:03:00.140 That's Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson

00:03:03.040 and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc this week

00:03:06.780 to discuss Ottawa's plans for energy policies.

00:03:10.320 There is no way we will agree

00:03:12.120 to shutting down our oil and natural gas industry

00:03:14.620 or phasing out our oil and natural gas workers. 0.52

00:03:16.380 It's not going to happen.

00:03:17.640 That's a look at what Danielle Smith was saying 0.97

00:03:19.600 just hours ahead of that Monday meeting.

00:03:22.320 In her comments to media,

00:03:23.380 she also reiterated that she will not be pulling

00:03:26.460 Alberta's oil and gas jobs.

00:03:28.960 She did say she's willing to work

00:03:30.560 with the federal government on lowering emissions.

00:03:33.380 We know that she has promised net neutrality by 2050.

00:03:36.780 And she said her and the federal government

00:03:38.680 can find common ground on this.

00:03:41.160 So part of my discussion with them this afternoon

00:03:44.920 is going to be that we put forward

00:03:48.000 our emissions reduction and energy development plan.

00:03:50.520 We are going to take the lead

00:03:52.760 on developing an emissions reduction plan

00:03:54.980 that works for Alberta

00:03:55.820 while maintaining our economic growth.

00:03:58.460 And we need to bring them into alignment

00:04:00.480 with what it is that we want to do

00:04:02.460 and get them back to their original commitment

00:04:04.460 of carbon neutrality by 2050.

00:04:06.720 We think that that's achievable,

00:04:08.640 especially with so many industries

00:04:10.160 that are putting forward their own plans.

00:04:12.460 Pathways has a 2050 target.

00:04:14.840 Air Products has a 2050 target.

00:04:16.440 Dow Chemical has a 2050 target.

00:04:18.440 So I think part of this dialogue

00:04:20.580 is just figuring out how we can align

00:04:22.780 on a 2050 goal and then work together

00:04:25.360 on making sure that the pace of that,

00:04:27.900 of achieving that goal, is realistic.

00:04:29.800 And that's what our conversation is going to be about.

00:04:32.720 Following the meeting,

00:04:33.580 the Premier's office sent out a statement

00:04:34.980 saying that Smith had conveyed

00:04:36.760 that she would like to work

00:04:37.940 with her federal counterparts

00:04:38.960 on that goal of net neutrality by 2050,

00:04:42.220 but that the proposed oil and gas

00:04:44.140 natural emissions cap

00:04:45.540 and the 2035 net zero power grid regulations

00:04:48.800 would damage Alberta's economy. 0.95

00:04:51.080 In a statement, the Premier said,

00:04:52.580 quote,

00:04:52.800 I instead proposed the immediate establishment

00:04:56.100 of a bilateral working group

00:04:57.740 between the Canadian and Alberta governments

00:04:59.860 for the purpose of completing work

00:05:01.840 on a collaborative approach

00:05:03.180 to incentivize carbon capture,

00:05:05.780 utilization and storage

00:05:07.100 and other emissions reducing infrastructure

00:05:09.020 for the oil and natural gas

00:05:11.000 and electricity sectors,

00:05:12.420 as well as to set reasonable

00:05:13.640 and achievable milestones

00:05:14.740 for emissions reductions in these sectors

00:05:16.800 through to 2050.

00:05:19.320 The federal ministers committed

00:05:20.580 to take Alberta's working group proposal

00:05:22.400 back to the federal government

00:05:23.640 for a prompt response

00:05:25.300 in the coming weeks.

00:05:26.600 Another good news story

00:05:27.620 coming out of the province this week

00:05:29.120 is that the United Conservative Party government

00:05:31.160 has followed through

00:05:32.440 on its campaign promise

00:05:33.720 to pause the fuel tax

00:05:35.400 until the end of the year.

00:05:37.080 I suspect we could all use

00:05:38.320 whatever savings

00:05:39.200 we could get a hold of right now.

00:05:40.460 I know that I definitely could.

00:05:42.340 Premier Smith made that announcement

00:05:43.640 in Calgary also on Monday.

00:05:45.360 Here's what that sounded like.

00:05:46.540 While the cost of living continues to rise

00:05:48.500 and life gets more expensive,

00:05:50.080 Alberta's government will be there to help.

00:05:51.740 And while Albertans continue to be burdened

00:05:54.200 by a rising federal carbon tax,

00:05:56.700 increasing the cost of groceries

00:05:58.200 and making it more expensive

00:05:59.960 to drive your vehicles,

00:06:01.240 heat your homes or run your businesses,

00:06:03.760 Alberta's government will do what we can

00:06:05.420 to help families manage.

00:06:07.320 And that's why I'm so pleased to say

00:06:09.140 that today we are filling the first

00:06:10.600 of our campaign commitments

00:06:11.840 to do just that.

00:06:13.140 We are keeping our promise to Albertans

00:06:15.160 by suspending the collection

00:06:16.460 of the provincial fuel tax

00:06:17.840 for another six months

00:06:18.980 and ensuring that you continue

00:06:20.560 to save the full 13 cents per litre

00:06:22.580 when you fill up at the gas station.

00:06:24.760 This will ensure that you get

00:06:25.660 to keep an extra $6 to $18

00:06:27.540 in your pocket

00:06:28.420 every time you fill up your vehicle.

00:06:30.520 Pausing the full fuel tax

00:06:31.780 on gasoline and diesel

00:06:32.820 for the rest of the calendar year

00:06:34.400 will put hundreds of millions

00:06:35.620 of dollars back

00:06:36.480 into the pockets of Albertans.

00:06:38.580 Finance Minister Nate Horner

00:06:40.240 said that Albertans

00:06:41.200 have saved $1.5 billion

00:06:43.160 through the fuel tax relief.

00:06:45.320 The government estimates

00:06:46.560 that this latest extension

00:06:48.140 will result in more savings

00:06:49.700 of $520 million.

00:06:52.120 Moving into our next story here,

00:06:53.660 you guys were really interested

00:06:54.920 in Danielle Smith's comment

00:06:56.420 on arson investigation,

00:06:57.800 so I have a few more details

00:06:59.440 for you on that.

00:07:00.940 I asked the Premier's office

00:07:01.880 for more details

00:07:02.700 about what this would entail.

00:07:03.720 Specifically, a lot of you

00:07:04.820 were wondering why we couldn't rely

00:07:06.360 on arson investigators

00:07:07.420 from within the province,

00:07:09.040 and I received a response

00:07:10.480 from Forestry and Parks Minister

00:07:12.060 Todd Lowent's office.

00:07:13.700 To start, the Minister's office

00:07:15.040 said Alberta investigates

00:07:16.340 all forest fires

00:07:17.480 to determine origin and cause.

00:07:19.900 The office also said,

00:07:20.840 quote,

00:07:21.440 while we do have investigators

00:07:22.800 in Alberta who are qualified,

00:07:24.680 given the high number

00:07:25.520 of active wildfires

00:07:26.740 so early this season,

00:07:28.300 we required additional support.

00:07:30.180 Specifically,

00:07:30.860 the Alberta government

00:07:31.520 requested help

00:07:32.460 from the Canadian Interagency

00:07:34.300 Forest Fire Centre in Winnipeg.

00:07:36.360 The province has brought

00:07:37.560 in an additional

00:07:38.080 four arson investigators

00:07:39.420 that includes two from New Brunswick

00:07:41.040 and two from BC.

00:07:42.480 The investigators will determine

00:07:44.100 whether the fire

00:07:45.140 was caused by humans.

00:07:47.140 Determining whether the fire

00:07:48.180 was deliberately set,

00:07:49.920 referring to arson,

00:07:50.840 is the job of the RCMP

00:07:52.380 and law enforcement.

00:07:53.880 The Alberta RCMP told me

00:07:55.220 that the vast majority

00:07:56.060 of the wildfires

00:07:56.860 are considered to be

00:07:57.660 from natural causes

00:07:58.740 like lightning,

00:07:59.980 but they are investigating

00:08:01.180 12 that could be related

00:08:03.060 to human causes.

00:08:04.460 Okay, you guys,

00:08:05.140 moving into the controversy

00:08:06.200 of the week,

00:08:06.920 you guys are not going

00:08:08.360 to want to miss this story.

00:08:10.320 You might have seen

00:08:11.160 some outrage

00:08:12.120 break out online

00:08:13.160 earlier this month

00:08:14.040 when it was revealed

00:08:15.060 that Alberta Health Services

00:08:16.440 had given Dr. Dina Hinshaw

00:08:18.180 a new contract.

00:08:19.820 You guys remember Hinshaw.

00:08:21.160 She was Alberta's 0.80

00:08:22.000 chief medical health officer

00:08:23.540 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:08:26.080 We can thank her

00:08:27.040 for lockdowns,

00:08:27.920 restrictions,

00:08:28.560 and of course,

00:08:29.140 vaccine mandates,

00:08:30.340 not to mention collecting

00:08:31.560 well over half a million dollars

00:08:33.500 from Albertan taxpayers

00:08:34.560 in 2022.

00:08:36.200 Of course,

00:08:37.040 Danielle Smith campaigned 0.53

00:08:38.520 on being anti-lockdown

00:08:39.840 and anti-vaccine mandates

00:08:41.100 and was quick to show

00:08:42.780 Hinshaw the door

00:08:43.720 when she became premier

00:08:45.100 in November.

00:08:46.280 So you can only imagine

00:08:47.460 everyone's surprise

00:08:48.340 when it appeared

00:08:49.040 that AHS had rehired Hinshaw.

00:08:51.800 The independent media outlet,

00:08:53.400 The Counter Signal,

00:08:54.140 was the first outlet

00:08:55.200 to report that AHS

00:08:56.780 had given Dina Hinshaw

00:08:58.540 this new job offer.

00:09:00.140 But then something

00:09:00.740 very curious happened.

00:09:02.020 AHS said that Dr. Dina Hinshaw

00:09:03.680 is not employed

00:09:04.860 with the organization,

00:09:06.420 causing The Counter Signal

00:09:07.500 to retract its story.

00:09:09.560 But now it turns out

00:09:10.600 based on reporting

00:09:11.260 from CBC this week

00:09:12.420 that the Counter Signal

00:09:13.600 was correct all along,

00:09:15.240 that Dina Hinshaw

00:09:15.920 did have a job with AHS

00:09:17.680 and that offer

00:09:19.100 was rescinded

00:09:20.140 at some point

00:09:20.940 following public backlash.

00:09:23.520 Let's dive into

00:09:24.360 the details here.

00:09:25.660 This week,

00:09:26.120 CBC News reported

00:09:27.020 that Hinshaw

00:09:27.520 appeared to have a job

00:09:28.460 with the Indigenous

00:09:29.220 Wellness Corps,

00:09:30.820 a program of Alberta

00:09:31.900 Health Services

00:09:32.540 focused on Indigenous

00:09:33.600 health care.

00:09:34.540 The exact position

00:09:35.280 Hinshaw would have been given 0.99

00:09:36.240 was Public Health

00:09:37.500 and Preventative Medicine

00:09:38.580 lead.

00:09:39.300 It was a part-time role

00:09:40.580 and she would not have

00:09:41.840 had anyone

00:09:42.480 reporting to her.

00:09:43.980 When AHS issued

00:09:45.160 a statement saying

00:09:46.040 Dr. Hinshaw

00:09:47.100 is not employed

00:09:48.100 by AHS,

00:09:49.400 a statement which

00:09:50.080 caused The Counter Signal

00:09:51.040 to retract their story,

00:09:52.760 by the way,

00:09:54.220 CBC says that

00:09:55.320 that statement

00:09:55.860 was technically true,

00:09:57.880 only it's unclear

00:09:58.760 exactly when

00:09:59.900 Hinshaw's offer

00:10:00.740 was revoked.

00:10:01.940 CBC reported,

00:10:02.840 whether the decision

00:10:04.420 to revoke

00:10:05.100 Hinshaw's job offer

00:10:06.200 came before

00:10:07.120 or after that leak

00:10:08.100 is unclear.

00:10:09.640 I'm sure that you guys

00:10:10.480 will all be very happy

00:10:11.460 to learn that Hinshaw

00:10:12.560 is not going to have

00:10:13.860 a job with Alberta

00:10:15.240 Health Services

00:10:15.780 after all,

00:10:16.980 but it is very concerning

00:10:18.200 that AHS appeared

00:10:19.260 to have lied

00:10:20.200 or intentionally misled

00:10:21.740 the Independent Media

00:10:22.840 Alit the Counter Signal,

00:10:24.280 which has a tiny,

00:10:26.060 tiny fraction

00:10:26.760 of the resources

00:10:27.520 that CBC News has.

00:10:29.620 And then only a couple

00:10:30.460 of weeks later,

00:10:31.000 this same story

00:10:31.960 appears in CBC News,

00:10:33.760 only with a very

00:10:34.380 different tone,

00:10:35.500 one that laments

00:10:36.760 the loss of Hinshaw

00:10:37.980 as someone who would

00:10:39.080 be good to rally

00:10:40.120 and work with

00:10:40.840 Indigenous leaders.

00:10:42.240 I have to say that

00:10:42.800 I feel like this was

00:10:43.380 overall a very positive show.

00:10:45.040 It's always nice

00:10:45.600 to have some good headlines.

00:10:47.200 Now it's time to move

00:10:48.200 into our comment roundup.

00:10:49.640 We'll see if you guys

00:10:50.660 have been just as positive

00:10:52.380 this week.

00:10:53.700 User TeganWind7787

00:10:56.060 said Alberta needs

00:10:57.340 to start up its own

00:10:58.280 social media site

00:10:59.180 and then block Facebook.

00:11:01.620 Social media has

00:11:02.320 become a public service

00:11:03.640 and should not reside

00:11:05.060 as a private entity.

00:11:06.860 I have to say that

00:11:07.920 I really disagree

00:11:08.580 with you here.

00:11:09.200 I do not think

00:11:09.780 anything improves

00:11:10.800 when the government

00:11:11.360 becomes involved.

00:11:12.660 I think that private

00:11:13.760 companies should stay

00:11:14.860 private companies.

00:11:16.200 Let the governments 0.54

00:11:16.800 keep their hands

00:11:17.580 off of them.

00:11:18.180 If the private companies

00:11:19.000 can't survive on their own,

00:11:20.440 they don't deserve

00:11:21.200 federal subsidies.

00:11:22.160 Yes, I'm looking at you,

00:11:23.760 Canada's airline industry.

00:11:26.040 As for Facebook, 1.00

00:11:27.260 definitely sucks, 1.00

00:11:28.060 but we all have the choice 0.99

00:11:29.020 simply not to use it.

00:11:30.440 And when we look at

00:11:31.300 something like Twitter, 0.98

00:11:32.120 it did suck for so long 0.74

00:11:33.360 and now Elon Musk 0.98

00:11:34.320 has purchased it

00:11:35.100 and he's making a lot

00:11:36.120 of really good changes.

00:11:37.400 So I'm happy to see that.

00:11:38.960 I do not want to see

00:11:39.900 the governments get involved

00:11:41.000 anywhere else.

00:11:42.160 They already have their hands

00:11:43.160 in absolutely everything.

00:11:44.300 And whenever the government

00:11:44.940 gets involved,

00:11:45.580 it means more regulation

00:11:46.800 and more money.

00:11:49.120 Dean Clark7386

00:11:50.700 said Miss Nutley

00:11:51.740 should have resigned

00:11:52.940 after losing her first election

00:11:54.380 and the damage

00:11:55.520 of her incompetent NDP 0.96

00:11:56.740 quote colleagues

00:11:57.820 unquote

00:11:58.340 inflicted on the private sector

00:12:00.080 taxpayers in our Alberta.

00:12:02.100 I completely agree with you.

00:12:03.580 I think that a leader

00:12:04.860 of a political party

00:12:05.760 should always resign

00:12:07.180 after losing government.

00:12:09.120 It's different

00:12:09.620 if you lose an election

00:12:10.640 in which you had just

00:12:11.760 become the party leader.

00:12:13.200 Sometimes I think

00:12:13.720 it's fair to give someone

00:12:14.540 two chances,

00:12:15.540 probably almost never three.

00:12:17.320 But if you lose government,

00:12:18.140 I think it's appropriate

00:12:18.980 that you resign at that time.

00:12:21.020 And finally,

00:12:21.560 referring to the conservative

00:12:22.560 coalition that we talked

00:12:23.620 about last week,

00:12:24.580 Paul Carson 7984 says,

00:12:27.180 let's just call it a new name.

00:12:28.940 New Absascon.

00:12:30.700 Maybe Manitoba

00:12:31.380 wants to join as well.

00:12:32.900 Trudeau can keep Quebec

00:12:34.160 and Terdario.

00:12:35.940 Well, I really like the names

00:12:37.120 that you have for Quebec

00:12:37.940 and Ontario.

00:12:38.560 I think we could do

00:12:39.160 a little bit better

00:12:40.180 for a new name

00:12:40.980 for a fully conservative

00:12:42.800 country or conservative

00:12:43.880 coalition,

00:12:44.740 whatever we want

00:12:45.400 to speculate on here.

00:12:46.680 You guys can comment

00:12:47.460 on the video below

00:12:48.240 and let me know

00:12:48.800 what your best names are.

00:12:50.500 If we were to just say,

00:12:51.320 hypothetically speaking,

00:12:52.660 start our own

00:12:53.360 very conservative country

00:12:54.700 based off of the values

00:12:55.820 that Alberta currently has.

00:12:57.500 What should we call

00:12:58.160 that country?

00:12:59.160 Leave your comments

00:12:59.840 on the video below

00:13:00.600 and I'll read the best suggestions

00:13:02.220 and the worst ones

00:13:03.120 on next week's show.

00:13:04.560 Okay, guys,

00:13:05.120 thank you so much

00:13:05.640 for tuning into

00:13:06.140 this week's episode

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00:13:08.500 As always,

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00:13:12.860 I will see you

00:13:13.840 next Saturday.

00:13:14.960 Have a great weekend

00:13:15.700 and God bless.

00:13:23.980 have a glad going on.

00:13:31.700 Hey,

00:13:32.300 hey,

00:13:32.800 you canочки.

00:13:33.680 All right.

00:13:34.260 Come on.

00:13:34.480 Our God bless.

00:13:34.720 We never have been

00:13:35.640 up.

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Juno News - June 24, 2023

Inside AHS’ bid to rehire Deena Hinshaw

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