Juno News - June 24, 2023


Inside AHS’ bid to rehire Deena Hinshaw


Episode Stats

Length

13 minutes

Words per Minute

180.95215

Word Count

2,463

Sentence Count

148

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

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
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.
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
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.
00:03:16.380 It's not going to happen.
00:03:17.640 That's a look at what Danielle Smith was saying
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.
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
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
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
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
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,
00:11:27.260 definitely sucks,
00:11:28.060 but we all have the choice
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,
00:11:32.120 it did suck for so long
00:11:33.360 and now Elon Musk
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
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
00:13:07.060 of the Alberta Roundup.
00:13:08.500 As always,
00:13:09.360 you can support our work
00:13:10.520 over at
00:13:11.020 donate.tnc.news.
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.
00:13:36.080 We have been
00:13:36.100 on This year.