Juno News - Should Notley still be on TikTok？

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

00:00:13.920 emmanuel we are finally in march and i am very excited that spring is just around the corner

00:00:19.600 i know you albertans love your winter but i'm sure some of you are tired of it by now

00:00:24.320 let's take a look at what happened this week in alberta politics

00:00:27.120 ndp leader rachel notley continues to post on tiktok while her federal counterparts delete it

00:00:32.560 the alberta government says they're going to introduce legislation to protect firearms owners

00:00:37.760 they also said a provincial police service is off the table at least for now and of course that came

00:00:43.440 out of budget 2023 which was tabled in the legislature this week all that and more happening

00:00:48.560 right now on the alberta roundup okay guys let's take a look at this first story here this is a

00:00:53.760 massive story coming out of the province this week if you thought that once the coven 19 pandemic

00:00:58.560 ended it meant that pastors wouldn't be arrested arbitrarily anymore you were wrong pastor derek

00:01:04.560 reimer of calgary's mission seven ministries which works mostly with homeless and vulnerable people

00:01:09.840 in the city's downtown core was informed on wednesday that he faced arrest and charges

00:01:14.960 those charges were related to a protest that broke out at a children's friendly drag story hour video

00:01:21.760 footage shows an altercation breaking out at the drag queen story hour we're going to play that clip

00:01:26.160 for you right now okay we are we are now calling the police stop stop stop we have the police coming

00:01:38.160 so it is your choice to leave or deal with the police it's very abusive in there for love is love

00:01:45.360 then early on wednesday morning calgary police visited reimer's home and told him that he faced

00:02:05.840 arrest and two charges related to that incident police returned later in the day and he was in fact

00:02:11.360 arrested rebel news has the video it probably doesn't surprise you that like some of the

00:02:29.840 arrests of pastors that happened during the covet 19 pandemic this story too is gaining international

00:02:35.840 attention and for all the wrong reasons in canada of course that's all disappeared canada has now become

00:02:40.880 an atheist totalitarian state with amazing speed and in canada it's now a crime to object to 0.99

00:02:46.080 sexualized drag shows for children not allowed to say a word late last month month a pastor in calgary

00:02:52.080 was violently thrown thrown out of an all ages numbers for children drag queen story hour for

00:02:57.520 daring to object to the sexualization of children moving into our next story here you guys are going to

00:03:02.480 enjoy this one alberta ndp leader rachel notley continues to use and post on tick tock even though

00:03:08.080 federal counterparts and that includes federal ndp leader jagmeet singh are deleting the app after a

00:03:14.480 federal review found that it contained high security risks notley posted a video to tick tock as

00:03:20.320 recently as tuesday that's one day after jagmeet singh announced that you would be taking a pause

00:03:25.200 from the device following that federal review in a statement singh said quote when security and

00:03:30.880 intelligence agencies express concerns about digital platforms canadians expect elected officials to treat

00:03:37.040 them seriously and take the necessary action you guys might remember that in 2020 former u.s president

00:03:43.280 donald trump sought to ban tick tock in the united states at the time the trump administration alleged

00:03:48.480 that bite dance tech talks parent company had a close relationship with chinese authorities tick tock

00:03:54.400 of course denied the claims but that didn't stop a recent canadian review which found that tick tock poses

00:03:59.760 an unacceptable security and privacy risk now that didn't stop notley from posting a video to tick tock on

00:04:05.920 tuesday in which she criticized the united conservative party government's education

00:04:10.080 spending the alberta ndp leader has just under 9 000 followers on the controversial chinese

00:04:15.520 social media platform here's a look at one of her important videos what's your drink of choice

00:04:21.520 a magrini i was gonna say magliato with prosecco in it oh stunning yeah i mean i suppose it's

00:04:28.960 understandable that notley is still on tiktok how else would we get content like this for example

00:04:58.960 it shouldn't be hard because you know i am relatively short and just so you know like this

00:05:12.400 this is a thing that happens in our caucus uh uh true short people get what they want so we will have

00:05:20.160 these lovely little things for short people to stand on and all the tall members of the caucus are just

00:05:25.840 gonna have to kind of make it work okay that's that's just part of me being leader now i asked

00:05:31.120 the ndp if they plan to discontinue use of the app considering pretty much everyone else across canada is

00:05:36.560 and of course they didn't respond to my media request you guys might remember that the ndp have a

00:05:42.080 policy not to have dealings with true north so while they won't answer me i think it's time for

00:05:46.800 you guys to start emailing your ndp mlas and asking them why are they still on tick tock when

00:05:52.080 everyone else is jumping ship and that includes the alberta government who announced on wednesday

00:05:56.400 that they would no longer allow government employees to have tick tock on government devices

00:06:01.760 moving into our next story here i know a lot of you will be very enthused to hear about this one

00:06:05.840 the government has said they will table legislation to protect firearms owners

00:06:10.400 on wednesday government house leader joseph scow said the firearms legislation would be one of three

00:06:15.680 the united conservative party government plans to push forward in the next month scow said a number of

00:06:20.880 albertans have reached out to him and his colleagues to say that federal firearms legislation

00:06:25.760 which would confiscate legally purchased firearms is overreaching he said quote as the province we're

00:06:31.920 taking action within our abilities to protect firearms owners we're enacting this bill because

00:06:36.800 it's important that we're defending albertans we're defending firearms owners in this province

00:06:41.520 and we're making sure that everyone feels the government has their back when pressed scow would

00:06:45.920 not release any of the details associated with the bill saying those will come at a later date

00:06:50.640 moving into the controversy of the week alberta finance minister travis tapes says that a

00:06:54.880 provincial policing service is off the table at least for now as the government tabled budget 2023

00:07:01.040 on tuesday in the legislature tapes explained the decision in an interview with global news after

00:07:05.840 the budget was tabled we're going to play that for you now all right finally before i let you go i

00:07:09.440 do want to ask this there is no money in this budget for a provincial police force although there is

00:07:14.480 some cash for municipalities to create their own forces we talked about this the other day with grand

00:07:19.360 prairie but does that mean an alberta provincial police force is essentially off the table or dead

00:07:24.320 look this government is interested in one thing when it comes to enforcement that's better enforcement

00:07:29.760 less crime more security and safety for alberta citizens that's one reason why we're increasing

00:07:35.520 spending in public safety by 13 this year we're looking for the best bang for our buck to increase

00:07:43.600 enforcement reduce crime so is that a yes it is off the table it's off it's it's off the table speaking of

00:07:48.560 the budget we should probably dive into some of these numbers in case anyone missed it the 68.3

00:07:53.200 billion dollar budget is an increase of about four percent in government spending from the current

00:07:57.040 fiscal year new funds will result in about 7 600 new government workers mostly in health care and

00:08:02.480 education the new budget would also leave the province with a 2.4 billion dollar surplus which the

00:08:07.680 province plans to put towards debt the canadian taxpayers federation gave alberta premier daniel

00:08:12.880 smith's first budget a stamp of approval committing to balance budgets debt repayment and saving for a rainy

00:08:18.400 day shows this government is serious about not repeating the mistakes of the past okay guys and

00:08:23.920 finally it's time to move into our weekly comment roundup last week we talked about edmonton's 15

00:08:29.280 minute cities proposal and you guys pretty much resoundingly said nope we're not interested here's

00:08:34.640 what some of those comments looked like annette said i think if you have the option of having

00:08:38.080 everything close to you and not needing to drive that's great but if it's forced on you to live that

00:08:42.720 way and you no longer have the option to drive to other places that is tyranny user jason crossert

00:08:48.880 wrote first i should say that i'm in calgary so i'm watching with a somewhat detached interest at this

00:08:53.680 point i have no problem of course with having most services being available within a 15 minute walk or

00:08:59.120 bike ride my concern begins if they start penalizing people for leaving their zone or restricting the type

00:09:04.960 of vehicle they're allowed to drive i believe freedom to move and to choose is important education not

00:09:11.600 legislation should be used to influence people's behavior and then let them decide for themselves

00:09:16.240 i think those were some fair comments a lot of people said they liked the idea of a 15-minute

00:09:20.080 city but they didn't even want to give the opportunity for the government to potentially 0.52

00:09:24.240 enforce people staying in these zones considering what happened during the coven 19 pandemic i also

00:09:29.360 believe in the free market i think that people should open businesses like stores and restaurants

00:09:33.680 wherever there seems to be a natural fit for one and wherever they think they could make a go at their

00:09:37.680 business i don't think people need to be mandated to have stores in certain areas just so that we

00:09:42.560 can have these 15-minute zones or districts so to speak okay guys that's all i have for you today

00:09:47.680 thank you so much for tuning in i hope that you have a great rest of your weekend i will see you next week

00:09:52.240 thank you so much for tuning in i hope that you have a great rest of your week and god bless

Juno News - March 04, 2023

Should Notley still be on TikTok？

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