Western Standard - May 12, 2023


Alberta NDP candidate retweeted post honouring hacker from pro-communism account

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Aaron Schwartz Tyler Shandro Jason Kenney Dan Bodondi Rod Loyola Jonathan
Trudeau abandons the Liberal party AB REPORT： 2nd NDP communist candidate exposed

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Two Alberta NDP candidates with communist links have been exposed, but no one has been punished for it. Why is the legacy media so uninterested in covering this? And why does it matter that a serious party with a chance at forming a government have two candidates running under its banner who have clear links to an ideology and political party that killed more people in the 20th century than all other causes combined?

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00:00:00.000 links. Yes. So Alberta NDP candidate, Diana Baden, she's running in Calgary Acadia. She
00:00:07.220 retweeted a post commemorating American hacker Aaron Schwartz from an account which praised
00:00:11.840 communism. And the reason why I say that it was an account praising communism is because the title
00:00:17.300 of the account was Vote Communist May 4th. And next to the name on Twitter, it had the hammer
00:00:25.060 and sickle next to it. And yeah. So, you know, in an election, if a right leaning candidate like a
00:00:35.380 UCP candidate had, I don't know, vote not retweeted something from Vote Nazi May 4th. And had a swastika
00:00:44.820 emoji. This this would be needless to say a very big deal. Has the NDP responded issued any kind of
00:00:53.640 apology or clarification, if you will, about one of their candidates sharing communist material?
00:01:00.760 I haven't seen anything. No one's commented on neither. Same was similar with Rod Loyola's
00:01:07.000 ordeal. He or the NDP haven't commented on that incident. It's a repeated pattern of communism
00:01:13.260 within the NDP. Where where is this candidate running? This candidate is running in Calgary,
00:01:19.040 Acadia. So Tyler Shandro's writing. Yeah. And we were just talking yesterday. That is a
00:01:24.700 extremely tight race. We've got Tyler Shandro there. He's a controversial figure. He was health
00:01:30.900 minister under Jason Kinney, who oversaw lockdowns and mandates. So he's got at least, you know, used to
00:01:38.520 have at least a lot of people to his on his right side, very upset with him. Some are probably coming
00:01:43.760 back. A lot of them probably come back to the UCP fold now. But it would not it would take only
00:01:47.840 possibly even a few dozen of them to stay at home to cost him and the UCP that seat.
00:01:55.960 Has there been any reaction from the UCP so far on the I guess I suppose the second NDP candidate
00:02:02.680 with communist links exposed? Nothing that I've seen so far. But from what I've heard, there are some
00:02:08.040 people within the UCP who are upset about this and who are who I've who have communicated with me
00:02:16.180 telling me that if this was a conservative, that was, you know, like, vote Nazi May 4, it would be like 0.72
00:02:23.380 it would be a political career ender. So we kind of talked about this yesterday, but we've still got
00:02:29.960 to talk about it. Why the hell is the legacy and government funded media utterly uninterested
00:02:37.660 that a party which stands a, you know, let's say 45% chance of forming government on May 29.
00:02:45.260 Why are they so uninterested that a party, you know, serious party with a chance of winning election
00:02:50.040 has now at least two candidates running under its banner one including one to term MLA have clear
00:02:59.720 links to an ideology and political party that killed more people in the 20th century than all other causes
00:03:07.540 combined? You know, it's mind boggling to me. And I know, when I was sitting in the assignment desk at
00:03:14.340 the Calgary Sun, and I saw a story like this, I would think holy cow, we got to try and match this,
00:03:19.220 we got to do something on it and jump on it. But Jonathan's had two excellent exclusives in the last two
00:03:24.980 days, exposing serious communist ties to two NDP candidates, and not not a single word crickets
00:03:32.340 from the legacy media. You know, disgraceful.