In this episode, Cory rants about Alberta s Prime Minister, Danielle Smith, and her demands to Prime Minister Mark Carney, and how he's dealt with them so far. Also, the Winnipeg Jets are doing well in the NHL playoffs, and the Blue Jays are actually leading their division despite the spanking they took from the Seattle Seahawks.
00:10:32.360so that's what we got now cory all right dave well yeah lots going on as well what we got
00:10:36.840carney federally failing and uh flailing and every other bit going on the the reporters are running
00:10:43.240hard this week yeah apparently carney dangled the keystone pipeline in front of trump yesterday yeah
00:10:49.240so i mean you know tc energy uh or trans canada doesn't exist anymore it's now tc energy i don't
00:10:55.960think they want anything to do with it so i mean on the canadian side it's all buried on underground
00:11:00.920isn't it yeah well i think these companies can only have you know the lucy and the football
00:11:04.600deal with that so many times before they just stop coming back yeah but you know apparently
00:11:08.600trump uh trump's love it trump loves it so we'll see what happens we'll see all right well thanks
00:11:13.800for the updates i'll let you get back to the newsroom thank you gory afterwards and i'll have
00:11:17.880to maybe look up your barber to see if i can find one yes yes right on thanks all right so yes that
00:11:23.960is our news editor dave nailer lots going on there really is internationally nationally provincially
00:11:28.520you name it we've got municipal elections going on in alberta boring as it may be to some pay
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00:11:59.240already thank you very much we really really do appreciate it but yes this stuff i i'm still just
00:12:06.680flabbergasted with this ontario school i mean you know who do the the people managing these places
00:12:16.760think they answer to what do they think their role is i mean there's different views there certainly
00:12:21.720is heated views on what's going on in the Middle East with Israel and Palestine and Hamas and
00:12:26.340everything else. But how grossly, purposely insensitive can you possibly get than to choose
00:12:34.900to play the anthem in Arabic on the day that Hamas members climbed the fence, raided a music
00:12:43.280festival, murdered and raped women, killing over 1,200 people. And there's no other way to put it
00:12:51.080than choosing that day to play that anthem in that school as celebrating what happened on October 7th
00:12:58.780two years ago. I was floored. I mean, I know we saw the protesters at the universities on the street
00:13:05.780celebrating the massacre. That didn't surprise. It was still repugnant to watch, but it didn't
00:13:11.160surprise. But this is a high school. And this high school, I looked into it, has well over 100
00:13:18.680Jewish students. How's that feel? Being a Jewish student on a day of mourning, a day of remembrance
00:13:24.580of, you know, the second worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust in World War II,
00:13:30.200and some jackass in school administration says, let's play the anthem in Arabic in the school.
00:13:37.540Unbelievable. Unbelievable. You know, there's where maybe some heads should roll. But no,
00:13:43.100we don't. I suspect whoever's behind it will get nothing worse than a letter of reprimand, perhaps.
00:13:47.820But then we get into our post-secondary institutions. We used to have a thing called tenure, and I'll say used to, because professors would reach a point. This was a really important principle in these institutions, actually, whereas at that level of education, professors should have the ability to speak on even things that are controversial, even that don't necessarily match the will of everybody around, but they're protected so they can carry on the discussion, carry on the thought exercises and look into these issues.
00:14:15.760but it turns out that that protection isn't there anymore. Professor Francis Whittowson was fired
00:14:20.960from Mount Royal University for daring to preach outside of the orthodoxy even despite being
00:14:26.960tenured and that was a huge blow to the education system. It really was. I don't think enough people
00:14:31.500understand what happened but Professor Whittowson hasn't given up. She recently won the George
00:14:35.380Jonas Award for Freedom which was brilliant. I saw her at that event in Calgary. She's still
00:14:42.280speaking up she's been traveling to universities but not getting treated any better at those
00:14:46.780other ones than she did at Mount Royal in fact possibly even worse she was assaulted in Winnipeg
00:14:51.280recently so she's going to come on and talk about that today and uh where do we go from here so
00:14:57.400we'll bring uh Professor Widowson on deck there we go hey how's it going pretty good how are you
00:15:02.940doing I'm good I'm good you know I rant and rave and everything but that's my normal state of
00:15:07.140affairs. So take it as good. But I hope I kind of framed that up. Maybe if you could give a
00:15:13.460little background. I know you've been touring. You spoke of that when I saw you at the Calgary
00:15:17.560event. You've been going to different events just to exercise free speech. And then it really went
00:15:23.380off the rails the other week in Winnipeg. Yes, it did. So I'm employing the method developed by
00:15:29.520Peter Boghossian, who is a philosophy professor pushed out of Portland State University. What it
00:15:35.100is it's got seven mats with from strongly agree to strongly disagree with neutral in the middle
00:15:41.500and you have a claim such as the remains of 215 children have been confirmed at the Kamloops
00:15:47.880Indian Residential School just to use an example and you get people to stand on the mat which they
00:15:54.040think best represents their level of certainty about that claim and then you ask them for the
00:16:00.460evidence that they have to support their level of certainty and what evidence that they would need
00:16:06.220to you know become less certain and change their their where they're they're standing so this is a
00:16:12.940great method and it doesn't have the kind of confrontational kind of character that some of
00:16:17.900these kind of free speech exercises do have and i decided uh to go to the university of manitoba
00:16:25.500because that's where the national center for truth and reconciliation is and also has the
00:16:29.900the professors, the scholar activist professors,
00:19:45.020So when you first arrived, I saw some of your video.
00:19:48.540You were confronted by a woman who was saying you can't pass.
00:19:51.940And you'd ask, you know, firmly but politely saying, well, who are you?
00:19:55.700Are you with the university authorities or something?
00:19:58.980And she refused to say even who she is and continued to push you out of there.
00:20:04.280I'm going to go out on a limb and suspect most of the people of that protest were not
00:20:07.600students or staff at that university so who prompted them to gather there and why
00:20:16.240so it seems to have happened at the university of manitoba there was a gangster there at the
00:20:21.280university of manitoba who said that we were disrespecting this elder mary star who was the
00:20:27.600one who was being absolutely disrespectful and that's what you see is i call them cry bullies
00:20:33.920They're unbelievable cry bullies. They're attacking us in every way they can. And then when you just kind of mildly criticize them, then, you know, it's like you're attacking them and so on.
00:20:48.120So these gangsters at the time decided to do, you know, get things together. But there was terrible behavior from the University of Winnipeg Faculty Association. Peter J. Miller is his name. He's the president.
00:21:02.220sent out an email to all faculty members saying that I was lying, or he didn't mention my name,
00:21:09.920but residential school denialists are lying, and that genocide by Canada is a fact
00:21:17.040that cannot be questioned. This is a president of a faculty association. So that kind of climate,
00:21:25.000and as well, of course, Sean Carlton and Negan Sinclair have been beating this drum
00:21:28.980for many years, implying that it's hate to try to ask basic questions about what happened at
00:21:38.300Kamloops. So all these gangsters got emboldened by all this kind of this talk, and they grouped
00:21:46.500together. And there was about, probably about 10 gangsters there. And it was scary. It was really,
00:21:53.320really scary. Because what would happen is that I was dealing with all these cry bullies, which
00:21:57.700I didn't really take very seriously. They were trying to humiliate me and so on. They poured up
00:22:02.800a can of pop over my head. But I just I see them as deranged. So I don't have any I don't take them
00:22:10.660seriously. But when I what would happen is people would try to help me. And the men who would try
00:22:16.720to help me would then be roughed up by all the gangsters who would claim that they were attacking
00:22:22.160their women, this kind of thing. So it was a very, very dangerous situation. And the men were in
00:22:28.580serious danger being surrounded. And one of the gangsters had a glove on his hand, which had
00:22:37.080metal knuckles on the glove. I think it was some kind of big motorcycle glove or something like
00:22:41.640that. So when you're seeing that, you can imagine what it would be like if you were attacked by
00:22:45.520this gangster. But fortunately, the men were very calm, did not rise to the provocation,
00:22:51.180because if they'd thrown a punch under quite tense circumstances, you know, there would have
00:22:57.100been serious physical damage that would be, would have been done. Yeah, it could have gone much
00:23:02.260worse. It's something that, again, why I really suggest people view that, that was kind of exposed
00:23:07.820and it's a larger discussion, was the, as you put it, the tantrum, the behavior. And this is
00:23:14.760something I saw a lot of when I worked in the North, when I worked in the oil field, when I
00:23:18.060worked with bands. It's a social consequence of our policies over these years, but you have a
00:23:22.960population that's been infantilized and they really did behave like two-year-olds having a
00:23:28.080temper tantrum. I mean, view the video. I'm not trying to be patronizing. This is how they behaved.
00:23:32.920But the scary part is these, some of these are six foot tall, very heavy two-year-olds that aren't
00:23:37.640just going to kick in the shin that they could seriously harm you. But it's evidence again,
00:23:42.080that this consequence of where we're going and, you know, the discussion and what it's leading to
00:23:50.080with this group of people is serious and dire. Yes, and what was also evident from a number
00:23:59.000of the women who were having this tantrum and could not control themselves, one woman, her name
00:24:04.720is Viv Ketchum, had to be restrained because she was physically trying to attack me for just
00:24:11.980discussing the claim, which was Negan Sinclair's claim, that residential school denialism is a
00:24:18.860barrier to reconciliation. So that was the claim we were looking at, because I wanted to examine
00:24:23.020the evidence that Sinclair was putting forth. She was trying to attack me, and all these people
00:24:29.640continue to post on social media and laugh and think they've done nothing wrong. It was quite
00:24:36.340evident that there was a lot of fetal alcohol syndrome in effect, as well as people with serious
00:24:43.060psychiatric problems. So that's really what's got to be understood too, is that you have a
00:24:48.920population which is suffering terribly from all these kinds of alcohol and drug abuse and fetal
00:24:57.140alcohol syndrome, but all this orange shirt stuff, it does nothing to address the terrible conditions
00:25:03.960that are faced by these aboriginal people.
00:31:16.760So just Francis Widowson on Facebook, Francis Widows1 on Twitter,
00:31:23.180Francis Widowson1600 on the YouTube channel,
00:31:26.240And then there's a website, www.wokeacademy.info, where I post documents about my case with Mount Royal, which is going to the Alberta Labor Relations Board in December.
00:31:41.340I must be reinstated at Mount Royal University.
00:32:23.440it's scary how much they push back i mentioned earlier with the charges i got if you want to see
00:32:27.360something interesting look up my video on youtube and look at the comments from some of the people
00:32:31.120from the reserve because i posted that some of the the threatening uh intimidation things like
00:32:36.640that and i'm a guy at least it was a hundred and some kilometers distant well by the time those
00:32:40.960comments came up and they're just social media posts how do you think it must feel if you're
00:32:44.960you're a person standing literally surrounded and ringed by people threatening you. And to
00:32:51.540credit, Professor Whitteson isn't backing down because this is important, guys. This is a big
00:32:57.800issue. This is one of, not one of it, it probably is Canada's worst policy failing. I am a big,
00:33:04.660you know, independent supporter. I've been pushing, I have an issue with the constitution as a whole.
00:33:09.020but if we're going to look at particular things look check out the reserves check out the
00:33:15.660conditions of things and check out the condition of the people a lot of people don't directly
00:33:19.520interact with a lot of the first nations peoples these days well there's some video evidence of
00:33:24.240unfortunately that the social consequences and and what this has turned good people into
00:33:29.520and what future do we see following this course of action how do we expect things to improve get
00:33:36.280better for anybody, whether it's the indigenous people or non, if we can't even discuss the issues
00:33:43.020civilly, realistically. I like what Professor Whitteson was talking about. This is a nice
00:33:48.740peaceful way to do it. You stand on your dots and you know what? It gives the opportunity to the
00:33:52.420other side. Maybe somebody will make a very good case and say, somehow made the case that there
00:33:56.920was a lot of evidence that there's people buried at the Kamloops site. Well, then some people will
00:34:01.480move over a little dot towards the middle. That's how it's supposed to work. Not screaming,
00:34:05.580threatening intimidating and shutting down the discourse and the other thing and I know it's a
00:34:10.900bit self-serving but the truth to it how much have you heard about this in legacy media you know
00:34:16.140silence dead silence where are they I mean whether you take one side or another on the issue this is
00:34:23.000news this is interesting this is something that should grab the eyes this is something we should
00:34:27.960see on the evening news what's going on here even if you were somebody who didn't like Professor
00:34:32.220was it? Look, she was stirring the pot over there. Fine. Well, why aren't they covered? Nothing.
00:34:36.260Silence. Well, part of it is because if you've got one side or another on it and you're trying
00:34:40.340to whitewash things, anybody looking at those videos and the behavior of those people there
00:34:45.440at the university would see that there is one side and another side on this. And one was behaving
00:34:51.420just reprehensibly. And we're seeing more and more of it. Another video that was pretty telling was
00:34:57.060It was in University of Lethbridge when Woodison went there and same sort of thing, surrounded, mobbed, people screaming, not as dangerous.
00:35:04.500I think it was indoors. And I believe she was invited there by another professor at that time, too.
00:35:08.800This wasn't just showing up out of the blue, but I think it got canceled and then she showed up.
00:35:12.820Anyway, I'm just trying to remember that there's so much that goes on, but be sure to follow up on that, guys.
00:35:17.980It's it's it's so important. It really is. And and check out her other work.
00:35:23.880here's another interesting story that's been coming up and I'll give credit. Here's some
00:35:27.040rare credit. I'll give credit to the CBC because they did actually do some deep in-depth reporting
00:35:31.800on this. So this is First Nations University. Yes, here's a, you know, where we are pouring
00:35:37.000a heck of a lot of money into and it's just turned into a catastrophe. And the irony is,
00:35:42.460as I said, I worked in the North a lot of years. I worked with bands. I used to have to do advanced
00:35:46.160work for oil projects. So you meet the band manager, you do all the, I'll be blunt about it,
00:35:50.940bribes and the things you have to do to get stuff done up there and you see how indian bands and
00:35:56.380first nations bands are managed and this first nations university sounds just like a microcosm
00:36:02.860of a band it's uh the faculty members are now calling for the dissolution of the board and
00:36:07.900the suspension the executives because it was found in an audit by a third party uh that the the the
00:36:15.420president of this university had been basically running it as her own little fiefdom. Nepotism,
00:36:22.860favors for friends, things such as that, and just a gross disregard. What do they call it? Empire
00:36:31.100building she was doing. Disregarded control systems oversight. Dozens of circumstances they
00:36:37.900found. So what did she do? She fired the whistleblower. She fired the one guy doing his job
00:36:42.620there. And then the board said, we're not going to do anything further. Any other institution,
00:36:47.940if you've got such a damning report on your activities over the years, the board is going
00:36:53.480to get up and say, we've got to get this person out of here. They're embarrassing us. They're
00:36:57.040bringing us into disrepute. They're abusing the dollars we've been entrusted with. No,
00:37:01.180instead they circled the wagon, so to speak, and they're protecting her. So now the faculty
00:37:06.300themselves are saying this has got to be stopped. But what's going to happen? Nothing. Count on it.
00:37:14.200Nothing. They're terrified of pointing in there. Welcome to having no real oversight. That's part
00:37:19.280of the problem on the reserves too. You're giving all of the authority, but none of the responsibility.
00:37:25.560Somebody else has to pay all the bills. They give you these little play roles and I'll call them
00:37:30.280play roles because they're getting back to when you're talking about people acting like children.
00:37:33.440check out a chief sometime and a council at some of these reserves i hate to say it but i've been
00:37:38.680there and this is not the behavior of people that have risen up through a modern structure
00:37:46.240of responsibility it's it's entitlement it's confusion and again the people suffering the
00:37:53.600most the ones suffering the most are the indigenous people on the ground they're the
00:37:58.240ones in the reserves look at it it's squalor they're socially dysfunctional they're dying
00:38:03.020younger than anybody else, education levels are lower, crime levels are higher, yet we sit and
00:38:09.220pretend that this system is working, and any critique of it gets the sort of pushback that
00:38:16.720Professor Whittowson's gotten, or I've gotten with being charged, or this whistleblower,
00:38:21.780Jason Wong at the university, note that. Yes, he probably didn't come from within the Indigenous
00:38:27.020ranks. But he gets fired for pointing out that there's been gross mismanagement of it. And we
00:38:34.160got to wonder what sort of education a person gets in such an institution. How valid is whatever
00:38:41.440degree or whatnot you might get out of it? It is too bad. I mean, this again is an example of,
00:38:47.000you know, good intentions with bad outcomes going on, right? Like you understand there are cultural
00:38:53.120differences. You want to hopefully offer education to bring some of the indigenous people out of the
00:38:58.380squalor and bad conditions they're in. And they don't respond to education necessarily
00:39:03.780in the same way because of where they've been coming out of as others. So, okay, let's get
00:39:08.500some customized education facilities for it. But guys, this university sounds like it's just
00:39:15.680fallen into a complete joke. Again, why? No accountability, no oversight, no reality. All
00:39:23.240they're going to do is throw more money at it. And a bunch of people are going to come out with
00:39:26.640degrees. You want to know the real, this is what happens. The people coming out of there
00:39:33.220have degrees that most people in the private industry won't hire them if they see it. They
00:39:37.900won't say it outright, but I promise you they're not going to hire because, and it could actually,
00:39:43.080it does such a disservice because it could be a brilliant graduate. It could be somebody who
00:39:46.560really did work hard and really did do really well. But when they've come out of an institution
00:39:50.220like that, you don't trust where that educational document came from. So they're going to end up at
00:39:55.800the bottom of the list when the application comes. So is that serving anybody? And then where do they
00:39:59.680end up? Because then they start saying, oh my Lord, the employment levels for the graduates
00:40:03.960from our university really stink. What are we going to do? Well, the government hires them.
00:40:07.980We will create bureaucratic jobs to stick them in. Now we're getting in a whole new level of
00:40:12.880tokenism, and the cycle just continues. All right, let's just turn to more political idiocy and look
00:40:21.100a little west. Dave mentioned it a little bit. Rustad is in the political battle for his life
00:40:27.900out there in BC. Talk about conservatives and our usual pattern of climbing up, doing well,
00:40:34.560and then ripping each other apart before we can get there. The BC politics, I mean, as a political
00:40:42.040wonk i i can't help but you know enjoy that it always gives me lots of stuff to chew on and
00:40:46.520think about they've got crazy politics over there and as much as the lower mainland is a a nest of
00:40:53.000socialism and and leftists they're also prone to turning over politicians admirably i remember back
00:40:59.240in the 90s you'd have a reform party member next to an ndp member next to a liberal member next to
00:41:04.360a progressive conservative member all in writings that bound on each other and they would flip back
00:41:08.280and forth. That's how it actually should work. But conservatives just can't seem to handle a win.
00:41:15.160So, I mean, the Liberal Party of BC morphed itself into a conservative version. It really wasn't tied
00:41:20.920to the federal liberals anymore in any sort of way. And they were the up and comers in BC,
00:41:26.520again, against the NDP, and they'd been in prior. But they'd gone way too far left. I think the
00:41:33.480the beginning of the end was when Aaron Gunn had his leadership bid shut down before he could even
00:41:39.300run for it. And then there was other woke actions and so on that basically caused a split. Small
00:41:45.280C conservatives left, went to the original conservative party. It'd been around for a long
00:41:49.520time, but it'd been virtually inactive, you know, next to no support. And they managed to build that
00:41:57.340fast enough, strong enough, hard enough that they came in. They came very close to actually winning
00:42:02.500the next general election. To go from basically zero to almost winning was incredible. The Liberal
00:42:07.340Party was completely crushed, decimated, and basically folded its tent in the middle of the
00:42:12.120election. What a rise. Unfortunately, now they're ripping themselves apart. Multiple MLAs have been
00:42:19.520pushed out or are leaving the party. He's fighting with his own. He's often actually, usually the
00:42:27.040trigger point again comes down to these indigenous issues anybody daring to point out that the 215
00:42:34.960bodies in Kamloops that were found or was a hoax and it is don't like me saying it get a shovel
00:42:40.820dig six feet it's a hoax I'll keep saying it get over it I mean it's been what four years now you
00:42:50.000guys can't dig a hole you got eight million dollars and you can't dig six feet but no MLA
00:42:55.840is allowed to even say that they could say it more delicately and more diplomatically than I
00:42:59.900just did. But why can you not even question this? If you're supposed to be a party trying to make
00:43:04.380things better, Rustad, you got to accept some of that discussion. Some of the challenge I think
00:43:08.880too, though, is when you grow that fast, you don't have as solid a structure as a party that's been
00:43:14.320there a long time. So, I mean, it's pretty fragile, right? You know, you sprout it up quickly and
00:43:19.000there's a lot of room for things, you know, cracks to form. You don't have those more solid
00:43:22.360relationships or structure to hold it together. But unfortunately, if Rustad and the other
00:43:28.840breakaways can't get it sorted out within a couple or a few years, David Eby's NDP are terrible.
00:43:34.780He's horrible. Holy cow. I didn't realize I'd miss John Horgan as much as I do. May he rest in peace.
00:43:42.020But Eby is a whole new level of bad. I mean, I don't expect much of the NDP, but he's bringing
00:43:50.940it right up and that's another battle that's going on that's between getting back to us talk
00:43:54.620about premier smith and carney and the other one is eb see this is where carney's being such a
00:43:59.360chicken if the federation works and smith has said it right this is this pipeline proposal of hers
00:44:03.780is a test of the federation because it's not the role of the premier to stop the premier should not
00:44:09.440have the authority or ability to stop national infrastructure from crossing a province that's
00:44:13.860why you have a country and eb's talking like he has that authority and who's supposed to be the
00:44:19.780mediator then? Who's supposed to come in and slap the children and say, hey, this is the way it's
00:44:22.940going to go? Carney. He's nutless. He hasn't done a thing. He's hiding from it. He's no leader.
00:44:29.980Again, as an independent supporter, I don't see that so bad. Then that's fine because more people
00:44:33.460will realize there is only one way out. But in the meantime, David Eby isn't serving Canada or
00:44:39.700British Columbians or anybody as far as that goes. Well, let's see. Things have run up on the clock
00:44:45.900there guys just one more thing I'll throw a note a bizarre thing researchers in Calgary taking
00:44:50.340steps to research the connection between lung cancer and radon and they need toenail clippings
00:44:55.720to do it so if you want to do your part for the world of science and medicine apparently this team
00:45:00.960needs 10,000 Canadians to submit their toenail clippings to analyze as part of a study I wish
00:45:07.100this was from the onion it's not but whatever I just thought it was odd it jumped out at me and
00:45:10.680hey you want a cheap way to feel you're doing a charity save those clippings put them in a baggie
00:45:14.440guess and mail them to ufc you probably want to get it to the right office not everybody wants a
00:45:17.960bunch of toenail clippings showing up at their door but finally they're not being wasted anymore
00:45:23.160you can send them somewhere where they'll be beloved and appreciated all right thanks for
00:45:26.600tuning in guys watch the pipeline tonight we'll be doing another panel breaking down more issues
00:45:31.240and talking about things much more news to come throughout the week and we'll go through it all