Western Standard - Alberta needs less talk and more action from Premier Smith

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.400 welcome to the cory morgan show it's another week getting into fall man all sorts of stories going

00:00:34.760 on out there as you see i've got my fall haircut another bad one i'm cheap when it comes to hair

00:00:40.600 but i'll try to work on content rather than appearance right ah let's see lots going on i

00:00:46.360 got francis widowson professor francis widowson coming on a little while she was assaulted in

00:00:51.160 winnipeg trying to speak at the university there and of course no police to be found anywhere she's

00:00:57.320 trying she's working on seeing i mean the video evidence is claire's day who did it i wouldn't

00:01:01.880 hold out high expectations that they'll follow through and charge people because some people are

00:01:07.320 bound by a different set of laws than the rest of us when it comes to things out here

00:01:11.160 if you're into sports it's really picking up right now what hockey season has started the

00:01:15.960 blue jays are fumbling their way through the playoffs and the steelers are actually leading

00:01:20.840 their division despite the spanking they took from those odious seahawks out in seattle so uh 1.00

00:01:26.200 lots to watch there but today we're going to focus on politics be sure to use that comment

00:01:30.040 scroll by the way guys i appreciate that i see jr michael and julia popping in there use that

00:01:35.080 for discussion comments ideas just keep it civil all right so let's get on what i'm going to rant

00:01:40.600 about today it's local it's national in some ways too premier daniel smith i mean she could be the 0.99

00:01:46.520 most vociferous advocate for provincial rights in alberta history she's never hesitated to call

00:01:51.720 Ottawa out on its incursions into provincial turf. She passed the Sovereignty Act despite

00:01:57.400 federal opposition. She empowered citizens by repairing the hopelessly useless citizens 1.00

00:02:02.920 initiative legislation Jason Kenney had settled the province with. And she's relentlessly called

00:02:07.960 out Justin Trudeau's government and has done the same with Carney's. She's also forcing the issue

00:02:13.480 on a pipeline. But all that said, talk is cheap. If Smith was expecting to garner respect and

00:02:19.560 concessions from Prime Minister Mark Carney, she must be disappointed. He listens to her bluster

00:02:24.780 with a smile and then ignores all of her demands. During the federal election campaign, Smith issued

00:02:30.100 nine demands. She expected to be met by Prime Minister Carney should he be returned to office.

00:02:34.360 She said that those demands were to be filled within six months in his mandate as Prime Minister.

00:02:38.820 Well, we're not far from that deadline anymore. So let's see how things are progressing on those

00:02:42.500 demands in case you've forgotten about them. Number one, guaranteeing Alberta's full access 0.94

00:02:46.560 to oil and gas corridors to the northeast and west. Progress? None. Demand two, repealing Bill

00:02:53.080 C-69, the No Pipelines Act. Progress? None. Demand three, lifting the tanker ban off the BC coast.

00:03:01.260 Again, no progress. Demand four, eliminating the oil and gas emissions cap, the production cap.

00:03:08.240 Not a thing done. In fact, the House of Commons voted against doing that. Demand number five,

00:03:12.840 scrapping the so-called clean electricity regulations. No progress there. Demand six,

00:03:18.560 ending the prohibition on single-use plastics. Still sucking on rotten paper straws, guys.

00:03:24.040 Demand seven, abandoning the net zero car mandate. Nah, he put it off for a year, but it's not gone.

00:03:30.680 Let's see what else we got. Demand eight, returning oversight to the industrial carbon

00:03:33.940 tax of the provinces. Nope, that's not happening. Demand number nine, halting the federal censorship

00:03:38.840 of energy companies. That one, well, there was a bill to ban advertising and it died on the

00:03:42.740 order paper, so you kind of call that a success, I guess. But really, in summary, Mark Carney has

00:03:47.180 completely ignored every one of Smith's demands. He's as determined to strangle Alberta's energy

00:03:51.900 industry as his predecessor was, perhaps even more so. If there was any interest in meeting any of

00:03:57.260 those demands, we'd see bills and motions tabled in the House of Commons to meet them. There's been

00:04:01.480 nothing. Instead, Carney's just ignoring Smith, and he's traveling around while, you know, failing

00:04:05.360 to negotiate trade deals in the United States and kissing European butts. While there's still a few 0.63

00:04:09.900 weeks remaining until the hard deadline, Smith said. It's time she started talking about action.

00:04:14.040 One section Smith's list of demands that was notably absent was the or else part. Smith

00:04:20.240 presumably has a plan in mind to respond to the federal government in action on Alberta's demands.

00:04:24.720 She surely knew the chance that Carney would take her demands seriously was slim. So now's when she

00:04:29.600 should start laying out the consequences for refusing to take the economic shackles away from

00:04:34.140 Alberta. In ignoring Smith's demands, Carney's basically saying to her, what you going to do

00:04:38.100 about it. And it's a good question. While support for Alberta independence from the federations

00:04:42.280 reaching record levels, no viable party with an independence mandate has managed to gain ground.

00:04:47.560 And the reason for this is that Albertans felt confident that Premier Smith would do what's

00:04:51.320 needed and there would be no need to form a new party. Smith certainly said all the right things,

00:04:56.880 but citizens are getting impatient with the lack of action. If support starts moving towards

00:05:01.100 independence parties, hey, Alberta could see another vote splitting situation putting the

00:05:04.220 NDP back into power. It's on the Premier to prevent that scenario from playing out.

00:05:09.260 The Alberta Next panel hearings just wrapped up. They sounded much like the fair deal panel

00:05:12.840 hearings that Jason Kenney spearheaded, which went nowhere. Kenney's in action on Alberta

00:05:17.760 alienation issues contributed to his party turning on him and ejecting him. Premier Smith is keenly

00:05:23.260 aware of this and is doubtful she will let the Alberta Next determinations die on the vine as

00:05:28.440 Kenney did, but she's got to start acting quickly. Perhaps it's time to stop talking about forming an

00:05:33.220 Alberta pension plan, just do it. The math's right and certainly shake up Ottawa where they depend on

00:05:37.860 Alberta over contributing to the plan. Smith's been incrementally replacing the RCMP services

00:05:42.680 with sheriffs and encouraging municipalities to replace the Ottawa force with local forces.

00:05:47.220 She might as well just come out and say Alberta won't be signing a contract with the RCMP when

00:05:50.720 the time comes. Or one thing Smith could do is schedule a date for an independence referendum

00:05:55.620 in mid-2026. No, she never said she supports Alberta's full independence, but she said such

00:06:00.720 things should be put to Albertans. Well, what better way of doing so than a referendum?

00:06:04.400 Just get it on. Having seven months of campaigning and discussing Alberta's role in the Federation

00:06:09.560 as a referendum was looming would probably get Ottawa's attention. Speaking tactically,

00:06:14.100 it'd probably get some concessions as Federalists try to undercut the campaign for independence. 0.76

00:06:18.140 One option that Premier Smith doesn't have anymore, though, was to do nothing.

00:06:21.700 Talking and negotiating has failed. The ball's in Alberta's court now. It's time for some action.

00:06:26.580 all right that's what i got there dave how's it going it's going well cory how are you i'm all

00:06:32.440 right i also got a haircut oh yes it looks better than mine they left some hair on yours yeah yeah

00:06:39.280 i don't have much what'd they charge you uh 40 bucks yeah because i tipped even if i didn't like

00:06:44.520 it i'd still tip yeah what do you mean you always have to go back right so you don't want to go to

00:06:48.240 different ones all the time maybe that's what i should try changing yeah you might want to go to

00:06:51.460 the same one i hear you got some final finally some backyard visitors oh yes the bears uh yeah

00:06:58.840 they've been out in in force about a week ago uh a couple came through and then yeah a couple

00:07:03.300 nights ago four of them came through in one run yeah so that's exciting but they didn't they left

00:07:08.860 the honey alone right yeah they left my hives alone happily because i i saw that jane posted

00:07:12.640 that video up i was out working i saw that oh crap if you looked at the hives it was dark when

00:07:16.640 i got up and no they're fine so you following the blue jays you didn't you sort of said they

00:07:21.380 were i think wobbling through the playoffs i don't think so no i don't think i kind of got

00:07:25.120 well they lost last night but they're still up 2-1 okay we'll see i don't watch it closely as

00:07:30.460 you can tell i'm more a football guy yeah tonight is uh game four so you know hopefully they'll win

00:07:35.780 i wish the best to the baseball fans absolutely sadly they're only canada's team yeah canada's

00:07:41.100 only team so um leading off the site today corey we've just had a news dump by acert alberta

00:07:48.860 serious incident response team on several fatal shootings uh one in m one in grand prairie where

00:07:57.260 the man wanted to die by suicide by cop one in strathmore where a guy was causing trouble at

00:08:04.300 a gas station and started grabbing a hammer and beating himself over the head with a hammer and

00:08:10.700 cops were called and he tried to shoot attack cops and they filled him through uh filled him uh full

00:08:16.860 of lead uh the acert actually recommended charges be laid against the police uh but the crown said

00:08:23.900 no so that's interesting and we've got a case in edmonton where a man died while being restrained

00:08:30.220 by police saying i can't breathe i can't breathe and he ended up dying of suffocation and you know

00:08:37.660 brought on by uh cocaine delirium lots of uh lots of sad police stories out there uh today

00:08:44.700 hey october 7th a big somber anniversary yesterday celebrated by one high school in

00:08:50.780 toronto by playing oh canada in arabic yeah like what are you thinking you know and i was talking

00:09:00.380 to derek about that before he's a man of german origin and there's no lack of pride in the german

00:09:06.380 german anthem but let's say for example an alberta school picked holocaust remembrance day is the day

00:09:11.580 to play the german version of the anthem in the school what are you trying to signal or remembrance

00:09:17.580 day yes it's it's just beyond the pale i i don't know what this we want to talk about reforming

00:09:24.140 our schools that's certainly evidence they had 364 other days they could have played the arab

00:09:28.860 version if they had to exactly so hopefully somebody loses their their job there and uh

00:09:35.180 Our friend Mr. Rustad in B.C., he seems to be in a pile of trouble, leading the Conservative Party.

00:09:42.260 He told the CBC yesterday that he thought some members of his caucus didn't believe in democracy.

00:09:48.220 And he realized what he said and walked that back.

00:09:52.040 But a lot of infighting going on out there.

00:09:54.940 Yeah, Jared's been covering a lot of that out in B.C.

00:09:57.840 Nobody has a Conservative's worst enemy better than another Conservative.

00:10:01.040 No.

00:10:01.280 We love fighting ourselves.

00:10:02.700 Sadly, Jared is right now in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, cruising towards Hawaii on his honeymoon.

00:10:10.260 Excuses.

00:10:10.840 His story is breaking right now.

00:10:12.580 Come on.

00:10:13.060 I mean, you should know from us.

00:10:14.900 You can have more than one honeymoon over a lifetime.

00:10:16.640 Oh, absolutely.

00:10:17.500 Absolutely.

00:10:19.820 Surely these ships have, like, onboard internet, right?

00:10:23.180 Wi-Fi.

00:10:24.040 He could file.

00:10:25.020 We'll lodge a complaint with the powers that be at this standard.

00:10:28.420 Surprised Derek hasn't asked him, actually.

00:10:30.260 He probably has.

00:10:32.360 so that's what we got now cory all right dave well yeah lots going on as well what we got

00:10:36.840 carney federally failing and uh flailing and every other bit going on the the reporters are running

00:10:43.240 hard this week yeah apparently carney dangled the keystone pipeline in front of trump yesterday yeah

00:10:49.240 so i mean you know tc energy uh or trans canada doesn't exist anymore it's now tc energy i don't

00:10:55.960 think they want anything to do with it so i mean on the canadian side it's all buried on underground

00:11:00.920 isn't it yeah well i think these companies can only have you know the lucy and the football

00:11:04.600 deal with that so many times before they just stop coming back yeah but you know apparently

00:11:08.600 trump uh trump's love it trump loves it so we'll see what happens we'll see all right well thanks

00:11:13.800 for the updates i'll let you get back to the newsroom thank you gory afterwards and i'll have

00:11:17.880 to maybe look up your barber to see if i can find one yes yes right on thanks all right so yes that

00:11:23.960 is our news editor dave nailer lots going on there really is internationally nationally provincially

00:11:28.520 you name it we've got municipal elections going on in alberta boring as it may be to some pay

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00:11:59.240 already thank you very much we really really do appreciate it but yes this stuff i i'm still just

00:12:06.680 flabbergasted with this ontario school i mean you know who do the the people managing these places

00:12:16.760 think they answer to what do they think their role is i mean there's different views there certainly

00:12:21.720 is heated views on what's going on in the Middle East with Israel and Palestine and Hamas and

00:12:26.340 everything else. But how grossly, purposely insensitive can you possibly get than to choose

00:12:34.900 to play the anthem in Arabic on the day that Hamas members climbed the fence, raided a music

00:12:43.280 festival, murdered and raped women, killing over 1,200 people. And there's no other way to put it 0.58

00:12:51.080 than choosing that day to play that anthem in that school as celebrating what happened on October 7th

00:12:58.780 two years ago. I was floored. I mean, I know we saw the protesters at the universities on the street

00:13:05.780 celebrating the massacre. That didn't surprise. It was still repugnant to watch, but it didn't

00:13:11.160 surprise. But this is a high school. And this high school, I looked into it, has well over 100

00:13:18.680 Jewish students. How's that feel? Being a Jewish student on a day of mourning, a day of remembrance

00:13:24.580 of, you know, the second worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust in World War II, 0.94

00:13:30.200 and some jackass in school administration says, let's play the anthem in Arabic in the school. 0.98

00:13:37.540 Unbelievable. Unbelievable. You know, there's where maybe some heads should roll. But no, 0.99

00:13:43.100 we don't. I suspect whoever's behind it will get nothing worse than a letter of reprimand, perhaps.

00:13:47.820 But 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.

00:14:15.760 but it turns out that that protection isn't there anymore. Professor Francis Whittowson was fired

00:14:20.960 from Mount Royal University for daring to preach outside of the orthodoxy even despite being

00:14:26.960 tenured and that was a huge blow to the education system. It really was. I don't think enough people

00:14:31.500 understand what happened but Professor Whittowson hasn't given up. She recently won the George

00:14:35.380 Jonas Award for Freedom which was brilliant. I saw her at that event in Calgary. She's still

00:14:42.280 speaking up she's been traveling to universities but not getting treated any better at those

00:14:46.780 other ones than she did at Mount Royal in fact possibly even worse she was assaulted in Winnipeg

00:14:51.280 recently so she's going to come on and talk about that today and uh where do we go from here so

00:14:57.400 we'll bring uh Professor Widowson on deck there we go hey how's it going pretty good how are you

00:15:02.940 doing I'm good I'm good you know I rant and rave and everything but that's my normal state of

00:15:07.140 affairs. So take it as good. But I hope I kind of framed that up. Maybe if you could give a

00:15:13.460 little background. I know you've been touring. You spoke of that when I saw you at the Calgary

00:15:17.560 event. You've been going to different events just to exercise free speech. And then it really went

00:15:23.380 off the rails the other week in Winnipeg. Yes, it did. So I'm employing the method developed by

00:15:29.520 Peter Boghossian, who is a philosophy professor pushed out of Portland State University. What it

00:15:35.100 is it's got seven mats with from strongly agree to strongly disagree with neutral in the middle

00:15:41.500 and you have a claim such as the remains of 215 children have been confirmed at the Kamloops

00:15:47.880 Indian Residential School just to use an example and you get people to stand on the mat which they 0.80

00:15:54.040 think best represents their level of certainty about that claim and then you ask them for the

00:16:00.460 evidence that they have to support their level of certainty and what evidence that they would need

00:16:06.220 to you know become less certain and change their their where they're they're standing so this is a

00:16:12.940 great method and it doesn't have the kind of confrontational kind of character that some of

00:16:17.900 these kind of free speech exercises do have and i decided uh to go to the university of manitoba

00:16:25.500 because that's where the national center for truth and reconciliation is and also has the

00:16:29.900 the professors, the scholar activist professors,

00:16:33.420 Negan Sinclair and Sean Carlton,

00:16:35.640 who have been intimidating people

00:16:37.880 with their accusations of residential school denialism

00:16:41.940 for just asking questions.

00:16:44.200 And as I was there, I was having a discussion

00:16:46.360 or a couple of days before I went

00:16:48.500 with a professor at the University of Winnipeg.

00:16:50.660 And he was asking me if I was coming

00:16:51.720 to the University of Winnipeg.

00:16:53.160 And I thought, well, that'd be good to do too.

00:16:56.500 I have two days.

00:16:57.620 So I'll do University of Manitoba on the 25th and University of Winnipeg on the 26th.

00:17:02.760 And University of 25th at Manitoba, University of Manitoba, was tense.

00:17:07.940 And at that point, a woman, an elder, her name is Mary Starr, was beating a drum really loudly.

00:17:15.120 And everyone was trying to disrupt things.

00:17:16.680 But we just, you know, I had my sound system, so I just yelled over them.

00:17:20.580 And I thought it was one of the best days of my life because we had just great conversations once we finally outlasted.

00:17:27.080 the toddlers and their tantrum. And then when I went into University of Winnipeg the next day with

00:17:34.240 my cameraman, Daniel Page, Daniel Page feared for his life. It was so bad. I just don't even know

00:17:42.380 what to say in terms of the complete breakdown of civilization that occurred at the University

00:17:48.840 of Winnipeg. I was eventually surrounded by seven women. I know the names of three of them 0.80

00:17:54.140 who linked arms and tried to forcibly remove me from campus, and I just sat down on the ground

00:18:01.400 because I couldn't escape what they were doing. And then they leaned over me, screaming,

00:18:06.860 intimidating me, threatening me, said that I belonged underground, which I took to be a threat 0.83

00:18:15.240 that they wanted to kill me. And then Daniel Page got roughed up by a number of Indigenous gangsters 1.00

00:18:21.780 and pushed off campus, got punched in the face.

00:18:26.320 It was really, it was beyond belief what happened.

00:18:30.040 Anyway, we're both filing police reports as we speak.

00:18:34.720 So hopefully there's going to be some wake-up call to people

00:18:39.200 about the current situation in universities across the country.

00:18:44.960 Well, yeah, and you've posted a lot of videos.

00:18:47.460 I've been watching them, clips and such on X.

00:18:50.180 are there just for context for people after this show so they can go and see the background because

00:18:54.820 it was just shocking uh where can people find that and see for themselves what happened out there

00:18:58.600 yes so uh on twitter my twitter account i've been doing most of the clips

00:19:02.680 but i have tons of we have tons of footage just all documented what happened and several different

00:19:09.060 live streams as well were happening at the same time and the perpetrators were posting all their

00:19:15.100 horrible behavior as well, all the gangsters. So my YouTube channel, Francis Widows in 1600,

00:19:22.820 has the longer kinds of episodes, but it's going to take us probably a few weeks to sort through

00:19:30.100 all the coverage that we have gotten from it. It just is amazing, the kind of coverage. But

00:19:38.460 Most of the short clips are on my Twitter account, which is Francis Widows 1.

00:19:44.300 Okay.

00:19:45.020 So when you first arrived, I saw some of your video.

00:19:48.540 You were confronted by a woman who was saying you can't pass.

00:19:51.940 And you'd ask, you know, firmly but politely saying, well, who are you?

00:19:55.700 Are you with the university authorities or something?

00:19:58.980 And she refused to say even who she is and continued to push you out of there. 1.00

00:20:04.280 I'm going to go out on a limb and suspect most of the people of that protest were not

00:20:07.600 students or staff at that university so who prompted them to gather there and why

00:20:16.240 so it seems to have happened at the university of manitoba there was a gangster there at the

00:20:21.280 university of manitoba who said that we were disrespecting this elder mary star who was the

00:20:27.600 one who was being absolutely disrespectful and that's what you see is i call them cry bullies 0.97

00:20:33.920 They'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. 0.94

00:20:48.120 So 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.

00:21:02.220 sent out an email to all faculty members saying that I was lying, or he didn't mention my name,

00:21:09.920 but residential school denialists are lying, and that genocide by Canada is a fact

00:21:17.040 that cannot be questioned. This is a president of a faculty association. So that kind of climate,

00:21:25.000 and as well, of course, Sean Carlton and Negan Sinclair have been beating this drum

00:21:28.980 for many years, implying that it's hate to try to ask basic questions about what happened at

00:21:38.300 Kamloops. So all these gangsters got emboldened by all this kind of this talk, and they grouped

00:21:46.500 together. And there was about, probably about 10 gangsters there. And it was scary. It was really,

00:21:53.320 really scary. Because what would happen is that I was dealing with all these cry bullies, which

00:21:57.700 I didn't really take very seriously. They were trying to humiliate me and so on. They poured up

00:22:02.800 a 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

00:22:10.660 seriously. But when I what would happen is people would try to help me. And the men who would try

00:22:16.720 to help me would then be roughed up by all the gangsters who would claim that they were attacking

00:22:22.160 their women, this kind of thing. So it was a very, very dangerous situation. And the men were in

00:22:28.580 serious danger being surrounded. And one of the gangsters had a glove on his hand, which had

00:22:37.080 metal knuckles on the glove. I think it was some kind of big motorcycle glove or something like

00:22:41.640 that. So when you're seeing that, you can imagine what it would be like if you were attacked by

00:22:45.520 this gangster. But fortunately, the men were very calm, did not rise to the provocation,

00:22:51.180 because if they'd thrown a punch under quite tense circumstances, you know, there would have

00:22:57.100 been serious physical damage that would be, would have been done. Yeah, it could have gone much

00:23:02.260 worse. It's something that, again, why I really suggest people view that, that was kind of exposed

00:23:07.820 and it's a larger discussion, was the, as you put it, the tantrum, the behavior. And this is

00:23:14.760 something I saw a lot of when I worked in the North, when I worked in the oil field, when I

00:23:18.060 worked with bands. It's a social consequence of our policies over these years, but you have a

00:23:22.960 population that's been infantilized and they really did behave like two-year-olds having a

00:23:28.080 temper tantrum. I mean, view the video. I'm not trying to be patronizing. This is how they behaved.

00:23:32.920 But the scary part is these, some of these are six foot tall, very heavy two-year-olds that aren't

00:23:37.640 just going to kick in the shin that they could seriously harm you. But it's evidence again,

00:23:42.080 that this consequence of where we're going and, you know, the discussion and what it's leading to

00:23:50.080 with this group of people is serious and dire. Yes, and what was also evident from a number

00:23:59.000 of the women who were having this tantrum and could not control themselves, one woman, her name 1.00

00:24:04.720 is Viv Ketchum, had to be restrained because she was physically trying to attack me for just 1.00

00:24:11.980 discussing the claim, which was Negan Sinclair's claim, that residential school denialism is a

00:24:18.860 barrier to reconciliation. So that was the claim we were looking at, because I wanted to examine

00:24:23.020 the evidence that Sinclair was putting forth. She was trying to attack me, and all these people

00:24:29.640 continue to post on social media and laugh and think they've done nothing wrong. It was quite

00:24:36.340 evident that there was a lot of fetal alcohol syndrome in effect, as well as people with serious

00:24:43.060 psychiatric problems. So that's really what's got to be understood too, is that you have a

00:24:48.920 population which is suffering terribly from all these kinds of alcohol and drug abuse and fetal

00:24:57.140 alcohol syndrome, but all this orange shirt stuff, it does nothing to address the terrible conditions

00:25:03.960 that are faced by these aboriginal people.

00:25:07.040 So we need a serious overhaul

00:25:09.860 in terms of how we are addressing

00:25:13.120 what's going on in aboriginal communities

00:25:16.260 or the ghettoized aboriginal population.

00:25:19.900 But because of these terrible opportunists in institutions,

00:25:23.880 which include the University of Winnipeg,

00:25:26.340 the University of Manitoba, the police,

00:25:30.360 the police have been pandering terribly

00:25:32.340 to all these aboriginal gangsters um you know we we can't we can't address the terrible problems 1.00

00:25:39.520 that are being faced by aboriginal people no and and going to to where you are and you've been 1.00

00:25:45.740 posting that and asking for people to identify some of the people who were in your face a few

00:25:49.960 of them have been there's some very clear evidence uh you know that at the very least police should

00:25:55.320 be investigating what sort of response have you gotten from police does it sound like they're

00:25:59.680 following through on any of this well there was a bit of attempt to pass the buck and not to do

00:26:04.580 things but today i did file my uh report with and we have it all documented so you know is people

00:26:12.820 seven women linking arms together and forcibly trying to remove someone against their will uh

00:26:20.580 and the to the point where they have to sit down because they can't escape this is that assault

00:26:25.460 uh my understanding of assault is that it is you can't just force people and push them off campus

00:26:32.320 that that's not what you can do as an ordinary citizen so major crimes is involved um so i think

00:26:40.640 it's because of the gangsters um so there was there i didn't see any weapons except for the guy

00:26:46.460 with the the glove that had the metal knuckles but there was there was i'm sure there were weapons

00:26:52.620 that were there. Daniel Page thought he was going to get stabbed. This was just really,

00:26:57.200 really bad. The police seem now to be taking this seriously, but I think it was at least

00:27:07.500 five people on that day called the police, and the police did not show up. I don't understand

00:27:16.460 how that could have happened. That is a serious problem. Wab Kanu, I'm going to mention him,

00:27:21.460 the premier. He is an unbelievable, you know, enabler of this. He made statements the previous

00:27:30.000 week, which were suggesting that I was just a provocateur trying to get clicks and was part of

00:27:36.880 the emboldening process for what went on in Winnipeg that day. So there's another one who's

00:27:43.180 seriously not taking this matter seriously, which is, you know, we have a whole bunch of people who

00:27:50.140 do not respect, you know, the law as it's applied to everyone. The law should apply to everyone

00:27:56.260 equally and they have no respect whatsoever for legal processes. Well, no, and we've got a very

00:28:03.400 concerted action and it's happening on every level on these issues to just shut down discourse

00:28:08.960 rather than debate with it. They just want to pressure and push. Myself, I'm dealing with some

00:28:13.960 charges with the Siksika Reserve that's coming up because I posted a video. There's no interest in

00:28:18.740 debate. And this is something very serious. This is something we really need to debate. This is a

00:28:22.820 huge policy failing in Canada. I appreciate you. You're a very stubborn person. You don't back off.

00:28:30.020 What have you got coming up? I imagine you still have more plans coming.

00:28:34.580 Yeah. So I'm currently working with Simon Hergott and Daniel Page on two documentaries. One's on

00:28:41.600 the Uncovering the Grave Era at Kamloops, which is being in association with Juno News.

00:28:48.500 And then the other one is on academic freedom and those kinds of issues, which I am developing

00:28:55.160 as well with Daniel Page and Samuel Hergott.

00:28:57.780 So that's going to make, we've got so much footage.

00:29:00.100 I've got six universities, five are in what I call the University's Hall of Shame, which

00:29:06.140 are manitoba regina uh mount royal obviously um lethbridge and so on but then there's university

00:29:14.780 of winnipeg which is the elite hall of shame because no one compares to the university of

00:29:21.420 winnipeg that institution is completely lost and the fact that we had the faculty association doing

00:29:28.140 what it did is a signal to the professors there you do not want to go against administration

00:29:35.580 because if you do that faculty association will not defend you fairly so that is a serious problem

00:29:42.540 and that that university is just needs a serious overhaul because it can't function as an academic

00:29:48.380 institution so next year i'm hoping to go back to the spectrum street epistemology

00:29:53.180 i'm on a program with peter bogosian who's the master in october 22nd to talk about what happened

00:29:59.980 at university of manitoba and the university of winnipeg so i i want to in fact i want to bring

00:30:04.860 this to Alberta if the Alberta government is listening if you want to do something about

00:30:09.580 the universities why don't you get me to set up a critical thinking open inquiry kind of office

00:30:17.260 so we can bring this to all the universities in Alberta which would be fantastic to do at all

00:30:23.980 these universities that are seriously failing in terms of their ability to have open discussion

00:30:29.980 and critical analysis of various claims. Excellent. Well, I'm glad to hear the plans

00:30:35.680 and I hope they go forward well. I very much like that concept of just bringing that critical

00:30:40.140 discussion. It's so important. I mean, it's supposed to be higher learning, guys.

00:30:45.000 You know, I'll leave with one more plug too. I mean, you've been at this quite some time. You

00:30:48.380 wrote Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry, which I really see as a must read for people if you 1.00

00:30:53.120 haven't dealt with Indigenous bands or bureaucrats and things like that, understanding just some of

00:30:59.880 the depth of problem with what's going on out there is so important.

00:31:03.960 So that's still available out there, I imagine.

00:31:05.980 And before I let you go, where can then can people find you

00:31:08.840 and follow you and keep track of your activities?

00:31:11.940 Yes, so I'm on Facebook.

00:31:13.320 I post a lot on Facebook.

00:31:14.800 I post a lot on Twitter.

00:31:16.760 So just Francis Widowson on Facebook, Francis Widows1 on Twitter,

00:31:23.180 Francis Widowson1600 on the YouTube channel,

00:31:26.240 And 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.

00:31:41.340 I must be reinstated at Mount Royal University.

00:31:45.320 That is a complete outrage.

00:31:47.420 And if I'm not reinstated, universities are over in Alberta.

00:31:53.400 Sadly so.

00:31:54.460 Well, thank you for taking the time to talk to us today.

00:31:56.940 And I really do appreciate your courage.

00:31:59.060 And I look forward again to seeing you keep pushing that envelope.

00:32:03.040 And I really hope not to see you get hurt, though.

00:32:05.640 So stay safe out there.

00:32:07.280 And I hope we get to talk again soon.

00:32:09.520 Thanks very much.

00:32:10.760 Thank you.

00:32:12.240 So, yeah, one more time, guys, you can look her up.

00:32:14.980 Professor Frances Widowson, she's very prolific on a number of platforms and social media

00:32:19.940 and has so much to share.

00:32:22.240 It is, it's scary.

00:32:23.440 it's scary how much they push back i mentioned earlier with the charges i got if you want to see

00:32:27.360 something interesting look up my video on youtube and look at the comments from some of the people

00:32:31.120 from the reserve because i posted that some of the the threatening uh intimidation things like

00:32:36.640 that and i'm a guy at least it was a hundred and some kilometers distant well by the time those

00:32:40.960 comments came up and they're just social media posts how do you think it must feel if you're

00:32:44.960 you're a person standing literally surrounded and ringed by people threatening you. And to

00:32:51.540 credit, Professor Whitteson isn't backing down because this is important, guys. This is a big

00:32:57.800 issue. This is one of, not one of it, it probably is Canada's worst policy failing. I am a big,

00:33:04.660 you know, independent supporter. I've been pushing, I have an issue with the constitution as a whole.

00:33:09.020 but if we're going to look at particular things look check out the reserves check out the

00:33:15.660 conditions of things and check out the condition of the people a lot of people don't directly

00:33:19.520 interact with a lot of the first nations peoples these days well there's some video evidence of

00:33:24.240 unfortunately that the social consequences and and what this has turned good people into

00:33:29.520 and what future do we see following this course of action how do we expect things to improve get

00:33:36.280 better for anybody, whether it's the indigenous people or non, if we can't even discuss the issues 0.99

00:33:43.020 civilly, realistically. I like what Professor Whitteson was talking about. This is a nice

00:33:48.740 peaceful way to do it. You stand on your dots and you know what? It gives the opportunity to the

00:33:52.420 other side. Maybe somebody will make a very good case and say, somehow made the case that there

00:33:56.920 was a lot of evidence that there's people buried at the Kamloops site. Well, then some people will

00:34:01.480 move over a little dot towards the middle. That's how it's supposed to work. Not screaming,

00:34:05.580 threatening intimidating and shutting down the discourse and the other thing and I know it's a

00:34:10.900 bit self-serving but the truth to it how much have you heard about this in legacy media you know

00:34:16.140 silence dead silence where are they I mean whether you take one side or another on the issue this is

00:34:23.000 news this is interesting this is something that should grab the eyes this is something we should

00:34:27.960 see on the evening news what's going on here even if you were somebody who didn't like Professor

00:34:32.220 was it? Look, she was stirring the pot over there. Fine. Well, why aren't they covered? Nothing.

00:34:36.260 Silence. Well, part of it is because if you've got one side or another on it and you're trying

00:34:40.340 to whitewash things, anybody looking at those videos and the behavior of those people there

00:34:45.440 at the university would see that there is one side and another side on this. And one was behaving

00:34:51.420 just reprehensibly. And we're seeing more and more of it. Another video that was pretty telling was

00:34:57.060 It was in University of Lethbridge when Woodison went there and same sort of thing, surrounded, mobbed, people screaming, not as dangerous.

00:35:04.500 I think it was indoors. And I believe she was invited there by another professor at that time, too.

00:35:08.800 This wasn't just showing up out of the blue, but I think it got canceled and then she showed up.

00:35:12.820 Anyway, I'm just trying to remember that there's so much that goes on, but be sure to follow up on that, guys.

00:35:17.980 It's it's it's so important. It really is. And and check out her other work.

00:35:23.880 here's another interesting story that's been coming up and I'll give credit. Here's some

00:35:27.040 rare credit. I'll give credit to the CBC because they did actually do some deep in-depth reporting

00:35:31.800 on this. So this is First Nations University. Yes, here's a, you know, where we are pouring

00:35:37.000 a heck of a lot of money into and it's just turned into a catastrophe. And the irony is,

00:35:42.460 as I said, I worked in the North a lot of years. I worked with bands. I used to have to do advanced

00:35:46.160 work for oil projects. So you meet the band manager, you do all the, I'll be blunt about it,

00:35:50.940 bribes and the things you have to do to get stuff done up there and you see how indian bands and

00:35:56.380 first nations bands are managed and this first nations university sounds just like a microcosm

00:36:02.860 of a band it's uh the faculty members are now calling for the dissolution of the board and

00:36:07.900 the suspension the executives because it was found in an audit by a third party uh that the the the

00:36:15.420 president of this university had been basically running it as her own little fiefdom. Nepotism, 1.00

00:36:22.860 favors for friends, things such as that, and just a gross disregard. What do they call it? Empire

00:36:31.100 building she was doing. Disregarded control systems oversight. Dozens of circumstances they

00:36:37.900 found. So what did she do? She fired the whistleblower. She fired the one guy doing his job 1.00

00:36:42.620 there. And then the board said, we're not going to do anything further. Any other institution,

00:36:47.940 if you've got such a damning report on your activities over the years, the board is going

00:36:53.480 to get up and say, we've got to get this person out of here. They're embarrassing us. They're

00:36:57.040 bringing us into disrepute. They're abusing the dollars we've been entrusted with. No,

00:37:01.180 instead they circled the wagon, so to speak, and they're protecting her. So now the faculty

00:37:06.300 themselves are saying this has got to be stopped. But what's going to happen? Nothing. Count on it.

00:37:14.200 Nothing. They're terrified of pointing in there. Welcome to having no real oversight. That's part

00:37:19.280 of the problem on the reserves too. You're giving all of the authority, but none of the responsibility.

00:37:25.560 Somebody else has to pay all the bills. They give you these little play roles and I'll call them

00:37:30.280 play roles because they're getting back to when you're talking about people acting like children.

00:37:33.440 check out a chief sometime and a council at some of these reserves i hate to say it but i've been

00:37:38.680 there and this is not the behavior of people that have risen up through a modern structure

00:37:46.240 of responsibility it's it's entitlement it's confusion and again the people suffering the

00:37:53.600 most the ones suffering the most are the indigenous people on the ground they're the 1.00

00:37:58.240 ones in the reserves look at it it's squalor they're socially dysfunctional they're dying

00:38:03.020 younger than anybody else, education levels are lower, crime levels are higher, yet we sit and

00:38:09.220 pretend that this system is working, and any critique of it gets the sort of pushback that

00:38:16.720 Professor Whittowson's gotten, or I've gotten with being charged, or this whistleblower,

00:38:21.780 Jason Wong at the university, note that. Yes, he probably didn't come from within the Indigenous

00:38:27.020 ranks. But he gets fired for pointing out that there's been gross mismanagement of it. And we

00:38:34.160 got to wonder what sort of education a person gets in such an institution. How valid is whatever

00:38:41.440 degree or whatnot you might get out of it? It is too bad. I mean, this again is an example of,

00:38:47.000 you know, good intentions with bad outcomes going on, right? Like you understand there are cultural

00:38:53.120 differences. You want to hopefully offer education to bring some of the indigenous people out of the

00:38:58.380 squalor and bad conditions they're in. And they don't respond to education necessarily 0.96

00:39:03.780 in the same way because of where they've been coming out of as others. So, okay, let's get

00:39:08.500 some customized education facilities for it. But guys, this university sounds like it's just

00:39:15.680 fallen into a complete joke. Again, why? No accountability, no oversight, no reality. All

00:39:23.240 they're going to do is throw more money at it. And a bunch of people are going to come out with

00:39:26.640 degrees. You want to know the real, this is what happens. The people coming out of there

00:39:33.220 have degrees that most people in the private industry won't hire them if they see it. They

00:39:37.900 won't say it outright, but I promise you they're not going to hire because, and it could actually,

00:39:43.080 it does such a disservice because it could be a brilliant graduate. It could be somebody who

00:39:46.560 really did work hard and really did do really well. But when they've come out of an institution

00:39:50.220 like that, you don't trust where that educational document came from. So they're going to end up at

00:39:55.800 the bottom of the list when the application comes. So is that serving anybody? And then where do they

00:39:59.680 end up? Because then they start saying, oh my Lord, the employment levels for the graduates

00:40:03.960 from our university really stink. What are we going to do? Well, the government hires them.

00:40:07.980 We will create bureaucratic jobs to stick them in. Now we're getting in a whole new level of

00:40:12.880 tokenism, and the cycle just continues. All right, let's just turn to more political idiocy and look 0.99

00:40:21.100 a little west. Dave mentioned it a little bit. Rustad is in the political battle for his life 0.99

00:40:27.900 out there in BC. Talk about conservatives and our usual pattern of climbing up, doing well,

00:40:34.560 and then ripping each other apart before we can get there. The BC politics, I mean, as a political

00:40:42.040 wonk i i can't help but you know enjoy that it always gives me lots of stuff to chew on and

00:40:46.520 think about they've got crazy politics over there and as much as the lower mainland is a a nest of

00:40:53.000 socialism and and leftists they're also prone to turning over politicians admirably i remember back

00:40:59.240 in the 90s you'd have a reform party member next to an ndp member next to a liberal member next to

00:41:04.360 a progressive conservative member all in writings that bound on each other and they would flip back

00:41:08.280 and forth. That's how it actually should work. But conservatives just can't seem to handle a win.

00:41:15.160 So, I mean, the Liberal Party of BC morphed itself into a conservative version. It really wasn't tied

00:41:20.920 to the federal liberals anymore in any sort of way. And they were the up and comers in BC,

00:41:26.520 again, against the NDP, and they'd been in prior. But they'd gone way too far left. I think the

00:41:33.480 the beginning of the end was when Aaron Gunn had his leadership bid shut down before he could even

00:41:39.300 run for it. And then there was other woke actions and so on that basically caused a split. Small

00:41:45.280 C conservatives left, went to the original conservative party. It'd been around for a long

00:41:49.520 time, but it'd been virtually inactive, you know, next to no support. And they managed to build that

00:41:57.340 fast enough, strong enough, hard enough that they came in. They came very close to actually winning

00:42:02.500 the next general election. To go from basically zero to almost winning was incredible. The Liberal

00:42:07.340 Party was completely crushed, decimated, and basically folded its tent in the middle of the

00:42:12.120 election. What a rise. Unfortunately, now they're ripping themselves apart. Multiple MLAs have been

00:42:19.520 pushed out or are leaving the party. He's fighting with his own. He's often actually, usually the

00:42:27.040 trigger point again comes down to these indigenous issues anybody daring to point out that the 215

00:42:34.960 bodies in Kamloops that were found or was a hoax and it is don't like me saying it get a shovel

00:42:40.820 dig six feet it's a hoax I'll keep saying it get over it I mean it's been what four years now you

00:42:50.000 guys can't dig a hole you got eight million dollars and you can't dig six feet but no MLA

00:42:55.840 is allowed to even say that they could say it more delicately and more diplomatically than I

00:42:59.900 just did. But why can you not even question this? If you're supposed to be a party trying to make

00:43:04.380 things better, Rustad, you got to accept some of that discussion. Some of the challenge I think

00:43:08.880 too, though, is when you grow that fast, you don't have as solid a structure as a party that's been

00:43:14.320 there a long time. So, I mean, it's pretty fragile, right? You know, you sprout it up quickly and

00:43:19.000 there's a lot of room for things, you know, cracks to form. You don't have those more solid

00:43:22.360 relationships or structure to hold it together. But unfortunately, if Rustad and the other

00:43:28.840 breakaways can't get it sorted out within a couple or a few years, David Eby's NDP are terrible. 0.87

00:43:34.780 He's horrible. Holy cow. I didn't realize I'd miss John Horgan as much as I do. May he rest in peace. 0.98

00:43:42.020 But Eby is a whole new level of bad. I mean, I don't expect much of the NDP, but he's bringing

00:43:50.940 it right up and that's another battle that's going on that's between getting back to us talk

00:43:54.620 about premier smith and carney and the other one is eb see this is where carney's being such a

00:43:59.360 chicken if the federation works and smith has said it right this is this pipeline proposal of hers

00:44:03.780 is a test of the federation because it's not the role of the premier to stop the premier should not

00:44:09.440 have the authority or ability to stop national infrastructure from crossing a province that's

00:44:13.860 why you have a country and eb's talking like he has that authority and who's supposed to be the

00:44:19.780 mediator then? Who's supposed to come in and slap the children and say, hey, this is the way it's

00:44:22.940 going to go? Carney. He's nutless. He hasn't done a thing. He's hiding from it. He's no leader.

00:44:29.980 Again, as an independent supporter, I don't see that so bad. Then that's fine because more people

00:44:33.460 will realize there is only one way out. But in the meantime, David Eby isn't serving Canada or

00:44:39.700 British Columbians or anybody as far as that goes. Well, let's see. Things have run up on the clock

00:44:45.900 there guys just one more thing I'll throw a note a bizarre thing researchers in Calgary taking 0.84

00:44:50.340 steps to research the connection between lung cancer and radon and they need toenail clippings

00:44:55.720 to do it so if you want to do your part for the world of science and medicine apparently this team

00:45:00.960 needs 10,000 Canadians to submit their toenail clippings to analyze as part of a study I wish

00:45:07.100 this was from the onion it's not but whatever I just thought it was odd it jumped out at me and

00:45:10.680 hey you want a cheap way to feel you're doing a charity save those clippings put them in a baggie

00:45:14.440 guess and mail them to ufc you probably want to get it to the right office not everybody wants a

00:45:17.960 bunch of toenail clippings showing up at their door but finally they're not being wasted anymore

00:45:23.160 you can send them somewhere where they'll be beloved and appreciated all right thanks for

00:45:26.600 tuning in guys watch the pipeline tonight we'll be doing another panel breaking down more issues

00:45:31.240 and talking about things much more news to come throughout the week and we'll go through it all

00:45:35.960 again next week at this time

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Western Standard - October 09, 2025

Alberta needs less talk and more action from Premier Smith

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