Western Standard - August 04, 2022


BREAKING： US declares state of emergency over monkeypox

Mentioned
David Creighton Franco Teresano Danielle Smith Dave Makachuk Mike Thomas Jerry Ritz
Retired justice Brian Giesbrecht on residential school alleged burial sites Lawyer Catherine Christensen on a class action suit on behalf of CAF members

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

145.86

Word count

352

Sentence count

1

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

sentences flagged


Summary

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Lots of good stuff, lots of good content. Leading off with our senior political correspondent Linda Slodian, she takes a look at the UCP leadership race and why Danielle Smith seems to be the unbowed, uncowed, front runner.

Transcript

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00:00:00.160 lots of good uh good content uh leading off with our senior political correspondent
00:00:05.520 linda slodian she takes a look at the ucp leadership race and and why danielle smith
00:00:11.280 seems to be the the unbowed uncowed front runner uh what she's doing right what she's doing wrong 0.97
00:00:17.680 our linda has a take on that our military affairs columnist dave makachuks got a very interesting
00:00:24.560 take on the the tensions over taiwan at the moment you remember nancy pelosi the house speaker
00:00:32.480 visited there and the chinese got very upset about it and they've been flying all sorts of 1.00
00:00:38.080 airplanes and ships and missiles around expressing their anger and uh dave says don't worry about
00:00:44.400 china they're just a paper paper tiger and they're just playing war games nothing to see here our 1.00
00:00:51.520 ottawa columnist david creighton has got a piece talking to jerry ritz the former tory agriculture
00:00:59.040 minister and he's not very happy with what the current ones and prime minister trudeau are doing
00:01:04.960 to canadian farmers uh defense minister anita anand has announced this morning that a couple of hundred
00:01:12.080 soldiers from cfb edmonton will be off to uh the united kingdom this week and they're going to take
00:01:18.560 part in a project with other soldiers from the uk and new zealand to train ukrainian soldiers and
00:01:25.600 they get a five-week intense course and uh on the rigors of battle and what to do and then they're
00:01:31.680 shipped off back home to go in uh to go and face russia and our male resident has got a story on uh
00:01:38.480 testimony has revealed that health canada bureaucrats uh did not recommend a travel uh covet vaccination
00:01:46.240 plans so i guess the question is where does it come from corey answer politicians uh we've got a story
00:01:52.960 on the ctf our friend franco teresino on the liberal spending uh 40 grand on office furniture for a couple
00:02:02.000 of embassies around the world our uh real estate reporter mike thomas has got a look at the vancouver
00:02:08.880 in toronto uh markets housing markets and the fact that they're cooling off