Western Standard - CMS： Canada’s system of racial apartheid needs to end

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good day! Welcome to The Cory Morgan Show. This is my weekly platform to rant, rave, read out some

00:00:36.480 new stories, and check in with thought leaders and opinion creators from across the country.

00:00:43.420 As you probably might notice, I'm dressed a little differently than usual. It's Stampede Week in

00:00:49.140 Calgary. Viewers outside of Calgary might not know this, but most probably do. This is when we

00:00:55.160 take advantage of this event to be able to cosplay for a week and pretend to be cowboys for a week

00:01:00.680 and it gets me out of having to wear the the old outfits and everything nico's made a great stampede

00:01:05.880 background there and it's been going really well in calgary this year really good stampede a lot

00:01:10.240 of people out having a good time and yeah i know we were on the cowboy network rfd tv other spots

00:01:16.380 and you guys come on it's the nerve of this guy trying to dress up like that is this caricature

00:01:21.280 of a cow whale come on let us have our fun hey i am an alberta boy and i've i've been near cows

00:01:26.220 before so it's as close as it gets okay i got a good show today as always i think but uh we've

00:01:31.800 got a former crtc chair and newspaper executive peter menzies on we're going to talk some more

00:01:36.620 about bill c18 and just the state of canadian media and the mess that the federal government's

00:01:41.880 making with it and of course uh there'll be the check-in with mr naylor and lots of other things

00:01:47.680 coming along, but I'm going to start out with what's got me wound up today. And I saw, you know,

00:01:52.320 some numbers that came out recently from Alberta Health Services, and the numbers are shocking.

00:01:57.480 So the life expectancy for an Indigenous man in Alberta is now plummeted down to 60 years of age,

00:02:04.040 and for Indigenous women, it's down to 66. So if you want to see the comparison of what that means,

00:02:08.680 the national life expectancy for a non-Indigenous man in Canada is 80, and women 84. And the story

00:02:14.940 across the country isn't any different with indigenous populations. It's just a matter of 0.92

00:02:19.140 give and take a couple of years. And this issue hasn't garnered the headlines it should have

00:02:23.420 because it forces people to face a reality they'd rather avoid. Canada's system and policies with

00:02:29.300 indigenous people, it's a complete catastrophe. And how bad does it have to get before people 1.00

00:02:36.200 admit this? Think about that. Indigenous Canadians can expect to die 20 years before everybody else 1.00

00:02:42.440 and that number is getting worse. The population should be screaming for systematic reform from

00:02:47.800 the rooftops in light of this kind of number, but the silence is deafening. Now, the opioid

00:02:53.380 addiction epidemic is responsible for how fast it suddenly increased. It increased by a seven-year

00:02:58.520 drop in life expectancy in the last few years. But again, those expectancies were already low

00:03:04.800 and they were already dropping. And again, it's indicative of some big, serious problems.

00:03:09.380 Indigenous people have always had lower life expectancy than the rest of Canadians. We

00:03:14.060 shouldn't accept this. They're dying younger than other citizens, though, because of an assortment

00:03:18.160 of causes, ranging from diabetes to prostate cancer to murder. In fact, with every single

00:03:24.220 aspect, when you measure the standard of living, Canada's Indigenous people fall short. Whether

00:03:29.660 it's income, health, addictions, crime, education levels, mental health issues, housing, domestic

00:03:35.080 stability, they're lagging by every measure. And it isn't getting better. But what do people expect?

00:03:42.300 How can somebody look at Canada's system of racial apartheid, and that's exactly what it is,

00:03:46.680 and not see a socioeconomic disaster in the making? How could a person think that keeping

00:03:52.340 a race of people separated from the rest of society on what are usually isolated reserves

00:03:56.840 with little to no local means of generating income, and think these people are going to

00:04:01.320 fare well under these conditions. Does anybody really believe there's a sustainable future for

00:04:06.560 people living on these enclaves of dependency and misery? I mean, what do they envision? Do they

00:04:12.360 think citizens and residents on reserves will suddenly find and develop local resources and

00:04:16.100 begin to live functional lives independent from government management and dependency?

00:04:21.220 Some people really believe those things might happen. But all that tells me is they've never

00:04:24.840 actually spent time on a reserve in Canada. I'm not talking about somebody who's gone and attended

00:04:30.420 the odd powwow or done a corporate retreat that had a sweat lodge attached to a resort in a

00:04:35.160 native reserve somewhere. I'm talking about getting off the main road and seeing how our

00:04:39.840 First Nations populations are really living on those reserves. Have a look at the dilapidated 1.00

00:04:44.600 houses, the wild dogs, the crime, the trash strewn about. And it's common, guys, that's the

00:04:49.900 reality on most of Canada's reserves, and it's not improving. For most Indigenous people on

00:04:55.800 reserves to make a living, they have to leave the reserve. Unfortunately, many of those residents

00:05:00.240 from the reserves are ill-equipped to adapt to town or city living, and then they fall off the

00:05:04.620 rails when they've gotten off the reserve. It's terrible. A lifetime of economic dependency in a

00:05:09.460 tight and often dysfunctional social environment handicaps Indigenous people when they try to

00:05:14.000 break free, and we've got to face that reality. The reserve system is an inhumane policy failure,

00:05:19.380 and it has to come to an end, and I know that won't happen overnight. It can't. It's going to

00:05:24.680 take decades of policies modeled to transition people away from the reserve system and into

00:05:29.460 society in general. People will need compensation, training, and adjustment for it. Individual

00:05:34.740 property rights need to be applied for people on reserves to break them out of the collectivism

00:05:38.960 that's destroying them today. And of course, there'll be legal challenges too. Many people

00:05:43.560 have misconceptions about what treaty obligations the country actually has to Indigenous people.

00:05:48.040 Now, most of those obligations, if you read a treaty, they just have to do with things like

00:05:51.860 providing education, determining some land boundaries, and some minor payments. We could

00:05:56.200 apply private property rights and come up with some final settlements and still abide by treaties.

00:06:02.440 Most of the policies applied to Indigenous people right now come from the outdated and terribly 1.00

00:06:06.140 racist Indian Act. That gross piece of legislation needs to be repealed. And as a society, we need to

00:06:12.300 move away from all race-based policies. It fails the people every time. There's a giant parasite

00:06:18.780 class living on the backs of Canada's Indigenous population. There's bureaucrats, civil servants, 0.99

00:06:23.860 and many lawyers, they find the status quo very lucrative, and they'll defend it vigorously.

00:06:28.740 People calling for changes to the system will always be called racist, among other things, 0.80

00:06:33.000 by those other parasites invested in the current bloated and corrupted system. 0.51

00:06:37.340 Nobody's calling out a race. What needs to be called out, though, is a system failing an entire 0.90

00:06:41.840 race. Nobody's calling for assimilation, either. Cultures can be preserved without being locked in

00:06:47.100 an isolated reserve away from the rest of society. And spending more money alone, it won't solve the

00:06:52.900 issue. Federal spending, just federal, on Indigenous programs in 2021 was $24.5 billion.

00:07:00.040 That's above and beyond every other dollar spent, as is spent on Canadian citizens in general.

00:07:04.700 And that doesn't include the spending from provincial and municipal governments on top of

00:07:08.580 that. And what are the results? It's not the spending I'm begrudging. It was actually making

00:07:13.600 the lives of Indigenous Canadians better. I would accept it. It's the lack of results. It's failing. 1.00

00:07:18.700 I mean, again, they're dying 20 years younger than the rest of us.

00:07:21.300 Come on.

00:07:22.420 We could triple spending on Indigenous programs tomorrow

00:07:24.820 and things wouldn't noticeably improve.

00:07:27.560 Unless the system's replaced, we're just tossing money into a black hole.

00:07:31.260 Canada's system...

00:07:31.820 I'm right on this.

00:07:32.820 Racial policies and segregation needs to be phased out.

00:07:36.100 And the best thing that could happen for Indigenous Canadians 0.99

00:07:38.120 suffering under the mess we have right now,

00:07:40.580 this is the best thing we could do.

00:07:42.000 If one really did actually hate Indigenous people,

00:07:43.980 I can think of a few things more terrible that can be done

00:07:46.060 than to maintain the current system.

00:07:48.820 We can't repair damage caused through race-based policy

00:07:51.960 through applying even more race-based policies.

00:07:55.480 Anyway, guys, it's time to start talking about it, frankly, okay?

00:07:58.340 It's really failing.

00:07:59.600 I mean, how can we look at those numbers and say,

00:08:01.280 we can fix this.

00:08:02.980 We can't, guys.

00:08:03.920 It's already failed.

00:08:05.180 If you really do care for Canada's Indigenous people, 1.00

00:08:07.560 it's time for some courageous, frank discussion

00:08:09.760 on changing the entire system, and significantly.

00:08:13.060 And it's awful to watch it keep carrying on as it has been.

00:08:15.280 All right, that's what's got me wound up today.

00:08:18.120 Well, let's see what else there is to get wound up with

00:08:20.180 and check in with our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:08:22.320 Lots is going on out there, and there's some good news,

00:08:24.940 bad news things happening.

00:08:25.760 How's it going, Dave?

00:08:27.560 It's going okay.

00:08:28.520 How's it going with you, Tex?

00:08:29.480 Oh, pretty good.

00:08:30.380 Yeah, I know, my Western outfit.

00:08:31.800 I know it's not terribly convincing,

00:08:33.100 but it gets me out of wearing a tie for when we tape the pipeline.

00:08:36.440 No, that's a great-looking shirt, I must admit.

00:08:38.680 You've been able to get down to the grounds yet?

00:08:40.880 No, I haven't, actually.

00:08:42.060 I'm not sure if I'm going to make it this year.

00:08:43.100 I'm going to try.

00:08:43.940 We'll see.

00:08:44.160 How's Jane and her stuff going?

00:08:48.260 Well, it's going great.

00:08:49.060 I mean, we've seen pictures popping up of Jane's artwork throughout the stampede.

00:08:52.740 Of course, it's been placed in a lot of great visible spots throughout in there.

00:08:56.780 And yeah, she's quite happy with that.

00:08:59.000 Oh, good for her. 0.96

00:09:00.480 As you know, Corey, because you were there, we had our staff stampede party last night.

00:09:05.700 We went to Auto Screw Bills for the annual Testicle Festival.

00:09:11.260 Now, the background to this is we hired last year a young, wet-behind-the-ears reporter called Jonathan from Ontario.

00:09:19.340 So he arrived with his one suitcase and quickly made Calgary home. 0.97

00:09:23.340 But he really couldn't be in an official Albertan quarry until he'd tried the prairie oysters, you know, the testicles. 0.95

00:09:32.900 So, of course, we took him down there, and we had some interoffice betting on how many he could swallow. 0.99

00:09:40.580 and holy cow he started popping them and if the little bugger didn't eat 12 balls 1.00

00:09:46.940 happier and when he's got a mouth full of balls i know uh the staff checked and uh they had no 0.98

00:09:54.260 record of anybody eating that amount of balls before so uh jonathan bradley is the official 0.98

00:10:01.560 king of the balls and you can uh read all about it on the website now and uh excellent video put

00:10:08.960 together of uh the ordeal by uh by nico so so that's a lot of fun uh that that story other 0.97

00:10:15.920 stuff that's not so fun uh edmonton's had a horrible plague of violent crimes the last uh 48

00:10:22.560 hours and including some for some poor 87 year old guy who's apparently an avid photographer

00:10:28.720 was taking pictures downtown and he was just suddenly attacked and and beaten and severely

00:10:35.040 injured. Fortunately, there were a couple of peace officers nearby and they were able to

00:10:40.560 drag the attacker off him. They've had murders and other stuff. Really been a bad start to July for

00:10:49.380 the provincial capital. The Bank of Canada added again this morning, Corey, raising

00:10:55.220 the interest rate another quarter percent. It's now sitting at five percent, which is the highest

00:11:01.500 rate in 22 years. So those with variable mortgages aren't happy campers at all today.

00:11:09.880 Federal government has told Canadian airlines they need to give better service,

00:11:14.400 better information to travelers, and basically they've run out of excuses, no more excuses for

00:11:20.440 what happens. And I say good luck with that because we know that's not going to happen.

00:11:25.700 And the ongoing B.C. port strike costing the Canadian economy half a billion dollars a day.

00:11:34.100 It's now going into its second week, and Labour organizers are telling the Prime Minister he better not get involved.

00:11:42.640 So while all the other premiers have got together basically and said, you know, get Parliament back and order them back to work,

00:11:49.520 the Labour types don't want anything to do with that. 0.77

00:11:52.720 So those are the highlights up at the moment, Corey.

00:11:56.840 There are a lot more to come this afternoon,

00:11:58.920 and I guess we'll see you on the pipeline tonight.

00:12:02.440 Yeah, you bet.

00:12:03.280 Well, lots of balls in the air. 0.56

00:12:04.900 We'll report on what's been changing and happening as it goes.

00:12:08.840 Thanks, Dave.

00:12:09.680 You bet, Corey.

00:12:11.040 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:12:12.640 I just want to like to remind everybody the reason we've got all those stories, 0.97

00:12:15.520 we've got those reporters, whether it's Jonathan and his skill with the bull testicles

00:12:21.760 or Arthur Green reporting on, yeah, the crazy crime rate in Edmonton is because you guys have 0.93

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00:12:56.920 this show and our reporters going all over yeah that has been i'll just you know sidetrack a

00:13:02.000 little bit before we get to our guest we're going to talk some media stuff here in a few minutes

00:13:05.300 here uh arthur green yeah he's he's the uh friend of our copy editors in a big way here at the

00:13:10.400 western standard very prolific writer but one of the things he's been covering a lot of in edmonton

00:13:14.100 has been the crime that's up there i mean we're seeing it in every city and uh there just seems

00:13:19.920 to be a wave hitting up there right now. And at the same time, rather than dealing with these

00:13:26.180 things, though, rather than admitting what's going on, these progressive city councils, we have it in

00:13:31.020 Calgary as well, just they're in this world of denial. So Ebbington set this goal. There's

00:13:36.860 nothing progressives love more than setting goals that they, I'm sure they must know they won't

00:13:40.480 achieve. And they're saying, oh, Edmonton's going to be one of the lowest crime cities in Canada by

00:13:44.480 2030. Well, since they put that announcement out, I think there's been a couple of fatal stabbings.

00:13:50.260 There's that horrible crime against that elderly gentleman we saw the other day. The streets are

00:13:54.160 going wild. I mean, it's a complicated issue. It's tied in with a lot of addiction challenges

00:13:59.020 and all sorts of other things. But to sit and deny it as it is in Calgary, for example, I mean,

00:14:06.380 it's been focused and we see that in a lot of cities. It ties to the addiction. It ties to the

00:14:10.280 dealers fighting with each other as they work to serve the addicts, but it comes around the

00:14:15.560 transit systems and on the trains, and it was getting increasingly violent. One of the things

00:14:19.840 that happened in Calgary is, well, Premier Smith, people could call it a campaign stunt or whatever,

00:14:24.780 but she dedicated 12 sheriffs to each city to run on the transit areas and the high crime areas and

00:14:30.940 have a presence that's there. Well, Calgary got rid of them. They got rid of them since they said,

00:14:36.320 no, we're doing okay, we don't need them. I mean, the point is, it's political pride. And it also

00:14:40.460 clashes with their ideology. You hear from all the time, police don't prevent crimes. Yet at the

00:14:44.720 same time, whenever Mayor Gondek goes out to do a photo op at a transit area, she's surrounded by

00:14:50.840 12 police officers. So they seem to prevent the crimes from happening to her. I mean, that's the

00:14:54.780 point. They do make people safe, at least when they're present. So we need their presence at

00:14:59.900 these stations. It doesn't solve the problems. I understand that it pushes into different area,

00:15:03.620 but at least people can safely commute, but they don't want to face those realities. They don't

00:15:07.760 want to deal with that. So they just set fluffy goals, continue with enablement policies, and the

00:15:11.540 crime rates still go through the roof. I mean, we're, as you can see in the stampede in Calgary,

00:15:16.040 it's going to be KDs in Edmonton next week, and let's hope they get some mayhem cleaned up so

00:15:20.680 people can have fun, at least for that week. All right, let's move along. I've been looking forward

00:15:25.720 to this. It's been a while. We've had him on the show before, but it's been quite a while.

00:15:29.640 It's Peter Menzies.

00:15:30.520 He's a former chair of the CRTC, a newspaper executive, very, very experienced, skilled

00:15:35.880 man with media.

00:15:36.800 And he's been very outspoken and critical, as a lot of us have, on Bill C-18.

00:15:42.980 So thank you very much for joining the show today, Peter.

00:15:45.860 Hey, it's my pleasure.

00:15:46.660 Thanks for inviting me.

00:15:48.060 So, I mean, most of my listeners are pretty aware due to many repeated rants out of me

00:15:52.080 and what C-18 is.

00:15:53.240 But perhaps if you could run down in a nutshell what that bill is about and where it's been.

00:15:57.660 Yeah, it's an effort to redistribute advertising income earned by social media and search platforms and search engines to newspapers and other news organizations, qualified ones that have been making the case.

00:16:14.180 Here's the journalistic approach.

00:16:15.500 I've been making the case, shouting very loudly that Facebook et al have been stealing their content.

00:16:21.720 And this has been going on for years.

00:16:23.940 They keep saying that.

00:16:24.900 I'm not quite sure why they get away with it because they never support it with anything other than just a statement.

00:16:30.500 So the non-journalistic or the less journalistic point of view is that it's kind of a shakedown.

00:16:35.640 Actually, it is a shakedown.

00:16:37.460 It most certainly is.

00:16:39.160 But, I mean, I guess maybe we'll talk a little more, though.

00:16:42.120 I mean, into the, I would consider it as a libertarian, more of a devil's advocate point

00:16:47.000 of view. But I mean, you've seen the decline of revenue and ability in the media industry. You

00:16:51.640 know, I mean, it's been dramatic this last 10 years. And it's a, people will call it a problem

00:16:55.380 that needs to be solved, whether or not the government should intervene to do so or not.

00:16:59.300 But we, our news is at risk. So I mean, C18 isn't the solution, but what should we be doing?

00:17:05.540 Yeah, I mean, I guess there's a couple arguments there. News is certainly at risk,

00:17:09.720 because it's a it's a time of disruption right but times of disruption tend to sort the men from the

00:17:14.760 boys in these in these kinds of things so the companies that are well equipped intellectually

00:17:19.400 and willing to invest in their product tend to find their ways through these things companies

00:17:25.640 that aren't um tend to struggle more um i mean it's going to be a struggle for everybody but some

00:17:31.800 make it and some don't that's what happens that's in when things evolve right when the

00:17:36.600 when the business models evolve in terms of that there have been a number of newspapers

00:17:40.600 the wall street journal that the new york times is actually starting to do quite well

00:17:45.080 daily telegraph in london the times uh the guardian made money last year in london and

00:17:50.600 you know after years of not making it and going with you know voluntary subscriptions and

00:17:55.160 voluntary donations others have gone behind a paywall you guys are using are using a paywall

00:18:01.160 um you know the guys who are going back to that and are providing content that is pleasing to

00:18:07.160 their readers are getting through it others are not and uh so you know and yet at the same time

00:18:15.960 we've been through the internet we have access probably to more news than we've ever had before

00:18:21.160 yeah and i guess that there's what the the one of the bigger risks with the government getting in

00:18:26.040 this way, particularly with C18, is it'll stunt the evolution of outlets. I mean, it doesn't give

00:18:31.580 them that incentive then to change or be innovative or try new models. And it also strangles the

00:18:36.980 little ones like us or the ones that may not qualify as the government's going to pick and

00:18:41.200 choose who is a qualified outlet and who isn't. Well, it's actually got worse than that. I hate

00:18:46.500 to break it to you, but this week it appeared like the government was sort of backing down

00:18:51.840 and it is because i think i think meta facebook and instagram um unless something dramatic changes

00:19:00.000 they're gone for good they're out of the business in canada everywhere uh they are not news

00:19:05.480 providers they are content providers and news is a small percentage and as they've been saying

00:19:11.080 recently it's just not worth the grief um there's just not it's three percent of their content and

00:19:16.700 that and those users are replicable they'll still be there for other reasons in other words

00:19:21.080 yeah but what they've done is they've changed from a per links which was really problem sort

00:19:28.120 of way of charging people charging the the social media the web giants to sort of putting a cap on

00:19:34.460 it making a calculation and then the big thing problem for guys like you is that they're really

00:19:40.440 restricting the number of people to whom they may have to distribute money so i still think it's a

00:19:46.440 long shot that any money gets distributed through this but if it does here's who it's going to

00:19:51.960 Videotron Bell the CBC probably the biggest probably the biggest bunch Rogers you know

00:19:59.920 maybe Black Press might be the biggest one that gets out of there but innovators startups

00:20:06.760 entrepreneurs like Western Standard Black Locks Halifax Examiner you know Narwhal they're on the

00:20:14.180 left they're on the right they're screwed they'll be left they'll be left out they will not be 0.84

00:20:19.080 subsidized the the status quo right which includes most of the people who are struggling and a lot

00:20:27.100 of people who have tons of money anyway like bells and bell and rogers will get the loot and uh you

00:20:33.900 guys will not we'll have to find other ways we're pretty stubborn i don't know if they'll get rid

00:20:40.860 us that easily that's where you need you know like you gave a little pitch there that's where

00:20:44.220 you need your readers your readers support you know like if if and that's really the thing that

00:20:49.560 people are going to have to get their heads around if they want the sort of content they're looking

00:20:53.460 for if they want local product if they want right now you have the only uh online newsroom in in uh

00:21:01.440 in in alberta i think other than the cbc um in terms in terms of doing that there's no calvary

00:21:08.160 Herald, no Calgary Sun, no Edmonton Journal, no Edmonton Sun newsroom that I'm aware of.

00:21:12.740 If people want that, it's 10 bucks a month. It's like, it's a beer, right? If they're not willing

00:21:21.240 to put that forward, they'll lose. I try to remind people, at least those of us of a vintage

00:21:26.260 remember, we never thought twice of spending that much or more to have the paper boy bring that to

00:21:30.800 us, to our household every day. And that was decades ago. And for that sort of price, you can

00:21:36.500 the same thing and i'm hoping canadian consumers learn to adapt that way they realize it's a

00:21:40.420 product to pay for and a lot of our subscribers have so far it just just takes some time yeah

00:21:45.540 and you know you don't need to get everybody you just need to get enough right i mean that's that's

00:21:49.620 basically the the way that needs to go and i mean the globe and mail has you know really

00:21:56.100 shuttered down with the with the paywall and that sort of stuff and all the other papers i mentioned

00:22:00.900 have done that but you got to have the quality you got to have the value proposition right so

00:22:05.620 you know you guys are doing a good job on that and others are too but you know some i mean it's very

00:22:11.140 difficult you know i don't like calling names out but it's very difficult for a post media product

00:22:17.060 these days to make a value proposition half of it is not you know half of your local paper is the

00:22:23.940 national post um so why would you buy your local paper when really i mean school board doesn't get

00:22:30.180 covered city council get covered courts yeah now and then right so what's what's the point

00:22:37.780 no it's difficult so i mean do you think maybe though i mean the government backed down a little

00:22:42.500 bit and as you sort of point out the government really doesn't have the leverage they pretend to

00:22:46.980 have or think they have with the social media giants i mean it was three percent of the content

00:22:51.300 they provided i can't see facebook and google back and down people keep saying well that happened in

00:22:55.940 australia but i think that just says all the more they're not letting that precedent get set because

00:22:59.780 every country with a greedy government is going to come in and try and snatch some from them in

00:23:04.060 the future. So, I mean, do you think the government will swallow some pride maybe and just get this

00:23:09.840 bill or are they just going to keep on this standoff and no news gets provided on those

00:23:13.860 giants at all? Sure. Well, first of all, the narrative that Google and Facebook backed down

00:23:18.620 is one spun by Rupert Murdoch's media in Australia. It was actually the government that backed down

00:23:23.020 and made some amendments and said, basically, you're free to make your own deals. And then

00:23:28.640 we've, you know, nobody's actually ever used the Australian legislation. So to that extent,

00:23:33.960 you know, the Australian model is the government threatening to do something unless everybody else

00:23:38.060 does something. I think the government's in this situation right now where I think it's too late

00:23:43.000 for Meta, for Facebook. I think they insulted them too much. I mean, people don't make emotional

00:23:50.020 decisions, they make business decisions, but they also found that they were probably going to be

00:23:54.580 insulted whether they made a philanthropic decision and said okay we'll help anyway because

00:23:59.000 let's face it none of them set out to kill newspapers or to kill news products right in

00:24:03.580 terms of that so what they're trying to do now is salvage some sort of deal with google which will

00:24:10.560 put a cap on it um and right now my understanding is there's a huge difference between what news

00:24:19.440 Media Canada and some of the other lobby groups lobbying for the loot are expecting and what

00:24:26.860 Google's willing to pay. So, you know, the best case scenario, this ends up with them making some

00:24:32.400 kind of deal with Google who then get exempted from the act. And then they maybe never even

00:24:37.200 bother bringing the act into force, which allows Facebook meta to still carry news, which they

00:24:42.560 might decide to get it, but it might be too late for that. They might decide to get out of the

00:24:46.080 business anyway. Or as it stands, they don't get any deal with Google. And as it stands,

00:24:54.660 they're not going to get one, near as I can tell. And we play this drama out through the fall.

00:25:01.420 And then we'll see what probably the best case scenario for everybody is that the government

00:25:07.780 amends Bill C-18 so that the coming into force date just gets extended into eternity.

00:25:16.080 and you just kind of nobody they don't withdraw the act it sits there but no harm is done yeah

00:25:23.600 you just kind of let it die quietly of old age uh i mean something that's got to be frustrating and

00:25:29.760 and it's been a i wrote on it recently a difficult environment for established journalists they put

00:25:35.520 in their time and everything and then you know they're they're it just isn't the demand for

00:25:39.760 for their product as as there used to be but i mean i i see it as almost some of the outlets are

00:25:45.840 really jumping on the government bandwagon i think uh post media said they're going to stop

00:25:50.480 advertising on facebook and the shots go back and forth but it feels i i it's just sad to see such

00:25:57.420 large institutions coming getting down to that rather than seeking uh changes in their ways to

00:26:02.660 try and get out of the the soup they're in yeah it is it is it's it's it's really it's it's it's

00:26:08.840 kind of embarrassing isn't it right like i mean it's it's kind of nationally embarrassing to see

00:26:12.860 that we're going through this with our with our media i mean we used to be pretty proud proud of

00:26:18.060 our media and that sort of stuff and a lot of it just isn't very good anymore um and nobody

00:26:25.260 i can't believe i just said that out loud but people need to say that out loud a little bit

00:26:29.180 from time to time right like you you actually have to have like i was saying a product that

00:26:35.100 that people want to buy and here's one of the tough things for the journalists like

00:26:38.860 hey look they got kids they got mortgages they got they've got you know livelihoods they've got

00:26:44.220 elderly parents to care for they've got all those things that everybody else does so it's not like 0.93

00:26:49.340 you know we we shouldn't empathize with their with their predicament and i can understand their

00:26:53.660 despair and their desperation in in terms of that but news there hasn't ever been a great deal of

00:27:00.780 money in news the fact of the matter is those big old newspapers like the one i used to run

00:27:05.740 it wasn't just the news that people bought it for right it's like those were the days when if you

00:27:11.500 wanted to rent an apartment you had to buy the paper if you wanted if you wanted to you know

00:27:16.700 sell your car you had to put an ad in the paper and if you wanted to buy a car you had to buy the

00:27:21.340 paper if you wanted to do virtually anything if you want to find out who had a kid the births

00:27:26.320 deaths whose daughter got engaged who got married um whose grandma died you had to buy the newspaper

00:27:31.940 if you wanted to see the comics the horoscope that sort of stuff i mean i got back in the day

00:27:37.300 when catherine ford and peter stockland were both writing on the calgary herald editorial pages

00:27:42.020 and everybody thought this was great controversy and it was and it was fun and that and you know

00:27:45.860 be like what are they going to say next and that sort of stuff the fact of the matter is though

00:27:50.900 i got more phone calls when the canadian tire flyer wasn't delivered to somebody's door on

00:27:55.380 a thursday morning than over anything peter stockland or catherine ford ever said well

00:28:00.580 yeah i mean it's it's the world has changed so dramatically i mean it's good to remind everybody

00:28:04.580 it was just such an it was a need it was an integral pipeline to to information that you

00:28:09.940 you couldn't go without it but those yeah the internet products that really killed newspapers

00:28:15.940 it's not so much facebook i mean facebook didn't start making money until 2012 right um and it was

00:28:22.420 over for newspapers by then because it was kajiji and craigslist and did it right classified

00:28:27.700 advertising was worth 30 in some cases 40 percent of most north american newspapers revenue and

00:28:34.260 these guys gave that stuff away for free right and how do you compete with that all of a sudden

00:28:40.420 something you're you know like a product like the globe and mail if you wanted to rent an apartment

00:28:45.060 it cost you 80 bucks to put a classified ad in right all of us and they're i mean these were

00:28:50.260 very high rates 25 cents a word i think the herald was and that sort of stuff all of a sudden

00:28:54.500 somebody's given that away for free. So if they're chasing anybody for loot, it should be Kijiji and 0.99

00:28:59.620 Craigslist. Yeah, which, well, I don't want to give them ideas. But I mean, it is tragic. But I

00:29:07.380 mean, obviously, it's just not going to change anymore. I mean, now that I can pick up my phone

00:29:11.540 and search out a used car or an apartment or a job, it's just not coming back. This is a change

00:29:18.580 in history uh what do you think the approach is i mean you think the government can quietly let

00:29:25.020 this go to the wayside would it almost be better to for the rest of us to quiet down and let them

00:29:29.640 sort of pad this thing away well i actually i actually think and uh you know this is where

00:29:35.880 they should have been years ago but i mean we are where we are so no point monday morning

00:29:39.400 quarterbacking it but uh my former crtc chair conrad von finkenstein and i just recently did

00:29:45.100 a paper for the McDonnell-Vorier Institute, the purpose of which was just trying to say what we

00:29:49.840 need is a national news industry policy of some kind, right? It involved, like our suggestion was

00:29:55.540 that when people subscribe, that subscription becomes 100% tax deductible. Now, the Globe and

00:30:02.060 Mail picked up on that idea in an editorial the other day, and they suggested 70%. Well, fine,

00:30:07.780 but I mean, what we're trying to do is get a conversation started going. But obviously,

00:30:11.780 the current 15 that's not going to there's no incentive in that getting a 15 tax break on your

00:30:17.940 120 a year to the you know i mean who's going to even bother claiming that in their in their in

00:30:23.700 their tax form but make it 70 make it 100 it's different you know a different type of funding

00:30:29.060 mechanism from the from the web giants um all kinds of different things so reforming the role

00:30:34.340 of the cvc getting them out of the advertising business that sort of stuff that's the sort of

00:30:40.020 that's what we need to do that's a long-winded way of saying what we need to be doing is not

00:30:45.700 subsidizing zombie products from the past that are basically staggering around

00:30:51.940 dead right and trying to find out ways to keep them staggering around dead that's like a subsidy

00:30:57.460 for products that are in palliative care what you need to be do be doing is understanding what's

00:31:03.140 going on, the nature of the tech revolution that's happening, which is huge, and build

00:31:11.280 a path forward to the future.

00:31:13.840 We have this federal government that fancies itself as so progressive, and when it comes

00:31:18.760 to economic matters like this through Bill C-11 and C-18, they are paleocons.

00:31:25.260 They're trying to preserve the world of 1985 and everything they do.

00:31:29.220 It's crazy.

00:31:30.220 No, it's not coming back, but I guess we can keep speaking up and keep pushing and keep trying to prosper outside of that.

00:31:36.820 I really appreciate you coming on to lay out what the issue was.

00:31:39.840 I mean, I don't want to date you too much, but you've had experience through a great number of years of journalism, and it's worth applying that.

00:31:46.220 I mean, seeing the evolution and seeing where it's gone to.

00:31:49.420 So as you mentioned, you put content in, you take part with the McDonnell-Laurier Institute.

00:31:54.540 Where else can people find your work, Peter?

00:31:56.280 um well um i i write for a number of different publications i write for epic times pretty

00:32:03.280 regularly the line uh the hub is uh the last piece i wrote for the hub got got a lot got a

00:32:09.040 lot of carriage in terms of that i occasionally we write for the globe and mail and now and then

00:32:13.980 western standard too um can can pick up my stuff so uh watch for it if people were to follow the

00:32:21.040 The easiest thing is to follow the Macdonald Laurier Institute site or social media feeds

00:32:27.680 because they pick up just about everything we do and republish it under their brand.

00:32:33.240 So that's probably the easiest way for folks to do it.

00:32:36.520 Great.

00:32:37.040 Well, thank you.

00:32:37.580 That's another interesting stuff there too, by the way.

00:32:39.520 Yeah, I was about to say, I've had a number of guests, you know,

00:32:41.660 we've been a part of the Macdonald Laurier Institute.

00:32:43.660 They're a fantastic organization.

00:32:45.580 People should go there, as you said, just to look in general.

00:32:47.660 there's there's a you could you could lose some hours digging into the content there it's fantastic

00:32:53.820 great well i thank you again for your time and uh sharing with us today uh peter and uh well

00:32:58.700 hopefully the next time we talk it'll be a little less bleak outlook yeah yeah well like you know

00:33:03.500 like i said like keep your chin up i mean this is a disruptive time it's a tough time

00:33:07.660 people will need new ideas some will work and some won't but uh just keep going forward and

00:33:13.580 and the smart and the able will survive. We will. We're also this stubborn.

00:33:21.900 Thanks, Corey. That was Peter Menzies. And yes, it's just a resume too long to list when it comes

00:33:27.260 to the media world. And it was good to get that plug for the McDonnell Laurier Institute because

00:33:31.820 there's a lot of things there just worth having a look at. So yes, let's see, let's get back to

00:33:38.540 talking about balls. You know, I just can't get tired enough of that. But we have some fun around 0.98

00:33:42.940 here as well that was something though that peter mentioned is we have a fully functional newsroom

00:33:47.520 we have an office in calgary here with our news editor our copy editor our reporters uh you know

00:33:53.740 people working uh in all sorts of roles here and no more uh outlets very few have those anymore but

00:34:00.700 you know part of it too is being sociable and having fun so we got out as we said uh dave

00:34:07.280 mentioned the other day down to uh bottle screw bills is the name of the bar in calgary and they're

00:34:11.120 having their testicle festival and uh we we gave uh young jonathan bradley a chance to establish

00:34:17.140 himself so we'll run a video of that just so you can see what's going on there john bradley and 0.95

00:34:21.800 i'm a reporter with the western standard i'm here at bottle screw bills right now it's the calgary

00:34:25.920 stampede it's the annual testicle festival i'll be having prairie oysters in case you know what 0.97

00:34:31.840 prairie oysters are they're deep fried bull testicles my boss gerek has told me that i have 0.89

00:34:37.300 eat these to keep my job or he'll send me back to ontario so which i don't want to do because

00:34:42.500 albert is part of the ontario so i'm going to dig in and have some here he goes here we go here he

00:34:48.420 goes ketchup oh first impressions pretty good the deep pride takes away from the fact that

00:35:07.300 yes that was our uh king of the balls there jonathan bradley i went down there and had a ball

00:35:23.080 myself and uh it was it was all right you know it's a fun thing i honestly and hey they aren't

00:35:28.420 a sponsor or anything like that you know check it out if you want a fun spot to hit during stampede

00:35:32.720 if you're in calgary they're out on 10th avenue bottles crew bills their service was excellent

00:35:36.100 their staff were great putting up with a bunch of us loud clowns down there and that's part of what

00:35:40.200 the stampede's about get in there have some fun have a chuckle and things and uh you don't have

00:35:45.360 to eat 12 balls like jonathan did but you know it's like one of those things i did the sour

00:35:49.320 toe when i was in dawson city after taking a break on an arctic job uh you know you can check

00:35:54.540 that thing off on your list sometimes uh canadian conservative saying jonathan earning his paycheck 0.98

00:35:59.920 yes i don't think he was really going to be fired if he didn't put balls in his mouth but all the

00:36:03.740 same uh he had pressure from the the place to show he was a true westerner even though he's

00:36:09.020 recently come out here let's do in just over a year from ontario and he writes some great news

00:36:13.660 stories guys and and other things and there was the rest of the crowd there was good all right

00:36:18.200 you know speaking of that area so and speaking of some of the the fun uh kind of tying in with

00:36:24.480 everything else we've got going on with the crime i was talking about that arthur

00:36:28.740 green rights about quite often and things like that. We have that in Calgary.

00:36:33.340 These civic government skies, we've got to stop letting our municipal politicians get away with 0.59

00:36:39.780 what they do. We've got to stop putting these woke lunatics into the mayor's chairs and council 1.00

00:36:45.040 chairs. We're paying a price for it. So yeah, Calgary's downtown. As I said, we got some serious, 0.96

00:36:51.240 serious crime challenges right now. I think the reason we're not hearing about a lot of them right

00:36:54.180 now is that, you know, the Stampede is overwhelming everything with news coverage. So

00:36:59.160 in Edmonton, you're hearing it. When we were sitting there, it was at least six ambulances

00:37:04.680 went by on 10th Avenue where we were down there enjoying ourselves on the patio, having a fun

00:37:09.580 time. And we know the majority of that was for overdoses. No easy solutions, but we really got

00:37:14.560 to address those things and quit kicking the ball down the road and can down the road and trying to

00:37:18.640 procrastinate with it. But in Calgary, they're coming up with even more stupid things. Yeah, 1.00

00:37:23.320 I know. There's always room for municipal politicians to come up with stupid. And you 1.00

00:37:27.360 know, everybody in just about every city can nod their head because they know they've seen 0.99

00:37:31.820 idiotic anti-automotive policies like this come up because there's this cult-like thing. I mean, 0.98

00:37:38.500 some point out it's, you know, Agenda 2030, things like that. I think those inspire a lot

00:37:42.180 of these municipal politicians, but they really are at war with vehicles. So what they want to do,

00:37:47.740 I'm going to describe it a bit because not everybody viewing, of course, is from Calgary,

00:37:50.500 Calgary, south of the downtown, has sort of a main artery full of businesses, neat spots,

00:37:58.100 restaurants, bars, stores. It's 17th Avenue Southwest. And it goes through an area that's

00:38:04.720 called the Beltline. So it's kind of outside of the main skyscrapers, but it has a lot of

00:38:08.560 apartments, a lot of high density living and a lot of population. Well, the clowns in City Hall 0.95

00:38:13.780 are saying, you know, we should shut 17th Avenue down and make it a big, long pedestrian zone. 0.97

00:38:19.060 Oh, and they're talking seriously about this. Now, 17th Avenue moves 15,000 vehicles a day.

00:38:27.820 If you go south of 17th, describe it to others, that's Mount Royal. It's not a good neighborhood

00:38:32.380 to get through for getting one place to another. It's on a hill and it's just a rich neighborhood

00:38:35.780 full of mansions. You go north, you're going farther into downtown. Now, what the hipsters

00:38:41.380 who were supporting this idea and the others saying, oh, we would love that. We don't want

00:38:44.440 cars in our belt line. Those 15,000 vehicles are all going to pour onto the other streets guys to

00:38:50.940 get around that. They were going from one place to another place and they can't stop just because

00:38:56.020 you morons shut down access down this main road. They will just go down another one and you're 1.00

00:39:02.020 transferring the problem somewhere else, but it won't be 15,000 worth. No, 5,000 of them are going

00:39:06.740 to say, you know what, whatever I used to have to do down there, I'm just not going to do it anymore.

00:39:11.940 I'm going to do my stuff in the suburbs.

00:39:14.080 I'm going to go somewhere else and take my business, my time, my wallet to another spot.

00:39:21.940 Some of the citizens in these high-density traffic-laden areas will also get the hell out of there.

00:39:27.500 I've said it on Twitter, it works people up, because I live rural, actually.

00:39:29.980 I'm just outside of Calgary on an acreage, but I'm not in the city.

00:39:33.080 And every time these twits pull off stuff like this, my property values go up,

00:39:37.200 because more and more people say, I've had it, I'm out.

00:39:40.420 but I mean Calgary's downtown is a disaster zone as are many of them with the addiction with the

00:39:46.000 ground level businesses get down there for lease signs are everywhere and they talk to business

00:39:51.620 owners they bully business owners oh this will be a good idea for the businesses no it won't 0.99

00:39:56.240 no it won't neither was it when they stuck stupid freaking bike lanes in front of all of those 1.00

00:40:01.100 businesses oh that's going to bring more business to you it didn't cyclists don't spend money 1.00

00:40:06.300 god guys so you close that down it'll be great for 17th perhaps during stampede and on some nice

00:40:14.640 summer days other than that you're going to crush those businesses and you're going to make the whole

00:40:18.340 neighborhood there's a map of the city you know it's limited by a river and a number of areas

00:40:22.320 you cut that main east west access and you're going to cause a real problem the only other

00:40:28.660 decent access there's 11th and 12th avenues and what they did of course they stuck bike lanes on

00:40:33.520 them. So they've squashed all the parking off of that and they've made it narrower and narrower.

00:40:39.400 And they just, they live in this delusional world. I mean, what they want to do, what they really do

00:40:43.500 want to do, these ideologues, these nut bars, and you know, we can usually dismiss nut bars, but

00:40:48.060 unfortunately, these nut bars are winning elections in cities across the country.

00:40:52.200 I can't wait to see what Madam Chow does in Toronto. But they think if we could just hound 1.00

00:40:58.880 and harass and annoy auto drivers enough, they'll just say, you know what, I'm going to go green

00:41:05.700 and ride a bike to work in January in Calgary. I'm going to ride the bus. I'll just put on my

00:41:11.080 stab-proof vest and hope that I don't get killed on the way to work. It's not going to happen,

00:41:16.160 guys. They leave. They leave. There's no more cycle commuters in Calgary now than there were

00:41:22.200 10 years ago, despite all the bike lanes built for them. There's a lot of recreational cyclists

00:41:26.720 who use those a bit in summer, but the hardcore people who actually are going to throw on spandex,

00:41:31.680 freeze their testes off and get their way across the city to go to work has always been around two

00:41:38.360 to 3% of people like in wintertime. These are just fringe, good on them, but fringe lunatics. 0.98

00:41:43.960 They didn't need dedicated lanes. It doesn't matter. They got their lanes and we're seeing 0.90

00:41:49.100 more of it. They haven't stopped with the core. Now they're going on to 17th. Go to 8th Avenue

00:41:53.680 in Calgary. That's been a pedestrian zone for a long time. It has some neat businesses. It has

00:41:57.780 things along there. But guess what? It's also got loads of for lease signs because the city won't

00:42:02.420 stop the social disorder and nightmare that's going on there. And they've throttled all the

00:42:06.000 parking so badly that people don't come down there to visit those businesses because it costs

00:42:10.880 too bloody much. Either way, the whole bottom line of what I'm getting to is we see this everywhere.

00:42:16.800 But the part of having these progressives winning these civic elections, the problem isn't that

00:42:23.260 they're winning. It's that they're winning because only 2030 at tops, 40% of people are

00:42:28.520 bothering to get off their butts and vote in municipal elections. It's on us, guys. You got

00:42:34.700 to get out there and fire these clowns, or they're going to continue to run rampant like this. You 1.00

00:42:39.460 know, with all this stuff going on around here, too, this is something we see in Calgary.

00:42:42.780 Gondek spoke to that, and the Calgary Economic Development, which is a slush fund organization

00:42:46.740 for City Hall. We're talking about we should move away from the cowboy image of Calgary.

00:42:51.700 Yeah.

00:42:52.460 Yeah, we've got branding that's known internationally.

00:42:54.720 The Calgary Stampede, this cowboy thing, and yes, it's cosplay.

00:42:57.820 It's cheesy to some, but it brings a massive amount of people to the city. 0.99

00:43:02.480 It puts the city on the map, and these elected morons in City Hall think, 0.99

00:43:06.000 we should move away from that. 0.99

00:43:07.540 We want to be more like Paris.

00:43:08.820 Guys, you'll never be like Paris.

00:43:10.200 You want to know why?

00:43:10.780 Because Paris is over in France, and it's a city that was based on a medieval model to begin with.

00:43:16.060 Quit trying to aspire to be what you're not and develop with what you already have.

00:43:20.600 Oh, we've got to be world-class.

00:43:22.080 Guess what?

00:43:22.480 We already are.

00:43:24.500 So could be Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg.

00:43:27.720 But we've got to apply common sense to these cities, not try to be something else.

00:43:31.400 Take what you are, take your strengths, expand on them.

00:43:34.240 One of your strengths should be common sense on the part of the voters, meaning they're

00:43:37.500 not going to vote for these twits any longer.

00:43:39.600 You're going to bring in people who are going to actually represent you.

00:43:43.180 You're going to bring in people who want to make your place better, not rip it down

00:43:46.920 and build it into some crazed globalist hipster model that they have in their mind because it's

00:43:52.720 failing. It's not working. And it's as similar as it is with the electric vehicles. I see that

00:43:59.180 with the cyclists and the rest too. Oh, everybody's going to switch to EVs. Everybody's going to

00:44:03.060 switch to EVs. You know, we've been hearing that for 15 years. They've subsidized the crap out of

00:44:08.120 it. They've poured loads of money into EVs. And guess what? It's still only 5% of the vehicles

00:44:13.820 on the ground. Speaking of electric vehicles, maybe the day will come, but it's failed so far.

00:44:20.120 And unless they change, well, that's a separate discussion. Unless we change our climate

00:44:25.340 dramatically enough, we're not going to see a large demand for year round bicycle infrastructure

00:44:31.620 in these major cities. But now I've seen, you know, maybe there's some benefits to global warming.

00:44:37.040 If it's coming along, if you guys really want to generate support for your bike lanes to expand

00:44:43.240 and have people riding their bicycles around in February, January,

00:44:47.980 then we should be warming up the earth faster.

00:44:51.160 That's the only way it's going to happen.

00:44:53.280 I'll ride a bike downtown in February if it's 20 above,

00:44:57.660 but I'm going to have to burn a heck of a lot more coal and wood to get there, I guess,

00:45:01.120 assuming those things change it.

00:45:03.700 Ah, madness going on out there.

00:45:05.620 But I mean, yes, that case, you know, where's the common sense,

00:45:10.760 especially when it comes to the crime, the enablement. And we're seeing our cities getting

00:45:14.580 worse and worse in our centers. Look to the entire West Coast because that's where the imbeciles and 1.00

00:45:19.120 city councils seem to look for inspiration. Look to what San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver have 1.00

00:45:24.400 done with enablement of crime of every kind, whether it's drug-based or even shoplifting and

00:45:28.960 theft. It's turned every one of those cities into uninhabitable crap holes downtown. And we're 0.97

00:45:35.960 following suit. They keep saying, we want to follow the science and go with what works with

00:45:39.860 the addiction episode. Well, okay, well, we know what doesn't work. So let's rule that one out

00:45:44.540 and then start working on new things, but they won't give up. No, if we can just facilitate,

00:45:48.680 enable, give enough free supply to people long enough, they'll get off those drugs.

00:45:53.860 It's not going to happen, guys. You got to understand with addiction. And I know,

00:45:58.100 been through it. I didn't get off alcohol overnight. It was a long battle with a few

00:46:03.900 false starts. When you're addicted, you keep escalating and escalating and escalating.

00:46:08.260 You never have enough.

00:46:09.720 And you'll need more the next time.

00:46:11.120 You'll need more the next time.

00:46:12.160 This myth, this BS that it's just tainted drug supplies that's killing them.

00:46:16.700 No, it's not. 0.96

00:46:17.340 It's the frigging drugs. 0.98

00:46:19.140 It's the volume of the drugs they take. 1.00

00:46:20.720 And eventually it breaks down their body and kills them.

00:46:23.600 Don't make your excuses.

00:46:24.580 And if we could just clean up the drug supply enough, these guys will survive it.

00:46:28.900 They won't.

00:46:29.500 They're addicted.

00:46:30.200 They're living on the streets. 0.95

00:46:30.980 They're going to die.

00:46:32.200 They need treatment.

00:46:33.280 They need to get off that stuff.

00:46:34.480 It doesn't matter how pure you make your fentanyl or your crack or your methamphetamine for them.

00:46:39.520 There's no safe supply of it.

00:46:42.160 So let's just get off that and get on to reality with it.

00:46:45.180 As Arthur Green, there we go, our goofy new fee.

00:46:47.220 I'll let him off with the final comment.

00:46:48.700 Before I get going, I'm done with my ranting and raving.

00:46:50.660 I'm going to enjoy Stampede.

00:46:51.620 I'm going to smile.

00:46:52.140 I'm going to laugh. 0.99

00:46:52.600 I'm going to talk about balls. 0.97

00:46:53.940 But he did say, we don't give out shots at AA meetings. 0.96

00:46:57.860 And that's the truth, guys.

00:46:58.900 If they were giving me shots of whiskey when I'd go to all my AA meetings,

00:47:01.500 I'd probably still be a drunkard today and probably wouldn't even have a job.

00:47:05.120 All right.

00:47:05.360 Thanks for tuning in this week, guys.

00:47:06.760 I'll be back to my normal outfit and ranting and raving about all sorts of other things next week at this time.

00:47:12.160 So thanks for tuning in and we will see you then.

00:47:16.520 The current Lethbridge feed grain prices are as follows.

00:47:20.000 Cash barley is at $4.28, feed wheat is at $4.18, and corn is down $3 at $3.90 per metric ton.

00:47:26.320 In the milling wheat markets, September Minneapolis futures lost $0.15 at $8.49, with local hard

00:47:33.600 red spring bids for July movement at $9.75 per bushel.

00:47:37.840 In the oilseeds, nearby canola futures increased to $11.20 at $7.98.30 per ton, with delivered

00:47:45.440 values for August movement at $18.33 per bushel.

00:47:49.240 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentils are trading at $0.34 a pound, and yellow peas

00:47:53.940 remain at 11.50 per bushel. In the cattle markets, August live cattle are down 22 cents at $1.708.60

00:48:01.220 per 100 weight. For more information on grain marketing, call me at 403-394-1711. I'm Sean

00:48:08.920 Smith at Marketplace Commodities, accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options.

00:48:14.300 Canadian Shooting Sports Association, without the CSSA, our gun rights would have been taken

00:48:18.780 And long, long ago, these guys are on the front lines, helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations and legislation in Canada.

00:48:28.500 And more importantly, educating the public about how we keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people.

00:48:33.820 We've become a member. It's absolutely worth every penny.

00:48:48.780 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - July 13, 2023

CMS： Canada’s system of racial apartheid needs to end

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