Vivian Silver was a peace activist who supported the concept of a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. She worked to bring attention to the plight of Palestinian citizens held hostage in Gaza by Hamas terrorists. On November 13th, CTV News reported that she had died.
00:00:30.000Good day. Welcome to the show. This is the Corey Morgan Show, and I am indeed Corey Morgan.
00:00:36.340Thanks for joining us today, guys, during these insane news times. That's the only way to put it.
00:00:42.640You know, we've had such a plethora of news to cover lately. It's been kind of nice. It's having lots of stuff to write about or think about and talk about, but just so much of it's been dark lately.
00:00:51.640It gets tiresome, but we still have to keep covering it. We have to keep talking about it. We have to keep thinking about it because we'll never find solutions if we're afraid.
00:01:00.000To take on the problems head on, and that's part of what we try to do here. Get on, talk about these things straight out. We don't sugarcoat things. We get right to the point, or at least I do.
00:01:09.820So hang in there, guys. We got a lot to cover today. I got Michelle Sterling of Friends of Science on. It's been a while since Michelle's been on.
00:01:16.800She's been a regular on my show. Always great when she gets on. And of course, the latest COP plan. So we're talking, you know, UN climate type organizations plans to phase out our fossil fuels.
00:01:26.500They won't give up. It doesn't matter how illogical their policies are or how badly it will hurt people. They are fanatical and they'll carry on with it as well.
00:01:35.140Of course, we'll have lots of news and things to talk about. And unfortunately, we'll talk about some of the fanatical here right away. Good to see you there, John Winslow joining in the comment scroll.
00:01:45.180And yeah, I like to remind people, here's that comment scroll. Send questions my way. Talk to each other. Do things like that. I see them all.
00:01:52.220I won't necessarily read them all out because we do have a busy, packed show, but I appreciate seeing the activity there and just trying to stay civil with each other.
00:01:59.080Okay, so I'm going to start with what's got me going today. So, you know, I was always on. I'm on X. I'm on Twitter and I'm watching.
00:02:06.780I see the news stories as they come up. Here it comes, you know, a headline about a Canadian-born peace activist, Vivian Silver.
00:02:13.760And she disappeared from an Israeli kibbutz near Gaza during the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7th.
00:02:21.100You know, friends and family, they held out hope she was among the hundreds of hostages taken by terrorists and maybe she'd be released one day.
00:02:27.920Unfortunately, those hopes were dashed. But in the evening of November 13th, CTV News released a story with this subdued headline stating,
00:02:37.240Canadian peace activist Vivian Silver, who went missing after the Hamas attack, has died.
00:02:43.660That's it. That is what the headline said.
00:02:47.020The purposeful understatement of the significance and circumstances of Silver's death enraged me and many Canadians,
00:02:54.200and the CTV has been getting roasted, as they should, ever since.
00:02:57.240They stubbornly left the headline intact since then, though, and they won't edit it.
00:03:02.140Now, the way that headline was composed, it made it sound as if Silver had passed away from natural causes.
00:03:07.380It also simply said she was missing rather than possibly kidnapped.
00:03:12.180You know, maybe she just went for a walk and didn't come home.
00:03:14.780In the body of the story, though, they did say her son said she was murdered,
00:03:18.620as if perhaps she still died another way and her son's just making stuff up.
00:03:23.340Vivian Silver was brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists, and the headline should have reflected nothing less than that.
00:03:29.700Yet CTV deliberately tried to minimize this.
00:03:32.640Headline writing, I mean, it's an art form.
00:03:34.980And in the world of social media, it's more important than ever.
00:03:37.520Headlines, they need to communicate the most important element of a story,
00:03:40.720and they have to grab the attention of prospective readers.
00:05:11.620She was a kafir who must be slaughtered along with every other Jew from babies to senior citizens.
00:05:17.140The murder of Silver shines a light, though, on just how extreme Hamas is.
00:05:21.540It shows just how insulting it was when Canada's foreign affairs minister, G.I. Melanie Jolie, vacuously said Hamas should be at the table and negotiated with.
00:05:32.000You can't negotiate with a group that fanatical and that violent.
00:05:35.120What common ground could possibly be reached?
00:05:37.560You know, well, you'll only kill half the Jews?
00:05:41.300Any competent minister of foreign affairs would realize this.
00:05:43.880Silver's vicious murder drove home how idiotic Jolie's utterances were, and Canada's subsidized legacy media never wants to rattle to the tree of the government that pays its bills.
00:05:53.280Little wonder, some hope the killing of Silver just wouldn't be noted and would soon be forgotten.
00:05:58.080Well, we're not going to let that happen.
00:05:59.980Legacy media has been indulging domestic fanatics when it refuses to call out Canadian peace marches,
00:06:05.240when the organizers of the marches chant the genocidal phrase, from the river to the sea.
00:06:10.200And it's a statement to call for the extermination of the Jews of Israel, folks.
00:06:13.880Legacy media denied and questioned the claims that, ah, my teleprompter froze.
00:06:29.240Even now, media's reporting on the alleged civilian casualty numbers coming from Gaza and sourcing the Gazan Health Authority for them.
00:06:36.420The Gazan Health Authority is run by Hamas, you guys.
00:06:39.000Do you think an organization willing to behead and burn babies might be willing to lie on their press releases?
00:06:45.580Legacy media still takes them at their word.
00:06:48.820Israel's gone to great lengths to offer a reality check to media outlets in denial of the Hamas atrocities.
00:06:54.400They've presented screenings to journalists and politicians around the world depicting Hamas terrorists gleefully slaughtering Jewish families while bragging about their conquests.
00:09:18.440But it's nice to think we've at least got through half of November unscathed.
00:09:22.420So, yeah, as you mentioned, Corey, Insane News Days, it just seems to be going on around the clock.
00:09:29.780Right now, our website is leading off with our column from our opinion editor, Nigel Hannaford.
00:09:36.220An interesting headline, the unbearable leftist link between climate change and killing babies.
00:09:43.140And, yes, it's about the crazy situation that's going on in the Middle East right now.
00:09:49.300Our Saskatchewan Bureau Chief, Christopher Olcord, has got a good story on the Saskatchewan government's putting up homeless peoples in hotels.
00:09:59.180One of the hotels they're staying in, Corey, is owned by the Saskatchewan Party, MLA.
00:10:04.520And apparently they are charging double to stay at the hotel for migrants.
00:10:13.100A fearless leader is in Vancouver, was in Vancouver last night, where pro-Palestine supporters chased him out of not one, but two restaurants.
00:10:27.000In fact, Vancouver police had to send 100 officers down to Chinatown to protect them.
00:10:33.220And I'm almost at the point of feeling sorry for him, Corey.
00:11:02.500Jen Hodgson's got a shocking story out of Las Vegas, where eight high schoolers have been charged with swarming and murdering a classmate that they were bullying.
00:11:13.240A former youth teacher at a Calgary church has been charged with historical sexual assaults against a seven-year-old.
00:11:24.500And we've had some shocking news, Corey, in the last week.
00:11:28.160Both in Edmonton, where an 11-year-old was killed in gang violence.
00:11:33.300And in Calgary, where a 14-year-old was arrested as a hitman in a deadly gang shooting.
00:11:40.780So our Jen Hodgson, again, has got a story up there about what police are doing across the country to try and liaise and come up with, try and find a solution to this bloodshed on western Canadian streets.
00:11:56.380Still to come, Corey, I'm just about to publish a story on the Manning panel.
00:12:00.700You remember Preston Manning was paid a heck of a lot of money, a quarter million dollars, to lead a panel and to look at what the Alberta government did wrong and what they did right during the pandemic.
00:12:13.820That report is out today, and we'll have the story up momentarily.
00:12:18.620And a group of people have got together in Alberta, Corey, to say that they don't think the NDP is a very good brand anymore.
00:12:25.200So they're setting out a committee, they're going to try and look into whether or not changing the name of the NDP will make them more electable in Alberta.
00:14:14.960A free media has to be able to do that.
00:14:16.840Now, unfortunately, subsidized media is afraid to hold the government to account.
00:14:21.260That's part of why we see such weakness going on with our legacy media outlets.
00:14:25.560They are reliant on the generosity of Prime Minister Trudeau to pay their bills rather than being innovative and developing new markets, as we have.
00:14:35.040But there's lots going on, lots of stories, dozens of them.
00:14:37.520And we're going to talk about as many as we can as we get through things today.
00:14:40.660But if you've subscribed already, guys, thank you very much.
00:17:30.380And yet these guys, who actually just live at the public trough, most of them are heavily subsidized
00:17:37.640by governments with grants and consultation contracts, with tax subsidies, because a lot of them are charities.
00:17:45.020All these guys are trying to shut down the industry.
00:17:47.700And the same at COP28, they're trying to do the same thing.
00:17:54.800They're saying that, you know, Robert's saying countries like China, India, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq,
00:18:03.100all see fossil fuel production as central to their economic development and energy security.
00:18:09.480So, you know, if you think about this in terms of geopolitics, us trying to go along with climate change targets that will cripple our country,
00:18:18.540it's really just giving the advantage to all these competitor nations and putting us completely at risk.
00:18:26.380Well, yeah, Canada is always the one who wants to play the Boy Scout.
00:18:29.160It seems we're the only ones ready to shut down our own resources and tighten our belts and starve a little more and subsidize battery plants
00:18:37.120while we pay lip service and indulge all of these nations that are expanding their production and feeding world demand.
00:19:09.680And he basically says he doesn't think that there will be a turnaround, but he does see that the public are feeling the costs and the burdens of these crazy climate policies.
00:19:22.180And lots of people are getting a lot more energy literate.
00:19:24.680And they're saying that, you know, it's ridiculous for Canada, which puts out perhaps 1.5% of the world's emissions, to try and meet these ridiculous targets.
00:19:36.240When countries like China, you know, China emits in one year, in one month, sorry, what Canada emits in a year.
00:19:44.240And I think the new calculation, a year and eight months.
00:19:47.160So whatever we do is completely useless.
00:19:50.480So you can see Robert Lyman's presentation on our main website.
00:19:55.400Just go to past events and it'll be right at the top.
00:19:59.360And also we have a presentation by Dr. Ian Clark showing that carbon dioxide is not the driver of climate change.
00:20:07.540So all these measures are totally useless.
00:20:56.240And, you know, heat pumps, the promised free heat pumps, you know, that means free from the government means that we pay for it.
00:21:03.880We are the sole pool of money for the government, we taxpayers.
00:21:09.340But heat pumps just are not really suited to Canada at all.
00:21:13.040And some of our retired professional engineers like to do side research.
00:21:18.620And one of them called a shop in Red Deer.
00:21:22.580They said that they have not sold one heat pump in the Red Deer area, that if a customer was to request one,
00:21:30.900they would insist that it be part of a package with natural gas backup.
00:21:34.600And the top of the line unit was twenty two thousand dollars.
00:21:38.780The conventional heat pump, not cold unit, cold climate unit costs about ten thousand dollars.
00:21:45.780And a new high efficiency furnace costs about sixty five hundred installed.
00:21:51.780So one of their specialists in Calgary has a demo and he found that it only works in the shoulder seasons when temperatures are minus five to plus fifteen Celsius.
00:22:03.320So you have to have also a green energy audit of your house to get the subsidy that costs about eight hundred.
00:22:09.740And if you pass the audit, you would be eligible for maybe a grant of five thousand dollars.
00:22:17.580But I understand you also have to upgrade your electrical panel, which is another few thousand dollars.
00:22:23.140So, you know, the problem is they're asking us to flip and convert all of this installed infrastructure that works very well.
00:22:31.020You know, and I think the thing we have to think about is if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
00:22:44.400And this this obsession with electrifying everything, I mean, really puts I think not enough Canadians understand, puts Western Canadians on the spot.
00:22:54.200Lawrence River to generate energy with.
00:22:56.700We don't have nuclear facilities to generate electricity with.
00:23:00.640We need to have fossil fuels for this.
00:23:03.660And, you know, as we shut out the fossil fuels without having the ability to transfer to another form of energy, we're going to ironically, as one of the most energy rich regions in the world, fall into energy poverty, which could be outright dangerous.
00:23:15.940Yeah, we're going to end up like Venezuela.
00:23:18.320No kidding, like Venezuela, because they first started tinkering with the electrical grid and everything went downhill from there.
00:23:25.460So we have an explainer online called Alberta's Electricity Challenge.
00:23:30.340And see, most people don't understand that electricity is a secondary source of power.
00:23:37.160So it has to be generated by something.
00:23:39.700And as you pointed out, in Ontario, they have nuclear plants and they have hydro.
00:23:44.800And in Quebec, they have lots of hydro.
00:24:15.020You know, you can turn it up or down as you need and it responds very rapidly.
00:24:19.920You need enough dispatchable power to back up all the renewables on the grid because they have the unfortunate tendency when the sun goes down, clunk, it's dark and the solar doesn't work.
00:24:32.580When the wind stops, clunk, the wind doesn't work anymore.
00:24:35.940So you need dispatchable power that you can rev up immediately to cover off that gap.
00:24:42.460Otherwise, you end up in blackouts like what happened in Texas a couple of years ago.
00:24:48.240And hundreds of people died because of that.
00:24:50.440Hundreds of people's houses were ruined because their pipes broke.
00:25:08.080And then the costs, let's say, for example, fine, you wanted to be a good little Boy Scout for Prime Minister Trudeau.
00:25:13.480And you went through the whole process and you managed to get approved and you put in and spent all the money on a heat pump.
00:25:19.100You still had to keep the natural gas because your insurance company will drop you if you don't.
00:25:22.800And everybody who looks at a natural gas bill, you look at it, okay, I've reduced my natural gas use by 80%.
00:25:28.980But that isn't 80% of your bill anyways.
00:25:31.120Most of your bill is all the riders and the other stuff within there.
00:25:34.680You're only saving a small fraction of the bill.
00:25:36.820The rest are fixed costs that you're going to be paying on top of the extra electricity to run your heat pump.
00:25:42.540You're not winning on any level when you do that.
00:25:44.360Yeah, and that electricity issue is very important because a lot of people have said that once they installed the heat pump, yes, their natural gas bill dropped, but their electricity bill went up.
00:25:57.580And if we continue adding renewables, that's what will happen because every place across Europe where they've added a lot of renewables, power prices have gone either three times to nine times the cost of conventional power.
00:26:11.520Again, because I think it was in Alberta, one of our professional engineers told us that it cost a million dollars a megawatt to integrate wind and solar to the grid.
00:26:27.720Maybe it's a bit less now because there's more infrastructure built out.
00:26:30.660But, you know, there's a lot of integrating the direct current power that's generated by wind and solar into the alternating current power of the grid.
00:26:55.560Yeah, just to use an analogy, you know, when I used to own my pub, I used to scream at people coming in, all those bicyclists all the time.
00:27:02.380We'd want free water, fill their water bottles, drink water, use my toilets and not buy anything.
00:27:06.880And one guy got on my case and said, but it's water, man.
00:27:34.520And, you know, Martin Olszinski from the University of Calgary, he's a law professor.
00:27:38.900He just wrote an op-ed in the Globe and Mail where he mocked Alberta and said, you know, that Premier Smith was standing up for fossil fuel production in Alberta because of the electrical issues.
00:27:55.180Well, you can read the Alberta Electric System Operator 2022 market statistics report, which came out in March of 2023, and they cite in there very clearly that there were seven instances of grid level three alerts last fall.
00:28:13.760Four of them were in December when it was all across the province, Environment Canada, had it completely marked in red for extreme cold, extreme danger.
00:28:27.440And you can see that all four, all seven of those instances of grid level three alerts, meaning that there's an imminent blackout or rolling blackout, like very imminent.
00:28:41.280Those all were affected by a sudden collapse of renewables.
00:28:48.520So, you know, this is not something that Premier Smith or the government have made up.
00:28:54.860And we have, I think we still have 1,000 megawatts less dispatchable power today than we had in 2014.
00:29:04.400But we have about 5,000 megawatts more unreliable, unpredictable renewables on the grid.
00:29:13.220And that's why we're at this very crucial point.
00:29:16.300The other thing is, you know, some of the energy producers are doing test models, like I think it's Shepard.
00:29:24.740They're doing a carbon capture storage test to see if it works on their gas plant.
00:29:32.460But you don't scale that up overnight.
00:29:35.100So in the 12-year period, we can't scale it up.
00:29:38.740And if the federal government is planning to impose criminal penalties on investors and plant operators, well, who in their right mind will invest?
00:29:49.980So what that means is that we will be facing more blackouts.
00:29:54.380And it's not propping up fossil fuel producers.
00:30:59.460But make sure that they know what you think and what you want.
00:31:02.480Because I think it was in the Net Zero consultation, they said that they got 30,000 emails and something like 25,000 were from five groups.
00:31:15.980So you can imagine David Suzuki Foundation, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
00:31:19.860So, you know, we have to motivate people to get involved and be more active and tell people what you want, what you need.
00:33:05.240And they can sift between those, you know, boilerplate ones coming from the advocacy groups and real ones, genuine ones from people coming in.
00:33:13.800But you can't allow those advocacy groups to just keep dominating the inbox.
00:33:18.920And as Michelle's saying, we can be more principled.
00:33:20.960We're not trying to make some sort of cut and paste email.
00:33:23.180Just encourage people, speak up, reach out to them, because that does affect them when they're making their discussions in caucus, when they're doing their votes in legislatures or parliament.
00:33:33.880It sometimes feels like we're losing, but we can win some of them sometimes, too.
00:33:37.860Just to show, I mean, the fools we're dealing with, too.
00:33:41.500This is from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, pointing out $1.5 million was spent on hotels during a UNAN climate conference in Montreal.
00:33:50.720$1.5 million for Canadian delegates in Montreal at a climate conference.
00:34:11.160They spend and emit more and pollute more than any one of the normal ones among us on the ground can do in a year.
00:34:19.160And then they virtue signal it and tell us to tighten our belts.
00:34:22.540They say it's your fault that the climate may be changing because you wanted to take a family vacation somewhere and take an airplane or wanted to use a more cost-effective form of heat for your home so you can afford to put your kids through post-secondary education.
00:34:37.580That's your fault because you're selfish and greedy.
00:34:39.380Now, don't mind me while I fly across the planet first class to stay in a luxury hotel for a week to talk about the climate when I could have done the whole thing from a Zoom meeting from home.
00:36:12.700But to actually be so stupid, too, but to actually spend $33,000 more tax dollars, how many treatment beds would that have facilitated for addicts so that you could put the brand Toronto Public Health on the crack pipe?
00:36:24.400Are you trying to make them collector's items?
00:36:26.040Are you going to put them in different colors?
00:36:27.380Maybe you can have your little wall of crack pipes in your cardboard box down on the alley behind you to show the ones you got, like McDonald's collectible cups.
00:36:33.880Is that what it's going to come to, you peckerheads?