Western Standard - CMS： Nenshi's legacy of lies.

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00:01:00.000 Good day. Welcome to The Cory Morgan Show. Here we are. We're already into August. Summer's half over.

00:01:16.160 God, it just barely got going, it seems to me. But what can you do? Enjoy it while you can, if you can, if the weather's good where you are, because it's fleeting.

00:01:24.540 I'm in a grumpier than normal mood today. I'll get into a little more of that later in a bit.

00:01:28.600 But, yeah, lots of stuff going on. There always is. Sadly, most of the news usually just doesn't seem to be good.

00:01:34.040 There's good stuff occasionally, but not enough for my liking.

00:01:36.800 For those of you who I see Paradoxie checking in, the guys who are watching it live, yeah, use that comment screen.

00:01:41.920 Send comments towards me, towards my guests. Ask questions. I mean, I don't necessarily read them all out on here, but I see them all and I appreciate it.

00:01:49.140 Just remember to stay civil with each other. We've got lots of time to fight. We've got Twitter for that.

00:01:52.860 I'll be talking to a guest in a short while. His name is Paul Coffey. He's a school trustee in Manitoba.

00:01:59.720 And they've been working hard to cancel him because, well, he's been daring to speak his mind.

00:02:04.760 That's not appropriate in today's world. So it'll be interesting to discuss what's going on out there.

00:02:10.320 I mean, it's kind of an unfortunately common story, but we've got to expose and report on cancel culture or we will end up cancelled ourselves.

00:02:16.860 All right, so let's get going on what I'm, well, one of the things I'm going on about today, and that's one of my favorite fellas in the head, Nenshi, former mayor of Calgary.

00:02:27.100 And yes, Nenshi has a history in Alberta, and much of it actually isn't very good.

00:02:31.660 He's trying to hide from his own political baggage as he chases the premiership, and he's resorting to lies to do so.

00:02:38.540 Being disingenuous is not new for Nenshi.

00:02:41.220 He initially got elected as the mayor of Calgary on a platform of being business friendly, and he was anything but.

00:02:47.020 Nenshi's relentless tax increases on city businesses actually drove owners to an unprecedented protest outside of Calgary's city hall where they had to beg for tax relief.

00:02:56.180 The city was driving them right out of business.

00:02:58.980 Nenshi's frequent departures from the truth have landed him in legal hot water as well.

00:03:03.620 I mean, when Nenshi implied that Calgary businessman and philanthropist Cal Wenzel was an organized crime figure,

00:03:09.040 the resulting lawsuit left Calgary and taxpayers with a legal bill of nearly $300,000 until Nenshi could convince enough friends to pitch in and cover it for him.

00:03:18.860 One of those friends got a good contract, actually.

00:03:21.140 He apologized and retracted the statement, of course, but it was clear, you know, he waited until he was sure he was going to lose that lawsuit.

00:03:27.120 He was obviously going to lose it.

00:03:28.880 Nenshi also shared a bunch of bizarre fabrications about Uber while he was riding in a Lyft car in Boston.

00:03:33.660 He lied and claimed the city of Calgary had tested the security screening of Uber by getting sex offenders through the process.

00:03:40.120 I'm not even sure where he's going to say they came from, what, sex offenders are us or something, or maybe he just happens to know a few of them.

00:03:45.260 I don't know. 0.98

00:03:45.860 But it was utter BS, and when the video surfaced, it looked like Nenshi was about to get his arse sued again. 0.85

00:03:50.660 Uber had been trying for years to get into the city of Calgary, but they'd been getting strong resistance from Nenshi, 0.96

00:03:55.080 who appeared to be pretty beholden to the Calgary's taxi cartels.

00:03:58.520 But then when Uber was about to sue the mayor, Uber was suddenly approved as a service in the city, and the talk of the lawsuit dropped.

00:04:05.520 Money on negotiations change when you're about to be sued into oblivion.

00:04:09.240 Now, though, Nenshi's taken to lying about himself.

00:04:11.860 It is one of his favorite subjects, I guess.

00:04:13.800 Nenshi's biggest personal legacy and vanity project during his time as mayor is the LRT expansion called the Green Line.

00:04:20.640 The problem is the Green Line has turned into another debacle.

00:04:23.480 The size of the project has shrunken to a small fraction of what the original scope was.

00:04:27.840 But the price tag has risen from $4.5 billion to $6 billion.

00:04:31.260 And meanwhile, they've pissed away $1.5 billion into it.

00:04:33.820 Not an inch of track has been laid yet.

00:04:36.140 At this rate, it's going to be another decade before the Green Line ever gets out of the city's downtown,

00:04:39.900 and the cost will probably double or triple by then.

00:04:41.780 It's an unmitigated disaster.

00:04:44.300 Nenshi's trying to distance himself from this mess by making his own historical revisionism going on.

00:04:51.580 In 2015, Jason Kenney was a member of Parliament.

00:04:54.220 He announced $1.5 billion federal dollars for the Green Line.

00:04:56.840 And Nenshi at that time said the construction would begin in 2017 and be completed by 2024.

00:05:01.800 Yeah, that's Nenshi's words.

00:05:03.940 Now Nenshi's claiming, you know, he didn't say anything like that.

00:05:06.280 And that the funding was unexpected in 2015.

00:05:08.480 And that's what led to the delays in the construction.

00:05:10.620 He was actually blaming the feds for the delays in the construction because the feds gave him money.

00:05:14.740 There's some sweet logic for you, isn't it?

00:05:16.400 The province kicked in another $1.5 billion as well, by the way.

00:05:19.460 Despite having all that money to play with, nothing got done under Nenshi's management.

00:05:23.620 While he's trying to blame other levels of government for the mess, it's simply BS.

00:05:27.700 Jason Kenney didn't beat around the bush on Nenshi's claims.

00:05:30.100 He said, this is a broader problem Nenshi has.

00:05:33.000 He just makes stuff up.

00:05:34.620 I think people call it gaslighting.

00:05:36.580 Nenshi will say whatever he thinks he needs to say and pretend to be whatever he thinks he needs to be if he thinks it'll bring him closer to power.

00:05:41.740 He lies without hesitation and refuses to take responsibility for anything that happened or didn't happen during his decade as a Calgary's mayor.

00:05:49.700 Nenshi is a known quantity to Calgarian voters.

00:05:52.480 Unfortunately for him, he's known for massive tax hikes, a dysfunctional city council, millions spent on a failed vanity Olympic bid,

00:05:59.600 a downtown with massive commercial vacancy that's overrun with addicts,

00:06:02.760 and a green line project that may prove to be the biggest municipal boondoggle in Canadians' history.

00:06:08.080 Instead of trying to explain or wear his legacy, Nenshi's trying to lie his way out of it,

00:06:12.300 he's counting on the short memory of voters to try and win his way into the premiership of Alberta.

00:06:17.120 Let's make sure we don't let Albertans forget what Nenshi's tenure as mayor was like.

00:06:22.400 It reflects how well he would government if he were to become the premier.

00:06:26.340 Either way, that's what's got me going on Nenshi today.

00:06:28.440 Let's see what else is going on on the news.

00:06:30.440 We've got Dave Naylor in studio to check in.

00:06:33.280 How's it going, Dave?

00:06:34.040 It's going well, Corey.

00:06:35.020 You should start saying what you really need.

00:06:36.920 Well, I try to sugarcoat it, you know.

00:06:38.800 Yeah, no kidding.

00:06:39.600 Holy cow. 0.89

00:06:41.080 Hey, big storm the other day.

00:06:42.920 Any damage in the compound?

00:06:45.100 On our way, no.

00:06:46.420 Just lots of terrified dogs and wet ground.

00:06:49.480 But no, Prittis didn't get it too badly.

00:06:51.120 My daughter lives down near Vulcan,

00:06:54.240 and her brand new Honda Civic now looks like a big red golf ball.

00:06:57.740 Oh, yeah, the hail.

00:06:58.700 So many dimples.

00:06:59.900 Brutal.

00:07:00.180 Oh, that's just awful.

00:07:02.320 Well, that's Alberta for you. 1.00

00:07:04.700 Yeah, as you say, lots of stuff going on in the news.

00:07:07.780 We're leading off with a story about, from my homeland, actually, United Kingdom,

00:07:12.880 Canada has issued a travel warning to all places of England.

00:07:17.420 This is because rioting that has followed the murder of those three girls down in South End.

00:07:25.600 So, ugly scenes up in England, and they're expecting lots more riots today.

00:07:32.100 Kind of a funny one, in my opinion.

00:07:34.100 You know, Air Canada, they always, you know, they can't get a plane to arrive on time.

00:07:38.360 They now want to run a high-speed train service between Quebec and Windsor.

00:07:44.080 And you know how all, you know, we have no high-speed trains at the moment in Canada.

00:07:48.620 You know, we're sadly falling behind, and Fair Canada runs it.

00:07:52.640 You know, they're guaranteed to lose your luggage.

00:07:54.540 So, good luck to them.

00:07:56.880 Still a developing story out of Rocky View County, east of Calgary.

00:08:02.340 A tragic scene yesterday in which a Rocky View County worker by the name of Colin Howe was gunned down and shot.

00:08:11.600 Fortis worker was wounded in the attack.

00:08:15.540 Big RCMP manhunt for several hours.

00:08:18.540 RCMP still haven't released any details on what really happened.

00:08:21.920 And, you know, I'm not going to steal your thunder, because I know you've got a lot more to say on that later on.

00:08:26.840 The internet is certainly ablaze with rumors.

00:08:31.740 I don't know if you saw the video yesterday of the anti-Israeli protesters in Toronto.

00:08:36.300 They were trying to block, I think, actually, you tweeted it.

00:08:38.960 They were trying to block, and a driver down there was having none of it,

00:08:42.680 and sort of didn't run them over, but rushed by them.

00:08:47.280 And the driver was charged.

00:08:48.920 You know, not charged yet.

00:08:50.980 He's been arrested, charges to follow. 1.00

00:08:53.000 And, of course, none of these idiots blocking the highways were charged at all. 1.00

00:08:58.340 Got an interesting story on some poor guy in Fort McMurray. 1.00

00:09:01.160 Remember, during the COVID mask mandate, you couldn't go anywhere without a mask.

00:09:05.620 So this guy is battling cancer, and he had to go to a doctor's appointment in Calgary.

00:09:11.640 And he got a note from his doctor saying he cannot wear a mask because he's got breathing difficulties.

00:09:16.640 Despite that, WestJet said, no, you're not coming on board unless you wear the mask.

00:09:21.320 So he was forced to drive 740 kilometers to visit his doctor.

00:09:25.300 So he sued for $40,000, and the tribunal tossed it out, saying, Air Canada has to do what they have to do.

00:09:33.200 And big news this afternoon, Corey, bigger than the rumble in the jungle, it's the Paris punch-up.

00:09:40.800 A punch-up in Paris where the Algerian female boxer with incredibly leaning male chromosomes will no doubt pummel another hapless woman in certain victory and claim the gold medal is probably rightfully somebody else's. 1.00

00:09:57.100 Well, I hope nobody gets hit in the balls in that match. 0.97

00:09:59.520 No, no, it's a big controversy. 0.97

00:10:02.620 And, you know, she is technically a woman, but she's got an unfair advantage because she's got all these male chromosomes. 1.00

00:10:09.660 I think our Olympic reporter, Jen Hodgson, was saying something like 180% more powerful because of these chromosomes.

00:10:16.520 So it's unfair, right?

00:10:18.320 It just truly is.

00:10:20.000 So, you know, you have some sympathy for the Algerian, but not a lot as she pummels the victims. 0.98

00:10:26.080 It's been an odd case.

00:10:27.540 I mean, this shows where the world's become, though, where it even is in question than whether or not this was born a man or not, or if it's an unusual condition or something like that.

00:10:35.500 Like, 10 years ago, we would have assumed it's an unusual condition because you never would have thought that somebody potentially male might enter a female sport.

00:10:43.380 And it initially came out, initial reports had her as transgendered, which were not wrong. 1.00

00:10:48.180 She's got all her lady bits, so to speak, and just has this incredible male advantage. 0.99

00:10:53.100 Well, I'm not going to watch the event. 0.97

00:10:56.620 I don't like seeing women get beat up. 1.00

00:10:58.880 You've got to cheer for the underdog.

00:11:00.520 Yeah, I guess so.

00:11:01.420 All right.

00:11:01.880 Well, thanks for the update, Dave.

00:11:03.860 And I'll talk to you after the show.

00:11:05.620 Maybe we'll finally have an update on what the hell is going on with the murderers on the loose in Alberta right now.

00:11:10.220 I know you've got more to say about that later.

00:11:11.880 Oh, yes, I certainly will.

00:11:13.440 All right.

00:11:13.760 Thanks.

00:11:14.880 So, yes, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:11:16.600 There are lots of stories on the go, guys, constantly breaking out.

00:11:20.460 You know, watch the site.

00:11:21.420 Like, we've been updating that story, actually, constantly as the facts come out.

00:11:25.240 Social media has been giving us a lot of the facts on what's been happening in Alberta because the RCMP won't.

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00:12:04.220 What's going on in Alberta with this murdered young man and the other fellow shot.

00:12:10.340 Just bloody believable.

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00:12:56.200 I'm going to hit a quick thing. 0.60

00:12:57.480 Speaking of health reform and idiocy and part of why our system's broke or why we're broke or why our taxes are hitting us before I get to our guest here.

00:13:03.980 And, yeah, this ongoing thing through an access to information request found that, again, those Quebec-made COVID ventilators, which were made by a company that was coincidentally, certainly, owned by a friend of a liberal minister. 0.75

00:13:18.400 They ordered $231.7 million worth of these ventilators, which were none were used, and they were all thrown out as scrap.

00:13:28.180 This is your tax dollars at work.

00:13:31.000 $28,000 per ventilator. 0.95

00:13:33.640 And they were junk, and they were junked.

00:13:36.900 We got robbed during COVID, guys. 0.97

00:13:38.680 We got robbed.

00:13:39.680 They used an emergency to rip you off, to line their buddies' pockets.

00:13:43.880 And this didn't save a life now, did it?

00:13:45.920 Because that's what they always like falling back to.

00:13:47.380 Well, is it worth, you know, we have to, if we could just save one life.

00:13:50.040 This didn't save any lives.

00:13:51.560 It probably made a few people's lives really comfortable because somebody pocketed $231 million.

00:13:57.280 But the rest of us paid it out.

00:13:59.500 It is just repugnant what these people do with our money that we worked so hard for.

00:14:05.180 All right, let's get on to another elected official.

00:14:07.220 He's got nothing to do with the ventilators.

00:14:08.760 He's got his own, I guess you could say, hornet's nest that he's poked.

00:14:14.180 And we'll talk about that.

00:14:15.540 His name's Paul Coffey.

00:14:16.460 He's a trustee, school board trustee in Manitoba.

00:14:19.840 And he's been the target of a cancellation attempt.

00:14:23.520 So welcome to the show, Paul.

00:14:24.880 I appreciate you coming on and talk to us today.

00:14:27.060 Thank you.

00:14:27.540 Thank you for having me, Corey.

00:14:29.620 So I guess just, I want to clarify everything.

00:14:32.600 You're still a trustee.

00:14:33.760 You were elected to that position out in Manitoba?

00:14:36.400 Yes.

00:14:36.840 Yes.

00:14:37.080 A school board trustee in central Manitoba, around the Dauphin area.

00:14:42.220 Okay.

00:14:42.920 So I guess we'll start from the start.

00:14:45.080 What did you do that got the hordes so horrified with you?

00:14:48.100 Well, I used to write policies and procedures for the school division.

00:14:52.480 And it's coming up that the federal government allotted $80 million over the next five years from in the 2023 budget towards anti-racism.

00:15:03.580 They want to make a policy for the grade kindergarten to grade 12 schools or whatever.

00:15:09.360 And I'm thinking, well, if you're going to make a policy, it has to be...

00:15:14.320 Oh, it's like you might be freezing a little bit there, Paul.

00:15:23.460 Well, just hang on a moment.

00:15:26.000 Hopefully that coverage will pop back in there.

00:15:28.760 Maybe we've got a little bit of the Manitoba internet.

00:15:32.540 Hopefully it's not on our end this time.

00:15:34.560 I'll go on a little more, you know, as Paul's connection catches up.

00:15:38.940 He had spoken quite bluntly.

00:15:41.100 He is of some indigenous background.

00:15:44.540 And he said some of the things we've heard from some other people.

00:15:47.700 I mean, we can agree or disagree on it.

00:15:49.280 But he'd said, you know, that the residential schools weren't necessarily all bad.

00:15:53.900 He questioned the narrative of it.

00:15:56.000 He questioned some of the terminology he refers to.

00:15:59.260 I mean, I admit it's hard to keep up.

00:16:01.420 He used a term that I, you know, most people stopped using when I was younger for First Nations people, indigenous people, whatever it might be.

00:16:07.100 I was kind of raised to call people natives.

00:16:11.060 He used the term Indian.

00:16:13.420 But we're splitting hairs.

00:16:14.540 The thing is what happened, though, is the swarm came after him.

00:16:17.780 The bunch came after him.

00:16:19.600 And they're basically demanding he be reprimanded, demanding he be ripped out of his position as a school board trustee.

00:16:26.400 He was elected to that position.

00:16:29.560 And, of course, also with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, he questioned some of the findings.

00:16:35.440 And, you know, some of the statements made within that.

00:16:39.420 It looks like he might be back on.

00:16:40.640 We'll try again.

00:16:41.680 Hey, how are you doing there, Paul?

00:16:43.300 Talk about cancellation.

00:16:44.700 Jeez.

00:16:45.320 Just announced my name and I'm getting canceled.

00:16:48.360 Those internet giants are out to get you.

00:16:50.500 So you probably didn't hear it.

00:16:51.860 But I gave a little more background just on what's going on and why people are worked up with you.

00:16:56.320 Where are things standing now, though?

00:16:57.700 There's been some.

00:16:58.360 Is there an inquiry coming or a hearing or any of that?

00:17:01.300 Or is it still just people shouting for your dismissal?

00:17:04.040 Oh, no.

00:17:04.520 They wanted me to resign publicly or whatever.

00:17:08.020 And then the Minister of Education did have a governance review.

00:17:12.800 So we had a third party come out.

00:17:14.660 Actually, I'd like to announce I'm speaking for myself as a trustee, but not for our school board.

00:17:20.420 That's kind of important to clarify.

00:17:22.580 So anyways, this governance review came out and did a review and said that we should be dissolved.

00:17:30.700 That's what the minister says.

00:17:32.340 And instead of dissolving our board, which doesn't happen, I think, very often across Canada,

00:17:38.280 he appointed four trustees to our board.

00:17:43.360 So they're non-voting trustees and they're going to be involved in our meetings and see if they can change our mind on how we behave or how we run the school division, I guess.

00:17:56.560 So they'll just kind of appoint and stack your elected board with their own people and then basically they can kind of override things?

00:18:02.460 Kind of what happened was one of our one of our trustees had resigned to go work for our local MLA, MDP MLA.

00:18:13.280 And so then we were down to eight trustees.

00:18:16.000 But then we ended up terminating our CEO.

00:18:21.360 And so then three of the long term trustees that were with the board resigned on the same day.

00:18:27.960 And then so now we're down four.

00:18:30.100 So I think the minister decided to appoint his own four trustees to be non-voted and non-elected or whatever.

00:18:40.720 So it's kind of interesting.

00:18:44.020 Yeah.

00:18:44.640 And it's fair enough that you point out, you know, you're just one of the bunch.

00:18:47.680 It doesn't mean you're setting policy or you're speaking for them.

00:18:51.120 I mean, that's the point of having multiple trustees.

00:18:53.240 You would hope that you get some diversity of view.

00:18:55.260 What, though, compelled you then to delve into questioning some of the findings or statements in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission or some of the residential school theories, I guess you could say?

00:19:07.320 OK, so with the anti-racism, you know, so who could argue against that?

00:19:13.320 But to to set my point is, is that anti-racism isn't going to work because the past history.

00:19:20.420 So if you look at treaties, treaties were and my presentation is is called Nice Intellivism.

00:19:27.300 So treaties were nice and then they didn't work out.

00:19:30.300 We started fighting about them and they really didn't do anything.

00:19:32.640 So even the Truth and Reconciliation with the with the land acknowledgment and stuff, it's been said over and over for the past nine years, it's starting to cause more division than actual reconciliation.

00:19:45.700 So same with the inclusiveness.

00:19:48.100 So in our schools, we have a rainbow sign at each office and I introduced, well, why don't we have a picture of Jesus with all these different colored children?

00:19:58.340 That would be more inclusive than, you know what I mean?

00:20:01.580 If you're going to have one, you've got to have them all.

00:20:03.260 And that's what I said.

00:20:04.320 It's nice, this inclusive because they spent 80 million dollars.

00:20:08.020 It was in the same budget in the 2023 federal budget.

00:20:11.340 They're going to have 80 million dollars plus 25, I think, to implement inclusiveness.

00:20:18.080 And that's not working.

00:20:19.680 So all of these things aren't working.

00:20:21.900 So if they're going to come along with anti-racism policies in our school, let's make sure it works. 0.99

00:20:29.400 And the big thing that I'm arguing is that in that definition of anti-racism, they're going to use white privilege.

00:20:36.200 And I said in their white privilege, you can't base privilege on a skin color.

00:20:42.600 And and the people that believe in that, they say, oh, well, that's not racist.

00:20:46.800 And I'm saying, yeah, it is racist and saying what they talk about decolonization, they're going to the anti-racism.

00:20:53.800 They're going to inject the definition of decolonization.

00:20:57.160 And I'd argue is that we have a lot of federal schools.

00:21:01.160 They're federal in Manitoba and I think probably throughout Canada.

00:21:04.880 The reserve schools are federal.

00:21:07.740 So those reserve schools, they must be decolonized 100 percent. 0.96

00:21:13.180 So how is the graduation rates working there?

00:21:16.040 Do we need to decolonize our public schools or talk about white privilege when.

00:21:23.040 Yeah, it's kind of racist.

00:21:24.840 So we can't implement this unless everybody signs on and people aren't going to sign on to white privilege and decolonization.

00:21:35.300 No, and that's the language of this.

00:21:37.160 It seems again, I don't know whether that's well-meaning, but it's getting more and more divisive.

00:21:41.780 It's turning it into us and them all the time.

00:21:44.520 And there's nothing worse than training children into that.

00:21:48.140 Like I'm with this team and I should be apologetic for something my ancestors did.

00:21:52.360 Or I'm with this team and I should be upset because of what that kid's ancestors did.

00:21:57.420 Well, none of us are getting into a better place from any of this.

00:22:00.280 Definitely not.

00:22:01.520 And if you look at the it's called a community wealth index and it compares the indigenous and non-indigenous and how we are.

00:22:10.900 And it's listed the past 40 years.

00:22:13.700 But I'm sure it's the past 200 years that the non-indigenous are 20 points ahead of the indigenous. 1.00

00:22:22.240 Like they're still living in poverty or oppression.

00:22:25.820 And all the money we're putting in there isn't helping them.

00:22:29.860 And a lot of people said with my presentation, they think I'm upset about money.

00:22:33.320 And I just keep saying, and I think it was in my article with Western Standard is that I'm not worried about the money.

00:22:38.620 The money is just a financial injection into our system.

00:22:42.060 But all this money isn't helping the oppression or how things are happening to this minority, this 4%. 1.00

00:22:49.820 It's not making things better.

00:22:52.180 No, we can't see any measurable improvement.

00:22:54.380 I've written columns on that as well.

00:22:55.940 I would say, hey, if it worked, if I saw the reserves having fantastic social peace and good prosperity, well, okay, I can live with that.

00:23:05.680 But they're in terrible condition and getting worse.

00:23:07.700 So, I mean, it only makes sense that we can at least question what's going on.

00:23:11.740 But that's what concerns me with your case is it's not even what you're saying.

00:23:15.140 It's that you dared to question it that has them so upset.

00:23:18.300 And we got to worry about that.

00:23:20.920 Well, there's even the, in Manitoba, we have a high school or graduation rates.

00:23:28.100 And so that it's plain as day, the numbers show, well, it's kind of snowed over.

00:23:33.700 And I think that's in my article is that it shows that 81% or high percent that we're both graduating equally,

00:23:40.300 the indigenous and non-indigenous, but the fact remains is that in grade nine, if people don't make their credits there,

00:23:48.340 where the indigenous aren't making their credits, to a 24% difference between the indigenous and non-indigenous.

00:23:56.080 So they aren't making it to grade 12.

00:23:58.060 In fact, from my understanding, I'm quoted the number 44, only 44% of indigenous graduate in our school division.

00:24:07.160 And as a school trustee, I'm concerned about that.

00:24:11.780 And if they want to spend $80 million on anti-racism and implant that and implant this other thing,

00:24:17.540 that's doing nothing for our graduation rates.

00:24:20.200 As a school board trustee, that's my concern.

00:24:22.620 So as a trustee, as you pointed out, it's a little unique when it comes to First Nations reserves and such.

00:24:29.800 Their federal schools, does that still though fall under the umbrella then of the local elected trustees

00:24:34.480 or are those parallel schools to the other ones you're working in?

00:24:37.880 Those have their own, they're under different school division.

00:24:42.820 The federal schools are a different board, so they don't fall under me,

00:24:46.820 but we do have reserves in our areas.

00:24:49.460 And then a lot of the kids, some of the reserve schools might only go to grade 8 or grade 9 or grade 8, I guess.

00:24:56.920 And then they would come to our schools.

00:24:59.140 Yeah, so there's still a large number of indigenous students within your classes,

00:25:03.980 your schools, the rest of the public system.

00:25:05.620 But the ones on the reserve are a separate federal management.

00:25:10.340 I just wanted to clarify that because it's kind of different from most people who used to.

00:25:13.440 They're saying about 23% are in our schools.

00:25:18.240 You know, and then the anti-racism thing, it starts to, there's also 17%, they call it IPOC,

00:25:25.380 which I'm offended by all the name changes.

00:25:29.240 And now they want to call IPOC is Indigenous People of Color.

00:25:33.780 Well, I don't want to be called by an acronym.

00:25:36.200 So anyways, there's 17% POC, which is People of Color,

00:25:41.780 and another 23% in our school division that are Indigenous.

00:25:45.320 So that's close to 50%.

00:25:46.980 And I see just in Manitoba here that in another five years,

00:25:53.600 there's going to be probably 75% or 80% brown and Black people.

00:25:58.160 So how is this anti-racism going to be working then when that 4% of Indigenous are still going to be in oppression? 0.73

00:26:08.460 So the anti-racism policy, I see not working.

00:26:14.520 They're going to use those definitions that a lot of people won't sign on to it.

00:26:18.500 And plus, in the future, there is going to be no racism because there's going to be equal portions of all colors of people.

00:26:28.880 Yeah, well, and your job is to kind of give a high-level view of the education.

00:26:32.020 I mean, you're not prescriptive.

00:26:32.920 You don't deal with, you know, straight into the curriculum or things like that.

00:26:36.480 You're just kind of an elected oversight on the education system.

00:26:39.480 And even if you have different views, I mean, everybody's intention theoretically is to make as good a system for everybody as possible.

00:26:45.560 So definitely, minus those graduation rates and all the things that we're doing or the micro things,

00:26:54.560 that's the other thing that really got people wound up is I'm looking at micro or macro.

00:27:00.760 The trustees look at a bigger picture of how the school division is running.

00:27:05.420 And then we have people in the school division that are micro.

00:27:09.280 They take care of how to support that.

00:27:11.340 And they believe the things I was saying was really picking on what they're doing.

00:27:16.280 And that's not it at all.

00:27:17.760 I'm looking at the provincial implementation of a policy that needs to work.

00:27:24.680 Who could be against anti-racism?

00:27:26.860 Well, if you make a good policy, but it's going to be hijacked by these definitions that nobody's going to sign on to.

00:27:34.580 So why do it?

00:27:36.180 It's not going to improve our graduation rates.

00:27:38.180 Yeah, I get frustrated with some of the terminology when they shut down discourse as well.

00:27:42.860 It's like, you know, that Antifa, you know, crazed leftists who protest on the streets.

00:27:47.640 They label themselves as anti-fascist. 0.52

00:27:49.400 And if anybody questions what they're doing, say, oh, so you must support fascists.

00:27:52.720 Well, no, no.

00:27:54.360 I just don't like what you're doing.

00:27:56.100 And if they say something's anti-racist and you have a question part of their policies, they're going to say, what?

00:28:01.200 Does that mean you're pro-racist?

00:28:02.700 I mean, that's the game it's played, unfortunately.

00:28:04.340 Yeah, well, it's I picture that it's all and and and I'm Indian and I think it's in my article.

00:28:13.160 If people want to go to Western Standard, I have an article there.

00:28:16.220 But I am Indian and my grandma went to residential school.

00:28:19.100 My dad went to residential school and I went to a little bit of day school.

00:28:22.360 So what I picture is that these initiatives are kind of latched on to this oppressed group, four percent in Canada.

00:28:31.900 And if you say anything against it, like the inclusion or the, oh, the inclusion was put out there to include the Indians or that indigenous.

00:28:40.960 And but if you say anything against the inclusion and you know darn well that that's been hijacked, if you say anything against it, then you're against the Indians.

00:28:49.020 It's you're against it, blah, blah, blah.

00:28:51.140 Like and same with the anti-racism.

00:28:53.180 It's going to turn out if you say anything and maybe kind of like I am, it's turned into an indigenous thing because I'm yeah, I'm a bad guy. 1.00

00:29:01.840 I'm a racist and I'm hateful.

00:29:03.700 And yeah, it's not.

00:29:05.200 Well, it's hard to keep up with the words, you know, generation by generation.

00:29:08.580 I it's it's the intent that matters, not not the term, but the time passed quickly.

00:29:15.120 So are you going to you're going to be running for election again and sometime soon or is it a while yet?

00:29:20.740 It's another two years.

00:29:21.940 So we have a by-election this fall and hopefully we'll we'll get four four trustees on there.

00:29:28.640 Sometimes it's I think with all this activity, maybe there'll be a lot of people wanting to be nominated or get nominated.

00:29:34.880 So, yeah, and then we'll have a full board of nine and I'm not too sure what will happen to those appointed board members, but we'll see how we work around that.

00:29:44.700 Well, and that's the way to deal with these things the way it should be as well.

00:29:47.180 We'll put it to the parents who are going to vote and choose who they want to be looking over the education in their area.

00:29:52.140 So I appreciate you for being outspoken and, you know, providing the article for the Western Standard and for just taking a stand.

00:30:00.480 So where can people kind of find you and keep track of you and your story?

00:30:04.880 Um, I do have a I have a email with the school division, so you can look me up at Mountain View School Division.

00:30:16.780 Okay.

00:30:18.660 Great.

00:30:19.200 Yeah.

00:30:19.360 If anybody's interested in contacting you or things like that.

00:30:21.760 Well, I appreciate it.

00:30:22.880 We'll be watching what's happening over there and we'll see what happens.

00:30:26.500 Perhaps we'll have you on for a conversation again soon.

00:30:29.040 For sure.

00:30:30.120 I'll keep you up to date.

00:30:31.280 And thank you very much for having me on.

00:30:32.960 I can have a chance to get my word out there.

00:30:35.040 I've been pretty silent since April 22nd.

00:30:37.820 So, yeah, well, and silence isn't the way to fix things.

00:30:41.180 So thanks again.

00:30:42.960 You all come to a good resolution out there.

00:30:46.060 Perfect.

00:30:46.540 Thank you, Corey.

00:30:47.500 Thank you.

00:30:49.020 Yeah, it was Paul Coffey.

00:30:50.500 He's a trustee out in Manitoba there, as it's out by Dauphin.

00:30:55.460 And I mean, these things go on and we forget the basis, forget what we're there for, forget

00:31:00.520 what the point is.

00:31:01.200 It's for the kids and stuff like that.

00:31:02.820 And we get caught up with the terminology, the hangups, the other stuff.

00:31:07.280 And we're forgetting the outcomes.

00:31:08.880 Look at the graduation rates.

00:31:10.260 Look at the success rates.

00:31:11.460 That's what matters.

00:31:12.540 And this new, woke approach to things isn't working.

00:31:16.740 It isn't.

00:31:17.660 I mean, if it worked, I'd support it too.

00:31:19.560 But it doesn't. 0.79

00:31:20.160 It stinks.

00:31:20.920 It's getting worse every year.

00:31:23.080 This is part of what's inspired a lot of the columns I wrote on this.

00:31:26.220 I worked in the north in the bush for 20 years.

00:31:28.900 And I could see the state of people on reserves getting worse year after year after year.

00:31:35.100 It doesn't matter how much we spent.

00:31:36.480 It doesn't matter how much we messed around with things.

00:31:39.080 It kept getting worse.

00:31:40.460 Should we not be allowed to call that out?

00:31:42.760 And it's not calling out the people.

00:31:44.680 That is wrong.

00:31:45.500 Yes, if you try to say Native people are inherently inferior and that's why there's a problem,

00:31:50.700 yeah, that's racism and that's wrong.

00:31:52.780 But if you say the system is inferior and it's putting these people in a bad place,

00:31:56.780 there's nothing wrong with saying that.

00:31:59.180 That's a system you're attacking, not the people.

00:32:01.520 But defenders of the status quo turn it around that way.

00:32:05.060 They try to say anybody questioning the way things are right now must be a heartless racist.

00:32:10.380 And that's not the way to go with things.

00:32:14.740 Now, I'm going to talk about what I said has got me worked up.

00:32:17.180 Dave talked about it a little bit.

00:32:18.700 People in Alberta will be familiar with it, with what's happened.

00:32:22.360 Yesterday, I was driving yesterday.

00:32:24.040 A little bit after one o'clock, an emergency alert came over.

00:32:26.840 It was beeping on my phone.

00:32:27.960 It was on the radio.

00:32:28.600 I was listening to conventional radio.

00:32:30.780 They said there's two extremely dangerous, they said, armed individuals east of Calgary.

00:32:39.540 They gave the townships and ranges for the roads.

00:32:41.440 They told people, shelter in place.

00:32:42.800 Get in your homes.

00:32:43.540 Lock your windows.

00:32:44.720 Lock your doors.

00:32:45.860 They're on the loose.

00:32:46.720 And then they just left it at that.

00:32:48.280 That was it.

00:32:49.580 Nothing else was told.

00:32:51.420 We weren't told if they were men.

00:32:52.740 We weren't told if they were women. 0.95

00:32:54.040 We weren't told if they were driving.

00:32:55.340 We didn't know if they were white, black, purple.

00:32:58.540 We had no idea.

00:33:00.000 All everybody out in that area knew was that apparently there's two extremely dangerous people out there wandering around.

00:33:07.340 Now, the details started creeping out through the day.

00:33:10.920 And they came out through social media, not through the police.

00:33:14.340 So people were locked down.

00:33:15.520 Now, I'll give the details of what we know and what happened.

00:33:17.880 And as Dave pointed out, yeah, so a man was murdered by two people.

00:33:26.860 The RCMP still won't give us any bloody information.

00:33:29.920 It sounds like a vehicle was burned out in the side of the road.

00:33:33.440 The man was a young man.

00:33:34.580 He's a father.

00:33:36.180 And he had pulled over.

00:33:37.720 It sounds like maybe a Fortis employee had pulled over.

00:33:39.900 First, he was shot and wounded.

00:33:41.760 The second one was a county employee who pulled over.

00:33:44.560 He was shot.

00:33:45.300 He's a young man and killed.

00:33:46.640 And then they stole the county truck.

00:33:49.940 This I know because on the Strathmore Facebook group, locals were posting pictures of the stolen truck bouncing around through the field with the murderers in it.

00:34:01.860 But the RCMP still didn't tell anybody that a county truck with murderers in it was driving around their neighborhood. 0.98

00:34:08.500 Why in the hell would they not tell the public about a vehicle that identifiable with known murderers in it and say, hey, watch out for this frigging thing. 1.00

00:34:21.200 You might get killed. 1.00

00:34:22.640 If this sounds familiar to you, remember what these dumb buttholes did in Nova Scotia only a few years ago. 1.00

00:34:30.720 A lunatic was rampaging around in a fake RCMP car. 0.99

00:34:35.980 He killed 22 people. 1.00

00:34:37.640 It was the worst police failure showing incompetence, disorganization, and idiocy on the part of the RCMP in known history. 0.99

00:34:46.300 22 people died. 0.98

00:34:47.920 And never did an alert go out to people saying, hey, watch out.

00:34:51.480 There's a fake cop car driving around with a nutcase in it that's shooting people.

00:34:55.300 You know, some lives might have been saved if they'd have just said that.

00:35:00.220 But they didn't because the RCMP in Canada goes silent.

00:35:04.660 They don't believe we are allowed to know what the hell is going on.

00:35:09.140 So these two unknown murderers are still on the loose.

00:35:12.900 This is the last information we know.

00:35:15.680 The RCMP, they got away.

00:35:17.240 They ditched the truck.

00:35:18.300 A man is dead.

00:35:19.220 A man is wounded.

00:35:20.460 We don't know where they are.

00:35:21.820 We don't have any direction where they went.

00:35:24.440 We don't know if they're male.

00:35:25.500 We don't know if they're female. 1.00

00:35:26.440 We don't know anything about them.

00:35:28.340 The RCMP know this because one of the people they shot was only hit in the arm and he survived.

00:35:33.340 He probably had a description.

00:35:34.700 He could probably say they were two men or two women or two elephants or whatever the hell it was.

00:35:39.700 But the RCMP won't share that with us for some reason.

00:35:43.660 Why?

00:35:44.540 Why have they got a cone of silence while we have murderers driving around the province of Alberta right now?

00:35:50.520 Right now.

00:35:51.680 Shouldn't we know what we're supposed to be looking out for?

00:35:55.500 No, they won't tell us.

00:35:56.700 It's insane.

00:35:58.880 And, you know, this made it all the more dangerous when it was in a county truck with the branding and the logo on the side.

00:36:06.200 Because if you're a rural person, even if you knew the emergency was going on, you know, people, even if it wasn't the wise way to go, see something like that as an authority figure or somebody they could trust.

00:36:16.500 If they saw that coming up the driveway, they might have thought, oh, it's somebody from the county.

00:36:19.320 Maybe the emergency is over.

00:36:20.260 I'll come up in my front step and see what's going on.

00:36:22.700 And they would have been shot.

00:36:25.340 And they also, if we wanted to catch these guys, you had hundreds of people around there who could have been watching.

00:36:32.300 In fact, they were.

00:36:33.500 They were posting it on Facebook.

00:36:34.880 You'd get more information from Facebook than the bloody RCMP.

00:36:38.340 And they're saying the truck is here.

00:36:39.740 The truck is there.

00:36:40.720 The killers are here.

00:36:41.800 The killers are there.

00:36:42.780 The locals tracked the killers.

00:36:44.320 The Keystone cops with the RCMP frigging didn't.

00:36:47.100 So they got away.

00:36:48.380 So they're out now. 0.99

00:36:49.220 So they might kill more people. 1.00

00:36:50.960 They might kill another young father. 0.99

00:36:53.220 Because the RCMP doesn't like sharing information with you.

00:36:58.400 It's been almost 24 hours since this happened. 0.77

00:37:01.700 And the RCMP still hasn't told us a damn thing.

00:37:05.480 We found out in the newsroom that there was a man killed and who it was because the county put a release out for the victim on their site.

00:37:14.340 The Rocky View County site.

00:37:16.040 And check out the Rocky View County site.

00:37:17.420 Google the man's name.

00:37:18.400 I'm sorry.

00:37:18.820 I don't have it handy with me right now.

00:37:20.400 And look on the Western Standard.

00:37:21.340 We have the young man's name.

00:37:23.220 There's a GoFundMe, of course, for his family.

00:37:25.040 He's a father.

00:37:26.600 And watch out, people.

00:37:27.600 I don't know what you're supposed to watch out for.

00:37:29.780 All we do know is that there's two dangerous murderers bouncing around the province somewhere right now.

00:37:34.740 And the RCMP is refusing to tell us who they are, where they're going, what they look like.

00:37:38.460 So whose fault is it if these guys kill more people?

00:37:42.960 You know? 0.98

00:37:44.120 Like, this is insane. 1.00

00:37:46.860 Not just insane, but the stupidity, but the stupidity that the frigging RCMP has done this before. 1.00

00:37:51.460 And they haven't learned a thing. 1.00

00:37:53.680 You go to the Alberta RCMP X posting site page, and I've been beating the crap out of them on there, and they deserve it.

00:38:00.160 They're posting fluff.

00:38:01.700 Oh, hey, everybody.

00:38:02.680 Watch out.

00:38:03.060 We're doing an RCMP dog training thing in your area, so you might see a puppy.

00:38:07.020 Oh, yeah. 1.00

00:38:07.320 Well, by the way, since you're at it, why don't you tell us about the two murderers you misplaced, you idiots? 1.00

00:38:11.480 What is your job? 1.00

00:38:12.740 Who do you serve?

00:38:13.820 Who do you answer to? 0.99

00:38:15.040 Who pays your frigging bills? 1.00

00:38:17.360 We do. 0.99

00:38:18.540 You're supposed to protect us. 1.00

00:38:20.640 You don't hide information from us, you incompetent boobs. 1.00

00:38:23.960 You warn us. 1.00

00:38:25.260 You let us protect ourselves.

00:38:27.820 You know, I've talked about getting provincial police force for a long time.

00:38:31.080 I had the RCMP union guys on there making excuses.

00:38:33.320 They've come on my show to tell us why we have to stick with them.

00:38:36.180 You know what? 0.99

00:38:36.720 Screw you guys. 0.86

00:38:38.420 Hey, we can screw up and make a bad provincial force, so we better make a better force than them when we bring in a provincial one. 0.93

00:38:43.840 But I really see nothing to lose in dumping the RCMP right now. 0.97

00:38:47.500 So either way, let's hope that these incompetent boobs manage to catch the murderers wherever they are and stop them before they kill another young father. 1.00

00:38:56.600 You know, there's four and a half million Albertans who would love to lend their eyes to it and help find these murderers. 0.98

00:39:02.620 They're walking the streets in every corner of this province, but they need to know what they're looking for.

00:39:07.600 And the RCMP won't tell us.

00:39:09.300 Why?

00:39:10.700 Why?

00:39:12.020 There's no excuse.

00:39:13.140 It's just disgusting. 0.99

00:39:14.160 I'm disgusted with you. 0.95

00:39:17.420 You know, I speak of the RCMP, not disgusted with you guys, the viewers.

00:39:21.780 But what the hell is going on?

00:39:23.500 What is the matter with you guys?

00:39:24.520 24 hours later.

00:39:25.920 And so what is this telling me?

00:39:28.560 I'll tell you what it's telling me.

00:39:30.600 It's telling me, go to social media to get your news about crime.

00:39:34.380 Screw the RCMP.

00:39:35.180 They won't give you good information anyways.

00:39:36.960 And they won't protect you.

00:39:38.300 This is one of the posts from that Strathmore site, actually, as a matter of fact.

00:39:41.520 This is what somebody posted after they had all the discussion between all the people living out in that area,

00:39:45.540 discussing where these killers were while the RCMP, I don't know what they're doing,

00:39:48.220 playing a game of strip poker or something, whilst they got away.

00:39:52.020 This guy says, so the best thing everyone can do at this point is arm yourself and do whatever is necessary to protect yourselves and your family.

00:39:57.080 The RCMP just gave up.

00:39:58.640 They have failed the Strathmore area more than once.

00:40:00.380 And honestly, we the people should end this quite simply.

00:40:02.540 I'd be locked and loaded and sighted in.

00:40:05.520 You know what?

00:40:06.040 He's right.

00:40:07.100 You might as well protect yourself.

00:40:08.400 The worst thing is, unfortunately, not everybody's trained for that sort of thing.

00:40:11.800 So it might lead to another accident.

00:40:13.040 But what else are you supposed to do? 1.00

00:40:14.740 The RCMP, these Keystone idiots, these Cluso-esque clowns, aren't keeping you safe. 1.00

00:40:20.640 And they should get the hell out of Alberta. 1.00

00:40:22.460 All right.

00:40:22.900 That's enough out of me.

00:40:23.800 I'll get on to something a little lighter.

00:40:25.140 Somebody I love.

00:40:26.340 Cyclists.

00:40:26.760 So we've got Sean Polzer.

00:40:28.760 He's out in Prittis at the Water's Edge pub.

00:40:32.360 And he's been speaking to the owner out there.

00:40:35.840 Let's bring him in and see what's going on out that way.

00:40:37.980 Hey, Sean, how's it going?

00:40:39.340 It's going good, Corey.

00:40:40.060 How are you?

00:40:41.060 I'm a little worked up.

00:40:41.860 Yeah, I know it is.

00:40:44.140 But in a good way, righteously so.

00:40:46.860 Well, I hope something good, kind of eventually a resolution comes to this.

00:40:50.300 So what are you doing in the bar I used to own?

00:40:53.100 In the bar I used to own?

00:40:54.300 Well, I'm ordering the chili, which happens to be amazing.

00:40:58.360 It comes in a little cast iron pan with a garlic toast.

00:41:01.220 And it's highly recommended.

00:41:03.560 But actually, I'm working on a story about the War of Wheels that's going on out here in Prittis.

00:41:08.820 It came as a result of some of your posts on Twitter.

00:41:11.860 It's about the cyclists that are coming in from the city, attracted, obviously, to the natural beauty of the community here.

00:41:19.720 And, you know, the good hometown local vibes and maybe even the chili.

00:41:24.320 But it's creating a bit of tension with the locals in terms of some of the parking and maybe just kind of loving the place to death.

00:41:33.060 You know, kind of like what we hear about happening in Europe.

00:41:36.660 Oh, yeah.

00:41:37.000 I mean, I enjoy my place out in Prittis.

00:41:38.580 But, you know, suddenly on a nice weekend morning, these spandex-laden locusts just descend on our area and, you know, block the roads.

00:41:47.400 And, well, you'll write a lot about the story and some of the reasons locals have kind of hit the end of their world boat that way with them.

00:41:53.880 Well, I've only seen one so far today.

00:41:55.740 It's been raining.

00:41:57.960 And so, you know, you know this guy's a diehard, right, when he's out there peddling in the rain.

00:42:02.640 But, yeah, I've only seen one so far today.

00:42:05.500 There's a few of them in the winter as well.

00:42:07.760 But, yeah, we're in cyclist prime time once it gets nice out.

00:42:11.560 So, all right, since I got you, you know, you're our energy and business writer.

00:42:16.800 What have you got on the go?

00:42:17.740 Well, it had a really good one today.

00:42:20.020 So, Suncor came out with its annual, well, second quarter earnings.

00:42:25.460 Production averaged about 800,000 barrels in the first half, which is cracking, you know, for the world's largest oil sales producer.

00:42:34.420 And they're doing what they're supposed to be doing, which is producing oil and gas.

00:42:37.540 So, a year ago, the CEO got into a bit of a pickle when he sold off all the renewable assets and, you know, decided that they weren't going to be a part of the so-called energy transition.

00:42:50.440 And they were going to focus on going back to what they do best, which is producing oil and gas.

00:42:55.240 So, in the years since Rich Kruger made those comments, he was hauled up in front of a comments committee and accused of burning down half of Alberta, you know, with wildfires.

00:43:06.680 The stock's up almost 30%, and it's up about 6% today.

00:43:10.240 So, it's, you know, we've heard all these stories of these companies, you know, going woke and going broke.

00:43:14.780 And Suncor is not one of them, pleased to say.

00:43:18.800 An oil company daring to be an oil company, the gall of them.

00:43:23.080 Who would have thunk?

00:43:24.540 Exactly.

00:43:25.760 Do you think this might lead to a bit of a trend with other energy companies?

00:43:28.780 I mean, just quitting, you know, they might just stop apologizing and being who they are?

00:43:33.980 Hopefully.

00:43:34.700 You know, I think that would be a good start.

00:43:36.900 I mean, this kind of leads into my second story, which is about Bill C-59.

00:43:41.820 So, Suncor is also a member of this Pathways Alliance that have been, so C-59, in case you don't know, is the Greenwashing Act.

00:43:49.600 You know, these companies where they're not allowed to promote the environmental benefits of their products.

00:43:54.360 You know, without proving them.

00:43:56.500 And so, it's mostly aimed at oil companies.

00:43:58.980 But some people say, you know, Dawn's Soap.

00:44:01.040 You know, they advertise that they clean the ducks, right?

00:44:03.960 Or, you know, Alberta beef cattle, you know, that somehow they produce less bark gas than, you know, half so much bark gas than cows in Europe, right?

00:44:16.440 So, but they have to be able to back up these claims.

00:44:19.160 And so, I wouldn't expect Suncor, you know, to abandon, you know, its emissions reductions commitments altogether.

00:44:27.120 But at the same time, C-59, so they've all had to kind of collectively go and withdraw this information from their websites, you know, from the federal government.

00:44:36.160 And actually withdraw some of these targets.

00:44:39.060 So, remains, I doubt that it means that they're going to abandon, you know, emissions reductions altogether.

00:44:45.040 But federal government sure isn't making any of any easier on them.

00:44:49.440 If you're not going to get credit for it, there's really not much sense in pushing it anyway.

00:44:53.340 What's the business case?

00:44:55.720 All right.

00:44:56.880 Well, it's interesting stuff.

00:44:58.860 I'm still happy to see them kind of showing some courage on their part.

00:45:01.680 So, I'll let you get back to that chili there.

00:45:03.820 Say hi to Tom and Brenda for me then.

00:45:06.180 I sure will.

00:45:08.160 See you when you get back to the newsroom.

00:45:09.660 I don't know if the place looks any different than when you were here.

00:45:12.640 Maybe they took it up a notch.

00:45:15.620 Yeah, they rented it.

00:45:16.520 I was more of a dive.

00:45:20.840 All right.

00:45:21.900 Thanks, Sean.

00:45:22.820 Yeah, thanks, Greg.

00:45:23.660 Bye.

00:45:23.820 All right.

00:45:24.500 So, yeah, on the road, that's our news and energy reporter, Sean Polzer, out in Pritis, Alberta.

00:45:29.640 And, yeah, watch the standard.

00:45:30.600 You know, he's always on that stuff.

00:45:33.160 And it's great stuff, what's going on in our energy sector and the real business news involved with it.

00:45:38.260 So, earlier, yes, I'd forgotten his name.

00:45:40.040 You know, embarrassing.

00:45:41.180 His name was Colin Howe.

00:45:42.760 I think I may be pronouncing it wrong.

00:45:44.280 H-O-U-G-H. 1.00

00:45:45.420 There's actually a GoFundMe for him.

00:45:46.700 This is the man who was murdered, whose killers are still on the lam in Alberta.

00:45:50.700 And the RCP still won't tell us anything about them or where they are.

00:45:53.920 All they know is they misplaced them.

00:45:55.740 Hopefully, they don't kill more people.

00:45:57.220 He worked for the county of Rocky View.

00:46:01.860 He was a father.

00:46:03.080 He's a young man.

00:46:04.100 He's dead.

00:46:05.120 And we may never find the killers because the RCP won't tell us what they look like, where they went, or any other details.

00:46:12.180 Yeah, that's the unfortunate realities of our news today, guys.

00:46:16.420 Either way, try and enjoy other aspects of the summer.

00:46:18.920 But, honestly, be careful out there.

00:46:20.460 These killers could be anybody.

00:46:22.240 The RCMP won't tell us who they are.

00:46:23.840 They might be next to you right now.

00:46:25.080 We don't know.

00:46:25.760 We're not allowed to, apparently.

00:46:27.680 And, yeah, stay safe out there, guys.

00:46:29.980 Enjoy the summer.

00:46:31.020 Be sure to tune in to the pipeline.

00:46:33.060 We'll be on with a panel, discuss a bunch more issues a little later tonight.

00:46:36.780 And, yeah, keep going to the Western Standard for your news.

00:46:38.940 We've got it as it breaks, guys.

00:46:40.640 Thanks for tuning in today.

00:46:41.600 We'll see you all next week at this time.

00:46:43.740 We'll see you all next week.

00:47:13.740 We'll see you all next week at this time.

00:47:15.520 We'll see you all next week at this time.

00:47:16.680 Thank you.

Western Standard - August 07, 2024

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