Western Standard - CMS： Time is running out to save addicts before winter sets in

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Corey Morgan Show. This is my weekly spot where I can go on about issues

00:00:37.000 that have caught my eye, rant about what's got me worked up, and interview guests who can add

00:00:41.880 some more nuance and wisdom to the whole show on things. Always lots to talk about and a packed

00:00:47.860 show coming up today again indeed. This show being live, for those of you who are watching it live,

00:00:54.040 I love it when you use that comment scroll, guys. Get in there, put your comments in. I see Leanne

00:00:58.520 put one in in advance talking about legalizing hard drugs because yeah i'm going to be talking

00:01:02.360 about addicts again today send those comments out there send your comments questions to me to uh

00:01:09.080 each other and uh to my guests and perhaps you know i i read them all i won't necessarily read

00:01:14.360 them all out though but i appreciate them and just keep things civil so today i i do have for

00:01:20.280 a guest our very own sean polzer actually he's going to come in and talk because we've got this

00:01:24.280 escalating battle between premier daniel smith and the federal environment environment minister

00:01:29.160 everybody's favorite stephen gilbo who's all the way over in china at a climate conference yet

00:01:33.880 still can't resist himself he's attacking alberta's oil field from all the way over there reach out

00:01:39.000 and touch someone and it's getting things pretty heated and furious around here so that's going to

00:01:43.000 be a good conversation because i think it's really setting up what we're going to see for the

00:01:47.640 political climate between alberta and ottawa in this next coming months when premier smith starts

00:01:53.160 her session and Ottawa starts their session. So quite the interesting times. So I'm going to get

00:01:59.520 on with what's got me going today as usual. I went out yesterday, I guess, you know, I do some field

00:02:04.380 trips and so on. I went and checked out a homeless encampment in Calgary. The police had begun

00:02:09.380 dismantling and cleaning up. This was like at least the third time in this location that the

00:02:15.180 police have had to go down there and dismantle the encampments that's in the area. It was littered

00:02:20.560 with everything from propane canisters to mattresses and syringes. It was a mess. And

00:02:26.100 it has also been a hub of local crime for months. So the site of tent encampments, you know, and

00:02:32.820 attics in various states of inebriation and population centers, I mean, it's become ubiquitous.

00:02:37.820 Police policies of enablement have failed catastrophically. Let's just face it,

00:02:41.760 they aren't working. And the number of street attics has expanded exponentially in every city

00:02:46.920 in Canada, throughout North America, as far as that goes. Particularly those cities, though,

00:02:50.660 where they provide a safe supply of drugs. So we've got snow is going to start flying out here

00:02:57.080 in a couple of short months, and every Canadian city is going to see a disaster as these addicts

00:03:02.600 are exposed to the elements. I know we prefer not to look at it, and we prefer not to talk about it,

00:03:07.700 but unfortunately, burying our heads in the sand, we're just going to let this looming wave of crime

00:03:12.680 and death build up, and it's past time to start ringing the alarm bells on this.

00:03:16.920 See, I go out and about all the time. I'm on the road and I look around and I mean, these people

00:03:22.160 are in terrible, terrible condition. They're in danger. They're in rough shape and they're not

00:03:27.460 going to fare well when it gets to minus 30. So what do you think is going to happen? You know,

00:03:31.960 when people on the streets hit minus 30 weather, well, they're going to become desperate. That's

00:03:37.080 where the crime aspect will come along. Transit systems, they'll probably become rolling heated 0.59

00:03:41.660 drug consumption centers again robberies will rise as addicts can no longer apply their trade

00:03:46.940 of theft and bottle picking due to the deep snow and low temperatures i mean the fentanyl addiction

00:03:52.940 it's a crisis like we haven't seen before that drug is plentiful it's powerful and it's incredibly

00:03:58.140 addictive so the addicts you see you might have seen on the streets you know they're bent over

00:04:01.980 they're oddly paralyzed while staring at the ground well they've usually taken fentanyl

00:04:05.820 and the behavior is called nodding. Now, sometimes they just simply fall and pass out with a pipe in

00:04:11.940 their hands. Other times they stand there strangely like that after smoking their chosen poison and

00:04:16.180 the drug can be laced with a number of substances. Now, the drug consumption in itself, of course,

00:04:21.040 is dangerous enough and that's killing thousands of them every year. But it becomes far more

00:04:25.680 dangerous once the Canadian winter sets in. I mean, what do you think is going to happen when

00:04:28.920 they nod off and it's minus 30? They're going to lose digits or they're going to die death by

00:04:33.780 exposure. I mean, the issue isn't a lack of shelter in general. It's a lack of shelter for

00:04:40.800 addicts. You know, I've been listening to advocates and the usual anti-poverty folks,

00:04:46.860 you know, they feel that if they oppose poverty hard enough, it'll go away. I see them talking

00:04:50.260 on social media and they're saying, we need more affordable housing. That's the problem. Come on.

00:04:55.700 Yes, we do. But that has nothing to do with these addicts, okay? They need more than a house. They

00:05:00.320 need treatment. They need to be taken off the streets. You can't put them in a house. How low

00:05:04.280 will the rent have to go? How low? If we put the rent down to $100 a month, you think those homeless

00:05:09.280 addicts from that encampment will say, oh, okay, I'll move into the house and become a responsible

00:05:13.260 citizen and pay my $100 a month in rent. No. If they've got $100 in their pocket, they're going

00:05:17.580 to buy $100 with a fentanyl. That's the way it works. This problem is much deeper than just

00:05:21.820 needing affordable housing. You can't put them in shelters, unfortunately, because shelters won't

00:05:25.920 allow them to keep consuming drugs. So they can't manage those strung out addicts, you know, because

00:05:30.760 it's unfair as well to the other people stuck in these shelters. So I mean, citizens and governments

00:05:34.800 that we're both going to need to embrace a reality check on this issue and really fast.

00:05:39.120 If we continue down the road we are on right now, we're going to be seeing horrific number of

00:05:43.000 deaths and witnessing new levels of misery for addicts and those impacted by them.

00:05:47.180 We need to intervene. There's the big word that people don't like. But every civilized nation

00:05:52.840 has legislation allowing for the removal of a person's liberty if it's evident they're going

00:05:56.700 to harm themselves or others if they're left to their own devices. This can be done in cases where

00:06:01.460 people have serious mental health issues. There's no good reason why such an intervention isn't

00:06:06.080 justified when it comes to street addicts. We have more than enough evidence they're going to harm

00:06:09.940 themselves and others if they're left in the condition they're in right now. Put it bluntly,

00:06:14.400 we wouldn't leave a dog in an alley like that. Yet we're leaving people there. You listen to the

00:06:18.600 advocates. We can't infringe upon their liberty or their dignity. There's no dignity left, guys.

00:06:26.440 They've hit rock bottom, but the next thing that's going to come is they're going to die.

00:06:30.680 And yes, when we intervene, the success of treatment and things like that, it's low if the

00:06:35.540 addict didn't come in willingly, but the survival rate of the street addicts who are left alone is

00:06:38.660 even lower. So we really don't have much to lose in intervening. The cities right now should be

00:06:43.720 seeking out and securing heated spaces, somewhere where people can be kept when that need comes,

00:06:49.020 because it's going to come. And, you know, it'll be, yes, a space to warehouse addicts, somewhere

00:06:54.260 to safely take them when we do take them off the trains, when we do take them out of the alleys,

00:06:58.000 when we do take them somewhere, put them on a cot, get some heat on them, get some food into them,

00:07:03.520 and hope we can push them into treatment. But if we keep pretending that this is just a lack of

00:07:08.280 affordable housing, we keep turning our heads and saying this addiction is manageable, if we could

00:07:11.960 just give them enough safe supply, they'll be okay. Guess what? You take fentanyl, even if it's

00:07:17.160 government supplied when it's minus 30, you're probably going to frigging die. There's no safe 0.85

00:07:21.540 supply of that. Quit listening to these enabling idiots and let's get prepared because we're going 1.00

00:07:26.680 to have a disaster on our hands if we don't do something with the addicts when it comes to there's 1.00

00:07:31.280 so many more of them out there. And winter's coming, guys. Winter's coming. All right. Well,

00:07:36.980 that's got what's got me wound up today. Let's check in and see what else is happening out in

00:07:41.620 that big bad world with our news editor Dave Naylor. Hey Dave, how's it going? Yeah, I think

00:07:46.440 you're right, Corey. I think winter is coming. Driving in today along one of the streets I go,

00:07:51.820 all the trees were, you know, mostly turned yellow. Kind of depressing in a way, isn't it?

00:07:59.080 Yeah, I know. I'm not a fan of winter. I never will be.

00:08:02.840 Hopefully we get an indigenous summer and we'll stay warm for a while. But hey, I hear your 1.00

00:08:10.200 visitors back oh the the black hairy fella yeah he was wandering around behind our house last night

00:08:17.180 uh actually jane updated that with another video at five in the morning it looks like another bear

00:08:22.540 walked by that spot so i'm thinking it might be the pair of cubs that were there earlier kind of

00:08:27.080 grown up so i guess my my battles to try and save my beehives are going to start again pretty soon

00:08:33.060 yeah you you've got it all electrified and uh everything's good this year you think

00:08:38.280 I hope so.

00:08:39.240 I've really upped the electric fences.

00:08:40.800 I got some spiked boards that are going to be going up,

00:08:43.020 and I'm going to put those Halloween decorations out

00:08:44.880 that are going to dance around and make noise

00:08:46.400 whenever something comes close. 0.99

00:08:47.540 So I'm going to defeat those bears this year, darn it. 0.98

00:08:50.480 Awesome. 0.98

00:08:51.000 Well, I wish you luck on that.

00:08:53.700 Busy news.

00:08:54.620 Busy news.

00:08:59.400 And all charges withdrawn against Pastor James.

00:09:07.060 Edmonton.

00:09:07.720 The court today joined a list of all, you know, many other people who were having their COVID charges thrown out, including Pastor Tim Stevens today on the Fairview Baptist Church.

00:09:21.720 They were thrown out, so, you know, all these people who battled against the COVID restrictions appeared to have won their case.

00:09:35.720 Also, big news this morning with the feud between Alberta Premier Daniel Smith and

00:09:41.060 Environmental Minister Stephen Gilbo.

00:09:44.340 He's over in China now talking to them, and instead of giving China some advice, he used

00:09:52.780 it to shred Suncor, and they announced a couple of weeks ago that they were sort of giving

00:09:58.020 up on renewals and going hard on just oil production itself.

00:10:03.440 So Gilbo says that means, you know, his efforts to cap emissions are even more needed, to

00:10:11.000 which Premier Smith today unloaded on him quite heavily.

00:10:16.100 So I understand you've got my colleague Sean Bolzer coming to talk about that.

00:10:20.880 It's a developing good national story.

00:10:25.280 And our NDP friend, Charlie Angus, he took a shot at the Western Standard yesterday,

00:10:32.580 basically saying you know we were partly to blame for the the death of annette lewis

00:10:37.620 she's the edmonton woman who died last week because she refused to code a covet vaccine and

00:10:45.540 was denied a transplant because of that and uh charlie thought uh it worked so our opinion

00:10:53.460 hanford takes a run at him so that's uh that's a good call i'm also doing well this morning

00:10:58.660 call him or this morning cory and i draw your attention uh i know you're a bee guy uh earlier

00:11:05.300 this morning we printed a story on uh bee horror in toronto five million bees on the loose after a

00:11:13.060 truck carrying their crates crashed so uh holy cow you can imagine uh imagine what a swarm of five

00:11:20.100 million of them look like cory yeah it'd be quite something around hopefully they were well trained

00:11:25.620 yeah and then you told me how many bees you have uh that kind of shocked me to be honest

00:11:30.700 yeah no it's anywhere from 30 to 60 000 in a hive i figure mine's got about 50 000 at this point of

00:11:37.600 the summer they really pack up so as many bees as that was it was probably only about 100 hives on

00:11:41.940 that truck but that's still a heck of a lot of uh i got a lot of bees on the loose to try and

00:11:46.080 recapture yeah and i bet those uh those bears are salivating at the thought of all that honey right 1.00

00:11:51.560 now, Corey. They're making their plans. They're coming. Absolutely. All right. Well, is that

00:12:00.100 everything we've got going right now, Dave? That's it. Just about to put up a story on why

00:12:05.720 you should all be looking up into the skies tonight. A rare celestial event. It's called

00:12:11.040 a blue moon. And Arthur Green will have that story up for you momentarily. Excellent. Well,

00:12:17.660 as the saying goes, once in a blue moon, it's not that common. All right.

00:12:21.320 It's pretty rare. Thanks for the update, Steve. And I will catch you in the newsroom after the

00:12:26.180 show. Thanks, Corey. All right. As you can hear, guys, yes, lots on the go out there. Lots of news,

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00:13:26.920 free information going and keeping independent media independent. So yeah, you know, some of the

00:13:35.200 stuff with the addicts building castles, a commenter saying, you know, addicts just

00:13:40.700 do this stuff to themselves. And, and it is, you know, it's difficult. I mean, in the end,

00:13:46.860 it does come up to the individual. But as I said, we come to a point where an individual can't take

00:13:51.740 care of themselves. You know, when, when you see that addict shuffling up and down the street

00:13:56.020 corner, they're skinny, they're, they're covered in sores, their teeth have fallen. It's really

00:14:00.200 that bad. Do you really, you know, they're barely surviving right now. You think they're going to

00:14:04.760 make it through the winter? Like we've got to just face the hard reality. We need to intervene.

00:14:09.680 There's no easy answers to this, but I don't want to keep hearing the stories that will be coming this winter of emergency services personnel having to keep extracting, you know, bodies and such of people who have passed on from exposure, you know, due to being basically on the fentanyl and other such drugs while outdoors in this weather.

00:14:34.180 So see what else is going on in the news out there.

00:14:36.600 Yeah, the BC Center for Disease Control.

00:14:39.980 Yes, it's identified BC's first case of a person infected with the BA.282.86 variant in the Fraser Health region.

00:14:50.720 Who cares?

00:14:51.820 God, I'm sick to death of it.

00:14:53.240 So what?

00:14:54.480 You found another one.

00:14:55.580 It's a cold.

00:14:56.580 It really is.

00:14:57.220 I mean, when are we going to get to this point?

00:14:58.460 But the problem is it does, you know, for most of us, we don't care.

00:15:02.160 We're done with this.

00:15:02.920 We've had it.

00:15:03.640 but the authoritarians out there, those who feel that it's timed, I mean, there's people who went

00:15:09.780 crazy over the whole pandemic. There's people who really seem to appear to like being masked. They

00:15:16.180 like being locked down. There was actually a bunch of them protesting in Vancouver. They're

00:15:20.940 standing on the street demanding that the law step in and force us all to put chin diapers on again

00:15:26.920 whilst in public, which, I mean, there was all six or seven of these nutcases, but one guy

00:15:33.100 counter-protested. And look it up online, you know, that video, it's quite interesting. The

00:15:37.660 one guy counter-protested because he was, you know, I guess not supportive of mandatory masking,

00:15:42.440 and the people with the masks attacked him and tackled him to the ground and smashed him up

00:15:47.240 pretty badly. So basically they're saying, mask up for your own protection or we will beat the

00:15:51.360 hell out of you. That's a nice freedom-loving type logic. And I'm certain Mr. Paulser is going to

00:15:56.800 find his way in here pretty soon, and we'll have a discussion about Danielle Smith and Mr. Gilboa.

00:16:03.100 But in the meantime, we'll talk about a few other news items, I guess.

00:16:08.120 Another one that this story keeps coming up.

00:16:12.540 You know, it never has an end to it, it seems.

00:16:15.140 The English River First Nation claims it found 93 unmarked graves

00:16:19.400 at the old Boval Indian Residential School near the Saskatchewan village of Boval.

00:16:25.660 And it's saying the graves contain, this is what they say,

00:16:28.220 they believe the graves contain the bodies of 79 children and 14 infants. Now, when's this going

00:16:35.460 to stop? And I noticed it's not, I mean, it's made the news, but it's certainly not rocking the

00:16:40.280 nation like past revelations and discoveries have, because zero for three right now, zero for three,

00:16:46.200 when GPR, ground penetrating radar has found things like this, when they finally follow up,

00:16:50.460 and it always has to be, it must be followed up with digging, you've got to shovel, you've got

00:16:55.080 to confirm it. Well, three times they tried confirming it and three times they found no

00:16:58.620 bodies. So I'm not going to believe that these 93 spots are necessarily graves. They might be,

00:17:05.400 don't know, but we've got to stop lighting our hair on fire every time the GPR finds something

00:17:09.940 because it's got a pretty terrible record of accuracy. But here we go again. I mean, at least

00:17:14.940 the news has been a little, the news at least has been calm about it. They're talking about areas of

00:17:18.980 interest that appear to be, they're covering their butts a bit in some of the outlets reporting on

00:17:23.280 this. But, you know, the activists and everything, of course, are immediately calling it graves,

00:17:27.580 immediately calling it genocide and all the good stuff. And it's got to get more realistic on these

00:17:34.460 things. So, I mean, some of these statements like schools should become or should come with

00:17:39.520 playgrounds, not graveyards. Yeah, I agree. So once you find a school that had graveyard,

00:17:43.240 we'll talk about that. But in the meantime, calm down the rhetoric, get a shovel and prove it

00:17:47.600 because the body count so far in this whole thing is zero. And I like it that way. You know,

00:17:52.820 I don't like the fact that the world's been turned on end over something we haven't found

00:17:56.300 proof of yet, but I'm glad that there weren't actually mass murders going on and children

00:18:01.120 surreptitiously buried in these cemeteries. Kamloops, of course, is another great example.

00:18:05.860 That was the starting one. That was the one that set everything off. And people get mixed up on

00:18:09.200 that a lot. Kamloops was never known as originally being a cemetery. It was an orchard and a septic

00:18:13.740 field. And there's been, to date, even though they kept saying 215 and then 200, to date,

00:18:20.140 the body count in Kamloops is zero. And until somebody actually identifies a body, that's not

00:18:26.040 going to change. All right. So let's talk. We've got in studio, Sean Polzer. He's our energy and

00:18:31.880 business and everything in general reporter. So thanks for coming in, Sean. We've got some

00:18:36.440 interesting times happening here between Ottawa and Alberta. Yeah. Thanks, Corey. Yeah. Well,

00:18:42.100 there's been kind of a war of words in the Twitter sphere. I don't know what you call it

00:18:46.840 these days, the exosphere between Premier Daniel Smith and Environment Minister Steven

00:18:52.740 Gibault pretty much started when he came to Calgary in July, followed up with the electricity

00:19:00.400 regulations. And just this week, he traveled all the way to China. And instead of criticizing

00:19:07.760 the Chinese for their emissions, which amount to about a third of all the greenhouse gas

00:19:14.860 submitted in the world. He took a shot at Suncor for selling off its renewables business and said

00:19:21.940 it warrants an emission cap. Yeah. And I mean, the announcement that Suncor, you know, an oil

00:19:26.580 company was going to remain an oil company. It came out about a week or two weeks ago, perhaps.

00:19:31.500 I mean, when they formally, they've been kind of shedding some of those renewables for a little

00:19:34.200 while, but this isn't really big news. Why did Jill Ball choose right now to suddenly go on about

00:19:40.720 Suncor? That's a really good question. I think it's because he's going to come out with the

00:19:47.620 emissions cap. So this is going to be the next shoe to drop. Apparently it was supposed to have

00:19:53.740 been released already and it's been delayed. So my thought is probably within the next week or so

00:19:59.940 after he gets back from China and before he goes jetting off to Dubai for the COP, I'm not even

00:20:07.840 sure what it is cop 28 summit um that these are going to drop and then he's going to hop on an

00:20:13.820 airplane and get out of town as fast as he can well the irony of this this summit happening in

00:20:19.500 dubai too where they don't care they're pumping the oil out with mad abandon over there and they're 1.00

00:20:23.960 more than happy if the canadians are stupid enough to shut in their own resources i i tend to agree 0.99

00:20:29.720 i think there's a lot of virtual sig virtue signaling going on with the uh with the sheiks 1.00

00:20:34.860 over there because they want to pump more oil and be seen to be good corporate citizens,

00:20:41.600 national citizens, or whatever, while they're doing it.

00:20:44.580 Yeah, host that summit.

00:20:46.220 There we go.

00:20:46.680 We're good guys.

00:20:47.780 I mean, never mind all that oil we're putting out, which nobody should mind the oil they're

00:20:51.300 putting out.

00:20:51.660 But I mean, isn't it really demonstrates the futility of Canada always having to play the

00:20:55.800 Boy Scout?

00:20:57.320 And meanwhile, he's paying lip service to some of the worst offenders on the planet,

00:21:00.720 being China and some of the Middle Eastern producers.

00:21:03.880 Well, Monsieur Gibault, in his previous press statements, has actually bragged about Canada

00:21:12.400 being the first mover and setting an example for all these other countries in the world

00:21:17.600 to presumably follow us, even though China, under the Paris Accord, has a 2060 deadline

00:21:25.640 to reach net zero, and India is 2070, and between the two of them, they are half of

00:21:32.400 all the global emissions are in the world and we're at 1.6 percent of the global emissions i

00:21:37.520 believe and something like that and we're supposed to hit it by 2035 right and suncor is about two

00:21:43.120 percent of that 1.5 percent yeah so globally speaking even though the world's largest oil

00:21:50.560 stands producer it's we're talking tenths of a percentage point but the economic impact i mean

00:21:57.520 if we you know they keep talking we want to transition we want to get out we want to lose

00:22:00.960 the oil and gas in Canada. I mean, it provides a massive resource for the federal government. I

00:22:06.640 mean, people seem to forget that. Some of the supporters in Toronto or Montreal might not

00:22:10.560 realize, but a lot of these social programs they're enjoying are due to this oil and gas

00:22:15.680 being generated out here. Well, they've got a rude awakening coming because I think that the

00:22:21.200 policy of the federal government is actually to make oil production so expensive that it just

00:22:27.200 becomes an uneconomic proposition and producers will basically be forced to leave it in the ground.

00:22:35.120 But what that's going to do for anybody who has home heating oil down east, anybody who

00:22:40.640 drives a car and people are still going to have to drive a car even after the EVs take over,

00:22:46.800 you're going to be looking at, I saw one forecast today, 300 bucks a barrel for oil.

00:22:51.040 Yeah, and if it costs that much to pull up, but the bottom line is the cost of renewables. If we

00:22:57.220 went to that as a sole source of energy, it wouldn't be far behind the oil and gas, especially

00:23:01.680 if you got rid of the oil and gas. I mean, we're all going to take a hard, hard hit here.

00:23:05.860 Well, and it's the only way to really encourage, like when they talk about the transition,

00:23:09.460 the only way to encourage the transition is not so much to make the renewable energy cheaper,

00:23:15.360 but to make the conventional energy so expensive that the renewable stuff is cheap in comparison.

00:23:22.320 So Premier Smith doesn't sound like she's having any of this, though.

00:23:25.000 She certainly responded, as we would have expected, out of Danielle Smith.

00:23:29.380 Yeah, absolutely.

00:23:31.120 I think she's flabbergasted.

00:23:33.380 So she, in discussions, she's referenced her environment with Mr. Rebecca Schultz as the

00:23:40.380 Gibault whisperer. And I think they're coming to the end of their rope and like really trying to

00:23:46.080 deal with this guy because every time you take, you seem like you take one step forward, it's

00:23:51.680 like four or five, six steps backwards. And I don't know how long they continue like this.

00:23:58.060 Well, you can't reason with Gilboa. I mean, maybe people start realizing this, you know,

00:24:02.880 look him up, the picture of him manically grinning in an orange prison jumpsuit as he's being taken

00:24:08.540 away in handcuffs, like this man's an extremist. He always has been. We're not talking about a,

00:24:14.140 you know, a environmental activist who's been rational over this time. This is a guy on the

00:24:18.940 fringe and he's the most powerful environment minister in the country. And what's ironic is

00:24:23.020 that he's threatening to have the RCMP come after politicians like Smith and Moe and have

00:24:29.180 them hauled away in handcuffs and orange jumpsuits, you know, for keeping the lights on in the middle

00:24:33.580 of January. Well, you know, speaking as a guy who's written a book on pursuing independence

00:24:37.660 in the West, if they wanted to send the RCMP to start arresting Western politicians, I know it

00:24:41.220 would be great for my book sales, but not very good for the stability of the country as a whole.

00:24:45.540 I mean, this is really is challenging unity and stability within Canada. I mean, yeah,

00:24:51.040 Scott Moe, I mean, this is in Saskatchewan where these battles are happening as well.

00:24:55.920 It's just dangerous politics going on right now. Absolutely. And, you know, there's for all the

00:25:01.620 talk of separation that there's been in this country, Quebec nationalism is more cultural

00:25:06.800 based western national is more economic based it seems to me that these climate policies are

00:25:13.760 becoming the catalyst for the breakup of the country trudeau is going to be the one who

00:25:20.400 presides over the end of this federation this confederation that we know well and some of it's

00:25:26.060 just the politics i mean we can see the liberals are in a bad position right now as far as the

00:25:29.400 polls go i mean it could be we're looking at potentially two years before the next election

00:25:32.840 Anyways, a whole lot, we know a whole lot can change between now and then, you know, nobody in the CPC should be popping champagne corks yet.

00:25:39.360 You're in the lead, but that can, that can evaporate quickly.

00:25:41.840 And one of the tactics, the old one used by the Liberals with the senior Trudeau and his advisor, that old term, screw the West, we'll take the rest.

00:25:50.800 Playing the politics of regional division has always been an asset for the Liberals, you know, because what have they got to lose?

00:25:58.440 They got two seats in Alberta, zero seats in Saskatchewan. 0.99

00:26:00.860 And if they can make us look like a bunch of jerks, it tends to sell well in Toronto. 0.98

00:26:06.300 Well, even Paul Martin, I was really, I thought Paul Martin was a good finance minister, 0.97

00:26:11.500 but I was really disappointed when he became prime minister because when he was down in the polls,

00:26:14.920 that's exactly what he did was start kicking at the West and managed to somehow salvage the minority government out of it.

00:26:21.540 But I don't know. I'm hoping that the Trudeau Liberals are forced so far down that they're not going to be able to come back.

00:26:27.720 But what really concerns me is the damage that they're going to be able to do in two years with this wrecking ball that they have flying around the world, imposing all these policy by fiat.

00:26:40.800 Well, an investment, Jill. I mean, really, as an international investor, even a domestic one,

00:26:46.460 when you see that sort of hostility towards an industry in the country, it's going to be a heck

00:26:52.020 of a lot harder to convince you to open your wallet and invest in a capital project when it

00:26:56.720 looks like we've got the powers that be want to shut us down. Absolutely. And a lot of people

00:27:00.740 don't realize that about oil and gas is number one, how much money it takes just to maintain

00:27:06.040 production, nevermind, increase it. And the lead times, the time, the amount of time that it takes

00:27:13.680 to build these oil sands plants, to get this stuff out of the ground and build these markets

00:27:19.580 and build these pipelines and do all these other things that need to be done before you can sell

00:27:24.620 one barrel of oil. Well, something else, I mean, that really poked the stick in the hornet's nest

00:27:29.800 and that came from the Alberta side of it. I'm kind of throwing a curve ball. We didn't speak

00:27:33.940 on this, but still, it's a part of this issue was the moratorium or the freeze on renewable

00:27:39.940 permits for the next six months in Alberta that Premier Smith's government imposed. I mean,

00:27:44.660 that certainly infuriated those who feel we're going to fully transition into renewables soon.

00:27:48.820 No matter how you look at it, that will slow the development of these renewable projects to a degree.

00:27:56.100 Do you think that something's going to be resolved, some better

00:27:59.780 regulations and so on, and those projects are going to start getting rolling again?

00:28:03.140 well right now it's kind of like a wild west and texas had this problem uh when it froze a couple

00:28:08.980 years so here in canada when you have the natural gas wells and it goes down 40 below you have these

00:28:13.540 things called freeze-offs so there's a certain amount of production that gets shut in just from

00:28:17.860 the cold and in texas obviously they're not ready for it they're not prepared and when their gas

00:28:22.740 went down and they had to rely on the renewables for their grid it was just havoc like people were

00:28:29.140 getting power bills over like tens of thousands of dollars um you know and there's a very real

00:28:35.540 possibility that if you don't have that backup for all the renewable generation that people want

00:28:43.460 to come online that it is going to destabilize the grid yeah so i mean it's not the renewables

00:28:48.900 themselves that are problems i worry about the dependence on the renewables as a source right

00:28:53.700 And especially when they're intermittent, by definition, they're intermittent.

00:28:58.300 And, you know, I compared this with our other colleague, Nigel Hannaford.

00:29:04.780 You know, so OPEC, Saudi Arabia, they drill wells and then shut them in and just leave them there and drill the capacity, right?

00:29:12.920 Well, it's a lot like these windmills that only run 30% of the time.

00:29:17.780 So you're spending all this money to have an asset that really is only 30% efficient and you can't rely on it when it's not there, when you don't have the other stuff to back it up.

00:29:31.160 And solar is horrific.

00:29:32.120 I mean, we're in the northern hemisphere.

00:29:33.940 The time of year when we would need it the most as a backup is often cloudy and we only have about eight hours of daylight.

00:29:40.160 So it's a very, very limited generating source for us.

00:29:42.840 Well, I'm kind of surprised that Alberta is actually one of the prime locations in the country for solar.

00:29:50.120 But there again, until you've got some kind of method of actually storing the energy that is produced

00:29:56.300 so that you can turn it on when the sun isn't shining at night, when it's dark for 16 hours a day,

00:30:03.560 then it probably isn't a very practical proposition to relying on it as your main source of electricity.

00:30:12.500 Has Suncor responded to this,

00:30:14.160 or are they just kind of keeping their head low

00:30:15.660 and letting the politicians duke it out on this whole thing?

00:30:18.880 I think they're probably letting the politicians duke it out.

00:30:21.440 They have enough problems with their own shareholders and investors,

00:30:24.520 which I think is one of the reasons why they made that statement to begin with.

00:30:28.740 And they've got nothing to be getting.

00:30:32.560 Oil companies tend to kind of try to keep a low profile

00:30:36.040 in these political things.

00:30:37.560 But, you know, there again, it goes back to the investment,

00:30:39.400 Because if you scare away all this investment, you know, that accomplishes more than what Jibo can ever do on his own.

00:30:48.180 Yeah, and he's more than happy to scare it off.

00:30:49.800 He knows that. 0.96

00:30:50.460 I mean, he's not stupid. 1.00

00:30:51.320 He's crazy. 1.00

00:30:52.140 Which is dangerous. 0.99

00:30:58.120 We're all going to pay a price.

00:30:59.480 Well, crazy times we're living in.

00:31:01.320 But as I said earlier, I think it's just warming up right now.

00:31:03.700 I mean, Gibo's in China.

00:31:05.240 The Alberta legislature hasn't hit its new session yet

00:31:08.080 with the Premier newly elected now.

00:31:10.900 She's going to feel a lot more, I think, confident in taking stances.

00:31:14.360 Now that she's been through an election,

00:31:15.420 nobody can say she doesn't have a mandate.

00:31:18.120 And, of course, the Parliament's going to go back into session too.

00:31:20.400 So I think we're just seeing the first volleys in this fight right now.

00:31:23.860 Yeah, I think so too.

00:31:24.680 And I've been quite impressed with Premier Smith

00:31:27.560 and how she's handled the file.

00:31:30.120 Apparently, the electricity, when she has taken it, it is her.

00:31:34.720 And I would imagine that admissions cap will be, she's kept her cards fairly close to her chest, you know, at the same time while keeping all those options open, the Sovereignty Act, constitutional challenges, and, you know, but at the same time being very emphatic and very clear that these are unrealistic, they're unachievable, and they will not be implemented by 2035.

00:32:01.740 and certainly not the way that the Liberal government thinks that they will.

00:32:08.880 Well, it certainly gives you lots to cover and it gives me lots to rant about.

00:32:12.880 I appreciate you coming in to explain kind of what's been going on

00:32:15.680 with this fight that's unfolding, I mean, from China to Alberta at this point.

00:32:19.620 I mean, we've bypassed Ottawa for the time being.

00:32:21.720 Right.

00:32:22.100 And as I said, it's probably only going to get worse,

00:32:25.400 so we should all be keeping a close eye on this.

00:32:27.860 So thanks for coming in to talk to us today, Sean.

00:32:30.440 and we'll have you in again soon.

00:32:32.880 All right.

00:32:33.280 Thanks a lot, Corey.

00:32:33.880 Bye-bye, Sean.

00:32:34.580 Bye.

00:32:35.300 So there's, again,

00:32:36.100 our energy and business reporter,

00:32:38.220 Sean Polzer.

00:32:39.100 And yeah, he's always got a finger on that

00:32:41.140 and watching it closely.

00:32:42.080 Same sort of thing.

00:32:43.660 Westernstandard.news, guys,

00:32:45.320 that's where you're going to find those stories.

00:32:46.600 Sean has a lot of them coming up for those

00:32:48.660 and on issues in business in general.

00:32:50.860 And this is just going to,

00:32:52.860 it's only going to get worse.

00:32:54.380 You know, it's just starting.

00:32:57.720 Let's see.

00:32:58.480 I'm just trying to see a comment that,

00:33:00.020 oh yeah, Wildrose commenting, is there any truth to the rumors that cartels are sitting up in

00:33:04.780 Edmonton? Yeah, this was interesting. This was something that our Arthur Green in Edmonton

00:33:08.940 broke actually last week in a story, if you look it up on the Western Standard.

00:33:14.080 Yeah, Mexican cartels have been having some operations in Edmonton. That's a long haul,

00:33:19.480 guys. But the bottom line is where there's mass drug consumption, there's money. And where that

00:33:24.140 money is, the drug dealers are going to follow. And that's why we're seeing some of the stuff.

00:33:30.700 Arthur's story was very interesting talking to people and breaking that down. And these syndicates,

00:33:35.420 these cartels, they're organized. And that's why we see the shootings going on. That's why you get

00:33:39.420 the shootings in the malls and the shootings in the streets. I mean, it's happening in Edmonton,

00:33:42.820 Calgary, Toronto, because, I mean, these are nasty people. And when one steps on the other one's

00:33:49.660 turf, the drug wars begin. So, you know, that's when the innocent folks also get hit. I mean,

00:33:54.420 with the drive-by shootings, things like that, you're in the wrong place at the wrong time,

00:33:58.920 and suddenly some poor innocent person gets killed. Now, some of the discussion on that,

00:34:04.720 fair enough, for the drug enablers say, well, if we just provide enough safe supply,

00:34:08.580 then these cartels won't make any money, right? I mean, it's the same logic that prohibition with

00:34:12.780 liquor, you know, the mafia was never at its strongest than when liquor consumption was

00:34:18.060 illegal in the United States and in Canada. And they could, of course, illicitly supply it to

00:34:22.020 everybody because everybody wanted to keep drinking. There's some truth to that. But the

00:34:27.020 issue is that, again, these addicts aren't on something where they're not like people who like

00:34:30.680 to indulge. There's a lot of casual drinkers. There's a lot of people who enjoy a few drinks.

00:34:34.720 A lot of people can responsibly enjoy a few drinks. You can't responsibly have a little fentanyl.

00:34:40.260 You can't just socially smoke meth. It doesn't work that way. You become an addict. You become

00:34:45.400 one of those zombies on the streets and it's not sustainable. Now, again, try to find ways to make

00:34:52.200 it less profitable for the cartels. Absolutely. But if we supplied it, if the government supplies

00:34:56.440 it, we're seeing that in Vancouver already. We're getting those reports. The addicts go to the

00:35:00.660 consumption center. They get their safe supply. They go out and they peddle that because they

00:35:06.560 want to buy the harder, nastier stuff that the street dealers can provide them. We got to remember

00:35:10.880 you're not dealing with rational people. We're talking about people in the throes

00:35:15.060 of a terrible addiction and they just want it stronger and stronger. That's why, and I think,

00:35:22.260 you know, some of the well-meaning people, but it has never been addicted to something.

00:35:26.860 And that's why we see some of the strongest advocates like in Alberta with Marshall Smith.

00:35:31.580 He's been through addiction recovery. He's been at rock bottom. Myself, I've talked about my own,

00:35:38.380 you know, recovery from alcohol and putting a number of things up my nose for a period of time.

00:35:42.700 That took a lot of recovery and a program as well for me. Once you've been there, you find out that

00:35:50.240 you realize because addictions aren't sustainable. They aren't. They escalate. Some slower, some

00:35:56.680 faster than others. But eventually you need more and more and more. And you let other important

00:36:02.260 things lapse while you're pursuing your addiction or wasted from your addiction. So you're not going

00:36:07.440 to do your job as well as you used to. Eventually you're going to lose your job. It's going to

00:36:11.380 pressure your relationships. You know, wives, husbands, they get tired of living with an

00:36:16.280 addict. They get tired of living with somebody who's strung out or drunk or messed up all the

00:36:20.020 time. And eventually the addict hits the streets. That's the longer trail to get to. Most of the

00:36:26.620 overdoses actually happen in households, to be fair. That's something, you know, a stat a lot

00:36:30.600 of people forget. We just see the ones on the streets, but there's a lot of addicted people

00:36:33.740 living within households and they're dying too because you can't sustain the addiction. Eventually

00:36:38.780 it eats you alive. You watch, what is there for a safe supply, maintainable supply of meth?

00:36:46.200 You look at a meth addict. Their teeth get eaten out of their head. They're covered in sores. They

00:36:51.260 get skinny. They get drug-induced psychosis. You can't sustain that. There's an addiction

00:36:57.080 enablement center in Toronto. It's really been in the news a lot lately because it turns out part

00:37:01.440 their mission statement was saying that we're never going to try and tell people to stop taking

00:37:07.640 it. Well, because they want to know no questions asked. Well, they act and imply as if you can just

00:37:11.900 carry on with that addiction. You can't. It's going to kill you eventually, or you got to get

00:37:16.960 off of it once you get down that road. And that all just comes back to where I'm at. Remember,

00:37:22.100 again, you see the ones who are saying we need intervention, the ones that are saying that we

00:37:24.960 need treatment are those of us who've been through it. The ones who were, again, well-meaning,

00:37:30.580 perhaps thinking enablement and extending this sort of thing and safe consumption will lead to

00:37:34.300 a good end are people who've never actually gotten to enjoy the real feeling of being in

00:37:40.260 withdrawal and having your life start to get out of control because you found yourself dependent

00:37:43.920 on a substance that's not doing you any favors. So we got to stop listening to those clowns. I 0.99

00:37:48.100 don't care how well-meaning they are. I don't care how many textbooks they've read and start

00:37:51.560 listening to the people who actually managed to get out of that spiral because they're going to

00:37:55.700 offer much better advice and realistic advice, even if it's advice people don't want to hear.

00:38:00.580 All right. Let's talk about information that apparently we're not supposed to hear as well.

00:38:04.460 This is an interesting one that popped up from our federal government and our heritage minister,

00:38:08.260 Pascal Saint-Ange. I'm probably ruining the French pronunciation. I don't care. 0.55

00:38:12.320 Tired of them shutting down our oil. Anyway, so I'm going to keep mispronouncing your names until

00:38:15.480 you're nicer to Alberta. Either way, she's our heritage minister and she's taken it to federal

00:38:20.120 court to block the release of some records at the federal information commissioner. So this

00:38:27.160 the person in charge of giving us our information. And there was a mandate letter she got, and it

00:38:33.920 was promised to ensure the commissioner is empowered to order government information to be

00:38:37.180 released. Well, the commissioner is trying to order information to be released, and the government is

00:38:41.300 taking the commissioner to court saying, no, we don't want to release it. Guess what the information

00:38:45.880 is about? Firearms legislation. Yeah, so I mean, this comes back to an individual, I guess, in

00:38:52.660 Ontario, who's using the Access to Information Act, who wants to see some of the files and documents

00:38:58.120 involving firearms and management, and some of them go back a ways, I guess, the 1970s they requested

00:39:03.160 two years ago. Why? Why do we have to fight for the information we own? It's ours. It's our

00:39:11.060 government. We're the citizens. See, this is the lopsided world we're starting to get into, and

00:39:16.160 it's dangerous, and it's bad. The government's supposed to answer to us, not the other way around.

00:39:21.080 When it comes to us asking for information, the default should be that we get the information until and unless they can really make a solid case as to why we shouldn't be allowed to see it.

00:39:32.360 I mean, there's some areas, certainly national defense, things like that, some contracts with private companies that perhaps it's inappropriate for us to see the information or, of course, personal information about those working at the government.

00:39:43.020 But firearm records?

00:39:44.420 No, you don't like the political information getting out.

00:39:47.700 That's our information.

00:39:48.860 we shouldn't take that laying down they haven't justified that it's scary to think

00:39:54.440 where are you guys going that you would actually go to court to uh uh stop us from getting the

00:40:01.800 information we've asked for it's it's distressing and i hope the judge tells her to uh stuff it

00:40:08.100 somewhere deep and dark but the problem isn't that's something that broke recently as well

00:40:11.020 massive numbers of judges it turns out that you know of course appointed to their roles uh by the

00:40:17.700 prime minister also donated to the prime minister and bought some one-on-one time with them at some

00:40:24.600 of those large, you know, high-heeled fundraisers and things such as that. It's kind of a dicey area

00:40:30.060 to get into now, right? I mean, it's a right to support political parties, political candidates

00:40:35.640 when you're up and coming. That's the way the system works. You as an individual can choose

00:40:39.120 who you prefer and who you don't prefer. Some of these judges may have been, you know, again,

00:40:44.200 just simple lawyers. They weren't trying to buy a seat on the bench when they donated to Trudeau,

00:40:49.240 but, uh, you know, it certainly looks like they were. Uh, I don't know exactly how to fix that

00:40:54.860 though. I mean, we can't rule out every, uh, aspiring, I guess, justice, every lawyer who's

00:41:01.100 moving up through that system, if they've ever donated to one party or another and then no

00:41:05.280 longer allow them on the bench. I mean, I believe once they're there, they're supposed to really

00:41:08.440 stay out of the politics, but the other end of it is the reality of our system. Judges are going to

00:41:13.560 get appointed, even if it's not a donation thing that tend to reflect the liberal view to tend to

00:41:17.620 reflect the liberal government, they're going to get promoted based on that too. So the ones with

00:41:22.600 ambition are going to rule often in ways that they figure are going to make the liberals happier. So

00:41:27.380 I won't be too surprised to see the judge on this one say, yeah, sorry, Canadian citizens, 1.00

00:41:34.280 you don't deserve access to your own information. You don't deserve access to these government

00:41:39.580 documents that are on issues that are important to you. I mean, there's other ways that governments,

00:41:46.740 even in the city of Calgary level and every other one, fight the Access to Information Act. When you

00:41:50.880 make information requests, one of their favorites too is to say, well, it's going to require 30,000

00:41:55.540 pages of documents. We'll charge you a dollar a page to send it to you. So they try to price you

00:42:00.600 out of it. They do all sorts of contortions. It's funny, they all talk transparency, but they don't

00:42:06.160 to actually practice it when it gets there and that's where we do have to legislate these things

00:42:09.900 we have to force somehow that we got to get the government in check they're supposed to serve us

00:42:15.560 not be our overlords but boy we we certainly allowed them to take on that comfortable

00:42:19.720 authoritarianism over the course of the pandemic didn't we that's when we just let them suspend

00:42:24.400 our civil rights for periods of time and uh now they've tasted that they they don't have a respect

00:42:31.420 for our individual rights.

00:42:32.920 They see themselves as ruling over us.

00:42:35.900 We're seeing interesting court rulings.

00:42:37.600 Something Dave mentioned when I had him, Pastor Coates.

00:42:41.160 Yeah, he got acquitted, a number of them now,

00:42:43.780 but these are Alberta judges, you gotta remember,

00:42:45.700 but that's fine.

00:42:46.900 Their cases are being tossed out of court

00:42:49.600 and these are guys that violated the COVID restrictions

00:42:53.520 and health restrictions and things at that time.

00:42:55.940 They're saying, no, no, those don't apply any longer.

00:42:59.680 The case is being thrown out.

00:43:01.320 Now, these guys have been put through the ringer. They've spent who knows how much on their defense. They've been in an area of legal limbo. I mean, people talk about the process being the punishment. This is an example of it. I mean, you don't know what's going to happen. You might be thrown in jail. You might be bankrupted. It's scary no matter who you are, even if these guys are willing to stand up to these things.

00:43:18.960 but it's still great to see these being thrown out because as I said, the lunatics who like

00:43:25.400 masking, the authoritarians who like lockdowns, the ones who think we should impose and coerce

00:43:31.040 vaccination upon people. See, I don't have a problem with vaccination. I have a big problem

00:43:35.080 with coercion though. Ask me to get vaccinated. Don't force me. Don't put me out of work. Stop

00:43:40.440 me from traveling. Stop me from going to school. Ban me from restaurants if I might choose

00:43:43.680 a different medical path than you. These people stood up to it. And in the end, though, it got

00:43:50.920 thrown out. Now, if and when, and unfortunately, it's probably a matter of when something else

00:43:56.960 comes along, a new variant, a new virus or whatever, and they try the lockdowns again,

00:44:00.920 people are going to be a lot more prepared to stand up to it when they see, hey, in the long

00:44:04.800 run, the courts are going to throw this out. This didn't stand up to the scrutiny of a true

00:44:09.840 unbiased justice. These rights are being violated. It's not correct. And I will be acquitted. So I

00:44:16.600 think there's going to be a heck of a lot more pushback if the government dares to try and start

00:44:21.180 bringing in some of these legislations again. Again, particularly in Alberta, we've certainly

00:44:24.560 got no spoken premier here saying, no, it's not happening again. Let's see. I'll run for a couple

00:44:30.320 other things quickly. Speaking of wackadoodles, there was a environmental protester who threw 0.99

00:44:36.660 that pink paint on a painting, a Tom Thompson painting, a very valuable one, a rare one in the

00:44:42.040 Canadian gallery. What is with these morons? You know, you think you're really bringing us to your 1.00

00:44:46.560 cause. I mean, they're just attention whores. We understand that. They're just, hey, look at me. 1.00

00:44:50.320 Hey, look at me. Either way, part of the problem is we really need to start punishing these guys

00:44:54.440 severely. Give them 30 days in jail. I mean, he looks like a pencil neck little dork. Let's see

00:44:58.300 how he does in remand for a little while. I suspect he'll never do it again. But as long as we keep

00:45:03.300 slapping their wrists and giving them a $100 fine for Dada to pay off because he probably came from 0.99

00:45:07.080 some nice privileged upper class household in the area. It's not going to stop him from wanting to

00:45:11.980 do it again in the future. The only thing that's fortunate, I guess, is there was a glaze on the

00:45:15.740 painting and this idiot's paint came off of it without doing any major damage to it. But this 1.00

00:45:19.860 trend with these environmentalists, it's got to stop. They've got to start actually having some

00:45:25.360 degree of consequences or penalty for some of these stunts they're doing. Final thing, the News

00:45:31.820 Act has been delayed until 2025. This is C18. It's blown up in the Liberals' faces. You know,

00:45:38.420 Meta stopped sharing news links. It didn't affect their traffic. They don't care. They make their

00:45:42.460 money out of cute kitten videos and people putting up their food pictures from when they're out at

00:45:46.140 restaurants. It didn't harm them a bit when they called the Liberals' bluff and stopped the news

00:45:50.180 links. It did harm us a little bit at the Western Standard. So I'm going to leave you guys off,

00:45:53.900 though, with one more little plug. You can't find our news stories on Facebook, Meta, any longer.

00:45:59.360 Maybe that'll change down the road.

00:46:01.420 But until then, make sure to share a link with other people.

00:46:03.740 Share it on Twitter if you're on there.

00:46:05.760 Let people know how they can subscribe directly so we can get that news out to you guys.

00:46:10.940 I mean, we weren't 100% dependent upon Meta to get out there,

00:46:14.740 but it harms us getting to new people not being able to get the links out there.

00:46:18.820 So it's just one more thing that makes it a little more challenging as an independent outlet.

00:46:22.740 So, I mean, C18 is failing.

00:46:23.920 And this thing is going to be repealed eventually.

00:46:26.620 But, you know, who knows if Meta at that point is going to say,

00:46:28.440 yeah, you know what, we'll start allowing links again.

00:46:30.640 I don't know, that could be years.

00:46:32.220 So, you know, I see right now,

00:46:34.420 I mean, all the comments are coming on YouTube

00:46:35.860 because we just can't get that out to Facebook any longer.

00:46:38.720 So share that, guys.

00:46:40.160 Keep those memberships coming.

00:46:41.400 We really appreciate it.

00:46:42.500 And to all of you tuning in today, guys,

00:46:44.620 thank you very much for tuning in this week.

00:46:48.100 Watch for the pipeline coming up later on this evening.

00:46:51.660 And we'll be back again this week at this time,

00:46:53.640 and I'll have a whole bunch of new things to complain about.

00:46:55.620 Here's an update on commodity prices in Lethbridge for today.

00:47:01.720 Cash barley is steady at $3.50, feed wheat is unchanged at $3.65 and corn is down $2.00

00:47:07.500 at $3.65 for metric tonne.

00:47:10.080 In the milling wheat markets, December Minneapolis futures are lower $4.50 at $7.81.50 per bushel

00:47:16.340 with local hard red spring bid for September movement at $9.15 per bushel.

00:47:21.500 Looking at canola, November futures are down $2.30 at $8.09.50, with delivered buys for

00:47:27.220 September movement at $18 per bushel.

00:47:30.500 In the pulse markets, nearby red lentil prices are higher a penny at $0.34 per pound and

00:47:35.620 yellow peas remain at $11 per bushel.

00:47:38.660 And in the cattle markets, October live cattle slip $0.60 at $1.80.88 per hundred weight.

00:47:44.800 For more information on pricing or picked up options, give me a call at 403-394-1711.

00:47:51.200 I'm Matt Musickum at Marketplace Commodities, accurate real-time marketing information and pricing options.

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00:48:03.540 These guys are on the front lines, helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations and legislation in Canada.

00:48:11.540 And more importantly, educating the public about how we keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people.

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00:48:21.200 We'll see you next time.

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Western Standard - August 31, 2023

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