Western Standard - CMS： Trudeau abandons the Liberal party

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00:00:30.000 Good day. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. I am, as the name would imply, Cory Morgan with the

00:00:35.800 Western Standard. This is my weekly show where I cover some national issues, get a monologue out

00:00:41.080 there, talk to what usually are some pretty interesting people, and cover some news stories.

00:00:46.340 And yes, today I've got, actually, Western Standard reporter Arthur Green on. He's been

00:00:50.620 covering the fires in Alberta that are still burning. It looks like we're getting a bit of

00:00:55.960 a break but they're still burning in some areas and there's been a lot of people displaced and

00:01:00.160 evacuated so Arthur's been out there on the ground talking to people taking pictures of course and

00:01:04.980 doing all the things a good reporter will so we'll get an update where all that's sitting right now

00:01:09.200 as well we'll check in with our news editor Dave Naylor in a short while so this being a live show

00:01:15.380 at least for most of you be sure to use that comment section you know good to see you there

00:01:20.220 408 Magenta Scott Campbell checking in and you know use it for conversation send questions my

00:01:25.940 away, send questions my guests away. I won't necessarily read them all on the air, but you

00:01:29.840 know, it's, it's worth watching. I see them all and just keep it civil. Of course, we have plenty

00:01:34.480 of time to fight on other platforms. All right. So I'm going to get on to, you know, what the

00:01:38.280 title was about with this and Trudeau kind of abandoning the liberal party. I know it sounds a

00:01:42.480 little inflammatory almost, and it was meant to be, but there's some truth to this. This is an

00:01:47.600 unusual thing sort of happened here. So I can explain a little on how policy development and

00:01:52.200 how elected officials have to follow party policies is sometimes people are confused about it. So

00:01:57.600 elected individuals, they're actually independent of the parties they're members of. I mean, if

00:02:02.620 you're a MLA or an MP, you are legally bound to represent your constituents, not necessarily the

00:02:08.540 party, even though you're tightly tied to the party. So MLAs, MPs, they can be ejected from

00:02:14.060 their own parties if they cross too many lines, but there's no legal obligation of any kind for

00:02:18.220 an elected official to support the policies of a political party. That's the way it should be.

00:02:22.200 elected officials must be free to be able to put the interests of their constituents ahead of the interests of their party.

00:02:27.720 If only they did that more often.

00:02:29.980 Now, Prime Minister Trudeau, that's something you don't hear from me very often,

00:02:32.860 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is correct in distancing himself from a bizarre and rather outrageous policy resolution

00:02:39.100 proposed and accepted by the Liberal Party membership at their last convention.

00:02:43.160 Their policy calls for Ottawa too, and this is in quotes,

00:02:46.500 explore options to hold online information services accountable for the veracity of

00:02:51.540 material published on their platform and to limit publication only to material where sources can be

00:02:56.460 traced. Now, in other words, what they're saying with all that word salad there is they want to

00:03:01.420 ban publication of news stories that are based on anonymous sources. Now, Canada's protection

00:03:06.960 of whistleblowers is already terribly weak, and it forces government operatives with a conscience

00:03:11.580 to either stay silent when they see government malfeasance or to leak information in what they

00:03:16.620 feel is the public interest. Now, a few of them are going to leak if their anonymity can't be

00:03:21.100 protected. Anonymous sources, I mean, they're important. They exposed some of the atrocities

00:03:25.540 committed in the Vietnam War by American soldiers. I mean, that helped change some of the tone on

00:03:30.200 things as well as the government efforts to cover it up. Anonymous sources also brought improper

00:03:35.260 national security agents surveillance activities that had been conducted against U.S. citizens

00:03:39.760 and foreign officials to light in 2013.

00:03:42.060 The government had overstepped, and anonymous sources exposed that.

00:03:44.900 And of course, who can forget the Watergate scandal?

00:03:47.440 Well, that never would have been exposed without anonymous sources.

00:03:50.280 Currently in Canada, somebody well-connected with CSIS

00:03:53.740 has been leaking document after document on Chinese Communist Party interference

00:03:58.280 in Canadian elections and affairs, while the government's ignored the issue.

00:04:02.520 So it's a little wonder that authoritarians in any government

00:04:05.500 and the Liberal Party of Canada loyalists want to ban the use

00:04:09.040 of anonymous sources and stories.

00:04:10.940 It doesn't make such a ban right, though, or feasible.

00:04:13.660 Such a policy would surely turn the national press

00:04:15.820 against the Liberal government, finally.

00:04:17.560 And it would likely be found to be unconstitutional

00:04:19.700 once it hit the courts, and it would.

00:04:21.940 Even Trudeau knows this. Even Trudeau.

00:04:24.180 And with uncharacteristic clarity, he said that policy

00:04:27.120 is not a policy we would ever implement.

00:04:30.200 Thing is, though, that puts the Prime Minister

00:04:31.660 at loggerheads with his own party.

00:04:33.880 And it could threaten the solidarity within a party

00:04:35.820 known to typically run a pretty tight ship.

00:04:37.560 I mean, Liberal Party members debated the policy in good faith and expect their leader they support to follow through with it.

00:04:44.460 Now look, members of political parties, and all of them, create bad policies at their conventions all the time.

00:04:48.940 This isn't new.

00:04:50.060 Conventions tend to be dominated by activists within the parties, and their resolutions can often be unrealistic.

00:04:55.220 Usually, though, political leaders will just quietly ignore the bad policy resolutions and hope the members will be satisfied with that.

00:05:01.700 It's unusual when a leader has to come out swinging and condemn their own party's policy

00:05:05.740 before the ink has even been dried on the resolution, though.

00:05:08.360 And that's just how bad this Liberal Party notion is.

00:05:11.780 Policy resolutions, though, do reflect the leanings of party stalwarts,

00:05:15.500 even if they may never actually make it into government bills.

00:05:18.380 The Trudeau government has been at war with the free press for years,

00:05:21.000 so it isn't surprising that Trudeau's supporters felt emboldened enough to pass a policy

00:05:25.860 calling for something as absurd and intrusive as trying to ban the use of anonymous sources and stories.

00:05:31.280 Almost every move by the Trudeau government in the last few years has been focused on the control of citizens,

00:05:35.380 whether through illegalizing types of hunting firearms or bills to control media, such as C-18 and C-11,

00:05:41.520 which are solutions looking for a problem, and those bills are threatening free expression and free press.

00:05:47.520 The government's obsessed with trying to control national messaging, and they push those bills through,

00:05:52.780 despite criticism from press, academia, and even some of their own senators.

00:05:56.960 Now, like eager children trying to impress parental figures,

00:06:00.220 the Liberal Party members likely felt Trudeau would have been giddy with their move

00:06:03.880 to try and further handicap Canada's free press.

00:06:06.520 They didn't realize how far out of bounds they were going.

00:06:08.840 Instead of being applauded by their leader, they found themselves chided by him.

00:06:12.880 Now, will the sullen and rebuked Liberal members now just back off

00:06:17.320 and accept their leader's rejection of their policies?

00:06:19.460 Or we're going to finally see some cracks start to form in that party.

00:06:23.140 Trudeau's been a leader, their leader, for a long time,

00:06:25.560 And surely there's some ambitious souls within the party ready to take a crack at the top job.

00:06:30.160 So for a change, Trudeau decisively and quickly did the right thing.

00:06:34.180 And ironically, that might be the beginning of the end of his worship status within the Liberal Party.

00:06:39.300 Hell hath no fury like that of a Liberal member scorned.

00:06:42.600 Well, that's what's got me with the federal news today and seeing what's happening.

00:06:45.660 So we'll see how that goes over with his party members.

00:06:48.020 I can't see them being too amused with that.

00:06:50.440 You put that time in, you have the debate in, and then within days,

00:06:53.580 the Prime Minister saying, ah, well, no, no, no, we're not doing what they say.

00:06:57.320 Well, what's the point of being a member?

00:06:59.240 All right, well, let's check in and see what else is going on out there

00:07:01.700 with our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:07:03.480 There's plenty happening, and I'm sure Dave's going to let us know all about it.

00:07:06.600 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:07:07.740 It's going well, Corey.

00:07:08.920 You know we're only two months away from the Stampede, eh?

00:07:12.400 Yeah, that's it.

00:07:13.780 That's it.

00:07:14.580 So today on the grounds, you know, they have, are you a fan of the Midway food?

00:07:19.040 I am, actually.

00:07:20.160 I do like trying weird things.

00:07:22.600 Okay, well, here's the lineup of this year's weird and wonderful things.

00:07:26.160 If you just want to say yes or no, whether you try it.

00:07:28.540 So ketchup and mustard ice cream.

00:07:31.860 I'd try it.

00:07:33.700 Peanut butter pickle hot dog.

00:07:36.740 Yeah, I'd give that a crack.

00:07:38.300 I don't even know what this is.

00:07:39.680 It's a poutine colossal onion.

00:07:42.020 Sounds like, who knows.

00:07:44.300 What about a $100 hot dog called the jalapeno cheddar gut buster?

00:07:50.000 Well, I'd try it as long as it wasn't $100, but, you know, we work for the standard, right?

00:07:54.140 Yeah, no kidding.

00:07:55.500 Elk pizza.

00:07:57.300 Elk pizza?

00:07:58.580 Oh, yeah, I'd go up my way for that.

00:08:00.640 Yeah, elk's pretty good.

00:08:02.200 And finally, habanero cherry ice cream tacos.

00:08:06.740 Oh, that sounds horrific.

00:08:08.380 That one I might have a difficulty trying.

00:08:10.400 Yeah.

00:08:11.300 Anyways, only two months to go until you can.

00:08:14.820 Oh, great.

00:08:15.180 Yeah, another obviously busy day with fires and election stuff, but websites leading off with something a little on the lighter side today with an impaired driver arrested down in the States wearing a full-size human costume of a Bud Light cab.

00:08:32.680 So the picture's up on our website, and it's very strange, and no word on whether it's related to all the current Bud Light controversy.

00:08:42.540 We've got bank records being released by the Republicans in the United States that show the Biden family has quietly pocketed $10 million from foreign nationals.

00:08:54.820 So it looks like Trump's not the only president who's getting himself into some hot water.

00:09:00.520 We've got an epic trolling of the CBC today, Corey, by Elon Musk.

00:09:06.900 You remember CBC got all indignant about being labeled government-funded media, so they stopped going on Twitter.

00:09:15.500 Well, they announced yesterday that they're going to come back, and Elon Musk sort of did the old Brokeback Mountain theme that,

00:09:25.200 I wish I knew how to quit you, CBC is saying to them.

00:09:29.500 So that's a good laugh.

00:09:31.040 And the UCP has requested an investigation by Elections Alberta into potentially illegal funding by Alberta unions into their campaign.

00:09:42.800 So we've got that and lots more to come as we keep readers updated on the wildfires and the election.

00:09:52.480 All right, Anya, it's good to have a little light stuff.

00:09:54.640 We write enough dark stuff all the time.

00:09:56.400 I'll let you go and I'll start saving up for some Maalox.

00:09:58.620 Maybe we'll try some of those foods on the air once Stampede Week gets going.

00:10:02.540 All right.

00:10:02.900 It's a date.

00:10:04.000 All right, Dave.

00:10:04.560 Thanks.

00:10:05.500 So that is the Western Standards News editor, Dave Naylor.

00:10:08.740 And yes, aside from Stampede Foods and weirdos driving around in Bud Light cans, we also,

00:10:14.440 of course, have constant news stories coming out.

00:10:16.080 We have reporters all across Canada covering events and getting that stuff out there.

00:10:21.060 We'll put out more stories per day than most of the mainstream outlets now on the

00:10:24.580 westernstandard.news.

00:10:25.760 the reason we can do it and the reason I can get on that high horse and shoot it groups like the 1.00

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00:10:51.560 copy and all that and of course it helps us remain independent and keep doing it all right so yeah

00:10:56.780 before we get to Arthur I'll talk about a few other things here the thing that Dave mentioned

00:11:01.280 with Twitter you know and it's interesting it's really been interesting watching Musk

00:11:05.660 taking that over I mean he he plays with it almost like a a kid who's you know got a new toy except

00:11:11.640 he's a kid with with hundreds of billions of dollars buying some pretty influential toys I

00:11:17.040 mean a few things have been interesting since he bought it it's driven the left into a complete

00:11:20.380 tizzy and it really hasn't gotten that bad it hasn't turned into the cesspool of hate and misery 1.00

00:11:25.360 that some people say it has yeah there's a bunch of trolls on there and there's some jerks but you 0.99

00:11:28.860 know what you do you block them holy cow yeah you just block them it's not that hard people learn 0.97

00:11:33.220 to do that and it hasn't gone away he laid off what 75 percent of the twitter staff and guess

00:11:38.780 what it's still running it's still doing okay it should have died any other company if you lay off

00:11:43.480 75 of their staff you're gonna have some serious serious problems twitter's doing fine now part of

00:11:49.960 his battle with CBC yeah you know and he's been doing that with other news outlets because he

00:11:53.500 dared to label them as being government funded but they are government funded I mean they're a

00:11:56.960 state broadcaster so I mean it was an accurate label but they got very upset and the CBC had a

00:12:01.360 tantrum and said we're not gonna come on to your uh outlet or your channel anymore with Twitter

00:12:06.320 and uh yeah that didn't last very long you know it's it's uh like a smoker threatening to quit

00:12:11.820 and you find them behind the building smoking cigarettes or in this case uh busks a little

00:12:16.260 meme with them not being able to quit each other. Either way, something else that's interesting

00:12:23.020 that's been coming on the news. Now, Tucker Carlson, who's had his battle with Fox News,

00:12:31.400 and he's gone. He's out. There's a whole mess going on there and everything. But now it's been

00:12:36.800 announced that he's going to take his show to Twitter. Now, this is a big deal. I mean,

00:12:41.920 he has a huge audience and this could really change what twitter is all about now twitter

00:12:46.960 for those who don't use it i mean it's a short form site it started with i think only what 140

00:12:51.920 or 180 characters you could use for short messaging at each other but quick and spreading

00:12:56.900 fast and it's a useful tool for for some degree it's not good for extended debate but it now it's

00:13:02.320 carrying video and it's carrying other things and when you bring somebody like tucker carlson on

00:13:05.800 he's going to do his show on twitter he's going to bring millions of viewers on not just people

00:13:10.940 who tweet, but view. This is a whole new platform. This is not YouTube. This is not TikTok or any of

00:13:17.520 those things. This is through Twitter. And one of the things I saw Elon Musk tweeted about,

00:13:23.920 somebody else saying, you know, this could become the whole new podcast platform. And I see that's

00:13:27.520 what Musk has in mind. And if anybody could pull it off, very possibly Elon Musk. I mean, right now

00:13:33.720 we are streaming this show, I believe, live to Twitter. Yes, we are. And you can see that

00:13:39.060 streaming on there well we're going to see more and we're going to see bigger names and as my name

00:13:42.800 grows eventually i'll compete directly with with mr tucker but i still got a little ways to go

00:13:47.320 but uh it's a big development it really is in the evolution of social media you know

00:13:52.860 these these uh social media giants they don't move quickly or easily most often and uh when you see

00:14:00.020 somebody like musk getting in there and stirring it up with that stick though you see some things 1.00

00:14:04.740 changing pretty dramatically and fast so watching tucker on there as you see with the commenter did

00:14:09.580 work into you saying i might have to check out twitter now yes you know maybe it's worth having

00:14:13.100 a look uh because he's not just static i think that's part of the problem with some of these

00:14:17.220 social media giants too they come up with something successful and then it just stays the same until

00:14:21.580 it sort of wears down and fades out and you have to evolve you have to keep up you have to do

00:14:27.580 different things if you want it to keep managing so mary don smith saying i'll have to sign up for

00:14:31.740 Twitter, if Tucker's going to be there, Fox News can pound sand. You know, and similar to the Bud

00:14:36.340 Light thing, know your audience, guys. Know your audience. Now, I understand there was a problem.

00:14:42.180 It looked like Fox News had lost a giant lawsuit with Dominion voting machines, and it was due to

00:14:46.960 stuff that Tucker said on his show. We're talking $700 million, not a small amount. And in the end,

00:14:51.920 it led to them firing him. As a business decision, I don't know. But I mean, he's taking his viewers

00:14:57.600 with him. Likewise with Bud Light, as Dave mentioned, some guy driving around drunk dressed

00:15:03.140 as a Bud Light can, Bud Light has turned itself into a joke. It's turned itself into a caricature

00:15:07.500 and their sales are down now 18% all over an idiotic relationship they decided to build with 1.00

00:15:13.840 a social media influencer. I mean, I believe it or not, I really don't, I don't care about trans 1.00

00:15:19.720 people. Go for it. If it makes you feel better, you're an adult, I wish you all the best. But

00:15:24.560 these businesses falling over backwards to try and embrace some of this stuff and not realizing

00:15:28.520 who their business base is, they're paying a price for it. They're getting stung. So Fox's loss

00:15:34.400 might be Twitter's gain. And likewise, Bud liked, it was always crappy beer, but now people can

00:15:39.020 switch to crappy Coors Light instead. Well, it's up to them. It's their businesses, but they're

00:15:43.920 evolving and going. All right, let's get on to stuff a little more domestic and bring in Arthur

00:15:48.640 Green, Western Standard, Alberta, main reporter up there in the legislature and talk about his

00:15:53.360 coverage on the forest fires and wildfires we've had running pretty rampant here in Alberta for

00:15:59.240 almost a couple weeks now. How's it going Arthur? It's going Corey. Yeah so I mean you got an

00:16:05.100 opportunity to get out there and get on the road though it was pretty serious business. You went

00:16:09.040 out there to Drayton Valley and some of the fire affected areas and you got some on the ground

00:16:13.920 coverage on what's happening out there did you? I did. Like I said I told Nigel a couple days ago

00:16:21.180 I went to Drayton Valley on Friday evening and managed to get past the roadblocks, having a media idea around my neck.

00:16:30.860 And I was right in the forest fire zone, Corey.

00:16:35.420 I mean, it was quite hot and smoky in many places and quite concerning.

00:16:41.300 I mean, you know, when you're the only person in a town with just firemen, EMS and police and forestry officers and everyone else is going the other way, it's quite scary.

00:16:53.880 But, you know, as of last night, the UCP government is holding a town hall for fire evacuees now.

00:17:01.040 So every evening at around 730 from May 9th to May 14th, you can call in.

00:17:07.840 it's virtual. So the number is 1-833-380-0691. And I'll just say that number again, 1-833-300-0691.

00:17:18.240 And it's a virtual conference where anyone who's evacuated, they can join a nightly

00:17:26.360 telephone town hall for updates to the fire situations. And the Alberta government will

00:17:34.100 also listen and answer questions. Well, that's good to see, you know, because a problem that

00:17:39.480 I've seen happen over and over in disasters across the country or incidents as they're breaking off,

00:17:44.120 and if a government's going to mess up in any way, it's not communicating enough or it's allowing

00:17:47.960 misinformation to sort of run rampant. So, I mean, giving a centralized spot where people can get

00:17:53.300 information, you know, it's a good plan. I mean, people need to be up to date. I mean, some people

00:17:58.140 are hearing that the evacuation's off, the evacuation's on, this area is burning, this area

00:18:02.400 so that they can find some clarity at these town hall meetings.

00:18:07.040 That's correct, Corey.

00:18:08.400 As of last night, I mean, we did see a drop in the wildfire rate.

00:18:14.040 It went from 103, I believe, to 88 wildfires.

00:18:18.900 Of course, 24 of them are still out of control,

00:18:22.400 and the government continues the battle this morning.

00:18:25.720 I know the Smith did call Justin Trudeau earlier this week,

00:18:29.660 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for the military.

00:18:32.400 um, to come here to Alberta on the ground. Uh, you know, it's, it's hard to keep up to date

00:18:38.120 because the situation, uh, changes so rapidly, uh, Corey, you know, we did have some rain in

00:18:44.620 the past 24 hours, but you know, there's other areas in Alberta, in Northern Alberta that didn't

00:18:50.360 get this rain and continues to be quite dry in those areas. So there's a full, uh, there's a

00:18:56.000 full fire ban on uh on all of alberta and uh you know you talked about the the people that were

00:19:02.880 evacuated we we saw um you know roughly 29 000 people leave their homes uh over the weekend and

00:19:10.640 now that number is roughly down to 24 000 so we are we are seeing uh some individuals being allowed

00:19:17.480 to be back into their homes um again uh parkland county fire officials told me that uh it could

00:19:24.540 take upwards to a year for some of the smoldering areas to decipher and be put out. And, you know,

00:19:32.520 Parkland County is actually investigating the causes of these fires and some of the fires they

00:19:38.720 believe to be intentionally started, Corey. Yeah, if some lunatic has been out there

00:19:44.300 intentionally starting them, I hope they catch whoever it is and deal with them as severely as 0.56

00:19:48.040 possible. That's just horrific to think. Unfortunately, it's a mad world. Speaking of

00:19:53.380 which, though, I mean, you'd worry about vigilantism or, you know, false rumors.

00:19:56.920 You wouldn't want somebody who didn't, you know, start the fire.

00:19:59.780 I mean, that's part of the problems that happen with these things.

00:20:01.280 But something else you reported on and you caught was

00:20:03.100 in terms of looters had been showing up in Drayton Valley, unfortunately,

00:20:07.300 and trying to rob places, and some of them tried to rob the wrong guy.

00:20:13.480 They did.

00:20:14.260 I did interview a Newfoundlander.

00:20:17.920 um again i i will explain the situation uh to the drayton valley listeners right now

00:20:24.580 um so i headed to the evacuation center uh being a news reporter i i like to talk to people

00:20:30.520 and i and i spoke to you know upwards of 20 people that day 30 people and i found one

00:20:36.500 newfoundlander who told me that he returned home for man's best friend um to find people looting

00:20:41.580 his house. Now, there's a bigger story to this, Corey, as Drayton Valley residents have

00:20:47.960 contacted me and told me that the Newfoundlander is actually an alleged criminal himself.

00:20:55.880 And I've been talking to the RCMP for the last couple of days, trying to get Mr. Dove's criminal

00:21:02.100 history. And I've spoken to people in Drayton Valley who have had dealings with him in the past.

00:21:08.900 So it just surprised me, Corey, that, you know, being a news reporter, yes, we do dig into people.

00:21:15.180 But when we're doing an evacuation story, you know, we wouldn't assume that someone who is allegedly a criminal and stealing, allegedly stealing vehicles and property would actually come to the news to ask for gas money from from Albertans after being evacuated.

00:21:32.880 So I just found that quite astounding and ironic, Corey.

00:21:38.900 Well, that's part of the problem, I guess. Yeah, misinformation can be spread, but we follow up and we dig further. So, I mean, for those unfamiliar with Drayton Valley, too, I worked there a lot when I was back in the oil field. It is kind of a special sort of town. There's some fantastic people there, but there's always been quite a bit of a rough element there as well. I mean, something that was confirmed, the police did find some actual looters in the act of the gas station, I believe, at one point early in the evacuation.

00:22:02.080 Yeah, that's correct. On Friday night, when everyone else was left the town, they did find four individuals breaking into a gas station trying to score while people are trying to get out of this town, which, you know, I don't really state an opinion too often, Corey.

00:22:21.340 But like, that just seems like the lowest of the low to me, you know, you prey on people when they're when they're down and out and at the worst, you know, hard enough leaving everything you work your entire life for behind and wondering if it's going to be swallowed by fire.

00:22:37.500 But then having to worry that someone's going to break in as well, like it just it's appalling to me.

00:22:44.340 So, as you said, you've spoken with Parkland County officials and others.

00:22:47.820 So, I mean, the fire sort of backed off a bit or, you know, but they're still burning.

00:22:51.480 As you said, they could burn for a year, but that hasn't stopped them from working.

00:22:54.280 So, I mean, the reason they're allowing some people back to Entwistle and some of those smaller towns is that they've also cut some fire breaks and done things so that if it flares up again, the areas where people live will be safe, hopefully.

00:23:07.180 So I imagine that activity is still ongoing as well around those towns.

00:23:10.840 It is.

00:23:11.600 The fire chief in Parkland County last night said, you know, they're actively working very hard to still combat the issues that they're facing.

00:23:21.300 They're very tired, obviously.

00:23:24.580 But it's amazing to watch how fire moves, Corey.

00:23:28.200 You know, I was in N-Whistle with the Premier.

00:23:30.780 She picked me up on the side of the road, believe it or not.

00:23:33.740 Anyway, I was in N-Whistle with the Premier.

00:23:35.960 And it's amazing to see how fire moves and how like it can start and stop in an instant.

00:23:42.860 You know, I did view one house that had some property damage and it appears that the owners of the house used to regularly water their lawn.

00:23:53.620 And the watered lawn actually like kept the fire from going to the house.

00:23:58.540 And then it just, you know, found the dry brush next to the watered lawn and continued on.

00:24:02.980 so it was amazing to just see how how devastating and how quickly fire can move across rivers and

00:24:11.340 roads across a road yeah it's expected i mean the cooler weather has slowed it down and a few have

00:24:20.020 gotten brought under control but some others are still burning it's supposed to get hot again next

00:24:24.300 week though uh but i guess like this is the turning point this is the spring fire season as

00:24:29.300 you pointed out a dry lawn will burn but a green one won't and in this period of the last few days

00:24:34.500 with cooler weather and a little bit of rain hopefully some more of the leaves are popping

00:24:37.720 and things like that because that'll slow the fire as well they're not going to have all that

00:24:40.580 dry stuff to feed on even if it gets hotter again uh that's correct cory i mean we're we're praying

00:24:46.640 for rain in alberta of course now uh as it gets hot again the weekend i would i would assume

00:24:52.500 that the uh the fire count number will rise again now of course we'll have uh more personnel on the

00:24:59.240 ground. I know that Wildfire Alberta did say that there was upwards of 100 people from the private

00:25:07.160 sector, which emailed yesterday to volunteer. So, you know, Albertans are tough and strong,

00:25:13.080 Corey. We're resilient people. And, you know, it's amazing to watch how communities are starting

00:25:20.340 to come together when we've been divided for so long. Well, and I mean, I certainly don't want

00:25:26.200 to make light of what's happening now but so far anyways i mean as scary as it's been and as awful

00:25:31.900 as it is for the the nearly 30 000 people who got displaced from their homes uh when we compare this

00:25:36.940 to the the fort mcmurray fire of of some years ago when basically a whole large segment of the town

00:25:43.220 burned to the ground i i know some communities such as the whitefish settlement and others have 0.77

00:25:47.920 lost some houses and some other areas i think it's all straightened but for the most part uh

00:25:52.820 we've been very fortunate in a lack of of uh homes lost so far um there hasn't been an updated

00:26:00.320 number yet um on homes that have been lost again now i was into a couple of the towns and uh

00:26:09.300 out of respect for albertans i i didn't post any pictures of uh burned houses uh in the fear that

00:26:16.000 you know they would go on our website or online and see their house burned but uh parkland county

00:26:21.520 They confirmed that one house was completely lost and some outbuildings.

00:26:27.040 I plan on, again, covering an election is quite busy, but then covering a wildfire during an election is even more busier.

00:26:34.200 I plan on trying to get to rural Alberta this weekend and maybe talk to some of the homeowners.

00:26:41.840 So if there's any homeowners that are property owners that are watching right now that experience damage and you want me to come view that damage, you can just fire me an email.

00:26:49.900 It's artgreen, or agreen, sorry, at westernstandard.news.

00:26:55.480 Great.

00:26:56.080 Yeah, and, you know, another aspect of that area is kind of a very much mixed brush and agricultural.

00:27:02.280 Actually, my wife stables her horse out west to Vent Whistle.

00:27:07.180 Like, livestock is another big concern up that way.

00:27:10.560 Have a lot of people managed to move their livestock fast enough to get them out of harm's way before the fires got there?

00:27:16.560 Again, Corey, those details are scarce as well.

00:27:20.340 I mean, in a lot of the places, they still have to wait for smoke to clear to be able to do some assessments.

00:27:27.300 But the government did say that they did have some livestock that was moved.

00:27:32.680 And again, once I get to rural Alberta this weekend, I'm hoping to speak with some farmers that were able to save their livestock or vice versa.

00:27:42.460 And I understand that the government is quite busy.

00:27:49.560 I spoke to Mike Ellis just before this interview, actually.

00:27:53.380 And, you know, he's kind of taken a step back because he's still the minister.

00:27:58.320 And he's taken a step back from his campaign to help the people of Alberta.

00:28:02.440 And, you know, the election, like I said, is busy for our politicians.

00:28:08.120 But now it's become immensely busy.

00:28:10.740 And, you know, I won't say it's hindering their campaigns, but, you know, the safety of Albertans is their top priority, and that's what I've been told.

00:28:23.720 All right.

00:28:24.380 And just to pivot before we close, because you spoke to Mike Ellis, you spoke to him on some other election issues.

00:28:28.820 We'll just kind of turn away from the fire for a moment.

00:28:30.500 He spoke some other stuff because part of his responsibility is the opioid epidemic.

00:28:37.460 That's correct.

00:28:38.100 So I did have an exclusive phone call with Mike Gellis, like I said, just before this happened.

00:28:43.780 And I was at the announcement yesterday where the UCP vows to put ankle bracelets on violent offenders that are out on bail.

00:28:53.960 During our conversation, you know, we talked about the difference between left wing and right wing policies.

00:29:00.280 And, Corey, I know you follow me and I drive you nuts on Twitter.

00:29:03.380 but you know we've been labeled right wing and Mike kind of like doesn't understand why people

00:29:12.020 are laboring or labeling people who care about the city right wing not sure how that became a

00:29:18.460 right wing policy but you know he he said that I inquired about how many bracelets we're going to

00:29:24.980 need and he couldn't give me that number right then but I also inquired about the cost of this

00:29:31.200 this program and you know ellis told me there is uh there is a cost associated with uh fitting out

00:29:38.500 criminals with ankle bracelets of course but um he doesn't really care about how much it costs

00:29:45.240 because there is no price on albert and safety so no i mean you know he's still cost really

00:29:51.700 doesn't matter eventually but yeah you have to prioritize the outcome over the expense at times

00:29:56.220 and it's important he's got a tough job to juggle uh as long as an election going on and wildfires

00:30:01.180 burning all over as do you and lots of stuff to cover so i'll let you go and thank you again for

00:30:06.980 coming on to bring us up to date with what you've seen and i'll uh let you get back to covering

00:30:11.540 what you will there's lots of stories to cover for you right now the news doesn't stop cory

00:30:16.500 neither do uh the western standards so here we go okay thanks arthur i'll talk to you later

00:30:21.520 that is the the western standards arthur green yes our as somebody pointed out it's not a northern

00:30:27.300 Alberta accent. No, he is from the

00:30:29.440 grand area of Newfoundland, but

00:30:31.360 he's a great Albert now, and he's doing a lot

00:30:33.360 of work out there, and a lot to cover.

00:30:35.480 Karen Mitchell saying, what's wrong with right wing? 0.88

00:30:37.260 I'd probably say I'm right wing versus a left

00:30:39.300 wing nutcase commenter there.

00:30:41.320 Yeah, I think

00:30:42.220 I don't think what Arthur or Mike Ellis

00:30:45.340 Simon, just reading in, was getting at so

00:30:47.260 much is that it's bad to necessarily be right or left,

00:30:49.320 but when you do get it to the point where you embrace

00:30:51.280 it and

00:30:52.520 avoid taking on policies

00:30:55.460 or dodge or bury your head in the sand. And I think people who get too immersed in ideology,

00:30:59.820 whether left or right, can be prone to doing that and going too far. Then you can cause policy

00:31:04.880 problems, right? So, you know, it shouldn't be left or right when we're talking about public

00:31:09.540 safety and whether that's fires or the opioid epidemic or things like that. Now, when we see

00:31:14.700 how it's dealt with, though, there definitely is a right-left divide. You know, I've talked about

00:31:19.240 that on this show. I've ranted about it. When I talk about results-based policy, I don't care

00:31:24.980 what your ideology says. I want to see results. We're seeing the results of permissive,

00:31:32.980 light on crime, hug-a-thug policies, years of it. Trudeau, federally making it easier and easier

00:31:39.860 for violent criminals to get bail. Likewise, you know, with the drug enablement policies,

00:31:46.320 rather than trying to, you know, bring the public order in, instead we're handing out free drugs and

00:31:53.220 drug consumption supplies and things such as that. And it's not working. If it worked, I'd be all

00:31:59.080 for it. You know, if, if enablement for drug use worked, if we saw in Portland where they've been

00:32:04.120 trying it, uh, that, that their overdoses had fallen down and people are getting into treatment,

00:32:08.520 I'd say, carry on, do more of it. Absolutely. But it's not working. Their overdoses went up

00:32:13.280 in San Francisco, a light on crime approach. They basically decriminalized shoplifting.

00:32:18.940 They really did. And now businesses have had to shut down all over San Francisco. People are

00:32:25.040 retreating from that city. I mean, San Francisco used to be a West Coast gem, a character city,

00:32:30.080 a beautiful city, older buildings, the hills, all that. Nobody's going to visit there now. People

00:32:34.380 are getting stabbed in the streets all over the place. Businesses can't open because their windows

00:32:38.040 are getting smashed or shoplifters just come in and steal stuff and the attics are just everywhere.

00:32:42.840 It's not working. Accept what won't work and change things. So we have in Alberta and we're

00:32:48.860 seeing that battle happening here we're seeing it happening ever we're seeing it in toronto

00:32:51.700 we're seeing it in vancouver is battles between people saying that's enough let's crack down and

00:32:56.420 regain order and there's still the enablement crowd going on uh something i'm going to be

00:33:01.080 following up within calorie you know the people have had enough they're demanding safety on the

00:33:07.040 transit system and uh it's funny that it's not funny but the timing of uh some events i mean

00:33:14.080 well of course it happens so constantly it's not that surprising so premier smith makes her

00:33:18.020 announcement on wanting to, yes, have bailed violent people having ankle bracelets so at

00:33:23.700 least we could trace them. She can't change the bail system. That's federal. But provincially, 1.00

00:33:27.600 we have to administer all that. We have the police. We have the provincial jails and things

00:33:30.900 like that. So perhaps we got ways we can at least track these violence because awfully, horribly,

00:33:35.680 and Arthur was reporting on that, we had a stabbing up in Edmonton, a random one. A woman and a child

00:33:41.240 were outside of a school, and this lunatic came up and stabbed them to death. And then he took 0.98

00:33:46.440 off. It sounds like we found evidence later. He tried to get inside the school before that happened.

00:33:50.500 There was no relation between all of them. This was totally random. Just a madman, a murderous

00:33:54.560 piece of crap. And he was shot, I believe, when the police 1.00

00:33:58.520 apprehended him. He's in the ICU right

00:34:02.520 now. And we're, you know, I don't think too many people,

00:34:06.240 if somebody unplugs his unit to charge their iPhone, I don't know how many people would be sad about that.

00:34:10.440 But either way, that happened. And it turns out, sure enough, this guy has a

00:34:14.380 long checkered violent criminal history he's a known violent dangerous person and he was loose

00:34:21.640 and because he was loose two innocent people died murdered out of the blue for having dared

00:34:27.600 be standing outside of a school so yes if premier smith is going to get up and say to hell with

00:34:35.860 waiting for ottawa to fix this broken system and if she's going to get behind gondek yes it's the

00:34:41.320 mayor of calgary who has this defund the police attitude who right now is fighting against the

00:34:46.460 province fighting against the province her and her lefties on council so it is left right to 0.99

00:34:50.700 when it comes to this are trying to push back against the police reforms that the province

00:34:55.060 are putting in it's time to tell them to get stuffed if smith wants to take that over and

00:34:59.500 take an approach that's going to bloody well work then let her do it because i just want what works 1.00

00:35:04.000 and we know what doesn't so what does gondek do what does gondek do well she sets aside her and

00:35:09.440 Council, $600,000. I'm not sure if I covered this in the last show or not. $600,000 for a six-month

00:35:15.560 program, $100,000 a month to have washroom attendants in two of the city parks that are

00:35:21.780 known to be overrun with addicts all the time. The washrooms are unusable because they're constantly

00:35:26.220 addicts either spraying every kind of body fluid known to man within those bathrooms,

00:35:30.440 those public washrooms, or taking the drugs within them and passing out within them and doing things

00:35:34.860 like that, or just getting aggressive with people wanting to use them. Well, it turns out that

00:35:38.220 contract. I mean, look at the cost, $600,000. That contract's going to an advocacy group that's a

00:35:43.900 hard, hard enablement-focused group that wants to give out more syringes and needles and things

00:35:49.500 and, you know, crack pipes to them. So, I mean, all we're doing is turning these bathrooms into 0.52

00:35:53.660 consumption sites. We're not cleaning them up for the tourists and the commuters and the people

00:35:57.020 working downtown, the taxpayers. So Gondek won't give up. That's what I'm talking about when you

00:36:02.640 let your ideology blind you to the reality. So, in other words, those bathrooms are more unusable

00:36:07.220 than ever. If anything, these enablement people are just going to be designating those now. These

00:36:12.480 are attic bathrooms. So at least you have someone closer by to call if and when the

00:36:18.340 inevitable overdoses happen. So we'll see what happens. And I've got a piece that's going to

00:36:25.080 be coming up on the Western Standard soon, a call on my rope. And you know what we saw recently

00:36:30.260 for people watching from across the country, because this is a big battle. If you're looking

00:36:34.740 at right versus left. Alberta is supposed to be the heart, you know, the home place of

00:36:38.480 conservatism. Well, we've got apparently a very close election between a conservative party and

00:36:43.920 an NDP, you know, a left-wing party. So it sort of impacts the whole country with how this is

00:36:49.300 going to be. Is it a bellwether? And a recent poll of 1,500 Albertans by phone, so not an

00:36:53.880 online one, not, you know, a polling company unheard of, Main Street Researches, put out a

00:37:01.860 poll, and it found that it looks like the UCP is pulled away by 7% ahead of the NDP now, when they

00:37:07.300 used to be neck and neck. Part of that, I think, is because Smith is putting out policy ideas. She's

00:37:13.860 saying, here's the problem, here's our proposed solution. Here's a problem, here's our proposed

00:37:18.840 solution. What is the NDP doing? They've had a campaign of nothing but fear-mongering, personal

00:37:24.280 attacks, and constantly digging up stuff that Daniel Smith said years ago on podcasts, or even

00:37:30.180 on this show and on her own radio show.

00:37:33.740 And maybe some of the stuff Smith said

00:37:35.020 was offensive or not so bright.

00:37:36.940 But the bottom line is, it's not working.

00:37:39.680 People have heard it all already.

00:37:41.040 They've heard it.

00:37:41.640 They know, okay, Smith says things off the cuff.

00:37:44.700 Smith is looking to do some things.

00:37:47.140 Those who can't stand that have already gone offered.

00:37:49.380 That's why the NDP is even up in the 40% level

00:37:52.040 of support within Alberta.

00:37:53.620 But you're not going to shift more at this point.

00:37:55.320 You keep throwing out those video clips and things.

00:37:57.440 You're not moving any more new people, you guys.

00:37:59.200 I mean, maybe you're entrenching your own support, but when push comes to shove or voting, people are sick of it.

00:38:03.420 They want to hear some solutions.

00:38:05.480 So when you sit here and ignore the crime waves going on, by the way, this morning in Calgary, I was greeted by news stories of a knife laying on an LRT platform, a train platform, another stabbing, another one person in critical condition in the hospital.

00:38:18.200 Gee, I wonder why nobody wants to ride the train.

00:38:21.140 Well, Smith is addressing those things.

00:38:24.240 Maybe her approach will stink. 0.99

00:38:25.600 Maybe her approach won't work, but at least she's willing to try.

00:38:28.860 We already know what doesn't work.

00:38:31.480 And I think that's the handicap the NDP are going to have 0.89

00:38:33.540 because they had four years in Alberta and it sucked.

00:38:36.240 And that's why Albertans fired them en masse four years ago.

00:38:40.200 So even if Smith makes a lot of people uncomfortable,

00:38:42.260 it's still a hell of a lot better than the NDP who have nothing

00:38:44.640 aside from shooting outwards with personal attacks.

00:38:47.800 Propose some solutions, Notley.

00:38:50.080 Maybe you'll win some supporters.

00:38:52.440 Right now, Smith's putting them out.

00:38:53.900 The latest one they've been freaking out about

00:38:55.480 was a recording of Daniel Smith talking at an event

00:38:58.900 where she spoke of hospitals

00:39:02.140 and how they're managed by the Alberta Health Services.

00:39:06.560 And she talked about maybe it's time to put it out to tender

00:39:09.940 to bring in private management of those hospitals.

00:39:13.100 Pardon me.

00:39:14.600 She's not talking about selling the hospitals,

00:39:16.200 although that's how the NDP,

00:39:16.940 if she's going to sell off the hospitals and privatize them, no. 1.00

00:39:19.900 She's talking about bringing in new management

00:39:21.920 because the bureaucratic mess that's been made

00:39:24.200 with this bloated monopoly system for so long is failing.

00:39:29.180 I mean, our waiting lists are growing.

00:39:31.200 Our people are dying waiting to get into care.

00:39:33.180 The emergency wait times are terrible.

00:39:34.900 The staff are overworked.

00:39:36.360 The hospitals are being run terribly,

00:39:38.140 even if they've got really good people within them.

00:39:40.160 Maybe it's time to talk about getting new people to manage them.

00:39:42.300 Well, the NDP releases her saying that as if it's scandalous.

00:39:46.260 How dare she?

00:39:47.240 How dare she question the sacred nature of Canada's health system,

00:39:51.960 no matter how bad it gets?

00:39:52.860 getting back to result-based policy, guys. I want to see results. Well, you know what the results

00:39:57.220 are right now? They suck. We got longer and longer and longer waiting times, and we're spending more 1.00

00:40:02.020 and more and more money. So you know what? If Smith has the courage to say, let's get in and

00:40:05.720 change some things, then good. Good. Get out there and change them. And if you guys are going to

00:40:10.740 declare that being scandalous, well, okay, that's fine. You know what? I want the NDP to stick to

00:40:14.760 their current campaign theme because it doesn't seem to be work, speaking of result-based policies.

00:40:19.700 So, no, she's not going to sell off the hospitals. 0.73

00:40:22.660 She made it very clear, even in the clip that they played, the scandalous clip,

00:40:26.420 Smith said, it'll stay within the bounds of the Canada Health Act.

00:40:31.940 We're allowed to do it. There's nothing wrong with it.

00:40:35.020 It's not charging somebody to go in.

00:40:37.240 It's just maybe paying somebody who's more competent than those, you know,

00:40:41.420 porky bureaucrats that have bloated up the entire hospital system 1.00

00:40:45.600 with their presence for this so long in a, in a, in a monopoly situation. I spoke recently,

00:40:51.380 not too long ago. I have a close family member who's been, you know, in, in, in care for mental

00:40:55.880 health. So I've been spending a lot of time going to a hospital in Calgary to visit and things like

00:40:58.960 that. And, uh, you know, yeah, they're busy in there. They're overwhelmed. They're, they're

00:41:02.360 short of space. Things are getting dilapidated. The big thing I noticed though, the big thing I

00:41:07.980 noticed when I go to the hospital on weekdays, man, it's hard to find parking space there. I

00:41:12.520 got to circle and circle and look and search. When I show up on a weekend, loads of space.

00:41:19.040 Ironic. You'd think more family be over visiting on weekends when they got time, and they are.

00:41:22.920 So why is all the rest of space taken up? Because that's when all the administrators are there.

00:41:26.820 That's when all the bureaucrats are there. That's when all the bloated problem with the hospital 0.97

00:41:31.820 is happening. Sickness doesn't recognize time. Sickness doesn't work nine to five,

00:41:36.620 but thousands of people in hospitals do, and we don't need them. We need treatment.

00:41:41.400 So yes, Smith is looking to perhaps examine having new management.

00:41:45.720 Good, good.

00:41:46.960 If it was any private company run like a hospital,

00:41:48.760 you would have had new management in there a long time ago.

00:41:51.940 So I've never seen such a full press against the candidate like we've seen with Smith.

00:41:58.840 I'm not just talking to opposition parties.

00:42:00.180 I'm talking, of course, well, the unions as we expect.

00:42:02.780 But the media, the legacy media, I mean, they're just lined up against her.

00:42:07.580 But you know why?

00:42:08.800 You know why?

00:42:09.740 She actually is talking about changing something.

00:42:12.600 That scares the piss out of a lot of people.

00:42:14.720 Changing something?

00:42:16.000 How dare she?

00:42:17.460 All we're allowed to do is spend more money and just keep pouring it into it.

00:42:20.020 She actually wants to yank the chain. 0.55

00:42:22.820 You know, people call it her biggest weakness, and there's truth to it.

00:42:25.780 She is somebody who's impulsive, tends to say things off the cuff and just go for it with things.

00:42:30.140 But you know what?

00:42:31.040 Maybe it's time to have somebody who is impulsive.

00:42:33.520 Give it a shake.

00:42:35.100 Rattle that chain. 0.96

00:42:36.820 See what shakes loose.

00:42:38.220 I mean, we really don't have much to lose anymore.

00:42:39.880 It's just in a slow decline so far, whether it's justice, whether it's health care, whether

00:42:43.560 it's education, all sorts of things.

00:42:46.080 And a lot of that comes down to, again, the ones who don't want to change anything, unions.

00:42:51.380 So we're seeing that across the country as well.

00:42:54.180 I mean, look at that.

00:42:54.860 We just got put over the barrel by the federal civil service unions.

00:42:58.420 And it's interesting because they got that settlement and everything.

00:43:01.060 Now the government comes out and says, by the way, coming this fall, you're going to

00:43:03.820 be able to start your application process for passport renewal online.

00:43:08.320 Why didn't we do that 10 years ago?

00:43:10.900 And now that we've just signed a new agreement

00:43:12.840 with a whole bunch of these guys

00:43:13.880 who are already crappy at renewing our passports

00:43:15.900 or working from home,

00:43:16.860 are they going to have the courage to lay them off

00:43:18.620 because we won't need them?

00:43:19.980 We won't need nearly that many.

00:43:21.180 When you can do 90% of the work yourself at home

00:43:23.500 before the government even sees your application,

00:43:26.420 let's get rid of some people and save some money.

00:43:28.360 But of course, the unions are terrified of that.

00:43:29.960 They don't want results-paced policy.

00:43:31.260 They just want the status quo and more money, money, money, money

00:43:33.620 from those who have to work and pay the taxes.

00:43:36.040 So yeah, they're very afraid of people

00:43:37.540 like daniel smith and as our news editor dave naylor brought up it sounds like the ucp has put

00:43:43.180 a challenge in now with the ndp with elections alberta because of union bosses and unions have

00:43:50.380 been doing a whole lot of campaigning when supposedly they're supposed to be separate

00:43:53.700 from everything we're supposed you know we've got some strong rules about that with corporate

00:43:57.540 involvement in parties and union involvement and you see think what you've got to realize with the

00:44:02.200 NDP. They're not like any other party at all. They get so furious whenever I point it out. For one,

00:44:07.680 you can't buy a provincial NDP membership without automatically being a member of the federal NDP

00:44:11.800 because it's all one party. You know, you can buy a UCP membership. It doesn't make you a member of

00:44:17.600 any other party. It doesn't make you a member of the federal party. But the NDP sees all one party.

00:44:22.120 They're socialists. They don't believe in diversity of view. They want centralized leadership.

00:44:26.880 Also, the NDP has right in their constitution, they have to have union heads on their party

00:44:32.900 board.

00:44:33.200 Have to.

00:44:34.000 They don't get elected to it.

00:44:34.960 They get appointed to it.

00:44:36.340 They got guaranteed spots within the governance of the party.

00:44:40.020 She's the leader answers to the union heads. 0.99

00:44:42.180 Gil McCowan, if you're not familiar with him across the country, is a lunatic who heads 0.91

00:44:45.440 the Alberta Federation of Labor. 0.99

00:44:47.120 He's a vile man.

00:44:48.740 He was screaming at one of our reporters and giving him the finger that that picture went 0.94

00:44:52.780 all over the place. 0.99

00:44:54.060 He's just a nasty, nasty piece of work. 0.99

00:44:56.740 Well, guess what? 0.99

00:44:57.400 He has a guaranteed spot on the board with the party in Alberta.

00:45:02.000 These are the people that want to fight all change at all means, no matter how.

00:45:06.760 And that's what we got going on.

00:45:07.940 So that's why I'm talking about this is an Alberta election.

00:45:10.240 This is just out here.

00:45:12.060 But yes, this is sort of setting the pace for everybody across the country.

00:45:15.800 It's very important that the status quo doesn't win this election, that the unions don't

00:45:21.720 win this election that the NDP doesn't win this election not just for Albertans but for Canadians

00:45:25.380 Smith lots of stuff to work on she probably improves some things yes most definitely every 1.00

00:45:30.720 leader can but uh it'll be much better than the alternative it's important that she wins this

00:45:36.200 thing yeah you're so biased well yes it's an opinion show just before people start sending

00:45:40.260 the messages and letters like that yes I don't write news copy I'm just an opinion guy and I've

00:45:44.660 shared my opinion pretty much to the limit today guys thank you very much for tuning in all of you

00:45:50.340 I ran out of time and boy, I had a lot more ranting left in me, but you know, watch online for my

00:45:54.480 columns and all the rest. I will have plenty more ranting where that came from for you. And I will

00:46:00.020 see you all again. Oh, just a moment. Looks like we have something coming from the newsroom from

00:46:04.740 our news editor, Dave Naylor. What's up, Dave? Hey, Corey, we've just got some breaking news

00:46:09.020 out of Edmonton where an armed man with a gun has been taken down at the Alberta legislature.

00:46:17.020 Very, very, it just happened moments ago.

00:46:19.480 Arthur Green has exclusive pictures and video of the man being arrested.

00:46:24.300 But a scary situation at the ledge where an armed gunman apparently was just taken down into custody.

00:46:31.440 We'll have more details as they become available.

00:46:34.500 Oh, wow. Okay.

00:46:35.640 So, I mean, the situation has been at least rectified.

00:46:39.760 People are safe up there now.

00:46:41.280 Correct. The man with the gun is in custody.

00:46:44.180 okay well well things break fast well thanks for the update dave i'm glad it didn't end uh

00:46:49.980 much worse it sounds like it could have you bet thanks gory all right thank you so yeah i guess

00:46:55.860 watch it in edmonton boy that sounds like some pretty scary stuff and uh yeah arthur green he's

00:47:00.160 got an office right in the legislature that's our guy up there and uh he will be writing up on

00:47:04.840 whatever the heck happened up there so uh stay safe everybody thank you very much for tuning in

00:47:10.520 again this week keep an eye on here we report stuff as it breaks as you can see on the site

00:47:15.620 on our social media channels and uh we will see you all again next week at this time well there's

00:47:21.480 some thunder clouds behind me that were pictured from yesterday and thanks to late and called for

00:47:25.940 that picture and we got about three tenths of an inch of rain in lethbridge here according to the

00:47:31.640 rain gauge out front let me know what what you guys got as well hopefully these prices today are

00:47:38.280 not following too much of this cloud cover that we have as well and we can get a bit of a direction

00:47:43.680 again. Markets a little bit of all over the place at the moment. We've got cash barley down $2 a ton

00:47:50.080 to $4.07. Feed wheat's holding steady at $4.06 and corn is unchanged at $3.95. In the milling wheat

00:47:57.300 markets we got July Minneapolis futures rising three and a half cents to $8.51 per bushel with

00:48:02.960 local hard red spring bid for May movement at $10.40 per bushel delivered. Taking a look at the

00:48:09.020 oilseed markets, canola futures slipped $2.20 to $740.30 per tonne with delivered values for

00:48:17.420 May movement at $16.25 per bushel. In the pulse markets, red lentils are trading at $0.35 a pound

00:48:23.700 and yellow peas are holding at $11.50 per bushel. Finishing up with the cattle markets, June live

00:48:28.960 cattle slipped 22 cents to 163.70 per hundred weight. For more information on pricing or just

00:48:35.600 to tell me how much the Leafs hopefully win tonight and don't get swept, give me a call at

00:48:41.000 403-394-1711. I'm Mike Van Dyke of Marketplace Commodities, accurate real-time marketing

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00:48:52.880 our gun rights would have been taken long, long ago. These guys are on the front lines

00:48:57.560 helping to draft smart and intelligent firearms regulations and legislation in canada and more

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00:49:27.560 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - May 11, 2023

CMS： Trudeau abandons the Liberal party

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