Western Standard - Conservatives have to come out of the closet

00:00:00.000 Good day. Welcome to the Cory Morgan Show. We're getting into fall now. The parliamentary

00:00:11.180 session has begun. Crazy world events are happening. The doldrums of summer are over.

00:00:17.600 Not that we ever had a shortage of things for me to rant and rave and go on and report about,

00:00:21.540 but it gets busier in winter. Everybody kind of tunes out for the summer and try and enjoy

00:00:25.720 life for a little. And now it's back to that serious, serious world. And we got some serious

00:00:30.020 stuff going on, yet there's comical spins going on at the same time. So yeah, we'll be covering a lot

00:00:34.740 today. I got a guest coming on, Dr. Kelly Sundberg. He's from Mount Royal University. He's a criminologist.

00:00:40.140 We're going to talk about immigration and crime levels. Yeah, it's quite a combination to cover

00:00:45.860 and dig into, but you know, we don't hear about that challenge that comes with many, many immigration

00:00:50.080 based challenges. That's another one of the ones and how are we dealing with social disorder and

00:00:54.580 other things, whether it's, you know, immigrants being victims of crime or, you know, committing 0.97

00:00:59.760 crimes. We've got a lot to cover. So as I see Mavis checking in and others, who's that? Mr. Stanley.

00:01:06.520 Yes, this is a live show for many watching. So hey, use that comment, scroll, send those comments

00:01:11.320 my way, ask questions of the guests, things like that. I appreciate it. I don't necessarily read

00:01:16.160 them all out, but I do see them and it lets me know there's somebody out there listening beyond

00:01:20.060 just my mom. Good to see you there too, Paradoxy. So let's get on to a kind of a general subject I

00:01:26.040 want to cover, but it got me going a bit and it's about conservatives in general and where

00:01:29.800 they stand with things. So usually celebrity endorsements in elections, you know, they're

00:01:33.360 not much of consequence and they're disregarded with by most people. The case though with Taylor

00:01:38.520 Swift's endorsement with Kamala Harris is something different. I mean, Taylor Swift has hit a level

00:01:43.340 of stardom that's unprecedented in the amount of revenue she has. And of course, even more 0.96

00:01:49.900 importantly, in her fan loyalty. I mean, the self-styled Swifties who follow her, they're 0.98

00:01:55.460 legion and they follow her with a cult-like loyalty. Swift's endorsement of Harris won't change many

00:02:00.860 votes among those who've already made up their minds where they're going to make their mark in

00:02:04.080 the ballot, but it could bring out hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people to vote who

00:02:08.000 would have stayed at home otherwise. Those kinds of numbers can swing an election. I mean, we wish

00:02:14.680 people were more moved by policies than herd mentality, but that's not always the case. With

00:02:19.060 left-leaning people dominating the narrative from public figures, the public can start to feel

00:02:24.920 inclined to drift towards what they feel is a majority view, even if it really isn't the majority

00:02:29.400 view, just the ones with the big pulpits. That's why lawn signs are such a priority for political 0.60

00:02:34.240 campaigns. It's not that candidates need people to recognize their name so much as they want to create

00:02:37.700 the impression that they're enjoying popular support. If a cul-de-sac is dominated with signs

00:02:42.860 from one particular candidate, folks can be inclined to go with the flow and join their

00:02:46.920 neighbors and vote that way. There are many prominent people who are conservatives, you just

00:02:51.100 don't hear from them very often. The best way to tell if an actor in Hollywood, because there are a lot

00:02:55.440 of conservatives in Hollywood, but the way to tell if they're conservative is if you don't know what

00:02:59.580 their political leanings are. They keep it to themselves because it'll greatly reduce their casting

00:03:03.660 opportunities if they break ranks. The leftist actors never shut the hell up about it. Think of

00:03:08.620 it like vegans. I mean, vegans, they're a tiny minority, but they sure aren't a quiet one. People

00:03:13.680 with normal dietary habits don't feel compelled to announce it to the world at every opportunity.

00:03:19.480 Vegans, though, you can't get through more than five minutes with one before they find a way to slip 0.52

00:03:23.920 their veganism into a conversation. And if you looked at it only that way, you'd think vegans must be the

00:03:28.800 majority in the world if you measure it by who brings it up and who doesn't. Conservatives win

00:03:33.440 when they just come out and be conservative. And let's look at another example, the recent release

00:03:38.360 of the movie Reagan. Actors Dennis Quaid and Jon Voight are among the few outspoken conservatives in

00:03:43.580 Hollywood, and they happily took parts in the movie, celebrating one of the greatest presidents of

00:03:47.660 all time. Now, despite little to no hype from conventional media, the movie had a fantastic opening

00:03:53.440 weekend. Citizens were eager to watch it. So then the critics came out, and they panned the film.

00:03:58.800 And this is where things become more telling. There's a popular website for those who might

00:04:01.960 not be familiar. They're called Rotten Tomatoes. It aggregates film ratings, and it has two types

00:04:05.520 of ratings. The ratings from the critics and the ratings from the audiences. Reagan got positive

00:04:10.460 reviews from 21% of the critics. Terrible. The movie got an incredible 98% positive review,

00:04:17.700 though, from audiences. Yes, the people actually watching it loved it. The critics are trying their

00:04:22.120 worst or their best to make it look terrible. They couldn't convince people, though, that a fantastic

00:04:27.000 movie is a bad one. The critics are part of the establishment, and the establishment in our culture

00:04:31.220 roars, swings left. They're in the fringe, though, and we should make a note of that. Look a little

00:04:36.300 closer to home here. The trajectory of Ralph Klein. He was one of the most popular premiers of all time

00:04:41.200 in Canada during his time in office. The establishment relentlessly attacked Klein. Pundits assured us he was

00:04:46.780 committing suicide politically when he told the unions to go to hell and shrunk government. Klein then won a

00:04:52.360 bigger majority. Some critics howled when he continued to cut the budgets, and Klein wanted

00:04:56.700 an even larger majority. The only time when Klein started to lose support was when he started getting

00:05:01.520 tired and throwing money at problems rather than standing up for taxpayers. That's when he was

00:05:06.000 encouraged to go to pasture by his own party. You know, I've heard so many times when I have candid

00:05:10.680 conversations with business leaders, politicians, and others saying, I wish I could have said that when

00:05:15.860 they're talking about something I said on X or something I wrote in a column. Well, guess what?

00:05:20.220 They can say that. In fact, they must say that. What's that? Pretty much anything unapologetically

00:05:26.660 conservative, though they don't have to be as abrasive as I am about it. In staying silent,

00:05:31.600 or quietly speaking of conservative principles as if they're something to be ashamed of,

00:05:35.200 prominent conservatives are allowing a minority of leftists to own public discourse. When conservatives

00:05:40.760 dodge questions on conservative stances, it makes them look sneaky and implies there's something wrong

00:05:45.940 with their stance. Call for small government guys. Call out the unions. Don't shy away from the need

00:05:51.680 to cut spending and lay off useless bureaucrats. Don't be afraid to say we can't handle the current

00:05:57.640 volume of immigrants. Point out the utter failure of the Indian Act and the reserve system. Try this 1.00

00:06:02.700 one. Call a man a man and a woman a woman. Yeah, crazy, isn't it? It's common sense principles, 0.69

00:06:08.600 and when conservatives own them, the voters reward it. Come out of the closet and be who you are,

00:06:13.460 a conservative. You'll feel so much better being yourself in the open without shame or apologies,

00:06:19.760 and that's how, guys, we can swing the needle from the false discourse that makes it sound like that

00:06:25.540 we're all left-leaning. We aren't. It's just a minority of loud leftists. That's what's got me

00:06:30.400 going today there, guys. Uh, whoo! Mr. Stanley's saying, non-drinkers are the same as vegans. Just gotta

00:06:37.180 boast. Okay, fair enough. I think I bring up quite often my, uh, dry status, too. It's been over five

00:06:42.720 years. Hey, I like to pat myself on the back about it. I guess vegans like to pat themselves on the

00:06:46.220 back, too. Similar sort of analogy and a fair one to point out, and that's fine, but I think, I like

00:06:51.240 to think, at least, uh, former drunks are still less annoying than bloody vegans can be, though,

00:06:57.040 I mean, again, it's variable. All right, let's talk about something. I, I, I said there was something 0.69

00:07:00.340 serious that happened, yet it's, it's comical. People have probably been watching it, and I'm gonna give

00:07:04.600 the back story, though. I mean, it's amazing news going on in Israel, the Middle East, and, and Israel's,

00:07:10.860 well, Israel hasn't taken credit for it yet, but somebody really took a beating to Hezbollah

00:07:15.880 through pagers. So let me give, explain how this all kind of worked. Uh, Israel has been at war with

00:07:22.600 Hezbollah for years. Hezbollah launches thousands, over years, thousands of rockets, and, and spawns 0.85

00:07:29.000 terrorist attacks against Israel, launching those rockets into residential areas. I mean, they're just

00:07:33.120 a pest, uh, a dangerous, terrible terrorist pest sitting within Lebanon and attacking Israel from 1.00

00:07:39.840 outside. Now, a lot of them had realized, because they aren't terribly sharp, terrorists typically 0.98

00:07:45.060 aren't that well that bright, but they did. Somebody, one of them realized, whoa, we keep getting

00:07:50.240 vaporized, and they seem to know where we are all the time. Yes, they figured out digital cell phones

00:07:54.700 gave a location of where the terrorists were, Israel was tracking it, and wiping them out. So,

00:08:00.620 one of them had a brainstorm, said, let's go analog. This way they can't track our locations,

00:08:04.860 we will communicate through pagers. Old school technology pagers. So they went out looking,

00:08:10.780 and they found a source for pagers, and they got thousands of pagers. So all the little Hezbollah 0.99

00:08:15.060 buddies could chatter with each other and do their terrorist planning through pagers. They wouldn't

00:08:19.720 have their locations tracked. But Israel, probably, I don't know who else would have done it, caught wind 0.75

00:08:26.940 of it, figured it out, somehow intercepted those pagers, and put a little bit of explosive in every one of

00:08:33.020 them. And then when the pagers went all throughout, all the little Hezbollah terrorists all over out 1.00

00:08:38.820 there, they waited. I mean, the patience is just amazing, the planning. And then they sent whatever

00:08:47.300 it was with the programming, and it's saying, okay, it's time. So yesterday, all at once, thousands of

00:08:52.400 pagers exploded all across Lebanon and Syria. And these weren't giant explosions, we were talking about

00:08:58.080 an ounce or so of explosives. But when you have it tight to your body, it can be pretty devastating.

00:09:01.940 And you see, Hezbollah sorts, you know, they don't wear belts a lot, because when they want to go out

00:09:09.200 raping, which is what, you know, Hamas and Hezbollah like to do, belts hold them up, slow them down. So 0.85

00:09:13.900 they keep their pagers in their front pocket. Well, what happened then? Oh, yeah, they blew their balls

00:09:18.860 off. Thousands of them. It was brilliant. It was beautiful. And the memes, the mockery, the laughing 0.99

00:09:24.860 over it, as all of these Hezbollah terrorists got neutered. And others were injured an assortment

00:09:32.320 of other ways. But these pagers all went off. Some picked them up. And yes, it blew up in their

00:09:37.500 faces, literally. I don't have much pity, because these are literally terrorists. What better way 0.95

00:09:43.080 to narrow down who the ones you were targeting are? Nobody else on the planet is still using pagers.

00:09:49.780 You know, they haven't been used since the 90s. Only Hezbollah members would have a pager on them. 0.75

00:09:56.220 Magnificent timing. Somebody pointed out there was one little girl that got killed. And that is tragic

00:10:00.620 if that happened. For sure it is. One out of three, four thousand terrorists who had these pagers blow

00:10:08.940 up on them. It's why is Israel held under such a microscope that the only way they can defend

00:10:16.120 themselves is if there's absolutely zero collateral damage. Yet, Hamas and Hezbollah launch missiles

00:10:22.780 daily into residential areas completely indiscriminately. They don't get the scrutiny.

00:10:28.860 I mean, this was just brilliant. Brilliant. And yeah, John Cook saying, a commenter saying,

00:10:37.460 there was no explosives according to sources. Yeah, the sources are changing all over. Some are saying

00:10:40.740 it was a type of force the batteries to overcharge and then heat up. Maybe. But that's quite a pop. If you

00:10:45.740 see some of the videos for just the battery, but who knows? Who knows? What most have been hearing

00:10:50.600 I've seen from sources. Though, I mean, the TV movie that's going to be made from this, I'm sure

00:10:55.100 will lay it out more. But it sounds like it was a Taiwan source for the pagers and then it was made in

00:11:01.500 Hungary somewhere. But they would have still had to be intercepted and reprogrammed to be able to go off. 0.82

00:11:08.280 Who knows? It's tech beyond my ability. But it was brilliant. It was just brilliant.

00:11:13.500 So they did this. Now, this is set, of course, the Hezbollah world aflame. They are really running around 1.00

00:11:20.500 like chickens with their heads cut off. And then today, when they started having funerals for the ones

00:11:24.700 that did manage to get killed by these exploding pagers, they had swapped. They said, well, we've got to go

00:11:29.820 down yet another level from pagers and we're going to communicate through walkie-talkies. Well, hundreds of

00:11:34.020 those blew up today and blew up a bunch more of the idiots. It's beautiful. It's just magnificent. 1.00

00:11:37.880 So these guys are, the terrorists are terrified. They don't know what to be afraid of, what not to

00:11:45.340 be afraid of. They don't know what's booby-trapped. This is just magnificent. I mean, and people saying

00:11:50.540 again, Israel are the terrorists. Look what they did. Oh, come on. Now, Israel could have turned Beirut 0.87

00:11:55.860 into glass years ago if they wanted to. They could carpet bomb the area. They could fire artillery into

00:12:03.340 there constantly. No. Instead, they targeted the terrorist yahoos with their pagers and blew them 1.00

00:12:11.700 up. Yeah. John Cook saying, I guess they'll have to go back to smoke signals. They are out of options. 0.93

00:12:15.140 Now, this could be, I mean, I've seen some of these, this is how to escalate things. Escalate,

00:12:20.540 escalate. Israel's been dealing with rockets, hundreds of hundreds of rockets a week coming

00:12:25.740 into their residential areas that they're trying to shoot down coming from Hezbollah. Escalate, 0.99

00:12:30.380 what are they going to do? Make Hezbollah attack them? Guys, that ship sailed. No, Hezbollah's 1.00

00:12:35.620 running around. They don't know what the hell they're doing now. They've got thousands of

00:12:39.120 castrated members running around, some blind. The levels and levels on how this is messed with

00:12:46.220 Hezbollah is, again, just beautiful. People are going to follow this as one of the most brilliant,

00:12:52.100 you know, planned military actions ever taken out in world history. It really was. I mean,

00:12:58.700 now they're scared of their shadows. Now thousands of them have been taken out of the mix and injured.

00:13:03.440 And you know what? Injured is worse than dead in many ways, because they walk around as examples and

00:13:10.500 testaments to the other budding terrorists out there. The young wannabe terrorist might be looking

00:13:16.260 and saying, you know, Jesus, he's watching Uncle Ahmad shuffling around in his, you know, 0.98

00:13:22.200 testicle-less way and speaking in his high-pitched voice thinking, maybe I'm going to break the family

00:13:27.360 chain of going into terrorism and become a dentist or something or a chef. I might reconsider my life

00:13:34.420 career path. So this route has done something. And yes, things might escalate in a sense that again,

00:13:42.260 you know, Iran's been funding these terrorists on the border of Israel for years. Israel's had

00:13:46.740 enough. They have to defend themselves. They're pushing back. And now that Hamas is in such disarray

00:13:52.200 with so many injuries, so much fear, so much confusion, they've lost their abilities to

00:13:56.420 communicate with each other. If indeed there's going to be an entrance into, you know, Lebanon or

00:14:04.260 to try and further clear them out, this would be the time to do it. Joe Mills saying, perhaps they

00:14:09.740 should try these negotiations. Oh, kiss my ass, Joe. They've been doing that for years. Guess what? 1.00

00:14:15.740 It's Hamas who rejects it every time. It's Hezbollah who rejects it every time. There's no negotiating 0.91

00:14:21.760 with these people. They want every Jew dead. You can't negotiate with that. You can't. I mean, 1.00

00:14:31.040 what do you expect? So instead, they went and blew the balls off a few thousand of them. And I think 0.97

00:14:36.300 it's beautiful. Somebody said, how can you sleep at night just being so callous about it? I sleep with

00:14:40.680 dreams of Hezbollah balls bouncing across the desert. And it makes me smile. Joe was being 0.98

00:14:46.660 rhetorical. Okay, thank you, Joe. I appreciate that. You know, it's hard to get those across

00:14:52.020 on social media. So I appreciate the correction. But yeah, there just isn't negotiation. I don't like

00:14:58.460 the idea of ongoing war. I don't. I wish things could be settled there. I hope one day, some

00:15:03.800 generations from now, they are. But in the meantime, an incredible tactical strike has been carried out.

00:15:10.160 And you've got to give a thumbs up to Israel on this. The amount of planning, of secrecy, 0.64

00:15:16.080 of coordination, of timing. It should strike fear into some of these terrorist sarts. It should let 0.82

00:15:22.060 them know, just like the ones who attacked the athletes in the Olympics in the past and others,

00:15:28.100 Israel doesn't forget. They're patient. They will get you. It's going to take a while, but they'll get

00:15:33.100 you. Maybe these Arab nations should start focusing on taking care of their own people instead of 1.00

00:15:37.980 killing Jews for a little while, and they might do a little better for themselves. 1.00

00:15:41.840 All right. So we'll get ready for my guest. It looks like he's, it looks like he's going to be 1.00

00:15:45.300 an outdoor hit from Dr. Sundberg there. So we'll tune into there. We're going to talk a bit about

00:15:52.840 immigration, crime, and some broad issues. Hello, Dr. Sundberg. Thanks for joining us today.

00:15:58.080 Thanks for having me. I am out in the beautiful Calgary afternoon here. So I hope you can hear

00:16:04.060 me okay. You're coming in all right. Yeah, you might as well take advantage of the weather while

00:16:08.000 you can. I'll give a little background. You're an associate professor, and your description is so

00:16:11.780 long. Justice studies and a visiting scholar at University of London's Royal Docs School of

00:16:16.480 Business and Law. Boy, you cover a lot of stuff, Dr. Sundberg.

00:16:20.680 Well, I like travel, and I love learning. So it's, you know, and getting an international

00:16:26.420 perspective is really important, I think, when we think of what we're dealing with.

00:16:30.640 Absolutely. So I mean, I'm kind of turning a page for more international issues, but domestic. And

00:16:34.740 so, I mean, a lot of discussions, whether it's a recent one with expanding schools, whether we're

00:16:39.820 talking about health care, whether we're talking about housing costs, just the volume of

00:16:44.460 immigration has been very challenging for us to absorb and deal with. But another aspect has been 1.00

00:16:49.640 social disorder and crime. What sort of impact has, I guess, the spike in immigration had on 0.80

00:16:56.740 those sorts of issues within, you know, Western Canada or Canada in general?

00:17:01.500 You know, by and large, it's really important to note that the by and large, most immigrants that

00:17:06.080 come to our country are hardworking, they come here legally, they want to do, they want to make a new

00:17:12.420 life, and they want to contribute to Canada, and they want to build Canadian democracy. The reality,

00:17:17.700 though, is that we do have a small portion of that group that enter Canada, because of black screening,

00:17:24.420 because of the politicization of our immigration program, that bringing their grievances and their,

00:17:31.740 their ideology, their hate fueled ideology from their their own countries, to Canada. And what this results in is we start to see,

00:17:41.640 really concerning activities with regards to, we saw here in Calgary, there was two groups of the, I believe it was the

00:17:51.880 Eritrean community that had a fairly sizable fight. We've seen, we've seen three people who came to our country that, in

00:18:01.560 fact, were members of ISIS, and we're going to carry out mass killings here in Canada and the United States. And that's not the first time we see

00:18:10.040 others that came for the via rail bombing attempt that was foiled. We've seen others. So, you know, by and large,

00:18:20.120 it's a tough issue because when we have large amounts of immigrants, sorry, Calgary's finest there in the background, 1.00

00:18:28.040 again, sorry for being outside. But we have seen, we have seen individuals that have been able to come to

00:18:35.720 Canada, primarily through our refugee program, coming from largely North Africa and the Middle East,

00:18:42.920 who bring with them their beliefs, and sadly, their violence, with respect to, to grievances that,

00:18:53.240 that emerge from, from their home countries, and they bring it here, and we see it unfold in our own

00:18:57.240 streets. This is really troubling. And it's because of lack of screening. It's because we don't put the

00:19:02.760 effort into our immigration program. And also, because we politicized our immigration program. 0.74

00:19:08.840 Immigration is largely about economics, getting workers and skilled people. It's also about 0.81

00:19:14.280 building our country and providing individuals who want to contribute to the Canadian way of life and

00:19:19.720 Canadian democracy. We need to ensure that all immigrants want to be good Canadians, that they want

00:19:26.840 to participate in our economy. And they're not going to bring the, the hate from abroad. So it's, it's a

00:19:32.360 challenging issue. But heaven forbid, if you speak about it, it can be a pretty hot topic issue.

00:19:38.440 Well, that's it. People get afraid of the topic, because it is dicey. And as you said,

00:19:43.240 nothing brings up sirens better than a live head, I tell you. So, as you know, most immigrants aren't 1.00

00:19:50.360 criminals, there's some people who would like to try and label it that way. And that's incorrect,

00:19:53.640 it's unfair, it's not right. But I guess from two fronts, there's things we got to deal with. One,

00:20:00.280 with that initial screening, the ISIS terrorist, we let in, he was all you had to do was Google search

00:20:05.720 the guy, he had a video dissecting a man, you know, in an execution. How did our most rudimentary of

00:20:14.120 screening not catch this guy? Frankly, we just don't have the, the technology

00:20:21.000 and the officers in our system that have the capacity to adequately screen. We also don't have

00:20:28.520 biometric screening. So we don't have like, you know, when you enter the United States,

00:20:32.760 you're giving your fingerprints, your photograph, we don't do that when you're coming into Canada.

00:20:36.360 And the other thing is, we don't have as many officers, we have, we'll see a handful of officers

00:20:41.560 overseas, that liaise with foreign governments, so that we can identify threats before they come here.

00:20:47.720 So we're dropping the ball in all sorts of all sorts of areas. I served 15 years with what's

00:20:54.280 today the Canada Border Services Agency. Sadly, it was the same then might even be worse now. And

00:21:00.200 we have to stop relying on our foreign partners, of course, we have to work with them. But we need to

00:21:06.040 contribute to in Canada, within the five eyes, which is Australia, New Zealand, the United States,

00:21:11.480 Australia, and the United Kingdom. We are known as the lazy eye out of the five eyes.

00:21:18.120 So it's time for us to put our glasses on, see an optometrist and start pitching in and doing our

00:21:23.560 part to ensure we keep democracy, not just in Canada, but throughout the free world, free.

00:21:29.240 Yeah, and I don't want to say, I don't want to sidetrack into the full rabbit hole, but it seems

00:21:34.360 we can't even clean the compromised people out of our own House of Commons, much less people trying

00:21:40.120 to immigrate. So the second part of it, though, and that's where, you know, again, more into the

00:21:44.840 focus of your lifetime of studies, and it's a complicated one. But the next generation,

00:21:51.640 the radicalized youth, I mean, often they're born in Canada. These are Canadian citizens,

00:21:56.520 these are people we, how do we prevent them from becoming so disenchanted, so isolated,

00:22:02.200 so radicalized, that they're performing these kinds of crimes after the fact? I mean,

00:22:07.000 we understand it was the parents who brought that, but they put it down to the children.

00:22:10.680 And now we've got multi-generational radicalism. How can we cope with that?

00:22:16.200 Well, when you think of how many people left Canada to go and fight for ISIS, that's a good, 1.00

00:22:21.400 a lot of them came from Calgary. You know, this is an issue. We need to have a better immigration

00:22:29.720 orientation for newcomers. We need to have laws that are enforced. We have laws in place, 0.99

00:22:35.800 too. We have hateful rhetoric and this rise in anti-Semitism. We need to enforce those laws. And

00:22:41.960 frankly, we need to put some more energy and effort and thought into how we screen people,

00:22:46.840 from visitors to permanent residents to new citizens. And we saw, we've seen in the last few

00:22:52.360 months, well, arguably the last decade, how our politicization and this crazy notion of ignoring

00:23:00.280 immigration and plugging our ears and hoping that things will get better, but that's the answer. 0.59

00:23:04.520 Clearly it's not. As soon as one of these people who has these hateful beliefs that has been

00:23:13.320 radicalized enters the United States without detection and causes a terrorist attack down

00:23:19.400 there, which is plausible. We saw it almost happen. That will have a dire consequence on our economy.

00:23:26.200 And we saw what happened with Rassan. We saw what happened with others where this has impacted our

00:23:31.640 relationship with our largest trading partner. We have to do better as a nation, if not for our

00:23:37.560 national security, for our economy. It's both. And we're just not doing that because we have

00:23:43.160 currently a government that doesn't see border security and immigration control as meaningful

00:23:49.320 or valuable. And they just want to open, you know, we have an immigration system that's largely

00:23:56.280 based on the honor system and, you know, it doesn't work. It doesn't work very well.

00:24:01.720 Unfortunately, there's a lot of dishonorable people out there. And something else is, we've been so

00:24:07.080 permissive on a particular group that is intimidating another one. I mean,

00:24:12.520 had it been, if we had guys dressing up like clan members and marching weekly in a predominantly

00:24:19.960 black community, I don't think that would happen more than one weekend. But a year now of targeted

00:24:27.880 intimidation of the Jewish communities in Canada. Yet we, I understand free expression is very important.

00:24:34.680 You can't just crack down every time there's a protest and start, you know,

00:24:37.640 belting people with the truncheans, but they're just getting bolder and bolder and bolder.

00:24:42.920 And why are we putting up with this? Because it's messaging the other radicals that, hey,

00:24:46.280 you know what, we can pretty much get away with anything.

00:24:48.600 Well, we're seeing it because it's coming from our universities, it's coming from our colleges,

00:24:54.040 it's coming from, unfortunately, educators, my peers, my colleagues. We see this focus on EDI,

00:25:02.440 I know Mount Royal University, no mention of antisemitism. So I think the EDI program at

00:25:07.640 Mount Royal is absolute garbage. If it doesn't include issues against Jewish hate and antisemitism, 0.99

00:25:13.160 well, then that's just, that's just garbage. But this, this ideology, this, this very toxic belief 1.00

00:25:20.680 in, you know, this, this intersectionality and these aspects are very damaging to our society.

00:25:28.200 And it's fueling the radicalization instead of having some objective, well thought out scholarly

00:25:36.040 arguments, we see misinformation, disinformation, and we see opinions being taught as opposed to actual

00:25:41.560 facts. That's a problem. And a lot of this is being allowed and encouraged because of this,

00:25:47.400 frankly, woke EDI ideology that is, in my view, very destructive to our social fabric.

00:25:53.400 We need to get back and recognize that, you know, we don't choose what color of skin we're born with.

00:25:59.000 And our charter allows us to have protections of association and freedom of consciousness. And when

00:26:05.000 we have this, this toxic ideology that's jammed down people's throats, and then it's, it's amplified by,

00:26:12.920 by professors or other educators, this week, this is what contributes to the radicalization. And it's

00:26:19.400 very, very dangerous. As a member of Calgary's Jewish community, I'm very concerned. And as a professor, 1.00

00:26:26.520 I'm equally concerned, like, we should be educating, not, not jamming an ideology and opinion,

00:26:32.600 that's, that's predicated on hate and false information down the throats of our students,

00:26:37.080 because they believe what they get at university, because they're paying for it.

00:26:40.440 So I really do think that the solution for our province specifically here in Alberta,

00:26:45.720 is that I hope that the minister responsible for advanced education takes a look at these EDI

00:26:51.400 programs and identifies that they are part of the problem that they are feeding antisemitism,

00:26:57.240 mandatory antisemitism education. I know that's coming. That's great. And, you know, again, we, 0.99

00:27:03.000 we, it's time we hold people to account that there's consequences for the behavior. We're not

00:27:07.720 seeing that. And individuals, I'm one of the few academics who's, who's, I'm tenured, so I do have

00:27:14.040 some degree of freedom to express my scholarly informed thoughts. But, you know, I am definitely the

00:27:21.720 outlier. Uh, most, most of my colleagues would think, uh, uh, that it's, uh, that things are great.

00:27:28.680 They're not great, or we wouldn't have encampments and we wouldn't have the hate that we see.

00:27:34.600 Yeah. And then, and just to, to, you know, clarify for some people they might not be familiar with,

00:27:38.280 I mean, tenure is a, is a concept that's there to protect academics so that they can express things

00:27:43.160 that may not be the popular view, but it allows it to be openly explored, but it's not a rock solid

00:27:48.840 protection. I, I believe, uh, Francis Whittowson used to be at the institution you're at as well.

00:27:53.880 And, and she was tenured, uh, it, it makes it more difficult, I guess, to stop somebody, but it

00:27:59.640 doesn't, uh, it doesn't, uh, stop all intimidation of academia.

00:28:02.920 No. And we're seeing that, uh, from the, from the extreme radical left, the activists, uh, uh, um,

00:28:11.080 cadre of professors who are, are full, full on promoting and, and, and encouraging EDI to expand,

00:28:19.000 that, uh, anyone who questions this, uh, this, this toxic ideology, anyone who, who suggests that

00:28:26.520 maybe it actually divides people and it encourages, um, division, divisive beliefs and, and isolates

00:28:34.280 people and cancels people, that it flies in the face of academic freedom. Um, but we do see that,

00:28:40.200 that is, that is the, that is commonplace, unfortunately, where we see efforts to silence,

00:28:45.400 uh, opposition to, to the EDI woke, uh, ideology. It's starting to change. Uh, I'm trying my best,

00:28:52.920 and I know that there's others. Um, I'm doing my best to, to bring some attention to this, but I

00:28:59.080 think that it's going to have to have government intervention. We're going to need to have the

00:29:03.000 minister who's great. We have a great minister of advanced education. I think just like we've seen

00:29:07.240 in the United States, we have to start seeing an examination of what's happening on our university,

00:29:12.120 college, uh, and college campuses and how much of this information is causing, uh, toxic society.

00:29:18.200 This, this, this hate and this, uh, at each other's throats and this, this, this, this division.

00:29:24.760 If we're have public institutions that are contributing to that, I think that's a problem.

00:29:28.840 But I don't think taxpayers want to see their institutions being places where this hateful rhetoric

00:29:33.640 and this toxic, uh, ideology spread into our society because our graduates go on to be lawyers,

00:29:39.240 to be police officers, to be doctors and social workers and journalists and others. So we need to,

00:29:45.640 we need to really take a look at the, the ground zero, which is our university campuses where we're

00:29:51.640 seeing, uh, pro Hamas, pro Hezbollah, like, uh, with, uh, what, uh, you were just speaking on the

00:29:58.360 earlier, the earlier, earlier piece, like this, the people who openly support Hezbollah and Hamas,

00:30:05.320 who deny the, the, the atrocities of October 7th. How can this be propagated and amplified

00:30:14.600 by people who all, like myself, who ultimately are paid for by the taxpayers, institutions that

00:30:20.040 are paid by the taxpayers? Academic freedom aside, um, you know, I think Orson Welles was, was quite,

00:30:27.720 quite accurate in 1984, the book a lot of us read in high school, um, that we're seeing this,

00:30:33.640 uh, this type of society emerge. We have to put an end to it. Otherwise,

00:30:37.880 if it keeps going, we're in real dire straits. Well, I mean, I guess one of the pieces of trying

00:30:43.320 to fix that puzzle is, is having members of academia speak up and speak out. So I really

00:30:47.560 appreciate you doing so. Cause I, I know there's pressures and the easier routes just to put your

00:30:51.800 head down and, and just, you know, while away your time and just kind of look the other way.

00:30:55.800 So hopefully others are, are going to speak up and we can correct this because it's so important.

00:31:00.200 It's important for the next generation as well and then people in general. So I, I really do

00:31:05.320 appreciate you coming on to talk to us today. Uh, before I let you go, where, where can people

00:31:09.400 follow your work or, or see what you've been up to out there? Well, I'm, uh, at prof underscore

00:31:15.400 sunburned on Twitter or X, uh, and then, uh, the Mount Royal university website on my bio, uh, I do have

00:31:22.120 my CV attached there with links to some of my scholarship. So, uh, yeah, I, and I encourage people

00:31:28.120 to communicate with their MLAs to say, you know what, uh, my tax dollars are going to universities

00:31:33.880 and, um, I'm not happy with my tax dollars going to amplify and promote and even further develop a

00:31:41.160 toxic ideology. I don't want my, my, my kids to be going to an institution that this kind of nonsense

00:31:47.160 is happening where antisemitism is ignored, but, uh, microaggressions are mandatory education.

00:31:53.400 Like it makes no sense. It's crazy. It's crazy. No, it's beyond the pale. Well, thanks. I'll let

00:31:58.760 you go. And I appreciate you tuning in from out there in the sun. And, uh, I hope we get to talk

00:32:03.160 again sometime soon. Anytime. I love your show and I, and, uh, I'd love to come back and speak

00:32:08.600 further. So thanks so much for having me and sorry that I am outside today. It's just how it all worked

00:32:12.840 out. So yeah, it's a better, a little noisy than not at all. So thanks again. And, uh, we'll talk soon.

00:32:18.040 Thanks so much. Take care. All right. So that is Dr. Kelly Sundberg of Mount Royal University. And,

00:32:22.680 and, uh, yeah, a big complicated issue when we got to look at, and it really does take,

00:32:27.560 I mean, there's so few as some of the commenters are saying that they're just not speaking up in

00:32:31.320 academia as things are going wild with the, the ridiculous DEI stuff going on, the radicalization

00:32:37.240 of people. You know, uh, I see one of the commenters actually, John Cook saying, uh, you know,

00:32:41.000 question before you go, what started in 1984? I think what Dr. Sundberg was talking about was the book

00:32:45.320 actually 1984 and talking about how, uh, you know, society is, is it can be so radically changed

00:32:51.400 and systematically, uh, you know, George Orwell's, uh, writings, of course, I believe that's what he

00:32:57.400 was probably referencing. And, you know, a lot of things get disturbing when you look at these

00:33:02.200 radical protests, these extremists that are coming out and getting on the streets.

00:33:06.360 But one of the things that's interesting at the university ones, I mean, it's one thing to see,

00:33:09.880 I guess you could say some of the radical new Canadians who are out there,

00:33:13.160 you can typically tell or assume, I know it's hard to assume, but you know, with the accent

00:33:18.200 and, uh, the, the, the outfits and just the way they look that the chances are they're new Canadians.

00:33:23.480 But when you see somebody who you can probably assume was born Canadian, probably again, you know,

00:33:28.520 some typical middle-class white bread girl out there screaming Hezbollah slogans, what happened? 1.00

00:33:35.080 How on earth did she become radicalized here? I mean, it's one thing to see it come through the

00:33:41.320 family or if it came upon you while you were in the different country, but how did this grow on you

00:33:48.040 here? And so many of them like that, that's distressing. If you want to see a real, you know,

00:33:53.640 story of how bad that radicalism gets and how long it's been going back, look up Rachel Corey, C-O-R-R-I-E.

00:33:59.880 She's also known as Saint Pancake. She got radicalized, oh, 15, 20 years ago and went over to stop the evil 0.94

00:34:07.480 Israelis over there in the West Bank because they were bulldozing tunnels where the terrorists were

00:34:13.080 coming from. She was kindly teaching children how to burn American flags. Real saint, this young lady.

00:34:18.360 And, uh, she managed to get run over by a bulldozer. Now I worked around bulldozers.

00:34:22.120 They aren't terribly fast, but either was Rachel and she got squashed, but they canonized her. They

00:34:28.920 turned her into a hero. No, she's a victim, a victim of idiocy, naivety, and radical ideology. 1.00

00:34:35.080 She was from Oregon. She had nothing to do with what's going on over there, but she convinced 1.00

00:34:39.480 herself that she was some freedom fighter for the downtrodden Palestinians. And now she's become

00:34:44.520 fertilizer. Who won? Wasn't good. But we're seeing that radicalization happening in our institutions.

00:34:50.520 And we really do need to nip that in the bud. I mean, we'll never get rid of all of it. There's

00:34:53.640 always going to be one lunatic or flake or somebody who comes out of the system. But when we see a pattern 0.71

00:34:57.800 of it, we should be concerned. So it's good to see, again, some academics like Dr. Sundberg and others

00:35:03.240 speaking up because it's gone too far. All right. Well, let's check in on some more news things.

00:35:07.160 We didn't have Dave here earlier, but we still have Sean to check in with the news and the

00:35:11.320 business and energy and all those good things. How's it going, Sean?

00:35:14.120 Going well, Corey. How are you? I'm all right. I'm all right. Like I said,

00:35:16.760 I'm still dark, dark humor. I know I'm a cold, nasty man, but all of those, those terrorist 0.98

00:35:22.760 balls getting blown up just made me smile. Don't keep your phone in your pants pocket. 0.99

00:35:27.320 No, no. Usually right about here. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, it's life without

00:35:31.720 eggs. It can be challenging, I imagine, but there's, there's a lot of relieved

00:35:35.320 goats out there. I'm sure there are. Yeah. So business stories, a lot of big, big business

00:35:40.840 story today is what's an NHL team that hasn't won the Stanley Cup playoffs in over 58 years or

00:35:46.920 even made it past the second round. What are the, what's an NHL team like that worth?

00:35:52.040 I have no idea when the thought of it, but even you're talking about our, our good old Maple Leafs,

00:35:56.440 uh, they are an entrenched brand. It's still going to have value though.

00:36:00.040 Well, apparently they are the most valuable brand in hockey, even more than the Montreal Canadian,

00:36:05.560 you know? So, uh, Rogers is bucking up about $4.8 billion to buy out, uh,

00:36:11.960 Bell's stake in, uh, in the management company that owns the Leafs as well as, um, the, uh, Raptors

00:36:19.240 and, uh, the Blue Jays. So, um, that puts a, so a few years back, they bought about 75%

00:36:26.280 of the team and they split it 37 and a half each. And so the values of the team are probably pretty

00:36:31.640 close to about $10 billion. Well, it's kind of interesting. I mean, it is sad from the sports

00:36:36.280 perspective. I mean, you, you think, you know, uh, winning would be what brings up the value of a team,

00:36:42.600 but I mean, I guess just loyalty, the branding, the merchandising, the ticket sales. I mean, even if

00:36:47.800 your team stinks, Hey, if you're bringing all that into the value, it was going to go up from a

00:36:51.560 cold business perspective, the betting, the betting revenue. I forgot what it is that Ontarians spent 0.56

00:36:57.720 on betting last year in the first year of legal betting. I don't know if you notice on sports

00:37:01.560 channels there, all the sports books are basically in Ontario and it's, it's already up around two or

00:37:06.760 three billion dollars. Well, maybe the new ownership will still, I mean, it'd be nice for them anyways,

00:37:11.320 if they're actually winning as well as a valuable. So yeah, I mean, we can, we can only hope.

00:37:17.960 Not my team. Yeah. I'm a football fan. I'm busy with that. Yeah. Um, so our, uh, old buddy,

00:37:27.320 uh, Robbie Starbuck, who we're still trying to get on, uh, apparently he's had, uh, his wife has had a

00:37:33.320 baby and it was kind of a problem. Yeah. We've been playing tag anyway. So, uh, he went after

00:37:39.080 Stanley Black and Decker. So Stanley Black and Decker is a exclusive brand here in Canadian tire

00:37:45.320 stores. Um, they're the largest maker of power tools in the world. Uh, they make craftsman tools,

00:37:51.480 you know, which used to be carried by Sears. I'm not sure who's carrying them now, but, um,

00:37:56.600 so he did his lawnmower. Yeah. Yeah. That lasts forever. So, uh, he's taken his DEI, uh, crusade to

00:38:03.000 them as well. And they caved, they got rid of everything. They got rid of their whole entire DEI

00:38:08.680 department, uh, got rid of all their programs, all their subsidies, uh, everything. Just a dragon slayer,

00:38:14.840 you know, but with how quickly these, these big companies are reacting once he turns his sights to 0.98

00:38:19.800 them, it sounds like maybe they were ready to kind of move away from that crap anyhow. Well, 0.98

00:38:23.560 it kind of makes me wonder, um, that maybe whether this is kind of part of a bigger trend within the

00:38:29.480 corporate world, that maybe, um, it's kind of convenient for them maybe to kind of start getting

00:38:35.080 rid of these things now, because it's, it seems like the more, uh, companies that kind of fall

00:38:39.640 under the wheel, the less newsworthy it becomes. Yeah. In a sense, you know, it's a good time to kind of

00:38:46.200 divest of that thing for new viewers who aren't as familiar DEI is the diversity equity inclusion.

00:38:51.880 That's when we're a company's focusing more on quotas and, and, and other things rather than

00:38:58.040 productivity, which, well, it just isn't very a profitable approach to things quite often.

00:39:03.000 Well, or even, uh, compared to their, uh, you know, customers, like the best targets were,

00:39:09.240 you know, Harley Davidson and Jack Daniels, you know, these kinds of people that probably could

00:39:13.320 care less about the, uh, you know, I'm, I'm sure that there's probably some, uh, LGBTQ, uh, uh, 1.00

00:39:20.600 home handy people. Oh, sure. But you know, I think the point is, is that

00:39:27.960 you can still be that way if you really want to be, but why does the company have to, you know,

00:39:32.440 specifically cater to that kind of a crowd? The LGBTQ couple that is renovating their basement 1.00

00:39:39.400 still wants just a reliable tool for the best price, like anybody else. I'm sure that that's

00:39:44.600 their bigger concern when they go shopping for that skill saw, rather than whether or not there's

00:39:48.600 a certain number of rainbows on the floor during certain months of the year and getting value for

00:39:52.840 your dollar. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's what we all do. It's good to see the pendulum swing.

00:39:57.080 And, uh, finally, uh, city of Calgary is putting up, uh, EV subsidies for,

00:40:03.560 for the chargers. This time it's for the chargers and like, uh, apartment buildings and condos and

00:40:09.240 multifamily things. Um, the kicker on it though, is they're putting up, uh, $4,000. So after next

00:40:15.480 Monday, you'll be eligible to apply for up to $4,000 for a professionally installed unit. It goes for

00:40:22.920 about 600 bucks at home Depot. That sounds like the city of Calgary. They, they put the brilliant

00:40:29.240 minds of the green line on the EV charger program. And there's a local, probably don't have a cord

00:40:34.440 that's that long as well. You have to lift your car into it. Yeah. Well, and there's a local company

00:40:39.240 here in Calgary that, uh, installs them. Um, they do the solar panels and everything, but they install the

00:40:45.320 EV chargers and they say they can do it for 500 to 1600 bucks. So they're, they're taught like to

00:40:52.200 install, you know, the love. And it depends on whether you have level one, level two, level three

00:40:57.000 chargers, right? These level three chargers or whatever they're, they're like about 150 grand,

00:41:03.080 but, uh, these just. It's probably the time they use for the buses that they still haven't gotten yet.

00:41:06.840 Yeah. The bus and the fire truck. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, so if you're going to park your car

00:41:11.000 overnight in your garage, you know, you don't really need, uh, you know, the high wattage, uh, you know,

00:41:16.200 charging, you know, $600 units probably good enough. Yeah. It would be even better if you could just plug

00:41:22.120 the thing into the wall, but I think we're a little ways away from that yet.

00:41:25.640 Yeah. It'll get there, but it just seems that these idiotic programs are just lining people's 0.99

00:41:29.240 pockets, not actually responding to consumer demand, but. Well, the problem is that taxpayers 0.99

00:41:33.560 are ultimately going to have to pay for it, right? We always do. You know, we just spent,

00:41:38.360 how many billion on a green line to nowhere. Oh, and I'm going to close off with a little rant on that.

00:41:44.680 Okay. Well, I won't preempt you then. All right. No, that's good. It helps segue me. So,

00:41:48.680 all right. Well, thanks for the check-in. I mean, they're mostly positive stories in the sense of,

00:41:52.600 pushback and DEI and things like that. Yeah. And then, you know, the Maple Lofts. Yeah.

00:41:58.360 Maybe something new will come for those. Hey, they're loyal fans. I'll give them credit for

00:42:02.200 that. I mean, boy, you gotta be. All right. Well, thanks, Sean. And, uh, we'll talk to you a little

00:42:07.720 later. Okay. All right. So that is Sean Polzer. Yes. Our news and energy and business report. He reports

00:42:13.160 on all sorts of things. He's in the courthouse covering some other stuff that I won't go into now either,

00:42:17.320 but, uh, Sean's very, uh, diverse, uh, with his equitable coverage on things, uh, and enclosing,

00:42:22.200 uh, all sorts of stuff. But the green line, I just want to hit on that because yes, it's,

00:42:26.760 it's, it's made some news. Not everybody in the city is from Calgary or is too familiar with this

00:42:30.040 thing or what's going on with it. It's, uh, an expansion of the light rail transit from downtown

00:42:35.960 Calgary now to next to nowhere. And this thing started back in 2015. I mean, they've been talking about it

00:42:43.080 for decades. And in 2015, mayor of the time, the head, Nenshi announced, we've cut a deal. It's

00:42:49.640 going to go, it's going to go ahead. We're going to break ground in 2017. We're going to

00:42:55.560 have this thing reach from the far Northern reaches of Calgary, all the way to the far

00:42:58.920 Southern reaches is going to be a 49 kilometer train. And we're going to do it for under $5 billion.

00:43:04.600 And, and it's going to be done by like 2023, 2024. Well, here we are today. Here we are today. Mayor

00:43:12.680 Gondek and Nenshi is now trying to become premier. Where's this green line? Well, nowhere, nowhere at

00:43:21.240 all. In fact, the province, yes, the province came out and said, we've had it. We're sick of you guys

00:43:25.240 spinning your wheels, screwing this up, making a mess. It's now been cut down to like 10 kilometers long.

00:43:31.160 The cost has gone up to 6.2 billion. And the timeline again, it's 2024. They haven't laid an

00:43:38.520 inch of track. Somehow they've pissed away $1.4 billion already. Gondek's crying the blue. So

00:43:43.960 it's going to cost 800 million to get out of it. Well, it's still going to save us 6 billion.

00:43:47.480 You incompetent boob. Yeah, you're incompetent. The people below you are incompetent. City 1.00

00:43:52.680 administration is incompetent. Guess who they contracted this thing to? SNC Lavalin. Yes, 0.83

00:43:57.880 Trudeau's little buddy of a corporation. Inside dealing. Crap money going to Quebec. Your tax

00:44:03.560 dollars for nothing. Let's give an analogy. Let's say you wanted to get your house redone.

00:44:09.480 The roof. So you talk to a roofer. He says, yeah, yeah, but you got to pay about a quarter of it up

00:44:14.360 front and I'll re-roof your house. Okay. And I'll have it done. And you know, this is a real slow

00:44:19.640 roofer. I'll have it done in three years. Okay. Well, whatever. Fine. Three years later. Well,

00:44:23.720 I'm not quite done yet. Many years later, nine years later, he comes back and says, yeah,

00:44:28.120 I haven't really started on it yet, but now I'm going to raise the price by 20%. I'm only going to

00:44:33.880 do a quarter of your roof. And I get to keep the money you already gave me. What are you going to

00:44:40.360 do as a homeowner? How long, how long are people expected to wait for the incompetent idiots in 1.00

00:44:46.280 Calgary city hall until this thing is down to one kilometer and $12 billion. You got to pull the 1.00

00:44:52.440 plug on this thing. Eventually there's a term. If you want to look it up called the sunk cost fallacy

00:44:56.920 because some people say, well, we're just throwing away the money spent already. If we shut it down

00:45:00.120 now, no, we aren't. We've been throwing it away already. Why throw more? Plus some of that was land

00:45:06.920 that they bought for the LRT anyways, sell it. You get some of the money back and we should be doing a

00:45:12.600 bloody forensic investigation. Who are these crux that sucked in because they're saying there's a

00:45:17.400 thousand people going to be put out of work. A thousand people. Well, what the hell were they

00:45:21.560 doing? Remember not an inch of track has been laid down. They've been screwing you guys. 1.00

00:45:26.840 They've been robbing you. They've been taking your tax dollars and giving you nothing. 0.98

00:45:30.440 So yes. Thank you, Premier Smith. Thank you, Devon Dreschen. And to hell with you,

00:45:34.680 Jody Gondek for trying to defend this ongoing ripoff. If you just bloody well gotten some track on the 0.98

00:45:40.920 ground, it'd be hard for somebody to say, okay, we've got to stop this. But you idiots took nine years and 1.00

00:45:46.280 spent $1.4 billion and got nothing built. So it wasn't that hard to make the case and saying, 1.00

00:45:50.680 we're done giving you money. Now fire her next year, Calgary, fire her, fire most of that council 1.00

00:45:57.400 and vote for people who are saying they're going to flush city administration because that's full 0.98

00:46:01.480 of crooks and bureaucrats too. Anyway, I'll leave on that rant. You know, we've had pagers blowing up 0.79

00:46:06.840 balls, province blowing up the green line and the Toronto Maple Leafs just blowing up an entire

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00:46:44.200 who published Alberta Report news magazine. It's going to be bagpipes, singing, live auction

00:46:49.320 stakes, speeches by Premier Smith, Preston Manning, Stephen Harper, quite a lineup.

00:46:53.240 The Western standard is the final incarnation or the latest incarnation of Alberta Report that Ted

00:46:58.600 Byfield founded. And I mean, he was a great Albertan. He really made his mark on this province.

00:47:03.720 And this evening of celebration for him is really going to be outstanding. You get there,

00:47:07.160 toastingted.ca. That's the website. You can get your tickets. This one's going to sell out. I mean,

00:47:12.040 again, if you want to see Smith, Manning, Harper, all in one spot, one night, be sure to get there.

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Western Standard - September 19, 2024

Conservatives have to come out of the closet

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