Western Standard - CORY MORGAN SHOW： Calgary’s woke want to kill cowboy culture

00:00:00.000 Good day, welcome to the Cory Morgan Show.

00:00:29.680 last one before july today's supposed to be a nice summer looking sort of day and it's supposed

00:00:34.160 to go to hell again for a few days after that can't seem to avoid it this year even my bees

00:00:38.340 are behind on their production it's pretty frustrated this global warming really needs

00:00:42.020 to do a better job of things i say either way lots of stuff to cover a stampede season's coming i'm

00:00:47.600 going to talk about my thoughts and some of that what's going on in calgary shortly in a little

00:00:51.700 while i'm going to have tanya clemens on she's the uh heading up kind of the new third party 0.52

00:00:57.240 advertising group called let alberta decide the one tied in with keith wilson they did a

00:01:01.640 big press conference for it last friday and see what they've got on the roll as we move

00:01:06.600 into referendum season for the summer and into fall so first i mean if you've been

00:01:12.840 watching the news what's going on with uh what turned into a politicized battle with

00:01:18.920 well it's left versus right as usual it seems actually you know premier smith and other

00:01:23.080 conservatives saying that it's okay to have a party in the stampede and some others on the

00:01:29.480 other side saying, no, the city needs to crack down on the noise and such. And I'll give it to

00:01:34.060 Rick Bell right in the middle, complaining and curmudgeonly about the whole thing, no matter

00:01:36.900 what, at least he's consistent, but it's an element of a bigger issue. And Calgary has a culture

00:01:43.080 problem. And the problem isn't among the citizenry though. It's, it's in city hall where these woke

00:01:48.860 self-loathing souls have taken up habitation and they've been actively trying to undercut civic

00:01:53.900 pride and change the nature of the city they despise the agricultural and oil-filled roots

00:01:58.380 of the city and are incrementally trying to erase traces of them the calgary stampede is just their

00:02:03.180 latest target and they're not trying to regulate the nightlife out of the world acclaimed party

00:02:08.620 every city on earth has some sort of annual festival or fair but there's only a handful

00:02:12.860 that have unique events that take over the entire city for a period of time and calgary is fortunate

00:02:17.340 enough to be one of those. The Calgary Stampede began as a rodeo but has become much more than

00:02:22.180 that. It also has a large exhibition in Midway but again the event is much more than that. It's a

00:02:27.960 state of mind that grasps the city for 11 days every year. People across the city dress in

00:02:32.820 western wear from the tasteful to the outright cheesy. It doesn't really matter if a person's

00:02:37.060 a cowboy or not. It's a period of good-natured fun cosplaying and people come from around the

00:02:42.080 world to take part in it. Even downtown in the corporate world it's been a long-standing

00:02:46.640 tradition that dress codes are relaxed during the Stampede Week and employees can wear denim.

00:02:51.340 The events go well outside of the Stampede grounds themselves. Pancake breakfasts, barbecues,

00:02:56.080 parties held in every quarter of the city and in people's homes. Businesses are decorated with

00:03:00.300 hay bales and rail fences and windows are painted with western and cowboy scenes. You can't walk a

00:03:05.380 block in Calgary in any part of town during Stampede Week without seeing evidence that the

00:03:09.880 event is going on. Every bar tends into a party hub during Stampede Week. Western bars such as

00:03:15.060 of ranch wins have become legendary for the stampede parties held there. Downtown tents

00:03:19.840 are erected with stages where live acts perform and people party for every night of the event. Yes

00:03:25.980 it's just a giant piss up for many people but that's part of the whole affair. I mean should

00:03:31.260 we pretend that Mardi Gras or Oktoberfest are really any different? The stampede brings in over

00:03:36.000 720 million dollars in economic activity to Alberta every year and it's the envy of countless cities

00:03:41.720 that can only dream of having such a distinct and ongoing event.

00:03:45.820 Unfortunately, to woke snobs, however, they see the stampede as something shameful.

00:03:50.660 Look up Deborah Yedlin. She was complaining about the cowboy culture a few years ago. 0.99

00:03:54.080 That's the head of the Chamber of Commerce.

00:03:56.020 They envision cowboys as hicks and rodeos as primitive.

00:03:59.160 They envision a city of coffee shops and art galleries

00:04:01.480 unsullied by these hundreds of thousands of partygoers. 0.99

00:04:04.580 And these pompous, fun-hating fools are entrenched in Calgary City Hall. 0.98

00:04:08.600 It really began during Nenshi's era and continued with Gondek. 0.99

00:04:12.100 They began filling the vacancies with woke hipsters and continued for over a decade.

00:04:16.660 Now we're seeing the fruits of all of that.

00:04:18.700 Fort Calgary was renamed the Confluence,

00:04:20.780 lest its proper name offend an Indigenous person somewhere.

00:04:23.860 They tried to cancel the fireworks at Fort Calgary as well

00:04:26.260 because they felt the city should be hanging its figurative head in shame

00:04:29.140 over the Kamloops residential school child burial hoax.

00:04:32.700 Calgary's slogan was changed from Heart of the New West,

00:04:35.220 because it was too Western, to be part of the energy.

00:04:37.860 But that referred to energy, so then they changed it to the embarrassing and meaningless slogan of Blue Sky City.

00:04:43.860 It took them two steps, but they managed to eliminate references to the West and oil field in a city slogan, and it was no mistake.

00:04:50.660 Now it's cracking down in the downtown partying.

00:04:53.940 Calgary City Hall is attacking a vital part of the whole affair, and they know it.

00:04:57.560 The young people coming to the Stampede are coming to party and to build memories.

00:05:00.680 If the lights are cut early and the sound is kept down, it isn't a party.

00:05:03.880 out of 1.4 million people just over 200 of them complained about the noise last year

00:05:09.240 and city hall felt that was enough to justify moving in look the stampede's been happening

00:05:12.960 for over 100 years and partying downtown's always been a part of that if it's really that onerous

00:05:17.720 for a few people living near these event tents they shouldn't have chosen to live downtown

00:05:20.780 it's like moving next to an airport and complaining about the planes take a week out of downtown and

00:05:25.060 move to the suburbs then if it's that bad the battle brewing over the party tents is much more

00:05:29.900 than a small point of principle it's over the city taking a big step towards killing a festival 0.95

00:05:34.240 that made the city famous people have to push back and not let these self-loathing calgarians

00:05:38.860 work towards turning the calgary stampede into just another milquetoast city fair rest assured 0.81

00:05:43.880 the latte lappers in city hall won't stop with just the tents it's part of a larger uglier plan 0.99

00:05:48.920 and they can't be allowed to win here guys well that's got me going how's it going dave you going 0.97

00:05:54.220 party tent uh no uh but i will say the the cowboy's tent was not at millennial park it was down near

00:06:01.100 the stampede grounds oh they've moved now it's in the middle of a 9 000 families lived there so

00:06:06.620 within earshot of it potentially i mean it's a few tall condo buildings those buildings are

00:06:11.500 brand new too i mean that was just more mawada stadium and an empty lot until i don't i don't

00:06:16.380 think your your airport references is fair i don't know if you want the quiet family living you're

00:06:22.460 still downtown i mean when it's not the stampede all you're hearing is the sirens for the overdoses

00:06:26.380 that's true that is true so i'm a bit nervous i forgot my lucky team canada had at home oh no

00:06:31.820 and they're about to kick off in like 50 minutes switzerland switzerland yes and if uh if we win or

00:06:37.420 draw we get to keep home field advantage in the knockout round so well i mean again i'm not the

00:06:42.940 big watcher of it but i really hope i mean it's been quite an affair a lot of people have had a

00:06:46.060 lot of fun and it's been exciting i hope canada pulls it off yeah uh here you've been living in

00:06:50.940 in sort of like third world conditions out on the compound oh yes it was a rough few days jane was

00:06:55.460 lucky to be out of town for that period what happened uh some people uh company installing

00:06:59.960 a fiber optic line on the road outside of my place managed to nail my gas line as they put

00:07:06.620 the fiber optic cable in it took them three and a half days to repair it during which i had no

00:07:10.560 hot water or gas stove or oven or furnace for that matter oh it would have made you even more

00:07:15.840 curmudgeonly than normal yes curmudgeonly and smelly well i mean i could cold water wash to

00:07:20.540 a degree but it's just not quite the same quite the same is it so yeah lots of uh lots of good

00:07:25.060 stuff going on in the news we're leading off with a big drug bust in the lower mainland

00:07:29.400 1.5 million dollars in cash seized and they've got it all stacked up it's it's a lot of 20s

00:07:36.200 uh to make that amount 26 kilograms of cocaine seized so it's a big dent in organized crime out

00:07:43.360 there uh our friend long and never to be forgotten stephen gilbo was on a podcast yesterday saying

00:07:51.420 that the u.s under president trump who he absolutely despises will do better on climate

00:07:57.420 change than mark carney so that's kind of interesting a little bit better terrible

00:08:04.740 story out of the netherlands where the government has confirmed they've put a 12 year old to death

00:08:11.200 and made uh 12 years old i mean how can as a 12 year old can you consent to that

00:08:18.400 yeah i know i was talking earlier about that one that's a

00:08:21.440 getting a bit young to figure out that if possible consent these are hard though i mean i i don't

00:08:26.000 know the condition of the kid either no yeah how terminal or how much discomfort or pain this person

00:08:30.400 was in but it's just these are tough tough cases yeah only gonna get worse uh speaking of a little

00:08:37.520 girl this is my favorite story of the day a seven-year-old calgary girl was out playing in

00:08:42.080 a neighborhood playground and was walking around the rocks piled on the outside of it looking for

00:08:48.560 bugs to keep in a jar and she came across what looked strange to her and she said i think this

00:08:54.320 is a fossil so she persuaded her parents to contact the royal tyrell museum and they sent some guys

00:09:01.440 out and they said yeah it's a 250 million year old uh fossil of a sea star right on well yeah

00:09:08.400 sea star the other thing that's striking yeah a kid going out doing good kid things not staring

00:09:13.120 at a phone actually out looking at bugs and rocks that's great isn't it amazing what you can do when

00:09:17.360 you put the tablet down yeah so uh they cut it away and it's now being stored at the at the museum

00:09:23.360 so awesome for her yeah and uh our friend francis widdowson yes she was arrested out at the university

00:09:30.160 of uh victoria a while ago uh hauled away by big burley a policeman even though she's only like

00:09:36.460 what four foot eight yeah and uh they charged her with trespassing those charges have been stayed

00:09:42.360 as they always get seem to do so not in my case oh not in your case that is true yeah 0.80

00:09:48.700 is that a sore spot i touched there i was just getting tiresome they've kicked that one down

00:09:53.580 now into september it was supposed to go to court in a few days but they keep uh punting it farther 0.92

00:09:58.180 down the road hopefully they'll be able to get their legal costs the jccf well from the natives

00:10:05.140 yes well we'll see how that all comes out yeah so that that's it that's all i got a soccer game

00:10:10.420 to go watch right on well i won't keep you away from it any longer i hope the you know that you

00:10:14.980 do understand you'll be held responsible for the lack of that hat then if it can yes well but we

00:10:20.260 still will go ahead we're gonna we're pretty well guaranteed uh to advance just not in as good a

00:10:25.620 position uh well hoping for the best for me too right on thanks dave all right that is our news

00:10:32.260 editor dave naylor and rather than just nagging about subscription i'm going to remind you guys

00:10:35.620 we've got an event coming up it's not the party tent or anything like that but it is a stampede

00:10:40.660 barbecue with the western standard it's going to be on july 8th and at the senalta community hall

00:10:47.540 if you look on x and i'm sure there'll be emails coming out for subscribers things like that to

00:10:51.300 show where you can rsvp for it and it's going to be some fun there's going to be some weenies

00:10:54.900 there are going to be some burgers and there's going to be water balloons you can purchase water

00:11:00.260 balloons and throw them at Derek Fildebrandt this is a an opportunity that doesn't come around all

00:11:06.500 the time you know so you can have yourself a a good bite to eat meet a few of the folks maybe

00:11:11.780 yell at me for some of the columns I've written things like that and then if you really want to

00:11:17.220 buy a water balloon and nail Derek Fildebrandt with it so check it out keep your eye on things

00:11:21.940 stampede barbecue july 8th and again one one till four down in senalta which is right near downtown

00:11:28.580 that's what i'm talking about right like the stampede is much more and you go to other cities

00:11:36.980 people have been to them you know edmonton has k days it used to be klondike days and then they

00:11:41.380 uh turned it uh to k days because they just wanted to be more generic i guess it was strange

00:11:47.540 being klondike days when you're that far from the klondike i guess but nobody pays attention to it

00:11:52.500 you know people in edmonton enjoy it i mean good on them but it's just a big fair and it's not the

00:11:57.620 same you know to hit a place like calgary during stampede the whole city takes part as i said

00:12:03.300 outlets like ours will have weird barbecues and things thrown around people will have their own

00:12:08.100 parties in backyards and and at their own place there's going to be the pancake breakfasts

00:12:14.100 everywhere all of that and people coming from outside i mean people within calgary sometimes

00:12:19.060 get a little tired of it and you you feel that you've uh seen it all a hundred times perhaps or

00:12:25.220 or whatnot but for visitors coming from outside of the city particularly european ones but also

00:12:30.340 people from all over they've never seen anything like that like it makes memories when you're

00:12:34.100 driving around you know you go even into a bank and everybody's dressed western and they've got the

00:12:38.500 the, you know, the bales in there and all of that. It might seem cheesy to you, but it's actually

00:12:44.320 something much larger and it is different. It's special. And so many cities would kill to have

00:12:50.940 it. I didn't have enough time to write. If you look it up, you know, that was the thing that

00:12:55.620 really got me going with Deborah Yedlin, the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Congress. She's

00:12:59.060 terrible. She's terrible. She's, she also said we're supposed to work towards phasing out the 1.00

00:13:03.100 oil field, but she, she also, this is a supposed business leader. This is the business leader

00:13:07.300 who said that vaccine passports improve business for restaurants, like just bizarre.

00:13:13.640 But she'd also said that Calgary should move away from the Western oil image.

00:13:18.480 She really did.

00:13:19.180 This is a representative.

00:13:20.440 Now, she's not in City Hall, but it represents that culture, that group, those woke.

00:13:24.620 They despise that whole concept of Calgary.

00:13:27.740 They want some weird Euro city. 0.96

00:13:29.600 And you know what? 0.95

00:13:30.120 They won't succeed.

00:13:31.200 You won't turn Calgary into Paris or even North America, Manhattan.

00:13:36.060 It's different.

00:13:36.560 It's Calgary.

00:13:37.300 it's got its own character you could work to erase the current character you could damage the current

00:13:42.700 character but you're not going to replace it with something else because there's it's not there this

00:13:48.060 is who the city is this is what it's about and you guys as i said it's incremental look what they did

00:13:55.200 with the branding as i said in my monologue it went from heart of the new west you know nice

00:14:01.160 positive but it mentions west they didn't like that oh west cowboy hats don't like that okay

00:14:07.080 let's change it to be part of the energy and literally when they changed that to blue sky city

00:14:11.240 and they spent millions to change that some genius in city hall got five million dollars to come up

00:14:15.900 with blue sky city man i'm in the wrong job why did they do that because energy was too controversial

00:14:22.220 they're moving us away from who we are don't let them push back guys i know some people think who

00:14:28.700 cares about a party tent where a bunch of young people drink too much and barf and so on that's

00:14:33.300 just part of the whole guys they're not they're picking at the low-hanging fruit and every year

00:14:37.480 they're going to try and go after something else don't let them do it all right let's move on get

00:14:43.320 to our guest i've been looking forward to this tanya clemens of the new third-party advertiser

00:14:48.340 let alberta decide uh is on board here and uh well i imagine hitting the ground running how's it going

00:14:54.400 tanya uh it's been going really great actually like really positive support and lots of engagement

00:15:00.320 with people. Donations are coming in, which is going to help us with being able to do all the

00:15:05.480 priorities that we have set out to do. And yeah, so far it's been really positive. So I think people

00:15:10.100 were looking for, you know, a little bit of space to have some civil discourse and ask questions and

00:15:15.900 to get some answers to their questions. So that part has been really great. Great. So the third

00:15:22.220 party advertising group has let Alberta decide what is the mandate of that group? There's many,

00:15:27.540 many third-party groups out there now, sort of where is the focus of this one going to be?

00:15:33.220 Yeah, so the focus of this one is to be able to reach that group of undecided people,

00:15:37.960 or maybe even folks that are a little bit in opposition to the independence movement at that

00:15:41.980 moment, and engage them in conversation, deliver some education to them. Lots of that group of

00:15:47.600 people are, they share the commonality with us, with most Albertans that were frustrated with our

00:15:52.700 place within confederation and i think it's just a matter of being able to explain what has happened

00:16:00.060 historically why we're frustrated and that there is a path out of this frustration that leads away

00:16:05.660 from that so it's engaging that group in some civil discourse and conversation yeah one thing

00:16:12.220 i found it was uh striking on the site when i went on to it you've got a live counter the second you

00:16:16.940 enter the site it shows how many dollars have left alberta to go into the federation without return

00:16:21.900 on that investment. And boy, it ticks up pretty quickly there. It's nice to see a visual to kind

00:16:26.860 of remind people of just how poorly we get a fiscal return on things. Yeah, the website's

00:16:33.620 pretty awesome. We have a great team that's using some of the coolest technology to implement things

00:16:39.580 in our campaign. But that website is pretty awesome. And when you're seeing that number

00:16:43.320 scroll up so, so, so, so fast, you really get a good visual for how much money is bleeding out

00:16:48.480 of this province and just continues to all the time so as your group you know you plan to reach

00:16:54.800 out to the people who are undecided or considering you know uh independence curious whatever way you

00:16:59.140 want to put it uh what is the plan to reach them though they're going to be public events is are

00:17:03.700 you coordinating uh volunteers door knocking literature what sort of aspects of a campaign

00:17:09.160 have you guys got planned well a lot of that undecided population lives in the world of

00:17:16.040 mainstream and legacy media. So one of our big plans is to make sure that we're out there and

00:17:20.560 available for engaging with the media. That hasn't always been the case in the past, and it's been

00:17:25.500 met with a little bit of opposition, a little bit controversial. So we want to make sure that we're

00:17:30.360 willing to engage with that part of our world. And then also there will be a kind of a hybrid of

00:17:36.240 traditional marketing campaigns. There will be some door knocking and educational brochures and

00:17:41.720 information that goes out that way with our website and different avenues but then also we'll

00:17:46.620 be doing some really high-end digital marketing and social media marketing and campaign that way

00:17:52.660 we have a really great team that's very specialized in that part so that will be exciting to see that

00:17:57.840 shift a bit too great and then so this is i mean how do you distinguish i guess you know i mean

00:18:03.720 people work with more than one group they work with more than one thing uh mr wilson is is working

00:18:08.700 with creating a white paper and and items such as that but he's still a part of this group that's

00:18:14.220 formed as well like like what's the how's that whole relationship kind of work oh we declared

00:18:20.240 ourselves a third-party advertiser group as as you're kind of aware with how those groups work

00:18:24.280 as well because we have uh huge intentions of spending well over a thousand dollars advocating

00:18:29.560 for a certain outcome with the referendum questions so we've been working on that but

00:18:35.780 then also if you're not advertising for a specific outcome and the Alberta Transition Council is just

00:18:42.460 doing some education and research and putting together information for the general public of

00:18:46.740 how a transition could happen for Alberta going from a province to a nation that's just educational

00:18:53.120 material it's not not advocating either way and yeah so they're well inclined to be able to do

00:18:58.760 a little bit of all those things I love that there's so many third-party advertisers out there

00:19:03.440 that are all advocating for it and people often ask why we don't just have one and stick under

00:19:07.740 one big umbrella and I don't know if like the public's quite aware that if you do that you're

00:19:12.400 limiting yourself to a maximum limit that you can spend on your campaign which is six hundred and

00:19:19.060 seven thousand dollars by having multiple third-party advertisers and each kind of taking

00:19:23.540 their own routes to advocate for that same outcome then we have each group has that maximum amount to

00:19:29.680 be able to spend. And when we're fighting against some of the huge opposition we are with the big

00:19:33.900 bank accounts that we are, it's more important, I think, to have multiple people with multiple

00:19:38.280 voices and bigger campaign to be able to work with. Yeah. So that press conference on Friday

00:19:44.860 was very professional and well-planned and organized. And there was a great deal of legacy

00:19:51.940 media in attendance, wanting to see what's up and asking questions and such. What is your reaction

00:19:57.820 a response been since the conference now as people have heard of you guys and uh you know are having

00:20:03.820 a second look at you and considering getting involved well i think it's actually opened up

00:20:10.620 the door for conversation with uh mainstream media which is great that was kind of the intent

00:20:14.860 to it we wanted to engage them in conversation and make sure that you know we're available to

00:20:18.780 be able to discuss with them there was a great article just yesterday in the edmonton journal

00:20:23.180 um about our tpa launching about let alberta decide coming on the scene so i think that it's

00:20:29.100 been positive so far there's definitely a couple things that they've they've said in the media like

00:20:33.100 when they first um ran the stories right after that launch was that you know they tried to make

00:20:38.700 it seem like it was a rally a rally of 35 people showed up to support this launch knowing full well

00:20:44.940 that it was kept small intentionally because it was a media event targeted specifically

00:20:49.900 an invitation only to the mainstream media so there was a little bit of

00:20:53.980 a skewing of words there but overall it's been really positive so far

00:20:58.220 yeah that's that frustration and we see that in in general and and that's what leads i guess

00:21:03.900 some of the groups and individuals to sometimes refuse to speak to legacy media outlets but at

00:21:09.660 the same time as you said you got to reach the people who watch those so even i mean most of

00:21:14.140 the outlets can be pretty fair when you talk to them but once in a while they'll pull stunts as

00:21:17.580 as you mentioned. Hopefully they remain somewhat fair until the end of the campaign. We've got to

00:21:23.680 get to everybody. A question from Stuart, just saying, are you going to have signs or flags from

00:21:29.060 your organization? I think that we will have some of those right now. We're not, there is quite a

00:21:36.220 few organizations that are doing some excellent signage and we're happy that they're doing that

00:21:41.480 and kind of want to stay in our own lanes so we're not overlapping and taking, you know, funding away

00:21:47.080 from where it's best used by the people who know how to do it the best but yeah there's been some

00:21:51.520 requests for for signs and flags so we'll get those um available i'm sure in the coming days

00:21:58.140 there as well that's something that has been kind of unique and i mean i i guess it remains to be

00:22:02.860 seen whether this turns into a really good campaign with a bunch of different groups biting

00:22:05.960 off chunks or or if it turns into a a gong show i guess by october hopefully the former

00:22:11.020 uh because yes it allows i guess some groups to say well we could take that part off our plate

00:22:16.340 and focus on this over here and we can deal with this rather because when you're a political party

00:22:21.500 you have to do everything and with a tpa you can actually focus a little more yeah and also with a

00:22:28.960 political party your campaign timeline is usually about a month if that we have a very very long

00:22:35.100 campaign period with this so i think it's kind of important to try to allocate our resources

00:22:40.040 accordingly and to not wear people out and then our big focus again is just like to really

00:22:46.640 normalize the conversation around Albert independence that that's not a traitorous

00:22:51.940 conversation it's not evil it's not coming out of hatred or disgust it's coming out of frustration

00:22:57.580 and it's we're going to be asked this gigantic question on referendum day Albert should be able

00:23:02.860 to have some conversation and discussion around it yeah so some of the there's constraints with

00:23:08.500 third-party advertising and what can be raised what can be spent an interesting question from

00:23:12.420 carl peterson saying how do you know when a group has reached their maximum contributions uh you

00:23:16.480 know and then you would have to go somewhere else but i i believe the groups would report it

00:23:19.760 themselves if they've hit the top they're just gonna have to say well we got to work with what

00:23:22.900 we got yeah i would think that's how it would have to go because you have to report every week

00:23:27.760 i don't do the reporting part for our tpa but the really smart people in that area of it they're

00:23:33.380 doing that for us which is awesome but you would know quite a bit about that as well too

00:23:36.520 so I'm yeah we're not anywhere close to hitting that and then I guess yeah once

00:23:43.500 yeah and once the TPA does hit that and you make that announcement then there's lots of other great

00:23:50.560 TPAs that would happily take those donations yeah and I don't know the state of every TPA but I

00:23:56.900 suspect most of them aren't pushing on the brink of 600,000 yet but it's still a very good question

00:24:02.260 because people want to support and it's different you know there's no maximums giving to well there's

00:24:05.880 maximum individuals but there's no maximum a political party can collect for example

00:24:09.540 like some of those distinguishments between political parties and third party advertisements

00:24:13.880 and people are going to have a bit of confusion in the next few months figuring that out

00:24:16.680 yeah even for personally donating like lots of people don't realize that you can donate 5 000

00:24:24.080 but that's the maximum you can donate for all the tpas combined your maximum donations right

00:24:29.460 and you can also donate as your corporation so people are are wanting to cut some big checks

00:24:35.460 and they're being very generous but you are limited by that amount so have your corporation

00:24:40.820 write one have your your spouse write one have all of your adult children there's ways that you

00:24:46.060 can donate more if you need to you just have to be aware that it is for all the tpa donations

00:24:50.360 combined that you're writing yeah so uh you know i'll kind of leave off because it's you're going

00:24:55.720 to be the the person speaking for this group what drew you to uh jump out and get active on this and

00:25:01.400 become the face of this new movement here? I don't know if I'm the face of it just one of

00:25:07.060 yeah one of the faces and one of the people willing to stick their neck out of it but I have

00:25:11.300 been involved with this for quite a few years now I've worked with the Alberta Prosperity Project

00:25:15.440 and worked with a bunch of different groups and then just on my own trying to engage Albertans

00:25:20.880 in the conversation so Keith actually approached me and asked if I would be interested in doing

00:25:24.820 this with him and for someone of his status that I respect so much and has spoken so calmly

00:25:30.820 and respectfully to people about this topic I jumped at the chance to work with him and the

00:25:36.560 team that we've got compiled is fantastic but yeah just working with everybody in this whole

00:25:41.920 movement has been really great yourself for Scott there's a lot of awesome people I've enjoyed

00:25:46.760 working with yeah people are coming from all sorts of fronts that's for sure it's it's whatever

00:25:52.940 happens it's going to be a first we've never quite seen something like this and we just want to make

00:25:57.060 sure it's a positive first. So before I let you go then, where can, you know, remind people where

00:26:03.500 they can find your organization, how they can support it, and what might you have in the works

00:26:08.220 in the near future? Yeah, so if you go on to LetAlbertaDecide.com, LetAlbertaDecide on any

00:26:16.820 of the social media platforms, there is donation links on our website, so we would really appreciate

00:26:22.180 uh the donations to help get us rolling get us going we've got our team started on the social

00:26:28.180 media and the the digital advertising so that's kind of our our first steps is to really get that

00:26:34.180 going so it can kind of start to compound and and grow exponentially over the coming months

00:26:38.660 yeah so we'd appreciate you check that out great well i thank you very much for getting that rolling

00:26:45.240 tanya and for taking some time to come in today to talk to uh us about it and uh looking forward

00:26:50.620 to seeing how that tpa develops in the next few weeks and months yeah well thank you very much

00:26:56.540 for having me and thanks for all you do as well pleasure all right thank you so that was guys

00:27:02.120 tanya clemens of the new third-party advertising group let alberta decide and i i think a lot of

00:27:07.840 people have been looking forward to seeing something i mean there's there's stuff going on

00:27:11.780 it's that mixed blessing i guess of having different groups all coming from different

00:27:15.940 directions. There's advantages, but there's disadvantages. The primary groups that were

00:27:20.820 out there, Alberta Prosperity Project and Stay Free Alberta, it sounds like they might be getting

00:27:24.980 some stuff rolling now. I'm not too sure. I'm not a member of them, but they were stalled for

00:27:30.060 whatever reasons. I leave that to them to explain whatever happened. But this referendum campaign

00:27:35.540 was getting rolling and those groups weren't budging. And now it sounds like there's things

00:27:41.520 happening. I think Mitch Sylvester's speaking at an event in Red Deer tonight or something like

00:27:45.740 that. So good. The more, the better. But having all these groups coming forward now, we need them

00:27:52.260 focused on their own areas, perhaps. So this one looks really, really good. And as Tanya said,

00:27:57.400 we need a rational approach. And we've got to remember something I think that's happened in

00:28:02.060 the independence movement a bit is some echo chambering. You know, the petitioning period

00:28:06.000 pulled a lot of people together, and it was really interesting and striking to watch. And all those

00:28:10.680 people, you know, getting moving towards a common goal like that. But at the same time, they weren't

00:28:15.920 reaching, I think, too many of the new people or the people on the brink. And that's who really

00:28:21.220 must be reached now, the people who aren't sure, the undecideds. There's always going to be 30%

00:28:26.280 that never support a cause like this in a million years. Fair enough. But there's a big piece that

00:28:31.640 could consider it. And we got to figure out how to reach out to them. And being in echo chambers

00:28:36.100 won't do that. That's why, as Tanya mentioned, there can be some real unfair crap out of legacy

00:28:41.720 media with that one example, for example. But at the same time, a lot of the outlets covered things

00:28:47.180 fairly as well. Or sometimes people will see an unfair coverage from legacy media, but they know

00:28:51.500 it's unfair and it still helps your group. So don't antagonize legacy media. Don't completely ignore

00:28:59.080 them because you've got to reach everybody by every means you can. Whether we like it or not,

00:29:03.860 There's a whole lot of people still get the bulk of their news from CBC or CTV and things like that.

00:29:09.340 I'll just offer one of the tricks that, you know, happened in a sense with the issue I had going on with my work with a billboard down in Tabor and the battles going on there.

00:29:18.780 But one of the outlets, Global, went down and managed to find in Tabor, Alberta, one of the most conservative towns in the whole province.

00:29:28.040 Apparently, every person they approached did not like my billboard and felt the town was well justified in trying to have it removed.

00:29:35.080 I was quite astounded. Wow. Boy, that town really hates it.

00:29:38.860 CTV went out, on the other hand, spoke to a few people and found more mixed views.

00:29:43.060 A few people saying, I don't agree with the guy's message, but it's OK to have a billboard.

00:29:46.500 And they found a couple of people who said, yeah, I fully agree with that messaging and that billboard.

00:29:50.940 That's called doing streeters and media does it all the time.

00:29:54.600 It's one of the best ways you can take what looks to be a newscast and spin it to look like, well, to whatever aspect you want.

00:30:03.040 I got to wonder with the other coverage, how many people did they have to ask before they could find a few who really hated that sign

00:30:08.620 to make sure that those were the only ones that made the coverage?

00:30:10.720 You can never tell when you're watching the show, unfortunately.

00:30:15.220 But some of them are quite fair.

00:30:16.840 Some of them aren't.

00:30:17.520 We just got to cut through the BS to a degree for ourselves.

00:30:19.940 but we've got now it's just a bit less than four months to reach a lot of people and try and swing

00:30:28.680 their minds if you want to get an independence vote out of things. CB fixes all says, let everyone

00:30:33.620 know that each person can spend up to a thousand dollars on their own for this. That's an interesting

00:30:37.160 point. Cause I mean, I spoke to a person who reached out and said, you know, look, I got a

00:30:41.900 big spot on my land and I want to put a big wrap on this, this old building or whatever.

00:30:46.200 uh and and you know can you have that made uh with your organization and send it out to me i said

00:30:51.360 well it's kind of outside i don't do custom things and everything we we're already kind of scrambling

00:30:55.000 to keep up with what we do he said well i talked to a printer out here and he could do it for 700

00:30:58.920 dollars so well you know what if it's just your own barn you can put your own flag up and whatever

00:31:03.440 you like if you're spending under a thousand as cb fixes all you don't have to be a third party

00:31:09.140 advertiser that that that's you can spend your own money on that bit of promotion just be careful

00:31:13.280 you know don't press the limits that's something we've everybody's going to have to watch as well

00:31:19.280 some of the discussions uh i saw somebody else in the comments reminding as well or maybe 10

00:31:25.840 you mentioned it but it's cumulative when you donate to these organizations and they do track

00:31:31.320 it that's why they make these organ all of these organizations input their financials every week

00:31:38.600 So if you've donated $500 here, $1,000 there, $2,000 here, $600 there to a bunch of different groups, Elections Alberta will compile all that.

00:31:48.680 They'll get it in the reporting.

00:31:49.740 And if you cross the $5,000 limit, you will go over.

00:31:54.400 So it's kind of on you because the organization you donate to doesn't know who else you donated to.

00:32:01.340 So you could just end up in a little bit of soup that way and having to get money collected or something like that.

00:32:08.040 So watch for some of the rules because it's not like a political party where it's a little more nuanced and easier to figure out, you know, what you're allowed to spend on and what you're not allowed to spend on.

00:32:18.440 But it's something like we've never seen before.

00:32:20.320 And for people spending $5,000, you know, I mean, yeah, for most of us, I don't have to worry about it.

00:32:24.720 I'm not going to forget how much I ever spent.

00:32:26.860 And I'm not in a position to make contributions to anything that high.

00:32:30.740 But some people are.

00:32:31.880 And just take care.

00:32:33.480 Don't get in trouble.

00:32:34.220 We've seen some of the issues with the campaign because of some groups already that got caught just having very serious issues with elections, Alberta rules and lists and things such as that.

00:32:45.740 And let's avoid the distraction.

00:32:48.860 D. Robert also pointing out, thanks for liking.

00:32:50.620 It helps a lot.

00:32:51.140 Yes, do the likes, the shares, all that stuff.

00:32:52.900 I like it when people remind me of that to help get our channel out there and reaching more people.

00:32:57.880 Let's see what else is going on.

00:32:59.180 You know, I had a discussion with one of the folks in the newsroom about that case with a 12-year-old child getting medical assistance and dying in the Netherlands, and it's awful.

00:33:13.480 And, you know, that individual I spoke to doesn't support medical assistance and dying in any circumstance, no matter what, for anybody.

00:33:19.060 Fair enough.

00:33:19.500 You know, there's people who have misgivings about it, whether it's religious or personal or whatnot.

00:33:25.200 But it's just such a tough, tough issue.

00:33:28.820 It really is. We don't know in the case of that 12-year-old, for example, and I get worried because we're hearing about some cases where MAID has been applied to people where it really does not belong. People with, you know, mental health issues, depression, diabetes, these are not things that make sense to have somebody be killed for.

00:33:49.960 But we don't know the condition of this child. You know, was it, you know, confident that there was a few weeks of agony and misery to live through, or they'd have to be just drugged into a coma to survive it out? Or was there something more?

00:34:06.320 But we need, this is really turning into a worldwide issue 0.99

00:34:09.980 because MAID is being used more and more.

00:34:12.480 The numbers are going up.

00:34:13.940 And as they go up, we're hearing more cases

00:34:16.400 where it's not being properly applied.

00:34:20.540 And that's frightening.

00:34:21.800 I mean, if the state's going to take on that ability to offer that,

00:34:25.280 we've got to have as many guardrails as possible.

00:34:29.300 And anybody, thinking about a 12-year-old,

00:34:31.520 but I mean, it might have been terminal too.

00:34:33.040 Cancer is a horrible disease.

00:34:34.140 I don't even know if it was cancer.

00:34:35.080 But I don't know. These things are tough. These are just really, really tough. Actually, here's a good question. I might as well crab that before I go to the next subject too. Listening Albert says, please explain if people from outside of Alberta can donate. If you have, I apologize, but please repeat. That's okay.

00:34:49.600 So yeah, I will remind you, nobody from outside of Alberta can donate to third-party advertisers for the sake of Tanya's group and every other one of them and the grief that mine found, by the way, to start with.

00:35:01.260 If you donate more than $50, we must have your personal information.

00:35:06.840 Absolutely must.

00:35:08.200 In e-transfers, things like that, we don't necessarily get anything but a first name and a last name.

00:35:12.300 We've got to have more to stay compliant.

00:35:14.980 And if we can't find it, if we can't get that information, I'll tell you the worst thing that'll happen.

00:35:20.920 Let's say you gave $500 and we never got the information.

00:35:23.900 We have to give it to the government.

00:35:25.420 You don't want to do that.

00:35:27.020 So please, please, please, whoever you give it to, make sure they get that information.

00:35:31.000 And no, you cannot donate from outside of the province.

00:35:33.540 It has to be from within.

00:35:36.320 So, you know, speaking of some of the other things, here's an interesting one out of the government.

00:35:40.260 And we'll see how well that might work.

00:35:42.160 But it's a positive announcement from the provincial government.

00:35:46.140 They've got a 10-year cancer care strategy talking about screening programs,

00:35:50.560 diagnoses, and improving treatment and support.

00:35:53.760 See, one of the things that people who oppose made, fine, fair enough,

00:35:57.040 but then let's make sure that we really invest in all the possible ways to treat

00:36:00.560 or make people comfortable when they get these kinds of diseases, particularly cancer.

00:36:07.220 It's just such an awful one.

00:36:08.280 And it's one that diagnostics really are often so integral for.

00:36:13.440 I mean, your chances of being able to treat or deal with something are so much higher

00:36:17.640 if you manage to get diagnosed early.

00:36:21.240 But if you wait too long, you hear too often about that, whether it's prostate, colon,

00:36:25.680 you know, a breast lump that's forgotten, and then you find out it's just too late.

00:36:29.140 You only get one shot at life.

00:36:30.840 So having the government invest in some of those things could be a good thing.

00:36:34.520 I want to see good health spending, not more dumped into unions, not other things.

00:36:39.140 Because I think, and of course, maybe that's what the opponents dismiss, as they always will. 0.93

00:36:42.320 They'll say, well, she just wants to get more private diagnostics and things go on.

00:36:45.560 Well, if it's going to speed up the lists, good, good.

00:36:50.880 What are some of the other things?

00:36:51.900 The unfortunate Alberta connection to that shooting in Montreal.

00:36:55.600 Speaking of media, what a mess, you know. 0.99

00:37:00.460 So this guy from apparently Lethbridge, a young man, clearly sick and insane. 0.94

00:37:08.780 He wrote a massive manifesto full of just bizarre ramblings. 0.92

00:37:13.700 It was 150 pages long.

00:37:14.960 I skimmed it.

00:37:15.640 Rebel Media was the first to put it right out there in full. 0.99

00:37:19.420 And this guy had all sorts of crap going on between his ears.

00:37:22.480 But it's funny how so many people scrambled, oh, it's not this, it's not that, it's not this. 0.99

00:37:25.720 Well, wait, let's have a look.

00:37:27.960 and he's got a whole whack of anti-Semitism

00:37:30.420 packed in there, he's worried about the Jewish 0.99

00:37:32.160 conspiracies, usual crap like that 0.99

00:37:34.120 he also did have some huge beefs 0.99

00:37:36.180 with women, he was whining about how 0.95

00:37:38.380 women only sleep with

00:37:42.060 attractive men and men just have to take 1.00

00:37:44.240 what they can get

00:37:44.980 just a 1.00

00:37:47.760 bitter, screwed up young man 1.00

00:37:50.360 and he went on a shooting rampage 0.99

00:37:52.420 and thankfully wasn't as long as

00:37:54.020 some of these can turn into

00:37:57.040 It sounds like the innocent person who got killed in this was a rabbi who was actually just trying to help somebody or running around.

00:38:04.320 It was a police officer shot.

00:38:05.460 But when you're in a panic circumstance with a shooter going on, I don't know.

00:38:09.520 It's hard to put yourself in the shoes of the others and, you know, tell if they acted correctly or not.

00:38:15.820 And the two officers got shot, too.

00:38:18.260 But either way, not a proud moment for Alberta, I guess.

00:38:23.080 I said, times like this, I'm not sad when the shooters die.

00:38:27.060 I got to admit that.

00:38:27.840 You know, we don't need this person lingering around, dragging things through the courts.

00:38:32.240 You can't cure that.

00:38:33.160 You can't fix that.

00:38:35.580 And some of the early discussions with people saying, you know, well, we'd have to determine if it was, you know, this person had mental health issues or not.

00:38:43.520 I know when it comes to a plea to try and get out of criminal responsibility, you can do that.

00:38:46.680 But come on, let's face it.

00:38:47.460 anybody capable of picking up a firearm and going out and starting to shoot people

00:38:52.360 has screws loose. They have metal elf issues. That's a given. You know, I guess you could talk

00:38:56.880 about how premeditated it might've been or things like that, but, uh, nobody sane commits acts like

00:39:04.200 that. Awful, awful stuff. But we got to watch as it was breaking, as it was coming out as, uh,

00:39:11.220 on Twitter X as it is now. And the reason I like X is because that's the place to be when

00:39:16.600 something's breaking. You really do see live reports. You see it as fast as it's going to

00:39:21.380 happen. But you got to be really careful on there too, because the BS spreads as fast on there as

00:39:27.120 the facts do. It did sound like this could have been a case of targeted, you know, an attack on

00:39:34.740 Jews or something, because the victim happened to be a rabbi. And as it was found with this guy's

00:39:40.980 manifesto. He had a problem with Jews, but it was the cop who shot the rabbi and it was just a mess.

00:39:48.100 And the officer who got killed in that, his first name was Muhammad. So, you know, these things,

00:39:54.920 when people made speculation right off the bat on how it was targeted or what's going on, we just

00:39:58.580 got to hold our horses sometimes a little on social media and wait until some of those facts

00:40:03.580 come out. Let's see. Another thing, you know, one of the things that I think ruins a little bit of

00:40:11.420 the legitimacy of the whole mess that we've got now with citizens initiated referendum, which is

00:40:15.940 a policy I've always really liked. I liked, like Switzerland has them all the time. They hold

00:40:20.040 referendum and people do it through petitioning. And in Alberta, on two fronts, there's a problem.

00:40:25.120 One was that the ridiculous ruling that we needed to consult every Indigenous person in the world

00:40:29.360 before holding a citizens-initiated referendum. 0.53

00:40:31.880 It's absurd.

00:40:32.720 It was a liberal-appointed judge who shut things down.

00:40:35.460 Dead wrong.

00:40:36.640 Undemocratic ruling.

00:40:38.320 But then I see, and there's one of the problems.

00:40:40.440 See, when the government doesn't like

00:40:41.700 where the citizens' initiative goes,

00:40:43.060 they can step in and stop it.

00:40:45.380 And I'm usually quite, you know, again,

00:40:46.920 defend Premier Smith,

00:40:47.820 but this coal petition that was done

00:40:50.460 by that country singer, is it Lund?

00:40:53.400 And he wants to ban coal mining on the Eastern Slope.

00:40:55.500 I don't agree with him.

00:40:56.840 I don't at all.

00:40:57.500 but he used the process properly and he got the requisite number of signatures it sounds like and

00:41:03.720 it sounds like that the smith government's now found a loophole well it's too late you haven't

00:41:07.300 gotten in on time and we're just not going to allow that one to go on the ballot this time

00:41:11.080 around like the spirit of the point of allowing people to initiate their own referenda has been

00:41:16.260 completely screwed up in alberta between two things one i think activist judges and two a

00:41:22.400 provincial government that doesn't actually want citizens to bring about petitions on things that

00:41:27.040 they don't want to face. You need real legislation. You need to be binding. You need to be fully taken

00:41:32.640 out of the hands of the government. They're not the ones to make that final choice, but that's

00:41:36.880 not where we're at yet. But we are working on what we've got so far, I guess, with the fall

00:41:43.500 referendum. It's going to be the subject all summer long and into fall. We're already seeing

00:41:48.740 it. The headlines are about Alberta unity, about the province, about the country. I think it's a

00:41:53.220 good thing, have that conversation, have this going on, because it is a mess. I think it's a

00:41:59.320 lost cause in the Federation, but that's my view. Maybe people think they can fix it. This is going

00:42:03.560 to be the year to talk about all these things. I mean, we've never seen it like this, never at all.

00:42:07.440 And people are saying, well, it's not a real question. It's not binding. It's not a real

00:42:10.500 referendum. Fair enough. It is a question about holding a question, but it has become a de facto

00:42:14.520 referendum on independence. There's the two camps, the two sides, the two campaigns, and one is going

00:42:19.800 to declare a victory out of this. So if they're really dedicated to one side or another, it's

00:42:23.460 incumbent on you to make sure you show as well as possible in it this fall. All right, that's what

00:42:28.060 I got today, guys. Thank you very much for tuning in. Be sure to tune in next week. I think we might

00:42:34.440 run the show a day early because we'll have Canada Day hitting on that particular day. We'll see how

00:42:39.840 that scheduling goes. Of course, we'll post that online so you know it. Watch the pipeline tonight.

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Western Standard - June 27, 2026

CORY MORGAN SHOW： Calgary’s woke want to kill cowboy culture

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