Western Standard - August 15, 2022


Enraged Calgary cyclist smashes cars window with his fist.

Mentioned
Danielle Smith David Marsden Matthew Horwood Shane Wenzel Ryan Jean Dave
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Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

149.84

Word count

273

Sentence count

20

Harmful content

Toxicity

2

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Summary

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A cyclist gets into a fight with a woman who honks at him, and then smashes out her passenger window with her fist, and the rest of the top stories of the day include a story about an angry cyclist who thought a woman had honked at him in the middle of the road, and an article from David Marsden on the situation at Athabasca university, and a story from a coalition of unions and publishers who say the CRTC has way too much power in Canada and it needs to be drawn back.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 The top story at the moment is some really good video of an enraged cyclist.
00:00:05.040 He got in a bit of road rage. He thought a female driver had honked at him.
00:00:10.780 In fact, she hadn't, but the cyclist took it the wrong way
00:00:15.260 and literally smashed out her passenger window with his fist.
00:00:19.880 I can see your face. I don't know why you're banging on my foot.
00:00:23.500 Wow. What are you doing?
00:00:26.580 Are you fucking kidding me? 0.99
00:00:30.740 Following along lines of what the Premier did this weekend, 0.99
00:00:34.520 Ryan Jean has called on Danielle Smith to release her entire Sovereignty Act
00:00:40.480 and says all the candidates should read it and then be critical or supportive.
00:00:47.320 And that's basically what Danielle Smith said after the Premier spoke,
00:00:51.160 saying, you know, it was too early. You've got to read the entire thing and go from there.
00:00:56.060 We've got a column from our David Marsden on the Athabasca University situation.
00:01:02.440 This is a funny story that, you know, the staff in Athabasca basically doesn't want to work there.
00:01:08.320 And even the president of the university is living in Edmonton.
00:01:13.520 So David opines about that strange situation.
00:01:19.680 We've got a Wenzel column, Shane Wenzel, talking about the fact that Calgary does not have a sprawl problem,
00:01:28.700 despite everything you hear from environmentalists and whatnot.
00:01:32.780 And we've got a story out of Ottawa by Matthew Horwood on a coalition of unions and publishers
00:01:38.800 who say the CRTC has way too much power in Canada and it needs to be drawn back.
00:01:46.440 Thanks for the update.
00:01:47.400 And we'll look forward to the stories as they come out, Dave.