Stephen Carter, the former campaign manager for Alison Redford and Nahid Nenshi, is threatening to sue the Western Standard. Charges have been dropped against the Whistlestop, one of the rogue restaurants that participated in the restaurant revolution against the lockdowns in Alberta. And the Grace Life Church continues to defy the lockdown even with their pastor in jail.
00:12:12.720Although, you know, like this is a guy who I don't have the exact number in front of me, but he has defaulted essentially.
00:12:21.140Yeah, defaulted on court order payments in the past himself when he's been ordered by courts to pay up.
00:12:27.520Although Allison Redford made nice on that with a nice big six figure cool check from taxpayers for serving roughly six months as chief of staff.0.92
00:12:38.240or as the Calgary Sun at the time put it, Chief of Stiff for Alison Redford.
00:12:44.040So, yeah, we expected that he is litigious, he would threaten something, but he's got absolutely nothing.
00:12:50.340We told him last night, privately and publicly, fine, send us something.0.94
00:12:55.880If you think we've defamed your campaign or libeled, send us something.
00:13:00.920We didn't receive anything last night.
00:13:02.800We didn't receive anything by 11.30 today, so I publicly reminded him again.
00:13:09.920Now, we'll see if they follow through.
00:13:12.260But as I've said, this is an extremely litigious man who loves to try and sue people to get his way, try to threaten people to shut them up.
00:14:02.240Corey, anything else on this one before we move on?
00:14:04.660Just that it's an indication, though, of a bigger picture. And we might see more of this in the municipal campaign. Like 20 years ago, Calgary or Alberta municipal politics were kind of a funding free for all. You could donate as much as you wanted. There was no disclosure rules. It was, in my view, actually kind of a legalized bribery system.
00:14:21.980but over the years it's really cracked down and there's some real hard caps on what a person can
00:14:27.380contribute now and how much a candidate can spend or raise which you know you're trying to cap a
00:14:33.040bottle and all that happens is now all these packs start spawning all over the places as different
00:14:38.360groups and candidates try to find different ways to fund campaigns and it's a convoluted area of
00:14:43.740what's allowed and what's not allowed I won't speculate as to whether or not anything untoward
00:14:48.840was done but we're going to see probably more of this popping up as different packs get involved
00:14:53.160in this campaign uh whether they cross lines or not uh fair enough as i said we're going to be
00:15:02.440dropping um uh we'll be dropping a link to the uh donate page where you can learn more about uh
00:15:11.640this uh threatened lawsuit from uh stephen carter and you can make a donation to our legal defense
00:15:18.600fund uh let's move over to uh more abuse of the law uh charges have been dropped against a rogue
00:15:25.880restaurant in alberta the whistle stop dave wanted to fill us in yeah you remember the whistle stop
00:15:32.920made uh headlines uh recently when they defied alberta health services orders to uh to remain
00:15:40.040shut they're located about 70 kilometers north of red deer and they decided they could no longer
00:15:45.960afford to keep closed. The bills were coming in and as owner Christopher Scott told me,
00:15:53.080you can only lose so much money. So the whistle stop did open and they were doing a booming
00:16:00.500business. The RCMP kept a close eye on them. And a short time later, they were visited by
00:16:08.960the officials and Alberta Health Services inspectors
00:24:36.700They've been staying away from their places of worship for almost a year now.
00:24:40.520This is, you know, as we've established repeatedly, I am a faithless heathen myself, but I do understand the importance of gatherings and religious gatherings for people who do have faith. That's why we have religious rights entrenched into every developed country here, you know, in their constitution as a human right. It's integral, it's important, and it's being stepped on.
00:25:02.520so you know church attendees who are tired of waiting uh church leaders i can see this expanding
00:25:09.160further and further yet if they let them out and say okay everybody can have a large gathering
00:25:12.840well they're kind of kind of hooped on their their lockdown regulations as well so i'm not sure how
00:25:17.480this is going to develop because there's no no easy exit for the state now no easy exit for the
00:25:24.680state that sounds like a title of a good book well uh fascinating stuff um well i know a lot of you
00:25:36.440uh very much enjoyed the interview we had uh monday night uh danielle smith guest hosting
00:25:44.040for the western standard we were very uh very happy to have her uh she had interviewed very
00:25:50.280extensively um a retired lieutenant colonel david redmond uh and the form and he was also the former
00:25:58.440head of alberta's emergency management this is a man who knows his stuff uh and and he has been
00:26:05.000in large measure um de-platformed from speaking publicly um he is not some kooky conspiracy
00:26:13.640theorist uh he is an immensely credible and knowledgeable man about how governments uh
00:26:20.760handle and should handle emergencies and uh that was a two-hour interview i was skeptical that you
00:26:27.880guys would hang in there instead we had a huge record audience um you know i'm sure you guys
00:26:35.080prefer uh uh i i'm not quite as uh good a host cory dave and i are not quite as good a host as uh
00:26:41.880Danny Hill, so I think that had something to do with it, but it was fascinating. You guys stood
00:26:46.460through a two-hour interview, roughly half an hour, 40 minutes of which was a PowerPoint
00:26:53.440presentation. I was shocked with the interest. We've had, so far, between YouTube and Facebook,
00:26:59.74060,000 people watch that interview, which is two hours long. Absolutely incredible.
00:27:05.640uh i think over 2 000 comments on it now just absolutely grabbed people's attention and good
00:27:14.420news we're gonna bring it back and we're gonna do it again we're actually gonna probably do it a
00:27:18.820few times now uh danielle smith has agreed to hope uh guest host a series of uh covid and
00:27:27.220lockdown related uh interviews we're going to continue to do long form interviews not little
00:27:32.960short 15 20 minute interviews that you normally get on the radio because you're pressed for time
00:27:38.000you're up against commercials we're going to do long form interviews where people can really
00:27:43.580get their point out it's not just a couple of high level talking points where people are
00:27:49.220really kind of forced to be very very brief and you don't really get to the meat of it we're going
00:27:55.540to get into the meat of it we're going to get all the way to the bone of the matter and we're going
00:28:01.080to go through that and then take questions and answers like we did on Monday. So Danielle
00:28:06.780Smith is going to be back probably next week. I'm guessing Monday. We'll have a time confirmed
00:28:13.140soon, but we're going to be back. We're going to have a doctor on, likely as our first next
00:28:18.920guest, an incredible person who knows about these kinds of things. And we're going to
00:28:23.800get his perspective. We're going to do a whole series on this with other experts, other doctors.
00:28:29.240We're looking at a whole long-form episode on de-platformed doctors, bringing on board doctors who have been de-platformed and are not allowed to speak in the mainstream media because they disagreed with the mainstream government narrative that's being pushed here.
00:28:47.700So we're trying to continue to edge out a space for ourselves between the mainstream media and some of the more far-out stuff, which I think veers into conspiracy land.
00:28:56.980What we want is bold, controversial, and expert witnesses on this show who you're not going to hear of in the mainstream media.
00:29:09.560We're going to bring it to you in a series coming up.
00:29:13.020We'll have the details announced soon, but I know you're all going to be very much wanting to pay attention and watch that.
00:29:20.180Okay, well, as we wrap up, again, I want to thank all of our Western Standard members for your support.
00:29:26.280As I said, our membership has exploded in just the last two weeks.
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00:29:39.040Dave, Corey, thank you very much for joining me today.