00:03:49.920And the bulk of America are, I think, scratching their heads and saying, why the hell did we get into this?
00:03:56.080I mean, there's a lot of speculation as to why.
00:03:58.020I think your common citizen is just like, what on earth are we doing here?
00:04:02.120You know, you'd expect a smoking gun faster than that than if there really was something.
00:04:06.540And it's just looking like another impulsive, strange action from President Trump.
00:04:11.000And the brain leading to this, you know, ceasefire armistice, whatnot, President Trump's tweet or truth social posting the other night where he said he was going to eliminate a civilization.
00:05:53.200But let's go through the 10-point plan just kind of really briefly.
00:05:57.240Again, there is some dispute about the 10-point plan.
00:06:00.540It was released in Arabic first because it was coming through negotiators and Pakistan, which is funny because neither Pakistan nor Iran are Arabic-speaking countries.
00:06:13.780But they all have no use of Arabic because that's the Quranic language.
00:11:40.460combinations of these things it seems they couldn't find a general willing to carry out
00:11:46.140the orders here for a ground invasion and so they just kind of threw up their hands you know Trump
00:11:52.420is according to Trump he's never lost anything in his life we've won tremendous victory total
00:11:56.280victory unconditional surrender and he even said it's regime change and it's literally just the son
00:12:01.060of the Ayatollah uh what do you think finally got the Americans just to go from 24 hours earlier
00:12:08.440threatening genocide and like implying nuclear war to uh seemingly agree to a framework that is
00:12:16.640a total humiliation i think from the get-go this war there's there's been really the reason for
00:12:22.120the invasion or for the not the invasion the uh attack on iran has been muddled there's been no
00:12:28.480clear at least with iraq with iraq and with the gulf war there was it was regime change and they
00:12:32.920said from the outset no it was weapons of mass destruction at least they had just two whereas
00:12:38.040with iran is from the start there's been no clear objective and so when you start a war with no
00:12:43.240clear objective and then claim victory when the end goal will be what if in the when the best
00:12:49.400case scenario it'll be status quo from beforehand so i can't see how they can come out of this in
00:12:55.720any sort of positive manner like i mean i guess in trump's eyes he's he's killed the ayatollah so
00:13:01.480that's a victory but again i don't think the americans understand is when you're dealing with
00:13:05.500a regime like iran that martyrdom that sense of like dying for the cause will only bolster support
00:13:11.360with the iranian people and before this is there was a sort of a a simmering support for the return
00:13:17.080of the shah and kind of you know persian monarchism and that but now it's it like you threaten to
00:13:23.980annihilate a people you're not going to be winning popular support and getting those people to rise
00:13:27.640up to support the person who says we're going to annihilate you it just it doesn't make sense
00:13:32.140Well, I mean, this is one of the, well, it should have been lessons of, say, the Second World War, is demanding unconditional surrender means that people are not going to be willing to overthrow their regime to attain better peace terms.
00:13:45.180It's like, you know, when it becomes clear, like, we're going to annihilate you, we're going to crush your cities, carve up your territory.
00:13:51.140People tend to rally behind the regime, even if they don't like the regime.
00:13:55.260and you can you threaten annihilating a civilization intimating essentially a nuclear attack
00:14:01.900people like and you start blowing up civilian infrastructure you could turn me into a friggin
00:14:08.080ayatollist i'll go blow myself like god at that point well not just that but the threatening of
00:14:12.320energy infrastructure and on another point i don't think trump i think trump understands like i don't
00:14:17.520think he truly understands the word unconditional surrender means i think he's heard it and same
00:14:20.180with pete heggs as well i think he just heard that that's what you get when you win a war you
00:14:24.020unconditional surrender so they're saying unconditional surrender you will not get that
00:14:27.880with this regime and it was that was that was never going to happen Iran is Afghanistan is a
00:14:32.560country of 90 million people you were never going to be able to fully it's assert your will on that
00:14:38.460country so any thoughts of that was was well it's also a misinterpretation of the atmosphere on the
00:14:43.940ground too though I mean there had been a lot of activity looking like maybe the citizenship were
00:14:47.600ready to rise up like if we could just shake down the regime enough the people themselves were going
00:14:52.660to get up and you know have a revolution which didn't happen if anything actually it seems to
00:14:57.900have unified them yeah but you know there were mass protests there were people pushing back
00:15:03.380against the the regime i guess when push came to shove though they were still saying well we'd
00:15:07.720rather the dictator who's our guy rather over the overseas dictator who's not and do we have that in
00:15:15.160writing somewhere with the the express will of the you know the ordinary iranian no i mean that's a
00:15:22.140hard thing to read but i mean at least you know your hope would be if there was such an atmosphere
00:15:27.400that they were ready to overthrow if you've weakened the regime enough that's when people
00:15:30.980are going to see that opportunity say let's go for it because they tried a couple of months ago
00:15:34.800and tens of thousands of them died for their efforts and you know you would see what happens
00:15:41.600when they start slipping weapons in the back door in iran well that might have been more of the
00:16:10.260what the status of the Iranian nuclear program
00:16:12.240was. We don't know if they were actively building weapons
00:16:14.300with the first Iranian war six months ago.
00:16:16.320We don't know if they were building one this time.
00:16:18.340They've provided essentially no proof both times.
00:16:21.480But, you know, as I've made the point before, they claimed that they utterly annihilated their program and set it back decades, six months ago, and then they claimed to be doing it again now.
00:16:32.660So I am hesitant to believe U.S. and Israeli intelligence around this, following also Iraq before that.
00:17:06.940But if the Iranians were playing ball before, and again, I don't believe any of the intelligence, I don't believe the propaganda from either sides, I don't know what to believe.
00:17:16.140But if they weren't building a bomb before, they are definitely building one right now.
00:17:19.900They have to build a bomb, essentially.
00:17:21.440Or their resolve has been strengthened in that.
00:18:05.040You've had Iran 1, you've had Iran 2, and there's been no solid evidence provided any of those three times.
00:18:12.640So Iran could build a bomb now, and who's going to believe the Americans or Israelis if they claim it?
00:18:18.580And they might be true this time, but that's what happened with the boy who cried wolf.
00:18:22.460Let's see if any enriched uranium is produced as a result of these negotiations, because that's part of the 10 as well.
00:18:29.880Okay, all right, we'll move along. Something a little less dreary.
00:18:35.040So, Jackson, you did a great report this week, and we were chatting this morning.
00:18:45.220I think it deserves more attention, so we won't talk about it on the pipeline.
00:18:49.600You've got a bottle of pills in front of you, and you've got some sick notes that you were able to pay for through the Western Standards.
00:18:58.020just tell folks what the hell you did and what you found what's going on with these
00:19:03.300uh kind of telehealth doctors in alberta well basically i've been able to i i could have been
00:19:07.540off work until uh tomorrow or no a couple days from now i could be at home lounging but i'm not
00:19:13.220i'm here unfortunately um but so basically we we started an investigation just to see how easy it
00:19:17.860would be to get um well it started out as sick notes you know fake sick notes if you just call
00:19:22.180a doctor's i have a headache i don't want to go to work will they write you a sick note found out
00:19:26.660they will if you want to if you want to and you didn't have to see a doctor didn't have to
00:19:30.500a face i'm a doctor just over the phone what's your symptoms i'm stressed from work i don't know
00:19:35.460i didn't need two weeks off okay sure here's here's uh two weeks oh you want three weeks
00:19:39.620ninety dollars you want a month hundred like it's it's a pay-to-play sort of system and then it
00:19:44.180became what can we get out of this how much can we get and found out you can get pretty serious
00:19:49.700stuff like so okay tell us what you so this is zopaclone it's a uh it's called a zed drug uh
00:19:57.620i don't want to put the name there but you can see there yeah don't put the name of the
00:20:01.220thing there but okay derek's gonna start taking we're gonna we're gonna block that little part
00:20:05.860out if uh if you saw sure you don't get doxxed but yeah so basically i was able to have a phone
00:20:10.900call with one of these online doctors uh told them oh i'm not sleeping well stressed out from work
00:20:16.500a bit of headaches i didn't even ask i didn't say oh i want can you give me some sleeping pills
00:20:20.280uh she said would you like some i said of course they just offered them of course i'd like some
00:20:25.360and what do you know i went to my uh pharmacy that uh that night 15 later and i've got a little thing
00:20:31.840uh sleeping pills that i can now take and drink some liquor and kill myself with so
00:20:37.00015 tablets yeah i mean you take those all at once with a bottle rye uh you're having a night
00:20:42.200When I talked to Dr. Monte Ghosh at the University of Calgary and he basically was very informative and told me that, you know, these pills are like you hear about oxycontin and all these other like, you know, benzos and stuff.
00:20:53.440This isn't a benzo, but this is still a, you know, a highly addictive sleeping pill that should not be able to get that you should not be able to get through just a phone call to an online physician.
00:21:05.520yeah so yeah this started because we were uh we we thought you there might be suspicions about um
00:21:12.560uh how easy is it to get a sick note um yeah i know when i'm you know if i'm sick i guess i
00:21:18.240don't have to give myself a sick note now but uh you know we allow people to take some sick days
00:21:22.960here within reason um but you know if someone wants you know kind of an extended leave you
00:21:28.000know we require a sick note that we don't require sick note for taking one day off you got the flu
00:21:31.840you know that's no one wants to get up and go to the doctor's office to see that
00:21:35.580but i would always expect that a doctors don't provide it to me if someone's going on long-term
00:21:42.700medical leave that they would have seen a doctor uh you think you didn't even have to facetime
00:21:48.860you're just on the phone with them uh nigel i know you've been uh i don't mean this meanly but
00:21:54.200you've you've been in the workplace a while um you know traditionally you would expect you'd see
00:22:00.180a doctor, but this is a new thing. I'm not sure exactly how new, but it's relatively new.
00:22:06.100Chris Oldcorn, our reporter in Saskatchewan and opinion editor, he tried at Saskatchewan with
00:22:11.080at least one of these telehealth places. They told him pound sand. They're like, we'll give
00:22:16.840you two days at most. And that is so that you can go take the time off work to go to a doctor and
00:22:21.060get some tests and see what's wrong with you. They did not seem to have the same problem, Nigel.
00:22:26.400um but yeah we you know jackson found this endemic in alberta and it's paid to play and
00:22:34.220they'll give you more they'll offer pills that you don't even ask for there's going to be people
00:22:38.440phoning you up asking for contact information um good for some good for saskatchewan but this
00:22:44.400actually is a much bigger deal than um just in just in alberta it's continent wide uh the i did
00:22:53.400little bit of scan on the you know good old internet and um there are think of three tiers
00:23:01.240very common employees exaggerating illness seeking a convenient sick note which is i think where you
00:23:07.240were where you then there's the occasional people doctor shopping for prescriptions but there are
00:23:14.920also that's rare but they're also fake doctors you know this is an organized uh an organized
00:23:24.520fraud ring and it's continent-wide this problem in the united states a lot of individual states
00:23:30.280have clamped down on it have brought in specific legislation to make this kind of thing uh impossible
00:23:38.280one wonders how successful they have been but you know the real sad thing about all this
00:23:45.480but you ever take a sick day you ever taking a sick day i uh work from home but not a sick day
00:23:52.740a lot of people think there's nothing wrong with this uh ripping off the employer
00:23:57.500and work and staying home i assure you there is yeah there are a lot of people who think like that
00:24:03.980And the sickness here, I mean, there's a sickness among people who will write you a prescription for a fee, whether you deserve it or not.
00:24:11.840But the real sickness is people who are asking for it.
00:28:53.580There are three by-elections taking place right now. The Liberals are guaranteed to take one, very likely to take a second, and stand a damn good chance in the third. I think for all intents and purposes, today is the first day of a Liberal majority government.
00:29:09.880For all intents and purposes, you know, there's a lot of things about this that just really disappoint conservatives.
00:29:18.160One is that there's some hypocrisy here.
00:29:21.020Gladue had actually gone on the record.
00:35:18.420And she threw that to the wind because she wants, as you said, wants that more importance, a little more money, a few more committees to say, I'm a part of the government.
00:35:26.700And it just creates so much cynicism among people.
00:35:29.560This is what makes people throw their hands up, give up and not even vote at all, which is ineffective as voting might feel like not doing it at all will make it worse.
00:35:37.780You know, changing the parties doesn't even really change the government very much.
00:35:41.080But right now, the government itself could change even without an election.
00:35:44.500To your point on her principles, she actually voted against the ban on conversion therapy, which sets her as a...
00:37:02.320But the floor crossings had already started
00:37:06.260Some of us around the office, myself included, were speculating that floor crossing could happen during the convention to try and demoralize everyone while they're there.
00:37:14.120That didn't happen, but generally, I think, went right after the convention.
00:37:20.360He's passed his leadership review vote solidly, but that is never a guarantee you actually make it to the next election.
00:37:26.880And I've generally considered theories that, you know, he'd be ousted to be fantastical, kind of dug forward, projecting, wanting things to happen rather than actually sober analysis of things.
00:37:40.160But today's the first day where I've at least allowed a little bit of doubt that, huh, it's been four or five now.
00:39:19.140Do I think he, I really couldn't say like, because when you look at the kind of the coalition that Mark Carney is building, he's trying to match that.
00:39:31.540I think he's trying to match that sort of calm leadership that Carney is now sort of generating.
00:39:38.520But I, like at least with, when you look at the NDP, I don't agree with the leader they've elected, but at least that's something that Carney, that's a base Carney does not have.
00:39:49.140he does not have that left wing base poly of now is with as more people sort of even the more like
00:39:57.460socially conservative people like gladdo who are now migrating to carney's party it's it's going
00:40:02.100to be increasingly difficult for him to justify what his policies are what why he's different
00:40:07.860what makes him an attractive candidate to vote for instead of the liberal party which i wouldn't have
00:40:12.420said two years ago when he was polling
00:40:41.980um you know he was talking about uh you know the liberals taking his policies is like that's good
00:40:47.200i want them to steal my policies but does he want them does he want the liberals to steal his mps
00:40:55.040this is a lot now this is a lot this is not just you know you can't just say hey this was just
00:41:01.740this one miscontent and caucus and we're glad that guy's gone this is a lot now as cory said
00:41:09.660And Gladue, you know, as he said in blowing up my thesis around who crosses floors, this was not fitting the profile of, say, a Matt Jenner, who's like a really red Tory, kind of a political hack and a swing riding.