Western Standard - December 13, 2023


Freeland accuses Poilievre of not standing with Ukraine

Topics
Akshaw lawsuit
Mentioned
Corey Akshaw Nigel Notebook Dave Naylor Trudeau Steven Guilbeault Marco Mendicino Dave Makachuk Doritos Dodgers Otani Jolie Jane
Whistleblower Trudeau's $1 Billion Green Slush Fund Safer streets in Calgary

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Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

167.16

Word count

769

Sentence count

58

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

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Hate speech

2

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Western Standard News - Western Standard is a Canadian publication that covers news involving Canadian journalism, politics, current events and current events. This week, we have a case of road rage in Calgary, a new cheese-flavoured liqueur on the market, and a story about a man who accidentally killed a hibernating bear.

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00:00:00.000 A disturbing case of road rage yesterday in Calgary, two vehicles and their drivers got into it after a collision, a knife was branded, and then in the community of Temple, one driver pulled ahead, got out, kicked the vehicle as it was going by, that driver stopped his vehicle and then reversed into the initial driver and crushed him against a tree, killing him.
00:00:25.280 So that guy is now charged with manslaughter.
00:00:31.100 Sad story out of northern Alberta where Imperial has accidentally bulldozed a hibernating bear and they were clearing some area and the bear unfortunately had to be euthanized.
00:00:44.620 COP28 wrapped up this morning over in Dubai, Corey.
00:00:49.780 I know you've been glued to all the coverage out of there.
00:00:53.940 Our own Stephen Gilbeau was absolutely giddy with the final results, which 200 nations came out and said they were going to phase out fossil fuel.
00:01:04.400 And he says Canada was right there at the leading edge.
00:01:07.620 I know you don't drink, Corey, but we have an interesting new alcohol on the market courtesy of Doritos.
00:01:16.160 They are bringing out a cheese-flavored liqueur.
00:01:20.080 And I think tasting something like that may make me join you on the wagon.
00:01:24.900 I was about to say, that doesn't make me miss drinking anymore.
00:01:27.620 That's for sure. 0.80
00:01:28.240 No, it's kind of disgusting.
00:01:30.180 Our columnist Dave Makachuk is saying that the Blue Jays probably dodged a bullet by not getting Wonder baseball player Otani to sign.
00:01:42.300 In fact, he went to the Dodgers for a billion dollars Canadian to play baseball.
00:01:47.400 But, you know, Makachuk's a Tigers fan, so we'll take what he says with a grain of salt.
00:01:52.800 But our opinion editor, Nigel, has got another edition of his Nigel Notebook leading off with some liberals, some fairly high-profile liberals, including former Cabinet Minister Marco Mendocino.
00:02:07.660 You remember he used to be the Minister of Lies, turning sort of against Trudeau.
00:02:12.060 And Trudeau sided with some countries like Russia and Iran to vote for a ceasefire in Gaza.
00:02:22.800 We've got a couple of drug busts.
00:02:24.480 A guy in B.C. got sentenced to 15 years for a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation, but he has fled to India, so now there's a warrant out for him.
00:02:34.320 And the Wet'suwet'en, you remember them from a while ago, Corey, when they were blocking railroad tracks? 1.00
00:02:40.620 They've come out in favor today of Palestine, saying they stand in solidarity with them.
00:02:48.420 So now we know where they stand.
00:02:51.060 So that's it.
00:02:52.320 We've got a story coming up, an interesting one, on the residents of Akshaw, west of Calgary, near Canmore.
00:03:00.200 They're filing a lawsuit against a cement plant there for all their emissions.
00:03:04.740 All 450-so citizens there of Akshaw are fed up with the pollution.
00:03:10.000 So, you used to live there once, didn't you, Corey?
00:03:12.580 I lived in Banff.
00:03:13.740 So Jane and I were looking at places in Akshaw, actually.
00:03:16.200 A long story, but back with the 2013 floods came along, it wiped out the one house we were looking at.
00:03:21.520 So I think we made a good choice with Pritis.
00:03:23.780 But it is a town next to a plant.
00:03:25.860 I mean, the whole point of the town, it was built for people to work at that plant.
00:03:29.020 So, yeah, it's just usual winding citizens, I guess.
00:03:32.040 Yeah, it has, you know, been there only 100 years.
00:03:34.300 So, you know, people have had a chance to move away.
00:03:36.340 Yeah, absolutely.
00:03:38.480 Well, Israel's sure to surrender pretty soon and let Hamas win now that the Wet'suwesson are on board. 0.96
00:03:44.700 So it's good to see that development and turning point in the conflict.
00:03:47.400 Yeah, that way, you know, as Minister Jolie said, Canada can get over there and start investigating the actions of the Israeli military.
00:03:55.080 That made me laugh out loud yesterday.
00:03:58.360 We got to laugh about what we can these days.
00:04:01.080 Exactly.
00:04:01.480 All right, that is our news editor, Dave Naylor.
00:04:04.260 I see lots of stories.
00:04:05.300 It's a busy one on there today, guys.
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