Western Standard - Fun police, prayer calls and a Montreal shooting

00:00:00.000 good day and welcome i'm derek phildebrand publisher of the western standard today is

00:00:28.520 june 24th 2026 and you're watching the pipeline i've got our normal roundup of outlaws western

00:00:36.440 standard news editor senior news editor dave naylor hello derek senior albert columnist cory

00:00:41.960 morgan and our former opinion editor nigel hannaford always good to be here all right uh

00:00:48.440 i mean some weeks we have trouble figuring out what to talk about not so much uh today today

00:00:53.280 was a pretty quick meeting for uh for the storyboard uh we'll be talking about the islamic

00:00:58.300 Republic of Saskatchewan. Islamic call to prayers being blasted loud for everyone to hear. It could

00:01:07.520 be a lot more prominent than church bells that you used to hear maybe once upon a time in a place

00:01:11.800 like Regina. Now you hear the Islamic call to prayer. Speaking of noise violations, we'll also

00:01:18.380 talk about the war on fun or the fun police in Calgary. The big fight over concerts and music

00:01:28.240 around the Calgary Stampede, big fight with the two different sides, generally those who were

00:01:34.160 denizens of the downtown core of Calgary, who I did not get the heads up for the last 114 years

00:01:40.740 that the Calgary Stampede is loud, noisy, drunken, and rambunctious, and that if you live downtown

00:01:48.720 and you want to go to sleep at an earlier hour, you should probably take that as a good time to

00:01:53.860 go on vacation uh and lots of developments happening right now with that uh but first

00:02:00.180 uh what the hell is happening with this montreal shooter uh these things are never easy to talk

00:02:10.460 about especially whenever there's if there's a manifesto or they've got social media posts

00:02:16.480 all sides no one's really innocent in this uh dave everyone seems to go through them

00:02:22.680 and try to find some pieces that will fit their narrative.

00:02:27.000 And, I mean, that's not always unfair.

00:02:29.920 Like, we want to frame what motivated someone to commit acts of murder or terror,

00:02:36.140 these kinds of things.

00:02:38.780 But sometimes they get a little picky and choosy.

00:02:41.520 But this one, he did release a manifesto to the Rebels' credit.

00:02:44.620 They grabbed this really early and posted on their site

00:02:47.300 before authorities could have it taken down.

00:02:49.480 So we can go through and see what this guy's about.

00:02:52.680 But there's a little bit of everything in there for people to try and attribute his motivations to.

00:03:02.160 I don't know. You've gone through some of it.

00:03:05.240 Yeah, well, this is a 20, 25-year-old kid from Lethbridge called Seth Hatfield.

00:03:11.880 First thing that comes to mind is Hatfield and McCoy's, obviously. 0.98

00:03:15.380 But he was obviously a troubled kid, hated everything in the world, hated women, hated Jews, hated, we loved communism, but he especially hated porn. 0.98

00:03:29.000 But let's call him what he is. 1.00

00:03:30.500 He's obviously insane. 1.00

00:03:32.680 He's a lunatic. 1.00

00:03:33.440 He's mentally ill. 1.00

00:03:35.100 Oh, do we know that? 1.00

00:03:36.300 No. 1.00

00:03:36.820 Well, to load up a gun and go shoot people has to be mentally ill. 1.00

00:03:41.400 It's a crazy thing to do. 1.00

00:03:42.520 but we don't we don't i haven't seen evidence yet that he was mentally ill uh i mean he has a crazy

00:03:47.400 thing to do but i'm not sure if he was loony bin worthy or not we don't know that yet i thought i

00:03:53.340 argue with you the exact opposite if you take a gun into a downtown street and aim at cops you've

00:03:58.640 obviously got something wrong in their head but anyways he uh he opens fire near the uh headquarters 0.52

00:04:05.260 There's a porn hub, which is special hatred for porn.

00:04:09.340 He shoots and kills a police officer called Mohammed Ben Redenova. 0.90

00:04:15.920 And then he starts walking towards a policewoman who was taking cover behind a planter.

00:04:22.160 Meanwhile, there's a Montreal rabbi by the name of Michael Mizrahi.

00:04:28.100 He's trying to get to safety.

00:04:29.840 the police woman in a state of panic i guess mistakes him for the shooter and uh shoots him

00:04:37.940 dead at uh at close range so it's a complete shambles down there uh yeah it's uh there's so

00:04:48.220 many different angles on it derrick it's you can go down many rabbit holes on this one i don't know

00:04:52.860 uh to your point i'm being crazy extremists are not always necessarily crazy they might have some

00:04:59.240 crazy ideas but that doesn't mean necessarily mentally ill i mean uh you know people in al

00:05:04.200 qaeda aren't necessarily mentally ill but they have crazy ideas they don't they know they don't

00:05:09.080 they're not all schizophrenic or bipolar or something levels of crazy i mean that could

00:05:12.800 be different kinds of kinds i think dave's definition though if you're willing to go out

00:05:16.840 and kill people over things like that you got screws loose you can go that far might not mean

00:05:20.720 he's irrational or he's hearing voices we don't know the nature of the crazy but there's something

00:05:24.640 deeply wrong with it yeah um this is uh triggered a lot of conversation online about female police

00:05:32.980 officers i don't know how many of us get through this conversation without stepping in a big pile 0.52

00:05:38.400 of shit but um i don't know uh it was an extremely stressful situation i've never been under active 0.97

00:05:45.500 shooter fire uh can't imagine uh i'd be any less stressed than than she was but you know when i've 0.99

00:05:52.640 You know, sometimes when I go to the shooting range, I've used targets, and it's got, you know, the bad guy, you know, the robber, and he's got a hostage in front, and you have to shoot the right person, not the hostage.

00:06:04.940 And, you know, and then there's obviously way more advanced versions of that kind of training that police officers go through.

00:06:12.540 And I don't know, I did some just AI researching.

00:06:16.160 there's almost no comparable

00:06:18.620 like people, police have

00:06:20.600 injured or even killed people

00:06:22.740 with straight bullets and what not

00:06:24.060 these things do happen from time

00:06:26.740 to time, it's pretty rare but it does happen in Canada

00:06:28.860 but this kind of situation

00:06:30.700 where a civilian just pops up

00:06:32.640 and the cop turns around and

00:06:34.660 puts a few, I think it was a few rounds

00:06:36.680 into this guy, I'm not sure how many

00:06:38.340 but it was a few

00:06:38.980 that doesn't

00:06:41.820 happen

00:06:43.240 and that's

00:06:46.160 triggering a big conversation around you know pun intended i'm sure yeah 1.00

00:06:51.840 um it's triggering some conversation around the role of female police officers on the street

00:06:58.740 i don't know i mean it's a matter of perhaps an officer who panicked uh clearly and you know

00:07:04.040 i'm certain if she could turn it back she would have changed things but there could be male cops

00:07:09.060 just as kids you know once put in that situation i think you don't know who's going to rise up and

00:07:12.920 and who's going to curl with it fetal, despite how much training you did.

00:07:16.560 This doesn't really happen.

00:07:17.700 This kind of, like, this was point blank.

00:07:21.840 Execution is the wrong term, because that would mean intentional.

00:07:24.260 This was an accident, in a panic.

00:07:26.700 And I'd probably be pretty panicky, but I'm not trained.

00:07:28.960 I mean, with a semi-automatic handgun, we also know you can let loose a few and a half a second.

00:07:33.600 I mean, it doesn't take long, as fast as you're shooting.

00:07:34.900 But they're trained to identify the target.

00:07:36.940 Make sure you know what you're shooting at.

00:07:38.820 The very first thing, you know, like, when I was, like, an 8-year-old kid,

00:07:41.580 you know fire at 22 for the first time it's only pulled the trigger at what you intend to shoot

00:07:46.920 yeah and the targets don't shoot back no i'm not saying i was eight years old i was prepared to be

00:07:51.180 a montreal beat cop i think that i think the fact that you couldn't find any examples

00:07:55.440 is a good thing yes it's a rare thing this has never happened before so i think maybe the uh

00:08:01.660 some of the uh conversations online about getting rid of female police officers that's not a problem

00:08:07.880 In this one instance, a mistake was made

00:08:11.120 What I did think was a problem

00:08:13.100 Was that when you

00:08:14.900 Review the initial news coverage

00:08:16.680 Everybody was trying to, all mainstream media

00:08:19.280 Were trying to portray this kid 0.97

00:08:20.540 As a right-wing lunatic 1.00

00:08:22.880 As opposed to a left-wing lunatic 0.95

00:08:25.060 He was actually neither

00:08:26.540 He was just a very troubled young man

00:08:28.980 Who pulled ideas that sounded good

00:08:31.020 From here and from here

00:08:32.460 You know

00:08:35.440 I don't

00:08:37.320 particularly care to feel sorry for somebody who goes out and shoots somebody else but

00:08:41.300 what a miserable place his head must have been and all really because he doesn't get along with

00:08:48.020 women that's a that tells you something about the individual but uh it also it's a lot of sadness

00:08:55.420 that that goes with this thing and of course especially for the uh for the people who were

00:09:00.340 shot as for the uh you know as for the woman who pulled the trigger i guess policing is probably

00:09:06.280 not in her future i would i would hope that that would be the first and logical conclusion but it

00:09:13.080 doesn't mean she's a terrible person or even a terrible police officer just made a really bad 0.99

00:09:17.940 mistake we such maybe there isn't a long history of uh women police officers accidentally shooting 0.98

00:09:27.160 people you said you had a couldn't find a comparable example examples of men or women

00:09:32.220 they're doing it at least not this kind of situation is exactly the same there's so much

00:09:38.240 stunt hack in this weird way yeah i mean the reaction in the coverage there's a lot to be

00:09:41.800 said with with twitter and so on a lot were eager to jump up as soon as it was found out it was a

00:09:45.660 jewish man shot oh this is a targeted terrorist attack and some people and it was not it had

00:09:50.260 nothing to do with with that but they wanted that narrative as you kind of said so they were leaning

00:09:54.520 everyone was trying to pick and choose to fit their narrative everyone's got something to pick

00:09:59.340 from here it muhammad there was a muhammad who shot okay so there's there's that uh but there's

00:10:06.180 a rabbi killed there's a woman cop who shot a rabbi there's an kind of a communist incel it

00:10:13.400 showed the importance though of i mean as you said credit to the rebel managed to get a hold of that

00:10:17.620 manifesto as loony as it was and everything and get it out so people can see at least what's good

00:10:22.300 so they're not reading in too much to try and figure out what this guy's motivations were as

00:10:26.320 he hated the world this kid i mean well he did another thing cory a lot of the stuff that he was

00:10:31.700 highlighting is actually stuff that ordinary people look at and say yeah i don't like that

00:10:37.420 either it's just that he had the opposite and mixed it all in together yeah it was a it was a

00:10:43.680 weird stew unedited yeah we might say the uh the way was kind of framed early on and you have to

00:10:49.980 grant some uh level of grace i think for early coverage uh to anyone because you know we're

00:10:57.840 dealing with a lot very limited information but it was framed as if this was almost another

00:11:02.460 polytechnic like he's out to shoot a bunch of women uh no women were actually killed here the

00:11:07.560 the female officer who shot the rabbi she was shot but not injured but the police don't appear

00:11:13.040 to have been the target from what we could tell the target it was to assassinate uh the head of

00:11:19.300 the parent company that owns

00:11:20.700 Pornhub. Because a big part of what he was

00:11:23.160 talking about was

00:11:24.640 I mean

00:11:26.000 any manifesto, you're going to find at least some things that

00:11:29.220 bring at least half great. You can read

00:11:31.020 Ted Kaczynski and be like, well, maybe

00:11:33.100 technology is a little scary.

00:11:35.080 That doesn't mean to go... Just don't mail bombs.

00:11:36.900 Just don't mail bombs. Ends and means

00:11:39.200 some of his critiques

00:11:41.020 around the porn industry being exploitive

00:11:42.860 and turning

00:11:45.120 women into these over-commercialized 1.00

00:11:47.580 you know whatever 1.00

00:11:49.920 some of the critiques you know

00:11:52.020 weren't entirely off but the way he went about it was to

00:11:54.340 assassinate as far as we could tell

00:11:55.840 assassinate the head of the parent company

00:11:58.260 of Pornhub I guess he obviously didn't succeed

00:12:00.560 in that he just ended up getting in a firefight

00:12:01.960 with police officers. He didn't even get into the building

00:12:03.800 No I've got a source in Montreal

00:12:06.440 that said he actually called 9-1-1

00:12:08.720 and the cops came

00:12:10.600 after he called 9-1-1

00:12:12.200 so he was trying to

00:12:13.860 a bit of an ambush from the cops

00:12:16.160 So, I don't know how that fits with his plan to attack Hornhub.

00:12:19.120 Well, we're not sure if that's exactly his plan.

00:12:21.140 We know he had bitterness with him.

00:12:22.240 I mean, it's probably no mistake.

00:12:23.700 It was that building, but...

00:12:25.180 Yeah, that's why I was trying to figure, like, why did he travel from Lethbridge to Montreal?

00:12:29.260 Yeah.

00:12:29.700 Like, if you want to do just a cop ambush, you could do that in Lethbridge.

00:12:33.000 A cop-by-suicide thing, I guess, or a suicide-by-cop thing, maybe idea.

00:12:36.700 I mean, you know, he goes into the offices with no plan and rampages.

00:12:39.400 I guess he could harm a lot of people, but where's the bullet coming towards him that he wanted, I guess, maybe?

00:12:44.520 I don't know.

00:12:45.080 I get it.

00:12:45.620 That's what I mean.

00:12:46.060 Now we get in the head of somebody who's clearly not.

00:12:48.380 Yeah, I don't know.

00:12:49.720 There's still a lot we're going to have to figure out.

00:12:51.340 I am.

00:12:51.740 I'm glad Ezra and team put the manifesto online because so quickly governments, they use the

00:12:57.360 the excuse they don't want to glorify the message of the shooters as the excuse to scrub

00:13:02.060 when the government comes in, scrubs their social media, scrubs their manifestos, et

00:13:05.860 cetera.

00:13:06.900 OK, but that also means that puts the control of the narrative entirely in the hands of

00:13:12.720 the government.

00:13:13.300 And I do not trust the government in this kind of thing.

00:13:15.800 That's why people are speculating outside of government

00:13:18.000 and you get the wrong narrative.

00:13:19.440 I mean, you're reading in what this kid might have been doing.

00:13:21.740 And it didn't take long for politics to enter

00:13:24.320 and the mayor of Montreal calling for even more gun conversation. 0.78

00:13:29.980 Yeah, I think it was an SKS as well. 0.51

00:13:32.940 Yeah.

00:13:34.180 There's a separate political thing as to why they won't ban that one.

00:13:37.820 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:38.920 Are you allowed to say?

00:13:40.440 We have said.

00:13:41.440 Yeah, yeah.

00:13:42.480 It's a popular one on indigenous reserves.

00:13:44.740 it's a popular hunting rifle for indigenous

00:13:47.180 Canadians and that's why it was on the ban list

00:13:49.020 and they quickly took it off once they realized

00:13:50.680 oh, we can't miss

00:13:53.160 them off

00:13:53.560 I would

00:13:59.100 just note

00:13:59.620 technically the police killed more people

00:14:03.060 than the shooter

00:14:03.520 now, it's kind of a wash because

00:14:06.560 killing the shooter I don't think really counts as

00:14:08.760 in the death toll because that's not

00:14:10.960 an innocent person

00:14:11.900 the police officer who's killed 1.00

00:14:15.680 and the rabbi are the two 1.00

00:14:17.940 innocent people

00:14:18.700 but one of those two innocent people was killed by a cop

00:14:22.000 so

00:14:22.380 yeah, the scoreboard is not

00:14:25.760 looking very good for

00:14:27.100 the Montreal police right now

00:14:29.760 so even if you take the shooter off

00:14:32.000 which is fair

00:14:33.400 that means they killed as many people

00:14:35.500 that's not a good record

00:14:37.300 that's not a good score

00:14:39.200 it's bad all around

00:14:41.120 Yeah. So speaking of police, the fun police, thankfully, the fun police in Calgary.

00:14:50.380 Oh, I don't want to take the metaphor of friendly fire too far.

00:14:58.400 Unintentionally. No, no, Derek, don't draw the metaphor. No.

00:15:01.900 So we've got this controversy here where the mayor and council passed a new bylaw restricting the hours around music.

00:15:16.840 I'm going to use the term Stampede season.

00:15:19.600 Everyone gets a season.

00:15:20.520 Somali season, MMLW, LGTBQS, Play Us season.

00:15:26.620 Everyone gets a season.

00:15:27.720 And Stampede really has just evolved into a season.

00:15:29.600 And a lot of stuff is before and after now because it's so packed and competing with each other.

00:15:35.000 So these new noise bylaws to crack down on essentially concerts going late and loud in the downtown area, Stampede and other areas in the core.

00:15:49.560 I mean, I'm not without sympathy for people living in the downtown core.

00:15:55.020 But, you know, if you live in the downtown core, you've got a 114-year heads up that this is a thing.

00:16:01.160 I live near a municipal airport.

00:16:03.380 I don't get to complain about a little prop plane taking off and the noise from that or a helicopter group because it was there before me.

00:16:11.540 And Stampede has been downtown Calgary before every single person alive in Calgary today, let alone just downtown.

00:16:17.400 So this evolved into a big fight.

00:16:18.980 Danielle Smith called Jeremy Farkas

00:16:21.980 the mayor, the fun police

00:16:23.880 even Pierre Polyev

00:16:25.580 got involved

00:16:27.020 the council

00:16:29.640 and mayor, a majority of it at least

00:16:31.580 rejected it, not everyone, there was a significant

00:16:33.520 dissenting vote but not enough

00:16:34.740 have been fighting here

00:16:38.740 and now it's

00:16:40.780 well everyone said, Don Braid

00:16:43.580 of the Calgary Herald said, if anything goes

00:16:45.540 wrong with the music and stuff, it's actually not the fault

00:16:47.640 of these bylaws it's the fault of danielle smith saying that it's the fun police so if people stay

00:16:54.220 away it's actually her fault for criticizing it it's it's just ridiculous i mean i i used it fair

00:17:02.220 enough dave called me i'll use the airport analogy it's a little bit different downtown

00:17:05.340 this tent moved into a new location but that spot's been used for other musical

00:17:09.140 festivals in the past too uh it was mawada stadium in the past the condos that are there

00:17:15.260 relatively new too i mean it's downtown things are changing but kind of the nature of stampede

00:17:20.220 it is a huge festival and downtown is the hub of it even if the stampede grounds is the real center

00:17:27.220 it spreads all over and i mean ranchmans i know it's a bit you know in a residential area but

00:17:32.460 it's way well out of downtown too but it's turned into an icon part of the stampede and these big

00:17:38.380 events cost a lot of big money too and they bring in a lot of big money that's that's also what's

00:17:43.280 got to be realized i know just as a bar owner in a micro level when i'd have a band in and we have

00:17:47.900 a party type night you're going right until two in the morning your money making hours of those

00:17:52.960 last two hours when when you cut those hours from those festivals you are taking a big bite out of

00:17:59.580 the bottom line of these events uh and and that really the other part with the city was some of

00:18:05.500 the dispute i guess they'd warned that there's going to be changes to this a few months ago but

00:18:10.040 they didn't tell them what the changes were going to be they dropped that on these organizers just

00:18:14.360 recently well they've already been hiring staff for these events planning paying budgeting musical

00:18:20.840 acts yeah acts that run that late and then to have the city flip around essentially just weeks before

00:18:26.800 the affair and say no you can't run those hours they stepped in it i mean if they're going to

00:18:31.900 crank it down they needed to give more warning and we do have breaking news that country thunder

00:18:35.800 has been canceled in calgary uh this weekend uh for two reasons one they're having it down i'm not

00:18:42.000 going to call it the conference i'll call it fort calgary was down there and the entire area is

00:18:47.020 under construction with the new uh event center so there was access uh access problems as well as

00:18:53.440 the new noise bylaw and they just said no we're going to pull the plug i just want to not that i

00:18:59.360 want to sound like rick bell but when derek says it's the downtown core it's not like rick bell

00:19:04.600 It's not just the downtown core.

00:19:06.780 It's the Beltline.

00:19:08.420 I think Rick Hano's column today said it's 9,000 families in the Beltline that are affected by this music.

00:19:15.000 So that is people with young kids.

00:19:16.600 It is people who have to get up and go work an early morning shift that are affected by it.

00:19:21.620 But 10 days, suck it up.

00:19:23.520 Well, the hyperbole was getting a little strong.

00:19:25.540 I mean, Jeremy Farkas, the mayor, said that windows were shaking so bad they broke from the music last year.

00:19:30.900 Come on.

00:19:31.540 I've got a hard time.

00:19:32.160 Let's get a little realistic.

00:19:33.680 Who made these windows?

00:19:34.600 And when you get to the Beltline, I mean, to that point, you're across the railroad tracks.

00:19:38.940 You have engines going by between you and that event site every night.

00:19:42.460 You've got to have some degree of soundproofing.

00:19:44.560 Maybe there's a bit of that annoying thumping going on for 11 nights where you can hear a few.

00:19:48.300 You know, the guys I'd like to chase out of the area is the people who skateboard through there.

00:19:52.780 That's another exciting thing.

00:19:54.580 I fantasize when I'm sitting up there.

00:19:56.520 But yeah, there's reason. 0.83

00:19:58.140 It would suck.

00:19:59.260 Yeah. 0.97

00:20:00.180 Geez, we might hear it from some authorities.

00:20:02.940 Yeah, I like that.

00:20:03.700 But, I mean, it can be irritating.

00:20:05.380 I wouldn't want to live next to that racket.

00:20:06.820 There's no doubt.

00:20:07.440 I'm a crabby, older guy getting on now, too,

00:20:09.880 and I don't want to listen to those guys going on like it.

00:20:11.940 That's why I didn't have an apprentice for half a second.

00:20:13.800 I'd like my vacation to get away there.

00:20:15.320 The noise is the least amount of the call.

00:20:18.120 It's the puking.

00:20:19.400 It's the pissing.

00:20:20.440 It's the, you know, people.

00:20:22.200 I remember electric avid you.

00:20:23.560 It was the same thing then, too, in the Beltline,

00:20:25.540 that I was one of the ones puking and pissing in bushes back then.

00:20:28.080 It's a rite of passage.

00:20:29.060 It's unfortunate.

00:20:29.740 it but you know every city in canada is jealous of what we've got here edmonton i'm sorry to offend

00:20:37.940 all our edmonton uh listeners viewers uh edmonton has been trying to rip it off with how long's k

00:20:43.760 days how long have they been trying to rip it off with it's like calgary's got something unique and

00:20:50.680 as i talked about my show too you know if anybody's ever been to new orleans and the french quarter and

00:20:55.460 Mardi Gras. I mean, it's a particular

00:20:57.620 and there's residential right there.

00:20:59.360 They're brilliant old buildings with court guards

00:21:01.600 and people live right up from that. They know

00:21:03.460 at least Fat Tuesday

00:21:05.420 and the rest, you aren't sleeping for

00:21:07.600 a week. It's not going to happen. You chose

00:21:09.560 to be down there. And it brings

00:21:11.680 in a fortune to that city, which is otherwise

00:21:13.420 pretty damn rough. So what would you say

00:21:15.560 if they offered a

00:21:17.100 minimal tax break for people

00:21:19.400 in the affected area?

00:21:21.800 There could be ways to offset

00:21:23.420 some of the headaches. I don't know.

00:21:25.240 It comes with living in the area.

00:21:27.700 I don't get a tax break for having a municipal airport near me

00:21:29.920 because it was there.

00:21:31.500 It just comes with living in the area.

00:21:33.760 I mean, it's been there for a while.

00:21:35.180 The new Cowboys tent is nowhere near downtown.

00:21:37.840 The new Cowboys tent is nowhere near the stampede grounds.

00:21:41.140 I don't know what to call it, but there's a massive conglomeration of tents

00:21:46.140 and goodness knows what right at the back of the Muada Armory.

00:21:48.920 Yeah, but they got one down the street there as well.

00:21:51.200 So, I mean, there's a lot of places to generate a lot of noise.

00:21:54.700 It all came because the Stampede was so bad, they sucked so bad, that the bar owners started bringing in better musical acts than the Stampede was.

00:22:03.000 So people went to the bars.

00:22:04.900 They didn't go to the Stampede grounds.

00:22:05.900 Part of it.

00:22:06.380 This festival is so big, though, you can't contain it in the Stampede grounds.

00:22:09.480 It doesn't work.

00:22:10.800 I remember way back when they tried 88th Street on the Stampede grounds.

00:22:14.680 I don't know if you remember that.

00:22:15.340 It lasted two years.

00:22:16.040 They were trying to kind of piggyback on the Olympic feeling and everything in the city.

00:22:20.080 But the problem was it was next to the Indian village that was over there.

00:22:22.780 and they were complaining about the noise of 88th Street

00:22:24.600 with all the partying down on the stampede ground.

00:22:26.580 So they shut that down.

00:22:28.280 Like, somebody's going to complain somewhere no matter what you do.

00:22:32.040 Part of this is a culture war.

00:22:34.700 It's not just those of us who don't live in the Corps

00:22:38.520 versus those who are in the Corps being inconvenienced or disturbed, whatever.

00:22:43.440 Some of it is down to...

00:22:47.720 There's a clique in Calgary that, more or less, it's a class.

00:22:51.540 I think Cleek is the wrong term, but there's a kind of a class of people who are ashamed of Calgary being Calgary, of being Cowtown, and they want Calgary to be Toronto, the way Toronto is trying to be New York.

00:23:04.120 They don't like Calgary as Calgary, and that's not to say it can ever change, but for a crowd of its Western, prairie, settler, cowboy roots. 0.94

00:23:12.780 Settler is actually supposed to be a bad word, and we're celebrating that.

00:23:16.520 We're celebrating that.

00:23:17.220 That's why they were erasing things like Fort Calgary.

00:23:19.140 Yeah, exactly.

00:23:20.360 Anyway, the confluence now.

00:23:21.540 You know, and they say, oh, it's, you know, this whole party scene is misogynist and racist and sexist and all of these things.

00:23:31.280 Yeah. Well, cowboys did for a time provide certain cosmetic enhancements for women there.

00:23:38.120 I mean, OK, whatever. But, you know, there was nothing illegal about that.

00:23:43.360 That's just do you think it's appropriate or not?

00:23:45.360 No shortage of takers either. I understand.

00:23:47.220 No, no, it was quite a bit of uptake on the program.

00:23:50.480 So, I mean, I don't know how Dave would feel if I had to do that kind of benefits program at the Western Standard.

00:23:56.480 I don't know if you'd take me up on it.

00:23:58.040 Oh, no, I wouldn't.

00:23:59.160 But there might be something that would.

00:24:00.300 Yeah.

00:24:01.340 Thing in the quarry.

00:24:02.280 What's that?

00:24:02.640 Are you getting an enhancement? 1.00

00:24:04.360 Those tub girls were making $10,000 in 10 days. 1.00

00:24:08.780 Right? 1.00

00:24:09.180 It was crazy money for them.

00:24:10.400 Yeah.

00:24:10.980 So, but a lot of it is, you know, they don't like it.

00:24:14.280 They see it as lowbrow.

00:24:15.760 You know, it's the cosplay cowboy thing.

00:24:17.200 Everyone puts on their get-ups.

00:24:18.840 you know very few actual cowboys there anymore but it's a celebration of that culture and yeah

00:24:24.680 there's debauchery and it's raunchy that's why i used mardi gras as another example the reality 1.00

00:24:30.100 of it is it's just a party of young people that the roots of creole and everything have mostly 1.00

00:24:35.140 been lost there people cosplaying drinking their faces off it's not a highbrow high class thing but

00:24:40.740 it's just it's the nature of the festival october fest what does it focus around technically it was

00:24:46.000 a wedding no one remembers that that was a wedding well they don't remember because they've

00:24:49.600 been drinking ever since exactly yeah so but i think we've got this uh it's a culture clash here

00:24:56.500 of people as some people it is genuine concern they just don't like the noise and whatnot to

00:25:01.720 which you know we've already talked about but for a lot of people especially those not in the core

00:25:06.160 directly affected they're on the side of trying to clamp down on this on the margins here and there

00:25:11.420 And this has been going on for a long time in different forms.

00:25:14.660 Some of it was, you know, animal cruelty.

00:25:16.880 This has taken different forms in time.

00:25:19.220 But it's people who just don't like the stampede.

00:25:21.640 They're embarrassed by it.

00:25:23.660 We hear that slipping out now.

00:25:25.120 And I'm going to mention her a little later too in my parting shot.

00:25:29.000 But our beloved head of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce wrote a long piece a couple of years ago saying Calgary must move away from the cowboy and oil field culture.

00:25:37.600 Because this embarrassing status is keeping people from wanting to move to our city.

00:25:41.420 These are the type of folks ingrained within that city hall mindset and subgroup of basically snobs who really want to turn this into some weird Euro type of place, which just isn't in the nature of the city.

00:25:53.200 But they can cause a lot of damage trying to change it to that.

00:25:56.540 And that's a little bit of what's going on now.

00:25:57.980 They made changes to the truck wagons, which makes it a lot more safer, but it's now a lot more boring.

00:26:02.900 And you remember the outrage over years ago in the calf roping, when people would react in horror to see the calf's neck jerked back.

00:26:13.660 So they changed it.

00:26:14.980 CBC, who's ever carrying it now, does not show the calf going off the ground.

00:26:18.860 As soon as the lasso is launched around the little calf, the camera zooms back up to the cowboy.

00:26:24.620 So you don't see the calf in midair thumping to the ground.

00:26:27.620 Presumably all the people who are objecting to this don't eat beef.

00:26:30.860 Apparently not.

00:26:31.520 No, no.

00:26:32.900 or veal life is full even veal i admit veal is actually a bit cruel i eat it anyway but i i do

00:26:40.620 admit that's not it's not the nicest meat i eat i'm one of those i won't buy it due to that reason

00:26:44.480 you don't need veal no no this is a consumer choice because of that i can respect that i

00:26:49.740 think it is incorrect to be banned but i won't i won't spend my money on yeah yeah yeah well what

00:26:55.500 a novel concept just don't do it yourself that's pretty radical stuff okay well you know i'm liking

00:27:01.700 the segues today we went from uh uh police shooting to the fun police and uh you know

00:27:11.600 noise complaints about cowboys now to noise complaints from the people of regina about

00:27:17.400 the call to prayer so we'll talk now about the islamic republic of saskatchewan um hey uh

00:27:25.500 the color of saskatchewan is already green it's the islamic color so uh

00:27:29.320 No need to change the flag 1.00

00:27:32.520 It's the Hamas color 0.99

00:27:33.380 They'll just change some of the design 0.99

00:27:37.320 On the Saskatchewan flag

00:27:38.240 It makes it look like a Saudi flag

00:27:41.040 I'll just put a crescent moon on it 0.99

00:27:43.320 There we go

00:27:44.280 There's a bigger context here than

00:27:46.240 Just what's going on in Regina

00:27:48.240 In the past few months

00:27:50.360 Churches have been contending with the federal

00:27:53.120 Government over Bill C-9

00:27:54.680 Because why?

00:27:56.380 Because the Combating Hate Act would have it

00:27:59.060 that they couldn't quote certain parts of the Bible.

00:28:02.600 So, and there was hope that this new law

00:28:05.480 would at least help protect Jewish places of worship,

00:28:09.940 which, of course, have been under attack

00:28:11.520 for a couple of years, since October the 7th,

00:28:14.980 mostly by Hamas loyalists, 0.51

00:28:18.300 and we may as well say it, mostly Muslim sympathizers.

00:28:22.340 The Department of Justice put out a statement

00:28:25.340 when this Bill C-9 had royal assent a few days ago.

00:28:30.340 And it said rising, now you get the categories here,

00:28:32.660 rising anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and transphobia

00:28:38.440 have left too many people feeling unsafe in their own communities.

00:28:43.160 This law will better protect their worship, etc., etc., etc.

00:28:48.460 Fine, but it turns out that the first people to seek the new bill's protection 0.65

00:28:53.060 are Muslims in

00:28:55.020 Regina, not Jews in Toronto

00:28:56.660 or Montreal 1.00

00:28:57.500 not gays 0.90

00:28:59.920 Muslims in Regina where

00:29:02.860 police patrols are now

00:29:04.680 increased after local residents

00:29:07.060 complained when the mosque

00:29:08.860 broadcast the call to prayer

00:29:10.540 over loudspeakers

00:29:12.560 apparently you can hear it for three

00:29:14.980 miles in all directions

00:29:16.560 I talked with Chris Oldcorn this morning

00:29:18.500 about this

00:29:19.480 Chris Oldcorn for those who don't know is our

00:29:22.900 he's got my job. He's the opinion editor

00:29:25.600 and lives in Regina. So he

00:29:27.580 has every right to an opinion on this.

00:29:30.400 So anyway, you know, we've

00:29:31.680 just been talking about how people are upset

00:29:33.660 by the sound of laughter

00:29:35.700 at 2 o'clock in the morning

00:29:37.400 and during the stampede.

00:29:39.800 So you get this

00:29:41.040 dreary sound

00:29:42.660 blasted out.

00:29:45.500 You don't like the...

00:29:46.960 You don't find it very catchy?

00:29:49.320 I don't find it very catchy at all.

00:29:50.520 but apparently it's a hate crime to say that

00:29:53.100 so Derek you'll join me in the doc on this one

00:29:55.380 yep

00:29:55.900 we're racking up our hate crime

00:29:58.620 so the larger context that I speak of

00:30:01.200 is that there is

00:30:02.880 clearly an evangelical

00:30:04.520 zeal among Regina's

00:30:07.240 Muslims last year they took over the 1.00

00:30:08.900 University of Regina Student Union

00:30:10.800 and promptly defunded

00:30:13.020 every thing

00:30:14.940 that didn't fit Muslim values 0.99

00:30:16.880 so the women's center got defunded 0.77

00:30:18.820 They lost their money

00:30:22.940 They couldn't meet in the building

00:30:24.560 So you have to wonder

00:30:27.260 What the federal government is going to tolerate

00:30:29.500 Bill C-9 is supposed to discourage

00:30:31.540 All those things

00:30:32.500 Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia 1.00

00:30:34.580 The first thing the Islamists did 1.00

00:30:36.640 Under the license 0.99

00:30:39.480 Provider with Bill C-9

00:30:41.100 Was to target

00:30:42.700 Actually that was before Bill C-9

00:30:44.960 But when they had their chance 1.00

00:30:46.420 They went after the gays and the trans 0.87

00:30:48.040 And now they're ostentatiously establishing their presence in the very center of Regina.

00:30:56.100 So, you know, we introduced this segment as the Islamic Republic of Saskatchewan.

00:31:00.160 I mean, we're going to have to wait and see what the liberals are prepared to say yes to.

00:31:04.380 Go ahead.

00:31:05.380 It's set to ring out again Friday morning.

00:31:08.680 There is supposed to be a small demonstration against it.

00:31:12.640 We'll see if that happens.

00:31:14.140 but the regina police put out a statement saying basically saying this is this is allowed they're

00:31:20.040 not breaking any laws and any protests any anybody say anything bad here are what the hate laws are

00:31:25.920 so you know if they had say 10 people out there protesting are they going to arrest all 10 yeah

00:31:30.980 well it depends what they say if they stand there just to play a little devil's advocate though

00:31:36.020 there's some really loud church bells that go off in big cathedrals and populated areas every

00:31:42.080 Sunday morning or another determined

00:31:44.160 change during the day. You know, you did it now,

00:31:46.180 Corey. Now,

00:31:48.000 one, church bells, I mean,

00:31:50.520 sure, I guess it's a matter of preference,

00:31:52.720 but I've never even met an atheist 1.00

00:31:53.960 who's like, oh, those church bells are an awful thing. 1.00

00:31:55.360 Oh, I like the sort of church bells, I'm not trying to say they sound, but I'm just

00:31:58.200 talking about expression.

00:32:00.640 But also, you know, the

00:32:01.800 cultural prayer is also kind of a sign of 1.00

00:32:04.080 conquest of an area that Islam,

00:32:05.940 this is now an Islamic area,

00:32:07.960 and also, you know, this is maybe 1.00

00:32:09.740 extremely unfashionable to say,

00:32:11.500 but this was built as a christian country uh i don't believe in there being an established uh

00:32:16.840 church you know the idea of a state church but the idea that we just forget that it was christians

00:32:23.400 who settled and built saskatchewan alberta ontario quebec all of canada to just forget that no i think

00:32:31.480 uh there is just no equivalent between church bell and a call to prayer and another just some

00:32:37.200 background on the call to prayer anyway it's not coming on that that was a good time but putting

00:32:40.540 out it is an old practice because of the days before people had watches or certainly smartphones

00:32:45.160 or anything you didn't know when your call to prayer time was so they howled it from the top

00:32:49.720 of the building so you could all slam down and face mecca and do your things uh you don't need

00:32:54.380 that anymore i mean they know which way east is and you know uh what time of the day is and it is

00:33:00.300 i believe if they're going to keep going and go observant they're going to keep pushing i mean

00:33:04.400 this is what's five times a day five times a day every day they're not going to stop with one is

00:33:09.200 If you thought cowboys was a noise problem, wait till you get this.

00:33:14.800 I want to point out here, like, so what's happening with Regina and Bill C-90s, new hate laws being used against anyone who would dissent against the Islamification of Saskatchewan or Canada.

00:33:28.140 Groups like Benay Brith were cheering this kind of thing, cheering new censorship laws.

00:33:34.200 and i uh you know i we had to make some editorial decisions around this stuff because i i said like

00:33:40.500 these guys are not on our side they are there was a lot of good jewish voices that spoke out

00:33:46.540 against this stuff and there's still bernie farbers out there too unfortunately yeah and 1.00

00:33:50.780 you know so so some of these jewish groups which are rightfully pointing out that they're being 0.96

00:33:54.960 you know jewish people are being targeted synagogues being attacked a lot of these 0.64

00:33:59.320 very bad incidents they weren't saying let's just use the existing appropriate laws that are 0.90

00:34:05.740 more most more neutral uh to stop this kind of thing they were calling calling for more

00:34:11.940 censorship more authoritarian and then shock the first thing that happens is you got the 0.96

00:34:17.900 regina police turning around saying don't you speak up against uh the islamification and call

00:34:22.900 to prayer of regina or that's a hate crime who could have predicted this it's like so many things 0.51

00:34:28.320 when the activists take hold of the four

00:34:30.460 rather than, you know, whatever it was supposed to.

00:34:32.440 This was entirely predictable, though.

00:34:33.860 They overstepped.

00:34:34.680 Yeah, the same thing where pride began

00:34:36.980 as something to allow more expression,

00:34:38.760 and now the activists are at the point

00:34:40.740 we're going to attack anybody

00:34:41.820 who dares to even question our expression.

00:34:44.480 I mean, they morph into something far and beyond.

00:34:48.000 And, you know, groups like Benign Breath,

00:34:49.980 which expose a lot of very serious problems and things,

00:34:53.560 but yes, they're proposing a cure worse

00:34:56.040 than the disease in ways it happens.

00:34:57.620 But when guys like Benai Briff are trying to take away my freedoms, it makes me question even what they're reporting.

00:35:06.320 There is obviously a lot of things to report, but I don't necessarily believe their numbers,

00:35:09.920 because I don't trust people who are pushing an agenda of censorship, ever.

00:35:15.080 Well, you might also wonder how many of the complaints received by the mosque originated outside the mosque. 0.85

00:35:21.100 You know, that's the way these games are played, is you make yourself a victim, you get the government on your side,

00:35:27.140 then freedom suffers so i i i don't doubt that there are a lot of people in regina who said

00:35:33.980 screw this i don't want this every every friday at one o'clock for uh all over the downtown but

00:35:40.700 they certainly very good at uh presenting themselves as the victims in this situation 1.00

00:35:47.340 and till they till they get control so i'm the thing with the the jewish communities we never

00:35:54.700 needed bill nine to look after the jewish communities if that was our objective we would

00:35:58.520 simply have put more police patrols on the streets where they lived where they had their

00:36:03.560 their little shops and their synagogues and if somebody was breaking windows or painting

00:36:09.860 swastikas or whatever they were doing we would arrest and charge the laws were already there

00:36:15.820 so i actually have a much more conspiratorial view of what bill c9 is really all about 0.95

00:36:22.400 I didn't see the Islamic thing coming, but I think the government is basically trying to build a whole battery of laws, which we've seen in the last five years, in order to control speech and control opinion. 1.00

00:36:36.400 It's just the way they are. 1.00

00:36:37.580 You don't have to push back.

00:36:39.760 Yeah.

00:36:40.460 Normally, you get groups who want to take away freedoms because they think it will help them.

00:36:45.660 And then eventually, those authoritarian laws are eventually used against them.

00:36:52.400 this is being used against them like immediately because this was i think so predictable that

00:36:59.700 who are these laws always really only applied to they're like white christian people different

00:37:06.320 activists who push on things i mean listen to bernie farber bernie farber listen to ezra levant

00:37:10.080 very very different uh i mean they're both coming out of the same background but

00:37:14.320 much different views on where as i saw the big picture on this stuff he's never called ever he's

00:37:20.020 always strenuously fought any of these censorship pushes even if they're ostensibly designed to

00:37:25.520 protect his community so that that's to his credit but a lot of the official organizations uh

00:37:29.880 purporting to speak on behalf of the community you know they predictably fell into this trap

00:37:34.620 calling for censorship and now it's being used uh in a way that is probably going to be used to 0.99

00:37:39.620 intimidate them further yeah and i gotta say you know you're talking about the islamification of 0.53

00:37:45.500 Saskatchewan. Look at Great Britain as a 0.97

00:37:47.520 warning. Britain is now an Islamic 1.00

00:37:49.500 country. 1.00

00:37:51.640 Up and down the country, it's run by Islamic

00:37:53.720 councils. This is what's

00:37:55.500 coming in Canada. This is the start of it. 0.84

00:37:57.920 If it hasn't, you know, you look at Brampton,

00:38:00.000 you know, that's basically... 1.00

00:38:01.280 That's Sikh. That's Sikh, but it's, you know, 0.85

00:38:03.600 they're now controlling the 1.00

00:38:05.420 electorate in the

00:38:06.260 recent by-election. So it's

00:38:09.400 take it as a warning, because it's

00:38:11.300 heading our way.

00:38:11.920 all right i mean uh i was at the uh stampede saskatchewan game in town here just on uh

00:38:22.200 i think it was saturday saturday heartbreaker we lost in double overtime

00:38:26.800 but um i mean saskatchewan games are not going to be quite the same when we uh

00:38:32.180 have to kneel for a stop heart for you through and everybody got a slam

00:38:35.060 that could be the end of it there's one thing stamps fans you know what i think

00:38:40.460 Saskatchewan will finally snap.

00:38:41.880 There's one thing more sacred than anything else in Saskatchewan,

00:38:44.880 and that's the Rough Riders.

00:38:47.060 You know, I don't mean to be overly provocative with Muslims here, 1.00

00:38:53.140 but I don't think they're allowed to play because we have pigskin. 1.00

00:38:56.420 Ooh, never thought of that.

00:38:58.260 It's a racist game because of the pigskin. 0.99

00:39:00.340 Is it still pig? 0.97

00:39:01.380 Probably not. 0.97

00:39:02.100 But, I mean, it might be.

00:39:04.300 It might be.

00:39:05.180 They stick to a lot of tradition with things like football.

00:39:07.560 Okay, so that's what we need to watch for.

00:39:09.140 when they start changing the football if they haven't already i'm not positive but

00:39:13.340 if they stop making it a pigskin we know we've been conquered okay uh we'll move it to our uh

00:39:21.040 parting shots i'll go first okay uh world cup fever across canada uh canada's uh gonna be

00:39:30.260 through to the next round so that'll hype up the level even more but my favorite video this week

00:39:34.760 I think there was an Australian tourist somewhere in the States was able to

00:39:38.720 carry 26 pints of beer, the 20 ounce bites all by himself.

00:39:43.340 No tray, just able to carry 26.

00:39:46.100 Where was he from? 0.93

00:39:47.340 Australia.

00:39:48.000 I believe that.

00:39:49.000 Yeah.

00:39:49.660 So that's, so let's go Canada.

00:39:52.240 Talent. 1.00

00:39:52.840 I mean, something outside of Canada, just a side note was those Japanese

00:39:55.460 fans cleaning up the stadium after seeing some other cultural practices.

00:39:59.660 I mean, you know, talk about polite.

00:40:01.520 I'm not anti-immigration. 1.00

00:40:02.760 Bring the Japanese. 0.98

00:40:03.500 I like the Japanese. 1.00

00:40:04.760 They do that everywhere they go, no matter what stadium they play. 0.99

00:40:08.860 I don't even do that.

00:40:11.040 That's crazy.

00:40:11.780 My parting shot is just sharing a little love again to Calgary's Chamber of Commerce and Deborah Yedlin,

00:40:16.360 the one who said that restaurants enjoy having vaccine passports and it's good for business, 0.97

00:40:20.980 and also said we should phase out the oil field and we should get rid of cowboys and the oil culture.

00:40:26.040 They released a thing today saying half of their members would leave if Alberta were to become independent,

00:40:31.340 which again shows the utter complete full lack of business sense in that woman they're going to 1.00

00:40:37.720 stay wherever there's money quit playing in this game try actually representing businesses for the

00:40:42.140 first time is yelling because it's tiresome i'm sure all of the businesses fled switzerland when

00:40:47.280 it left the holy roman empire yeah well actually building on your point there uh happy to record

00:40:54.120 that after almost

00:40:56.160 a year, just shy of a few days,

00:40:59.060 we have

00:40:59.840 celebrating the 100th shipment

00:41:02.200 of

00:41:03.100 natural gas from Kitimat

00:41:05.640 to, and that would be Alberta

00:41:07.880 and Northeastern BC, natural

00:41:10.000 gas from Kitimat to Far East.

00:41:12.780 $5.9 billion

00:41:14.260 worth of product in the last

00:41:16.160 12 months. This is the kind of

00:41:18.100 development we want.

00:41:19.660 Good news story. One year.

00:41:21.800 I'll use mine to plug

00:41:23.900 it could be news uh the western standards first annual stampede barbecue we've been meaning to do

00:41:29.920 this for a very long time we're finally off our hearts to do it uh it is going to be uh july 8th

00:41:36.920 at the sun alta community center so pretty central in calgary not right in the core uh we'll i'm sure

00:41:43.740 generate some noise complaints ourselves uh one to four o'clock on july 8th sun alta community

00:41:50.980 center center uh free barbecue we're gonna have burgers and hot dogs and uh all sorts of stuff

00:41:56.900 going on uh some of the staff recommended we get a dunk tank people could pay to dunk me in a dunk

00:42:02.700 tank and i said well the you know the money that doesn't work out well the dunk tanks cost a bunch

00:42:06.420 to rent and the logistics you know we just do uh water balloons so technically i guess i proved

00:42:13.380 water balloons you know some of our staff here can take weeks to get a task initiated um you know

00:42:21.600 it could take they could take three or four weeks sometimes for some things it well it took this

00:42:25.980 operation staff here three to four minutes to immediately put out an email to all of our

00:42:30.720 subscribers put it on twitter put it on other social media that uh hey here's our stampede

00:42:36.080 barbecue and you can buy tickets on in person or in advance to throw water balloons at

00:42:42.940 yours truly uh so yeah it's uh five dollars for one balloon ten dollars for three and

00:42:50.060 increasingly good deals to get 25 balloons i never signed off on 25 balloons for 50 i did not

00:42:57.840 approve of that that was some of the staff freelancing i think they're well i asked josh

00:43:02.340 you did confirm they're looking out for you because we're only allowed to have water in them

00:43:05.700 so one idea of mine was already shot down but i mean balloons come in a lot of shapes and sizes

00:43:11.000 Would French safes be appropriate?

00:43:14.840 For what?

00:43:15.660 Don't worry about it.

00:43:16.800 For the viewers who want to Google it, they can find it.

00:43:20.980 I got you.

00:43:22.980 Wasn't one of those incel guys.

00:43:24.500 I cannot disclose who, but I'll just give you guys a bit of a tickler.

00:43:31.880 There's a very good chance we're going to have a very special guest on scene

00:43:37.680 who will also be getting pelted

00:43:40.000 with water balloons. These would be 0.96

00:43:42.060 for charity. This is

00:43:44.100 someone a lot of people, I think, want to hit with water balloons

00:43:46.260 right now. But it's someone who I think

00:43:48.060 is a very good sport. But I can't

00:43:50.160 announce the name because it's not yet 100%

00:43:52.400 confirmed. But we've got a pretty good feeling about it.

00:43:54.260 So stand by to the

00:43:55.920 hopeful...

00:43:57.200 I can't reach...

00:43:59.620 It's a little bit under there.

00:44:02.520 The announcement of our very special guest

00:44:04.240 who's going to be hopefully at

00:44:06.000 our Stampede Party BBQ

00:44:07.900 getting felted. I mean, I'll

00:44:10.400 spend some money. And actually, this is

00:44:12.380 really good for me because it was looking like

00:44:14.440 the staff were going to blow entire paychecks on

00:44:16.580 balloons to hit me 0.97

00:44:18.580 on some kind of vengeance complex.

00:44:20.500 I don't know what's going on.

00:44:22.660 Alright, that's it.

00:44:24.880 Corey, Dave, Nigel, thank you.

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Western Standard - June 24, 2026

Fun police, prayer calls and a Montreal shooting

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