Western Standard - Keeping (taxpayer-funded) porn out of schools

00:00:00.000 G'day, I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard,

00:00:28.780 And you're watching The Pipeline today on September 3rd, 2025.

00:00:33.920 I'm joined by the usual crew here, former Western Standard opinion editor, Nigel Hennifert.

00:00:39.820 Good to be out of our house.

00:00:41.920 And Western Standard senior Alberta columnist, Corey Morgan.

00:00:45.280 Always a pleasure.

00:00:46.760 And one of our BC columnists, Elise Mills, coming to us from West Coast. 0.89

00:00:52.480 Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be back.

00:00:55.560 Yeah, we always love you on the show here.

00:00:58.780 So we're going to be talking about the Bible taking place in Alberta right now, keeping pornographic material out of school libraries.

00:01:11.080 And when I say pornographic, I mean like full-blown, weird, graphic porn, pretty much, that has been in the school libraries.

00:01:19.440 This is being portrayed as book-burning or banning by the usual suspects.

00:01:26.080 it's taken a few twists and turns

00:01:29.180 we'll talk about that

00:01:30.120 speaking of Alberta schools

00:01:32.240 Western Standard exclusive story

00:01:34.500 we broke yesterday in Alberta

00:01:36.480 high school football coach

00:01:38.340 volunteer coach

00:01:40.260 was fired from his volunteer position

00:01:43.040 for sharing

00:01:44.480 his views

00:01:46.900 on

00:01:47.760 teachers and the education system

00:01:50.720 pushing trans ideology on kids 0.84

00:01:52.720 in a TikTok video

00:01:54.560 So we're going to talk about what happened there.

00:01:57.180 And no truth, no reconciliation.

00:02:01.680 The never-ending land grabs of governments granting race-based use of public lands to indigenous bands, 0.80

00:02:14.700 saying only people of certain races can go in a park at this time.

00:02:18.120 And then it's just taken the cats kind of out of the bag in Manitoba, with one band just declaring its effective ownership over a large piece of land, declaring non-Native people are not allowed to go there anymore.

00:02:34.120 And they just declared it, without the government even handing it to them this time.

00:02:37.580 Before we get started, though, I just want to remind everyone that the Western Standard is proud to partner with the Solid Gold Family Radio Network, Alberta's very own internet radio, owned and operated right here in Alberta.

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00:03:04.940 All right, we're going to start off with what's taking place in Alberta schools, Corey.

00:03:12.080 actually on your show earlier today

00:03:14.980 you were talking

00:03:16.920 about this specifically

00:03:18.460 it's

00:03:19.700 it began I think with

00:03:21.780 you know parents and parental rights organizations

00:03:24.800 speaking out

00:03:26.500 saying like look at some of this

00:03:28.900 weird stuff that's in here

00:03:30.220 the Western Standard's broken stories

00:03:32.460 on some of the very weird stuff that's ended up in

00:03:34.480 Saskatchewan classrooms

00:03:35.660 this stuff is full blown

00:03:38.960 pornographic

00:03:40.500 material. Some of it's essentially

00:03:42.420 books on how to...

00:03:44.900 I have to do a bit of a language

00:03:46.580 warning for this episode. There's no way

00:03:48.460 around it.

00:03:50.840 There's ancient instructions on how to 0.94

00:03:52.440 jerk your buddy off. 1.00

00:03:54.700 Oral sex instructions, 1.00

00:03:56.480 same-sex and opposite-sex.

00:03:59.560 A lot of it is...

00:04:01.180 It's not just graphic

00:04:02.180 reading. It's graphic

00:04:04.220 illustration, even. It's

00:04:06.240 really explicit stuff.

00:04:08.420 And the opponents to this

00:04:09.860 to removing this stuff from classrooms,

00:04:12.600 especially for young

00:04:13.820 kids. There's like grade 3 kids

00:04:16.040 getting this stuff.

00:04:17.860 For some reason, Corey, they never

00:04:19.960 actually cite a single

00:04:22.140 example of one of these books

00:04:23.960 that should still be

00:04:25.580 in the classroom.

00:04:27.620 To give a bit more background, this one's been

00:04:29.900 boiling for a little while, and

00:04:32.040 they certainly dodged the actual books that started

00:04:34.060 this whole thing,

00:04:35.220 which is what we should be addressing.

00:04:37.820 How did those things even get there in the first place?

00:04:39.860 But this has all been lost now in the protest.

00:04:42.580 So these books surfaced in spring.

00:04:44.420 One of the most odious, you know, and that picture's gone around the net if people want to Google it. 0.95

00:04:48.660 And it shows a couple of men performing oral sex upon each other. 0.93

00:04:51.860 Maybe we could show a blur out version on the screen. 0.96

00:04:54.500 We're going to blur it.

00:04:55.400 We're not going to get that X rated.

00:04:56.460 Well, and there's some of the irony because Daniel Smith, Premier Smith, responded at a press conference.

00:05:01.700 I thought very well.

00:05:03.060 And saying, well, if they can't understand the difference between this and what's appropriate matter for schools.

00:05:07.020 and she had it on monitors behind them at the press conference, you know, we're there to hold

00:05:10.700 their hand. I mean, this battle is getting heated. But the TV's channels wouldn't show that. They

00:05:16.360 just reported on book banning. The reason they wouldn't show it is because the books are too

00:05:19.160 graphic to show on television. So apparently you can show them to our children, but you can't put

00:05:23.520 it on TV. But because of this happening, the Smith government came up with a ministerial order

00:05:30.860 laying out some guidelines on what's appropriate to go in school libraries. The Edmonton Public

00:05:35.520 school board did a vicious compliance just took it to the t and eliminated over 200 books and the

00:05:42.000 timing has been astounding on how they did the release on this they said it's leaked books like

00:05:47.080 the great gatsby of course they they picked out margaret atwood's stuff which is good and nicely

00:05:51.540 she made sure to juice that whole book ban thing as well and they had 200 books which they banned

00:05:57.060 because they said that's what smith demanded they do that it's just absurd the nuance between again 0.73

00:06:02.500 graphic depictions of men performing oral sex on each other, and it was going into

00:06:06.680 K-9 schools versus some classic 0.90

00:06:10.780 novels that reference sex now and then. They're not there to discuss, but I think

00:06:14.700 something that not many people have been mentioning, too, is the timing of it happening right when the

00:06:18.660 Alberta schoolteachers turned down a 17% raise and are threatening a strike.

00:06:22.680 So I think they're looking for a battle with Smith, and they got it.

00:06:26.460 You know, Nigel, this doesn't surprise me, coming from the Alberta Teachers Association, which

00:06:30.540 defended keeping pedos in schools, continuing to teach after they've been successfully prosecuted

00:06:37.400 and convicted. These guys are on a cultural jihad here. I mean, I used to dismiss this as,

00:06:46.940 you know, it's a couple of flaky blue hairs around. This is pretty systemic coming from

00:06:53.260 the entire education bureaucracy, teachers, principals, the union, the bureaucrats within

00:06:59.420 the education department in some cases um you know this this is full-blown pornography and

00:07:07.100 and what you know i it's an interesting tactic that they've taken at the uh edmonton school board

00:07:13.580 where uh you know corey used the term uh vicious compliance i use the term malicious compliance

00:07:19.700 um you know this the government didn't say here's a list of my books they said like oh here's some

00:07:25.020 parameters, very common-sense

00:07:27.220 basic parameters, you could

00:07:28.300 you shouldn't even need parameters to tell

00:07:31.060 that this is age-appropriate for someone in the third grade

00:07:33.160 and this is not, but they

00:07:35.000 set up the parameters

00:07:35.800 Edmonton School Board

00:07:38.380 says, well, anything

00:07:40.880 with any sex at all

00:07:42.640 even alluded to, or banning

00:07:45.160 so that, you know, Great Gatsby

00:07:47.220 Atlas Shrug

00:07:49.660 by Ayn Rand

00:07:50.420 I'm impressed that that appeared

00:07:52.940 in at least one school somewhere it's a hard read but um you know this was i think the equivalent of

00:07:59.820 someone seeing a you know the speed limit sign on the side of the highway says 100 says well

00:08:04.860 to make sure i don't go 100 i'll go over the speed limit i'm just going to do 10 down the qe2

00:08:09.800 um i'm not going over the speed limit hope you like that i comply with the law

00:08:14.140 that's that's what they're doing here they're driving 10 in 100 zone to say that they're

00:08:18.020 complying with the new rules here um what kind of cultural rot would drive people to fight this

00:08:25.340 hard to keep pornography not not risque not something that's you know a little bit spicily 1.00

00:08:31.800 ridden uh a little tantalizing no this full-blown sick pornography being pushed on children why would 0.97

00:08:38.460 they fight this hard to keep it in the classroom it's a it's a good question and there is a good

00:08:42.540 answer it's a whole part of the culture war that we find ourselves engaged in and you know we do

00:08:47.720 sound like a grumpy old man when we start talking about the cultural war but it's real it exists and

00:08:53.360 there are people who want our children to grow up and think very different things to what we

00:08:59.060 ourselves think. There's a whole layer of understanding of this that we haven't talked

00:09:06.140 about yet and that is the part of the federal government in this. Astonishingly you can trace

00:09:12.740 this back to Heritage Canada. We did a column on this a couple of months ago, but I'm just

00:09:19.400 going to quote freely from it. But federal and provincial governments have paid substantial

00:09:24.940 grant monies to advocacy organizations that are seeking to normalize sexual and gender

00:09:31.940 minorities. Now, we can talk about who these organizations are, but that does leave us

00:09:39.660 with the question of why would the federal government have an interest in promoting this

00:09:45.140 through Heritage Canada? Well, frankly, after 10 years of Mr. Trudeau, I really don't have any

00:09:53.980 answers as to why anymore, but the policy has survived his departure. So here in Alberta,

00:10:02.440 the Alberta Teachers Association is encouraging teachers to form DEI committees and those are

00:10:10.120 expected to press for inclusive materials including the books that we're talking about,

00:10:15.400 which are every bit as bad as what Corey there was talking about. So the fact is there are no

00:10:21.880 gatekeepers on this except your own provincial government and it's your federal government and

00:10:28.440 your unions that are part of the problem last point on this mr trudeau appointed to the senate

00:10:36.760 a man by the name of chris wells he was he's an academic he's from edmonton he's an outspoken

00:10:43.400 advocate for queer values if you can call them that we described him as a prominent advocate

00:10:50.520 for sexual and gender minorities he was appointed last fall to the senate and he keeps coming back

00:10:56.280 And this is his shtick. 0.99

00:10:58.740 He's a creep, is what he is. 0.87

00:11:00.520 Yeah, yeah.

00:11:01.240 I can't elaborate too far on my thoughts with Senator Wells.

00:11:05.460 But at least I am guessing that on the left coast, you've probably got the same kinds of things in libraries.

00:11:16.520 I guess the difference is there that you don't have a British Columbia government that is determined to rectify this a bit.

00:11:26.280 You know, these guys have been caught, no pun intended, with their pants down here, pushing.

00:11:32.740 Did you really mean to say that?

00:11:37.940 I wasn't going to say anything.

00:11:39.700 I was going to let you just go for it, Derek.

00:11:43.180 They've been caught here.

00:11:44.840 And someone opened the door.

00:11:48.920 And has caught them with what they're doing.

00:11:51.820 But it's not on their own time here.

00:11:53.400 It's on our children's time.

00:11:54.900 And, you know, I think what they're doing is they're trying to frame this as kind of footloose, stodgy, you know, anyone who's opposed to this educational material in schools is opposed to even any sexual education.

00:12:10.560 They're preaching absolute abstinence.

00:12:13.280 You know, these people belong in another century kind of deal.

00:12:17.420 I think that's the message they're trying to push.

00:12:19.820 But anytime anyone points out and says, okay, well, you know, here's an example of the pornography available in this school, this school, this school, and this school, and that's clearly not age appropriate for someone in the second, third, fourth grade.

00:12:35.080 They never actually address what is being removed from these libraries.

00:12:39.460 They just say, you're banning books.

00:12:42.040 You know, you're the old studs from Footloose here.

00:12:44.740 You're Nazis burning books.

00:12:46.500 um i just have a hard time other than the regular you know our our team gets to the point their team

00:12:54.840 gets a point other than that what could possibly drive them to continue fighting at this point

00:13:00.460 uh where they go into malicious over compliance and something like this fighting so hard to keep

00:13:06.200 porn in front of little kids exactly when you're speaking to somebody that has as as i in british

00:13:13.380 columbia i'm a well-known conservative uh former spokesperson analyst my child was on the receiving

00:13:19.760 end of crippling abuse from her teachers uh and to the point where one teacher had actually locked 1.00

00:13:27.520 my child in a classroom while i happened to be on an on-site at a school meeting and so i really

00:13:34.720 had to fight i've been doxed by teachers my daughter has been harassed by creepy older male

00:13:40.600 teachers and then at the same time on the flip side of this we are ground zero here for soji

00:13:47.160 one two three i don't know if either any of you remember soji it was it is all about um the very

00:13:54.600 arguments that we're having today and the parents in certain communities that were pushing back on

00:14:00.040 soji which was about uh non-binary gender fluidity trans rights all the whole spectrum of sexuality

00:14:09.160 was captured in this and it was a mandated curriculum for the classrooms of british columbia

00:14:15.000 parrots fought back very very hard and the argument that we were you know banning literature

00:14:21.480 or banning uh you know the you know the right to for children to have a education in sexual

00:14:27.800 health for example was absolutely backwards i actually equate it to alcohol age requirements

00:14:34.200 in some provinces is 18, others it's 19. I would say there's a good reason why we're whipping away

00:14:42.020 vapes from young kids. There's a good reason why we stop alcohol or do our best to stop the process

00:14:47.700 of the exchange of alcohol to younger people in Canada. It is because you are not able and ready

00:14:54.740 physically and mentally to manage the consequences of that. I would suggest the same as here.

00:15:00.040 um and so i really understand the fight that albertans have there this is to the common

00:15:05.860 sense canadian i think we're all really exhausted being dragged from you know post public in these

00:15:12.720 culture wars that are what i would consider tradecraft by the left i wouldn't even say

00:15:17.720 progressive this this is not progressive stuff this is the endorsement of i think uh

00:15:24.200 i i actually don't know if i should say this on air but i i feel it's the endorsement of

00:15:29.960 some extremely um what i would consider unbelievably pornographic images and when you

00:15:39.400 actually see and i'm very glad that your minister of education and the premier released the books

00:15:44.280 because if you google any of those books there's some of them have websites and videos on youtube

00:15:49.720 associated with them and that will make your script your skin crawl so coming from a province

00:15:55.080 that has had many of these battles continues to have these battles look what's happening

00:15:59.560 um in the argument of you know the transgender movement and the indoctrination of children in 0.56

00:16:05.960 british columbia there so this is all very familiar to me but i would say my argument about

00:16:11.560 what the what the school board did was that it was very calculated and contrived i would

00:16:16.120 not put it past them to have contacted atwood margaret atwood prior to them

00:16:21.080 pulling those books off the shelves all of these movements require some version of a celebrity

00:16:26.200 endorsement and so i think you're i think we're underestimating uh their abilities and their

00:16:32.760 commitment to a very long culture war in your province i think to that to that point at least

00:16:38.760 the alberta teachers association actually has written and published a guide to teachers

00:16:45.640 on how to deal with sexual matters from the perspective that we're objecting to here today.

00:16:52.440 It's called the PRISM kit. Everybody's encouraged to go and get it.

00:16:56.460 So there's a lot of leadership from the top that is being directed against parents and children on this issue.

00:17:04.900 I haven't seen that, Nigel, but I will say that British Columbia is sort of the handbook,

00:17:11.400 uh the the this the tale of how every left-leaning extremist group should function and i know we're

00:17:18.960 going to get into this later in the show but in indigenous truth and reconciliation is a great

00:17:23.240 example land grabs are a great example this all starts always in british columbia and it is

00:17:29.160 embarrassing and it completely is counterintuitive to the judiciary and to our regulatory system and

00:17:36.860 democratic process and parents still outrank teachers i don't care what they think and this

00:17:43.260 is the argument that british columbia parents have had as well so that handbook or that guide

00:17:48.460 to indoctrination as i as i call it nigel that has probably roots to the bctf um and some of the 0.97

00:17:57.020 school boards here and uh we're every fall every semester there's one teacher that's fired here or

00:18:04.780 one school board trustee that seems to be canceled it's an ongoing problem and i'm and i'm happy to

00:18:11.100 see parents holding the line i think it's very important that we do that well that's this is a

00:18:17.020 good segue uh to where we're going now so uh it's a little background uh i was at the labor day

00:18:24.620 classic uh where calgary smashed edmonton pretty well on monday labor day and a guy also sits near

00:18:34.540 me in the epic man stadium there told me about something that's going on at uh at a high school

00:18:40.880 in sylvan lake sylvan lake alberta a small town just west of red deer where a volunteer high

00:18:47.340 school football coach he's coached this team for 10 years um he had posted a video on tiktok

00:18:54.900 um where uh you know he he said that you know trans ideology is being pushed on children

00:19:02.520 aggressively and as a cure-all for anything you have. I mean, no one's come through high school

00:19:08.100 and not been a little bit off. You know, you might be depressed. You're unusual. You're changing.

00:19:14.480 You're going through puberty. All these is a weird time in your life. And the trans ideology 1.00

00:19:19.440 or just gender ideology more broadly is being pushed on children as a cure-all.

00:19:25.920 And, you know, he made the link that, you know, this messes up a lot of kids. And in some cases,

00:19:30.720 it catastrophically messes

00:19:32.780 them up and he pointed to the

00:19:34.760 example of the mass shooter

00:19:36.600 in Minnesota who went

00:19:38.860 out and shot up

00:19:39.620 a school church full of kids, killing two

00:19:42.860 and injuring many more

00:19:44.000 I mean

00:19:46.840 what he said was factually correct, I think it's within

00:19:48.760 the broad mainstream of opinion

00:19:50.480 in Alberta, probably even Canada

00:19:52.600 more broadly, but certainly

00:19:54.240 far outside the mainstream of an ideologically

00:19:56.780 captured organization like the Alberta Teachers

00:19:58.640 Association, which as I pointed out

00:20:00.300 our last segment, has defended the right of a pedophile to continue teaching in Alberta schools.

00:20:06.520 That turned out to be probably a bit of a tactical error for them.

00:20:10.000 But he was, no pun intended, sacked from his job as one of the assistant coaches,

00:20:17.240 the defensive coordinator, and this has resulted in a huge backlash.

00:20:24.340 I've spoken to a ton of those students who are outraged by this.

00:20:27.620 they say he's never once preached his politics

00:20:29.660 or cultural views on the field. I've talked

00:20:31.640 to other assistant coaches and

00:20:33.560 staff who have resigned.

00:20:35.520 Some have resigned. Some are threatening

00:20:37.540 to resign if he's not reinstated

00:20:39.560 immediately. And they said, one of them even

00:20:41.620 said, I didn't even know he held any

00:20:43.480 kind of socially conservative views, even if you

00:20:45.540 call that socially conservative. I think it's pretty damn 0.96

00:20:47.600 mainstream at this point as people have

00:20:49.200 gotten the courage to speak back up against this

00:20:51.640 madness.

00:20:53.840 But, you know, then

00:20:55.540 I talked to the principal last night, and she said, I can't comment on this because the investigation's ongoing.

00:21:04.960 To which I said, you mean you fired him before you investigated?

00:21:08.940 To which she says, I can't talk at all. Goodbye.

00:21:12.240 I think she realized she stepped a bit on that one.

00:21:15.180 But this is absolutely nuts.

00:21:16.560 A guy who dedicates his time to help these kids.

00:21:22.360 I can't believe how these kids talk about this guy.

00:21:25.540 uh i've had some great coaches in my life but i i've never looked up to one the way these kids

00:21:31.540 look up to this guy this guy's a role model he sees it as his job to mold young boys uh sorry

00:21:36.740 boys into young men um and and then you've got he says this far left crazy woke high school

00:21:44.260 principal alex lambert is her name uh in sylvan lake who's done this and it's just created this

00:21:49.700 this total uproar um and and none of this was done on school property none of this is most

00:21:56.580 the kids didn't even know he talks about this kind of thing on his own time um it's it's total

00:22:02.660 madness poisoning our schools and i i guess comes back to the theme of what we were just talking

00:22:09.140 about i i don't understand why these people are so they're not subtly pushing things anymore

00:22:16.260 And they didn't get the memo, 2025, you can't silence us. 0.98

00:22:20.000 You can't bully people into silence the way they have been for the last nearly decade of silencing people just by saying, you know, you're a racist, you're a sexist, you're a homophobe, you're a transphobe. 0.98

00:22:31.780 And that would shut down the conversation. 0.96

00:22:33.680 That's not the case anymore.

00:22:35.060 And people are fighting back, Nigel.

00:22:36.240 Well, I think in the end he'll be vindicated because everything that has been declared

00:22:43.880 to be wrong in the last five years was actually declared, has been the common understanding

00:22:50.420 of humanity through all races, all religions, for however many thousand years you want to

00:22:55.620 go.

00:22:56.620 But this is the only society, this one that we're living in right now, this is the only

00:23:01.940 one that has ever suggested that large numbers of young people are born in the wrongs in the wrong

00:23:08.980 body and ought to have been born something other than what they were and that the right thing to 1.00

00:23:13.940 do is uh is surgery to to correct what nature clearly got wrong so you know it may take a few

00:23:22.340 more years yet but eventually and it's i don't mean eventually in the distant future i expect

00:23:27.700 to live to see it, that people say, I can't believe that we ever thought these things.

00:23:35.140 So this gentleman will have, if not a laugh, he'll have the last word and will be vindicated.

00:23:42.740 But it goes to show the force and the incredible viciousness of people who,

00:23:51.220 saying that they want to be kind to kids who are going through a difficult stage

00:23:57.540 actually use it as an excuse to sexualize them and presumably in the

00:24:05.240 years to come who knows what but at any rate they're not doing the kids any

00:24:09.100 favor this gentleman is and in the end he will be vindicated as well the rest of

00:24:16.660 us who've taken this point of view and this is the culture war we refer to in the first part of this

00:24:22.340 program at least uh you know when i called uh the principal and i called the superintendent

00:24:28.700 they were totally unprepared which leads me to believe that they didn't think this would be a

00:24:37.060 controversy that this this is just totally fine we got you you said something that doesn't tow the

00:24:43.820 party line on

00:24:45.680 trans and gender ideology

00:24:48.200 and we've therefore

00:24:50.020 gotcha. It's a checkmate.

00:24:52.880 They're acting

00:24:53.860 like they can still do

00:24:55.980 this. I don't think they can do this

00:24:58.000 anymore. Five years

00:24:59.920 ago, they could do this. Two years ago,

00:25:02.320 they could... It was starting

00:25:03.900 to get tough even then. But three years old,

00:25:05.820 they could definitely do this and no

00:25:07.900 one would stand up and defend them.

00:25:10.700 And maybe there'd be a few of us.

00:25:11.880 But even though most people in their hearts knew this was madness, that this was child abuse, that were harming children here.

00:25:20.380 Everybody knew it or most people knew it, but everyone was afraid.

00:25:25.300 But these parents and the kids are not afraid.

00:25:28.920 The kids have have been taken aside and told not to speak up.

00:25:33.500 Leave this to the to the teachers and the school board and the superintendent.

00:25:36.980 it. This is not for you. They've been told to shut up

00:25:38.920 because they've been emailing

00:25:41.060 their support

00:25:43.020 for their coach

00:25:45.660 teach here. They've been

00:25:47.020 sending their support saying this is 1.00

00:25:49.020 bullshit. We want him back. 0.99

00:25:51.580 He's done nothing wrong.

00:25:53.120 You're the ones who've done something wrong.

00:25:54.860 Students are calling for the firing of the principal now.

00:25:59.080 But these guys are still acting

00:26:00.860 like this is 2022 and you could

00:26:02.960 just shut someone up by using an ism or

00:26:05.000 an ist and label them and

00:26:06.960 shut it down absolutely and i every and i watched your interview with him derek and i thought it was

00:26:13.460 a really interesting uh perspective because he he made it very clear he's not political

00:26:19.980 he wasn't trying to be hateful and i i did watch the original tiktok video and thankfully you put

00:26:26.520 some of it up there because it's now a video that's gone most people won't be able to see

00:26:30.280 the original um but what i what wasn't lost on me was everything he was saying in that regular

00:26:37.440 good guy way was what the scientists in europe and the medical doctors are saying about the the

00:26:45.540 rush to the you know the transgender ideology and this assumption that if a child and there's still 0.55

00:26:53.080 a child you know 13 14 15 their front lobe is engorged we should we need to remember that they're

00:26:59.880 like drunk drivers at that age you need to take the keys away there's a reason again we don't

00:27:05.340 allow them to gamble and we definitely don't want them vaping and we don't want them smoking and we

00:27:10.440 don't want them drinking um in bc we obviously still give them street drugs but it's sanctioned

00:27:15.600 by the government so it's okay um but i just had to throw that in because bc is upside down land

00:27:21.780 but everything he was saying was regular normal common sense canadian way of really in his

00:27:29.400 interpretation whether he understood this or not is what europe and the uk have put forward which

00:27:35.640 is something canada is not doing which is a in in simple terms that the hay slow down step back

00:27:41.480 we are not mutilating nine-year-olds you can't identify as one gender or another when you're 10.

00:27:47.000 we are going to reset the rules we're going to be brave i and i was quite surprised surprised when

00:27:52.680 the uk made that shift but the courts had sort of backed the uk into this as well so politically i

00:27:59.320 I don't think they had another exit strategy, but the EU has taken that direction as well.

00:28:06.780 Australia has taken that direction.

00:28:08.620 Canada is the laggard in this.

00:28:10.300 So he is not saying anything hateful.

00:28:12.760 He's just saying it in regular good guy terms.

00:28:15.960 This is what the doctors have been saying.

00:28:17.700 He's right about depression.

00:28:19.000 A lot of what we see with preteen and teenage kids, especially for girls, and I'm a girl mom,

00:28:25.540 is their, their front lobe is actually engorged with blood. I'm not joking when I say it's like

00:28:31.920 them being tipsy, like a drunk driver. And there is a constant stream of emotions and what they

00:28:37.540 like on a Monday, they won't like on a Tuesday. So I agree with what he's saying. And if you have

00:28:42.520 a depressed girl and girls, I hate to say this, I'm not sure if you gentlemen know this, but

00:28:46.940 teenage or preteen girls are most targeted to the gender ideology or those gender or sorry,

00:28:53.640 trans activists those are the trans activists are targeting preteen and teenage girls that is the

00:28:59.880 majority of the group they're looking to and so we are once again not only having to deal with men

00:29:05.800 in our washrooms and men in our sports and men in our spaces but we actually have activists that are

00:29:10.680 actively targeting uh young women who are expressing or young girls who are expressing

00:29:16.840 depression and certain other feelings and that is not because they don't identify as being a woman

00:29:22.840 it is not because they're transgender it's because they are teen age girls and this world is a i hate 1.00

00:29:28.840 to say it is a pretty awful world right now limited um you know social interactions are

00:29:34.840 contributing to this so i think he's fantastic yay for coach um and and i agree with you the

00:29:41.880 problem that you have in alberta which is what the bctf has realized here in school birds have

00:29:46.440 realized here is the alarm gets rung very quickly now if they start firing or canceling people

00:29:52.360 and they can you know edmonton school board or sorry the edmonton or other teachers in alberta

00:29:58.120 other school boards they are playing these games that the bctf was playing maybe five six years ago

00:30:04.360 uh derek and i would recommend that they you know kind of get to the end of the book and see how

00:30:09.720 it's worked for the bctf how it's worked for the teachers so i wish this guy all the best i hope

00:30:15.240 that he continues on his campaign to speak for freedom of speech you know cory i i think the

00:30:22.380 libertarian me has died i i i used to agree that i will defend to the death your right to say

00:30:32.720 something if i disagree with it it's only one side playing by those rules and if it's only

00:30:40.080 our side playing by those rules

00:30:42.080 we will lose

00:30:43.880 every time. That's why the right loses

00:30:45.940 every culture war battle

00:30:47.600 until extremely recently. It's lost

00:30:50.020 every battle because we play

00:30:51.680 by one set of rules, they play

00:30:53.840 by another set of rules.

00:30:56.140 You know, when we were talking about FOIC

00:30:57.500 concerts getting cancelled by the left

00:30:59.560 I said, you know, maybe

00:31:01.440 maybe we need to break the Geneva

00:31:04.000 Convention to make them

00:31:05.080 agree to sign the Geneva Convention here. We need to

00:31:07.920 shoot some of their prisoners. We're going to cancel some 1.00

00:31:09.980 left-wing concerts just to show them we can do it too um they cancel volunteers for expressing a

00:31:18.240 pretty non-controversial opinion that just doesn't line up with their doctrine here

00:31:22.120 i i i think we have to take the gloves off here i think we need to purge our schools we don't just

00:31:28.300 we don't we don't uh we don't accept that okay well you know we're gonna limit it to

00:31:35.040 fine left-wing teachers can't show porn to kids i think we got to go a lot further i think we

00:31:39.520 have to purge our schools of these people when the other people are in power they do it to our

00:31:43.640 people i think we have to fight back just as hard and when we say cultural war i'm not me and the

00:31:48.980 war the word war very lightly i think this this we're now fighting for the soul of western

00:31:53.180 civilization and we can't control everything everywhere but we can control it here at home

00:31:57.120 in alberta people in bc could fight in bc scatchewan and saskatchewan i think we need to

00:32:02.660 damn right purge our schools this principle needs to be fired but then we need to start

00:32:06.940 proactively going after the others because they proactively come after our people and we're the 0.97

00:32:11.880 only ones fighting by the rules of war here and if only one side's fighting about it you're gonna

00:32:16.180 lose yeah well and i appreciate that you brought up the name of the principle some of the people

00:32:20.000 are going to be held responsible for this because what we need to do is turn the camera back towards

00:32:25.320 the mob and the pitchforks because we always keep the camera on the victim and who they're chasing

00:32:28.940 and even if the person gets away that they were chasing the mob has gotten away with impunity

00:32:34.880 and they need to be exposed for who they are and what they've done. They need to stand up then and

00:32:40.660 defend or try to, and I don't think they can, what they've been doing because they've gotten

00:32:45.600 away with it. They just make the accusation, the person disappears, and they move on. So no,

00:32:49.660 the principal should be named. The principal should be shamed. The school board of Edmonton

00:32:54.040 in this coming election in two months from now, I hope there's candidates running against them

00:32:58.660 with brochures saying this one supported this material in our schools. I don't. Turn the camera

00:33:04.940 back to them because right now it's always on defense. It's always the person who's been accused

00:33:09.940 and they have to defend themselves. But we forget who's the one accusing, who's the one with the

00:33:13.680 finger pointing, who's the one holding the torch in the pitchfork. In this case, it was that

00:33:17.620 principal. In this case, it's that school board in Edmonton. And yes, we have to push back. Not

00:33:23.120 cancelling, even it's still democratic. Enough parents phone up and say, look, I don't want that

00:33:27.740 person entrusted with my children in that school because she's got a vendetta against free speech 1.00

00:33:32.020 she gets fired that's the way it goes school board it's an elected position that's where some of the 0.93

00:33:37.740 people got to get off their own butts but yeah you know what those school board members all signed

00:33:41.740 off i'm canceling all those books banning those books and maintaining porn in alberta libraries 0.96

00:33:46.400 exposed them for it turn the camera back at them i bet you they didn't run on the basis that this

00:33:53.140 is what they would do if the issue no so let's make them run on it this time i think that would

00:33:56.840 possibly the single greatest

00:33:59.120 most corrective piece of political literature

00:34:01.020 you know everyone at the doors gets these

00:34:02.800 boring brochures with a smiling politician

00:34:05.260 they look like a real estate agent in it

00:34:07.080 here's what I stand for blah blah blah

00:34:09.100 no literally print off

00:34:11.280 some of the porn that the incumbent

00:34:13.000 school trustees

00:34:15.380 at Edmonton

00:34:15.840 and put their face on it and say

00:34:18.660 this candidate supports this material

00:34:21.320 in your children's classroom

00:34:22.920 that would be pretty damn effective

00:34:24.420 I think so.

00:34:25.460 There was one person today who discussed the idea of having principals and assistants or vice principals as an elected position.

00:34:34.540 If the left is going to hijack education and trying to indoctrinate our kids prior to even grade one, then what is the answer going to be?

00:34:45.040 Because parents are feeling like they're losing control.

00:34:47.080 and a very legitimate person I was speaking to today said, you know, brought up the idea of

00:34:52.540 electing principals and vice principals. And I initially was hesitant to jump on that.

00:34:58.100 But the more that's marinated, you know, in my brain throughout the day, the more I think that

00:35:02.520 might be something places like Alberta and Saskatchewan look at. Saskatchewan has a very

00:35:07.380 similar problem with the types of books that Alberta has, the minister has asked to be removed.

00:35:13.840 I mean, they actually might even have it a little worse. So, you know, we need to be looking to the story and chasing the story to Saskatchewan. I suspect something will be bubbling up in the next few days there as well.

00:35:25.500 Our Saskatchewan reporter, Chris Oldcorn, exposed some of the very, very sick things that have been peddled in schools in Saskatchewan to very young kids.

00:35:35.420 I think the answer is actually to abolish our public school systems and convert every single school into a charter school.

00:35:44.440 I send my daughter to a charter school.

00:35:46.660 The parents get to run the show.

00:35:48.880 We elect the board.

00:35:49.640 The board then elects the superintendent or chooses the superintendent and the principal, etc.

00:35:56.660 I don't think as a parent I actually have the qualifications to probably figure out who the principal is.

00:36:00.820 That's a more professional day-to-day job.

00:36:03.720 I'm willing to grant that to a board, but each individual school has its own board.

00:36:08.700 And you limit the voting, here's the big kicker, to just the parents at the school.

00:36:13.900 not everyone around so that the union which is the only organized entity that's where the unions

00:36:19.300 win these school board elections almost every single time it's because they're organized they

00:36:23.420 have a uh they have a vested conflict of interest in electing friendly boards themselves you you

00:36:29.380 limit the franchise purely to the mother and the father of the children going to that school they

00:36:35.740 and they said it and i bet you real quick you're going to get better outcomes you're going to get 0.98

00:36:40.120 Get rid of a lot of these crappy teachers. 0.98

00:36:42.180 Going to get rid of the teachers who are trying to hold parents hostage by threatening a strike just as school comes back. 0.99

00:36:50.020 Not holding their strike in the middle of the summer when they're getting paid to sit around doing nothing.

00:36:54.780 All right.

00:36:56.280 End of rant.

00:36:58.900 I'm fired up today.

00:37:00.600 No, it's just part one.

00:37:01.800 I suspect as the weeks go on, Derek, there'll be part two, part three, part four, et cetera.

00:37:08.160 Because I think this is an issue that's really resonating with Canadians, not just parents.

00:37:13.240 Yeah.

00:37:14.000 Okay.

00:37:17.020 BC has been doing quite a brisk business as of late in just handing land over to different First Nations bands.

00:37:28.140 You know, in some cases, there might be legitimate disputes to title.

00:37:31.980 BC did not have nice, neat treaties the way we did in Alberta.

00:37:34.960 there's a lot

00:37:38.040 of room for nuance in these things

00:37:40.020 granted, but on a grand

00:37:42.080 scale, BC has been

00:37:43.920 leading the way and handing land over

00:37:45.800 and or

00:37:47.240 allowing bands to declare

00:37:50.020 that this park is off limits to

00:37:51.900 everyone with the wrong color of skin 1.00

00:37:53.780 blatantly 0.97

00:37:56.140 segregationist racist

00:37:57.740 policies

00:37:58.540 but then it's gone to a whole new

00:38:01.940 level in Manitoba

00:38:03.920 Nigel

00:38:04.520 Mm-hmm. You know, there is a bigger picture that is starting to emerge from the mist and the shadows here, and that is that when we hear about, for example, the graves story, children were murdered, give us money, we'll go and look for it.

00:38:23.040 Well, nobody has turned up and nobody has even done the excavations, but the stigma of the allegation that children were murdered remains and it is used as a moral weapon to lever us, everybody who is not indigenous, into granting more and more privilege in the name of reconciliation.

00:38:52.040 Because everybody's in favor of reconciliation, even if they're not quite sure what they're reconciling for.

00:38:59.740 Well, what we're seeing now is a very, we're seeing a start of a land-back movement where land is returned full title to indigenous peoples.

00:39:11.840 And I think that this present government that we have is wholly in favor of it.

00:39:15.460 But look at what's, there are six examples.

00:39:18.900 Eric just mentioned a moment ago that there was a land deal that has to be tested in court,

00:39:25.600 but a court rule that land in Richmond needed to be returned to the people who are traditional to that area.

00:39:35.060 And that was private property.

00:39:36.300 And that was private property.

00:39:37.660 That's like your house.

00:39:39.260 Then you had Mr. Eby giving special privileges to the indigenous peoples

00:39:46.200 when it comes to approval of development.

00:39:51.500 In the north of British Columbia,

00:39:54.800 you have something called an indigenous protected and conserved area.

00:40:00.320 And this is a federal idea, but B.C. has bought right into it,

00:40:04.960 where basically you can't move.

00:40:07.880 You can't do any serious exploration or development without the whole,

00:40:13.840 never mind the court-ordered provisions.

00:40:17.300 You can't, the indigenous peoples of that area have control. 1.00

00:40:22.020 It's not just consent.

00:40:22.940 They have control. 0.97

00:40:25.280 Long Beach, don't go there if you're white. 1.00

00:40:29.220 In Manitoba, don't hunt.

00:40:32.040 Derek raised that question right at the start of this program.

00:40:35.660 They said, look, this is not the government saying, it's just saying the local band there is declaring it, and nobody's objecting.

00:40:43.940 But if you're not indigenous, then you don't get to hunt in that part of Manitoba.

00:40:49.420 So what you're seeing here, what the developing picture is, is more and more demands that are not resisted.

00:40:57.940 And you have to ask, well, where does it end, and where do you think indigenous people think it's going to end?

00:41:07.920 What is their end goal?

00:41:09.840 What does our federal government think about it?

00:41:13.320 So that brings me to my question for you, Elise.

00:41:17.280 Why don't we resist?

00:41:19.260 We seem to be, our governments, our betters seem to be willing and able partners in this.

00:41:27.360 they put up no resistance why don't we fight back this is the billion dollar question multi-billion

00:41:35.460 dollar question so just to provide a little bit more context um and and to expand on what nigel

00:41:42.880 was talking about this actually this land creep began very quietly almost a year ago and it wasn't

00:41:51.340 just it wasn't long beach it actually began in some parks uh outside of metro vancouver i would

00:41:58.060 say uh just to sort of you know give a good geographical sense but nobody knew about it

00:42:04.620 this ironically was traveling down the political highway at the same speed that the eb government

00:42:12.380 was putting forward their own bill c5 which is uh to rush projects forward to move without much

00:42:19.740 consent even the business community was against it because it had a lot of regulatory issues

00:42:24.380 but it passed no matter what imagine the the the the juxtaposition of that you've got

00:42:31.700 here you can have all the land you want we're not going to say anything and some of it's private

00:42:36.460 some that's public uh it's definitely unceded territory and at the same time we passed this

00:42:42.840 legislation it is a political and regulatory chaotic hot dumpster fire in british columbia

00:42:50.460 businesses if you look basie's in a recession there's a good reason why and it's because some

00:42:55.720 of these stories now i'll get back to the land grab uh we've had land grabs in very prominent

00:43:02.720 very like high public use parks the the beach and tofino took grabbed national interest because i

00:43:10.740 think it was most recognizable to those that are outside of british columbia but this land creep

00:43:16.240 uh has actually or these land grabs have actually are more numerous and even recently over the past

00:43:23.200 weekend another uh first nations band or a group came together and refused to reopen access to the

00:43:32.620 public and that was specifically in metro vancouver and as you might know we're reaching 37 38 even 40

00:43:39.000 degrees today on the west coast which is breaking all sorts of records and these are places that

00:43:44.280 families need to go because we don't have air conditioning here that there's kids that are

00:43:48.360 want to have access to these parks and these pools and these lakes and they can't have access to it

00:43:53.480 the eb government is politically spineless they're also uh schizophrenic and in most of their

00:43:59.560 approaches and unfortunately i don't think our opposition uh led by john rustad uh has has been

00:44:05.960 strong enough or loud enough or at least presented what i would consider to be a legal path forward

00:44:12.520 uh he has made some comments about the richmond land grab and and and and yes and what and what

00:44:19.000 they their ideas are around it but what we really need in this province is a group of legal experts

00:44:24.840 to come forward and tell us what the options are because you can see where this is going all right

00:44:30.760 I hate to put a pin in there, but we're out of time.

00:44:34.500 We have to do a truncated version of parting shots.

00:44:38.540 I'm going to give the first one to Corey, since I didn't let you have lost word on that segment.

00:44:42.120 That's fine. I'll just be quick.

00:44:43.920 The civic election is lining up in Alberta, and Calgary Gondek is in the lead.

00:44:47.960 The most unpopular mayor in living history.

00:44:50.340 Guys, candidates, voters, get it together.

00:44:52.760 You can't put her back in after that performance.

00:44:55.420 And people on the non-socialist side should probably figure out and get behind one candidate.

00:45:00.140 Yes.

00:45:00.760 Yeah. Nigel.

00:45:02.400 Yep. So it's pretty clear what the federal government's approach to unemployment is.

00:45:07.180 Make everybody a civil servant.

00:45:09.040 You just got some numbers out here real quick.

00:45:12.100 OK, well, there it is.

00:45:14.760 40 percent up in 10 years.

00:45:18.220 Oh, there you go. That'll solve the unemployment crisis. 0.82

00:45:20.880 All right. OK.

00:45:23.520 Canada is now officially in a technical recession.

00:45:26.400 I call it a recession. The storm clouds are coming.

00:45:29.600 If you think it's bad now, I think we wait for the worst and God help Ontario and their subnational debt.

00:45:36.360 So that's my last word.

00:45:38.280 All right. And I want to give a tip of the hat to Juno News, our friendly competitor.

00:45:45.000 They had a great story just the other day that, you know, we have to bring in temporary foreign workers because there's just not enough Canadians working.

00:45:53.120 You know, we have higher unemployment now.

00:45:55.140 the CBC is using

00:45:57.620 the temporary foreign worker program

00:45:59.600 oh we have all these laid off

00:46:01.540 journalists we have to subsidize and save

00:46:03.480 journalism in Canada but we're going to import

00:46:05.360 people to work for the CBC

00:46:07.240 beautiful great work

00:46:09.180 so tip of that the Juno news on that one

00:46:11.060 Nigel, Corey, Elise

00:46:13.200 thank you very much

00:46:14.560 and thank all of you for joining us

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Western Standard - September 04, 2025

Keeping (taxpayer-funded) porn out of schools

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