Western Standard's new Saskatchewan reporter Christopher Oldcorn joins the show to talk about his new job, Earth Day and the UCP trying to rig their leadership review process. Also, a new group formed to fight cancel culture.
00:03:03.080It's something that actually, not just, you know, somebody going on about cancel culture.
00:03:08.300He's got an idea of actually putting together, I guess, an organization to strike back at the mobs.
00:03:13.460And it's going to be an interesting talk to see what he's got going on there.
00:03:18.220Of course, now I've got to get on with the negative and get on with what's got me worked up for the day.
00:03:22.160and it's the UCP. They've done it again. So I got a message, you know, on the social media battles
00:03:26.840we've been having lately. And this is for the apologists for the UCP executive as they move to
00:03:32.720rig the leadership review. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. Common statement, and it
00:03:38.960works. It's insulting enough to UCP members and Albertans in general that the party in power is
00:03:44.360currently and flagrantly trying to rig their own leadership review process in order to protect
00:03:49.300Kenny's leadership. It's a complete insult to our intelligence. They try to claim the move
00:03:54.560was to completely change the process was in order to better accommodate the members. Come on, you
00:03:59.820guys. We don't better than that. You can see through this. The people who are now calling
00:04:03.940a mail-in balloting system the only democratic way to do a leadership review are the exact same
00:04:09.380people who said such a system would be undemocratic and could be prone to abuse and corruption.
00:04:13.980This isn't a simple flip-flop. It's bald-faced lying, and they're fooling nobody. Just at least
00:04:20.620be upfront with us. The Premier and his dwindling number of supporters are outright desperate,
00:04:25.240and they're in total panic. Their effort to create a leadership review system so expensive and awkward
00:04:30.960to participate in that it would limit the participants to a small number of people that
00:04:35.940they felt they could control backfired completely. They underestimated the ire among party members
00:04:41.120with Kenny's leadership is nearly 15,000 people shelled out $100 each to take part in the review
00:04:46.280two weeks from now. Political parties live and breathe on internal polls. You know damn well
00:04:52.580they've been polling and questioning members like mad and with only weeks remaining until the review
00:04:57.760they concluded that Kenny was going to lose this thing. They knew it. The only solution they could
00:05:01.740find was to strong arm the party executive and get the process kicked down the road by another month
00:05:06.760in some. This move is likely going to backfire as well, as the members are now more inflamed and
00:05:11.520more mistrustful of the party leadership than ever. But they bought themselves some breathing
00:05:15.400space in order to try and come up with some sort of plan to win the review. There was no need to
00:05:20.460go to a mail-in ballot, and they're lying and claiming it was the only option. The UCP raised
00:05:25.200$1.5 million from registrants. With that kind of money and weeks to work with, they could have
00:05:31.300easily set up balloting stations around the province to accommodate the large number of
00:05:35.640voters. That wouldn't have bought them the time they needed, though, and that they knew they were
00:05:41.140losing. They need that extra month. Now, upwards of apparently 40,000 UCP members may be eligible
00:05:46.940to vote in the review. That doesn't assure Kenny's survival of this review by any means, but
00:05:51.460it changes the pool of electors, and they're so desperate they felt they had nothing to lose. So
00:05:55.920let's just shake up the system and hope we can change the outcome. Recently leaked audio of
00:06:00.400meetings that Kenny held with staffers exposes the premier as labeling his opponents as racists
00:06:04.820and extremists. He sounds just like Justin Trudeau. And he has gravely insulted a large
00:06:11.200segment of the party membership, if not the majority of it. It's a tired trope and UCP
00:06:17.140members didn't sign up to take part in that crap. That Kenny can't even hold a private meeting
00:06:21.380without it being recorded and leaked demonstrates the respect he's commanding, even within the upper
00:06:26.420echelons of his own party. Kenny is needed to try and use staffers on unpaid leave to campaign on
00:06:32.580his behalf. And that's because his introverted style of government management has left him with
00:06:38.140no grassroots basis of supporters anymore. No volunteers or ground workers. He took his
00:06:43.180position for granted and now has little to no human resources to tap into to try and win this
00:06:48.240review. Trust has been shattered within the UCP. Legal action on behalf of members is in the works
00:06:52.960now. Dozens of constituency association presidents are calling for Kenny's resignation, and the
00:06:58.540number of MLAs and open revolt against the Premier appears to be growing by the date.
00:07:03.220If there's going to be any slim hope of Kenny retaining his leadership, it's going to have to
00:07:07.640be done in demonstrating his ability to lead rather than playing political games. He's losing
00:07:12.220the games. The window opportunity for that sort of display is likely long closed, though. The
00:07:16.900bridges have been burned. Albertans and UCP members are repulsed with the party, and it's showing in
00:07:22.320polls outside of the party and with the discord within it. Even if Kenny somehow manages to cling
00:07:26.800to the leadership until mid-May, and even if he somehow garners over 50% of the votes,
00:07:31.260the party is irreparably damaged. There's going to be a mass floor crossing, as too many MLAs
00:07:36.160have passed the point of no return already, as they've been calling for the resignation of
00:07:40.020Kenya or openly opposing him. Constituacy associations are going to dissolve, and we're
00:07:44.000going to have multiple conservative parties in the legislature again. Rachel Notley, in the
00:07:47.800meantime, is smiling like a Cheshire cat. The only way the UCPL managed to win the general
00:07:52.100election slated to be held a year from now is to demonstrate that they have dramatically changed
00:07:56.580to reform themselves, and this has to start at the top.
00:07:59.440Kenney's proven himself to be willing to drag the party into electoral oblivion
00:08:03.120rather than allowing a fair, open leadership review
00:08:05.760to be held by the very damn rules his supporters set in the first place.
00:08:10.100If Kenney really thinks he can pull it off, he has no other option now
00:08:12.820but to resign and run for the leadership again.
00:08:15.200If he really has the chops to win a general election,
00:08:17.920he has to show that he can win against the contenders within his own party.
00:08:22.060The role as premier was Kenney's to lose.
00:08:25.140Conservative parties in Alberta usually are elected to multi-decade dynasties.
00:08:29.480In three years in power, Kenny has managed to lead the UCP into a position where they could potentially lose power after one term,
00:08:35.180and that's even without a big vote split going on.
00:08:37.720He has to be held accountable for this.
00:08:40.300Had he even implemented simple promises such as recall, which still hasn't been proclaimed, of course, they're scared of it.
00:08:45.680Or followed through on the fair deal panel, perhaps, but he didn't do any of that.
00:08:49.360Maybe some of his original supporters would still be behind him.
00:08:52.160Unfortunately, he's done nothing but dodge and disappoint.
00:08:54.740It's only going to get uglier with each day that Kenny desperately tries to retain his role as
00:08:59.400leader. It won't make it easier if his supporters keep trying to feed us BS about the process while
00:09:04.480they're at it. They're killing what little amount of credibility and trust remains out there for
00:09:08.960that party. And it's just going to get worse. That's what's got me triggered today. And it's
00:09:14.760got a lot of people triggered today. I mean, that process has just been beyond the pale so far.
00:09:19.240let's get in and see what we've got going on the news here so today we have our reporter
00:09:26.120eva sudic coming in to talk to us about what's going on because yes the stories are just
00:09:30.480piling up out there hey eva how's it going good how are you cory very good very good so
00:09:36.220what has been breaking in the news today before we get on to what's coming in the future here
00:09:40.260um we have an update on canadian oil a natural resource minister said we will increase crude
00:09:47.000oil exports by 300 000 barrels a day to turn the world markets further off of russian oil
00:09:55.080but like you said earth day is tomorrow and the natural resource minister is concerned
00:10:01.160about the environment he wanted to assure people that this will only replace
00:10:05.240russian gas consumption and not increase it on a global scale
00:10:10.040what are your plans corey for earth day tomorrow i heard you i overheard you and dave talking about
00:10:14.200it? Yeah, as I said, I've got a lot of domestic plans in mind, you know, things I don't typically
00:10:18.880do, as Jane can attest to. I'm going to do a whole pile of, well, actually, she won't do my laundry1.00
00:10:22.760for me either, but I'm doing all my laundry tomorrow night at 8 30. I'm going to make sure
00:10:26.040that dishwasher's full and loaded. Maybe I'll plug in the car and even turn up the heat in the chicken
00:10:31.140coop just to make sure we're fully utilizing all those fantastic developments we have as a species
00:10:36.880with all that power and moderate amenities. I've never heard that before when I grew up
00:10:42.960being taught in school about Earth Day. That's not what they told me to do.
00:10:46.080Oh, well, you had the wrong teachers, but, you know, you're growing.
00:10:51.100For oil imports, Pierre Polivier said he wants to double Newfoundland's oil production
00:10:57.420and build pipelines across Canada, part of his new conservative campaign.
00:11:02.140We have an article up explaining Polivier blasting Trudeau, and he tells us Canada
00:11:07.300imported 73,000 barrels from Saudi Arabia in 2020. Seems that Trudeau loves oil and gas only if it
00:11:14.800isn't Canadian. Yeah, just to cut in, I know we've had a few people have a challenge with that one.0.99
00:11:21.260It's spelled so counterintuitively. I have to do it, though. It's Pollyav. The best way to do it1.00
00:11:26.980is just not to think about how his name is spelled and then say it. I know for us English speakers,
00:11:31.580it can be challenging, but he might end up as our prime minister. We're going to have to get better
00:11:34.560pronouncing it. I know you always spell it right, and that's what makes it harder to pronounce,
00:11:37.760but I just had to interject there. Paulie, yeah, I've got to keep that in mind when I'm calling
00:11:41.600him and trying to get him on my articles and whatnot. Okay, good tip. Trudeau also and the
00:11:50.500finance minister, they had approved a grant of over $43 million to the WE charity, and now
00:11:57.480this is back as a conflict of interest case resurfaced this week. You can read more about
00:12:04.600that on the site. The Parliamentary Budget Office report was released. The analysis for the Canadian
00:12:11.940carbon tax said Canadian households could see losses in the thousands by year 2030
00:12:17.280if the tax continues. And we have comments from Environmental Minister Stephen
00:12:23.980Gilbo on that one. Did I say that name right? That's, that's right. I call them all sorts of
00:12:31.240other stuff. It doesn't look anything like the spelling, but no, your pronunciation sounded
00:12:34.420just fine there. Yes. I'm used to just saying uneven Steven and that's it as well. Um,
00:12:41.160there's updates on those involved in the freedom convoy. Uh, Tamara Litch and Chris Barber were
00:12:46.980grouped together in a court case yesterday. Um, now they're jointly accused of 10 charges.
00:12:52.420follow-up story just came out. Lich wants her bail conditions changed on the premise that they1.00
00:13:02.340violate her charter rights. I'm really wondering if this appeal will do anything since the whole
00:13:08.200Freedom Convoy was on the basis of it violates charter rights, and we know how that went over.
00:13:15.000Many Canadians are still upset about that, including myself, so I'm really wondering what's
00:13:20.200going to happen with that. Yeah, that's in the air. The lawyers have certainly got their work
00:13:25.900cut out for them in the weeks and I think months to come since that convoy. And as we see all these
00:13:30.620parliamentary committees and Senate committees reviewing things, it's not looking very good for
00:13:34.360the people who wanted to crack down on the convoy. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, I hope so.
00:13:40.180And then in upcoming news, the Tories are outraged that Trudeau and Singh are continuing the COVID
00:13:45.880mandates federally. Melanie has a story on that. It'll be coming out later. And this afternoon,
00:13:51.700Kenny will be speaking for the first time since the UCP leadership scandal. That's at three o'clock
00:13:56.820and Dave will be all over it. Right on. Well, lots going on, lots covering. Yeah, so that news
00:14:02.840conference, it's going to be interesting. You know, often on, if you see a Friday afternoon
00:14:07.260conference, if it's particularly if it's before a long weekend, it means they're trying to take
00:14:10.820out the trash they're going to drop something they don't want to address so uh chances are i
00:14:16.640mean who knows he might say a whole lot of nothing there's a a whole lot of crazy going on right now
00:14:20.540but i i find news conferences uh just before friday at close of news days is usually where
00:14:27.100you're going to get some of your most interesting nuggets of news coming out of those guys because
00:14:30.160they're hoping people forget about it over the weekend yeah they always leave it till last minute
00:14:34.180and keep dave in the office all afternoon it's really unfair yeah we know kenny's never been on
00:14:39.460time for one of his news conferences yet so he'll probably be a little after three yet folks for
00:14:44.120those who are watching but uh thank you very much for the update then uh eva and uh we'll see you
00:14:48.940later on yeah see you later thanks great thanks but yes uh as i said lots breaking busy news times
00:14:55.760uh i guess if anything to you know we can thank our our crazy uh politicians and governments for
00:15:01.880is they give us no end to things to rant and report on it's not hard to find uh things to
00:15:07.740cover. It's just hard to keep up with everything as fast as it breaks. And sometimes people have
00:15:11.600a difficulty even believing it might be real. It's just, yeah, Frank Boucher there. Hey, Frankie,
00:15:17.720watching the EU members roasting our potato. Yeah, Justin Trudeau on his Euro tour has not
00:15:23.600been resonating well. It's been just a catastrophe over there as he addressed that empty room.
00:15:31.880But doing us proud on the international stage as usual. You know, another story that's been
00:15:36.780sliding under the radar. And this is part of what gets me a little, again, upset with the UCP as
00:15:41.560they're busy, like a bunch of, you know, hornets all ripping at each other and tearing their own
00:15:45.340party to shreds, is there's some big government stories sliding under the radar that they probably
00:15:50.900should be on top of. And one of which is that Thomas Dang thing. This is bizarre. And it really
00:15:57.200should be making a lot bigger news. I mean, those who are familiar with it, Thomas Dang was an NDP
00:16:00.780MLA. Last December, all of a sudden, out of the blue, the RCMP raided his house. It was the
00:16:06.720Cyber Crimes Division. They haven't laid charges yet, but there's an investigation on the go. And
00:16:12.900so far, Dang appears to have admitted that he had tried to hack Jason Kenney's personal health care
00:16:18.780account, and that in using some of the information, he actually managed to get into somebody else's
00:16:24.360health care account and get some personal information about their vaccination status.
00:16:29.240I've said it before, it's pure speculation, but I mean, he was claiming, oh, he just wanted to
00:16:34.820expose holes in the security of the government's website and so on, which is a load of crap. We
00:16:41.920know that's a load of crap. Dude, that's not your job. It's not for you to go in there and do that.
00:16:46.120As I say, oh, I just went in to rob that bank just to see if their security was okay. Honest,
00:16:50.420I was going to give the money back later. Yeah, right. So he got caught. But now the news is
00:16:56.100surfacing. It sounds like from an email that he was in communications with Notley about some of
00:17:01.080the information he'd found as early as September. Now, Rachel Notley's claiming she knew absolutely
00:17:06.220nothing about Dang's attempts to hack the private medical information of elected officials in
00:17:11.960Alberta. And I'm still surprised he hasn't been charged with something yet, but the investigation
00:17:15.440is ongoing. We'll see with that because that is very, very serious. But did Notley know? And as
00:17:22.700some UCP MLAs are asking, unfortunately, is getting lost within their own infighting right
00:17:26.760now, but they are rightly asking, what did you know? Mrs. Notley, when did you know it? In September,
00:17:33.220we knew you had some knowledge. Did you have knowledge of what was going on, where this
00:17:36.380information was coming from? I'm sure she'll probably deny it, but emails get leaked. That's
00:17:40.340how we found this much. You know, you said you knew absolutely nothing about it in December when
00:17:43.900you suddenly removed him from caucus after the RCMP raided his house. It sounds like you knew a
00:17:48.620little bit about this months before that. Were you just waiting maybe to see if he really would
00:17:52.880hit the jackpot and find four or five UCP MLAs who hadn't been vaccinated? Because we know that's
00:17:57.500what he was probably looking for. Violating people's personal, private health care records
00:18:03.680and rights. This man should not be sitting in our legislature at all right now as it is, even if
00:18:09.780Notley is faultless and has nothing to do with it. It's an embarrassment that a person would do
00:18:15.240something like that and still sits as an elected representative. Though, to be fair, he hasn't been
00:18:20.640charged or convicted of anything. The only person at this point who can kick him out of the
00:18:25.140legislature is himself if he chose to resign. If he had any sort of principles, I think at this
00:18:29.500point he would, but I guess maybe he needs the job because he's obviously a pretty crappy hacker.
00:18:34.100So that's where that sits with Mr. Dang. I see Chris Oldcorn in the lobby. I'm going to speak
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00:19:54.920Saskatchewan person, Chris Oldcorn in here and have a discussion this morning. We'll pop him
00:20:01.440into the studio there in a second. There we go. Hello, how are you doing? I'm great, Corey. How
00:20:06.480are you doing good good i've been looking forward to this you know you came on and as i was saying
00:20:11.380almost in an apologetic way to our readers but we we have not uh we we've been reporting from
00:20:17.300saskatchewan we got some stuff from out there we always have but i i think we've uh woefully
00:20:21.680neglected the news out there just didn't have quite enough resources now we're growing we have
00:20:25.700you out there and boy you've been putting out a lot of great content so far so i'm just happy to
00:20:29.460announce to our saskatchewan followers that will be treating them better with their their local
00:20:33.440news now? Yeah. Well, one of the great parts of actually starting this week was the fact that
00:20:38.620the provincial budget was this week on Wednesday. So as a reporter, that's a great week to start
00:20:44.740because you get all kinds of different stuff that comes out of it because you've got major
00:20:50.260spending like healthcare education, not to mention, you know, you've got some other things
00:20:55.820that they are doing in terms of trying to reduce wait times. There's some childcare stuff in there.
00:21:02.080So there's all kinds of stuff going on right now in the budget, as well as some other things going on around the province as well.
00:21:08.720Later today, I will be with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation at the legislature with their National Debt Block, which is actually making a tour through Saskatchewan today.
00:21:17.580And actually earlier today, it was in Saskatoon. And right now it is traveling to the legislature here in Regina.
00:21:25.480know. So I've had a very fun first week. There's been plenty to talk about and be able to make
00:21:32.780connections. And I've actually found that the politicians here are actually very willing to
00:21:40.300talk because there's just not that many reporters here to begin with. And the access is actually
00:21:46.900pretty good, I would have to say in my first week. I mean, even the NDP has been extremely
00:21:53.440quick at responding to anything I request, even from them, which, you know, you were just talking
00:22:00.920about the NDP, MPP in Alberta, doing some interesting crappy hacking jobs. But here in
00:22:11.200Saskatchewan, there is just the Saskatchewan party and the NDP as well, kind of similar to what you
00:22:16.320see in Alberta with the UCP and the NDP. But the Saskatchewan party here has been in for
00:22:23.460quite some time. And Premier Mo actually is leaving today. He's going over to the UK
00:22:29.880on a trip to open the Saskatchewan Trade and Investment Office, which we'll have a story on
00:22:35.660this weekend. It's interesting. Maybe to kind of roll back to the budget a little bit then. I mean,
00:22:41.680Saskatchewan's got a similar economy to Alberta's, a lot of, you know, it's resource-based, a lot more
00:22:46.760agriculture, but there's a lot of oil and gas going on out there as well, and those sorts of
00:22:52.220resources. So obviously, their royalty revenues must have increased coming into this budget as
00:22:57.900it did in Alberta, but has there been any kind of discussion over here? We actually managed to
00:23:01.780balance the budget. Is there discussion of reaching a balanced budget in Saskatchewan as well soon?
00:23:05.780good question um yeah their natural resource revenues are up 1.6 billion dollars over last
00:23:14.980year uh and the interesting thing is um they spent it all plus a little more uh and they say they're
00:23:24.020gonna balance the budget and i was talking with tom mckay at the uh tax federation uh and i was
00:23:31.540talking to him because like i just came from ontario and it seems that every provincial
00:23:35.140government seems to be very good at trying to balance the budget four to five years from now,
00:23:38.640but never in the year they're actually in power and actually presenting a budget.
00:23:43.240They could have balanced this budget. Just to give you a comparison, they had 1.3 billion in
00:23:50.120natural resource revenues last year and 2.9 this year. I wish my investment portfolio would go up
00:23:57.340over 100% year over year like that, but they still managed to spend it all and then some.
00:24:03.200uh now there is the premier mo at his press conference after the budget on wednesday
00:24:10.000i was asked about why there was absolutely there's 32 tax and fee increases in this budget
00:24:16.860and no reductions and premier mo was asked uh like isn't this a priority to try and one balance
00:24:24.160budget and reduce taxes and he said oh yeah we want to reduce taxes eventually um which
00:24:30.120eventually is what like is that two years from now is that 70 years from now who knows um so
00:24:36.700there was plenty in the budget of new things and the one that is really riling people up is the
00:24:43.140pst being attached to more stuff and it's basically being attached to stuff the guard said you
00:24:50.620couldn't do for the last few years and stay in your house so you want to go to a riders game
00:31:55.340Yeah. Because it would actually violate election, the election act. So they can't deny it.
00:32:03.060If they maintain themselves for that long, too, as a party. I mean, that's a long time in alternative party months to get to whenever that next election may be as well.
00:32:12.560Well, look at the weird marriage between the NDP and the liberals federally.
00:32:18.020I mean, essentially, in this last election, Trudeau didn't win the popular vote to begin with.
00:32:24.540And now he's basically made Jagmeet Singh prime minister because he's going to do whatever Singh wants so he can stay in power until 2025.
00:32:32.400At which point, who knows if Trudeau is going to step aside and someone else will take over or he'll run again.
00:32:38.500But popularity wise, he's lucky he went to election when he did because he would have been in serious trouble if he waited another six to eight weeks.
00:32:44.980Yeah, no, he's not doing any better for time passing.
00:32:48.020I mean, Alberta, for the time being, it seems we've kind of settled our masking laws, our vaccine passports, all of that stuff.
00:32:58.620I mean, it may resurface with another surge in infections and so on, but even the most haywire of health advocates are finally being kind of quiet and accepting that we can live without these restrictions for now.
00:33:12.280Is that battle kind of finished in Saskatchewan as well, or do you still got some push and pull going on over there?
00:33:17.860Interesting question. Saskatchewan was actually the first province to be fully open again in
00:33:23.220terms of no vaccine passports and masks. When I go to the legislature, there's very few people
00:33:31.060that are wearing masks here. It's basically just the NDP and there's only like 12 of them
00:33:36.420and a couple of their staffers. A couple of the journalists I saw wearing masks a couple times.
00:33:42.900None of them were actually wearing them correctly, which was the funny part.
00:33:45.460they just had over their mouth but not over their nose it's like what do you think that's actually
00:33:49.600doing um so it's just virtual just virtue signaling at this point um but i i don't see
00:33:57.540um particularly masking in this province coming back without a fight because even when you go
00:34:04.420to the grocery store i would say at best one in five people's wearing a mask that's good i mean
00:34:11.460know a lot of us have been tired of that you know we'll see i mean uh again we see we know though
00:34:16.600how quickly a panic government can respond with restrictions if they feel that infections are on
00:34:20.520the rise again but hopefully we're all done with it it's just good to get a an update from what's
00:34:24.840going on out you know on your end of the the things as well we hear a lot about it in Alberta
00:34:28.860and in BC i think there's court challenges trying to force it in schools again we'll see how that
00:34:33.040goes uh Reid has been updating us on that uh the short-lived uh uh thankfully CP rail strike that
00:34:40.880happened over there. Did that have, I mean, I know it, it struck a lot of fear in agricultural
00:34:47.180producers and of course the potash industry. I mean, Saskatchewan is the most dependent
00:34:50.340in Canada on rail service. Aside from that though, did the two-day disruption, hopefully
00:34:57.360it didn't do too much harm and they're stable now?
00:35:01.160Yeah, no, it was, luckily it was extremely short. Actually 15% of the total workers who
00:35:07.500were on strike are actually in Saskatchewan because rail is so important here. So yes,
00:35:13.140there was a couple days of disruption in terms of not being able to move products, but they are
00:35:19.000pretty much back to normal now. I was talking to the transportation minister the other day,
00:35:23.900and they weren't too concerned with regards to how fast it's going to come back. If they would
00:35:29.440have gone on strike for three or four weeks, it would have been a big problem. But two days at
00:35:34.760At this point, given all the disruptions we've had in supply chains in the last two years, a couple of disruptions are not really all that big anymore here because quite often you have, oh, all these people tested positive for COVID.
00:35:49.420We've got to shut this place down for a week.0.52
00:35:51.600So the rail strike was actually probably shorter than any of the COVID shutdowns that they had to do.
00:35:58.940And at this point, they're used to the shutdowns.
00:36:01.220Yeah. Our agricultural producers across Canada have already had a hard enough time. The drought in Alberta was brutal. I think in West Saskatchewan, it's been pretty bad as well. They need a break. And the last thing they need is transportation issues to add to their challenges as things go. So that's good. Just in closing up, I guess then. So what are you working on now? And what do we got to look forward to breaking in Saskatchewan in the next days to come here?
00:36:24.500Yeah, I'm going to the Canadian Tax Federation press conference at the legislature this afternoon with the debt clock. I'm also working on a story about the new trade and investment office in the UK. That is, Premier Mo is headed over there with some others right now for promoting Saskatchewan oil and also agricultural products.
00:36:47.660uh and they will be there for the next week and they're actually bringing an actual full-time
00:36:53.260saskatchewan trade investment office in london uk ironically where i went to journalism school
00:36:57.820and they will be going on to germany after that as well on that tour and basically they're
00:37:05.460promoting the fact that we got stuff here you don't have to get it from russia let us supply you
00:37:10.440uh which is a good message i mean saskatchewan has uh 15 billion dollars in natural resource
00:37:16.520exports every single year and you know the oil price is really good right now uh in terms of
00:37:24.180if you're an oil producer and want to make money it's not good for the average person going to the
00:37:29.040pumps but europe is so dependent that some countries like the uk have said we're going to
00:37:34.520keep taking russian oil because without it we can't keep our country going and we saw what
00:37:38.900happened in the uk not that long ago when they had a problem getting oil into the country and
00:37:43.600they couldn't even move food around in trucks because they had no gas to move stuff around with
00:37:48.320and they don't want to be in that position again and saskatchewan can help solve the problem to
00:37:52.660make sure that they don't get in position like that again and they don't have to keep buying
00:37:57.140oil from putin well it's good to see some initiative coming from our provincial leaders
00:38:02.020because we're not going to see any good initiatives coming from the federal front i think on our behalf
00:38:05.900i i think uh i think uh premier mo's uh trip to europe is going to be much more successful than
00:38:10.960Trudeau's has been. Well, that was a low bar to pass, but I'm sorry. Yeah, it's a low bar, but
00:38:15.500yeah, Mo won't even have to jump. He'll just be able to walk right over the bar because it's
00:38:19.580probably buried six feet deep right now. Great. Well, thank you very much for coming in to check
00:38:24.940in. And like I said, I really appreciate that you're out there and looking at all the stuff
00:38:28.600you're covering and putting in and our Saskatchewan, the viewers and the readers and listeners are
00:38:32.520going to be thrilled as we expand our coverage out there in your province. And I look forward
00:38:37.060to talking to you again soon, Chris. Thank you very much, Corey. And I'm very looking forward
00:38:41.860to working with the Western Standard. Right on. You too. Thanks. Yeah, it was Chris Oldcourt. And
00:38:48.080as I said, he's just kind of got rolling with us recently. And the stories are really coming in
00:38:53.140already. And it's fantastic. We've tried it. We're a new organization. We're a couple of years old.
00:38:59.480We're really expanding. It's going great. And we just hadn't gotten a good solid footing in
00:39:04.160saskatchewan yet though we have a lot of readers and viewers from saskatchewan so they're really
00:39:08.740going to enjoy seeing that expanding more because it's a province that needs coverage as does manitoba
00:39:13.260of course we really uh we've got linda out there doing a lot of stuff and things but we're just
00:39:17.880constantly broadening our things as well with our auto office nbc we're really spreading around the
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00:40:56.000haven't already. And there's my Twitter account, Corey B. Morgan. If you really want to get
00:40:58.840scrapping with me and get some good political discourse. Twitter is my favorite playground.
00:41:03.140That's where I get going. And there, if you really want to tell me where to go,
00:41:06.860that's the place to do it because I'll be more unrestrained in telling you what you can do with
00:41:10.180yourself. And that's all part of the fun of the discussions and being online. I do want to answer
00:41:14.680you. I see a question from Kathy Tesner came earlier in the comments asking
00:41:18.700if the folks at the Western Standard support APP.
00:41:22.760I'm just going to guess. Now, I can't answer for the Western Standard as a whole, of course,
00:41:55.640No, no, there's some people playing the emotions. Oh, we've got to keep our RCMP. We've got to
00:41:58.760don't step on our RCMP. Okay, guys, they're not going anywhere. They just don't have to be
00:42:04.680our prime police force. They can stick to federal issues, just like the Americans have the FBI for
00:42:11.000federal issues. We can have the, oh, it was Alberta Prosperity Project. See, there's too
00:42:14.820many APPs going on out there. Okay, well, I'm still going to talk about those things,
00:42:17.620because to be honest, I don't know a lot about the Alberta Prosperity Project. Let me write
00:42:21.740down so I can learn a little more about it. Because believe it or not, and I know people
00:42:27.660have mentioned it to me before with that project, and I've really got to get myself better educated
00:42:32.240on it. As much as I am a blowhard and I talk at length about a great many things, if I don't know
00:42:36.960a lot about them in general, I won't address them. So I'm not going to talk about the Alberta
00:42:40.500Prosperity Project quite yet. I got to look a little more into that. I will dedicate myself.
00:42:44.660I know a little bit about it, but not enough to speak at length on that. But thanks for that heads
00:42:49.360up. So since I started on that ramble, then let's talk about some independence things though, and
00:42:52.840then such and a fair deal panel. And I promise next week, you know, today I'll have a closer
00:42:57.840look at the Alberta Prosperity Project and I'll talk about that next week. And so back to the,
00:43:04.640where was I there? The police force. Yes. An Alberta Provincial Police Force. Look,
00:43:09.980it's not saying the RCMP are horrible or anything either, but it's an opportunity to create a new
00:43:14.120force to address some of the problems we got. We got all this idiotic, you know, defund the
00:43:18.780police movements and stuff like that going on. And it's a shallow, vindictive way to push back
00:43:23.860at police forces that perhaps are out of date, that perhaps need to change some cultural attitudes
00:43:27.880within their organizations, that need some better training, that need some better policies.
00:43:32.400But it's hard to change a giant old institution. And that is what the RCMP is, is a giant old
00:43:37.480institution. And it's managed and run by Ottawa. And they aren't going to reflect our values out
00:43:42.220here. It doesn't mean there's no place for them, but they don't need to have such a large place
00:43:47.120in our province and it is large uh now as we've seen with our provincial government yeah they
00:43:51.280can screw up a whole number of things so they could screw up a provincial force if they put
00:43:54.560it together as well you can't not move on an initiative for fear of failing on it though
00:44:00.720we could create a local police force uh that that would be better geared to deal with with
00:44:05.520local issues particularly in rural areas you know rcmp officers are usually transferred from across
00:44:09.760the country might not understand you can't blame them the dynamics of the circumstances they're in
00:44:14.640in different areas i mean rural southern alberta is nothing like northern quebec which is nothing
00:44:19.840like newfoundland which is nothing like northern alberta or downtown calgary and these rcmp officers
00:44:25.120get dropped into these circumstances and transferred a lot and it doesn't necessarily
00:44:29.360mean that they're gonna be able to do an effective job part of it's being integrated within your
00:44:34.320community community and i know there's another aspect of why they move them it's hard to get
00:44:38.160corrupted police forces if they are moved around all the time too because they won't develop those
00:44:42.720relationships and get integrated. But we've got to find a balance. Either way, I'm very
00:44:48.360supportive of an Alberta Provincial Police Force. I think it would be a good development
00:44:53.860for us. And again, don't take it as an insult to the RCMP. Let's look at it as a new development
00:44:58.020or evolution in local policing. The RCMP aren't gone, but they designate it to more role where
00:45:02.820it's more appropriate for a federal force. And the officers, once the contract is up,
00:45:07.280because we just contract the RCMP, we're under no other obligation. Other provinces have
00:45:10.960their provincial forces. A lot of those officers, if they like it out here, can transfer over, do
00:45:16.100some new training and become part of the Alberta Provincial Police. It's not like these members
00:45:19.620vanish the second we stop using them. So, you know, there's a lot of emotional arguments being
00:45:24.460made against the moving to an Alberta Provincial Police Force, but I see a lot of rational ones.
00:45:30.280And yes, I want to see us distance from Ottawa control in every possible way we can. And that's
00:45:35.140one of the doable ways to do that in advance. The other is the Alberta Provincial Pension Plan.
00:45:41.900You know, again, you see, I got all my acronyms wrong for what that APP was, but they're both
00:45:46.600things that, like I said, those two I know a lot about. With the Provincial Pension Plan,
00:45:51.940that's getting again to taking control of our money. One of the areas is, you know, people
00:45:56.020worry about equalization, health transfers, and on how a lot of federal spending, you know,
00:46:02.400with Alberta, we take a net loss year after year after year with that. We put out more than we get
00:46:06.940back in spending transfers. And we hear about equalization because it's the most blatant. It's
00:46:11.120the one you see the most easily. But you know what? Pension, we take a beating. We have a terribly
00:46:15.580bad deal. And it's just demographic. It's not spiteful on the part of Ottawa or anything.
00:46:19.680We have a young demographic here who are working and often in a higher income bracket than other
00:46:25.620parts of Canada. So they put in a disproportionately high amount of money into the CPP. And being
00:46:31.420younger, they're going to be a lot longer before they collect. So what we actually pour, it's
00:46:35.780another way that a bunch more pours out into the other part of the country versus what we collect
00:46:40.860back in it. We localize that. It would better reflect our own actual population base. The other
00:46:47.060thing too is it gets it out of the hands of Ottawa. And that's what's very important. We got this
00:46:51.020ideological government. Look at this stuff they do. They'll seize our bank accounts for crying out
00:46:54.920loud. They'll do all sorts of things. How much longer do you want to entrust them with your
00:46:59.800pension as little as it is. And I'm afraid the CPP doesn't pay off a heck of a lot. It's better
00:47:03.380than nothing, but it's not that great. And just a second, Wildrose, could I mention that Wildrose
00:47:10.880supports all these things? Yeah, I can. I just did. No, I know the Wildrose Independence Party
00:47:14.700does support all of those moves towards independence. This is Maverick actually on
00:47:18.520the federal front. And the UCP pretends to. But then we're getting back to the pension. Again,
00:47:24.240this isn't something that nobody, somebody else isn't doing. Quebec has their own pension plan.
00:47:28.660It's that usual hypocrisy too. Albertans are labeled and smeared with every possible name and accused of many things whenever we pursue any of those policies that we could do to strengthen our place for ourselves within Confederation. But other provinces do it with impunity. With a local pension plan, we can take that in and control our own funding.
00:47:50.520I mean, what if Ottawa starts taking those funds from our pension plan and investing them into electric cars?
00:47:56.820You know, they want a virtue signal with every dollar they can.
00:47:59.760I mean, they shouldn't be investing in anything.
00:48:01.440Well, aside from just having some blue chip things, you know, have a good investment advisor using that pension fund to properly invest in things to get a return and not worry about their ideological leanings.
00:48:11.500But we can't trust the federal government not to look at that pot of money and either take it and fire it into general revenues or use it to start investing into virtue signaling projects that really don't serve the person in the end of it who wants to get a return on the money they've worked to earn and put into a pension plan and hope to get a return on down the road.
00:48:34.320So either way, I am very supportive of an APP on both those fronts.
00:48:41.060And as I said, with the Prosperity Project, I'm going to have to look more into that to talk further.
00:48:45.800My next guest should be coming up pretty soon.
00:48:47.600Let's talk about one of our sponsors here, and that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.
00:48:53.540These guys have been sponsoring us for a long time, too.
00:48:55.460Speaking of Ottawa, speaking of them infringing on our rights, getting in our face.
00:49:01.200Well, the Canadian Shooting Sports Association is there to help stand up for you,
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00:54:49.480I trust an Amway salesman more than that.
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00:54:52.720they take off a chunk. It doesn't just go and come back, guys, or increase, no less. Yet that's what
00:54:58.700they've been selling people. That's what they're claiming. So April 1st, when your price of
00:55:02.780everything goes up, again, based on a lie, by the way, they lied. They said it wasn't going to go
00:55:07.540up beyond a certain point on that carbon tax. Catherine McKenna lied. It's going up again.
00:55:13.420It's going to cost you more on everything. And these guys are trying to tell you it actually
00:55:17.860is going to put more money in your pocket. So, you know, back to my earlier rant at the start
00:55:22.500of the show with that old, good old Western saying, don't piss on my leg and tell me it's
00:55:26.340raining. That's the same thing. You can sit there and take money out of my wallet and look me in
00:55:31.560the eye and say, I'm giving you more money than I'm taking. You are not. You are not. And it went
00:55:36.260before a budgetary office report the other day, because Stephen Gilboa, yes, uneven Stephen has
00:55:42.140ever put him, claimed that all but the richest among us are going to be better off paying carbon
00:55:48.680taxes. And he said, most households will see a net loss. Well, this is the reality. This is the
00:55:54.540budget office. You know, so not crazy Stephen Gilboa, not that criminal. And he is a criminal
00:55:58.820and arrested for his extreme environmental activities. He's crazy. And he is in a very
00:56:05.200strong position in the Trudeau government. Man, the cabinet this guy chooses for himself is just
00:56:09.420frightening. But either way, so budgetary office, people who actually know numbers,
00:56:14.260said, no, most households are going to see a net loss and they will run thousands a year for
00:56:20.160households by 2030. That's what you can afford extra thousands per year into this. While this
00:56:25.020government looks you in the eye and says, they're saving you money. Welcome to Canada. I'm just
00:56:30.880happy to see some of these committees are digging into this and exposing some of this crap. It
00:56:35.640doesn't seem to be changing anything, but at least we're seeing what's going on with it.
00:56:39.580it's insane what these guys are doing in there and what they're claiming. But it's getting exposed.
00:56:45.000Keep on the news. Keep watching these things. Because, of course, this doesn't make the CBC
00:56:48.220headline news. This doesn't make CTV's headline news. Hey, by the way, Gil Bull's lying again.
00:56:53.560No, they just give him more soundbites and let him spread more of his BS. They actually give
00:56:57.600that guy more time. Self-serving, but I can say, keep coming back to the westernstandardonline.com
00:57:04.780so you can get these news things we will report on these things and we'll expose that crap for
00:57:10.300the crap that it is and it most certainly is every day they give us a little more to speak on so it
00:57:17.440looks like we got our guest there Tom is ready to roll I believe he's in the lobby and we'll pop
00:57:23.100him in because I like this initiative that Tom Braid has on the go on pushing back at cancel
00:57:27.760culture so hey there Tom how's it going over there pretty good thanks for having me I got an
00:57:34.280echo I don't know why but okay well we just got a little bit of a stall there it seems to be
00:57:40.640coming through when you talk so uh welcome to the show I guess you're working through your phone
00:57:43.860there yeah I believe it or not my rescue cat uh ran around and unplugged my cable box and now I
00:57:51.640lost my cable my plug-in internet so I had to switch to the phone sorry I'm late that's all
00:57:56.580right actually Jane and I got two new rescue uh well they're they're foster dogs we have in our
00:58:00.820house right now that we brought in and they're unholy terrors. I tweet regularly with some of
00:58:05.280the stuff they've managed to pull off at our place, but it's well worth it. So we can still
00:58:12.640hear you well enough when you're going there though, Dom. So I just wanted to, and I framed it,
00:58:16.720you've got, you're putting together a whole new organization that's focused on basically pushing
00:58:22.920back against cancel culture. That is one of the initiatives for sure. Something I've been working
00:58:29.600on for months and months but with late recent things that have come up i've kind of pushed it
00:58:36.240ahead a couple months but it's uh online protective services.com uh you know and there's
00:58:44.320lots of things to protect yourself for uh with online activity with bullying
00:58:48.800cancel culture and woke cancel culture right-wing cancel culture you know there's a lot of bad stuff
00:58:57.120where people try and engage the public and uh you know they end up getting attacked
00:59:03.760it doesn't seem to matter who you vote for but there certainly is more left-wing woke attack
00:59:10.800mobs out there than the conservative ones as far as i can see yeah well and to be fair i mean it0.96
00:59:16.800does come from both sides there seems to be a bit of an atmosphere that's grown with a lot of people
00:59:20.960they just seem to feel that i don't like what you're promoting i don't agree with what you're
00:59:25.040doing and we are going to make sure that you are just torn down from your pulpit perhaps put out of
00:59:30.080your job uh you know we might ruin your platform we will do everything possible to make sure you
00:59:35.840don't have that ability to speak and that entitlement that people feel that they can do
00:59:39.840that to others is just galling yeah the uh you know the people that run businesses get singled
00:59:46.720out because they support a cause and trying, you know, cancel people out. I still got a real
00:59:56.800serious echo. I don't know why, but so sorry. I'm kind of. That's all right. You're coming in
01:00:05.940quite clearly with us. I understand what's happening when you got a headset in and if
01:00:10.060you got sound on a front speaker, you'll kind of get it going in your own head and it can make it
01:00:14.060difficult to talk but if you kind of ignore your own voice and talk through it'll it'll kind of
01:00:18.100work there it looks like you might have frozen up a little bit on us now though tom
01:00:20.880okay tom's a bit frozen right now so he is having some some technical difficulties but i'll kind of
01:00:27.680expand on what we had been talking about and as you said that there's a real problem with
01:00:32.800canceling culture it's uh it's organized it's really harming some people and it's really
01:00:37.880dragging them down uh i see movement again maybe tom's back here sorry sorry uh youtube was
01:00:43.980running in the background. So I was literally listening to the show five minutes earlier and
01:00:49.000live, which pretty well was driving me nuts. Okay. Sorry about that. No problem. So I was just
01:00:57.200framing a little more on what's going on and how so badly some people are being damaged with
01:01:01.400acts of cancel culture and just some of that atmosphere that's going on and the need to
01:01:07.520finally push back rather than just keep falling victim to it. Yeah. Well, the thing that really
01:01:12.860helped me go public with this this week was the New York Times of all places have changed massive
01:01:22.440change in their editorial stance where they have officially come out against cancel culture and to
01:01:28.800the point where it's actually risking democracy it's crush free speech it is fueling the anger
01:01:37.380that's down in the states and the people think Canada's angry and and you've got the right left
01:01:42.340fighting here if you know how countries devolve into civil war uh there are pockets of the states
01:01:51.260that are ready to you know they're already armed up anyway but they're ready to go it's ugly just
01:01:56.240completely ugly and so the new york times who actually took part in cancel culture uh encouraged
01:02:02.140it fired their own editorial editor for ready for running the column from tom cotton which you know
01:02:09.400You may hate his guts. Who cares? Doesn't matter. The thing about op ed pages, it used to be he said, she said, they said, we said it was all about pushing your button, getting you thinking, writing letters to the editor, having civil dissent towards against each other.
01:02:25.420I mean, argue your points. And but The New York Times is blowing up in their face and mainstream media is taking a pounding because they actually help fuel cancel culture.
01:02:37.820And now when you get something like the New York Times coming out and saying this is our editorial stance that we are going to fight cancel culture, and that includes going against Hollywood and all their supporters, it's a very good thing.
01:02:50.860And so I'm sitting there going, wow, this idea of planning and trying to, you know, formalize just got endorsed by the New York Times of all places.
01:03:00.700Well, yeah, and then for those who don't, you know, follow American media that much.
01:03:03.880I mean, the New York Times is a very liberal publication.
01:03:07.500And that incident that happened, I mean, I'm the opinion editor here at the Western Standard.
01:03:13.960I check out those columns I choose, and they run.
01:03:17.660But, I mean, I wouldn't be held responsible for what somebody else said on something I ran in here.
01:03:23.360I mean, if I ran somebody on an inappropriate, Derek would take me aside and say, don't run that guy again.
01:03:28.900But I wouldn't be swarmed and fired for it.
01:03:32.680I mean, this was Cotton's point of view, not even the editor's point of view.
01:03:35.440And the mob, though, just was unrelenting.
01:03:38.660They came down and cost a man his career.
01:03:47.100And why don't they put him in charge of their anti-woke cancel culture committee?
01:03:53.480Why don't they make him editor-in-chief?
01:03:54.800He knows what it's like to get fired for doing his job.
01:03:57.660uh you know when your job is to collect editorials opinion pieces op ed that's why they call it that
01:04:04.500and you're you you you mix it out there and let people have a discussion and you get fired for
01:04:11.980actually doing your job it's like firing a chef for cooking you a steak well and it and it scares
01:04:17.540people from discourse like i said if i got an op ed though i don't i won't hold my breath on it
01:04:21.800happening but if rachel notley sent me one even if i didn't agree with her point of view and
01:04:26.000everything in it. Of course, this is a person of importance. I would put that in there. And I know
01:04:29.720a lot of readers would be outraged in seeing her name on our print, but I don't think they'd, for
01:04:34.220one, I don't think they'd be calling for my cancellation over it. And I know I wouldn't
01:04:38.160be cancelled in that case, but that's what it's come to with publications. They become terrified
01:04:42.120of putting anything that might bring the mob on them. And that's bad for journalism all around.
01:04:47.240Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. It brings one voice only. You know, I see radio programs. Daniel Smith is a guest on a podcast or a YouTube show. And people are canceling. I'm canceling my support for your Patreon support for the show. You just had a right lunatic on.
01:05:11.920like daniel campbell is uh she's awesome i mean you know she's pretty damn balanced yeah she's
01:05:18.780conservative yeah she's right wing you know no she's not gonna you know uh be best friends with1.00
01:05:24.700notley but rachel notley and the crew but she'd sit down and have dinner with them she wouldn't
01:05:30.060throw eggs at them and stuff so there's no it's so much discourse uh just you know and so much
01:05:36.540hatred and it's like if you don't vote for the ndp then you're hated you know before you used to be
01:05:44.620able to talk politics now it's like forget it and you know after these protests that we've had and
01:05:50.860and you know i hear people say oh i'm triggered when i see a flag flying on a car are you kidding
01:05:57.020me you know like i'm ashamed i have to take my canadian flag down because i'm ashamed like
01:06:02.220get over yourself seriously and then we've seen this infecting a lot of news you're an experienced
01:06:07.820journalist you were uh in there for for decades um as well you know we have a number of people
01:06:12.620here we're with the quetzal culture in the newsrooms and things it's actually sort of
01:06:16.460helped us at the standard but it's ruined people's careers there was a long and i'm forgetting his
01:06:20.380name it was a sub stack piece that was written uh by a gentleman who was i believe with the
01:06:24.940vancouver sun he was there for decades and same sort of thing he ran a column that they didn't
01:06:29.820agree with and uh it was some new news reporter who was woke and lost it and his editors they
01:06:34.460threw him under the bus so fast decades of working there and his career was ruined it was just
01:06:39.420unbelievable what could be done i mean there's no more loyalty when the mob comes yeah and i
01:06:45.500yeah that's uh you know i i i am going to push back against uh cancel culture and group mobs and
01:06:55.500you know what and am i worried about them coming after me bring it uh you know just you want it you
01:07:01.180want to attack me just spell my name right you know i'm on twitter at yeg tom braid used to be
01:07:07.100sun tom braid but when i left uh the sun media uh six years ago i i changed it so i'm yeg tom braid
01:07:16.540and i i i i been trying it took me years to decompress from being a full-time journalist
01:07:22.140i mean i was 24 7 that's all i did for 40 years i'm extremely boring person met my wife 38 years
01:07:29.740ago been married 35 years uh you know been audited a couple times matter of fact they said we actually
01:07:35.500owe you more money because you you took it too safe on your write-offs so like never been charged
01:07:40.540with a criminal crime never been convicted of a criminal crime unlike elizabeth may and the mayor
01:07:46.140of vancouver who have both been uh for protests by the way and then you get the mayor of vancouver
01:07:53.580telling the protesters come in say what you want no one cares what you have to say and get lost no
01:07:58.060one wants you here pretty rich from a guy that actually was charged and criminally convicted
01:08:03.020of protesting the pipeline into sort mood so maybe we are hitting uh uh a turning point though a
01:08:11.020tipping point as we said with the new york times like i i think some of these these liberal
01:08:15.100publications that took gleeful part in the cancel culture and the swarmings the monster they created
01:08:21.260has turned on themselves and they finally realized it i mean we have a more localized
01:08:25.260example with uh ryan jesperson whose show is still down to this date because he he tweaked his own
01:08:31.340audience and he didn't realize that he was uh you know the the mountain of cancellers he created
01:08:36.540eventually is going to turn around and bite you and that's exactly what it did but maybe with
01:08:40.780these incidents we can finally start to get some reason into people realize how destructive
01:08:45.820this trend is yeah well i got back into it online last night i mean i jumped into the shallow end
01:08:53.260head first um could have ended badly but uh you know people started the i mean there's all sorts
01:09:00.060of people i'm speaking of triggered this is one person who identifies as stacy with the hair on
01:09:05.980fire saying ryan jesperson has triggered her uh you know she's got serious uh mental issues and
01:09:13.580and and it's pushing her to the edge and people are like oh my god don't hurt yourself brian's
01:09:18.780such a bad guy this is a no name no face twitter account demanding an apology because he said
01:09:26.220stacy with her hair on fire and she is self-identified he her i don't know this person
01:09:31.740self-identified themselves as the Stacey with the hair on fire, which is not a person,
01:09:37.300and how they've been hurt and wronged.
01:09:39.560So they attached onto Sarah's situation where, you know, they definitely got into it on air.
01:09:47.160She is not completely innocent in what happened.