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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's March 17th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. I should start.

00:00:39.040 Happy St. Patrick's Day, that annual observance of overindulgence. I'm not wearing green today

00:00:45.320 as it kind of works poorly in environments that have green screens in the background.

00:00:49.340 Green tie would make me a little transparent and I already look odd enough as it is.

00:00:54.260 So this is the Western Standards Daily Live Show. We come to you from 1130 a.m. Mountain Standard Time every day, Monday to Friday, and cover the news, talk to interesting guests, and I get a lot of ranting out of my system, so I don't have to keep bothering Jane with it all the time.

00:01:11.300 Comments, they're welcome.

00:01:12.320 That's part of this show being live.

00:01:13.740 You know, we want to hear from you guys.

00:01:15.120 We want you guys to interact with each other somewhat politely.

00:01:18.900 I mean, hey, we can be a little, you know, it is triggered.

00:01:21.260 We can be a little high-strung, but we've still got to keep things somewhat civil.

00:01:25.120 And I'll try and dedicate some comments and questions to guests when I can.

00:01:29.140 I certainly do.

00:01:30.400 So, and I've got a number of guests today.

00:01:31.860 It's a pretty packed show.

00:01:32.720 I've got Kalea Carrington.

00:01:35.680 She's the CEO of Absolute Combustion.

00:01:38.020 and she's been managing getting ready on this

00:01:40.000 upcoming Alberta Technology Symposium

00:01:42.300 and it's a big one happening in Calgary

00:01:44.440 with a lot of events and as we're

00:01:46.220 starting to recover the economy actually these sorts of things

00:01:48.280 are going to be pretty important so it should be a good

00:01:50.240 talk. Then I'm going to have our

00:01:52.300 new Western Standard Ottawa

00:01:53.720 Parliamentary Reporter Matt Horwood

00:01:56.260 coming on and we'll talk about a few of the stories

00:01:58.420 he's recently written and what he's going to

00:02:00.340 be covering in the future and what's coming up

00:02:01.980 and then right towards the later part of the show

00:02:04.420 we're going to have UCP MLA

00:02:06.420 now, Brian Jean coming on and he's going to talk about his plans now that the by-election's behind

00:02:11.480 him and he's moving into a very strange legislature right now when we have Brian Jean coming in

00:02:17.920 and not exactly well endeared with the leader of the party. So it's going to be an interesting

00:02:23.940 relationship, see what goes there. So let's talk briefly about St. Patrick's Day. I see a few

00:02:29.520 people wishing to say happy St. Pat's, LJ and Darlene and a bunch of others. Lorraine, you're

00:02:37.200 all celebrating St. Patrick's Day today. I'm dry these days, but I can still observe it and look

00:02:42.020 at it now. Today's a day, though, that bartenders look forward to with trepidation and dread. I mean,

00:02:48.340 while copious drinking comes with pretty much every observance in the Western world, whether

00:02:52.100 it's Christmas or Halloween, St. Patrick's Day is the only one where the primary goal of

00:02:57.200 celebrants is to get as wasted as possible and most often in a pub environment. Now as a former

00:03:03.880 bartender and pub owner, I remember it all too well. Only shifts involving Mother's Day brunch

00:03:10.280 instill as much anticipatory fear into hospitality workers as St. Pat's does. Anybody who's done any

00:03:16.920 brunch service before on those sorts of days knows what I'm talking about there. And it's not

00:03:20.780 drunkenness, it's just sort of a Karen's Collective that makes your life suck. That said, it is a 0.98

00:03:26.160 Lucrative day for bartenders, servers, pub owners.

00:03:29.580 And you're in February are dire slow months in the hospitality industry.

00:03:33.020 St. Pat's marks the end of the winter doldrums.

00:03:35.780 Most people have managed to knock down their Christmas credit card bills.

00:03:39.140 The days are getting longer, the weather's getting warmer, and they're ready to cut loose.

00:03:43.300 This year, I expect the crowds are going to be bigger than we've seen in years.

00:03:46.280 The mask mandates are gone, the capacity limits are gone, the vaccine passports are gone, and people are pent up.

00:03:52.280 They want to have a good time for a change, and they're going to head out for it tonight.

00:03:56.160 I'm going to read a set of rules from a person who I considered something of an inspiration to

00:04:00.400 me while I was in the bar business. He goes by the angry bartender, even has his branded

00:04:05.840 bar tools and wear, and rest assured I could relate with many of his workplace observances.

00:04:10.720 Those who had the honor of being 86'd by me when I owned that bar can understand why I like this

00:04:14.720 guy and why angry bartender works for not just himself, but it was applied to me quite often.

00:04:20.640 So the angry bartender issued 10 rules for participants to head out for St. Pat's

00:04:25.120 and they're well worth reading though they rarely are read by people so let's get into those these

00:04:29.680 tips for you guys before you head out tonight rule number one don't be a dick to the bartender 0.73

00:04:36.480 i know that sounds like a simple one but it happens all too often remember the bartender

00:04:41.600 is the arbiter of whether or not your night's going to go well piss them off and your punishments

00:04:46.080 can range from being as minor as slowing your drink service to whispering into the ear of that

00:04:50.880 girl at the end of the bar that you've been trying to pick up that you've been known to have social

00:04:53.920 diseases. Or perhaps that bartender can snap their fingers and have the bouncer remove you. 1.00

00:04:59.520 Those fates are all easy to avoid. Just don't be a dick. You'll have a good time. Rule number two, 1.00

00:05:05.680 don't drive. Seriously. Stop being cheap. Take a cab, an Uber, or arrange a ride. It's not that hard,

00:05:12.640 and yes, you can actually literally avoid killing somebody. We want to serve people

00:05:16.640 and facilitate their good times, not create weapons on the road. Rule number three,

00:05:22.080 don't puke in the sink, in the urinal, under the table, or pretty much anywhere. If you can't avoid

00:05:28.740 puking, you're still not grown up enough to go out to the bar no matter what your ID says.

00:05:34.180 Just don't do it. Rule number four is somewhat related to rule number three. If you aren't a 0.98

00:05:39.260 regular drinker, St. Pax doesn't mean you have to try and keep up with the rest of us. We'll happily

00:05:44.320 pour a de-alkalized beer into a pint glass, a coke into a highball glass, or some ginger ale into a

00:05:49.540 wine glass for you if you want to keep up appearances. It could save you from having a

00:05:53.800 bad, bad night. Hey, you're not a hardcore drinker. Don't try to drink hardcore, especially tonight.

00:05:58.340 It's not the night for it. Ease into it. Have a good time. Rule five, don't you effing dare

00:06:03.100 order a margarita. Just don't effing do it. Rule six, seriously, if you order a margarita,

00:06:09.160 I will wish doom upon you. We're packed and I don't have time for it. Rule seven,

00:06:14.920 related to the other two rules, stick to the basics. Don't ask a hundred questions when

00:06:18.740 there's 143 other people waiting for a drink. Think about what you want, know what you want,

00:06:23.480 and clearly express what you want when you get to me. If you hum and haw, I will shout over you and

00:06:28.160 take the next order. Rule eight, I will punch you if you even say the word margarita. Rule nine, 1.00

00:06:35.200 tip the bartender. We are all literally dying inside, and I can relate with that. This is the

00:06:39.840 angry man that it turned me into. Rule ten, ask me to chill your Jameson. Go ahead, I dare you to,

00:06:45.800 do it, and I'll shame you in front of your peers. God intended Jameson to be enjoyed warm.

00:06:50.980 Why else would it be warm? That's it. That's all. Oh, aside from that, even if it's not St. Patrick's,

00:06:56.440 don't ever ask me to mix scotch with something. I'm just going to give you a rye. Now, follow

00:07:00.980 those simple rules, and you're assured to have a good night, as will those who are working their

00:07:04.780 butts off to serve you. Share them with your friends as you take your cab to the bar tonight.

00:07:10.640 Share those rules. Spread it out. Everybody's going to have a good time. Now, while the actual

00:07:13.820 Irish don't tend to celebrate St. Pat's as everybody out here does. They have the good

00:07:17.760 grace not to whine about it. They can celebrate and be happy for folks having a good time,

00:07:22.260 and you never have to hear the words cultural appropriation out of them. Get out there tonight

00:07:26.680 and have a good time. Happy St. Patrick's Day, you animals. I haven't had a drink in years,

00:07:31.240 but I'll be vicariously enjoying the night through your indulgences. So do it right and do it safely.

00:07:37.080 All right, let's check into the newsroom for some non-St. Pat's news, and that's with Mel Rizden.

00:07:42.260 good uh is is a bellini okay can can i get away with ordering a bellini you missed that rule

00:07:51.920 about keeping it simple eh i might have but i've never been classified as a simple kind of girl

00:07:58.900 so um and i was also gonna say you should have worn green it would have been interesting with

00:08:04.840 a green tie you would have had like a big hole through you from the green screen

00:08:08.600 I'm sure some people would like to see that or even just a few little holes, but.

00:08:13.240 All right. So yeah, we're working on lots of stories as usual. We just put out a story on a

00:08:20.280 city councilor, councillor Winas, who has put out a tweet yesterday evening. Basically it's a public

00:08:30.440 apology and this is based on a call that she put out on Monday asking city councillors to hold some

00:08:40.040 form of a public forum to sort of give a voice to the freedom protesters in the belt line. She took

00:08:48.280 a lot of flack from some of the other councillors in the council chambers and so she put out the

00:08:55.320 statement yesterday apologizing for any offense because her tweet actually had a statement saying

00:09:02.660 she wanted to see this public forum similar to what was offered to BLM protesters in 2020. So

00:09:12.080 there were people that took offense to sort of her finding some sort of a, not necessarily a link,

00:09:19.440 but equating them. So that is on the website. We've got a story along the lines of Bank of

00:09:28.800 Canada has been found to be storing prohibited firearms. They're long barrel firearms that have

00:09:36.180 sort of recently been determined to be prohibited. And so basically their security officers are

00:09:45.120 unable to use these weapons to defend the premises when it comes to Bank of Canada. So that's proving

00:09:51.860 to be a bit of an issue. We've got a column from our Dave Makachuk, US and Canada in a race to

00:09:58.260 protect the Arctic frontier. This obviously coming from the war that's been happening and

00:10:07.560 raging between Russia and Ukraine. So just, I think, in a preparatory way of trying to decide

00:10:17.240 whether what Russia's next moves might be. So that's why they seem to be doing some activity

00:10:24.280 in the Arctic. Ottawa has announced an end to pre-arrival testing for those fully vaxxed. So

00:10:33.060 that is going to definitely save some money for a lot of travelers. However, UCP have voted down

00:10:40.420 the Fed's public health air travel restrictions, basically condemning their proof of vaccination

00:10:47.080 and testing requirements to fly. Alberta's health minister, Jason Copping, says it's time for the

00:10:52.940 government to catch up to the evidence. I've got a story out. BC has launched a review of its COVID

00:11:00.140 response, but there are some caveats. They will not be including decisions made by the government

00:11:07.620 or the provincial health officer in the review. So I'm not sure what else there would be to review

00:11:15.480 when it comes to the COVID response in that province, but we've got more information on

00:11:21.280 that on the website. We have another column up from Mike Thomas on the anti-protesters in the

00:11:27.680 Beltline. So these would be the protesters that are protesting the actual freedom marchers.

00:11:35.560 A lot of city council don't like these people to be referred to as anti-protesters. They are

00:11:42.500 residents in the community. But Mike speaks to this in his column as he does live in the Beltline.

00:11:49.540 So I think he can speak to his experience. So we've got that on the website. And we've got a

00:11:55.700 couple of things coming up too. Calgary Police Commission is asking for public opinion on the

00:12:02.800 Beltline protests and what's been sort of going on in that area for, you know, months and months

00:12:10.120 on end. They're asking for the public's opinion. We'll have that up on the website and how people

00:12:15.000 can submit that very shortly here. And also looking at a story where the Welsh are looking

00:12:22.100 to cancel the history of the welsh steam trains because they say they're linked to the slave trade

00:12:29.620 so that will also be up on the website very shortly yeah there's no shortage of crazy things

00:12:36.760 to report on and you know that that coverage from from local news and city hall on these protests

00:12:41.860 and the double standard you know has just been driving me bananas i'm glad you didn't say it i

00:12:46.320 know you wouldn't have but i was listening on the radio this morning and they refer to the freedom

00:12:50.020 protesters as the so-called freedom protesters. They put that in front of it every time they

00:12:54.400 mention it. I never heard them talk about the so-called Idle No More or the so-called BLM

00:12:59.080 protesters or the so-called Occupy protesters. They just called them what they were. It doesn't

00:13:02.940 mean you agree with them. You're just calling them what they are. But there's, again, we're

00:13:06.360 seeing that slanted mainstream media where they pick a side in a conflict and they subtly or

00:13:11.840 sometimes not so subtly show that. Well, and I think the tough thing, especially for Councillor

00:13:17.100 that put out the request on Monday that council offer this public forum. And I don't know that

00:13:24.740 she was necessarily saying it would be a public forum strictly for the freedom protesters,

00:13:32.240 but also a public forum to allow residents to come and share their concerns about what's been

00:13:37.060 happening in their community. I think what she was trying to do was, by the sounds of it,

00:13:44.000 open dialogue, you know, say, we need to listen to each other, we need to, you know, whoever feels

00:13:49.900 unheard needs to be heard. And, you know, I think her coming out with the apology was

00:13:59.080 politically appropriate. And I'm not, you know, I'm not making a judgment on it per se. But I think,

00:14:05.580 I think the idea to come together and speak about these things and to hear one another

00:14:11.660 is what she was getting at and so it's unfortunate that it was turned into something that I don't

00:14:18.260 think it was or what she meant it to be but that is unfortunate because I think you know

00:14:23.640 hearing people and having conversation and dialogue around these things would definitely

00:14:28.580 be helpful. Absolutely there's just not been enough rational dialogue on this whole affair

00:14:34.100 in general. Well thanks for checking in lots to look forward to as usual and appreciate that work

00:14:39.380 melanie and we will talk to you a little later all right thanks cory hey thanks so yeah you know

00:14:45.320 getting back to that i tell you in the calgary city council we see that with city councils all

00:14:50.320 over they're exceedingly woke they're exceedingly insane and uh this ordinance nest these guys are

00:14:55.440 making nenshi look uh rational in comparison so far i am going to have a calgary councillor dan

00:15:00.700 mclean on tomorrow uh he's one of the few who seems to at least be trying to inject a little

00:15:05.740 bit of common sense into that mess. But, you know, they're new and they're learning lessons. And the

00:15:09.740 one thing Ms. Winas is going to find out is the worst thing you can do is apologize to the mob. 1.00

00:15:14.760 She bent over and apologized. You're ruined. They own you now. Anytime you tick them off,

00:15:19.800 you will be on your heels. And it's funny because she's one of the progressive ones.

00:15:24.220 They've considered it controversial for a councillor to even propose listening to the

00:15:30.500 different sides of the conflict. And that is really problematic. That is a failure in leadership

00:15:36.700 and governing. You don't have to agree with them, but you should listen to them. And I said it

00:15:41.200 before too, when that imbecile Prime Minister Trudeau dealt with the Ottawa protests by doing 1.00

00:15:48.640 nothing but inflame them and insult them and shoot at them, he caused a lot of the standoff 0.99

00:15:54.200 and the vitriol that happened on Parliament Hill over those weeks. If he'd have just been respectful, 0.86

00:15:59.160 it would have been so much easier to deal with what was going on up there, but it just was not

00:16:03.800 within consideration to him. You couldn't even talk about talking with him. Again, it doesn't

00:16:07.520 mean you capitulate, it doesn't mean you give in to demands, but at least listen to them.

00:16:11.500 They're your constituents, whether it's federally, whether it's civic. And in Calgary, we've got,

00:16:17.280 I think, quite an ugly showdown that's going to come this Saturday. And we've got council members

00:16:22.880 fighting amongst each other. We've got people ramping up the rhetoric and, you know, the stuff

00:16:28.160 we saw on the Beltline before, I'm afraid it's going to get a lot, much worse. Getting onto the

00:16:32.800 woke, you know, one of the stories that Melanie said is going to be coming up pretty soon, and

00:16:37.220 one of our reporters, Amanda Brown, mentioned it in that classic English style. She called it,

00:16:42.960 I think, woke wankers. But, I mean, this is how ridiculous we get as well. We were talking about 0.99

00:16:49.020 a Welsh steam train exhibit, and I guess at some point, somewhere, some steam engines had actually

00:16:56.180 transported slaves. Thus, we can't even celebrate the steam engine any longer. I hate to tell some 1.00

00:17:01.660 people, but boats were used with slaves, so maybe do we have to ban boats? Chains. I mean, they were

00:17:07.400 awful ugly symbols. It's fine, but we use them for a lot of contemporary uses as well. But now that

00:17:11.220 they're symbols, do we have to ban those as well? I heard they wore clothes. Maybe we should ban

00:17:15.900 clothing. They're insane. They are insane. What are our museums going to get down to when we can't 0.82

00:17:21.400 even have a steam engine in one. I just, they still never managed to cease to astound me. You

00:17:28.540 know, I think I've seen it all. I think they can't shock me anymore and they managed to outdo

00:17:32.380 themselves. Good work, you clowns. Oh, you know, oh, where do you go? And yeah, getting back to 1.00

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00:21:07.840 enough babbling out of me. Let's bring our first guest in today and that's, I hope I'm not going

00:21:12.800 to mispronounce it, looks not too bad, Kalea Carrington. She's the CEO of Absolute Combustion

00:21:17.760 and she was going to talk about the upcoming Alberta Technology Symposium. Hey, how's it going?

00:21:22.720 Good, thank you. How are you?

00:21:24.400 very good thanks uh glad to have you come in uh looks like quite an event that's that's coming up

00:21:31.120 in the future here that you guys are promoting and planning and as we're moving towards economic

00:21:35.760 recovery they're covering a whole lot of subjects that are going to be pretty important out here

00:21:40.080 yes absolutely so one of the one of the key factors to promoting this economic recovery

00:21:45.200 is showing that we have a diverse industry our technology sector is one of the key things that

00:21:50.080 support our major resource sectors which is energy and agriculture logistics etc so we want to

00:21:56.640 showcase and highlight is all the incredible companies that are here in alberta that are

00:22:00.720 working towards supporting our energy sector and all these other various sectors and try and get

00:22:05.840 you know as as much awareness as we can for all the amazing things that are happening here in the

00:22:10.080 province yeah and there's a lot of words but they're going to need some explanation even for

00:22:14.880 for me and others, like a big, large part of the radio at the start is the Canadian blockchain.

00:22:20.260 And I mean, that's a huge thing. It's growing, this blockchain. But what is blockchain then?

00:22:25.240 You know what? Break that down for us Luddites. So in essence, it really is just a database,

00:22:32.240 right? So a lot of people, they think blockchain, they think it's really tied to cryptocurrency,

00:22:36.460 and in some aspects it is, or, you know, they get kind of overwhelmed or confused by it.

00:22:41.620 In its essence, it's really just a digital ledger.

00:22:45.100 So with Bitcoin's blockchain specifically, all it is is a database that stores send and receive codes.

00:22:51.900 It is complicated if you're looking at doing more of the programming side of things.

00:22:57.140 You need to understand like cryptography and some other aspects to it.

00:23:00.100 For a layman specifically, like if you're interested in the technology, it's a database.

00:23:05.220 It allows multiple different parties to come and see a transparent amount of facts.

00:23:11.620 It has a lot of benefit from the enterprise perspective.

00:23:14.920 If you're looking at doing supply chain, a good example there would be like Walmart in Asia.

00:23:20.320 They put some of their spinach on a blockchain because they wanted to see how this would cut down their food recall times.

00:23:26.240 They took it down from six days to two seconds because they were able to see the entire supply chain on one database instantaneously versus having to go through, you know, multiple companies to figure out where the contaminated good came from.

00:23:37.280 So there's benefits to it, but essence, it's really just a database.

00:23:40.880 Great. So there'll be people speaking to it at the symposium, I imagine, like to help show those practical applications for these things for attendees.

00:23:47.420 I mean, people run businesses and may not realize that these are things that actually can apply to what their trade is.

00:23:53.640 Absolutely. So blockchain is going to be a component of it.

00:23:56.140 At our organization, of course, we are a blockchain group, but we look at blockchain as like it's a widget and a tool.

00:24:02.480 So if you're looking at doing like a data transformation within your business, blockchain may be applicable to you,

00:24:08.240 you might want to be looking at like machine learning or iot other technologies as well so

00:24:13.600 we're kind of showcasing how this is a component to a larger solution when it comes to updating

00:24:18.720 your databases so when when people are going to come and what they're going to learn is um you

00:24:23.120 know how blockchain like on the fintech side of things like if you're looking at doing something

00:24:27.280 like an nft or you want to incorporate cryptocurrency into your business what are the legal regulatory

00:24:32.480 implications of that uh people are really interested in mining so we're going to talk

00:24:36.400 about you know debunking a lot of the myths on when people think that mining isn't supportive

00:24:40.480 of like you know esg like mining is actually rather environmentally friendly in comparison

00:24:45.920 to some of the other uh systems out there like just the energy infrastructure to support traditional

00:24:50.640 banking far exceeds uh what it looks like in mining and how that can diversify industries

00:24:55.920 and energy to help them you know generate more revenue or you're going to talk about uh you know

00:25:01.440 health tech like how blockchain machine learning iot is supporting people to get better access to

00:25:06.320 data that's going to be able to determine, you know, potential health risks down the road.

00:25:12.500 Yeah, well, and data is everything these days. We're into this whole new world of everything,

00:25:17.140 and it's developing so fast. It's so critical to keep up. And again, gets to that economic

00:25:21.760 diversity. I mean, Calgary's downtown. I like to think in some sense, since we have a lot of

00:25:24.980 opportunity, it's unfortunate there's such a massive vacancy in all these buildings down here

00:25:28.620 right now, but a lot of creative ideas can fill those spaces and draw in a lot of new people in

00:25:35.040 in the tech sector absolutely it's one of the fastest growing sectors right now and part of why

00:25:40.320 we want to support an event like this is because alberta really is positioned to be that silicon

00:25:45.120 valley in canada we have one of the fastest growing like blockchain fields uh we are third

00:25:50.560 in the world for machine learning uh google put their deep my deep lab here we have incredible

00:25:56.000 advancements happening in iot and health tech so in terms of tech we are getting a lot of unicorn

00:26:01.200 companies that are spurring up here that are doing incredible raises like benevity is a good one or

00:26:06.240 neofinancial is a good one i mean skip the dishes and uber even started with calgarians so we're

00:26:11.760 trying to showcase the track we want to make sure that we attract talent to the province attract

00:26:16.240 you know money to the province we want to be able to you know get a lot more government support and

00:26:21.440 leverage it into the technology sector to get people who are interested in starting their

00:26:25.840 business make sure that they get the funding that they need here the connections that they need

00:26:29.680 here be able to commercialize other technology here so there's a lot of value add to being able

00:26:35.280 to showcase this because the more people see that we have this incredible and fast-growing tech

00:26:41.360 sector the more we're going to be able to attract value to the province yeah so uh something a bit

00:26:47.120 of a side thing but i like to take questions from the the viewers at times and bobby uh has asked i

00:26:51.840 guess is the government in partnership with this or with blockchain and things like that we

00:26:55.600 unfortunately have a lot of government mistrust going on right now but when it comes to uh

00:26:59.680 cryptocurrency or things like that in general they worry that it's government controlled i

00:27:04.320 think in a lot of these senses this is a way that you can actually distance yourself from

00:27:07.360 from the state control i believe uh absolutely so just you know a little on uh not to be too

00:27:12.800 controversial but say in that trucker convoy traditional fundraising methods that they were

00:27:17.440 going through with like go fund me it was very easy for the government to leverage and block

00:27:22.080 the ability for the truckers to gain access to their money they eventually moved over towards

00:27:26.400 cryptocurrency to be able to you know fund uh you know their their convoy as as they were doing

00:27:33.280 and there was a misconception from the government that saying oh hey don't allow for these wallet

00:27:38.960 addresses to gain access to crypto it's one of the ways that like i could have a private wallet

00:27:44.320 i could create a hundred different public access codes it wouldn't stop me from being able to gain

00:27:49.120 access to the money i need a really good example in third world countries so there's places in

00:27:53.840 like nigeria huge protests have been going on for years against a very kind of communist style

00:27:59.680 government regime where the government has blocked their access to money uh can cancel their banking

00:28:04.960 accounts make making their life very difficult they've been doing 100 of their fundraising at

00:28:09.280 this point through bitcoin and various other cryptocurrencies because the government cannot

00:28:13.520 control their access to this digital form of money. Even the gentleman that's been running

00:28:19.440 against Putin, he has to raise his funding to try and go become president through cryptocurrency

00:28:25.600 because Putin cannot block his access to things like Bitcoin. Great. And then, so some of the

00:28:30.880 other subjects, you got a whole lot packed into this symposium. I noticed the word ag tech in

00:28:34.960 there. We do have a lot of producers and such reviewers and readers with the Western Standard.

00:28:40.400 so what sort of agricultural tech applications are they going to be talking about or examining

00:28:45.120 in this? So what's really interesting in the agricultural technology field, like ag tech is

00:28:50.780 considered rather traditional and in some essences, similar to the energy sector, slower to move on

00:28:56.800 emerging technologies. But what we've seen is an incredible advancement, like a combination of IoT

00:29:04.000 and machine learning, where now they have tractors that are completely autonomous. You can sit there

00:29:08.660 on your you know your your pad your smartphone almost and watch your tractor be able to do all

00:29:14.060 the things it needs to do in the field or how they're able to use iot sensors to depict weather

00:29:19.440 weather patterns that could potentially support insurance companies giving better insurance rates

00:29:24.300 to the farmers because they do pay a lot on insurance due to like unpredictable weather

00:29:28.560 and potential loss of crops or how they're able to use you know different technologies to prove

00:29:34.720 providence so there's companies that do birth to burger on blockchain being able to show yes here

00:29:40.400 is that this wagyu cow be able to show the heritage of that cow the veterinary records

00:29:44.880 the feeding patterns everything being able to use iot and rfd storing it on the blockchain being

00:29:50.400 able to get a more high value uh price for their good because they can prove out you know transparently

00:29:55.840 everything that happened uh with their animals so there's some really interesting conversations

00:30:00.240 there and how they're leveraging technology to get you know better access to funding make things

00:30:05.280 easier more efficient yield more crops yeah the day of the small subsistence farm is long gone

00:30:11.600 i mean aside from hobbyists i mean nowadays it's a business and it's important and uh anywhere you

00:30:16.320 can help reduce those those or you know expand your margins a little bit helps especially now

00:30:20.080 with the cost of inputs going up you mentioned iot a number of times that's internet of things

00:30:24.800 yeah so it really is a very broad term uh when you come into iot basically like your smartphone

00:30:33.200 is an iot device what you're using right now to you know broadcast this is again internet of

00:30:38.400 things so basically it's like a form of you know a tangible hardware piece that ties in with

00:30:44.000 software that connects into the internet that allows you to see in real time um potentially

00:30:49.200 like what's happening all around the world what's happening in on your farm and what's happening

00:30:54.560 on your oil and gas plants,

00:30:56.400 remote monitoring of sites

00:30:57.560 so you don't have to use personnel

00:30:59.460 to go and check different things.

00:31:01.600 So that's kind of like IoT.

00:31:03.000 To me, it ties into absolutely everything.

00:31:04.700 If people are looking at blockchain technology,

00:31:07.700 it's like you kind of need IoT.

00:31:09.360 You need to be able to capture that data

00:31:11.420 to be able to store it on blockchain.

00:31:13.600 So it's always that kind of like first step.

00:31:16.600 All right.

00:31:17.040 And then one of the other areas covered was health tech

00:31:19.260 and that's going to be a big growing area.

00:31:20.680 I'm hoping actually coming out of this pandemic,

00:31:22.980 that gets a little broader. I don't want to throw that curve ball, but we get some healthcare

00:31:26.440 reform in general and treatment options and things. But health tech is another area where

00:31:31.760 we could, I guess, what, develop more options as well, whether it's pharmaceutical or, I guess,

00:31:37.420 mechanical and robotic even. Well, so one of the things that I would really love to see in the

00:31:43.300 health technology field is that self-sovereignty and ownership of your own health data. So right

00:31:48.440 now if you go between your your chiropractor your dentist your your doctor all of these different

00:31:53.700 people they essentially own the data that you're giving with them and there isn't a consistent

00:32:00.800 messaging so your dentist isn't sharing information with your doctor and your chiropractor isn't

00:32:05.340 sharing information with your dentist and your doctor and your body you need to kind of look at

00:32:09.280 holistically like all parts of of you so if you're going to be able to um like through blockchain

00:32:15.540 right now what they're looking at is being able to have this ownership and access to your data

00:32:20.340 where it's a compiled database your doctors can feed information into it but you are the one who

00:32:25.460 determines who has access so in terms of data and technology it's it's where people are making the

00:32:30.020 money it's how google makes the money or amazon makes the money it's selling your data and your

00:32:33.780 health data is also being kind of sold essentially if you want to travel anywhere across canada

00:32:40.180 if you're if you have a medical issue you would like a doctor to be able to see everything that's

00:32:44.260 happened with you to be able to understand exactly like what could be going on with you now better

00:32:48.260 diagnosis so those kind of things are coming up or i've seen companies in calgary who have developed

00:32:53.940 if anyone's familiar with star wars have the essential of a tricorder where it's like a

00:32:57.540 personal device that could be able to kind of determine what's going on with your body those

00:33:02.820 things are kind of interesting or how they're kind of mobilizing uh healthcare or using machine

00:33:07.460 learning to be able to aggregate a lot of data together to have better predictive analysis of

00:33:11.940 you know what you could be suffering with a lot of times you go to the doctor you have an issue

00:33:17.220 the doctor is guessing at what your problem is if he had an incredible amount of data and be able to

00:33:23.300 determine you know exactly what's going on with you you'd probably be able to diagnose things

00:33:28.100 like cancer earlier or tumors earlier different things like that yeah well in diagnosis early

00:33:33.620 diagnosis is so critically important particularly in things such as cancer i mean a lot of those

00:33:37.460 are fairly treatable if we can get them early enough but if you wait too long and that's part

00:33:40.580 part of the problems we have with our system is long waiting times. Sometimes you're beyond

00:33:44.260 treatment by the time you find out what's going on. It would be nice to have privatized health

00:33:47.960 care, to be honest. I mean, that's a different discussion, but I'm with you.

00:33:54.780 So going further with that, so this is coming up fairly soon and it's being held in Calgary?

00:34:01.940 Yes, so we're hosting it at the Grand Theatre. I really quite love the Grand Theatre

00:34:05.400 specifically because it's a really interesting, unique kind of venue to do it. It's like a

00:34:10.260 performing arts venues. So everything we do, we want to try and support local as much as we can.

00:34:14.620 So it's a beautiful place to come see. We're going to be providing coffee and donuts throughout the

00:34:19.980 day. We're providing lunch. We have an amazing gala. We do love to support and do charitable

00:34:25.660 givebacks. So this year at our gala, we're doing a fundraiser for the Glen Rose Foundation.

00:34:30.520 They're part of Alberta Health Services. And what we're so excited about is it's the first

00:34:34.060 foundation of its type to accept donations in cryptocurrency. So we actually have a surprise

00:34:38.920 for them at the event with one company doing a big donation for them uh coming up uh right before

00:34:44.860 the the gala starts and then great food great networking a lot of the people that we attract

00:34:50.560 are like executives ministers um you know academics so it's a really good kind of networking mix and

00:34:57.980 crowd and you get a lot of kind of thought leadership that's coming from it as well so

00:35:02.740 great learning great networking opportunity yeah it's quite a guest list of presenters and speakers

00:35:07.740 that are going to be attending this event as well over the course of two days it's yeah it's pretty

00:35:12.700 much we try to attract some of the premier talent to really kind of showcase a lot of times if people

00:35:18.780 aren't aware they can't really advocate for the sector and it's a great opportunity to be able to

00:35:23.740 like raise that awareness we're excited we have people coming from all across uh the country to

00:35:28.460 join in on this jeff booth is going to be our keynote uh we're excited to have danielle smith

00:35:33.740 is our mistress of ceremonies we have companies like adibotics and bitcoin well and memory express

00:35:40.460 we have prairies can which formerly was western economic diversification supporting the event and

00:35:45.740 alberta iot api industries meta equity blg cloud law innovate edmonton platform calgary so it's

00:35:54.540 like the economic development government leading groups in industry amazing thought leaders

00:36:00.860 funding as well. We have Startup TNT coming with Jade Alberts and MetaEquity to talk about like

00:36:08.480 how they're supporting and they've done I think well over a million dollars in funding for

00:36:12.720 startups to help get them off the ground. So there's a lot of really exciting topics that

00:36:18.060 are going to be meaningful for anyone at any stage of their business. Great. So what is the

00:36:23.060 date of this event and where can they find more information about it? So it's happening on April

00:36:29.820 20th and 21st and if you come to our website at canadblockchain.ca you'll see a tab for the tech

00:36:35.220 symposium or you can check out albertatechsymposium.com as well either one will bring you right

00:36:41.960 to it but if you come to canadblockchain.ca you'll be able to see like our magazines and

00:36:46.160 a lot of other great content and we do free education with our group every month as well

00:36:51.600 we host webinars we get engaged in a lot of research projects if you want to learn more

00:36:57.320 that's a great there you go there's the website it's a perfect place to come for everything

00:37:01.160 okay well yeah nico's great at picking those things up and then put them up up there for

00:37:07.500 us in our in our view as well thank you very much for coming on today and explaining as much as you

00:37:12.100 could in 15 minutes on what's obviously a very large and diverse event we're looking forward

00:37:17.760 to seeing it happen and i hope we can talk to you again soon wonderful thank you so much for

00:37:21.960 the opportunity great thanks so yes that was uh kalaya carrington and uh that was on the upcoming

00:37:28.840 alberta technology symposium so uh oh boy here we come to what wef people okay we've talked about

00:37:37.020 the world economic forum i i've done rants on it i've covered it you know uh uh there's a video

00:37:42.620 actually that thing really took off what 80 000 views the other week or whatever it exists i'm not

00:37:47.580 denying it. Schwab has some crazy plans he wants to do with the world. Some political leaders are

00:37:53.800 listening to those guys, absolutely. But their conspiracy isn't as deep as a lot of people think

00:37:59.700 it is, okay? And I know some people are saying, well, all of this is just, all of this blockchain

00:38:05.460 and sharing information and such, that this is going to get us controlled, it's going to get us

00:38:09.800 taken over. You got a phone? Well, then they're already tracking you guys. You're on the internet,

00:38:15.600 you're watching this show don't worry they're tracking you they can find you you want to

00:38:21.120 control i'm not talking about the waf i'm talking about the state in general and uh things uh like

00:38:26.960 digital currencies and that they aren't perfect but i tell you what and i know some people some

00:38:30.240 of somebody's telling me they're all by the cia and uh guys i i don't know i can't help you if you

00:38:35.520 want to move in the woods and live completely without tech of course that's your option i

00:38:38.400 believe in full freedom but as long as you have tech there is going to be some degree of data

00:38:42.640 of sharing and it's going to happen. You want to limit it as much as possible. You want to value

00:38:46.780 your privacy and things like that. Of course you do, but we can't avoid it. And these tools are

00:38:52.240 very valuable for us. We're talking about things like ag tech and digital currencies and uses that

00:38:57.060 businesses can have to track supply and such. These are good, efficient things. So don't dismiss

00:39:03.200 everything, you know, just out of hand, out of fear of some of the worst players out there,

00:39:08.420 I guess, on the world stage and things such as that, there's a lot of good happening out there

00:39:14.200 as well. And, you know, that was brought up recently, one of the people that are going to

00:39:17.280 be at this symposium, and it is coincidental, but it's Bitcoin Well, they're going to be

00:39:21.460 represented there, and they are one of our sponsors. So let's talk about them. Let's talk

00:39:24.940 about digital currencies and something we guess mentioned. The government came for our funds. I

00:39:32.120 mean, they certainly did. The central banks, the government regulated banks, happily cooperated

00:39:37.780 with the government to go after people who dared to donate to the convoy. If people had their funds

00:39:43.060 in a cold wallet, and these are the things that can be explained by Bitcoin Well, the government

00:39:48.160 can't get at it. It's a standalone piece of hardware and it will have your assets in it.

00:39:53.420 That's how that works. It is out of their reach. It's in your control. It's in your hands. It is

00:39:58.060 the coins under your bed or whatever way you want to put it. And these guys will explain how that

00:40:03.260 works. That's what they're all about. Bitcoin Well, they're a Western Canadian company.

00:40:07.080 They're out here.

00:40:07.680 They're publicly traded.

00:40:08.780 You can talk one-on-one with people.

00:40:10.320 That's one of their hallmarks of service is that they will consult with you

00:40:14.320 and make sure you're comfortable with what you're doing.

00:40:16.160 They never handle your money.

00:40:17.820 It gets sent directly to you, and you always handle it.

00:40:20.760 And they show you how it all works.

00:40:22.100 They're an educational company almost.

00:40:26.240 And if they can't, if in Calgary, Montreal, Edmonton, Winnipeg,

00:40:29.020 you can go one-on-one.

00:40:30.120 Anywhere else in Canada, you can get a Zoom meeting back and forth.

00:40:33.380 These guys offer a great service if you're interested in getting into digital currencies.

00:40:39.060 And they're worth looking at.

00:40:41.140 And they've been a fantastic sponsor for us.

00:40:42.660 I'll talk a little more about them again later.

00:40:44.880 So, yeah, interesting times, though.

00:40:47.980 And, again, it's Bitcoin is part of the Great Reset.

00:40:52.660 Yeah, everything's part of the Great Reset.

00:40:54.320 So, yeah, just looking at more of the news from that replica of the steam-powered locomotive in Wales, though,

00:41:00.480 just to get back to all that later stuff.

00:41:02.980 the national it's the national museum pulled it out let's see it was used in the first steam

00:41:08.500 powered rail journey all the way in 1804 i mean this is a steam travel i mean this was a very

00:41:14.100 big uh development in in the industrial revolution in the world moving forward and things like that

00:41:19.060 i think it kind of predated the full industrial revolution this is a as much as it's laughable

00:41:24.820 it's also worrisome i mean that's how seriously revisionist uh our our areas are getting our

00:41:32.500 government institutions or museums or things like that we were seeing that in canada you know where

00:41:36.100 and in the archives uh the federal government archives where they're wiping out entire swaths

00:41:40.420 of information because uh some of it might be offensive to some people or we got the museum

00:41:44.260 of woke out in the west coast i think that is taking out a whole bunch of uh parts of canadian

00:41:49.140 history because they don't want to hurt people's feelings it's got to stop guys uh we have to

00:41:54.500 document our history even with the warts and uh and uh be able to look at these things and talk

00:42:01.540 Talk about these things. It's critical. And so these woke things, we laugh at how absurd and

00:42:05.880 how ridiculous they're getting. But at the same time, it is pretty serious as well. So that story 0.72

00:42:10.760 has also been posted, just so you know, at the westernstandardonline.com. Dave just gave me a

00:42:14.920 heads up there to remind me of it. So get on to the westernstandardonline.com and you can see

00:42:19.760 more of those rather than me paraphrasing these stories as they come out. Some of the other stuff

00:42:24.660 that's coming up before our guest comes up. This is, you know, from Black Locks Reporter. These

00:42:30.560 guys come up with a lot of great stuff. And I believe Dave's going to be writing more on it or

00:42:33.480 one of them. This troubling is the term they use for electric car rebates. And they remain the

00:42:38.720 costliest climate program of them all. And they're all pretty bloody expensive. But there was an

00:42:44.440 Ottawa think tank that used figures from the Department of Transport showing taxpayer subsidies

00:42:49.800 are the equivalent of $700 or more per ton of emissions saved. Like the money being blown on

00:42:56.960 this. And these programs are costly and inefficient. It's from the McDonnell Laurier

00:43:01.220 Institute. I've had some of their members on as guests before actually. We'll see maybe if I can

00:43:04.420 get somebody to follow up on that in the coming days here. But it's saying the government needs

00:43:08.580 to rethink the subsidies they're offering for purchasing electric vehicles. I mean, we saw how

00:43:12.200 outrageous and ridiculous it was down in the States with, you know, some of them, including 0.65

00:43:16.880 President Biden saying, hey, if the gas prices are too high, just go on out there and buy an

00:43:21.660 electric car. You know, it's easy. It'll save you money. It's ridiculous. And it shows how elitist

00:43:26.720 those guys are and how disconnected they are. And part of what they point to is, oh, look,

00:43:30.740 it's affordable here. No, it's not. Electric car buyers are, let's see, in Canada, you can get a

00:43:36.260 $5,000 federal rebate and there's provincial subsidies on top of that. They can go anywhere

00:43:39.960 from $2,500 in Newfoundland to $3,000 in BC in Nova Scotia or $5,000 in New Brunswick, $8,000

00:43:46.500 in PEI in Quebec. Hey, wonder where your equalization payments are going? Well, Quebec's

00:43:50.360 using it to subsidize these cars. But subsidized doesn't mean free, guys. It doesn't mean

00:43:54.640 discounted. They're taking that money out of your own wallet and putting it in front of you and then

00:43:58.840 buying something with it. It's not real. It's still your money. And as we see, ironically, this

00:44:05.980 compounds the inflation that leads to more of the energy costs that leaves you poor in the first

00:44:10.760 place. You're not saving anything by going to these machines. But the government won't back off

00:44:17.000 on that. It's good to see some people studying, though, and chewing through the data and releasing

00:44:21.380 those real numbers as we see them. This mad rush to subsidize electric vehicles and try and get

00:44:28.600 people into them is absurd and ridiculous, and it's not doing anybody any good. Let's get real.

00:44:34.400 We're in an energy crisis right now, and electric vehicles aren't our way out of it. You know,

00:44:38.340 I get a good chuckle too. We're just going to transition into renewable sources all over the

00:44:41.940 place, rainbow and, you know, butterflies and everything, happy little bunnies hopping around.

00:44:46.640 How are you going to do it? I'm going to be speaking actually to somebody from the Canadian

00:44:50.660 Nuclear Energy Association next week. Because nukes, of course, the greens don't want that 0.79

00:44:54.900 either, but that is one of the alternatives we have. Hydroelectric people say, well, okay,

00:45:00.320 but you know what happens every time we try to dam a river? The environmentalists go ballistic

00:45:03.540 and try and block us on that again too. And that's not something you can just build a hydroelectric

00:45:07.480 dam and bring it on stream quickly, if you can manage to even get it approved. Look at what

00:45:11.640 they're going through on Site C dam in BC. Again, they're delusional. BC, some of those nuts out

00:45:18.680 there, want to shut down every possible form of energy generation, and don't seem to understand

00:45:23.700 that we can't live without them. But common sense is a rare commodity these days. So yeah, let's see,

00:45:33.260 Canada cabinet announced for the first time they acknowledged their ban on military assault

00:45:39.800 style rifles, including weapons, including hunting rifles, includes hunting rifles. Okay,

00:45:47.440 sorry, I'm just trying to phrase that right away. So, I mean, they were always saying these are

00:45:50.140 assault style weapons we're taking out. They were taking these militarized weapons out of the hands

00:45:53.920 of Canadians. Not that we've had any Canadians using military weapons to shoot anybody. That's

00:45:58.040 not a problem we have. Again, it's the government trying to look like they're doing something,

00:46:01.260 but they aren't. And they're taking hunting rifles. You know, again, people going out robbing places,

00:46:06.940 it's not with grandpa's old duck gun from the basement or a deer rifle or such. They're usually

00:46:11.360 illegal handguns and such that have been smuggled up and things such as that. But

00:46:15.120 they want to go after the legal firearm owners. You want to know why? Because they're low-hanging

00:46:17.940 fruit and they're easy. It doesn't reduce crime, but it makes them feel like they're doing

00:46:20.640 something. Plus, some people with a larger agenda just want to see Canadians not having any firearms

00:46:25.320 whatsoever. And so enforcement of the ban proposed by the emergency preparedness minister is now

00:46:33.440 delayed 18 months amid Indigenous complaints and cost overruns. There's some of the, well, 1.00

00:46:39.160 the state of Canada and the way it goes. I guess we should be thankful for their status in some

00:46:42.400 ways. When everybody else was furious, when they illegalized a whole bunch of harm, well,

00:46:47.120 relatively harmless firearms, I mean, you know, it's all a matter of what you do with it. But

00:46:51.340 these weren't made for harming people. They're made for hunting. They didn't care when most

00:46:55.820 firearm owners got upset with that until the indigenous hunters got upset. Suddenly they 1.00

00:47:00.360 changed. Suddenly we're going to get an 18 month delay on this and they're going to reevaluate

00:47:05.300 what they're illegalizing. You know, good on them for speaking up. It's too bad. It takes,

00:47:11.080 you know, different people landing in different racial and ethnic classes before the government

00:47:15.860 will pay attention to some things. But it's for the benefit of all of us that this government

00:47:19.540 could be pushed back a bit. So to allow further time, they're going to amend their amnesty order

00:47:26.980 and extend the expiry date. You know, a ban, what is that, a ban on possession and sale of some

00:47:33.280 1,500 types of weapons. Supposed to take effect April 30th, now delayed till October 30th, 2023.

00:47:38.800 So there's time to get out of this whole idiotic mess these morons have put us into with going after legal firearm owners. 0.98

00:47:47.880 You know, as they say in their thing, what, certain firearms have no place in a civil society. 1.00

00:47:51.720 These are hunting rifles, you clowns. 0.93

00:47:54.340 Yet their own legislation says they're not designed for hunting. 0.97

00:47:56.420 Actually, they are, you know, and it's got to stop.

00:48:01.780 So they've pushed it back and we'll see what happens with this down the road.

00:48:06.740 I don't hold much optimism. I think we've got to change the government if we want to get rid of

00:48:10.700 some of those things. I mean, it took that to really get rid of the registry before, which

00:48:14.340 failed. And as well with these grabs, I mean, we don't have a registry. That's what they always

00:48:18.420 wanted a registry for. They always denied it, but that's the truth of it. A registry doesn't stop

00:48:22.300 crime, but it does show them where to take your property when they want to come after it.

00:48:27.900 And now they don't know where they are. You know, there's an old saying, better oil the garden is

00:48:32.460 starting to rust. So if they legalize a lot of firearms, a lot of buying firearm owners don't

00:48:37.060 want to become criminals, so they probably would turn them in. A lot of others would probably just

00:48:40.920 put them elsewhere outside of sight and reach, and that's not necessarily safer. I'll give one

00:48:45.540 quick analogy before I move on to our next guest. When I started surveying in the oil field,

00:48:51.420 we did a lot of heliportable projects. I was a young rodman for a surveyor,

00:48:54.820 and we'd be flown out into remote areas and such. At the very start, I was on the tail end of it,

00:48:59.860 But some guys were allowed to actually carry a firearm with them at that time.

00:49:02.920 But there was a lot of procedures and safety rules you had to do with that.

00:49:06.440 You know, you'd have to make sure that pilot saw your empty chamber.

00:49:09.620 You had to make sure there was, you know, some things you had to pass and courses

00:49:12.880 so that firearm was properly loaded on the helicopter and properly utilized while you worked.

00:49:18.540 You couldn't keep something chambered while you went along.

00:49:20.240 Things like that.

00:49:21.460 Well, then they just said, no, you don't have them anymore.

00:49:22.960 In fact, I had one oil field company.

00:49:24.280 It got so ridiculous, you weren't even allowed to have a knife with a blade over three inches

00:49:28.020 while you're working in the bush where you're flown in by helicopter in grizzly country.

00:49:33.800 They got rid of all the firearms legally.

00:49:37.000 So what did guys do?

00:49:38.580 Well, we suddenly saw a lot of sawed-off shotguns with pistol grips hitting up in guys' backpacks.

00:49:43.040 You saw a lot of handguns going into people's survey kits.

00:49:47.180 And these guys weren't always necessarily properly, you know, when it's not in the open,

00:49:52.220 you don't know if they're properly responsibly using these things because they might have something chambered. 0.72

00:49:56.600 You might have a shotgun with a round chambered and a safety off and some idiot's backpack on the storage, the side rail of the helicopter flying out somewhere. 0.98

00:50:05.360 This is extremely dangerous. 0.98

00:50:07.220 So when they actually went after the proper use of firearms, they actually made things more dangerous for other people.

00:50:14.260 And again, it's the impression of making things look good is more important to a lot of people than the reality of it.

00:50:20.620 Either way, I've ranted enough on that.

00:50:22.140 Let us get on to our next guest.

00:50:24.320 And that is Matthew Horwood.

00:50:27.460 He's our new parliamentary reporter in Ottawa.

00:50:30.520 We had Rachel on the other day, and here's Matthew.

00:50:33.520 Let's see what he's up to out there in the east.

00:50:37.480 He'll be here in a minute.

00:50:38.980 Hey, there you are. I hear you.

00:50:41.360 How's it going today?

00:50:42.580 Very good. Thank you.

00:50:43.820 Welcome to the show, and welcome to the Western Standard.

00:50:47.100 No problem. Good to be here.

00:50:48.880 Yeah, so you've started just this last week.

00:50:51.520 you're going to be reporting primarily I imagine on federal or I noticed you've already kind of

00:50:56.240 reporting on some foreign affairs international sort of issues and things in Ottawa in general

00:51:00.260 I guess yeah absolutely going to be covering mostly federal politics and anything else that

00:51:05.480 comes up that's newsworthy it's mostly been on the Ukraine crisis crisis in the last couple days but

00:51:12.020 yeah primarily yeah yeah so we started like your more most recent story on that was about some

00:51:19.420 polling done of Canadians in general and how Canadians felt about taking in Ukrainian refugees

00:51:24.560 over this crisis and war that's happening in Ukraine right now. Can you break down what that

00:51:29.440 was about? Yeah, it was interesting. A lot of support for any and all measures to support

00:51:35.060 Ukraine, a lot more than before the invasion happened, obviously. But yeah, people are a lot 0.88

00:51:41.820 more open for towards Ukrainian refugees coming in than they were Syrian refugees. Thankfully, 0.99

00:51:47.780 it doesn't look like there's a lot of support for a no-fly zone or direct military action in

00:51:52.740 Ukraine, which is good to see because I think we all know how that could end up. But yeah,

00:51:58.480 yeah, a lot of support for Ukraine. Yeah, okay. So, I mean, it's somewhat

00:52:05.440 controversial. And then there was Trudeau's response, another story of yours on the

00:52:09.300 no-fly zone and proposals for Ukraine right now. I'm just kind of going through your stories in

00:52:15.840 order here. Yeah, yeah. The conservative leader, she seemed to be in support of a no-fly zone. 0.95

00:52:24.060 She didn't mention that by name, but what she described, which was keeping humanitarian corridors

00:52:28.900 open, sounded a little bit like it. So I'm going to be speaking with some conservative MPs this

00:52:34.700 afternoon and tomorrow and get their thoughts on that and what they think about what should be done,

00:52:39.600 whether we should have a no-fly zone, sort of a light version of that.

00:52:44.940 Yeah, that's what I'm going to be publishing tomorrow.

00:52:48.240 Great. And you'd written something on Patrick Brown as well while you were on things there.

00:52:54.400 I guess you'll have a lot of coverage going on as we get into a federal conservative race going into the coming months ahead.

00:53:00.700 Absolutely. So I spoke with Rachel on Monday, and she's going to be primarily covering the Ontario provincial election.

00:53:08.180 I'm going to be looking at the conservative federal leadership race, but there's going to be a little bit of overlap there.

00:53:13.660 I think there's going to be no shortage of stories to rights.

00:53:17.340 And that is why, you know, they hired two Ottawa-based reporters.

00:53:21.620 Great. So, I mean, since I got you there, we got somebody from Ottawa out there.

00:53:25.240 Were you in Ottawa during all the convoy protests and all that kind of insanity last month?

00:53:31.440 Absolutely, I was. I was sent down there by the Hill Times to cover it on three different occasions.

00:53:37.160 and let me tell you, it was really something. Part of the reason why I moved on to the Western

00:53:43.740 Standard was because, you know, I didn't fully agree with how the protests were being covered

00:53:50.480 in the mainstream media. I thought there was a bit too much emphasis on some of the unsavory

00:53:56.240 elements, while few in number, and not a lot of attention paid towards the stories of people who

00:54:03.180 were there and why they were protesting and, you know, some of the nicer things that were happening.

00:54:07.160 you know, the bouncy castles, the barbecues, the, you know, patriotic Canadian singing

00:54:11.800 O'Canada, um, just very different, uh, what I saw versus what, how it was being portrayed.

00:54:17.720 Yeah. It's, it's unfortunate. We saw that a lot of everywhere. And with some of the

00:54:20.940 larger protests in Calgary, I noted that before with our local coverage from a lot of legacy

00:54:24.940 media, I went to some very large protests that had thousands of people in attendance. And,

00:54:29.300 uh, I, you know, there's a group that always hangs around the fringe of them. There was a

00:54:33.240 handful of them and, uh, they're a little different. I've seen them at protests before.

00:54:37.160 uh yeah they're not they're big they're out to stir up trouble and they've they're carrying some

00:54:42.600 views that most people aren't comfortable with but they were such a tiny minority aside from

00:54:46.200 that it was such a positive atmosphere but who do we hear about it's that tiny little group that

00:54:50.840 that's making the crazy noise on the corner and it's too bad it's it's just not good journalism

00:54:56.920 yeah for sure and in any group of more than like 100 people you're gonna get some some crazies

00:55:01.960 some people who are not so nice uh you've seen that with some of the other protest movements

00:55:06.040 in the past couple of years. But from, you know, when I was there, that was not what I saw. I didn't

00:55:11.640 see any, you know, didn't hear any dog whistles, just heard a lot of honking. And yeah, you know,

00:55:19.320 the Nazi flags that were at the Freedom Convoy protests, one of them wasn't actually even a

00:55:25.560 Nazi flag. It was a Canadian flag. Someone had wrote a wrote Trudeau is becoming a Nazi or

00:55:31.640 something to that effect, and drew a swastika. So it wasn't even a supporter of Hitler, which was

00:55:37.620 really too bad. But of course, it was, you know, spun as all these Nazi flags, you know, Confederate

00:55:41.980 flags everywhere, just a white supremacist movement. But it's, you know, really not what it

00:55:47.360 was from what I saw. No, it carried further where they got on the case of a conservative member of

00:55:53.140 parliament who was photographed, I think interviewed standing in front, he didn't even know it was

00:55:56.220 waving behind them. And suddenly, I guess if something waves behind you, you are now responsible

00:56:00.580 for it, even if it was just somebody who was using an odious symbol to make a hyperbolic

00:56:04.880 case against what they felt it was Justin Trudeau's actions.

00:56:07.880 Yeah, yeah, that was Michael Cooper.

00:56:09.140 It was ridiculous how he was attacked for that, as if he had any control over what's

00:56:12.360 going on behind him.

00:56:13.960 Yeah, and I mean, you know, two wrongs don't make a right, but I do know that some people

00:56:17.580 also dug up that there was an incident that happened, some twit was waving a Nazi flag

00:56:21.580 somewhere around Trudeau at some point in the past as well, and I'm no fan of Justin

00:56:25.300 Trudeau, but I understand that he had nothing to do with the guy waving that flag around

00:56:29.160 him it's too bad the media and some politicians couldn't extend the same courtesy going elsewhere

00:56:33.880 yeah exactly and i spoke to a couple people at the protest that said that when the nazi flag

00:56:38.760 showed up he was he was chased out by the rest of the protesters they told him look this is not

00:56:43.560 what we're here for this is this is a terrible thing and basically just told him to leave

00:56:48.600 yeah and we saw that a lot i mean i was watching very closely as most of canadians were when the

00:56:52.440 convoy first started and there was that confederate flag that came in shortly and left i mean i saw

00:56:57.240 pretty much every blue check on twitter retweeting that picture of him walking into the crowd and

00:57:02.680 it made it into mainstream reports and i don't know how many more times i saw that picture

00:57:06.680 but there was also a video posted by some people who were in attendance showing that guy being

00:57:11.720 essentially driven out from them uh shoved out of the crowd shown that he wasn't welcome you never

00:57:17.080 heard that you know you didn't see much of that aside from on social media yeah i i hadn't heard

00:57:22.520 heard of that either, but I'm really not surprised. That lines up with what else I was told about the

00:57:28.880 Confederate flag. You know, somebody said that people were saying to a guy who showed up with

00:57:35.060 the Confederate flag, you know, this is wrong. You should not be here. But I wouldn't be surprised

00:57:40.780 if he was chased out. Yeah, no, and he was. But of course, that gets underreported. And it's too

00:57:46.100 bad. I mean, if we want to cover things, I'm going this weekend, too. It looks like things are really

00:57:50.440 heating up in in calgary i'm not so much on the reporting end but i like to go and observe these

00:57:54.320 things because you got to see for yourself unfortunately you don't necessarily get an

00:57:57.060 unvarnished view of who started what or who did what and i mean if i see freedom convoy or freedom

00:58:02.860 protesters uh you know pushing into police or being extreme or shouting anything appropriate

00:58:07.940 i'll be just as quick to call them out as i will anybody else out but our media seems to pick a

00:58:13.480 side unfortunately i mean it's all they refer to now is the so-called freedom protesters they

00:58:18.220 won't even call them that any longer yeah yeah when I was there on the Saturday right before

00:58:24.120 as they were getting pushed out I saw one guy hurl a snowball at a police officer and the police

00:58:30.020 officer you know hit it out of the air and then he got chased out everybody said you know leave

00:58:33.800 right now this is peaceful and they accosted him for starting you know even just playing a snowball

00:58:39.280 so it just goes to show how peaceful people were trying to be there the entire time yeah and

00:58:45.380 And unfortunately, with provocation, that can change.

00:58:47.600 We hope that doesn't happen.

00:58:48.800 I mean, the times, it's not over yet.

00:58:51.180 I mean, most people, I think the restrictions are dropping.

00:58:53.260 It sounds like we've got some federal bending on these things now.

00:58:56.140 It is coming to an end, but not fast enough for some protesters.

00:59:00.060 I know there were some kind of side camps.

00:59:02.260 Do you know if there's still elements or plans for protests going on in Ottawa right now?

00:59:07.540 I haven't heard anything recently.

00:59:09.080 I know that a week ago they had the Freedom chain that was supposed to be, you know, a chain stretching across Canada.

00:59:17.100 So I saw a group of maybe 30 protesters at an Ikea when I was there shopping, and they went out and did a small event.

00:59:25.280 But as for any larger movements, I haven't heard anything.

00:59:28.780 I had heard when they initially got chased out of Ottawa that they had set up camps in the smaller townships around Ottawa.

00:59:34.940 but I haven't seen any more reporting on what's going on,

00:59:38.200 how many people have left, how many are sticking around.

00:59:41.260 Not sure about that, but definitely if the restrictions come back,

00:59:44.640 if there's another variant, God forbid,

00:59:47.380 I think that they will be right back there honking just as much if they can.

00:59:53.040 Yeah, there's no doubt if the restrictions will come back, they'll rise up.

00:59:56.440 I mean, part of what I do worry about, I see again,

00:59:58.660 where we seem to almost have more of it out here in Calgary going on,

01:00:00.940 which is kind of ironic because Alberta was the first to get rid of all the

01:00:03.280 the regulations and such but it's a bit of our culture out here and our crabbiness with government

01:00:07.760 in general but we've got the strongest remnants of existing protests going on and some of it

01:00:13.760 eventually is going to end up with a shell of people who are just kind of chronically upset

01:00:16.640 with everything and it's turned into a weekly thing for them to do and again with the pressure

01:00:22.520 coming from the police and city hall to shut them down this might lead to something more

01:00:26.680 unfortunate i certainly hope not though yeah for sure i mean when you protest for that long it

01:00:32.360 becomes a big part of your identity and you want to keep it going even that after you know maybe

01:00:36.760 the original things you were protesting against have gone and are no longer there but um yeah

01:00:42.640 hopefully it doesn't uh turn violent or bloody and and we all know that agent provocateurs are

01:00:47.380 a real thing and they do happen in protest movements um so let's you know pray that we

01:00:52.280 don't see anything like that in the future with these movements yeah so i hope you're enjoying

01:00:57.000 so far the more unrestrained environment of the western standard you know we're not going to try

01:01:01.780 and pressure people to take one side or another on these things we just want good coverage and

01:01:05.440 it's it's gonna be great we're really looking forward to it I mean we've been growing excellently

01:01:08.780 it's it's ironic it's been good for the western standard I guess as a side effect with the legacy

01:01:13.460 media unfortunately really uh showing a such rot that they have from within uh even though there's

01:01:19.420 still a lot of quality people within them and still some currently but that whole institution

01:01:23.360 has really gone downhill in a number of ways but it's been to our benefit I mean our subscriptions

01:01:27.960 have gone through the roof and uh we're gaining great experienced uh journalists like yourself

01:01:32.340 and rachel uh so what are you looking forward to i guess covering in general what can we

01:01:37.800 look forward to seeing uh you writing on in the next couple of weeks or a few weeks here coming

01:01:42.460 ahead good question i'm going to be giving a lot of focus to what's going on with ukraine

01:01:48.440 i think that uh the story around covid is unfortunately um still around so i'm going

01:01:53.780 to be looking at some of the restrictions, stuff to do with vaccines, stuff to do with the

01:01:58.160 effectiveness of various public health measures I'd like to look into. I'd also like to take a

01:02:04.200 look at the World Economic Forum, some of the policies proposed by them. I think that's very

01:02:10.000 interesting. And there's been a lot more focus on, you know, the Klaus Schwab types in the past

01:02:15.020 couple of years. I think that's, those are stories that people are growing increasingly interested

01:02:20.660 it in yeah there's certainly a lot of i guess you could almost say mainstream media no-go zones but

01:02:25.860 they're still of great interest to a lot of canadians on the ground and in general so it's

01:02:29.580 good that we'd be able to dig into those and report on them whether there's something there

01:02:32.860 or not there i mean if we don't if we aren't allowing people to check into it in the first

01:02:36.680 place we're never going to resolve anything oh for sure yeah there does seem to be a lot of

01:02:40.680 areas that the mainstream media just won't touch but uh you know the people i speak to the people

01:02:45.260 i see online they that's what they want to hear about that's what they want us to report on and

01:02:49.980 inform them on. So I think it's good that the Western Standard is a little bit more

01:02:53.260 open and free to let us report on these things and ask the difficult questions that people

01:03:00.100 sometimes don't want to have asked, but which make them, I think, more necessary to be asked

01:03:05.400 in the first place. That's it. I mean, nobody goes through the amount of schooling, you know,

01:03:08.860 like yourself and others, and then wants to get out there basically just carbon,

01:03:13.080 you know, cut and paste press releases and put out vanilla reporting. You want to dig out there

01:03:18.740 you know that's your passion that's what you want to get into so uh hopefully we can provide you a

01:03:22.740 lot of opportunity for that because i mean people don't want to read that tired old stuff anymore

01:03:26.100 either yeah that's exactly right they want uh you know hard-hitting reporting they want more

01:03:31.620 questions asked they want um you know not just repeating verbatim press releases and and being

01:03:37.460 a mouthpiece for for the government that's not what journalism is supposed to be no no not at

01:03:42.900 all well i'm looking forward to watching you guys uh expanding our coverage out there in ottawa where

01:03:48.180 whether we like it or not in Calgary, that is the hub of our federal government and where

01:03:52.100 everything goes on. So thanks again for checking in with us today and letting us introduce you to

01:03:58.200 our viewers and listeners. And I'm looking forward to the stories you're bringing in days to come,

01:04:01.740 Matthew. Thanks, Corey. Looking forward to it as well. Great. Thanks.

01:04:07.000 Okay. So yes, that was Matthew Horwood, and he is the latest reporter with the Western Standard

01:04:14.820 parliamentary reporter along with Rachel Emanuel out there in Ottawa. Some people might have seen

01:04:18.720 through the comment scroll and I've seen through some messages and email now. It looks like

01:04:22.580 unfortunately Brian Jean has cancelled on me and won't be coming on to the show today. We'll see

01:04:28.660 if perhaps we can reschedule him down the road. So yeah, because there were a lot of questions I

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01:06:25.840 Gene's whole campaign essentially was going to be, well, his whole campaign was based on

01:06:32.340 getting rid of Kenny. I wanted to ask him about a few more policy things because, you know,

01:06:37.600 there's more to it here in MLA. It goes beyond that. We understand you have a beef with Jason

01:06:42.060 Kenny. Many, many people do. And they want to change that around. And then that's coming with

01:06:46.920 the opportunity probably on April 9th. But what else is going on? And as somebody else brought up,

01:06:53.020 I think that was Cheryl. I didn't, it went through the comments, scroll too fast, but yes, he

01:06:56.580 invited her. He was saying, why didn't Kenny invite Rachel Notley to the cabinet during the

01:07:02.120 crisis with the pandemic. That's been pretty controversial. You know, how much compromise

01:07:10.100 do you want to do? It's an interesting one. And I guess some of the question to ask is,

01:07:13.600 I know you're trying to get at Premier Kenney. You're trying to show that he was not running

01:07:18.580 things well. But were it Premier Jean at that time? Would Premier Jean really have invited

01:07:24.420 Rachel Notley to come in? I mean, to be honest, look at some of the stuff over the course of the

01:07:28.860 pandemic, at some points, Rachel Notley sounded almost unhinged. I'm not sure if she would be a

01:07:33.280 good addition in cabinet. I mean, she still would be there as the leader of the opposition, as she 0.75

01:07:37.700 should, and still would be digging at the government from the outside. She's got the legislature. She's 1.00

01:07:41.280 got a number of things. I think what he's talking about is more, I guess, in the case of a very

01:07:46.200 serious emergency, countries and governments have done wartime cabinets, you know, where you bring

01:07:52.240 in every party. It's that important that you've just got to have everybody together. And often

01:07:55.900 everybody's unified because there's such an emergency going on that they can all work together

01:08:00.240 on a solution and keeping things moving forward. Maybe that's what he's getting at. And I was

01:08:05.240 hoping to ask him to expand a little on that. Again, I'm afraid we won't get that chance today.

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01:08:28.800 to change, in my view. Cheryl's saying nothing good can come when Gene just has revenge on the

01:08:34.180 mind. You know, that's a lot of the question. I've seen a lot of people saying that they really

01:08:39.840 want to remove Jason Kenney as premier. They want him as the ending as the head of the UCP.

01:08:46.020 And they're kind of getting on board with Brian Gene with that push. But they don't particularly

01:08:49.940 let Brian Jean himself that much necessarily. Like, there's a couple of things going on. Even

01:08:54.200 if Brian Jean facilitates a new leadership race and Jason Kinney steps aside, it is very far from

01:08:59.560 assured that Brian Jean would win the leadership, of course, we would see once the race got going.

01:09:06.580 But he certainly made no secret that he would run for it. A good step in running to it, though,

01:09:11.520 would be talking to local independent media outlets so you can expand on what your plans

01:09:15.380 are and campaigns in the future. But if he wants to ignore that, that's fine too.

01:09:19.940 So what else have we got here?

01:09:22.380 Let's get away from that.

01:09:23.620 The owner of an oil field services company,

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01:09:38.660 Everything's gone through the roof.

01:09:39.900 Metals doubled.

01:09:41.040 Our agricultural and oil field producers are in terrible trouble.

01:09:45.040 So this was Grant Addy, owner of Grant's Oil Field Services Incorporated.

01:09:48.700 He told the Western Standard this. You got to remember the high energy prices, they do great

01:09:53.420 for padding the government coffers and getting the budget balanced, but they do put a lot of

01:09:58.820 pressure on consumers and other businesses all over the place. And even though this is a person

01:10:01.940 who is going to be enjoying busier energy sector times, at the same time, their expenses are flying

01:10:07.140 high. And we're going into some tough economic times. I mean, even if the government can lay

01:10:12.260 off a bit and that's fine, they've given us some gasoline tax relief and they're giving some

01:10:16.800 utility bill rebates. But Trudeau, unfortunately, on the other end of things is going to be slamming

01:10:21.700 us with another increase in the carbon tax. And while oil prices are going up and down,

01:10:26.860 they're not going to be getting relatively expensive anytime soon. So yes, even oil and

01:10:33.020 gas service companies are having trouble with what's going on with the energy sector. So

01:10:38.860 we got to watch with that. And I mean, there's some of the discussion that's going on with,

01:10:43.140 we're pretty ticked. We've got a world energy crisis. We've shut in Canadian resources so

01:10:49.100 heavily, shut down the Keystone, shut down the Northern Gateway, shut down Energy East,

01:10:53.300 shut down the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, delayed the CGL pipeline for years, delayed the Trans

01:10:58.900 Mountain expansion pipeline for years. Nobody's going to invest a nickel in this country because

01:11:02.480 they know they can't get a damn thing done. And they're just saying, well, even if those were

01:11:05.980 going, it wouldn't affect world oil price. Actually, it would. If you get more on the market,

01:11:08.940 welcome to supply and demand. To some degree, that would come down. Would it be huge? I don't

01:11:13.000 know, but it would be sizable. And we're bound by world prices. Unless we want another national 1.00

01:11:19.180 energy program, we wouldn't want to say, well, we produce the oil in Alberta, thus we all get to pay

01:11:24.540 cheaper prices. Now, we do get a degree of that, but most of what happens is it would spur the

01:11:29.960 economy so well that the government could reduce personal taxes. It would help the economy so much

01:11:34.780 that people can afford to pay for fuel and things like that. That's how it helps, even if it doesn't

01:11:40.680 save you a lot directly at the pump. But you see, we're getting the worst of both right now

01:11:44.400 because we've choked off our ability to ramp up our production and get our stuff out to market,

01:11:49.340 even though we're sitting on some of the hugest deposits on earth, yet we're still paying all the

01:11:53.480 high fuel prices at home at the same time. You know, the revenue and the royalties from oil and

01:11:58.780 gas right now are good for the government, but they're also maxed out. We've filled every pipe

01:12:04.160 we can. We're running the trains as hard as we can, but we're not hearing any language from the

01:12:09.620 government whatsoever. Nothing from that moron Trudeau or Joe Biden south of the border saying, 1.00

01:12:14.960 let's get Keystone going. Let's speed up that Trans Mountain pipeline. And I know people, 1.00

01:12:20.280 some people online get upset every time I say, I'm at the point and I was off to believing it

01:12:24.540 was going to be done earlier. I know a lot of people are working on it and they're trying,

01:12:28.260 but that thing's nowhere close to done. And they're running out of money because nobody

01:12:32.060 can run anything more inefficiently than government. So that thing's been dragged out

01:12:36.700 and stalled and held up and the costs are going up and people are saying, don't worry, it's going

01:12:41.220 to get done. I don't believe you. I don't believe you. I am not going to believe a damn thing on

01:12:45.500 that pipe until I see oil go in one end and come out the other. Until then, it's another fairy tale 0.91

01:12:50.880 just costing us a whole whack of tax dollars. And I know people are working on it. It doesn't mean

01:12:55.300 it's going to get done. We should be doubling the labor on that thing. We should be screaming at

01:13:00.900 Biden. Hey, you geriatric weirdo. Approve the bloody Keystone XL. You're out there begging and 1.00

01:13:07.960 groveling to Venezuela and Saudi Arabia for oil. We're right here, man. We can help you out.

01:13:14.420 But we aren't doing it. And it's not happening. No, you know, gorgeous George there saying it's

01:13:19.400 not happening under the libs. No, and I don't know if it'll happen under the conservatives.

01:13:22.800 Because we keep bending over to these environmental lobbyists, to these lunatics,

01:13:26.340 to these extremists. I mean, Prime Minister Harper, he got a number of pipelines approved

01:13:33.340 while he was in, but he didn't change the system altogether that much. He didn't want to get into

01:13:37.600 that battle. It's too hard a battle in this country. Canada is broken in a lot of ways.

01:13:42.860 The problem is with the conservative governments, they tend to be less bad for the West than liberal

01:13:47.640 governments, but they aren't often good. That's part of the problem. They aren't necessarily

01:13:52.520 beneficial to us. And yeah, we're in a lot of trouble across this country and across the world

01:13:59.560 with energy. What a ridiculous situation to be in when we're sitting on top of resources like this

01:14:05.700 and we don't have the means to get it market. So, okay, we got to remind everybody again to

01:14:13.200 subscribe to the Western Standard Online. It helps keep us going, helps keep these shows going. And

01:14:18.020 Usually, our guests show up, and we can cover a lot of issues with things

01:14:21.840 and get some good, unique information and content out to you out there.

01:14:27.500 Tomorrow, I'm going to be doing a live hit from Franco Terrazzano, actually,

01:14:32.320 with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

01:14:33.520 I get him on quite often.

01:14:34.480 He's touring across the country with a new debt clock.

01:14:38.180 They literally ran out of zeros on their last one.

01:14:40.620 That's how far in debt we are.

01:14:42.040 That's how far in the hole we're going.

01:14:43.520 Oh, yeah, and just getting back to the membership there.

01:14:45.240 Use that triggered coupon code when you sign up, and you will save another $10.

01:14:50.980 $10 a month, well worth it.

01:14:53.220 I interrupt myself even.

01:14:54.960 I'm bad that way.

01:14:56.240 So, yes, Franco Teresano is going to come in.

01:14:57.960 That's going to be live from out in the field.

01:14:59.160 It'll be kind of interesting, not just him sitting at a counter or a desk as he usually is.

01:15:03.560 And Calgary City Councillor Dan McLean.

01:15:06.080 Dan McLean is one of the few who was, I guess, an unapologetic conservative who did manage to get elected into Calgary City Council.

01:15:11.660 I mean, there's really only a handful of councillors who've got some common sense in there.

01:15:15.940 And there are a few of them, and Dan's one of them.

01:15:17.980 And we'll talk about a number of things in City Council, not the least of which is what's going to happen this weekend.

01:15:23.940 Again, we've got some real conflict building up.

01:15:29.620 The Calgary police chief, you know, put out a thing recently, basically begging and pleading with people not to come out this weekend,

01:15:37.000 not to go downtown, not to go to the Beltline where these protests are going on. 0.99

01:15:40.140 And the counter protesters have said, you know, blow it out your butt. 0.99

01:15:44.940 We're showing up there, whatever you tell us. 0.99

01:15:46.380 And, of course, the regular weekly protesters say we're going as well.

01:15:50.140 So they're going no matter what you say.

01:15:51.480 And, you know, when you push back like this, if anything, you're just inflaming it further.

01:15:55.400 And there's a lot of pressure on from the mainstream media who call it so-called freedom protests, 0.99

01:16:01.720 from City Hall where they listen to idiot councillors like the Courtney's 0.99

01:16:05.220 who claim that it's about racism when it has nothing to do with it. 0.99

01:16:10.140 and there is some pressure from residents who are getting tired of the demonstrations

01:16:13.800 and I got a feeling the police are going to start acting they're going to start moving in and I don't

01:16:17.540 know how well it's going to go I hope it's going to go fairly well I mean Ottawa all things

01:16:20.860 considered and it was infuriating the way it was done and pushed back but we're moving that large

01:16:25.880 an amount of very dedicated protesters out of an area the police at least with the you know we saw

01:16:34.360 the horse stomping that woman down it was terrible a lot of people got pepper sprayed that will

01:16:38.320 happen when you got these all together. It was still relatively mild. It wasn't, you know,

01:16:42.020 compared to BLM protests where there was buildings burning and things like that and people getting

01:16:45.600 shot. That went, I guess, as smoothly as you can hope when you get a lot of people getting moved

01:16:50.600 out of an area. Hopefully this weekend in Calgary, it remains calm. And so I'll talk to

01:16:56.280 Councillor McLean, though. We'll see what we're hearing at a city council if they're managing

01:17:00.240 to get anything done. He's also, I think he's on the event center committee. I'm not 100% sure

01:17:06.760 with that. And that's another item, you know, that when Gondek got in, she blew it out of the

01:17:11.560 water shortly after getting in there. Probably had something to do with her weasel in chief, 1.00

01:17:14.860 Carter, who didn't last long with her. But maybe Mr. McLean can shed some more light on where

01:17:20.660 things are going there and just city hall in general and municipal politics in general. I

01:17:24.680 know we got listeners from across the country, but these councillors all kind of push on the

01:17:28.120 same things all over the place. And we could share a lot of the same issues as we cry on

01:17:36.680 each other's shoulders. So thank you all for tuning in today. I am sorry you didn't quite

01:17:40.240 get that chance to talk to Brian Jean. Hopefully we'll get you the opportunity to do that sometime

01:17:44.000 again down the road. We've got a good show lined up tomorrow and there's always more news breaking

01:17:48.820 and coming out. So y'all have a good night. And as I said, it's St. Patrick's Day. Get out there,

01:17:53.820 enjoy it, have a good time, blow off some steam, but just don't puke in the damn sink or the urinal, 0.99

01:17:57.840 will you? Talk to you later. 0.99

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