Western Standard - LIVE - Triggered： World economic forum & the great reset

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00:00:30.000 good morning it's february 28th 2022 welcome to triggered i'm cory morgan this is the western

00:00:40.140 standards live daily news and commentary show it comes every day monday to friday from 11 30 a.m

00:00:47.440 mountain standard time till about one o'clock p.m depends on how the show's going and how the

00:00:53.320 guests are going i got a couple of good guests coming up today comments are welcome good to see

00:00:57.760 Steve and Jamie and you know that's the great thing about being live I mean we get live hiccups

00:01:02.380 and technical difficulties that happen but I think it's worth you know dealing with a little bit of

00:01:07.060 that so we can get that direct interaction between the viewers and such and you got you know questions

00:01:11.680 for the guests statements by all means throw them in try to keep things civil you know discuss back

00:01:15.680 and forth with each other as well and and same sort of thing you don't always have to agree with

00:01:19.280 me and hope plenty of people don't but we just want to keep it polite and keep the interaction

00:01:24.300 good i do have dave makichuk coming on in a little bit and he's going to talk about the

00:01:28.220 russia ukraine conflict again which is is still going and going and going uh i kind of thought

00:01:33.560 it would have been over by the weekend obviously this is going to be a lot more protracted than

00:01:36.860 that uh then i'm going to talk you know something a little different we got jake foster he's been a

00:01:40.900 sports writer with us and he specializes in lacrosse actually he's been exclusively reporting

00:01:46.340 on the lacrosse league and calgary's uh roughnecks and things like that and we can learn a bit about

00:01:51.240 that. You know, it doesn't always have to be all politics and war and dry stuff. We

00:01:55.760 can talk some sports now and then too and lighten things up. We've got to get a little

00:01:59.020 bit of a life. So yes, good to see you all there. Danny, all the way from PEI and Laurie

00:02:04.680 and Gary, all sorts of folks coming in to comment. So I'm going to kick off the show

00:02:09.640 in talking though about, yeah, I've got it in the title, the World Economic Forum and

00:02:15.080 the Great Reset. You know, you keep hearing about these things. A lot of our viewers and

00:02:18.080 listeners are already well familiar with it. And pretty much everybody's heard of it, but

00:02:21.940 it gets dismissed. I mean, it sounds bad almost. This is just a crazy conspiracy theory. It's not

00:02:27.140 going anywhere. This is different, guys. This isn't the aliens coming. This isn't the lizard

00:02:33.000 men. This isn't the Loch Ness Monster. This is real. And we're hearing more and more about it

00:02:38.740 more often. I'm talking about Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum, and the Great Reset.

00:02:43.540 And it sounds like a classic conspiracy theory. I mean, a nebulous organization founded in the

00:02:47.680 1970s with headquarters deep in the mountains of Switzerland. It holds annual meetings in Davos

00:02:52.440 where some of the most powerful people on earth attend on an invitation-only basis. This organization

00:02:58.280 was founded by and still run by a professor named Klaus Schwab. Schwab makes no bones about wanting

00:03:03.340 to change the entire world and he's called his plan the Great Reset. The whole premise of the

00:03:07.820 reset is to take advantage of a large world crisis and use it in order to radically change the

00:03:13.480 economic and governance systems around the planet with an emphasis on moving away from capitalism.

00:03:18.800 I mean, really, it all sounds almost like a buildup for some kind of super villain in a

00:03:22.120 James Bond movie or something, or as Blair says there, yeah, Dr. Evil, you know, in some of the

00:03:27.260 parodies, but it's real. And because of that, many people roll their eyes and dismiss it. I mean,

00:03:32.300 it's almost so cliche that people just can't believe it. And when somebody starts talking

00:03:35.920 about Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, they don't believe it. But the intentions of this

00:03:42.060 organization are spelled out totally clearly on their website and stated in their speeches like

00:03:46.900 it's not hidden. We have to be concerned with the motivations of this organization as the people

00:03:51.720 leading our country are taking part in it. Justin Trudeau has been a speaker at World Economic Forum

00:03:56.760 Functions and he's directly stated while speaking to the UN that he views the pandemic as an

00:04:01.100 opportunity for an economic reset. It was direct parroting of the World Economic Statements, World

00:04:06.780 economic forum statements and goals. We need to be concerned with global leaders who could be

00:04:12.080 motivated to exacerbate challenges and crises in order to pursue change that can't be achieved

00:04:17.540 democratically. Look what we saw recently. The Great Reset calls for a world or a more

00:04:23.500 centralized authoritarian form of governance and much less emphasis on individual freedoms.

00:04:29.140 Many of these world leaders have a condescending world outlook. They're people born to privilege

00:04:33.560 who feel it's their right and duty to take control of the unwashed masses for their own good.

00:04:37.980 We saw that attitude in spades as Justin Trudeau obsessively pursued the implementation of the

00:04:42.580 Emergencies Act. As evidence mounted that such an extraordinary means of control wasn't necessary,

00:04:47.880 Trudeau responded by upping the ante, increasing his inflammatory rhetoric. He even implied a

00:04:52.700 Jewish MP who was questioning his motives must be in league with neo-Nazis. Sort of sounds like

00:04:57.540 Putin making his excuses for going into Ukraine. He just fires outward, fires outward, doesn't

00:05:02.980 apologize, and he clearly was obsessed and desperate. He wants power. Trudeau may very

00:05:09.360 well have known at the time he was going to have to drop his push to suspend the civil rights of

00:05:12.600 Canadians even before he forced it through Parliament, but he would not back down just

00:05:15.900 on the basis of personal pride. He's proven himself to be a petty, vindictive man who wants

00:05:20.900 to increase his personal power at all costs. He's not a deep thinker, more a strategic planner.

00:05:26.000 That's why he parrots talking points of organizations rather than coming up with his own.

00:05:30.760 The world economic systems may indeed be due for a reform.

00:05:33.600 They certainly aren't perfect. None of them are.

00:05:35.780 But to use a crisis in order to concentrate power into a small cabal of leaders

00:05:39.080 and reset the system into what they envision as being a new, fair, and equitable world,

00:05:44.180 that's not where we need to be going here.

00:05:46.700 These people feel they're on the side of right, and they feel the ends justify the means.

00:05:50.820 The developed world, for the most part, is dominated by democracies.

00:05:53.580 It's imperfect, and it's messy, but it's by far the best system we've evolved into to date.

00:05:58.380 freedoms and democracy are always going to be under threat from the authoritarians.

00:06:02.800 The Great Reset and its adherence are only the latest threat. They're also, though,

00:06:06.600 the most pressing and dangerous one we have right now. In this world of craziness and things that

00:06:11.300 are going on, we can't let the Great Reset slide under the radar. It's real, and it's right in

00:06:15.920 front of us. Check it out. Google it. I mean, again, it's not strange little obscure websites.

00:06:20.900 It's right there. Don't let people roll their eyes and forget about it when it comes up.

00:06:24.600 The world's in a period of crisis like we haven't seen in generations. We can't let these

00:06:27.980 aspiring despots use this as the means to take our freedoms. Check these guys out. It's time

00:06:33.700 to speak openly about it. As some people have been saying, some of those conspiracies of last

00:06:38.340 year have turned into the facts of today and the World Economic Forum is one of them. The lizard

00:06:42.160 people, not so much. Okay, that's out of my system for the moment. Let's check in with the news with 1.00

00:06:47.760 Dave Naylor, our news editor. How's it going, Dave? Good, Corey. How was your weekend? I was pretty

00:06:53.300 good. Kicked back a bit, went to the home show, saw some things that we can't afford to buy,

00:06:56.960 that sort of thing that sort of thing so yeah so let's talk about the news then uh uh busy morning

00:07:03.100 as always at the western standard newsroom our main story right now comes from political columnist

00:07:09.080 linda slobodian she's taking a close look at the ucp nomination battle coming up in the writing of

00:07:17.100 rimby rocky mountain house sundry the current mla there is jason nixon he's a ucp environment

00:07:25.320 minister, UCP government house leader, and a very, very close member of Jason Kenney's

00:07:31.240 inner circle. He's under a great fight for the nomination by a local rancher from Eckville called

00:07:38.520 Tim Hoven. Now, there's been all sorts of allegations over the weekend of dirty tricks,

00:07:43.960 and emails have been flying, and take a look at that, Corey. It's a very interesting behind

00:07:51.320 the scenes look at what's going on in UCP land out there. We've got another story on electric

00:07:57.880 vehicles and this will come as a shock to you Corey but most Canadians are very worried about

00:08:03.400 the government's mandate that all vehicles be electric by I think it's 2035. The nutshell is

00:08:10.600 shocking to me. Canada's medical officer of health Dr Theresa Tam says wearing masks will become

00:08:18.680 normal for months to come she obviously hasn't heard that albertans will be holding a big mask

00:08:25.320 burning party tonight at 11 59 one minute before our mask mandates are dropped but

00:08:33.960 tam says we're gonna have to watch weather forecasts like we would watch putting on our masks

00:08:38.840 and carry them around when necessary some more interesting follow from the truckers freedom

00:08:45.160 convoy our public safety minister Marco Mendocino says truckers were a threat of rapists were among

00:08:54.300 the truckers and he says one of the reasons they brought in the emergency act was to protect Ottawa

00:08:59.860 women from these trucker rapists of course no truckers were charged with any sort of violent

00:09:05.560 crime whatsoever as you know Corey the same minister also admitted that he phoned reporters

00:09:11.960 personally and urged them to be very careful when they were dealing with the trucker freedom

00:09:17.920 convoy. So seems like a bit of a bit of a conflict there. You've got a column up there

00:09:23.740 from one of your guys, McCall, talking about the military needs of the Ukraine and what

00:09:30.000 exactly Canada is sending them. And for something completely different, I'd urge viewers to

00:09:37.580 go on our site and look at Mike Thomas' piece.

00:09:41.640 It's the most expensive house ever to go on sale

00:09:44.440 in the Tony, San Francisco suburb near Silicon Valley.

00:09:50.040 And it's all yours, Corey, for $141 million.

00:09:53.900 So imagine the kind of chicken coop

00:09:56.280 you could have with a place like that.

00:09:58.520 Oh yeah, we could have quite a flock on the go there.

00:10:02.480 You could have your own wing night every Wednesday.

00:10:05.580 True, true.

00:10:06.180 If I could ever actually get up the courage,

00:10:07.460 like i said you know i i manage these chickens but i'm too gutless to actually euthanize them so we

00:10:12.260 we're just gonna harvest eggs until they die of old age you're not you're not saying you're a big

00:10:17.300 softy are you cory i'm with animals not so big on people though uh agreed all right well thanks for

00:10:25.140 all that dave yeah that is quite a house uh i'm gonna really have to up my my columns and readership

00:10:29.940 before i can start getting ready for down payment on that one but one can always dream i'm gonna

00:10:34.340 going to have to ask Derek for a reason. Well, I wish you all the best with that.

00:10:38.720 Yeah, thanks. All right. Thanks, Dave. I'll see you in a little while. But yeah, lots of stuff

00:10:43.800 coming up in all sorts of directions. I guess, you know, the news scroll is still busy. A lot

00:10:47.720 of it's still, unfortunately, pretty negative, but a lot of stuff is happening. I mean, the convoy

00:10:52.560 protests were dominating everything for a long time. They're winding down. Now we're into the

00:10:56.280 fallout and follow-up to see what has happened with those and how it's going to be studied and

00:11:02.920 what impact it had. I'm watching people who opposed it saying it achieved nothing. I don't

00:11:07.400 think that's the case whatsoever, actually. We're seeing restrictions dropping. Government will never

00:11:11.900 admit it, but they were motivated by a lot of the pressure put on by citizens standing up and

00:11:16.660 demonstrating and protesting. So I'm going to stop for a quick ad break before I talk a little more

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00:11:25.480 we are an independent media outlet. And I'm going to be talking a little later about the Calgary

00:11:29.980 Herald and a column they posted. I'll do that after my next guest because holy cow. At Heather

00:11:35.120 Campbell, if you guys haven't seen it, it is just something else. It's a stinker on a whole new

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00:12:50.000 you know, one of the other things, speaking of politics, getting back into that, then I want to

00:12:53.840 hit on that quickly, talk about Linda Subodian, put that article up on Jason Nixon's nomination.

00:12:59.840 It just, you know, and I'm a political weenie. I mean, there's no secret about that. I've always

00:13:04.500 been immersed in it, you know, all the way from the 90s when I was in my 20s and later on with

00:13:09.380 the Wild Rose Party and things. But you just eventually get exhausted with the inside play,

00:13:15.140 with the tricks, with the trying to rig things. You know, you set up what you call democratic

00:13:21.120 processes, and then you try to overrule those processes when they don't go your way. And

00:13:25.700 if there's anything, I think, that has really soured a lot of supporters for the Kenney

00:13:32.100 government, it's been actually the political play. I mean, Kenney's been known as one of the more

00:13:36.180 skilled political players, you know, ever around. I mean, he's been in politics, of course, for

00:13:40.880 decades, and he knows the game inside out. But I think it's backfiring. I think people are sick

00:13:45.100 and tired of it. And Jason Nixon has, of course, been very closely connected to Premier Kenney for

00:13:50.960 quite some time he's the house leader as we can see in the picture that nico's got up you know

00:13:54.400 they sit together in there and uh it it's caught up with them i mean uh you know i don't know how

00:14:00.800 he's been as a constituency representative but it's not a good sign when you have an up-and-comer

00:14:06.000 uh on an incumbent mla that may unseat them that may take that seat and take away that ability for

00:14:12.720 nixon to run and now there's talk that uh they might find as lindis voting was talking about

00:14:18.560 a way to disqualify this up-and-comer, this fellow who's running against them and that

00:14:23.540 challenger, but that's just going to infuriate people all the more. And Linda wrote about that

00:14:27.800 in her article. I mean, this guy running against Nixon has sold, it sounds like, well over one or

00:14:33.800 two thousand memberships, you know, to vote against Nixon. Well, those people are going to

00:14:38.460 be furious. And that's just a short drive from Red Deer. And in Red Deer on April 9th, there's

00:14:44.540 going to be a vote on whether or not Jason Kenney stays as the leader of the party.

00:14:48.680 Kenney just keeps getting backed into these no-win situations. So if they shut down this

00:14:54.080 guy's nomination, you will have thousands of enraged constituents converging on Red Deer

00:15:00.480 and voting to kick Jason Kenney out of the leadership of the party. If this guy is allowed

00:15:05.360 to win, though, and manages to knock off a senior cabinet minister from the Kenney government,

00:15:10.520 turn him into a lame duck in this final year of governance in a nomination. Kenny is going to

00:15:17.620 be in another bad situation. He's just looking weaker and weaker. There's just no winning.

00:15:23.760 I just want to say to comment or Tisha Snave, please don't spam the comments section. I understand

00:15:29.700 you mean well, but with a bunch of email addresses and links and everything else, it is distracting

00:15:33.780 and it pulls things away. We're trying to keep the comments to be good and concise and productive.

00:15:39.320 and I welcome them and I appreciate them, but those long ones are not conducive to the good

00:15:44.560 discussion. So please just lay off on those. We've got lots to talk about on these things.

00:15:51.780 Thanks. No problem, Tisha. I know, like I said, you mean well. I really want to develop that.

00:15:56.500 The show's been around for a couple of months now so far, and we've got some really good viewers

00:16:01.280 and watchers. We've got some really good discourse in there, but it can get a little full. One link

00:16:05.920 to send somebody back to look at areas to talk about after the show and that and so on. And we

00:16:10.480 got some really heated times going on. It's been very divisive. I'm going to have Dave Makachuk

00:16:15.540 come on. I know some commenters got upset with him last time. They didn't agree with his views

00:16:19.800 on Russia and Ukraine, but some did. And it's a very complicated, convoluted mess over there.

00:16:26.280 You have Eastern Ukraine that does associate very closely with Russia. You've got the Western

00:16:33.560 aspects that are, want to be independent. And I don't know, I mean, just in looking at my point

00:16:40.300 of view, you know, people are trying to make excuses for Russia's incursion. Oh, it was tied

00:16:45.100 in with Soros, it was tied in with Obama's actions, or there's corruption within the Ukraine, or

00:16:50.600 there's Nazis growing out there. I mean, the Nazi thing gets old, guys. Probably, you know, you got

00:16:57.080 what, 40 million Ukrainians? Yeah, I bet among them, there's probably a couple hundred idiot 1.00

00:17:01.380 neo-Nazis, you know, we've got those kind of morons around here too. It doesn't mean they're 1.00

00:17:04.760 taking over the country. Remember, that sort of justification is just the sort of garbage that 1.00

00:17:08.420 Trudeau used to impose the Emergencies Act upon us. And if there's a concern like that, and if

00:17:12.900 Putin was really that concerned about it, then you bring it up in the world stage, you pressure,

00:17:18.620 you do sanctions, you talk from outside, you don't invade and take over a whole country.

00:17:22.860 That's not how we do it or how we should do it in the modern civilized world, and that is what's

00:17:28.940 happening right now. You know what? Initially people had been saying that it was just going to

00:17:32.760 be, well, he's just going to go into those areas where the secession is swan out to the Eastern

00:17:37.260 Ukraine. No, they're closing in on Kev now. And this is clearly, it looks like he's heading for

00:17:43.260 the whole enchilada there. He wants to take the works. So what do we do as a world? I don't know.

00:17:48.900 I mean, it's just awful to watch it over there. We just don't want to see more war and death.

00:17:55.360 and it looks like we're in for more of it. 1.00

00:17:57.320 The Ukrainians aren't folding.

00:17:59.400 You know, I saw a commenter on Twitter saying the leader of Ukraine

00:18:03.700 is being irresponsible by pushing back and fighting back.

00:18:05.880 I guess he's saying they should just roll over and quit, just let them in.

00:18:09.840 You know, that's the way to avoid bloodshed.

00:18:12.520 I mean, there's a little bit to be said for that, I guess.

00:18:16.320 But, I mean, that's easy to say when you're not the one

00:18:18.060 who's going to have to live under Putin's rule.

00:18:21.340 At the same time, though, maybe it's not terribly responsible to counsel people to fight. I don't

00:18:28.160 know. But that's where we need to ration and talk and follow and watch this thing closely.

00:18:33.560 We're lucky we're not in any of their shoes to have to make those difficult decisions in a country

00:18:38.280 that's in the middle of a war like that. But there's a lot of short-sighted commentary going

00:18:44.520 on out there and a lot tied into it. The bottom line is Ukraine was an independent country. They

00:18:51.900 were not threatening Russia whatsoever. Let's not pretend they were. And they got invaded,

00:18:59.260 hostilely invaded by Russia. There's no justifying it, guys. There isn't. I don't care what actions 0.91

00:19:05.520 that Obama might have done in the past or any of that stuff. This is a big turning point. This is

00:19:12.980 something that we can't accept as a civilized world population. Because if you think he's going

00:19:18.260 to stop there, I think you're sadly mistaken. There are a number of other non-NATO states that

00:19:24.100 he would be happy to take hold of. So, I mean, let's learn more about this. You know, this is

00:19:29.760 one of the areas it's going to be, I know even less about lacrosse, so I'm looking forward to

00:19:34.440 learning that from my guest after Dave, but I know limited amounts about, you know, what's going on

00:19:41.000 in Eastern Europe. I'm learning more all the time, but let's, we got a lot of people jumping

00:19:44.160 to a lot of conclusions in, in what's a volatile situation. So the more we can discuss it,

00:19:48.380 hopefully the more we can come to a better conclusions on what the hell's going on over

00:19:52.600 there. So with all that babbling out of me, I'm going to bring Dave into babble for a little

00:19:56.800 while. Mackachuck, he's been on a number of times before, and he watches the international scene a

00:20:01.220 lot more closely than I do. So Dave, how are you doing there? Oh, good, good. Thank you. Boy,

00:20:08.260 Oh boy, it's just been a crazy week. Just, wow, it's unprecedented. I mean, I don't know about

00:20:16.560 you, but the last time I experienced something like this, well, the Arab-Israeli war maybe in

00:20:23.380 73, but before that, the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yeah, and actually with the Syria and the Arab-Israeli

00:20:33.080 war and things like that, in your most recent column, I should point out, you wrote on that

00:20:36.240 and the unpredictability of a conflict.

00:20:38.860 You know, we can always talk and strategize and say what should happen or would happen,

00:20:43.260 but when reality comes in on the ground, often history just doesn't match

00:20:47.860 what all the strategists and experts figure might come about.

00:20:51.680 No, that's correct.

00:20:52.780 And I quote Gwen Dyer, who is a terrific military historian and analyst,

00:21:01.880 a Canadian fellow, I should add.

00:21:04.060 If you get a chance to watch his war series on YouTube, it is on there.

00:21:10.280 Basically, what he said was the main thing about military strategy is that there is no military strategy.

00:21:18.300 You can learn the rules, and you can do everything right, and you can still lose.

00:21:23.860 And that appears to be happening to the Russians.

00:21:26.240 And again, the Russian soldiers are probably perhaps not as well-trained, not as well-motivated, and they are in a foreign country. No one's helping them. They have no place to sleep. 0.78

00:21:45.100 Their logistic lines have been overextended. 0.97

00:21:51.240 They're in dire straits right now because the Ukrainians are resisting way more than everybody expected. 1.00

00:21:58.100 Even I didn't. I thought they would have been in Kiev in two, three days.

00:22:01.520 Well, that's not going to happen. That is not going to happen.

00:22:04.460 And they've slowed them up. They've slowed them up.

00:22:08.360 And that is absolutely amazing that the Ukrainians apparently have a much better military with better leaders and so forth.

00:22:19.380 And the other thing that's coming out that I've heard is that a lot of Russian troops didn't really know why they were being sent in. 0.96

00:22:28.820 They only found out that, you know, hey, we're supposed to kill Ukrainians.

00:22:33.080 I mean, a lot of them are saying we thought it was a drill. 0.99

00:22:36.800 We thought it was an exercise.

00:22:38.360 So they were lied to, they were not told the truth. And also, as far as strategy goes, and planning goes, I don't think this was very well planned. I think this is all Putin. I think this is all Putin. And with, he currently relieved his top general, he relieved the top general, Gerasimov, I think was his name.

00:23:00.920 And I think this suggests that all those generals under him are afraid to make a decision.

00:23:08.220 They're all afraid.

00:23:09.060 And that this was just a Putin adventure gone wrong.

00:23:13.580 Yeah, well, I've seen some interesting speculation, too, though.

00:23:16.720 I mean, perhaps it reflects a bit of the motivation, too. 0.52

00:23:19.440 Like, we do know that the Russian military has the ability to just completely, you know, shell the crap out of and obliterate Ukraine from a distance if they wanted to. 0.77

00:23:28.340 But they want to occupy, they want to take Ukraine. 0.86

00:23:31.980 They want it to be a side state. 0.92

00:23:32.960 They don't want to obliterate it and then have to rebuild it.

00:23:35.600 So, I mean, if you blow out all the infrastructure, if you slaughter too many people, it's not a matter of them being nice.

00:23:41.060 But strategically, it might be wiser to come in more slowly, even if it's making it more difficult for them right now.

00:23:47.360 Well, I agree with that. 0.75

00:23:48.700 But I think what the idea was, or Putin's idea, was to come in, make the Ukrainian surrender,

00:23:58.300 and establish a satellite government, a puppet government, and then leave.

00:24:04.260 And then have Ukraine take over and be a satellite nation and part of Russia or whatever.

00:24:09.820 And I think that was the idea.

00:24:11.940 But the fear, and this goes into Putin's mental health.

00:24:18.980 We're now going into that area.

00:24:21.720 And there's been a lot of comment on that.

00:24:24.920 And the fear is that if it's because he's spending between 12 and 15 billion pounds a day.

00:24:33.600 That was a report out of the United Kingdom.

00:24:36.440 Because he's spending that much.

00:24:38.460 if if it keeps going this is going to be an issue and the fear is he will go from the blitzkrieg

00:24:45.720 which he planned or this is what they meant to happen to a blitz and today we may have seen

00:24:54.900 a bit of that um the russians used cluster bombs on kharkiv which is the second uh biggest city

00:25:03.760 in the ukraine they use cluster bombs and those are terrible they they send out a weapon and they

00:25:10.640 send out all these little cluster bombs and many many civilians were hurt this was i mean i don't

00:25:17.360 know what the target was but but i saw the video on twitter and it seemed to me that it was a

00:25:24.400 civilian target so and i'm hearing you know we're hearing all kinds of things that they're targeting

00:25:31.040 hospitals they're doing is the bad you know bad stuff bad stuff we don't really know what the hell

00:25:36.640 they're targeting until it's all over and done with we'll find out later but essentially i mean

00:25:43.920 i think that's a war crime to use cluster bombs on a city but i hope it doesn't come to that and

00:25:49.920 like you said what will they have left if they bomb the hill and and we have a dresden or a

00:25:55.760 berlin i mean you probably in your schooling and and and and the people who are watching

00:26:03.200 saw pictures of dresden and berlin and and and and the devastation that bombing can do and

00:26:09.280 especially today with today's weapons and russians got the weapons they've got the weapons

00:26:16.000 they can do this and i pray to god it doesn't happen and like you were talking about earlier

00:26:21.600 the the uh possibility of maybe just okay okay we acquiesce please don't destroy everything well

00:26:30.880 yes there's something to be said about that but again i don't know about you but i would not be

00:26:35.840 wanting to live under their iron thumb no way no way no and a lot of older ukrainians i mean i'm

00:26:42.800 certain they're counseling their kids and their grandkids to remind them of what life was like

00:26:47.280 under soviet rule and i mean i i know that putin isn't uh it's not the soviet union exactly but

00:26:52.000 it's still they do not have any interest in being under russian control again millions of ukrainians

00:26:57.040 were starved i i don't think that's putin's interest but you've got some very entrenched

00:27:01.680 people who they again they might be happy enough or were happy enough with russia but they have

00:27:06.000 no interest whatsoever again on having their children come under that kind of rule no no

00:27:10.640 and you look at what the klitschko brothers are saying one is the mayor of of kiev both of them

00:27:16.480 them were heavyweight boxers. I'm a big fan of the Klitschko's, by the way. But like they said,

00:27:22.580 look, we're not leaving. Neither did Zelensky. He says, I don't want to ride. I want ammo.

00:27:29.700 And so the EU is providing $500 million in aid. $500 million. The Germans are spending $113 billion

00:27:38.980 on a total 180 degree turn he has united nato he's done the exact opposite of what he wanted

00:27:47.360 to do it's it's just a disaster sweden and finland are now thinking of joining nato

00:27:53.380 switzerland the peace-loving neutral country of switzerland said hey count us in count us in

00:28:00.720 we're gonna help the world is changing as we sit here right now the world is changing

00:28:07.460 And I just hope to God that we get through this okay.

00:28:10.280 We don't have John Kennedy.

00:28:12.080 We don't have Bobby Kennedy to help us through a missile crisis or a war crisis.

00:28:17.840 Those guys saved us.

00:28:19.540 They saved us.

00:28:20.960 And don't kid yourself.

00:28:22.180 They did.

00:28:22.760 Without them, I don't know.

00:28:24.380 Today, we got Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken.

00:28:29.920 And I don't have as much confidence in them.

00:28:32.980 But, and another thing I wanted to say, I'm proud that Canada, okay, I've been bashing Trudeau for a long time.

00:28:40.080 But I am really happy to hear what he and the Canadian government are doing to help Ukraine.

00:28:47.880 I think that's great.

00:28:49.000 I thought it should have happened sooner, but I have to commend him on that.

00:28:53.080 I have to.

00:28:54.620 Yeah, well, and morale says a lot.

00:28:56.640 You know, I mean, again, I've had the good fortune of never having been in a war.

00:29:00.800 You know, I've been to some war zones, actually, in my younger years of traveling that, but I wasn't a participant.

00:29:05.200 I can't imagine how terrifying that is and the difference between whether you retreat or fight.

00:29:10.680 But, you know, a friend of mine who was he came from Slovakia when it was under communist rule and what they would do with the mandatory services, they would transfer you to an area.

00:29:19.620 So, of course, you're never putting a gun against Slovakians. 0.90

00:29:21.800 You're somewhere else.

00:29:22.300 So he was stationed in East Germany.

00:29:23.940 But he also said, you know, when people would try to get over that wall, they would shoot to miss.

00:29:28.420 I mean, they didn't want to shoot other people escaping.

00:29:31.760 You know, there was not strong morale on the part of the soldiers on the ground.

00:29:36.420 They sympathized with those. 0.52

00:29:38.420 And right now, as you were kind of alluding to, a lot of those Russian soldiers, they didn't come out.

00:29:42.540 They didn't sign up for this.

00:29:43.640 They didn't want to go into Ukraine.

00:29:45.540 No.

00:29:46.160 So they probably aren't trying their hardest, a lot of them anyways. 1.00

00:29:50.160 And when you've got that sort of morale versus Ukrainians who are entrenching and digging in, 1.00

00:29:55.720 that that makes a big difference in in how a war can come out absolutely and as that as i said in 0.98

00:30:01.940 the piece or i wrote in the piece uh you just never things never go as planned they never do

00:30:07.680 and it doesn't matter if you know the rules there are factors so many factors involved in war and

00:30:13.720 if you don't supply your troops i mean today i saw videos of destroyed russian weapons and

00:30:20.340 soldiers dead on the ground well that would you know america one thing you got to say about the

00:30:26.140 united states no man left behind no man left behind they are doing they will go to the ends

00:30:32.340 of the earth to find an american soldier who has died and they will make sure he has a a a proper

00:30:39.080 burial and a proper remembrance and if he did anything heroic he will be he or she okay will

00:30:45.780 be noted for that and i i think that's just awesome but in russia they don't seem to care

00:30:51.500 and again i think this is all putin i i i i think this is all him i think this is this was and it's

00:30:59.640 gotta it's gotta land on him and and and uh hopefully i mean there's a lot of speculation

00:31:05.240 about his mental health that he's uh maybe uh uh as one of my friends said one cookie short of a

00:31:13.080 Happy Meal. He ain't quite there. You know, head of the CIA, former head of the CIA and Clapper

00:31:22.000 all said the same thing. The guy may be unhinged and he's got his finger on the nuclear weapons.

00:31:29.020 And dear God, you know, I mean, mutual assured destruction, right? But that's the scary thing

00:31:36.440 where we're headed but you know what i let me say this um ukraine everybody's saying why is he doing

00:31:43.560 this why is he doing this what's behind it what does he want what does he want and the best

00:31:50.800 analysis i saw uh was by a an expert who said ukraine is the fulcrum ukraine is the fulcrum

00:32:00.480 to his plans. And we have to meet hard power with hard power. We have to. We can't let him get away

00:32:11.140 with this. And I know that's terrible to say because it's going to frighten a lot of young

00:32:15.300 people who are worried about their future and about the future of the world and our safety.

00:32:21.740 but we must meet hard power with hard power there's no other way otherwise if this will

00:32:30.580 just keep going on he'll just keep going yeah well i mean i wonder if you know russian resistance

00:32:36.180 from within might be what takes him down like that's an interesting factor in this right now

00:32:39.800 and i got to travel the soviet union i can't claim to be an expert in russians one thing i did find

00:32:44.300 when i was over there they are different they're unique tough uh stoic people but they're also

00:32:49.680 they're human and they love their kids as much as anybody else. And again, they remember those

00:32:54.080 conflicts. As you said, they're seeing their soldiers dying over there in Ukraine for a cause

00:32:58.940 they might not feel is worth it. And a lot of them remember how many died wasting time in Afghanistan

00:33:03.780 during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. They just don't want to go back there. I mean,

00:33:08.640 Russia is doing in many ways better than it had in 30 years. And to turn back that clock, 0.77

00:33:15.140 A lot of Russians, I've heard there are thousands of them were arrested in protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

00:33:21.320 So this has to be putting pressure on Putin from within, even if he's not responding to it yet.

00:33:26.940 Yes, that's a good point.

00:33:28.100 I think with the ruble collapsing and, well, not collapsing, but dropping in value and the economic sanctions, which, wow.

00:33:37.200 I mean, look at everybody just hitting him, just hitting him.

00:33:41.100 Even Canada.

00:33:42.520 The EU hitting them with the swift thing.

00:33:46.240 I don't know.

00:33:46.720 I mean, I'm not into economics, so I don't know how hard that will affect them.

00:33:52.380 But a friend from Belgium told me it's going to really hurt them.

00:33:56.100 So, I mean, I don't know where it's going or if they have a ceasefire, if he wins the ceasefire.

00:34:03.120 By the way, the discussions on the border, I think, is a total ruse.

00:34:09.480 I think it's a complete ruse.

00:34:10.600 I don't think Putin means he can't be trusted. He's a liar. We can't trust him. I don't know what reason he had for that to make himself look like a peacemaker or some bloody thing. Or maybe he doesn't want to spend any more money on this needless war. I don't know. But exactly. I think, you know, the Russian people are just I mean, they're just like us and they're very similar. 1.00

00:34:35.400 i mean they're not much different i have russian friends and and and and and so does my daughter and

00:34:41.480 and every one of them every single one of them does not like what's happening none of them are

00:34:47.160 for it none of them they don't see us as enemies and we don't see them as enemies you know they're

00:34:53.320 like everybody else in the world i'm sure if you've traveled i've traveled you know you know

00:34:57.640 what it's like everybody wants a big screen tv everyone wants good food uh good uh good drink

00:35:04.120 and and and and uh to have their kids grow up in a safe and have a future that's all we want

00:35:10.360 and for putin to go in this wild direction is just it it does you know it's it was a mistake

00:35:17.960 and now he's overstretched himself now i think he's overstretched himself and uh like i say i hope

00:35:24.120 I don't know where it's heading, but it's not good. The whole thing is not good.

00:35:29.640 So as Cheryl Dawn, a commenter, pointed out, Ukraine signed on to join the EU. It's not part

00:35:34.760 of NATO, but does that impact things? That puts neighboring nations under the EU under some

00:35:41.080 obligations and treaties and things like that. That's part of a mistake perhaps as well. Just

00:35:45.560 because Ukraine wasn't part of NATO doesn't mean other nations aren't going to stand up for them.

00:35:49.320 Yes. And again, it's quite admirable. I'm shocked. I'm absolutely shocked at the support. And I think, well, Putin's two mistakes, two mistakes. One, underestimating Ukrainian resistance. Holy man. I had never, I thought they would, like I say, I didn't think it would last that long.

00:36:08.800 they are just incredible uh uh the and again and and uh the second thing is is is that uh he did not

00:36:22.080 uh uh uh expect the the world to make him a pariah and to join i mean even non-nato countries

00:36:34.000 are joining in this, and they are being just reviled around the world for this action,

00:36:40.100 which is irrational. It's irrational. It's unhinged. There was no need for it.

00:36:45.800 And to those who say, well, NATO was on the doorstep, yes, but that can be figured out.

00:36:52.040 And also the situation in Donbass and Luhansk could have been handled better by Zelensky in

00:36:58.200 Ukraine, should have been handled better. I think those people deserve some autonomy.

00:37:04.000 And it's all, you know what I mean?

00:37:06.440 They should have gotten some sort of benefit from being, you know, it's not worth going, like you said earlier, it's not worth going to war over.

00:37:16.460 It's not worth killing, destroying cities and killing innocent people.

00:37:21.180 It's not, it just makes no sense today.

00:37:23.940 It's 2022 for God's sake.

00:37:26.860 Have we not learned a thing?

00:37:28.840 Have we not learned a thing?

00:37:30.360 In some ways, it's not looking good, but we are seeing things differently. As you said, we wouldn't have thought that, you know, that Europe and the rest of the world would rally quite like this. We certainly didn't think Ukraine would last this long. And to settle in for a long game, a lot of the, even though it won't be worth, you know, direct intervention, a lot of sanctions could really start putting a lot of pressure on Putin in the long run here.

00:37:51.480 As you said, it's a very expensive exercise.

00:37:53.740 Doing this isn't necessarily easy aside from the human cost.

00:37:57.280 There's a dollar and cents cost that he's got to incur,

00:37:59.720 and maybe he might lose out of this in the long run.

00:38:03.400 I mean, we just hope, I guess, it comes to a resolution somehow

00:38:05.580 with the least amount of bloodshed possible.

00:38:07.480 I hope so, too.

00:38:08.180 I hope so, too.

00:38:08.860 And just to go back a little bit here quickly about history,

00:38:12.620 it's always good to revisit history and look what happened in the past.

00:38:15.640 And during the Arab-Israeli war, Syria and Egypt against Israel in 1973,

00:38:21.480 They were looking at a situation, and Israel had no help from NATO.

00:38:26.340 They weren't a NATO member.

00:38:27.440 They had to go in alone.

00:38:29.180 But they had a guy named Henry Kissinger, and that guy knew what to do. 0.61

00:38:36.440 First of all, he shipped, made sure that Israelis had armed shipments

00:38:42.600 and made sure they had everything they needed.

00:38:46.100 And then he seized the moment.

00:38:48.840 He seized the moment, and he booted out the Russians, said, out here, you guys, you're not involved in this. 0.95

00:38:55.480 We're going to deal with the Egyptians and everybody else. 0.69

00:38:58.400 But also, he made sure in shipping those arms not to give them too much because they didn't want to embarrass the Egyptians as well. 0.98

00:39:08.000 So it was a very, very touchy game, which he balanced extremely well. 0.80

00:39:12.780 And then also he put America on DEFCON 3 to scare the Russians. 0.91

00:39:21.180 So not that I'm saying we should do that now, but I thought he handled it very well and he resolved that situation. 0.77

00:39:29.900 He was able to resolve that situation very well.

00:39:33.400 I don't have as much confidence in Antony Blinken.

00:39:36.800 I think he's a smart man.

00:39:38.280 I think he's a good guy.

00:39:39.860 But Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, oh, man, like I say, I wish we had a wartime president, but we don't.

00:39:47.600 So we're just going to have to make the best of it.

00:39:50.400 Yeah, well, we'll be watching with concern and, you know, just seeing what happens and hoping for the best.

00:39:55.820 So thanks for checking in there, Dave.

00:39:58.200 And, you know, of course, our regular column with the Western Standard.

00:40:01.240 And you share your thoughts and give us updates, which is appreciated.

00:40:04.200 And we will talk to you again, I'm sure, soon down the road.

00:40:06.860 Okay, thanks, Corey.

00:40:07.780 Thank you.

00:40:08.940 Great, thanks.

00:40:11.380 So yeah, that was Dave Makachuck.

00:40:13.380 He writes again on these, and he has for quite some time on international issues.

00:40:16.980 And this is a complicated one.

00:40:18.360 You know, part of what I was going on about earlier is just a few too many people are

00:40:21.900 jumping to conclusions too quickly.

00:40:24.500 You know, there's so many nuances.

00:40:26.940 As Dave also said, I mean, there is some problems going on on the eastern side of the Ukraine

00:40:32.620 where perhaps some independence should have been warranted and the Ukrainian president cracked down.

00:40:36.260 I mean, I'm an independent supporter in Western Canada. It doesn't mean that the United States would be justified to come into Alberta and take us over to help liberate us from the nation. That doesn't work that way or it shouldn't. So we'll be watching that unfold.

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00:42:11.540 get on to talking about some lacrosse and things, those who read the Herald, maybe some of you went

00:42:16.620 over there when I put the teaser out. If not, you really should. And it's one of those things you

00:42:20.380 read and you'll be enraged by, but it's worth reading because holy cow, this column by Heather

00:42:25.280 Campbell on the convoy protests was just beyond the pale. It was something else. I'm just going

00:42:30.760 to read the first paragraph of it. Okay. This is where it started and it gets worse. The recent

00:42:35.760 blockades in Canada were not about COVID-19. They were about white supremacy and extremism. The

00:42:40.720 blockaders are not patriots, nor are they oppressed. The blockaders are an irrational mob of thugs 0.99

00:42:44.700 upset about injury to their individual entitlement and panicked about the erosion of their white 0.99

00:42:49.420 privilege. That's paragraph one, folks. And as I said, it only gets worse from there. I won't turn

00:42:55.840 your stomachs by reading the rest of it, but you probably should have a look at that. Like, wow.

00:43:01.600 Why? What is this obsession with trying to tie a non-racial issue into racism all the time?

00:43:09.520 I'm sick and tired of it. It's called race baiting. It's divisive. It's bad for all of us. It's bad for society. And it's not saying that racism doesn't exist to say that these protests aren't racially based. It's just because it's just saying the truth of it. You don't have to agree with the protests.

00:43:28.740 You can say the people at the protests are conspiracy theorists, are crazy, or, you know, they're putting people's health at risk.

00:43:34.800 You can claim those things by all means, but there's no evidence at all that these were racially motivated. 0.99

00:43:40.140 Yet the Herald runs this garbage column, and it was garbage, smearing the whole thing. 0.98

00:43:46.660 And those people out there, I've gone to these in person. 0.98

00:43:49.360 I've been critical of them before, especially when they were smaller.

00:43:51.800 I thought there were some pretty out there people who were managing these protests in the early parts of it.

00:43:57.400 And I, I was critical of it, but I didn't see any evidence of it being a racial thing. Why have they

00:44:02.280 got to throw that in there? I mean, a number of the people at those aren't white. So these are

00:44:06.780 really terrible white supremacists, these guys. I mean, I don't know how the white supremacist 0.99

00:44:10.820 membership book works, but I'm pretty sure if you're not white, you probably can't be a member

00:44:14.860 of their club. Yet somehow they're participating in these protests. You know, you say, oh, but most 0.86

00:44:21.360 of the people at the protest are white. Well, yes. I mean, go to a hockey game in Calgary at 0.96

00:44:24.700 saddle to them. Most of the people in the audience are white as well. It's demographics. It's not

00:44:28.480 racism. To have that put in there. And you know, so I'm the opinion editor here at the Western

00:44:36.060 Standard. It's opinion. I mean, people pointed out, hey, they put it at the bottom of it. They

00:44:40.380 said, this is the opinion of the writer, not reflecting of Calgary Herald. Fair enough. That's

00:44:45.280 what Heather Campbell wrote. It certainly doesn't reflect the entire editorial board of the Herald

00:44:49.580 at all. But we have a degree of standards when we get some stuff sent to us that I don't run.

00:44:57.200 I choose not to. It's not that I want my slant on things. I've posted and edited columns that

00:45:03.760 I didn't agree with whatsoever. But they were the other person's reason point of view. So we

00:45:08.500 could put it up there. But if somebody sent us something as inflammatory as this thing was,

00:45:13.240 as purely unsourced, you know, lacking in fact, and actually destructively intended.

00:45:22.380 I mean, we take it very seriously. If we're ever going to spike a column, I would have to go to

00:45:27.140 Derek's office and we would talk about it. I suspect we would never publish anything like that.

00:45:31.340 We just wouldn't. So what was the Herald thinking, putting that piece of trash in their publication? 0.98

00:45:36.500 Why did they run that? 0.92

00:45:38.980 You know, that's when you say to Heather, you know, geez, you know, take a day and think about this. 0.98

00:45:46.080 And if you really want to write on this, you know, cut this out into something a little more rational and come back to us because this is just garbage. 0.95

00:45:53.160 But they didn't. 0.97

00:45:53.980 They ran it.

00:45:54.680 And there it goes.

00:45:55.160 And to a degree, then, that does land on the Herald.

00:45:58.140 As I said, you know, we don't want them censoring.

00:46:00.160 I mean, hey, opinion writing is pretty boring if there isn't an opinion on it.

00:46:03.500 but you've got to have a degree of standards. And this was an irresponsible, in my view, hateful

00:46:09.620 piece. It smeared people who were going out who just had concerns about medical freedoms,

00:46:16.000 individual freedoms, and this is the crap they got from it. Furthermore, the Herald on the weekend, 0.97

00:46:22.580 they did actually go out and cover some of the thousands of people who've been coming out every

00:46:26.840 weekend in Calgary and demonstrating against restrictions. But what did they report on?

00:46:32.200 Well, there were 35 counter-protesters. 35 out of thousands who come out every week that the Herald didn't even bother to report on any other weeks. They write a big write-up on the 35 people who came out to complain about the protests. One of the things I found kind of funny when I read the story about it was they talked to one of the counter-protesters and asked, you know, were you afraid when you saw them all approaching? And the counter-protesters said, no, not at all. Of course not, because it's a peaceful protest. They weren't going to hurt you. At worst, you've got people glaring at you.

00:46:58.020 Somebody apparently threw a smoke bomb somewhere, but nobody knows who actually threw it or why.

00:47:03.120 Thankfully, nobody was hurt.

00:47:05.100 But this is what the Herald does.

00:47:07.100 Why don't you report both sides?

00:47:08.140 Why didn't we see a story every week saying, hey, look at this, a few thousand people showed up.

00:47:12.580 And we've had that going on in city council.

00:47:14.700 They're discussing that right now, actually, in Calgary today.

00:47:16.980 There's a motion to get city council to address these weekly protests going on down at the park.

00:47:22.000 Well, okay, but what do you want to do about it?

00:47:24.200 What do you expect to do about this?

00:47:25.620 Are you looking to crack down?

00:47:27.080 This isn't an encampment.

00:47:28.280 This isn't truckers parked down there.

00:47:30.640 They aren't, you know, this isn't anything, there's no border being blocked.

00:47:34.780 This is a weekly protest of thousands of people going out and then doing a march.

00:47:38.120 It takes a couple hours a week.

00:47:39.360 Annoying, I guess, if you live right in that neighborhood.

00:47:41.760 Fair enough.

00:47:42.780 But should city council intervene?

00:47:44.680 I think their vote to go forward on a report and look into this was something like 13 to

00:47:49.360 2 or 12 to 3 or something on city council saying they want to follow up.

00:47:55.160 So are we going to have civic governments cracking down on peaceful protesters now?

00:47:58.900 I mean, when they're fed by garbage, like what the Calgary Herald just reported, though,

00:48:02.260 who knows what's going to come out.

00:48:04.280 So yes, I see Nico's got my Twitter account up there, at Corey B. Morgan, if you want

00:48:07.900 to get into more of that discourse and scrapping, you know, after the show or before the show

00:48:12.140 or tips for me, things like that.

00:48:13.680 Twitter is where I spend a lot of time.

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00:49:43.140 Okay, let's bring Jake Foster in.

00:49:44.700 He's been writing columns on lacrosse

00:49:46.920 in the budding and small sports department

00:49:49.540 to the western standard hey there jake how's it going it's going well cory how are you very good

00:49:54.780 thanks um you know i was talking to dave and i mean i've been looking at your stuff and i've

00:49:59.400 heard about it and i said geez i've really got to study up on lacrosse before i i talked to you

00:50:03.500 because i don't to be honest know a heck of a lot about it and then he says well why you want to do

00:50:07.260 that just ask jake that's the point and you know what geez dave you're right so yeah and it made

00:50:12.660 me look forward to this you know i mean i i hear about it it's canada's national support sport but

00:50:16.960 I don't know enough about it and it's really been growing no it really is and you know you're in such

00:50:22.360 you're not in the minority and not knowing about um lacrosse there's so many people that are unaware

00:50:27.500 of it and it's got such a huge following actually in Alberta and it continues to grow and you know

00:50:32.840 I've been presented with this cool opportunity where I get to write about something that I'm

00:50:36.340 passionate about um it's a league that I played in it's a league that I loved playing in I have

00:50:40.920 many connections there and stuff and you know the opportunity just kind of came up where it was like

00:50:45.380 we have this market here that's not really being tapped into what can we what can we make of it

00:50:50.140 there so I guess I was kind of fortunate to be in the right place right time and you know I got my

00:50:55.340 broadcast news diploma from state and there was just kind of an opportunity where James Finkbeiner

00:51:00.060 was talking to me and was like this is this needs to happen here and so we were able to work

00:51:03.600 something out but yeah I've got a couple pieces up so far obviously the cross season hasn't rolled

00:51:08.300 around yet in Alberta so things are a little slow it's definitely going to pick up a little bit more

00:51:11.940 as we enter the summer and there's a little bit more to talk about as the season starts we're

00:51:15.600 going to have a little bit more um pieces opinion pieces coverage on individuals and stuff like

00:51:20.480 that but yeah i'm very excited to be a part of it yeah and james finkbiner he's our operations

00:51:25.340 manager and he's been very involved in lacrosse i think he coaches a bit on the side if i recall

00:51:29.040 yeah he actually uh he owns one of the i don't know he doesn't coach he owns one of the junior

00:51:33.900 b tier one teams in calgary yeah the calgary chill which i was uh actually was a member of for two

00:51:40.160 years which is where me and james began our relationship there and then now seven years

00:51:44.100 later he kind of got me into this as well so it's cool you know the connections that you make in the

00:51:48.560 community of the sport so the roughnecks which is calgary's big team there and that's part of

00:51:53.840 an international league uh you know so that's a league uh what's their season run at like i noticed

00:52:00.260 they were seeing stats of upwards of 10 000 people come out to those games and and it's great they're

00:52:04.380 having a really good time so uh what's the basis of that league the kind of season and the amount

00:52:08.580 the games they run yeah so the nll is the professional indoor uh box lacrosse league

00:52:13.820 and it runs it starts in december this year's been a kind of bit of a tricky year with covid

00:52:19.540 cancellations and stuff and all the games postponed and then it typically runs for about

00:52:23.320 four months into the beginning of april um and then the playoffs are usually like finishing up

00:52:27.960 around april i'm expecting that we're going to see that maybe get pushed back into june um even

00:52:32.860 may or sorry may even june um depending on how they do with the postponed games they're trying

00:52:37.760 to make it work with a lot of back-to-back games on weekends and stuff like that but uh it's about

00:52:42.360 a it's about a four four and a half five month season there and it's cool it's only on weekends

00:52:46.540 so you know um one part about lacrosse that's unfortunate is that people don't have um it

00:52:52.000 doesn't have the following yet to pay the athletes full time um so that they can just pursue lacrosse

00:52:57.040 as a career so everybody playing in the nll has second jobs that they work during the week and

00:53:01.120 stuff and then they'll fly out on the weekend so it's a very cool job and it's very cool league

00:53:05.880 And the fact that, you know, Saturday after a game, both teams will be there for the night and then they'll hang out and go for drinks after.

00:53:11.340 And it's such a small, tight-knit community that so many guys on the teams know each other and stuff like that.

00:53:15.360 But, yeah, it's a really cool league and it's expanding, it's growing.

00:53:19.460 And, you know, Calgary's got one of the bigger markets in the NLL where they get a good following out.

00:53:23.600 They get a good fan base out, close to 10,000, 12,000 people out every game, which is awesome to see.

00:53:28.280 And then, yeah, it's just growing.

00:53:30.140 They're adding new expansion teams constantly.

00:53:31.800 And it's such a viewer-friendly game, especially if you're able to go to the arena and go see it live in person.

00:53:37.700 They play music the whole time.

00:53:38.900 They got beer deals on it.

00:53:40.540 Their motto is come for the party, stay for the game.

00:53:42.940 And so they do a great job of marketing it and bringing out college students and people there that are just wanting something to do where it's fast-paced, it's entertaining, it's rough, there's a lot of goals, there's a lot to cheer for.

00:53:52.700 And it's very engaging as well.

00:53:54.060 So I think NL is doing a great job right now.

00:53:56.580 Yeah, well, you don't have to have NFL-type salaries to have a good sport going on.

00:54:00.240 And I remember a long time ago when I was in my 20s and I was working out in the field, in the oil field, there was a seismic crew and they actually had in wintertime, there was a CFL player who worked seismic in winter because, you know, they only paid so much.

00:54:10.620 You play football for the season and then you go out to the oil field to pay your bills in the winter because, you know, they just didn't have that kind of salary, but they still put on a heck of a product.

00:54:19.120 I mean, people love going to their football games and have a very loyal fan base.

00:54:22.760 So, you know, this lacrosse ability to have, I guess, a professional, but still, you know, I guess part time in a sense is a manageable model.

00:54:30.240 absolutely and you touched on it there it's uh a lot of the guys you know you're not playing it

00:54:34.920 to make money you're you're doing it because you love the game and you know a lot of the guys are

00:54:38.680 trying to grow the game and so i'm just happy to be able to do my little part in that um just being

00:54:44.440 able to write about a little bit bring some attention there uh just kind of drawing more

00:54:48.200 eyes to it maybe somebody read something that they never read before and be like oh that's

00:54:51.660 kind of interesting i might want to check out a lacrosse game or i might want to put my kid into

00:54:54.560 a lacrosse game like that so yeah you don't get into lacrosse for uh to make millions of dollars

00:54:59.000 that's for sure but you do it because you love the game and it's such a beautiful game and there's

00:55:02.520 so much depth to it and once people start to really get into it and understand it it's hard

00:55:06.760 not to fall in love with it. I see a commenter Ken Finlayson is saying lacrosse is growing the

00:55:11.480 USA as well he says his grandson Houston is in his second year of athletic scholarship at Weber

00:55:16.620 University in Florida with it so getting into the entry level of lacrosse you know kids students

00:55:23.080 people are interested I mean are schools starting to run lacrosse teams or is this mostly

00:55:26.860 uh extracurricular sort of things that they get involved with like how does one get into lacrosse

00:55:31.420 in canada well so that's that's interesting and weber i've heard of it i know it's a great school

00:55:37.740 um so it's interesting because in canada we play box lacrosse um it's primarily indoor lacrosse

00:55:43.820 there is a couple field lacrosse programs um that operate during the fall and sometimes the winter

00:55:49.740 and the field lacrosse is what they play in the united states so a lot of you'll see a lot of

00:55:53.260 of canadian kids um play that field across and then go down to the u.s for an ncaa scholarship

00:55:59.480 um i know i did it i've had a bunch of friends do it and it gives you an opportunity to continue

00:56:05.300 your education and you know save mom and dad a couple bucks if you can get a good scholarship

00:56:09.180 there as well and then you get to go play lacrosse and then when you're done usually typically

00:56:13.660 canadian players we don't love the field game as much um it's a little structured but some guys do

00:56:18.500 but for the most part you'll see guys come back and then they'll continue to play box across in

00:56:22.200 the summers and then they'll leave in the leave in the beginning of the school year head down to

00:56:25.960 the states and go play some lacrosse there um all outdoor during the year and then they'll come back

00:56:30.060 and do it all over again it's a really really cool circle um if you get into it at a young

00:56:34.020 enough age where you can kind of grow that development understand both aspects of the game

00:56:38.840 because it's unique in the sense that there's indoor lacrosse and outdoor lacrosse and they're

00:56:43.220 very different games but they're played the same way with the same stick same same motions and

00:56:48.000 stuff like that so if you get into it at a young enough age and you can kind of understand how to

00:56:52.000 operates then there's definitely a lot of opportunity to go places with it and having

00:56:56.160 the ability to go um you know pursue a college career is something that i think if if you're if

00:57:02.260 you can do it as a child i highly recommend do it i did it and it was one of the highlights of my

00:57:06.040 life so far it's an absolute blast to be able to go somewhere new play lacrosse have 45 best

00:57:10.600 friends on the team automatically it's it's well worth it yeah so it's a physical fast-paced game

00:57:16.000 that one too i mean i've seen little bits of it as i said i don't know a lot about it but actually

00:57:19.160 the times i catch it like wow these guys are really going at it out there and and uh it's a

00:57:23.980 kind of a high scoring game is the breakdown of a game though similar to hockey like in a number of

00:57:28.760 periods or the length of time that a game is played or i'd actually probably compare it more

00:57:34.140 to basketball um it's broken down into four quarters and um it's played on the hockey rink

00:57:40.400 with turf put down and the nets are four feet by four feet and instead of ice you got turf but um

00:57:46.160 as far as systems go and as far as understanding the game of box across it's uh they gave up the

00:57:52.800 one breakaway it's two breakways one goal before they got on it it's very great oh i still got

00:57:59.560 it's definitely it's definitely uh it's definitely more similar to basketball with

00:58:06.140 picking rules the way the system operates there's stuff so it's very yeah you got some highlights

00:58:10.740 up here now yeah it's very cool um as far as system structure it's more similar to basketball

00:58:17.060 but there is that physicality of hockey and football and you get the slash you get a little

00:58:21.220 bit more there as well so it's uh it's a combination of the two for sure i was great yeah

00:58:26.100 well it's just looks like a fun good sport now something that's really developed gotten very

00:58:30.660 large over the last few years is women's hockey is there much of a woman's presence in lacrosse

00:58:34.500 starting to build up guys it there really is something that's not really noticed but uh

00:58:40.820 there is definitely the women's lacrosse is growing and especially in the states um the

00:58:46.340 opportunity for people for women especially to get scholarships and a lot of a lot of the women

00:58:55.300 that play in alberta and canada get accustomed to that box across style and that makes them such a

00:59:01.380 a better field lacrosse player as well so when they go to the colleges they're able to get those full

00:59:05.700 rides you want athletic scholarships to go to a house and go to an ivy league school even so yeah 1.00

00:59:11.700 we're definitely starting to see a lot more women involvement in lacrosse in alberta and across 0.88

00:59:15.460 canada there it's really cool great yeah and it is as some others are pointing out you know ashley's

00:59:20.100 been saying and pamela it's a sport that's been around for actually hundreds of years and and uh

00:59:25.140 you know it's just a great kid's sport for developing skills socially physically all of

00:59:29.220 it like any sport it's good to see more options you know I mean you can't all be hockey players

00:59:33.780 but there's a some great stuff going on there so uh oh I'll just be yes but the uh sorry we just

00:59:44.220 had a bit of a technical issue there for a moment no problem yeah but uh it's so the season gets

00:59:50.900 going I imagine the ticket prices is sort of like um with CFL and things such is that the uh

00:59:57.040 it's probably more affordable to take a family out for a day and then catch one of the games and 1.00

01:00:01.560 get there in person yeah absolutely roughnecks are really good with um formulating ticket packages

01:00:07.180 to make it affordable they have discounts for student night for college students if you show

01:00:11.540 proof of id there uh you'll get i think your tickets are 10 or 15 bucks but even so i think

01:00:16.900 you won't be paying more than 20 bucks for a ticket um to go to the game and then you know

01:00:21.240 they got that beer prices on as well and 20 bucks like you can go see a movie for the same price and

01:00:25.660 And I think this is a lot more fun.

01:00:27.140 You get to sit with your friends, have a good time, hang out.

01:00:29.240 But then in the junior ages, the tickets are five bucks to get into a game, which is really important because, you know, a lot of these teams, they don't make a whole bunch of money.

01:00:37.900 And that five, ten dollars for ticket sales for a junior B team coming in can go a long way with helping them pay for road trips and stuff around so that the kids can continue to play.

01:00:46.600 And then they can also keep the fees down in order to continue to grow that game and have that involvement and make it a game that everybody can play.

01:00:53.680 And that's one thing that's really good about lacrosse is that the community is really good at making sure it's affordable and it's able to have kids that want to play be able to play.

01:01:03.320 Great. Well, and so I appreciate you coming in.

01:01:05.720 Where else can we, I mean, you're writing for the standard and you're going to be tracking the Roughnecks games and reporting on them and lacrosse in general in coming days.

01:01:13.420 Is there anywhere else where you report or write on these issues?

01:01:17.520 Yeah, so I'm actually working my way.

01:01:19.820 I'm still trying to get into the NLL.

01:01:21.900 I'm working my way up there right now.

01:01:23.680 I was drafted this year and then released in training camp due to some unfortunate circumstances, but I'm out playing in the Arena Lacrosse League, which is a new league this year.

01:01:32.120 It basically is acting as like the AHL to the NHL, where it's a feeder league where kids that are people that are trying to make it into the NLL can go play and stuff like that.

01:01:41.780 So I'm doing that out there. I do the color commentary for all the games that I'm not playing in.

01:01:46.560 I've been asked to help blow with the media and stuff like that.

01:01:49.700 So I've been involved with the media with the ALL as well.

01:01:52.060 and then yeah mostly just kind of focusing on the western standard focusing on lacrosse in

01:01:56.640 alberta um it's been a little bit slow you know i'm trying to do an article a week um but as the

01:02:02.300 season picks up it's definitely going to be a lot more than that and we're going to be kind of

01:02:05.300 looking at everyday um kind of recaps of what's going on and we're going to do a lot of previews

01:02:09.860 of the season and stuff going on so yeah definitely if you're looking to keep up with uh keep up with

01:02:14.280 lacrosse in alberta then this is the place to find it uh like i mentioned earlier there's not a lot

01:02:18.620 of coverage for lacrosse in Alberta, and it is such a beautiful sport

01:02:22.040 and a beautiful game with such great people involved in the community

01:02:24.800 that it's really awesome to get involved in.

01:02:27.540 Great.

01:02:28.020 Well, thanks for coming in and sharing that with us today.

01:02:30.060 I'm looking forward to your ongoing coverage.

01:02:32.080 Maybe we'll have some playoff stuff to talk about down the road soon.

01:02:35.820 Absolutely.

01:02:36.340 Yeah, thanks for having me on.

01:02:37.220 This has been awesome.

01:02:38.480 I'm happy.

01:02:39.300 Anytime somebody is willing to give a platform for me to talk about lacrosse,

01:02:42.360 it's a great day.

01:02:43.220 It's a great sport, and I'm just happy to be able to share it with some people.

01:02:46.480 Yeah, I can tell you enjoy it.

01:02:47.680 No, thanks again.

01:02:48.480 And I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

01:02:50.420 Absolutely.

01:02:50.900 Thanks, Corey.

01:02:52.900 Great.

01:02:53.160 So that was the Western Standards' Jake Foster.

01:02:55.300 As you can see, a passionate player and reporter on lacrosse in general.

01:02:59.500 And, again, it's piqued my curiosity.

01:03:02.680 You know, I mean, if you want to get out with the family,

01:03:04.960 you want to take in a sport, those that I've talked to have always really

01:03:08.080 enjoyed getting out to Roughnecks games.

01:03:09.540 And as you said, there's other leagues as well.

01:03:11.100 Or if you're looking to get your kids into something,

01:03:13.060 there's other alternatives.

01:03:14.120 Look into that.

01:03:14.720 I mean, it's a distinctly North American sport and a very old one.

01:03:18.800 And Jake will help cover our local team and see how that goes, you know, broaden those things.

01:03:24.540 Because those are things that bring about interest as well.

01:03:27.240 I mean, a professional league is tough to keep going.

01:03:29.080 But if you get that fan base going, it inspires kids.

01:03:31.580 It gives them something to move towards and play towards and then more get involved and it follows up.

01:03:36.020 That was way back in the ancient old days in the 80s.

01:03:40.200 I was a ski jumper.

01:03:41.020 I grew up in Banff and then I made it up to like provincial team level and competed in the national

01:03:45.600 championships, but I wasn't a Olympic quality or anything like that. That sport's a really great

01:03:50.500 sport. I really enjoyed it. Lots of kids did. And actually speaking of, uh, women who have really

01:03:55.400 taken off within the sport, the women's ski jumpers in Canada are actually quite fantastic,

01:03:58.900 a small team, but they do a really good job, but it's hard to maintain and keep the interest to

01:04:03.680 keep the kids coming on something like that. Cause you don't have constant ski jumping coverage on

01:04:07.460 tv or a ski jumping league or things like that some of the nations like finland and norway and

01:04:12.840 that where it's a much bigger thing they had a better means of getting kids interested and on

01:04:16.380 board but it's kind of a chicken and egg thing you know and if you get more people involved in a good

01:04:20.400 sport it'll build up and professional leagues of course are a great way to do that and the lacrosse

01:04:25.960 league and the roughnecks and some of those other venues are a good way to bring that interest in

01:04:31.000 and again just to go out and have some fun we're opening up no i want to talk a little bit about

01:04:34.980 that. Finally, in Alberta, again, hopefully permanently, the masks are coming off. As Dave

01:04:41.340 said, midnight tonight, we're done with the bloody things. Pretty much all restrictions are gone.

01:04:46.800 There's going to be a couple others hanging there. People are going to be annoyed. I won't be fully

01:04:49.500 happy until every restriction is gone, federally, provincially. But still, we're making a very good

01:04:54.320 leap forward. And that means also we can go out and start enjoying ourselves. And it's enjoying

01:04:58.320 ourselves as a group. You know, that's part of what's the whole sickness of the restrictions

01:05:04.100 on what's been terrible over these last couple of years.

01:05:06.980 We are social animals.

01:05:08.400 It's important for us to get together.

01:05:10.280 That's why we do these things.

01:05:12.060 That's why arena sports have always been huge.

01:05:14.920 We're even getting back as terribly as the original arenas in Rome and so on.

01:05:19.100 Yeah, it wasn't just to be able to watch gladiators slaughter each other

01:05:21.760 and torture animals, but you were sitting with your friends and neighbors

01:05:24.460 and eating a spleen on a stick or something while you watched the event.

01:05:28.340 It was part of gathering.

01:05:31.160 It's what we do.

01:05:31.940 We bond as a species with each other.

01:05:34.100 And it's coming back.

01:05:35.760 You know, I mean, they shut down the hockey games for a whole year. 0.99

01:05:38.660 The NFL had those stupid cutouts in the background on those football games. 0.99

01:05:42.420 And I'm sure, as the guest was saying there quickly, COVID put a lot of pressure on their league, too. 1.00

01:05:51.080 Now we can get out and have some fun.

01:05:52.780 And it's affordable.

01:05:53.520 I mean, a lot of us had a hard, bloody time this last couple of years, too, due to restrictions and our businesses being crushed and things like that.

01:06:00.600 So maybe you can't afford a Flames game and stuff like that.

01:06:02.960 But you know what?

01:06:03.320 You can get out with the kids or the spouse or just by yourself or whatever and take in a lacrosse game.

01:06:08.180 What the hell?

01:06:08.620 Cheer for your local team. 0.91

01:06:09.720 Have a couple of beers.

01:06:11.040 You know, overpriced watery beers probably.

01:06:12.840 It's the Saddle Dome.

01:06:13.420 That's the way it works when they make their money.

01:06:15.720 Get out there and do that.

01:06:16.800 And I know somebody else was saying, oh, you know, people are starving and we got sanctions and this and that.

01:06:21.160 And you're talking about lacrosse.

01:06:22.100 Yes, I am.

01:06:23.140 I mean, we don't always be on nothing but politics.

01:06:25.880 Don't worry.

01:06:26.300 I've got plenty of that in me and we will always cover lots of it.

01:06:30.200 But let's break it up a little.

01:06:31.320 We need to enjoy life a little bit now and then.

01:06:34.120 And sports are a good way to do it. 0.98

01:06:35.600 We're going to distract ourselves from all the government crap that's going on, from all the trash. 0.97

01:06:41.220 You know, Ashley's saying some kids don't want to take their mask off. 0.99

01:06:43.540 They know nothing different.

01:06:44.280 Yeah, I know.

01:06:44.940 It's terrible.

01:06:46.340 I mean, we've programmed them.

01:06:47.600 We've embedded fear into them.

01:06:49.440 It's terrible, and it's going to take time to get out of that.

01:06:51.480 I think a good way to get out of that, again, get into an arena with a whole pile of people and enjoy each other for a while. 0.99

01:06:55.880 Get over that stupid fear of each other. 0.93

01:06:57.400 you know, get those kids out on the ground in a field somewhere playing lacrosse or soccer or 1.00

01:07:02.580 whatever. And again, interacting with each other without masks and without some union teacher

01:07:06.840 telling them how unsafe the world is and get them somewhere back closer to normal where they should

01:07:11.520 be. Before I talk a little more about some more news and then I'll get back into some political

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01:08:52.260 Dave mentioned that earlier. You know, the Freedom Convoy truckers are still getting demonized.

01:08:56.360 This crap's still going on. Not just the Calgary Herald, of course, though they were awful with 0.99

01:09:00.320 that column they ran. But here we go with our Public Safety Minister, Marco

01:09:04.360 Mendocino, testifying at a Commons Public Safety Committee.

01:09:08.580 He said, threats of rape by political protesters were justified

01:09:12.240 the use of the Emergencies Act. They're making up all their excuses in hindsight

01:09:16.240 as to why they imposed martial law in Canada. And it is

01:09:20.160 martial law. I had somebody beacon at me on Twitter about that today again. No, look it up.

01:09:25.180 When you suspend civic rights to address an emergency, even temporarily, it's a form of

01:09:30.800 martial law. And yes, you are suspending rights when you can have banks seize people's property

01:09:35.960 and money. You are under martial law when you can force people as labor, tow truck drivers and

01:09:41.860 other such things. It's martial law. It's not an exaggeration. What was an exaggeration was the

01:09:46.820 threats of rape. So, he's saying, this is his quote, he said, there were Ottowans who were

01:09:53.060 subjected to intimidation, harassment, threats of rape. Nobody was charged with sexual assault.

01:10:00.060 There's no witnesses to any of this, of course. Sounds almost like he's talking out of his ass. 0.99

01:10:05.360 A conservative member of Parliament, Larry Barak, he's a former Crown Prosecutor, he challenged it. 1.00

01:10:10.280 Said, cabinet never mentioned the sexual assault over three whole days of debate on the Emergencies

01:10:14.380 Act. So why didn't we hear about this? As you see, you know, as you can see with Nico pulling

01:10:19.800 it up there, the most disturbing aspect of what I hear about this, this rape allegation, a very

01:10:23.900 heinous crime. We debated this particular issue for over 40 hours and not once did the prime

01:10:29.200 mister, and this is quotes from, he said, did you or any other senior member of the cabinet or any

01:10:33.360 member of your backbench raise a rape allegation? I mean, if this was happening, if the streets were

01:10:37.760 crawling with roving rapists, you'd think that would be top of mind as you're bringing in the

01:10:43.240 Emergencies Act, wouldn't it? I mean, that's pretty disturbing. But it's hindsight where you're

01:10:47.500 bringing up this apparent rape gangs, apparent threats of rape. These just perverts walking 0.99

01:10:52.900 around, exposed, chasing people down. I don't know. Nobody saw it. Tens of thousands of cameras down 0.99

01:10:57.680 there. So many of these things that we never saw. But they come up in Parliament. You know,

01:11:03.420 history, and I've said it before, and it's not just my bias, though. Sure, I've got plenty of it.

01:11:08.540 He's not going to look kindly on Trudeau for this idiocy, for bringing in the Emergencies Act. He 0.99

01:11:12.780 didn't need to. And that's what these guys are realizing. That's why they're bringing up this

01:11:16.840 crap. They're trying to cover their butts. I mean, it didn't even last 48 hours when he brought it 1.00

01:11:23.140 in. He should have dropped it before that. But again, I think he was making his point of pride

01:11:29.320 or his point of pushing and his point of wanting power. That's what it's always about. And that's

01:11:33.400 when, you know, when I started this out, talk about the World Economic Forum and the Great

01:11:36.220 reset. Trudeau wants power. He desperately wants power. And the convoy gave him that excuse. He got

01:11:43.000 away with imposing the Emergencies Act and never even actually putting it all the way through the

01:11:47.800 processes. It never got through Senate. Maybe it never would have. But he got what he needed. He

01:11:52.460 managed to ruin people's lives. They managed to seize people's bank accounts. They managed to keep

01:11:56.000 people locked up without bail. As far as I know, they're still locked up. They're political prisoners

01:11:59.220 at this point. They're not presenting any risk to anybody. We let murderers out on bail. We don't

01:12:04.360 let a couple of convoy, they're going to go out and honk horns at people again? Oh, the horror.

01:12:10.620 This is where we're at. And now they're making their excuses for what they tried to do.

01:12:15.300 Other news. Yeah. The blacklist at a federal bank, Farm Credit Canada has been blacklisting

01:12:20.720 customers suspected of sympathizing with the Freedom Convoy. Suspected. We think you were

01:12:26.120 sympathetic. We're going to blacklist you. And, you know, we'll hold your accounts or we won't

01:12:33.040 loan you money. We'll shut down your business. I mean, this is the farm credit of Canada. You

01:12:39.080 know, obviously a lot of farmers were pretty reliant on being able to their money go back

01:12:42.880 and forth on this. A senator from Newfoundland said, freezing bank counts is an invisible

01:12:46.940 punitive process. And she was a former provincial auditor who told Senate, even the legislators

01:12:55.920 couldn't get answers on how banks applied the order. Like what a mess we've got. It basically

01:12:59.540 just kind of threw it out there. Here, you've got the authority to steal people's money. You've got

01:13:02.920 the authority to seize their accounts on suspicion. I mean, on what, leaks, hacks, things like that?

01:13:09.700 That's what you kind of based it on, wasn't it? Well, they're following up on this, and it's not

01:13:14.680 looking good, guys. It's not looking good at all. But make an excuse. So now, apparently, we got

01:13:20.840 crazed roving rapists. Right. And then Tam, you know. Oh, yes, Dr. Teresa Tam. Dave talked about 0.98

01:13:31.020 that in the news update. So as much as we're looking forward to burning our masks at midnight

01:13:34.200 here tonight in Alberta, she's making sure to warn us, keep that mask handy, don't burn it.

01:13:39.860 Think of wearing it as a, you know, as a habit, like checking the weather. No,

01:13:43.440 I'm not wearing that stupid thing. I'm sick to death of it. But she's warning us. She's saying 1.00

01:13:48.400 we might bring them back. We might mask everybody up again. We might cover your faces. I don't like

01:13:53.800 this. You know, they're feathering things. They're getting ready. And it's foreplay for bringing in

01:13:59.160 more restrictions. She says, in the months ahead and adjusting to a new way of managing and

01:14:03.860 responding to COVID-19, you might think of checking your local COVID virus activity like

01:14:07.440 checking the weather. You would want to check the weather before putting on a coat, so check the

01:14:11.040 weather and bring your mask with you. No, stop it. This is over. Learning to live with it. Don't tell

01:14:17.600 me to bring a mask with me. That's when you start getting that talk of the new normal. That's

01:14:21.680 something that I can't stomach, the new normal. I won't accept it. It's not normal. It's abnormal.

01:14:27.280 normal. It's wrong. It's damaging. It's bad for us. We can't smile at each other. We can't scowl at

01:14:33.560 each other. I can't read lips and I can't hear worth a crap. So if I'm in a crowded bar, it really 0.99

01:14:38.060 messes with me. People who are fully deaf have a much bigger problem with it. Yes, Gene, I admit 1.00

01:14:44.080 it. I need a hearing aid. I'm still not getting one yet. You know, these masks are not a minor

01:14:49.760 imposition. And loud to mention, let's have an update. Hey, the unions, the teachers, and of

01:14:54.780 course, raging Rachel Notley went wild when we unmasked our kids weeks ago. How did that all 1.00

01:14:59.340 work out? Did we have mass infections or keep teachers stacked up dead like cordwood? No, it's 0.87

01:15:03.680 fine. Infection numbers are going down. There was never evidence that mass spreading was happening

01:15:08.680 in schools in the first place. And unmasking the kids didn't start any massive infections. Now,

01:15:13.900 from what I've heard, there's still a lot of kids masked up. They're scared. They've had it trained

01:15:16.720 into them. Or they've got teachers who are going to shame kids and force them to wear masks anyways. 0.98

01:15:20.840 But the legislation's gone. And over time, kids are going to get rid of those things because

01:15:24.740 they don't want to have on their bloody faces they will adjust but i mean they shouldn't have

01:15:28.620 had to in the first place and uh it's it's just sickening so i'm really looking forward in alberta

01:15:34.700 i know we got uh you know people viewing from across the country here uh they're not getting

01:15:39.540 theirs off soon but you know when other provinces start it puts pressure on just keep the pressure

01:15:43.420 on your local government let's hope this whole country gets somewhere close back to normal

01:15:46.300 pretty soon gerald on saying yeah edmonton's keeping the masks i know i was kind of surprised

01:15:51.960 with Calgary City Council, considering how dominated they are by the loopy left.

01:15:55.900 Gondek makes no secrets of the control she wants, but maybe once she lost Stephen Carter 0.99

01:15:59.880 beaking in her ear, she regained a little bit of reason because they

01:16:03.500 strongly just said, no, we're not going to keep the mask by law. As soon as the province is done with it,

01:16:07.920 we're done with it too. Hopefully, Edmonton finds out that reality. Edmonton

01:16:11.940 has satellite cities as well. Edmonton has shopping centers outside of it.

01:16:15.860 And there are people like me who will. I'll go out of my way to shop outside there.

01:16:19.740 I remember before when Calgary was maintaining a mask mandate and the rest of the province

01:16:23.540 didn't, you know, it was kind of a municipality by municipality.

01:16:26.120 I was going shopping to Canadian Tire and Cochrane and places like that because I did

01:16:29.340 not want to wear that bloody mask.

01:16:30.560 I will go that far out of my way.

01:16:32.460 And it's unfortunate.

01:16:33.440 It's punitive to Calgary businesses, especially ones near the periphery of the city, or I

01:16:37.320 should say Edmonton.

01:16:38.080 Calgary's not doing that.

01:16:39.740 But their consumers will move out and those business owners are going to be punished because

01:16:42.740 of a stubborn mayor.

01:16:44.260 Look, if you're scared and you want to wear a mask, wear a bloody mask. 0.67

01:16:47.580 This isn't complicated.

01:16:48.440 Welcome to freedom.

01:16:49.740 Just do it. I don't care. You can mask up. You can hide in your basement. If you're terrified

01:16:56.760 of the bug, go home. I'm not. I want to come out. I'm done. It's time. There we go. Mel's story

01:17:04.120 there. Vax policy lifted Tuesday for Alberta public service workers. You know, a lot of the

01:17:08.760 damage, I think that's part of why they get a little slow and scared on reopening too. I know

01:17:14.180 there's going to be lawsuits. There's so many lawsuits. So many people have been fired because

01:17:17.600 they didn't get vaccinated. And they're still out of work, or they've moved on to different

01:17:23.280 work. It's caused them a lot of stress, fiscally, personally. Yeah, they're going to be coming back

01:17:28.600 on the government, on the companies they worked for, watching CNRL. Boy, they're a special sort

01:17:35.000 of place with their back and forth on again, off again. Sounds like they're trying to find ways

01:17:38.180 maybe to try and get their staff back, because they realize firing them off for not getting

01:17:40.920 vaccinated is actually kind of hurting them. That's their problem. They're a private business.

01:17:44.660 but there's going to be a lot of repercussions. First step, so just get rid of the bloody

01:17:48.620 restrictions and we're getting really close and I'm looking forward to it. I'll come up a little

01:17:55.440 more on this stuff going on with Ukraine. It's been interesting, you know, in a very dark way 1.00

01:18:02.120 to watch what's developing over there. As I said, there's resistance coming from a number of ways

01:18:06.840 and there was a mechanic of a yacht, apparently this was reported on, owned by a Russian tycoon

01:18:11.600 who made his fortune supplying the Russian military.

01:18:14.120 Well, this mechanic, he was a Ukrainian one, 0.99

01:18:16.060 sabotaged and sank the yacht. 1.00

01:18:17.860 He said, my boss is a criminal.

01:18:18.980 I don't regret anything.

01:18:20.320 And I'd do it again and turned himself in.

01:18:23.280 That's what civil disobedience is about.

01:18:25.520 I'm not saying people should go out there

01:18:26.620 and start sinking yachts around Canada,

01:18:28.840 but we're seeing some interesting acts of bravery

01:18:30.560 on the parts of individuals pushing back,

01:18:32.380 you know, on the ground.

01:18:33.220 These Ukrainians are strong, proud people.

01:18:35.580 If there's any part of the country,

01:18:36.680 I mean, Alberta, you know,

01:18:37.480 people get to Edmonton and rural areas.

01:18:38.920 We've got a lot of people of Ukrainian descent out here and they're fantastic people and they're

01:18:44.140 horrified on seeing what's happening over there. Miss Ukraine, there's pictures have been going

01:18:48.120 around of her. She's, yeah, she's a beauty pageant winner and now she has taken up her firearm and

01:18:54.240 is standing up for the country. I mean, some of these are, you know, photos just to try and gird

01:18:58.400 up support and get people, you know, proud and making those sacrifices and trying to stand up

01:19:04.220 for their country. But I'm sure it's real. If you want to look it up too, look at the women of Israel

01:19:08.820 when they have their conscripted service there with the IDF

01:19:12.480 and they're walking around with their Uzis and such

01:19:16.800 around the crowds and they have military training

01:19:18.780 because that country, of course, can't afford to let their guard down

01:19:21.440 or there are some people who always want to annihilate it.

01:19:25.120 But Israel is an interesting example of a small country

01:19:27.500 that even though surrounded by a lot of hostile countries

01:19:30.800 has still managed to, you know, it's a whole separate debate

01:19:33.720 and what people can have about Palestine and so on,

01:19:36.060 but they aren't going anywhere.

01:19:37.340 And despite the best efforts of Egypt and Syria and many other nations over the years, a small

01:19:43.760 nation that's determined and entrenched can stand up to itself against what appears to be some very

01:19:48.440 overwhelming forces sometimes. So we'll see what develops in Ukraine. Again, I just, I honestly,

01:19:55.640 I mean, as we were talking with Dave, even with me and my chickens, I said, I don't like people,

01:19:58.500 I don't, but I don't want to see them shot or tortured or hurt or blown up. And the sooner this

01:20:04.940 can be somewhat peacefully resolved, the better. I don't want to see any more of it. It's an awful

01:20:09.200 circumstance, but we're going to keep tracking it. We're going to keep reporting on it.

01:20:13.280 So remember to, again, I'm going to make that last plug before I take off today, you know,

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01:20:40.560 that piled up paper to get rid of too many people have fireplaces anymore where you can burn it all

01:20:44.780 off or anything else i'm going to talk tomorrow uh i've got a guest landon king and uh i think

01:20:50.260 he's from colliers and he's going to talk though about the commercial commercial vacancy disaster

01:20:54.000 downtown Calgary. Like we still, it's over 30% vacant in downtown Calgary right now. We're

01:21:00.120 downtown. It's amazing. I've rarely ever had to share an elevator, even though I'm in a 19 story

01:21:04.400 building. Technically it's 30 some percent vacant. I suspect it's a lot bigger. It's just that a lot

01:21:10.240 of companies have longer term leases going on. So they just can't get out of it, but they're empty

01:21:14.460 offices all sitting there. We need to address it. We got to figure out what it's about. And Landon

01:21:18.760 will be able to give some more solid numbers and answers on that sort of thing. And something else

01:21:23.280 have been kind of under the radar a bit, but the Maverick Party is holding a leadership race.

01:21:27.220 I believe they've only got one registered candidate so far, but there's still some time

01:21:30.720 yet going on. I think it's coming up in May. I will confirm that tomorrow. And so I'll be talking

01:21:36.580 to that candidate. His name's Colin Krieger. He ran for them up in Valley View, which is Northern

01:21:40.340 Alberta. We're, you know, we've got the Conservative leadership race going on. It seems to be only one

01:21:45.880 official candidate in so far and a whole bunch of tire kickers around. And then we've got the

01:21:51.200 alternative with the Maverick Party going on. So we'll see what they're building up. Because

01:21:56.480 you know, a regional party, it can make a mark. It certainly did. I mean, I cut my teeth with

01:22:01.120 the Reform Party initially, and the Reform had a lot of influence on federal policy in Canada for

01:22:06.820 a decade. So it can build and it can turn into something, but they haven't really been able to

01:22:12.100 find their feet and figure out exactly how to do it yet. Maybe a new leader will be able to. I mean,

01:22:15.920 Jay Hill, who's been the interim leader, has, of course, loads and loads of parliamentary

01:22:19.800 literary experience and party organizing. He was an old reformer from the past, but he's done

01:22:25.260 what he can with it so far and it's time to hand it off to some fresh faces. So we'll check in

01:22:30.420 with Mr. Krieger about that. And of course, there'll be news check-ins throughout the day

01:22:35.500 and there'll be a new rant from me on something. If you've got things you want me to rant about

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01:22:59.080 So I think that's enough for today.

01:23:00.520 I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

01:23:03.180 Thanks for joining.

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