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

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard. Today

00:00:28.260 is june 24th 2026 and you're watching the pipeline i've got our normal roundup of outlaws western

00:00:36.500 standard news editor senior news editor dave naylor hello derek senior albert columnist cory

00:00:41.940 morgan and our former opinion editor nigel hannaford always good to be here all right uh

00:00:48.900 i mean some weeks we have trouble figuring out what to talk about not so much uh today today

00:00:53.220 was a pretty quick meeting for uh for the storyboard uh we'll be talking about the islamic

00:00:58.260 republic of saskatchewan islamic call to prayers being blasted loud for everyone to hear uh it could

00:01:07.380 be a lot more prominent than church bells that used to hear uh maybe once upon a time in a place

00:01:11.700 like regina now you hear the islamic call to prayer speaking of noise violations we'll also

00:01:18.340 talk about the war on fun or the fun police in Calgary. The big fight over concerts and music 0.91

00:01:28.220 around the Calgary Stampede. Big fight with the two different sides. Generally, those who were

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

00:01:40.760 that the Calgary Stampede is loud, noisy, drunken, and rambunctious,

00:01:46.100 and that if you live downtown and you want to go to sleep at an earlier hour,

00:01:52.200 you should probably take that as a good time to go on vacation.

00:01:55.320 And lots of developments happening right now with that.

00:01:59.440 But first, what the hell is happening with this Montreal shooter?

00:02:08.940 These things are never easy to talk about.

00:02:10.760 especially whenever there's if there's a manifesto or they've got social media posts

00:02:16.460 all sides no one's really innocent in this uh dave everyone seems to go through them and try

00:02:23.560 to find some pieces that will fit their narrative and i mean that's not always unfair like we want

00:02:30.780 to frame what motivated so when to commit acts of murder or terror these kinds of things

00:02:36.960 um but sometimes and get a little picky and choosy but this one he did release a manifesto

00:02:43.660 uh to the rebels credit they grabbed this really early and posted on their site before authorities

00:02:48.040 could have it taken down so we can go through and see what this guy's about uh but there's a

00:02:54.040 little bit of everything in there uh for um for people to try and attribute his motivations to

00:03:00.260 uh i don't know i you've gone through some of it yeah well this is a 20 25 year old kid from

00:03:07.840 lethbridge called uh seth hatfield um first thing that comes to mind is hatfield and mccoy's

00:03:14.920 obviously but uh he was obviously a troubled kid hated everything in the world uh hated women 0.92

00:03:20.460 hated uh jews hated uh he loved communism uh but he especially hated porn uh but let's call him 1.00

00:03:30.120 is he's obviously insane he's a lunatic he's mentally ill oh do we know that no well to load 0.99

00:03:37.480 up a gun and anybody has to be mentally ill it's a crazy thing to do but we don't we don't i haven't 0.99

00:03:44.280 seen evidence yet that he was mentally ill uh i mean he has a crazy thing to do but i'm not sure

00:03:49.640 if he was loony been worthy or not we don't know that yet i thought i argue with you the exact

00:03:54.280 opposite if you take a gun into a downtown street and aim at cops you've obviously got something

00:03:59.320 it wrong in their head. But anyways, he opens fire near the headquarters of Pornhub, which is

00:04:07.460 special hatred for porn. He shoots and kills a police officer called Mohammed Ben Redenova.

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

00:04:22.080 Meanwhile, there's a Montreal rabbi by the name of Michael Mizrahi.

00:04:28.040 He's trying to get to safety.

00:04:30.460 The policewoman in a state of panic, I guess, mistakes him for the shooter

00:04:36.000 and shoots him dead at close range.

00:04:40.820 So it's a complete shambles down there.

00:04:46.200 Yeah, there's so many different angles on it, Derek.

00:04:49.500 it's you can go down many rabbit holes on this one i don't know uh just to your point in being

00:04:55.500 crazy extremists are not always necessarily crazy they might have some crazy ideas but that doesn't

00:05:00.360 mean necessarily mentally ill i mean uh you know people in al-qaeda aren't necessarily mentally ill

00:05:06.020 but they have crazy ideas they don't they know they don't they're not all schizophrenic or

00:05:10.680 bipolar or something levels of crazy i mean there's different kinds of kinds i think dave's 0.93

00:05:14.500 definition though if you're willing to go out and kill people over things like that you got

00:05:18.800 screws loose you can go that far it might not mean he's irrational or he's hearing voices we

00:05:22.640 don't know the nature of the crazy but there's something deeply wrong with that yeah um this is

00:05:29.080 uh triggered a lot of conversation online about female police officers i don't know how many of 0.96

00:05:35.840 us get through this conversation without stepping in a big pile of shit but um i don't know uh it 0.93

00:05:42.440 was an extremely stressful situation i've never been under active shooter fire uh can't imagine 0.99

00:05:48.140 I'd be any less stressed than she was

00:05:50.900 but sometimes when I go to the shooting range

00:05:54.460 I've used targets and it's got the bad guy

00:05:57.500 the robber and he's got a hostage in front

00:05:59.560 and you have to shoot the right person 0.97

00:06:02.140 not the hostage

00:06:04.140 and there's obviously way more advanced versions

00:06:09.020 of that kind of training that police officers go through

00:06:11.260 and I did some AI researching

00:06:16.160 there's almost no comparable

00:06:18.620 like people, police have

00:06:20.580 injured or even killed people

00:06:22.720 with straight bullets and what not

00:06:24.060 these things do happen from time to time

00:06:26.960 it's pretty rare but it does happen in Canada

00:06:28.840 but this kind of situation

00:06:30.680 where a civilian just pops up

00:06:32.640 and the cop turns around and

00:06:34.640 puts a few, I think it was a few rounds

00:06:36.660 into this guy, I'm not sure how many

00:06:38.320 but it was a few

00:06:38.960 that doesn't

00:06:41.840 happen

00:06:43.240 and that's

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

00:06:53.360 um it's triggering some conversation around the role of female police officers on the street i

00:06:59.120 i don't know i mean it's a matter of perhaps an officer who panicked uh clearly and you know i'm

00:07:04.400 certain if she could turn it back she would have changed things but there could be male cops just

00:07:09.200 as kids you know once put in that situation you don't know who's going to rise up and who's going

00:07:13.280 a curl with it fetal despite how much training you did this doesn't really happen this kind of

00:07:18.480 like it was this was point blank yeah uh execution is the wrong term because that would mean

00:07:23.520 intentional this was an accident in a panic and i'd probably be pretty panicky but i'm not trained

00:07:28.800 i mean it was with a semi-automatic handgun we also know you can you can let loose a few and a

00:07:32.880 half a second i mean it doesn't take long as fast as they're trained to identify the target make

00:07:36.960 sure you know what you're shooting at the very first thing you know like when i was like an

00:07:40.720 An eight-year-old kid, you know, firing at 22 for the first time, it's only pulled the trigger at what you intend to shoot.

00:07:47.020 Yeah, and the targets don't shoot back.

00:07:48.940 No, I'm not saying I was eight years old.

00:07:50.480 I was prepared to be a Montreal beat cop.

00:07:52.240 I think the fact that you couldn't find any examples is a good thing.

00:07:57.300 Yes.

00:07:57.500 It's a rare thing.

00:07:58.340 This has never happened before. 0.95

00:08:00.080 So I think maybe some of the conversations online about getting rid of female police officers, that's not a problem. 0.92

00:08:08.080 No.

00:08:08.260 In this one instance, a mistake was made.

00:08:11.600 What I did think was a problem was that when you review the initial news coverage,

00:08:16.880 everybody was trying to, all mainstream media were trying to portray this kid 0.91

00:08:20.520 as a right-wing lunatic as opposed to a left-wing lunatic. 0.94

00:08:25.500 He was actually neither. 0.76

00:08:26.700 He was just a very troubled young man who pulled ideas that sounded good

00:08:31.000 from here and from here.

00:08:32.420 um you know i don't particularly care to feel sorry for somebody who goes out and shoot somebody

00:08:40.680 else but what a miserable place his head must have been and all really because he doesn't get

00:08:47.560 along with women so that tells you something about the individual but uh it also it's a lot

00:08:54.920 of sadness that that goes with this thing and of course especially for the uh for the people who

00:09:00.180 were shot as for the uh you know as for the woman who pulled the trigger i guess policing is probably

00:09:06.240 not in her future i would i would hope that that would be the first and logical conclusion but it

00:09:13.060 doesn't mean she's a terrible person or even a terrible police officer just made a really bad 0.99

00:09:17.920 mistake we such maybe there isn't a long history of uh women police officers accidentally shooting 1.00

00:09:27.140 people. You said you couldn't 1.00

00:09:29.260 find the comparable example. I couldn't find the examples

00:09:31.040 of men or women pursuing it.

00:09:33.340 At least not this kind of situation.

00:09:36.120 I know it's exactly the same.

00:09:37.800 There's so much to unpack in this weird way.

00:09:39.720 The reaction in the coverage, there's a lot

00:09:41.580 to be said with Twitter and so on. A lot

00:09:43.460 were eager to jump up as soon as it was found out it was

00:09:45.500 a Jewish man shot. Oh, this is a targeted

00:09:47.700 terrorist attack. And some people, and it was

00:09:49.520 not. It had nothing to do with

00:09:51.100 that, but they wanted that narrative.

00:09:53.100 So they were leaning that way. Everyone was

00:09:55.420 trying to pick and choose to fit their narrative.

00:09:57.140 everyone's got something to pick from here

00:09:59.800 there was a Muhammad hero 0.99

00:10:01.840 who shot

00:10:02.720 there's that

00:10:05.240 but there's a rabbi killed

00:10:07.040 there's a woman cop who shot a rabbi

00:10:10.380 there's kind of a communist

00:10:12.340 incel

00:10:13.200 it showed the importance though of

00:10:14.780 as you said, the rebel managed to get a hold of that manifesto

00:10:18.320 as loony as it was

00:10:19.340 and get it out so people can see at least

00:10:21.380 so they're not reading in too much

00:10:23.700 to try and figure out what this guy's motivations were

00:10:25.980 as dave's he hated the world this kid i mean well he did another thing corey a lot of the stuff that

00:10:31.260 he was highlighting is actually stuff that ordinary people look at and say yeah i don't like that

00:10:37.340 either it's just that he had the opposite and mixed it all in together yeah it was a it was a

00:10:43.500 weird stew unedited yeah we might say the uh so the way was kind of framed early on and you have

00:10:49.740 have to grant some uh level of grace i think for early coverage uh to anyone because you know we're

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

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

00:11:07.580 the female officer who shot the rabbi she was shot but not injured but the police don't appear

00:11:13.020 to have been the target from what we could tell the target it was to assassinate uh the head of

00:11:19.280 parent company that owns pornhub uh because a big part of what he was talking about was i mean

00:11:27.040 any manifesto you're gonna find at least some things that ring at least after you can read

00:11:30.960 ted kaczynski and be like well maybe maybe technology is a little scary okay that doesn't

00:11:35.600 mean to go just don't mail bombs just don't mail bombs like you know means ends and means

00:11:39.760 some of his critiques around the porn industry being exploitive and uh turning women in to these

00:11:46.080 over commercialized uh you know whatever some of the critiques you know weren't entirely off but

00:11:53.360 the way he went about it was to assassinate as far as we could tell assassinate the head of the uh

00:11:57.440 the parent company of pornhub i guess he obviously didn't succeed in that he just ended up getting in

00:12:01.440 a firefight with police officers didn't even get into the building no i've got a source in montreal

00:12:06.480 that said he actually called 9-1-1 and the cops came after he called 9-1-1 so he was trying to

00:12:13.680 oh yeah that was a bit of an ambush so i don't know how that fits with his plan to attack hornhub

00:12:18.960 well we're not sure if that's exactly his plan we know he had bitterness with him i mean

00:12:22.720 it's probably no mistake it was that building but yeah that's why i was trying to figure like why

00:12:26.640 did he travel from lethbridge to montreal yeah like if you want to do just a cop ambush you could

00:12:31.280 do that in lethbridge suicide thing i get or suicide by cop thing maybe idea i mean you know

00:12:36.960 he goes into the offices with no plan and rampages i guess he could harm a lot of people but

00:12:40.960 but where's the bullet coming towards him

00:12:43.320 that he wanted, I guess, maybe?

00:12:44.520 I don't know.

00:12:45.440 That's what I mean.

00:12:46.080 How are we getting ahead of somebody

00:12:47.080 who's clearly not...

00:12:48.360 Yeah.

00:12:49.100 I don't know.

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

00:12:51.340 I'm glad Ezra and team put the manifesto online

00:12:54.300 because so quickly, governments...

00:12:56.740 They use the excuse they don't want to glorify

00:12:59.180 the message of the shooters

00:13:00.440 as the excuse to scrub...

00:13:02.180 When the government comes in,

00:13:03.060 scrubs their social media,

00:13:04.280 scrubs their manifestos, etc.

00:13:06.860 Okay.

00:13:07.780 But that also means that puts the control

00:13:10.440 the narrative entirely in the hands of the government and i do not trust the government

00:13:14.920 in this kind of thing so that's why people speculating outside the government and you

00:13:18.360 get the wrong narrative i mean you're reading in with this kid and it didn't it didn't take

00:13:22.760 long for politics to enter it and the mayor of montreal calling for even more gun of course

00:13:28.600 conversation right yeah i think it was an sks as well yeah yeah there's a separate political thing

00:13:35.560 as to why they won't ban that one so yeah yeah are you allowed to say we we have said here yeah

00:13:41.800 you know yeah it's a popular one on indigenous reserves it's a popular hunting rival for

00:13:46.760 indigenous canadians and that's why it was on the ban list and they quickly took it off once they

00:13:50.200 realized oh we can't miss them off yeah um okay um i would just note uh technically the police

00:14:01.800 killed more people than the shooter.

00:14:04.260 Now, it's kind of a wash

00:14:06.160 because killing the shooter, I don't think

00:14:07.980 really counts as in the death

00:14:10.160 poll because that's not an innocent person.

00:14:13.680 The

00:14:14.160 police officer who's killed 1.00

00:14:15.680 and the rabbi are the two 0.79

00:14:17.920 innocent people, but

00:14:20.000 one of those two innocent people was killed by a cop.

00:14:22.260 So, yeah.

00:14:24.240 The scoreboard is not

00:14:25.740 looking very good for the

00:14:27.880 Montreal police right now.

00:14:29.180 so even if you take the shooter off

00:14:31.980 which is fair

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

00:14:35.480 that's not a good record

00:14:37.280 that's not a good score

00:14:39.180 it's bad all around

00:14:41.120 yeah so speaking of police

00:14:43.860 the fun police

00:14:44.920 thankfully

00:14:46.380 the fun police in Calgary

00:14:49.280 oh I don't want to take the metaphor

00:14:51.860 of friendly fire too far

00:14:53.920 unintentionally

00:14:59.260 No, no, Derek, don't draw the metaphor.

00:15:01.740 No.

00:15:02.740 So we've got this controversy here

00:15:04.900 where

00:15:05.900 the mayor and council

00:15:09.180 passed a new bylaw

00:15:11.280 restricting the hours around

00:15:14.840 music in the

00:15:16.940 I'm going to use the term Stampede season.

00:15:19.460 Everyone gets a season. Somali season. 0.99

00:15:21.600 LGTBQ, MMLW,

00:15:24.180 LGTBQS, Plyas

00:15:25.360 season. Everyone gets a season. 0.90

00:15:27.240 And Stampede really has just evolved into a season.

00:15:29.720 A lot of stuff is before and after now

00:15:31.140 because it's so packed and competing with each other.

00:15:34.980 So these new noise bylaws

00:15:39.160 to crack down on essentially concerts going late and loud

00:15:44.300 in the downtown area, Stampede and other areas in the core.

00:15:49.560 I mean, I'm not without sympathy

00:15:51.760 for people living in the downtown core,

00:15:55.000 But, you know, if you live in the downtown core, you've got a 114-year heads up that this is a thing.

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

00:16:03.360 I don't get to complain about a little prop plane taking off and the noise from that or a helicopter group because it was there before me.

00:16:11.520 And Stampede has been downtown Calgary before every single person alive in Calgary today, let alone just downtown.

00:16:17.380 So this evolved into a big fight.

00:16:18.980 Danielle Smith called Jeremy Farkas

00:16:21.960 the mayor, the fun police

00:16:23.860 even Pierre Polyev

00:16:25.560 got involved

00:16:27.000 the council

00:16:29.620 and mayor, a majority of it at least

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

00:16:33.520 dissenting vote but not enough

00:16:34.720 have been fighting here

00:16:38.720 and now it's

00:16:40.760 well everyone said, Don Braid

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

00:16:45.520 wrong with the music and stuff, it's actually not the fault

00:16:47.620 these bylaws it's the fault of danielle smith saying that it's the fun police so if people

00:16:53.860 stay away it's actually her fault for criticizing it it's it's just ridiculous i mean i i used it

00:17:01.940 fair enough dave called me i'll use the airport analogy it's a little bit different downtown

00:17:05.620 this tent moved into a new location but that spot's been used for other musical

00:17:09.540 festivals in the past too uh it was mawada stadium in the past the condos that are there

00:17:15.220 relatively new too i mean it's downtown things are changing but kind of the nature of stampede

00:17:20.260 it is a huge festival and downtown is the hub of it even if the stampede grounds is

00:17:26.180 the real center it spreads all over and i mean ranchmans i know it's

00:17:30.900 bit you know in a residential area but it's way well out of downtown too but it's turned into an

00:17:34.500 icon part of the stampede and these big events cost a lot of big money too and they bring in

00:17:41.540 a lot of big money that's that's also what's gonna be realized i know just as a bar owner

00:17:44.900 in a micro level when i'd have a band in and we have a party type night you're going right until

00:17:49.940 two in the morning you're money making hours of those last two hours when when you cut those hours

00:17:56.260 from those festivals you are taking a big bite out of the bottom line of these events uh and and that

00:18:02.980 really the other part with the city was some of the dispute i guess they'd warned that there's

00:18:06.980 going to be changes to this a few months ago but they didn't tell them what the changes were going

00:18:11.780 going to be they dropped that on these organizers just recently well they've already been hiring

00:18:16.420 staff for these events planning paying budgeting musical acts yeah acts that run that late and

00:18:22.840 then to have the city flip around essentially just weeks before the affair and say no you can't run

00:18:28.800 those hours they stepped in it i mean if they're going to crank it down they needed to get more

00:18:33.220 warning and we do have breaking news that country thunder has been canceled in calgary uh this

00:18:38.440 weekend uh for two reasons one they're having it down i'm not going to call it the conference i'll

00:18:43.480 call it fort calgary it was down there and the entire area is under construction with the new

00:18:48.680 uh event center so there was access uh access problems as well as the new noise bylaw and they

00:18:55.160 just said no we're gonna pull the plug i just want to not that i want to sound like rick bell

00:19:00.680 but when derek says it's the downtown core it's not like rick bell it's not just the downtown core

00:19:06.680 it's the belt line i think rick hane has called him today said it's 9 000 9 000 families in the

00:19:12.600 belt line that are affected by this music so that is people with young kids it is people who have

00:19:17.240 to get up and you know go work an early morning shift that are affected by it but 10 days suck

00:19:23.000 it up well the hyperbole was getting a little strong i mean jeremy farkas the mayor said that

00:19:27.880 windows were shaking so bad they broke from the music last year come on let's get a little

00:19:33.160 realistic who made these windows and and when you get to the belt line i mean to that point you're

00:19:37.320 across the railroad tracks you have engines going by between you and that event site every night

00:19:42.440 you've got to have some degree of soundproofing maybe there's a bit of that annoying something

00:19:46.040 going on for 11 nights where you can hear if you know the guys i'd like to chase out of the areas

00:19:50.120 the people who skateboard through there well that's another thing sitting up there but but

00:19:56.840 yeah there's there's reason it would yeah geez we might be hearing from some authorities yeah

00:20:04.040 but i mean it could be irritating i wouldn't want to live next to that racket there's no doubt i'm

00:20:07.640 a crabby older guy getting on now too and i don't want to listen to those guys going all night but

00:20:11.880 that's why i'm an apprentice like my vacation to get away the noise is the least amount of

00:20:17.320 the call well it's it's the puking it's the pissing it's that just you know people i remember electric

00:20:22.920 avenue it was the same thing then too in the belt line that i was one of the ones puking and pissing

00:20:27.080 in bushes back then it's a rite of passage it's unfortunate but you know every city in canada is

00:20:34.200 jealous of what we've got here edmonton i'm sorry to offend all our edmonton uh listeners viewers

00:20:40.280 uh edmonton has been trying to rip it off with how long is k days how long have they been trying to

00:20:46.840 rip it off with it's like calgary's got something unique and as i talked about my show too you know

00:20:52.120 if anybody's ever been to new orleans and the french quarter and and mardi gras i mean it's

00:20:56.920 a particular and there's residential right there they're brilliant old buildings with courtyards

00:21:01.560 and people live right up from that they know at least fat tuesday and the rest you aren't sleeping

00:21:07.240 for a week it's not going to happen you chose to be down there that's the thing and it brings

00:21:11.560 in a fortune to that city which is otherwise pretty damn rough so what would you say if they

00:21:16.360 They offered a minimal tax break for people in the affected area.

00:21:21.780 There could be ways to offset some of the headaches.

00:21:24.620 I don't know.

00:21:25.320 There are ways the organizers could do outreach.

00:21:26.820 It comes with living in the area.

00:21:27.680 I don't get a tax break for having a municipal airport near me because it was there.

00:21:31.460 It just comes with living in the area.

00:21:33.340 I mean, it's been there for a while.

00:21:35.140 The new Cowboys tent is nowhere near downtown.

00:21:37.920 The new Cowboys tent is nowhere near the Stampede grounds.

00:21:41.120 But they got that, I don't know what to call it, but there's a massive conglomeration of tents and goodness knows what, right at the back of the Muata Armory.

00:21:48.900 Yeah, that's the same.

00:21:49.500 They got one down the street there as well.

00:21:51.180 So, I mean, there's a lot of places to generate a lot of noise.

00:21:54.660 It all came because the stampede was so bad, they sucked so bad, that the bar owners started bringing in better musical acts than the stampede was.

00:22:02.980 So, people went to the bars.

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

00:22:05.900 Part of it.

00:22:06.360 This festival is so big, though, you can't contain it in stampede.

00:22:09.460 Exactly.

00:22:09.900 It doesn't work.

00:22:10.660 i remember way back when they they tried 88 street on the stampede grounds i don't remember that lasted

00:22:15.460 two years they were trying to kind of piggyback on the olympic uh feeling and everything in the city

00:22:20.180 but the problem was it was next to the indian village that was over there and they were

00:22:22.900 complaining about the noise of 88 street with all the partying down on the stampede ground so they

00:22:27.300 shut that down like somebody's going to complain somewhere no matter what you do

00:22:32.180 part of this is a culture war it's not just that's the problem those of us who don't live

00:22:37.940 live in the core versus those who are in the core being inconvenienced or disturbed whatever some of

00:22:43.760 it is down to there's a clique in Calgary that more or less it's a class I mean cliques the wrong

00:22:52.440 term but there's a there's a kind of a class of people who are ashamed of Calgary being Calgary

00:22:57.160 being cow town and they want Calgary to be Toronto the way Toronto is trying to be New York they

00:23:04.520 don't like calgary as calgary and that's not to say it can ever change but for a crowd of its western 0.60

00:23:10.200 prairie settler cowboy roots settlers aren't supposed to be a bad word and we're celebrating

00:23:15.960 that we're celebrating that's why they're erasing things like fort calgary yeah exactly you know the

00:23:20.520 confluence now um you know and they say oh it's you know this whole party scene is misogynist and

00:23:28.360 racist and sexist and all of these things yeah well cowboys did uh for a time provide certain

00:23:35.080 cosmetic enhancements for for women there uh i mean okay whatever um but you know there was

00:23:41.960 nothing illegal about that that's just do you think it's appropriate or not no shortage of

00:23:45.960 takers either i understand no no it was quite a bit of uptake on the program uh i mean uh i don't

00:23:53.000 know how dave would feel if i had to do that kind of benefits program at the western standard i don't

00:23:56.520 don't know if you take me up on it oh no i wouldn't but there might be something that would 1.00

00:24:00.200 yeah uh thing in a quarry what's that they're getting the enhancement those tub girls were

00:24:06.680 making 10 grand in 10 days right it was crazy money for them yeah so um but a lot of it is you

00:24:13.080 know they don't like it they see it as lowbrow you know it's the cosplay cowboy thing everyone

00:24:17.640 puts on their get-ups you know very few actual cowboys there anymore but it's a celebration of

00:24:23.320 that culture and yeah there's debauchery and it's raunchy that's why i use mardi gras as another 1.00

00:24:28.920 example the reality of it is it's just a party of young people the the roots of creole and everything 0.99

00:24:34.600 have mostly been lost there are people cosplaying drinking their faces off it's not a highbrow high

00:24:39.880 class thing but it's just it's the nature of the festival oktoberfest what does it focus around

00:24:45.240 technically it was a wedding no one remembers that that was a wedding well they don't remember

00:24:49.160 because they've been drinking ever since exactly yeah so but i think we've got this uh it's a

00:24:55.640 culture clash here of people as some people it is genuine concern they just don't like the noise

00:25:00.760 and whatnot to which you know we've already talked about but for a lot of people especially those not

00:25:05.320 in the core directly affected they're on the side of trying to clamp down on this on the margins

00:25:10.840 here and there and this has been going on for a long time in different forms um some of it was

00:25:15.400 you know animal cruelty this is taking different forms in time but it's people who just don't like

00:25:20.940 the stampede they're they're embarrassed by it yeah we hear that slipping out now and then and

00:25:25.380 i'm gonna mention her a little later too in my parting shot but our beloved head of the calgary

00:25:31.060 chamber of commerce wrote a long piece a couple of years ago saying calgary must move away from

00:25:36.200 the cowboy and oil field culture because this embarrassing status is keeping people from

00:25:40.020 wanting to move to our city these are the type of folks ingrained within that city hall mindset

00:25:44.540 and and subgroup of basically snobs who really want to turn this into some weird euro type of

00:25:51.340 place which just isn't in the nature of the city but they can cause a lot of damage trying to change

00:25:56.000 it to that and that's a little bit of what's going on now they made changes to the chuck wagons which

00:25:59.960 makes it a lot more safer but it's now a lot more boring uh and you remember the uh the outrage over

00:26:06.720 years ago in the calf roping when people would react in horror to see the the calf's neck jerk

00:26:13.060 back so they changed it cbc who's ever carrying it now does not show the calf going off the ground

00:26:18.740 as soon as the lasso is launched around the little calf the camera zooms back up to the cowboy so you

00:26:24.900 don't see the calf in mid-air thumping to the ground presumably all the people who are objecting

00:26:29.140 to this don't eat beef apparently not no no for veal life is full of even veal i admit veal is

00:26:37.300 actually a bit cruel i eat it anyway but i i do admit that's not it's not the nicest meat i eat

00:26:42.420 i'm one of those i won't buy it due to that reason you don't need deal no no this is a

00:26:46.980 just as a consumer choice because of that i can respect that i'm not i think it is incorrect to

00:26:50.660 be banned but i won't i won't spend my money on yeah yeah well what a novel concept just

00:26:56.980 don't do it yourself that's pretty radical stuff okay well you know i'm liking the segways today

00:27:02.580 we went from uh uh police shooting to the fun police and uh you know noise complaints about

00:27:13.380 cowboys now to noise complaints from the people of regina about the call to prayer so we'll talk

00:27:19.620 now about the islamic republic of saskatchewan um hey uh the color of saskatchewan is already green 0.55

00:27:27.220 It's the Islamic color.

00:27:29.220 No need to change the flag. 1.00

00:27:32.220 It's the Hamas color anyway.

00:27:34.220 They'll just change some of the design on the Saskatchewan flag. 0.97

00:27:39.220 It makes it like a Saudi flag.

00:27:41.220 I'll just put a crescent moon on it. 0.92

00:27:43.220 There we go.

00:27:44.220 There's a bigger context here than just what's going on in Regina.

00:27:48.220 In the past few months, churches have been contending with the federal government over Bill C-9.

00:27:55.220 Because why? Because the Combating Hate Act would have it that they couldn't quote certain parts of the Bible.

00:28:02.600 So, and there was hope that this new law would at least help protect Jewish places of worship,

00:28:09.880 which of course have been under attack for a couple of years, since October the 7th,

00:28:14.880 mostly by Hamas loyalists, and we may as well say it, mostly Muslim sympathizers.

00:28:20.900 the department of justice put out a statement when this bill c9 had royal assent a few days ago

00:28:29.420 and it said rising now you get the categories here rising anti-semitism islamophobia homophobia

00:28:37.100 and transphobia have left too many people feeling unsafe in their own communities this law will

00:28:44.360 better protect their worship etc etc etc fine but it turns out that the first people to seek the new

00:28:52.200 bill's protection are muslims in regina not jews in toronto or montreal uh not gays not

00:29:01.160 this muslims in regina where police patrols are now increased after local residents complained 0.53

00:29:08.120 when the mosque broadcast the call to prayer over loudspeakers. Apparently, you can hear it for three

00:29:15.000 miles in all directions. I talked with Chris Oldcorn this morning about this. Chris Oldcorn,

00:29:21.400 for those who don't know, he's got my job. He's the opinion editor in Regina, so he has every

00:29:28.120 right to an opinion on this. So anyway, we've just been talking about how people are upset by

00:29:34.120 the sound of laughter at two o'clock in the morning and during the stampede so you get this

00:29:41.400 dreary sound being blasted out for you don't like the

00:29:49.160 i don't find a very catchy talk so but apparently there's a hate crime to say that so there you'll

00:29:53.800 join me in the doc on this one yep the larger we're racking up our acron yeah so the larger

00:29:59.880 context that I speak of is that there is clearly an evangelical zeal among Regina's Muslims. Last

00:30:07.880 year, they took over the University of Regina Student Union and promptly defunded everything

00:30:14.920 that didn't fit Muslim values. So the Women's Center got defunded. They lost their money,

00:30:22.840 isn't it? They couldn't meet in the building. And so you have to wonder what the federal

00:30:27.800 government is going to tolerate. Bill C-9 is supposed to discourage all those things, Islamophobia,

00:30:33.160 homophobia, transphobia. The first thing the Islamists did under the license provider with 0.97

00:30:40.200 Bill C-9 was to target—actually, that was before Bill C-9—but when they had their chance, they 0.94

00:30:46.440 went after the gays and the trans. And now they're ostentatiously establishing their presence in the 0.79

00:30:53.080 very center of Regina. So, you know, we introduced this segment as the Islamic Republic of Saskatchewan.

00:31:00.040 I mean, we're going to have to wait and see what the Liberals are prepared to say yes to.

00:31:05.560 It's set to ring out again Friday morning. There is supposed to be a small demonstration against

00:31:11.960 it. We'll see if that happens. But the Regina police put out a statement saying, basically

00:31:17.160 saying this is

00:31:18.400 allowed, they're not breaking any laws

00:31:21.080 and any protests,

00:31:22.700 anybody say anything bad, here are what

00:31:25.140 the hate laws are. So, you know, if they

00:31:27.140 had, say, ten people out there protesting,

00:31:29.280 are they going to arrest all ten?

00:31:30.740 Well, it depends what they say, if they

00:31:32.740 stand there. Just to play a little devil's

00:31:35.300 advocate, though, there's

00:31:37.140 some really loud church bells that go off

00:31:39.240 in big cathedrals and populated

00:31:41.060 areas every Sunday morning

00:31:43.120 or at other determined times during the day.

00:31:45.080 You did it now, Corey. 0.99

00:31:47.160 Now, one, church bells, I mean, sure, I guess it's a matter of preference, but I've never even met an atheist who's like, oh, those church bells are awful. 1.00

00:31:55.340 Oh, I like the song of church bells. I'm not trying to say they sound, but I'm just talking about expression. 1.00

00:32:00.620 But also, you know, the cult of prayer is also kind of a sign of conquest of an area that Islam, this is now an Islamic area. 0.60

00:32:08.040 And also, you know, this is maybe extremely unfashionable to say, but this was built as a Christian country. 0.92

00:32:14.660 I don't believe in there being an established church,

00:32:17.240 the idea of a state church,

00:32:18.980 but the idea that we just forget that it was Christians

00:32:23.300 who settled and built Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec,

00:32:28.540 all of Canada, to just forget that.

00:32:30.880 No, I think there is just no equivalent between a church bell

00:32:34.620 and a call to prayer.

00:32:35.880 And another, just some background on the call to prayer anyways,

00:32:38.580 not coming on that, but pointing out it is an old practice

00:32:41.960 because of the days before people had watches or certainly smartphones or anything you didn't know

00:32:46.920 when your call to prayer time was so they held it from the top of the building so you could all slam

00:32:50.920 down and face mecca and do your things uh you don't need that anymore i mean they know which

00:32:55.800 way east is and you know uh what time of the day is and it is i believe if they're going to keep

00:33:01.720 going and go observant they're going to keep pushing i mean this is what's five times a day

00:33:06.200 five times a day every day they're not going to stop with one is if you thought cowboys was the

00:33:10.440 noise problem wait till you get this uh i want to point out here like so what's happening with 1.00

00:33:17.400 vagina and they'll see 90s new hate laws being used against anyone who would dissent against 0.95

00:33:23.160 the islamification of saskatchewan or canada groups like benai breath were cheering this kind

00:33:31.640 of thing cheering new censorship laws and i uh you know i we had to make some editorial decisions

00:33:38.560 around this stuff because i i said like these guys are not on our side they are there was a lot

00:33:44.720 of good jewish voices that spoke out against this stuff and there's still bernie farbers out there

00:33:48.880 too unfortunately yeah and you know so so some of these jewish groups which are rightfully pointing 0.60

00:33:54.160 out that they're being you know jewish people are being targeted synagogues being attacked a lot of

00:33:59.040 these very bad incidents they weren't saying let's just use the existing appropriate laws that are

00:34:05.600 more most more neutral uh to stop this kind of thing they were calling for more censorship more

00:34:13.140 authoritarian and then shock the first thing that happens is you got the regina police turning

00:34:18.780 around saying don't you speak up against uh the islamification and call to prayer of regina or

00:34:24.260 that's a hate crime who could have predicted this it's like so many things when the activists

00:34:29.080 take hold of the four rather than you know whatever it was supposed to it was entirely

00:34:33.000 predictable though they overstep yeah the same thing whereas pride began as something to allow

00:34:37.780 more expression and now the activists are at the point we're going to attack anybody who dares to

00:34:42.640 even question our expression i mean the the morph into something far and beyond and uh you know

00:34:48.620 groups like benai breath which expose a lot of very serious problems and things but yes they're

00:34:54.640 proposing a cure worse than the disease in ways that but like guys like benai breath uh are

00:35:00.540 crack trying to take away my freedoms it makes me question even what they're reporting there is

00:35:06.540 obviously a lot of things to report but i don't necessarily believe their numbers because i don't

00:35:10.240 trust people who are pushing an agenda of censorship ever well you might also wonder

00:35:16.260 how many of the complaints received by the mosque originated outside the mosque you know that's the 0.94

00:35:22.360 way these games are played as you make yourself the victim you get the government on your side

00:35:27.120 then freedom suffers so i i i don't doubt that there are a lot of people in regina who said

00:35:33.960 screw this i don't want this every every friday at one o'clock for uh all over the downtown but

00:35:40.720 they certainly are very good at uh presenting themselves as the victims 1.00

00:35:45.120 in this situation and till they till they get control so i'm the thing with the the jewish

00:35:53.680 communities we never needed bill nine to look after the jewish communities if that was our 0.98

00:35:57.700 objective we would simply have put more police patrols on the streets where they lived where

00:36:02.900 they had their their little shops and their synagogues and if somebody was breaking windows

00:36:09.040 or painting swastikas or whatever they were doing we would arrest and charge the laws were already

00:36:15.560 there the laws were there so i actually have a much more conspiratorial view of what bill c9 is

00:36:21.600 really all about but didn't see the islamic thing coming but i think the government is basically

00:36:27.240 trying to build a whole battery of of laws which we've seen in the last five years

00:36:33.360 in order to control speech and control opinion it's just the way they are

00:36:37.320 don't have to push back yeah uh you know normally you get groups who want to take away freedoms

00:36:43.980 because they think it will help them and then eventually though that those those authoritarian

00:36:49.620 laws are eventually used against them this is being used against them like immediately because

00:36:57.160 this was i think so predictable that who are these laws always really only applied to they're

00:37:03.700 like white christian people different activists who push on things i mean listen to bernie far

00:37:08.700 bernie farber listen to ezra levant very very different uh i mean they're both coming out of

00:37:13.120 the same background but much different views on where as i saw the big picture on this stuff

00:37:18.060 He's never called ever. He's always strenuously fought any of these censorship pushes, even if they're ostensibly designed to protect his community.

00:37:26.500 So that's to his credit. But a lot of the official organizations, purporting to speak on behalf of the community, you know, they predictably fell into this trap calling for censorship.

00:37:35.820 And now it's being used in a way that is probably going to be used to intimidate them further. 0.98

00:37:41.160 And I got to say, you know, talk about the Islamification of Saskatchewan. Look at Great Britain as a warning. 0.98

00:37:48.060 threaten is now an islamic country it's all up and down the country it's run by islamic councils 1.00

00:37:54.780 this is what's coming in canada this is the start of it if it hasn't you know you look at brampton 1.00

00:37:59.820 uh you know that's basically that's seek but it's you know the they're now controlling the electorate

00:38:05.740 and the uh in the the recent by-election so it's it's take it as a warning because it's hidden our

00:38:11.660 away all right i mean uh i was at the uh stampede saskatchewan game in town here just on uh i think

00:38:22.700 it was saturday saturday heartbreaker we lost in double overtime uh but um i mean saskatchewan

00:38:30.040 games are not going to be quite the same when we uh have to kneel get a stop heart play through

00:38:34.120 and everybody got a slam that could be the end of it there's one thing stamps fans you know what i

00:38:40.320 saskatchewan will finally snap one thing more sacred than anything else in saskatchewan and

00:38:44.880 that's the the the rough riders you know i i don't mean to be uh overly provocative 1.00

00:38:52.160 you know with muslims here but i don't think they're allowed to play because we have pigskin 0.99

00:38:56.400 oh never thought of that it's a racist game because of the pigs is it still pig 1.00

00:39:01.120 ah probably not but i mean it's a it's it might be it's a tough weather yeah they they stick 0.92

00:39:05.920 a lot of tradition with things like football okay so that's what we need to watch for when they start

00:39:10.480 changing the football if they haven't already i'm not positive but if they stop making it a pigskin

00:39:15.680 we know we've been conquered okay uh we'll move it to our uh parting shots

00:39:23.520 i'll go first okay uh world cup fever across canada uh canada's uh gonna be through to the

00:39:30.560 next round so that'll hype up the level even more but my favorite video this week i think

00:39:34.880 there was an australian tourist somewhere in the states was able to carry 26 pints of beer

00:39:41.040 the 20 ounce bites all by himself no tray just able to carry 26. where was he from australia i

00:39:48.160 believe that yeah so that's uh so let's go canada talent i mean something outside of canada just a

00:39:53.920 side note was the those japanese fans cleaning up the stadium after seeing some other cultural

00:39:58.800 practices i mean you know talk about polite i'm not anti-immigration bring the japanese i like

00:40:04.080 the japanese and blight and they do that everywhere they go no matter what stadium they play

00:40:10.000 i don't even do that that's crazy my parting shot is just sharing a little love again to calgary's

00:40:13.920 chamber of commerce and deborah yetelin uh the one who said that restaurants enjoy having vaccine

00:40:19.520 passports and it's good for business and also said we should phase out the oil field and we should

00:40:23.840 get rid of cowboys and the oil culture they released the thing today saying half of their

00:40:28.080 members would leave if alberta were to become independent which again shows the utter complete 0.81

00:40:34.080 full lack of business sense in that woman they're going to stay wherever there's money 1.00

00:40:38.660 quit playing in this game try actually representing businesses for the first time

00:40:42.520 is yelling because it's tiresome i'm sure all of the businesses fled switzerland when it left the

00:40:47.680 holy roman empire yeah well actually building on your point there uh happy to record that uh after

00:40:55.620 almost a year just shy of a few days we have uh celebrating the hundredth shipment of uh

00:41:03.600 natural gas from kitimat to and that would be alberta and northeastern bc natural gas from

00:41:10.920 kitimat to far east 5.9 billion dollars worth of product in the last 12 months this is the kind of

00:41:18.080 development we want good news story one year i'll use mine uh to plug well it could be news uh the

00:41:25.780 western standards first annual stampede barbecue we've been meaning to do this for a very long time

00:41:31.100 We're finally off our hearts to do it.

00:41:33.240 It is going to be July 8th at the Sun Alta Community Center.

00:41:39.080 So pretty central in Calgary, not right in the core.

00:41:43.020 We'll, I'm sure, generate some noise complaints ourselves.

00:41:46.340 One to four o'clock on July 8th.

00:41:50.340 Sun Alta Community Center.

00:41:52.000 Free barbecue.

00:41:53.300 We're going to have burgers and hot dogs and all sorts of stuff going on.

00:41:58.380 Some of the staff recommended we get a dunk tank.

00:42:00.780 people could pay to dunk me in a dunk tank and I said well the you know the money that doesn't

00:42:04.960 work out well the dunk tanks cost a bunch to rent and the logistics you know we just do uh water

00:42:09.960 balloons so technically I guess I proved water balloons you know some of our staff here could

00:42:16.860 take weeks to get a task initiated um you know it could take they could take three or four weeks

00:42:23.680 sometimes for some things it well it took this operation staff here three to four minutes to

00:42:27.880 immediately put out an email

00:42:29.900 to all of our subscribers, put it on

00:42:31.880 Twitter, put it on other social

00:42:33.820 media that, hey, here's our

00:42:35.760 Stampede Barbecue, and you can buy tickets

00:42:38.040 in person

00:42:39.760 or in advance to throw water

00:42:41.840 balloons at

00:42:42.960 yours truly.

00:42:45.320 So yeah, it's $5 for one balloon,

00:42:48.260 $10 for three, and

00:42:50.060 increasingly good deals

00:42:51.860 to get 25 balloons. I never

00:42:53.800 signed off on 25 balloons

00:42:55.300 for $50. I did not

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

00:43:02.240 you did confirm they're looking out for you because we're only allowed to have water in them

00:43:05.680 so one idea of mine was already shot down but i mean balloons come in a lot of shapes and sizes

00:43:10.960 and would french safes uh be appropriate for what ah don't worry about it for the one for the viewers

00:43:18.080 who want to google it they can find it yeah i got you yeah uh wasn't one of those incel guys no yeah

00:43:25.040 i i cannot um disclose who but i'll just give you guys a bit of a tickler there's a very good chance

00:43:33.120 we're gonna have a very special guest on scene uh who will also be getting pelted with water

00:43:40.640 balloons uh these would be for charity uh this is someone a lot of people i think want to hit

00:43:45.520 with water balloons right now uh but it's someone who i think is a very good sport uh but i can't

00:43:50.000 announce the name because it's not yet a hundred percent confirmed but we got a pretty good feeling

00:43:53.840 about it so stand by for the hopeful rock on wood somewhere i can't reach i can't reach a little bit

00:44:00.480 under there um uh the announcement of our very special guest who's going to be hopefully at uh

00:44:06.320 our stampede party barbecue getting felted uh i mean i'll i'll spend some money uh and i actually

00:44:12.000 this is really good for me because it was looking like the staff were going to blow entire paychecks

00:44:16.160 on balloons to hit me and some kind of vengeance complex i don't know what's going on all right

00:44:23.840 that's it cory dave nigel thank you it was fun thank you john on production and all of you

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Western Standard - June 27, 2026

PIPELINE： Fun police, prayer calls and a Montreal shooting

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