Western Standard - September 15, 2022


Prime minister announces delegation to Queen's funeral


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

156.89603

Word Count

339

Sentence Count

17


Summary

A police officer who donated money to the Freedom Convoy has been charged with discuterious conduct, a City of Calgary columnist has a look at the upcoming City Hall budget for the next four years, and there's a story on who exactly will be representing Canada at the Queen's funeral.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 We're leading off with the story of an Ottawa police officer who donated money to the Freedom Convoy earlier this year through GoFundMe.
00:00:07.920 She has been charged with discredible conduct for doing that and made her first internal disciplinary hearing meeting today.
00:00:16.200 Our Mike Thomas, City of Calgary columnist, has got a look at the upcoming City Hall budget for the next four years.
00:00:23.880 And it includes, you guessed it, a lot of tax increases, up to 20% in property tax increases over the next few years.
00:00:33.420 Matthew Horwood in Ottawa has got a story on who exactly will be representing Canada at the Queen's funeral on Monday.
00:00:40.060 Justin Trudeau will be joined by former Prime Ministers, including Stephen Harper, at the ceremony in Westminster Abbey.
00:00:47.620 Lee Harding's got a story on a survey of Canadian universities, and it's no surprise that the majority of university professors are left-wing.
00:00:58.500 In fact, there are more than 10 times the number of left-wing professors at Canadian universities than right-wing.
00:01:05.660 And our David Creighton has got a column on Justin Trudeau and his love for censoring things, and all that is going to be coming to the internet world near you, thanks to their new censorship bill.
00:01:18.580 If you haven't seen them, we've got two great Linda Slobodian columns, one an exclusive from last night, interviewing the head of the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
00:01:28.080 He is under fire and, in fact, has been asked to resign by the Alberta government for comments he wrote years ago about the Muslim religion.
00:01:36.980 He's refusing to step down and has hired a lawyer.
00:01:40.820 Linda's also got some information on what the word woke means for Environment Minister Stephen Gilbert.
00:01:48.760 He was asked, do you understand what woke means?
00:01:51.700 And he says, no.
00:01:53.020 Well, Linda lays it out for him just on what exactly it is to be woke.
00:01:57.840 For the Western Standard, I'm Dave Naylor.
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