Western Standard - June 20, 2022


The Newsroom: Caitlyn Jenner celebrates transgender swimming ban.


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

143.43526

Word Count

319

Sentence Count

21

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

In this week's show, we have a report from Scotiabank criticising the Trudeau government, a story about a man who refused to give blood when asked if he'd been pregnant in the past two years, and the story of a woman who refuses to donate blood after being asked if she's pregnant. We also hear from Caitlyn Jenner about the World Swimming Association's decision to ban transgenders from competing in the Olympics.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 We've got University of Ottawa professor Adiran. He's been in the news a fair amount in the last couple of years. He's got some interesting views, shall we say. He's did his best for international relations this weekend, Twitter shaming a United Airlines flight attendant.
00:00:20.040 And then to carry on, he Twitter shamed anybody that's ever worked at McDonald's, which is probably a huge chunk of the Canadian population. So he's doing his best to improve relations there.
00:00:32.860 We've got a Karen Selleck column on the George Jonas Freedom Awards that were given out last week to Tamara Litch in a ceremony in Toronto.
00:00:45.160 She was obviously claimed to fame as being one of the blockade organizers.
00:00:50.760 An interesting story from Scotiabank, one of the biggest banks in Canada, has written a report slamming Trudeau and his government's actions, basically saying they're making ordinary Canadians fight all this inflation on their backs.
00:01:06.740 And it's interesting that such a prominent bank would give the Liberals a negative review.
00:01:11.680 Courtesy of our social media guru, Rob, we've got a really cool video of a white grizzly bear spotted in Lake Louise.
00:01:22.480 So that's always cool.
00:01:25.080 And we've got a longtime blood donor in Scotland who has basically had enough.
00:01:30.280 He went and tried to donate blood and was asked whether or not he'd been pregnant in the last two years.
00:01:37.020 So he said, all right, that's enough of that and refused to donate.
00:01:42.640 Speaking of which, a story from our Arthur Greenup followed to the banning of transgendered athletes by the World Swimming Organization on the weekend.
00:01:54.000 We've heard from perhaps the most famous transgendered person in the world, Caitlyn Jenner, and she's all for it.
00:02:00.360 She says, good on the swimming people to ban transgendered because they get an unfair advantage.
00:02:07.320 Great. Well, thanks for the check-in and looking forward to seeing those stories as they break.
00:02:12.820 Thanks, Cork.