Western Standard - August 05, 2022


The Newsroom： Canada plans to temporarily ban the import of handguns

Topics
handgun import ban
Mentioned
Todd Lohan Dina Hinshaw Corey
Kelly Malmberg on Ottawa's pressures on agricultural producers Mark Milke of the Aristotle Foundation how the right has to stop acting like the left

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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

158.04

Word count

347

Sentence count

24

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Summary

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A man in Ottawa who draped a U.S. flag over the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has been caught and will be dealt with by the police. The Liberals are bringing in a ban on bringing in handguns within the next two weeks without needing to go through Parliament and it s going to put a crimp in all those plans for people to get last minute guns. UCP candidate Todd Lohan has written a letter to Alberta's Auditor General asking them to investigate the mega bonuses paid during the COVID pandemic.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Best story being those sneaky Liberals are going to bring in a ban on importing handguns within the next two weeks. 1.00
00:00:08.220 They're going to do it without having to go through Parliament.
00:00:11.140 And this is going to put a hink in all those plans for people to get last-minute guns.
00:00:17.980 Because most of the handguns that are built are obviously being imported into Canada for sale.
00:00:23.680 So it's going to put a crimp in everybody's plans to try and get a handgun before they become banned.
00:00:28.760 Other stuff, we've got a guy in Ottawa who draped a U.S. flag over the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
00:00:38.640 A very naughty thing to do, but police have caught him and questioned him and say he feels genuine remorse.
00:00:46.160 So there won't be any charges there.
00:00:48.220 UCP candidate Todd Lohan has written a letter to Alberta's Auditor General asking them to investigate the mega bonuses, as he calls them, that were paid out during the COVID pandemic.
00:01:02.760 Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Dina Hinshaw, brought home a cool just little bit under $600,000 for her work salary and bonuses last year during COVID. 0.63
00:01:15.240 So Lohan says this wasn't done with any official government approval.
00:01:21.060 It was all done through the Civil Service.
00:01:22.900 And he wants to know what happened and how they're going to stop it again.
00:01:28.880 Saskatchewan's top court has ordered a father there to get his kids vaccinated against COVID.
00:01:36.980 The father didn't want to.
00:01:38.460 The mother did. 0.90
00:01:39.220 They were separated or divorced and the judges ruled on the mum's side.
00:01:44.440 So the kids are going to have to get vaccinated.
00:01:47.200 And the feds are going to try and explain how they managed to screw up COVID purchasing to the tune of $106 million.
00:01:55.760 Chump change for the Liberals, Corey, but it's a big chunk of lost money for the rest of us.
00:02:01.640 So that's up there now, working on more stuff this afternoon and getting ready for things on the weekend.
00:02:08.200 So keep checking back because there's going to be lots of fresh content.