Western Standard - August 05, 2022


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


Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

158.03856

Word count

347

Sentence count

25

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.