Western Standard - May 31, 2022


The Newsroom: Dave & Cory discuss the trending news today.


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

161.8737

Word Count

364

Sentence Count

24


Summary

The gun debate is dominating the news headlines again today, we have a column from David Creighton on how Trudeau is shamelessly exploiting the gun tragedy in Texas and it's not going to do anything about crime in Canada, and a story about a 15-year-old boy in Toronto who was arrested facing multiple charges and there were guns involved in the incident. We also have a piece written by a fellow called Corey Morgan talking about health care spending and it doesn't matter how much money you throw at the problem, it won't fix the broken system. And a column up by Linda Slobodian on the problems with the cash questions and when you can use cash to buy UCP leadership or become a member of the party to vote for the leadership. And speaking of that, we are moments away from having Travis Taves, the current finance minister, announce his bid for leadership.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Big story this morning that had all the women in the newsroom squealing and apparently your wife, too, that Kevin Costner is coming to town.
00:00:09.060 He's been named the Grand Marshal of the Calgary Stampede Parade on July 8th.
00:00:13.860 So that's got everybody very excited.
00:00:15.820 He's obviously one of the biggest stars in the world right now with Yellowstone and he's got some fairly good movies under his belt.
00:00:22.720 So get on the stampede to try and get more back and focused on modern day life.
00:00:28.480 The gun debate is dominating the news headlines again today, Corey.
00:00:33.540 We've got a column from David Creighton just on how Trudeau is shamelessly exploiting the gun tragedy down in Texas and it's not really going to do anything about crime in Canada.
00:00:45.940 And right next to that, we've got a story about a 15-year-old boy in Toronto.
00:00:50.220 He was arrested facing multiple charges and there was handguns involved there.
00:00:55.960 So lots of gun stuff today.
00:01:00.500 We've got a column written by a fellow called Corey Morgan talking about health care spending and it doesn't matter how much money you throw at the problem, it's not going to fix the broken system.
00:01:11.160 We've got a column up by our Linda Slobodian on the problems with the cash questions and when you can use cash to buy UCP leadership or become a member of the party to vote for the UCP leadership.
00:01:27.500 And speaking of that, we're moments away from having Travis Taves, the current finance minister, announce his bid for the leadership.
00:01:37.360 Apparently he resigned as finance minister this morning.
00:01:40.320 He's going to be having a press conference in about 20 minutes in Grand Prairie and that'll lead to a cabinet shuffle later on this afternoon.
00:01:48.820 I'm thinking because somebody's going to have to replace Travis Taves as finance minister.
00:01:54.420 And the money seems to be on Tyler Shandro, who's a close confidant of Jason Kenney.
00:02:01.480 So lots of political intrigue coming up this afternoon, Corey.
00:02:05.480 Great.
00:02:05.900 Well, political intrigue is our trade here along with news and other items.
00:02:11.540 So, yeah, we'll be watching that closely.
00:02:13.480 All right.
00:02:13.960 Talk to you later.
00:02:14.880 Talk to you later.