Western Standard - July 18, 2022


The Newsroom： Poll says support for Trudeau is plummeting...

Topics
poll support plummeting
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Elliott Investment Reid Small Matt
Triggered： The Thomas Dang scandal is sliding under the radar Triggered： When will there be a forensic investigation into alleged residential school grave sites？

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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

123.0

Word count

287

Sentence count

26

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this week's Blacklock, we have a story about a fake vaccination scam, a new haircut for our Prime Minister, and a police shooting that killed an armed man in Saskatchewan. We also have a new story about menstrual changes that have been going on for many years.

Transcript

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00:00:00.240 We have a story up on the website right now. Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan preparing
00:00:05.040 to roll out the vaccines for preschoolers and toddlers. Not everyone agrees with that.
00:00:11.920 We've got another story up. Suncor Energy is entering into an agreement with activist investor
00:00:17.440 Elliott Investment. Ontario NDP leadership election rules are playing identity politics. It looks like
00:00:25.840 the signatories for each person, each candidate needs to include at least 50% of signatories need
00:00:34.720 to be women and 25% of them need to be from a racialized group. So we've got that story up right 1.00
00:00:42.880 now. BC Nurse has been suspended for creating fake vaccine cards for people. So we've got our BC
00:00:53.920 reporter Reid Small who has covered that one. The CRA is claiming prosecuting tax cheaters is taking
00:01:02.080 way too long. So that's up. That's from our Black Locks reporter. Department of Health has lost
00:01:11.360 thousands of computers. That is apparently going to be a hefty bill for that and how you lose computers.
00:01:20.640 I'm not 100% sure. Looks like our Prime Minister has a new haircut, which people are sort of talking
00:01:30.400 about right now. But apparently a new poll says the Prime Minister is plummeting in support. So those
00:01:38.240 stories up. We also have a story around a police shooting that happened that killed an armed Saskatchewan
00:01:45.920 man. And it looks like our reporter Matt is going to be diving into a story about menstrual changes
00:01:54.240 that have significantly been affected by many for many women. And this is sort of a story that's
00:02:01.200 that's kind of come and go. But it looks like this is actually bigger than has been reported on as of yet.
00:02:08.240 All right. Well, a lot.
00:02:18.000 You