Western Standard - June 22, 2022


The Newsroom： Taxpayer watchdog calls on Trudeau to copy Biden by providing gas tax relief.


Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

158.2068

Word count

587

Sentence count

43

Harmful content

Misogyny

2

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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The Liberals have frozen Hockey Canada's funding, the Trans Mountain pipeline is $600 million in the hole, and there's a story about a neighbor lady who was trying to disrupt a wedding with her weed whacker and lawnmower.

Transcript

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00:00:00.480 Lots of good stuff in the news already this morning.
00:00:03.920 We've got our Rachel Emanuel has talked to former finance minister and current UCP candidate,
00:00:10.580 Travis Taves, about the RCMP and the Prime Minister's office sort of working together
00:00:17.500 to use the mass shootings down in Nova Scotia as their way to get some gun control into
00:00:23.240 the country.
00:00:23.940 It really is a horrible, horrible scandal.
00:00:26.880 Speaking of scandals, we've got the Liberals this morning have announced they are freezing
00:00:33.500 funding to Hockey Canada as Hockey Canada grapples with their own sex scandal.
00:00:40.040 And apparently they've known about it for years and did nothing about it.
00:00:44.640 So the feds have frozen their funding until they get their house in order.
00:00:49.640 We've got a great video from our Melanie Rizdin of the ultimate Karen neighbor down in New 0.98
00:00:56.080 Brunswick.
00:00:56.980 Her neighbor was getting married in their next door outside lawn on the weekend.
00:01:02.180 And every time they tried to read their vows, the neighbor lady would fire up her weed whacker 1.00
00:01:08.580 or her lawnmower and just completely disrupt the ceremony so that the bride and groom could 0.99
00:01:14.120 not hear a thing.
00:01:15.320 So there's some good video on that.
00:01:19.180 Corey, you'll remember the giant blue ring in Calgary, 2013, cost half a million dollars
00:01:26.240 and through the absolute disgust of art critics and the Calgarians everywhere just because
00:01:33.020 of its remoteness.
00:01:34.780 And it's basically a circle.
00:01:37.000 It's stupid.
00:01:37.880 Well, the good folks in Montreal have paid five million for the exact same thing.
00:01:41.840 We only paid 475,000 Montreal's out five million.
00:01:46.700 And yeah, there you see the pictures there.
00:01:49.040 It's just a circle.
00:01:50.680 Not sure what it's supposed to mean or if it's supposed to, you know, I'm at a loss for
00:01:56.280 words, Corey.
00:01:56.980 Five million dollars.
00:01:57.900 The Parliamentary Budget Office today says the Liberal-owned, I guess Canadian-owned,
00:02:04.340 we all own it, Trans Mountain Pipeline is $600 million in the hole.
00:02:10.960 No great surprise to me, Corey, and I'm sure it's not to you.
00:02:14.700 Other stuff we've got.
00:02:15.920 The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Trudeau to bring in basically what Joe Biden
00:02:21.400 is doing and cutting fuel taxes to try and help people with record gas prices.
00:02:29.340 Our Mike Thomas, who you'll be talking to in a few minutes, has got a column on interest
00:02:33.380 rates now having a chilling effect.
00:02:35.940 That's a quote used by an expert, a chilling effect on house sales in Canada.
00:02:41.080 Our Lee Harding's got a story of a political reaction and rancher's reaction out in Saskatchewan
00:02:47.380 to the Liberals' plan to put health warning labels on ground beef.
00:02:52.920 So lots of good stuff there, Corey, and lots more stuff to come this afternoon.
00:02:57.920 And I know we'll be talking about that RCMP scandal on the pipeline tonight.
00:03:02.640 So that should be fun.
00:03:04.520 Yes, indeed.
00:03:05.300 Yes, it's Wednesday.
00:03:06.320 So it's that reminder to everybody.
00:03:07.620 This evening, there will be Dave, myself, and Derek all going over some of the issues
00:03:11.600 and including that one with the still kind of breaking and unfolding scandal with the
00:03:16.540 shooting in Nova Scotia.
00:03:18.820 I just don't understand, Corey, how a government stays in power with just scandal after scandal
00:03:24.480 after scandal.
00:03:25.840 It's, to me, it's mind-boggling.
00:03:27.840 I don't know what it'll take.
00:03:28.820 I really don't anymore.
00:03:30.300 But we'll keep reporting on it.
00:03:32.060 Maybe enough people will wake up.
00:03:33.300 Well, thanks for the updates, Dave.
00:03:34.880 And I'll let you carry on with curating and getting that great news copy up there.
00:03:40.000 I will curate away.
00:03:41.900 Thanks, Dave.