Western Standard - THE PIPELINE： Western Standard projects a Liberal majority

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome. Today is February 18th,

00:00:27.320 2026. I'm Derek Fildebrandt, publisher of the Western Standard, and you're watching

00:00:31.600 The Pipeline. Back in the studio, safe and sound, we've got the original lineup, our crew here,

00:00:39.960 Western Standard, former opinion editor Nigel Hannaford. Hello again. Western Standard senior

00:00:46.480 news editor Dave Naylor. Good evening. And back from exile in Tel Aviv, playing Fortnite in Tel

00:00:54.420 Aviv, is Jeffrey Epstein. Got the tannish over. No more island getaways. All I can afford now is

00:01:01.100 desert spots in the fifth whip. But you're doing well on Fortnite. Oh yes. Yeah. Okay. I'm not sure

00:01:06.620 everyone's as deep into the files as I am to be able to understand the inside Epstein jokes here,

00:01:11.300 but you got to look into it if you want to follow along on this show. Okay. There is much clamor

00:01:19.420 and hand-wringing and pearl-clutching because an Alberta minister, the Alberta Minister of Education,

00:01:26.160 Demetrio Nicolaitis, took a picture with an Alberta flag. Treasonous! Treasonous that an Alberta minister

00:01:33.760 took a picture and posted it on flag day with an Alberta flag. Answers are needed. Justice must be

00:01:40.480 brought forward and, uh, uh, and the treasonous insurrectionists must be hung. Um, I didn't want

00:01:50.140 to talk about it today, but we have to. Um, the, uh, there was a another, another, uh, significant

00:01:59.220 shooting. I'm not sure if this one classifies as mass shooting, but a very significant, a very public

00:02:03.040 shooting from a trans, uh, male who identifies as a female in the United States days after the Tumblr

00:02:10.480 Ridge, uh, school shooting. Um, it's okay though, uh, because this is not a thing. These trans shootings 1.00

00:02:18.600 are not a thing. There is no common denominator. Uh, the media, uh, government officials have told us

00:02:25.060 not to worry about it. In fact, what you see, your, your eyes are lying to you. Not a thing. So we're going

00:02:31.940 to talk about why the media is correct. And this is not a thing. Why you should ignore your lying

00:02:36.460 eyes. Uh, but first we're going to start with, uh, decision in from the, uh, Western Standard

00:02:43.060 election prediction desk. Western Standard is now projecting a liberal majority government. Uh,

00:02:51.100 we're, uh, what, nine months, uh, since the election. So this is a bit of a delayed call.

00:02:55.500 Actually, to be fair to myself, I projected they would always get majority. I think that's been a kind

00:03:00.280 of the consensus around the news, but more or less. Well, you had a side bet going that they

00:03:03.520 wouldn't too, didn't you? I bet that they would get majority. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, but you covered

00:03:08.680 your bases with me on that one. Yeah. I, I've always believed they're going to get a majority

00:03:12.160 here from floor crossers, but by hook or crook, they're going to get their majority 1.00

00:03:16.400 government. Uh, Edmonton member of parliament, uh, Matt Jenneru crossed the floor, uh, just today,

00:03:25.940 Nigel, uh, Matt Jenneru, to be fair, has always been a liberal. Uh, he was first elected under

00:03:31.440 Alison Redford for the Progressive Conservatives in Alberta, which in many ways was actually to

00:03:36.400 the left of Mark Carney. Uh, many of us kind of sniggered at the time that it was Alberta's

00:03:41.300 first liberal government at the time. No one either thought of the NDP wasn't really a thing,

00:03:45.240 but it was kind of a good precursor government to, uh, to the, um, to the Rachel Notley government.

00:03:51.480 So he was always a left, very kind of left of center, progressive conservative in Alberta,

00:03:56.840 uh, ran federally. I'm not sure which was, was it under Aaron O'Toole he first came in?

00:04:01.960 He's been in four terms. Four terms. Okay. Uh, so he's been around for a bit, but, um, he says,

00:04:08.680 uh, uh, he, he, in an interview today, uh, or a little meeting today, he says he first, he decided,

00:04:16.600 uh, he was going to come around to join the liberals after Mark Carney's, uh, speech at the

00:04:21.640 World Economic Forum in Davos. That was, I think, off the top of my mind, maybe I'm wrong, uh, January

00:04:29.640 20th. I checked my calendar, and January 20th, 2026, believe it or not, is after, uh, November.

00:04:41.860 November of 2025, uh, off the top of my mind, roughly November 18th or something like that.

00:04:49.020 But so, uh, January of 2026 is after November of 2025. 2025 is when he was forced to announce his

00:04:58.940 eventual resignation when he got caught trying to cross the floor to the liberals. He was already

00:05:04.020 trying to cross the floor to the liberals. This is extremely well known in conservative circles.

00:05:08.600 That's what he was doing. Um, he got found out. The conservatives more or less made an offer.

00:05:13.800 He couldn't refuse. They're like, you can resign, uh, or we're going to blow the whistle on you and

00:05:18.000 your floor crossing is going to get mucked and you're going to look like a bad dude. So he said

00:05:22.260 he needed to spend more time with his family. Evidently, he's sick of his family, uh, did not resign.

00:05:30.240 And, uh, today, uh, joined the liberals, Nigel.

00:05:34.260 So it does. Yes. Well, you know, he's not the only one who wanted to spend more time with his

00:05:39.560 family and then changed his mind when his family spent more time with him. I'm thinking of Sean

00:05:44.160 Fraser, liberal, uh, minister. Two weeks of Christmas did it for me. Yeah. Mark Miller too.

00:05:49.440 And, uh, I think you need to, in hand, all announced a retirement. Everything you said there is quite

00:05:55.360 right. Derek, the, uh, his political inclinations. I've never been truly conservative. I had a quick

00:06:03.760 check through, I mean, I, my memory's not perfect. So I, I went to Grok, uh, and I'd looked there as

00:06:09.840 well. And, and I still couldn't find a single, single word of condemnation from our semi-official

00:06:16.980 news agency. This guy has never been spotted by the CBC as a right-wing extremist. I mean, anybody who

00:06:25.020 is a lot of the people we know are conservative activists and so on. And every now and then they

00:06:30.220 say something conservative and the CBC steps forward and whacks them, which is what it's there to do.

00:06:36.360 Um, I have never seen any, uh, criticism of, uh, Matt Jenneru in the, uh, from the CBC. So that's

00:06:43.720 just a hint right there. Well, the bare mathematics of this are that, uh, there are 343 seats in the

00:06:49.480 House of Commons. One is a speaker. So 171 each is kind of an even split. Uh, 172 is a very, very

00:06:57.940 narrow majority. And if there are three by-elections out there at the moment, if the liberals win all

00:07:05.860 three, they presently have 169. If they win all three by-elections, they'll have 172 and they'll

00:07:12.660 have a majority of one. Well, one of those is Christian Freeland's seat, which I can't imagine a

00:07:17.960 universe in which the liberals lose that right now. So just, that's one. Take that off the table.

00:07:21.480 Yep. Uh, one is in Quebec where it was decided by just one vote and it was proven that Elections

00:07:27.780 Canada had screwed up. Uh, it had to be, that election was nullified by the courts. That one's

00:07:35.480 a toss-up. What's the other, uh, what's the other seat? That's in Ontario, isn't it? The young...

00:07:41.000 No. What's the Ontario one? Do we know? We don't know. We're going to find out. That's the way we

00:07:46.700 do these things. Okay. But it's extremely close. They might just have the majority in the bag

00:07:52.440 already if they win all three. The liberals are doing very strongly in Quebec. So maybe

00:07:56.540 they squeak out in that seat, but that's, that's obviously, it's going to be tight no matter

00:08:00.460 what. Um... It'll be interesting to see how quickly Carney calls these by-elections. Uh,

00:08:06.520 normally political leaders, whether it's federal or provincial, drag it out, drag it out. And

00:08:11.320 they, you know, legally they have to declare it on a certain day or after a certain time.

00:08:16.060 He may want to call them pretty quick, I would think, to give him his majority. But I think

00:08:20.780 the, uh, the best comment, he's getting pilliared on, uh, on Twitter, obviously. The best comment

00:08:26.380 coming from an Edmonton MP colleague, Kerry Diot, who said, what a jerk on Twitter. And then

00:08:32.460 quickly realized that, all right, I'll take that. How was that too hard? I don't think it's hard.

00:08:36.760 That's the most polite thing I've ever heard him say. I used to work with Kerry Diot. Come on,

00:08:40.920 Kerry. Yeah, you, you know it. You know, he was a jerk. I'm sure the powers that be in Ottawa

00:08:46.440 said, uh, it's too spicy to do that. Well, Pierre probably have called it a betrayal,

00:08:50.540 you know, of all the, uh, Edmonton Riverbend voters who had voted him in. You know, there's

00:08:55.200 got to be some better process than floor crossing. I mean, Nigel, you've been around the longest. I

00:09:00.920 mean, what about a by-election to, if somebody wants to cross the floor? Okay, let's have a by-election,

00:09:05.940 see if you still have the support of your, uh, your electorate. Well, I mean, that's theoretically

00:09:09.560 possible, but nobody ever does it. Okay, but it needs to be a voluntary thing, because I know

00:09:14.880 everyone hates floor crossings when it's from your team to the other team, but everybody loves them

00:09:20.380 when it's from the other team to your team. So, and we got to keep in mind, in our system,

00:09:26.480 at least officially, we don't elect parties, we elect MPs. Otherwise, like, MPs are already

00:09:33.140 essentially an electoral college for the prime ministership. If they can't change parties,

00:09:38.900 they formally become an electoral college. And it even further, uh, strengthens even further

00:09:45.060 the power of party leaders. So, that's what some people don't realize. You and I both got

00:09:48.900 beat on a bit for trying to talk about that before, because people are saying, you know,

00:09:51.780 they don't understand. You're actually empowering the leader more if you take away that ability.

00:09:55.620 There's huge unintended consequences, and also, uh, unintended circumstances.

00:10:01.700 Technically, on paper, at least, it wasn't really considered to be such, but on paper,

00:10:06.220 the creation of the United Conservative Party in Alberta required people to change

00:10:10.120 their party allegiance from Wild Rose and Progressive Conservative into United Conservative.

00:10:15.840 Uh, federally, from the Reform Conservative Alliance and Progressive Conservative into the Conservative

00:10:21.920 Party of Canada. That was technically, technically, floor-crossing. Not really in the way, you know,

00:10:28.960 that wasn't in the centerpiece that we're thinking of now. But there's, there's huge unintended

00:10:33.760 consequences to it. And it would make our system significantly worse than it already is.

00:10:38.960 Everybody in BC, um, you know, who at least was on the side that wanted to change in the leadership

00:10:44.240 of the BC Conservatives. Keep in mind that if John Rustad had refused to go, pretty much the nuclear

00:10:51.600 option that was next was for them to leave and sit as independence or form an independent Conservative

00:10:57.760 Caucus, which would have been bigger than the Conservative Caucus itself, and try to force them out. 0.79

00:11:03.840 In the end, you don't want to mess with this stuff and ban it. It sucks. And this kind of stuff is cynical.

00:11:10.240 20 bucks says, at least one of these floor-crosses is getting a cabinet post. Probably more. They're

00:11:15.600 not doing it right away so it doesn't look as cynical as, say, Belinda Stronach. You know,

00:11:18.960 you were around in Ottawa, I went out. Oh, no, no, no, no. Well, that was before your time. That wasn't the end of it.

00:11:23.280 Not much, though. Not much. But, you know...

00:11:26.080 I went to the big party she threw, you know. Yeah. So, uh, those ones are really cynical. And we

00:11:32.640 hate them. And they suck. But to make them illegal will actually make the system overall much worse.

00:11:37.760 It's something we could look at with this, though. We were talking about the speed with which county

00:11:42.000 may or may not call these by-elections where he eventually has to. But if he does them in a hurry,

00:11:46.960 for those wondering if he's going to have a spring election, he's probably not going to. But if he's

00:11:52.560 dragging it out, then they are keeping their toe on the water on possibly having a general election.

00:11:57.760 Because he's not going to want to rush into it, get himself a one-seat majority, and then

00:12:02.880 fall on their own sword to start an election to try for something bigger. He'll kick that can down the

00:12:07.200 road until they fully break that open. Which some people think maybe within a month,

00:12:10.880 if it's going to happen. I think you're completely right on this.

00:12:16.240 That's what to watch for. If he quickly calls these, that means he wants to secure his majority,

00:12:20.720 and he'll probably govern with the cards he's got. Well, he's going to keep on trying to take

00:12:25.200 cards out of Pierre's hand. But he's more or less going to play with parliament as it is,

00:12:29.840 and try to reach up more around in there to strengthen his majority. If he doesn't call

00:12:32.960 these by-elections in pretty short order, I think you're dead right, Corey.

00:12:36.640 That means he's trying to leave his excuse open, saying, I need a majority to keep our

00:12:41.520 elbows up and fight the bad orange man. That'll be his excuse. He doesn't have that excuse once he

00:12:47.120 has a majority. Yeah, and I don't think we can rule out another floor crossing.

00:12:51.040 Well, what's going to happen? Whether it be a conservative or NDP member,

00:12:54.320 you know, he could get his, he could just still get his majority this way.

00:12:58.000 Yeah. So the other, the other riding that's, it's Bill Blair's riding Scarborough Southwest.

00:13:06.960 Probably liberal. Probably liberal, but you know,

00:13:09.440 back in the Harper days we did, we owned that Scarborough area too.

00:13:12.560 Right, and yeah, and you had Jack Layton running second place over the liberals in third.

00:13:17.760 I don't think it's happening right now. That's going to stay liberal.

00:13:20.480 You could be right with the NDP. It's a win a bowl seat for the conservatives. But if I'm

00:13:26.800 putting money down, the liberals are holding that. So two of the three, I'm putting it in the liberal

00:13:32.240 column. The third one in Quebec. So maybe. If I had to put money on black or red, I'm putting it on

00:13:40.160 liberal red here. Because they're, you know, they're doing strong, they're doing strong in the polls.

00:13:44.720 And the liberals have the power of the purse. They're going to dump so much pork, 0.93

00:13:49.440 pork. What's the French word from pork?

00:13:50.560 I don't know.

00:13:52.160 Just pork with a C.

00:13:53.360 Yeah, that came to be the same with the norm.

00:13:55.520 Cousin.

00:13:58.720 Ironically, it sounds like kosher.

00:14:01.600 But yeah, I mean, they're going to drop so much pork into that riding. It's going to,

00:14:05.120 you know, and Quebecers, no one's not susceptible to pork barrel spending. So I don't mean to pick on

00:14:10.480 Quebecers. It's just Quebecers a bit more known for it.

00:14:12.560 They'll turn away.

00:14:14.480 You don't have to be subtle about it in Quebec. You can just say, vote for us, and you get this.

00:14:19.280 The bloc can't give you this. They're in opposition. Vote liberal, and we're going to,

00:14:24.000 you know, put a big statue of but on the edge or something. I don't know.

00:14:29.200 Yeah, it's, I mean, and turning it back to, you know, what to do. I mean, the amount of rage and

00:14:33.920 cynicism, and that's what bugs me with these floor crossings. So it really sours people on the

00:14:37.600 whole system. The only solution I could think of, which I would never see the feds bringing in,

00:14:42.640 would be maybe a functional recall system. If the floor crossing really was that odious to

00:14:47.200 the local constituents, they were that furious about it, then if you set the bar correctly,

00:14:53.440 a number of people could bring about a by-election in that case. But I'm not going to hold my breath

00:14:59.680 waiting for the feds to bring in a recall mechanism.

00:15:02.320 That is the correct way, I think, to deal with it. If we're trying to tweak the democratic system

00:15:07.600 on this, well, you leave it to people to decide. A lot of people say, ah, I'll wait to the next

00:15:12.080 election. We'll see how it does. A lot of people will be pissed off enough, and they will get recalled.

00:15:16.160 But leave it to there, because universally, look on your Twitter thread right now. You can predict

00:15:23.120 exactly what people are going to say by the partisan affiliation. Conservatives, oh, this is a betrayal

00:15:27.520 of democracy. Liberals, oh, we're adding to our team. This just shows why we're so great.

00:15:32.400 And the exact same thing happens in reverse when Liberals go to Conservatives.

00:15:36.400 But then ex-General locked his account too, which says a lot. He's being very cowardly about this. I

00:15:41.440 mean, yeah. He's hiding from the public and hoping for this to cool down. So he knows

00:15:46.560 he's being unprincipled. He knows bloody well. Yeah.

00:15:49.360 You know, the thing that strikes me about this, Corey, is that this is three. What's the matter with the

00:15:54.880 Conservative Party candidate screening system that these people sneak through?

00:16:00.080 Actually, if I'm not mistaken, correct me in the comments if I am.

00:16:04.480 Matt Jenneru was appointed the candidate without even a nomination. Yeah, my pure poet.

00:16:09.120 But he wasn't just not screened out. He was handpicked and appointed.

00:16:13.120 I rest my case. So something needs to change.

00:16:17.520 You know, that's a bit... Okay, I don't want to be unfair here, but for the most part,

00:16:24.320 you know what kind of candidates MPs like?

00:16:26.240 It's like automatons.

00:16:29.120 Guys who are quiet, uncontroversial, don't say anything that rocks the boat, don't really think

00:16:36.160 too much for themselves. They're going to follow the party line. And that's what you generally were

00:16:40.880 getting with Matt Jenneru. But this is not an original. I read it from someone else today.

00:16:45.760 But, you know, don't be surprised when the other party that likes mindless automatons for MPs

00:16:51.840 offers them something that's slightly more lucrative and prestigious because they're on the government side.

00:16:57.040 You can't be surprised when this is the kind of candidates you're running. So some of this is on Polyev.

00:17:02.880 All true, I'm afraid, but they sure need to do something different.

00:17:07.920 Like, one is a headline, two is a nasty coincidence, and three shows there's something wrong with the system.

00:17:14.560 So, anyway, that's it. All right, let's move it on. Yeah.

00:17:24.320 So, I mean, last week we talked about the Tumblr Ridge shooter.

00:17:31.280 Won't repeat too much, but, you know, we had, you know, Dave, the media was,

00:17:37.600 I see it, the media in the lake, you know, the lakes in the media,

00:17:40.080 was just, you know, parroting the propaganda coming from the RCMP.

00:17:47.440 It is a female in a dress, which we all instantly, as soon as we saw that, said, that doesn't make sense.

00:17:52.720 A male in a dress. 0.99

00:17:53.920 No, yes, but they said it was a female in a dress, the RCMP.

00:17:57.120 The emergency alert that went out said it's a female in a dress. 0.99

00:17:59.360 Oh, did it?

00:18:00.000 Yeah, in a school shooting. And I said, that is mathematically improbable because women don't do school shootings. 1.00

00:18:05.920 People might call themselves women do, with alarming frequency, but actual women don't do that. 0.99

00:18:13.360 That's a point in the side of the woman's calling here. 0.99

00:18:16.880 And then we had gun person. We knew what was going on.

00:18:19.120 We figured out, we confirmed it on the ground by like 10.30, 11 o'clock that night.

00:18:24.880 The media still called it gun person, et cetera, for another day.

00:18:28.080 Eventually, under questioning, the RCMP admitted, oh, it was a biological male, but we're still calling it a cheat because we're respecting pronouns of this mass murder.

00:18:38.400 And then we had just a COVID-style propaganda campaign.

00:18:45.600 But I think this, you know, COVID kind of ramped up the levels of propaganda.

00:18:48.720 This one just went into overdrive right away. So it was in your face.

00:18:51.480 It was there is no trans shooting epidemic.

00:18:56.200 Trans people are actually less likely to do this because there's less trans people.

00:18:59.880 You know, we're talking about proportions, you idiots.

00:19:02.120 Like, of course, there's less trans people because there are more men than trans people, depending on how we're using those words, I guess, nowadays.

00:19:10.120 But there was just this huge propaganda campaign in your face that was just so obvious that I just want to be like, who are they trying to convince at this point?

00:19:19.260 And then days later, Rhode Island, we have this guy.

00:19:26.940 It looks like, you know, in the South Park episode, Macho Man Randy Savage becomes a trans woman and he goes in and beats all the women in sports.

00:19:34.380 It looked just like that. This guy had python biceps.

00:19:39.840 Like the guy is a pretty successful weightlifter of some kind.

00:19:43.540 And he goes in and he blasts his family and some other people at an ice rink, another trans shooter.

00:19:48.720 I'm not sure we classify that as mass. It was family annihilation.

00:19:53.120 But just the.

00:19:56.360 Here, let's just play a quick clip of our our our favorite far left propagandists.

00:20:01.940 They are layering hate on top of devastation for their own political purposes.

00:20:06.660 As I'm sure you've heard by now, the suspected shooter has turned out to be trans, which actually doesn't fucking matter. 0.67

00:20:14.400 Parents.

00:20:14.800 All right, Dave. So, you know, the usual suspects and the whole legacy media just in overdrive don't know how to handle this now because they just spent days with in your face.

00:20:25.240 Very unsubtle propaganda that this is not a thing, insisting this is not a thing and you're bigoted for even thinking it.

00:20:34.160 And then it bloody happened again just days later.

00:20:36.920 It's yeah, it's it's quite shocking.

00:20:40.020 I direct everybody to go to our watch section and call up a Derek rant that he did last week for about an hour.

00:20:49.320 And he had all sorts of great statistics and and whatnot on just how trans shootings are becoming an epidemic.

00:20:55.660 And then just days later, this guy, I mean, this guy was off the charts, trans freakish mental illness. 1.00

00:21:05.140 He was getting dressed up in sundresses to go to his his son's graduation at school and stuff like that.

00:21:11.880 Just awful stuff.

00:21:13.200 He had a Woffin SS flat tattoos, as Derek said, on his bulging, bulging biceps and long term custody battles.

00:21:22.840 I went to the went to the youth hockey rink, killed his wife, killed his one of his siblings or one of his children, wounded another.

00:21:32.720 So Derek was right last week and Derek's right again.

00:21:37.320 I do love to hear that.

00:21:38.920 Yeah, well, yeah, these these things are happening.

00:21:43.260 They are problematic.

00:21:45.680 You know, the United States media, I've been following it a little bit, New York Post, those type of things.

00:21:51.620 They're picking up the transgender shooting thing big time now. 1.00

00:21:55.520 They've got a big column today saying trans shootings are an epidemic and needs to be addressed.

00:22:01.320 Again, I think it all goes back to mental health.

00:22:04.120 This guy, Nazi tattoos, dressed up, wearing high heels in a sundress.

00:22:10.180 He looks like he's about 240 pounds.

00:22:12.300 He looks absolutely ridiculous.

00:22:14.460 Somebody's got to think mental illness.

00:22:16.860 Somebody's got to do a weapons check.

00:22:18.680 That's racist.

00:22:19.600 I think, I mean, that's part of what's happening with this, though.

00:22:23.220 I mean, the common denominator with these trans shares.

00:22:26.400 Now, we've seen a number of them.

00:22:27.800 They're all crazy.

00:22:28.900 Just to say it bluntly, they're seriously mentally disturbed.

00:22:31.180 In the most violent and worst way, they were trying to come to grips with their mental health issues, whatever the heck they were.

00:22:38.420 And it got into their heads what I need to do.

00:22:41.640 And perhaps some counselors might even put it in their heads.

00:22:44.240 What you need to do, obviously, your problem is you're in the wrong body.

00:22:47.200 You need to change your gender identity. 1.00

00:22:49.260 So that other fella, you know, gets his dresses, buys himself a pair of jugs, still finds out, no, I'm still unhappy.

00:22:55.460 I'm still crazy.

00:22:56.320 And now I have boobs. 0.96

00:22:57.240 And then they flip.

00:22:59.940 I mean, when they realize that's not a cure for whatever their underlying mental health issue was.

00:23:04.860 But, you know, it's a, and it gets hard.

00:23:07.560 I mean, we do know some trans people, they're trans people.

00:23:09.600 They just want to live as another gender, and they tend to peacefully do so. 1.00

00:23:13.860 But in some cases, these are markers of somebody who's got other disturbances, and maybe they're reaching out to try and be trans, thinking it might fix something. 0.50

00:23:21.780 Yeah, it could be a manifestation.

00:23:24.780 There is a lot of mentally unwell people out there.

00:23:29.320 Most of them don't pick up a gun and massacre a bunch of people.

00:23:33.720 Most trans people don't pick up a gun and massacre a bunch of people.

00:23:36.760 But, you know, this trans thing is sometimes, probably not always, but sometimes, it is a manifestation of mental illness. 0.97

00:23:46.300 They're not necessarily, we don't know the motivations of these two.

00:23:49.220 We do know one of the ones in the States, it was motivated by trans issues where they shot up a Christian school. 0.94

00:23:54.520 The Tumblr Ridge one, we don't know.

00:23:56.700 I'm willing to bet that the one in Rhode Island, probably not motivated by trans. 0.69

00:24:01.000 It was just more, again, we don't know much yet, but it was probably more of a manifestation of it.

00:24:05.120 And that this, it was a clear sign that this person is extremely unwell.

00:24:09.800 Uh, Tumblr Ridge one, we, again, we don't know enough yet, but at a minimum, their, their, their, uh, kind of gender outburst is, ah, that's a new term.

00:24:21.940 The worst, the worst of it is that because there have been three, there will probably be more.

00:24:28.220 Oh, it's been a lot more than three.

00:24:29.520 I listened to a dozen on the show.

00:24:30.660 People, we will get the idea that this is what you do, you know?

00:24:34.060 Uh, and eventually that fab will go, but not before somebody else is killed.

00:24:38.680 Well, no, and it's actively encouraged.

00:24:41.500 You had the BC, I hope I'm not getting this wrong.

00:24:44.060 You had the British Columbia's, uh, solicitor, general minister of justice, uh, you know, pictured wearing a shirt.

00:24:50.680 It's got a knife on it, like a big threatening, like a bowling knife or something, uh, saying protect trans kids.

00:24:56.540 Well, it's a very unsubtle message that, uh, you know, you respect our pronouns and you respect our so-called gender identities or else violence.

00:25:06.960 Like, this is being pushed by so-called mainstream politicians, mainstream cultural figures, institutional figures.

00:25:16.200 This isn't just, uh, they're finding this on the dark recesses of the internet, some left-wing equivalent of 4chan or something.

00:25:23.620 You know, they're, they're being told this by senior elected government officials that, you know, violence is okay if people don't accept you as you now pronounce you yourself to be.

00:25:34.320 Um, so, I don't know, we don't know the motivations between either shooting yet.

00:25:39.640 Uh, not too optimistic about it considering how the RCPU outright lied to us literally from the moments that the shooting started, but, uh, or the way they handled the Nova Scotia shooting.

00:25:49.440 We will get it from Rhode Island though.

00:25:51.600 We will.

00:25:51.940 American cops are so much better.

00:25:53.860 Yeah, so we're more likely to get it there.

00:25:55.620 I have zero faith in the RCMP.

00:25:57.340 Um, but, but at a minimum, people obsessed with violent imagery and who, uh, try to present themselves now as a woman when they're very clearly not, this should, at the very least, be a bit of a red flag and be taken that this person is unwell, probably shouldn't have access to legal firearms.

00:26:17.120 You know, the thing that should have tipped them off, having the Nazi tattoos, the guy who did the tattoos probably should have picked up the phone and said, you know, you might want to just run a test on this guy.

00:26:28.240 Well, God knows how long someone's had it.

00:26:29.580 I mean, like I've known people who were pretty normal and then mental illness set in and it's subtle and eventually, eventually you can't ignore it, but it's, it's subtle.

00:26:37.680 Who knows, who knows when he got it?

00:26:40.100 Um, it's me as if someone's denial, though, it's putting people at risk.

00:26:42.680 I don't take offense in knowing the knowledge that the vast majority of these shittings are done by men. 0.89

00:26:47.120 I'm a man as well.

00:26:48.100 I know that the vast majority of men don't do that, but when you're statistically looking at the propensity, as you pointed out, and your men are far and beyond more likely as far as that goes.

00:26:58.420 10 times.

00:26:58.920 To, to be there.

00:27:00.000 And I see the public being put at risk when they start playing games with identifying, especially with a breaking issue.

00:27:06.460 We saw this in Edmonton a little while back with, I think I was still working here for a time.

00:27:11.700 I just remember opening that up.

00:27:12.900 They put an alert out, release sex offender, high risk.

00:27:15.600 So on this woman may offend, you know, assault children and everything. 1.00

00:27:19.280 So I click on the picture, I click on the link because there was no picture.

00:27:23.080 And here's this dude with earrings on and a five o'clock shadow.

00:27:26.520 And this is a man.

00:27:27.680 Now you're, anybody who didn't click on that link will be looking for a woman. 0.99

00:27:32.000 They'll be thinking it's some strange woman hanging around playgrounds. 0.98

00:27:34.460 No, it's a dude, say it, for crying out loud, because now you're putting kids at risk for

00:27:39.120 the sake of fear of misgendering.

00:27:41.360 That's enough.

00:27:42.180 That's just enough.

00:27:42.520 Well, in both cases, Tumblr Ridge and the Edmonton rapists here, we looked, it caught our instant

00:27:49.440 curiosity because, again, to women's credit, women don't tend to do these things. 1.00

00:27:54.280 Women are far, far less likely to commit sexual assault of any kind, especially. 0.99

00:27:59.880 They're just poisoners if they're going to come for us.

00:28:01.700 Don't give Jane any idea.

00:28:05.300 Not to make light of the situation, but I wonder what ever happened to that trans teacher in

00:28:09.740 Ontario.

00:28:10.520 Oh, the giant or...

00:28:12.760 Yeah.

00:28:14.000 We should find out.

00:28:15.120 Follow up with Goodyear.

00:28:16.820 Yeah, fine.

00:28:17.520 Yeah.

00:28:18.440 That was...

00:28:19.480 Probably never was trans. 1.00

00:28:20.740 No, of course not.

00:28:21.620 I always...

00:28:22.540 I suspected he was trolling the system.

00:28:25.660 Because those things look like guns on the deck of the Missouri.

00:28:28.600 I mean, or he was very crazy.

00:28:30.340 I mean, you know, that's...

00:28:31.700 Part of it, that's an indication of...

00:28:32.800 I think he was just trolling the system.

00:28:34.560 I don't think there was ever any danger of him going into a classroom and shooting it

00:28:38.000 up.

00:28:38.220 No, thankfully.

00:28:39.320 I suspect trolling.

00:28:40.560 But, Dave, make a note.

00:28:41.620 Let's follow up with the USS Mississippi here.

00:28:44.980 It will do.

00:28:46.860 Okay.

00:28:51.180 More madness.

00:28:52.220 This is all just...

00:28:53.260 Well, I guess the last two are ever actually.

00:28:54.780 The first one, I don't know.

00:28:56.000 We're trying to be the voice...

00:28:56.760 We were trying to be the voice of sanity on the floor crossing one, but the next one

00:29:01.620 is great.

00:29:03.520 So, earlier this week, I guess, was Flag Day, where we celebrate doing away with the red 1.00

00:29:11.940 ensign that our soldiers fought under for two world wars and Korea, and replaced it with

00:29:16.560 a corporate logo.

00:29:17.200 So, yeah, honestly, I'm crapping on the maple leaf here.

00:29:20.980 I don't know if...

00:29:22.460 I'm more about the Alberta flag, but I don't know.

00:29:25.180 Something about the red ensign still stirs my heart.

00:29:28.740 And so, it's Flag Day.

00:29:30.420 We're in a relatively partisan vote.

00:29:34.480 The Liberals just decided what the national flag was without kind of bipartisan consensus.

00:29:39.440 Canadians have since accepted it.

00:29:40.820 It's a fairly cranky minority of curmudgeons, maybe like Nigel, who have not quite accepted 1.00

00:29:46.800 it yet.

00:29:47.400 Still reminiscing about the glories of the empire.

00:29:50.580 But, it's Flag Day.

00:29:53.420 And all the politicians are out posting pictures with them with...

00:29:56.440 I struck pretty close to home there, didn't I?

00:29:58.440 Oh, you were...

00:29:59.240 You had nothing to say.

00:30:02.920 I'll save the king.

00:30:05.940 Anyway, politicians are doing their thing, Corey.

00:30:09.380 They're all posted pictures with Canadian flags.

00:30:12.260 Demetrio Nicolaitis...

00:30:13.580 Actually, I remember...

00:30:14.200 It wasn't made into a big news story when I did, but when I was in politics on Flag Day,

00:30:18.740 I'd always post a picture of the Alberta flag flying on my land.

00:30:23.220 You know, and some people...

00:30:24.400 Yeah, I was poking the beast a little bit.

00:30:26.640 I knew what I'm doing.

00:30:28.200 But, like, the media didn't make it to a news story.

00:30:32.720 But, I guess, independence is much bigger in the news today than it was back then.

00:30:36.100 So, to me, hang on one, sis. 0.50

00:30:37.400 You're not proud of Flag Day.

00:30:38.360 Yeah, I don't know.

00:30:39.860 I remember doing stories on you in the Calgary sun because your condo person wouldn't let you fly the Canadian flag.

00:30:47.400 That's when I was a Federalist.

00:30:48.840 There was a time.

00:30:49.720 There was a time.

00:30:51.360 God did not fortune...

00:30:52.800 Favour me to be born in Alberta.

00:30:54.640 It was only by the grace of God who made me one.

00:30:56.540 I was baptised in the bow.

00:30:59.220 There you go.

00:30:59.660 Sorry to interrupt.

00:31:00.300 Yeah.

00:31:01.740 That's actually the first time I think we ever talked, back when you were working in Nissan for that story.

00:31:05.300 Rick Bell was pissed he didn't do it.

00:31:09.120 Anyway, Dimitrios does this fundraiser.

00:31:12.460 I think raised something like $300,000 or something.

00:31:15.860 To bring attention to...

00:31:17.540 Violet's humanistic way.

00:31:18.640 His sister had been murdered by her former spouse.

00:31:22.300 It was, you know, obviously a very terrible thing.

00:31:25.500 And in her memory, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.

00:31:28.440 I know Dimitrios.

00:31:29.520 I'm so...

00:31:30.040 Good on him.

00:31:32.120 He must have been freaking out.

00:31:33.940 I couldn't do it.

00:31:35.200 But anyway, he's got a picture of himself at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro with an Alberta flag.

00:31:39.760 I'm not sure if it just happened because it was flagged.

00:31:41.620 I don't know.

00:31:42.220 Anyway, media loses its mind.

00:31:44.880 The usual Twitterati or...

00:31:46.660 I don't...

00:31:47.120 I'm on Blue Sky.

00:31:48.040 But I would just imagine what Blue Sky is doing.

00:31:50.040 And then City TV does this thing.

00:31:55.540 I forget the...

00:31:56.140 Let's put it up here.

00:31:57.160 I don't remember the name of the headline.

00:31:58.200 But let's throw up this headline from City TV.

00:32:03.000 Just...

00:32:04.360 How delicate are these people now?

00:32:08.140 That, you know, holding a picture of yourself with the Alberta flag.

00:32:11.540 An Alberta minister with the Alberta flag.

00:32:14.100 Treasonous.

00:32:14.800 Implied treasonous.

00:32:16.760 Yeah, it's absurd.

00:32:17.800 And it's showing the tone of where things are going to be going in this next few months.

00:32:22.480 This has already happened actually a little while back.

00:32:24.460 We were putting on that standard with that clown who managed to get an Alberta flag pulled down in a Safeway store.

00:32:29.060 Yeah.

00:32:29.440 That was the Forever Canada guy who's working...

00:32:31.800 It wasn't Lukasik himself, but it was the people working in his organization.

00:32:34.920 Saying it was offensive.

00:32:36.220 And unfortunately, a reactive manager actually listened and pulled it down for a very short time.

00:32:41.420 And to their credit, it went right back up with like, oh, no, no, this isn't what we do.

00:32:44.140 But these symbols, they're going to now read in what people are doing.

00:32:50.600 We saw this during the convoy too.

00:32:52.340 We saw them talking actually about people waving Canadian flags.

00:32:54.880 And you watch out, this is an extremist.

00:32:56.460 They're waving a make-believe.

00:32:58.280 Yeah.

00:32:58.500 And all these elbows up, people are saying, I am now ashamed of the Canadian flag.

00:33:02.900 The Canadian flag is this far-right fascist symbol.

00:33:06.020 And to do it, but I mean, just the foolishness of taking that tactic when it was a fundraiser for his deceased sister's legacy on domestic violence.

00:33:15.980 Like, do you guys not just research a little bit before you throw that headline out?

00:33:19.660 Oh, no, they knew.

00:33:20.760 That was in the story.

00:33:22.440 They knew it, and they did it anyway.

00:33:24.780 And I think it's besides the point.

00:33:26.640 He fooled Alberta flag.

00:33:27.820 Yeah.

00:33:28.220 He's a good minister.

00:33:29.020 And he's a good minister.

00:33:30.100 I mean, that's what they did.

00:33:31.080 And his flag.

00:33:31.760 Yes.

00:33:32.380 Guys, I know the reporter that did the story very well.

00:33:35.240 Her name is Nadia Moharib.

00:33:37.800 She's a good friend of mine.

00:33:38.760 She worked for me for about 20 years at the Calgary Sun.

00:33:41.800 She was perhaps the most loving and generous reporter I've ever worked with.

00:33:49.540 She's the type that would go to the family of a fire who was forced out by a fire.

00:33:54.760 She would cook them dinner the next day and became friends with them.

00:33:57.780 And she just had a heart of gold.

00:34:00.520 Somewhere she lost the plot here.

00:34:01.980 And I told her when I was talking to her, I wouldn't have run the story.

00:34:06.180 I wouldn't have even assigned it.

00:34:08.240 She's been flooded with hate.

00:34:10.580 She's been called, you know, Muslims.

00:34:13.220 And she's not a Muslim. 0.99

00:34:16.020 But that's the tone people are taking with her.

00:34:18.960 So, yeah, it was a dumb story.

00:34:23.280 It was a dumb idea to begin with.

00:34:27.000 I don't know why she pursued it.

00:34:28.320 And I think Corey's right.

00:34:29.520 You know, we're seeing now the temperature increasing almost every day.

00:34:34.240 Canvassers for the independence petition are getting harassed.

00:34:39.620 Apparently, we had a case of somebody being assaulted.

00:34:42.380 And we're trying to confirm that.

00:34:44.140 So, it's only going to get worse.

00:34:46.940 Yeah.

00:34:47.420 But, I mean, to take something is innocuous.

00:34:49.300 Yeah.

00:34:49.520 Oh, just dumb move.

00:34:50.880 Dumb move.

00:34:51.520 But, I mean, and to be fair enough, that is what the independence move is wrapping themselves around.

00:34:56.120 There's not necessarily a logo or a party or whatever.

00:34:58.560 You go to any of those signing stations and it's going to be surrounded by Alberta flags.

00:35:02.280 That's the Forever Canada Federalist one.

00:35:04.280 They had Canadian flags there.

00:35:05.560 It's good on them.

00:35:06.440 Whatever.

00:35:07.320 But to read that into any time anybody else waves, because that's what they've done, it's now any time somebody is waving it, they're going to imply that you are an independent supporter.

00:35:15.480 I only wish that every person who was doing that was the case.

00:35:17.980 But it's going to get worse.

00:35:19.580 So, we've created this monster.

00:35:20.880 I am reminded of the other story that we had on the front page today, to go back in time with what we call things.

00:35:29.480 But it was your lead story, Dave, about this guy, Mark Miller, the immigration minister.

00:35:35.540 And what is he lamenting?

00:35:37.020 He is lamenting the fact that there is illegitimate media that threaten Canada's social cohesion.

00:35:46.580 And he called out the CBC, in particular, as being something you really have to fund because it helps to keep Canada together.

00:35:55.680 Now, this story that we're talking about isn't a CBC story.

00:35:59.520 I'd be surprised if they didn't cover it, but it wasn't their breaking story.

00:36:03.600 But certainly, the news outlet that did publish it is, by his definition, legitimate media.

00:36:13.040 They've been around for a while.

00:36:15.060 They don't take, you know, they leave the truth alone unless it feeds the narrative.

00:36:21.320 And they got in on this and tried to make it look that somebody who was doing a thoroughly decent thing was actually an insurrectionist, potentially a terrorist.

00:36:31.580 You know, an independent seeker for Alberta, threatening the social cohesion of the country. 1.00

00:36:39.780 So who do you want?

00:36:41.180 Do you want the legitimate media?

00:36:43.740 Where do you want people who actually go and suss out a story, find it, publish it, tell the truth?

00:36:48.980 I think, to an extent, on Corey's point, the flags are symbols of both sides.

00:36:59.100 Now, I mean, I think it's possible for someone to be a proud Albertan and want to stay in Canada.

00:37:05.680 And that's fine.

00:37:06.400 And they can have both flags.

00:37:07.900 So people might be not proud of Alberta.

00:37:10.960 They're kind of ashamed of the redneck stereotype.

00:37:13.120 And they just want the maple leaf.

00:37:15.840 Okay.

00:37:16.560 Well, I'm less with you there, but fine.

00:37:18.640 And, you know, some people like me just fly the blue on our land.

00:37:22.580 At least nowadays.

00:37:24.400 But, you know, these are symbols.

00:37:27.240 But to make a big story that it's, you know, implying it's somehow treason for someone just to have the Alberta flag.

00:37:34.220 The Alberta flag now needs to be shunted.

00:37:37.140 We've got to take it down the flagpoles for now.

00:37:39.860 This is now a dangerous symbol.

00:37:41.320 They would have never said that to a Quebecer in their two referendums.

00:37:46.980 The Federalist side was always very careful to say, you know, fly the, I don't know what you call the Quebec flag.

00:37:53.040 But, you know, the quadruple fleur-de-lis.

00:37:55.140 The quadruple fleur-de-lis.

00:37:56.820 You know, fly the fleur-de-lis proudly alongside the maple leaf.

00:38:00.100 Or don't even fly it.

00:38:01.240 But, you know, stay in Canada.

00:38:02.320 But it's okay.

00:38:02.900 They never tried to denigrate Quebec's national symbols.

00:38:06.040 But these people are very clearly ashamed of Alberta's.

00:38:09.000 They're now a symbol of sedition.

00:38:12.280 You know, Mr. Nicolavius actually took an oath of office to Canada through his oath to the king.

00:38:21.020 No, you take an oath to the king, not to Canada.

00:38:23.640 Well, I've taken an oath to the king, but he is the...

00:38:26.160 And he's also the king of Canada.

00:38:27.660 Yeah.

00:38:27.840 So, it's not exactly an insurrectionist thing to...

00:38:31.620 No, but on this oath thing, when people say, hey, you took the oath to the monarch.

00:38:35.500 This monarch is...

00:38:36.260 There's 11 crowns in Canada.

00:38:37.800 There's the Canadian crown.

00:38:39.320 And then there's 10 provincial crowns.

00:38:42.720 It is an institute...

00:38:43.740 It is loyalty to the crown itself, not to a constituent part of it.

00:38:47.600 You can, you know, if it's done constitutionally or whatnot.

00:38:51.440 There's nothing in your oath that is, you know, dishonest.

00:38:58.880 So, either way, I mean, getting back to the flags.

00:39:00.780 One of the things I love about Texas, and there's many things about Texas.

00:39:04.000 But I tell you, you never forget you're in Texas, even in a residential neighborhood when you're driving around.

00:39:08.360 Because that Texas flag is everywhere.

00:39:10.480 And they do, for the most part, identify as Texas first, American second.

00:39:15.240 They don't necessarily have a big thriving secessionist movement, though they do have a little one going on there.

00:39:20.420 But they put that Texan pride first.

00:39:23.640 And they wear it front and center.

00:39:24.880 And often, you'll see a Texan flag and an American flag.

00:39:27.140 But you really see that state flag in ways that, you know, I just came from the states.

00:39:31.420 I didn't see Arizona flags everywhere when I was in Arizona or California flags.

00:39:34.860 But when you're in Texas, you see that flag everywhere.

00:39:37.560 And we're seeing a little more of that in Alberta.

00:39:39.460 In fact, a lot more.

00:39:40.260 You see a lot more blue flags going on residential streets than you used to see.

00:39:43.820 It's turning into a different kind of symbol.

00:39:45.500 And that does scare some Federalists.

00:39:47.020 And I think that's why they want to try and imply a little shame or just remind people, maybe you shouldn't be flying that right now.

00:39:54.020 And I think it'll have the opposite effect, though.

00:39:56.180 That's what other people say.

00:39:57.340 You know, screw you.

00:39:58.660 I'm going out to buy two more off Amazon and run them up in front of my house.

00:40:01.740 Just want to give a quick plug to Cabinet Minister Todd Lowen.

00:40:04.980 He also made the trudge up Kilimanjaro.

00:40:07.900 Oh, okay.

00:40:08.960 But he's a little less surprising.

00:40:10.920 He is an outfitter and a big hunter and stuff.

00:40:16.520 Dimitri is a bit more of a city boy.

00:40:18.680 So, okay.

00:40:20.020 You know, this reminds me.

00:40:21.020 I'm not going to announce anything here, but I think I want to run some kind of flag program.

00:40:27.620 I want to run a flag program here.

00:40:29.520 I'm going to do something.

00:40:31.640 I'm going to do something.

00:40:32.640 This is an announcement.

00:40:33.480 But, Mark, this is maybe the larvae.

00:40:36.980 It was 2 o'clock.

00:40:38.860 All right.

00:40:39.500 There we go.

00:40:40.660 All right.

00:40:41.800 Nigel, Corey, Dave.

00:40:43.120 Thank you.

00:40:44.380 Parting shots.

00:40:45.800 Oh! 0.60

00:40:46.860 Jeez.

00:40:48.160 Okay.

00:40:48.740 Well, fine.

00:40:49.220 Go ahead.

00:40:49.760 We've got to be short.

00:40:50.500 We're short on time.

00:40:51.720 Okay.

00:40:52.100 Parting shot.

00:40:52.820 Tomorrow night, 6.45 p.m.

00:40:54.860 Daniel Smith addressing the province.

00:40:58.020 You can bet it's going to be on immigration and how Alberta wants to tight map the number

00:41:03.280 of immigrants coming here.

00:41:04.640 You can watch it on the Western Standard, 6.45 tomorrow night.

00:41:10.220 All right.

00:41:10.520 Do it, Daniel.

00:41:11.740 Do it.

00:41:12.600 You know what I'm talking about.

00:41:13.980 All right.

00:41:14.380 Corey.

00:41:14.740 Well, following up on that, I've been hearing a lot on the news about how Calvary's had a

00:41:17.800 record number of accidents, a record number of fatalities on the roads, and now with some

00:41:21.220 people, including Marcus, saying we should bring back more photo radar to fight it.

00:41:25.620 One thing, and I drive a lot.

00:41:27.420 I spend a lot of time on the road, in the city and out.

00:41:30.460 And this is anecdotal, but I tell you what, when it comes to winter driving conditions,

00:41:34.560 the people having the hardest time with it tend to be new Canadians.

00:41:38.260 You can tell.

00:41:38.780 People not from winter countries.

00:41:40.100 And to be fair, after a couple of years, they might be brilliant drivers.

00:41:42.760 It takes a little bit of time to get used to driving in that sort of condition.

00:41:46.920 It's just a special sort of skill.

00:41:49.120 But if we're really going to address the issue, grab a pair of knackers and point to where

00:41:53.700 a lot of the problems are really happening with winter driving accidents, instead of

00:41:57.820 thinking that sticking up some photo radar thing in a construction zone is going to change

00:42:01.840 it.

00:42:02.100 Jeremy knows better.

00:42:03.180 I remember him campaigning against photo radar.

00:42:06.160 It was like, that was a big Wild Rose thing back in the day.

00:42:08.820 It doesn't do anything.

00:42:11.360 It's a money grab.

00:42:12.200 It's a money grab.

00:42:12.660 If you're going to be honest with it, fine.

00:42:13.780 Put him out and just say it's a money grab.

00:42:15.080 Put a sign next to it.

00:42:15.660 Yeah, it's a driving tax.

00:42:17.440 All right, Nigel?

00:42:18.100 Well, so delighted to see that Don Cherry is getting the order of Ontario.

00:42:23.980 I'd like to buy him a drink, but who I'd really like to buy a drink for is the guy who got

00:42:28.500 him on the list to receive the order of Ontario.

00:42:31.480 That was a good thing, Doug.

00:42:32.580 I don't know how that is, but order of Canada next, please.

00:42:37.560 Yeah.

00:42:37.800 I'm certainly sure for that.

00:42:38.780 Well, if he doesn't get it soon enough, maybe he gets order of Alberta.

00:42:43.260 Okay, not enough time for me, so we're going to pull it there.

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Western Standard - February 24, 2026

THE PIPELINE： Western Standard projects a Liberal majority

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