Western Standard - The WNBA has become the prime battleground in the culture wars

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:29.040 welcome to the cory morgan show looks like the peak of summer is past it's cold and rainy and

00:00:35.680 miserable out there ah well things are getting a little too dry and brown down here in calgary

00:00:39.200 anyways and it's getting tired listening to the wife complain about me being too cheap to get

00:00:42.880 central air conditioning so we'll get some cooler nights and uh relax a little more as we go into

00:00:48.440 these dog days of summer there's probably still some more heat coming as we get closer to harvest

00:00:53.260 and uh that's alberta you know give it a few hours so we got lots to cover today as usual the news

00:00:59.400 hasn't been slowing down or stopping this summer much at all and i got a guest i've been looking

00:01:04.100 forward to you guys have probably already seen some of those podcasts dropping it's randy royer

00:01:08.780 started the nation of people uh podcast and uh a lot of interesting stuff and talking about things

00:01:14.720 such as uh old pierre trudeau's constitution and things that he dropped on us that we're enjoying

00:01:20.780 still to this day. So we're going to have a conversation about that, and I'm quite looking

00:01:25.300 forward to it. But let's get on to what I'm ranting and raving about today a little bit to start

00:01:29.820 things off. I've never really paid close attention to the NBA or WNBA. I mean, watching basketball

00:01:35.300 has never really been my thing. I'm more of an NFL guy, and I certainly hadn't tracked the growth of

00:01:39.880 the WNBA, which is the Women's League for those that don't watch that, as a professional league.

00:01:44.880 Though I have peripherally noted they've been getting more and more popular over the years,

00:01:48.600 and they have some colorful sports personalities emerging from within there.

00:01:52.580 Suddenly, though, I'm watching the WNBA like a hawk

00:01:55.040 because it's become ground zero in the battleground

00:01:57.820 between extreme trans activists and common sense.

00:02:01.280 I mean, basketball's a physical sport.

00:02:04.540 You know, it's involving direct contact between participants

00:02:06.700 that often becomes rough.

00:02:08.880 And the size and strength of the athletes are critical components

00:02:11.500 for the competitiveness.

00:02:12.960 The smaller players, they're going to get shoved aside,

00:02:15.060 or the gameplay will literally go over their heads,

00:02:17.460 which is why players at the professional level are all large.

00:02:21.960 The statistics kept in professional leagues help illustrate the vast physiological differences between male and female players.

00:02:28.640 The average height of a player in the NBA is 6'7", and the average weight of one of those players is 216 pounds.

00:02:35.200 Now compare with the Women's League, the average height of a player there is 6'1", and the average weight is 170 pounds.

00:02:41.440 The difference is pretty stark. 0.54

00:02:43.140 Only in the imaginary utopia of trans ideology can be conceived that physiological men wouldn't have a distinct advantage when playing in a woman's league. 0.68

00:02:51.000 Yet that's exactly the narrative trans activists are putting out there. 0.53

00:02:54.420 Could you imagine a game where even three men of NBA proportions were playing on a team within the WNBA? 0.54

00:02:59.900 The game wouldn't even be close, and the possibility of a woman being seriously injured would be actually quite high.

00:03:06.000 All a man has to do these days, though, to be considered a woman by trans activists is to state that he's a woman.

00:03:10.840 There's no need for surgery, treatments, or even shaving off a beard for that matter. 0.93

00:03:15.120 If a person identifies as a woman, their declaration is to be considered inviolate, despite the biological reality. 0.98

00:03:22.800 The follow the science crowd really falls off the rails when it comes to this issue. 0.85

00:03:26.940 While individuals may choose to indulge the declaration of womanhood from a man as they please,

00:03:32.340 it becomes problematic when sports or institutions offer recognition to self-declared women.

00:03:36.640 That's how men entered sexual assault centers for women and impregnated women in prisons.

00:03:42.600 This is how women's sports now are being destroyed.

00:03:45.320 Now, two former NBA players have decided to put the absurdity to the test. 0.70

00:03:49.920 Inez Cantor Freedom and Royce White have both publicly declared they now identify as women and will stand for the WNBA draft in 2027.

00:03:57.960 By the definition set out by the woke, it would be a human rights crime to deny White and Freedom their right to play within the league.

00:04:03.740 Who are they to say these aspiring athletes aren't women?

00:04:06.640 Now, while your average two-year-old can tell the difference between a man and a woman, the question has flummoxed the WNBA administration.

00:04:13.720 League Commissioner Kathy Engelbert sent a memo to teams stating that a task force now of presidents and general managers is going to have to get together and discuss transgender participation.

00:04:25.060 The league expressly says only women may play within it, but they neglected to define what a woman is.

00:04:30.320 Even if the league finds common sense and tries to ban men from participation,

00:04:33.600 any formal changes are going to require collective bargaining from the Players Association. 0.70

00:04:38.880 And many women within the Players Association are hyper-woke and practice what God's side says is suicidal empathy.

00:04:45.140 They'd rather destroy their league than admit that men aren't women.

00:04:48.660 The debate has been playing out on the court as well.

00:04:51.520 Sophie Cunningham, a star player and fan favorite with the Indiana Fever.

00:04:55.580 She's been an outspoken person, though, saying that biological men should not compete in women's

00:05:01.040 sports. In recent comments, she said she wants to protect young girls in a locker room or young

00:05:05.520 girls in a sport that shouldn't have to go against biological men. Cunningham's statements of simple

00:05:10.040 truth have put a target on her back on the court from woke players. On August 8th, during a Fever

00:05:14.700 versus Chicago Sky game, Sky guard Carrington viciously assaulted Cunningham in front of the

00:05:21.600 net, causing a minor injury. Carrington was ejected from the game for the assault and she

00:05:25.660 quickly posted on X that she'd been ejected due to white privilege. The usual case to be made by

00:05:30.340 the woke and the weak. Hard to swallow considering over 80% of the league is made up of women of 1.00

00:05:35.160 color. Sports Illustrated reported on the assault with a vile headline saying Cunningham was a 1.00

00:05:39.920 victim of karma. In other words, they said she was asking for it due to reviews that men shouldn't

00:05:44.220 play in women's sports. Amateur sports have been slowly but surely banning men from participating

00:05:48.840 in the women's categories now the issues in the hands of the professional leagues will common

00:05:53.160 sense win the day with the wnba or will they tear down that league that they've built on an absurd

00:05:58.120 point of principle either way whatever the outcome it's finally made women's basketball interesting

00:06:03.240 to watch i'll be tuning in in future days all right well that's what's got me started today

00:06:08.040 we're gonna get a news check in and see what else is going on with dave winnick from the newsroom

00:06:11.320 how's it going not too bad cory how are you doing i'm all right actually sounds good so speaking of

00:06:15.560 of sports when are you going to be signing up for the wnba oh listen i'm under no delusions that i

00:06:21.080 could compete with the women in that league they would still mop the floor handily with me

00:06:25.040 i'd be lucky to take on a high school uh women's league at this point oh yeah well the only reason

00:06:30.900 i bring that up is qr 77 i don't know if you heard this just landed the uh broadcast rights for the

00:06:34.760 flames games yeah i think it's a five-year deal they haven't said how much it's going to be yet

00:06:38.300 now they've kind of taken over the slack since uh sportsnet 960's gone off the air i was just

00:06:42.640 wondering were you ever a fan of sports nine sports at 960 and whatnot or listening to flame

00:06:46.540 games on the radio it's been a long time since i have not too much i i remember listening to them

00:06:50.280 many years ago when i used to make bets on the nfl games actually and i was surveying so i could

00:06:54.760 listen to it from the truck you know on the am radio and find out how terribly my choices were

00:06:58.620 made on those tickets but i wasn't a big follower but i know it's big news for sports watchers who

00:07:03.020 like uh radio i guess oh yeah definitely i used to be a big fan but i don't know i've spent years

00:07:06.380 not many people listen anymore yeah i found that hey i guess somebody does though anyway

00:07:10.820 Yeah, I saw something, actually, this is interesting, just came up.

00:07:13.120 Apparently, the lawyers in the Charlie Kirk assassination case, Tyler Robinson,

00:07:17.020 apparently they're claiming now that Robinson shouldn't be challenging the death penalty

00:07:20.820 because the shooting didn't endanger anyone else at the event, and he hit his target.

00:07:25.780 How exactly did they figure that?

00:07:26.980 I mean, talking about absurd, really.

00:07:28.440 Well, yeah, I guess they've got to try and make whatever little case they can.

00:07:31.600 We'll see if that gets accepted.

00:07:33.460 Yeah.

00:07:33.800 It's going to be a difficulty.

00:07:35.060 Yeah, I have no idea.

00:07:36.860 Oh, man.

00:07:37.200 And also, as well, Jeff Rath is apparently getting his assets frozen by, I'm just looking here, the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nations accusing him of misusing their trust funds as well.

00:07:46.340 I think that's the second one now, after, I think it was the Tall Creek First Nation were the first ones that accused him of that.

00:07:51.280 He obviously denies it, but, I mean, there's two now.

00:07:53.160 Do you think there's going to maybe be, if this is, like, more to come or what exactly?

00:07:56.000 I don't know, but, I mean, can they freeze?

00:07:57.900 He's already been frozen with what he had.

00:07:59.940 Are they just refreezing what he's got?

00:08:01.900 I don't really know exactly.

00:08:02.800 I think they're looking into, like, trying to, so I don't know how much assets he has.

00:08:05.980 But, I mean, like $42.4 million, I mean, that's an absurd amount.

00:08:09.520 I think the first, what was it, $8 million?

00:08:11.220 I think the first band was going after them for an asset.

00:08:13.500 $8 or $12 or something like that.

00:08:15.000 I think so, somewhere in that range.

00:08:15.940 So, yeah, we'll be following that one.

00:08:17.640 That's another thing.

00:08:18.000 If you froze my account, all they get is, you know, $2,000 in some bottle caps or something.

00:08:22.520 Yeah, I was just going to say as well, Air Canada is also selling off a 25% stake in their aeroplane for $2.5 billion.

00:08:27.840 So, now the loyalty program is being valued, I think, at $10 billion.

00:08:31.300 So, I guess maybe that's good news.

00:08:32.600 I guess there's been a lot of bad sort of wraps for airlines recently with WestJet strikes and everything.

00:08:35.980 so something positive for the airline world would be good uh you know what is it with airlines

00:08:41.500 lately though there's no such thing as a negotiated agreement anymore it's just basically

00:08:45.340 an automated automatic strike whenever it was mechanics uh pilots or or uh flight attendants

00:08:51.420 i still try to call them stewardesses but yeah i kind of do that i'm just bad no it just annoys

00:08:55.500 me too because they go on strike like west jet and then the day after it's like oh everything's

00:08:59.340 cleared up and it's like they've already messed up like who knows how many like flights the chain

00:09:02.860 reaction disruption though is massive in a day or so yeah i know it's just ridiculous to me but

00:09:07.260 yeah i know and also obviously one of the big ones as well as the fires in bc and apparently

00:09:10.860 the calls are growing for the uh fire uh what is it the uh forest minister um rabbi i think

00:09:15.020 he pronounced his name parmar to resign over mill closures and obviously wildfire management and

00:09:19.180 he's made some remarks like dismissing um conservative criticism but obviously evie's

00:09:23.580 been standing by but what's your whole take on the whole wildfire situation in bc because again

00:09:27.500 it's probably like all over canada years of wildfire enforcement management really has caused

00:09:31.420 a lot of this i would say yeah i mean everybody of course opposition is always going to hold the

00:09:35.420 the feet to the fire i guess you could say of the government we saw that in alberta when the fires

00:09:39.580 were happening here i mean there have been a lot of things we aren't doing uh the spacing with some

00:09:43.980 communities uh we haven't been logging like we have in past times to clear this out i mean that's

00:09:48.620 some of the discussion is if forests don't get taken down one way or another fire is going to do

00:09:54.140 it i'm just like curious what you would think how they would like go about that going forward with

00:09:58.780 like managing forestry do you think there needs to be like more i don't know controlled burns

00:10:02.060 everyone talks about but i mean i i don't want to delve too far outside of my own expertise i'm

00:10:06.460 a guy who worked in the bush a lot i i do know areas i've worked it's the one that scares me

00:10:10.780 i'll talk about it you know out in uh wipers area and in the foot hills there i did a lot

00:10:15.900 of heli portable survey out that way years gone by and it was so choked with dead underbrush and

00:10:21.900 and and such in that area we could barely crawl through that area if it ever lit up it's such a

00:10:26.700 a tinderbox there'd be no way of fighting that and the fire would be massive and part of the

00:10:31.400 reason it's built up so much is because it's near populated areas we've fought those spot fires for

00:10:35.840 so many years it hasn't been able to clear itself out but i don't have a solution necessarily i mean

00:10:40.720 the amount of resources to actually clear an area like that would be massive environmentalists would

00:10:45.820 go nuts if they saw clear-cut logging in an area that visible yeah and uh to have a controlled burn

00:10:50.960 the chances of going out of control would be huge i'm just saying anyways i wouldn't buy a cabin out

00:10:55.600 that way right now that's for sure i don't blame it well that's about all i have for the time being

00:10:59.500 cory so we kind of a slow morning but hopefully it's going to be picking up here later oh i'm

00:11:02.700 sure something stupid will happen for you guys to be scrambling in the newsroom hope so well right

00:11:06.780 on well thanks for the update appreciate it and i guess i'll be seeing you on the pipeline i guess

00:11:10.400 that's an hour or two yeah right on sounds good all right thanks all right and yes it was the

00:11:16.600 substitute dave he does a great job though isn't he and uh yeah the reason we've got all that going

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00:11:55.200 a lot happening out there as always. Let's just have a quick peek. A couple of the folks in the

00:12:01.380 comments scroll. Good to see Paradoxy, Jacqueline and LZ and GP folks coming from Northern Alberta.

00:12:08.040 Those areas, you know, again, where you get some of that fire risk and forest management things,

00:12:11.280 things we got to look at. You know, it's difficult to come up with solutions. And hey,

00:12:15.920 things are getting drier they are getting hotter I mean we got a much larger debate about how much

00:12:22.260 degree humans are causing that to happen or how much of it might be natural cycles or whatnot but

00:12:27.940 come on you know I'm getting a little long in the tooth and I do remember as a kid who grew up in

00:12:32.560 Banff and a guy who spent 20 years surveying in the bush we didn't see burns going on 20 30 years

00:12:38.360 ago like we're seeing today and there could be a number of factors these are things we should be

00:12:42.100 talk about as dave was saying some of it is how much is is have we dropped the ball on management

00:12:46.060 how much have we let tinder build up in in these forested areas but there's a little more going on

00:12:51.280 too and it's that hot and dry consistently it makes for for uh much more problematic issues

00:12:56.560 of these things getting lit in the first place and trying to fight them once they do get rolling so

00:13:01.940 uh we'll be watching let's just hope they get things under control in bc i mean it's been

00:13:05.860 terrible over there uh some of the awful awful scenes there was a one on the western standard

00:13:10.280 showing a video clip, though, of some cattle that thankfully did escape the fire and narrowly got

00:13:15.940 out of it. Check it out of the Western Standard for that. But, you know, wildlife and a lot of

00:13:20.700 things suffer really terribly in these fires, and it's awful. So we'll see what we can do about it.

00:13:27.040 Speaking of stability, yes, Canada is more unstable than ever, and that kind of leads into the guest

00:13:31.800 I'll be speaking to in a moment. I just wanted to note one thing I saw in a poll as a, well,

00:13:36.840 a person like me who likes to stir up the federalism pot. The Parti Quebecois is poised

00:13:42.560 now, as far as polling is concerned, to win a majority in this fall's election. I mean,

00:13:46.440 it was looking like a minority for a while, but they're still gaining. They changed leadership

00:13:49.720 in Quebec with others, thought maybe they were looking at a minority position. The PQ now is

00:13:55.740 looking to potentially win this fall in Quebec, and their mandate's to hold a referendum again.

00:14:01.080 something's got to change in Canada. What's fundamentally wrong with it? Why are provinces

00:14:06.780 tearing themselves apart from every direction? Maybe Mr. Randy Royer has some answers on some

00:14:11.280 of that. Hey, thanks for joining us in studio today. Nice to see you, Corey. Thanks for having

00:14:14.940 me. Yeah. So, I mean, maybe just kind of introduce yourself. You've written some guest columns.

00:14:19.620 People are familiar with you, but you know, who are you? Who am I? So I'm raised, I'm born in

00:14:26.600 actually raised in uh raised in lesbridge and uh and i've kind of long been possessed by the

00:14:33.160 concept of western alienation and spent much of my adult life trying to figure it out and i got

00:14:38.840 involved with national politics and uh and have got lots of lots of uh views and lots of perspectives

00:14:46.680 that are somewhat unique because uh because of my political aspect you know political work and

00:14:53.800 And I've written three books on the subject over the years, starting in 2007, actually predicted what was going to happen with the progressive conservatives, that they were going to lose to a third party, which ended up actually happening.

00:15:07.720 And then another book that was, I think, the top 10 reasons why Alberta doesn't fit in this Canada.

00:15:12.820 And then the most recent one is Alberta should lead, not leave, which is a phrase quoted many times by politicians, which I'm happy to see.

00:15:21.860 It has been quite popularized now. Yes. So your new podcast, Getting It Out There,

00:15:27.300 and that gets to the fundamentals of, you know, because we're kind of seeing, I think,

00:15:30.500 a national crisis emerging in different parts of the country. And you delve into with your

00:15:35.280 Nation of People podcast, sort of the history, the more recent history and what's pulled us

00:15:40.220 together. What's it all about? Well, the podcast is fundamentally about empowering people.

00:15:45.660 And so, you know, my personal belief is that democracy is about people empowerment, that the government should work for them, not the other way around.

00:15:55.040 And and so what we're trying to do is we're trying to give people an education.

00:15:57.940 So we're you know, we refer back to history, how we got to where we are and we will be in the future episodes.

00:16:06.160 We're inviting people on and we'll get their perspectives.

00:16:08.880 and then what we're doing in this it's a 20 episode podcast and and we're taking kind of a

00:16:14.100 business plan approach to what should Alberta do and so we're looking at the foundations of you

00:16:20.120 know what got it like I said what got us here but the idea is that we will look at the options

00:16:26.160 we will game out those options kind of model out what happens if we do A B C or D and and my

00:16:33.160 personal uh opinion is that with what's happening in quebec and what's happening here in alberta

00:16:39.640 the country's either going to go one of two ways it'll either fall apart and balkanize or it could

00:16:46.440 potentially be a cathartic moment where we actually get our act together and grow up well we'll see

00:16:51.720 it certainly i think we're at a turning point i think everybody's kind of feeling that things

00:16:55.000 have come to a head uh so your first couple of episodes and you were talking a lot about the 1982

00:17:00.440 you know, repatriation of the Constitution, and Pierre Trudeau's, you know, part in all of that.

00:17:10.000 What did you go into with those episodes?

00:17:12.180 Well, first of all, you know, I contest the word repatriation, because we didn't have a codified

00:17:17.940 constitution before. It was a British parliamentary, we had a British parliamentary system,

00:17:22.380 which drives you to common sense and compromise versus a codified constitution,

00:17:31.160 which is an American concept, which we imported.

00:17:35.060 And that drives you to litigation and adversarial approach.

00:17:39.980 So talking about the, I'm going to dive into this, but talking about the WNBA.

00:17:46.240 Yes.

00:17:46.520 And what a crapshow that has turned into, you know, the translation.

00:17:51.580 It reminds me of a story about, and this was years ago, that a female reporter, it happened in two places, Boston and Winnipeg.

00:18:00.220 And in Boston, the female reporter wanted to get into the change room.

00:18:05.060 And this is, you know, years ago.

00:18:06.980 And she couldn't, wouldn't let in, the team wouldn't let her in because she was a female and it was a men's sport.

00:18:12.740 And so she took it to court and it became this big constitutional issue.

00:18:16.680 There's all this huge litigation.

00:18:18.260 it got all over the all over the place and it would just become a mess and finally you know

00:18:23.620 the judge decided one side of the other i don't remember what happened as opposed to in winnipeg

00:18:29.320 same thing happened that a female reporter wanted to get into the the men's locker room and it goes 0.98

00:18:35.940 in front of the judge and the judge said this is stupid it shouldn't be in court you guys go and 0.96

00:18:40.660 figure out something reasonable and get out of my face that was pre-1982 constitution so that was 0.98

00:18:47.240 canada that had common sense and mates and and had logic and it let people find compromise

00:18:54.280 versus when we adopted the american system that's all gone and that's what i'm trying to point out

00:18:59.720 in in our discussion about uh about the about in the podcast yeah well things going so much

00:19:06.360 into the courts now being litigated uh not only you know i mean there's many questionable rulings

00:19:12.920 i think that are coming from it but the time frame we can't address issues in a timely manner

00:19:18.200 anymore these things take years to get through the system when again we just don't seem to have

00:19:23.160 the capability of a judge to put his or her foot down and say come on get out of my courtroom you're

00:19:26.840 wasting my time or at least you know let's get this done fast well the instructions to the judges

00:19:32.680 changed in 1982. suddenly they had this constitution that they had to refer to and you know there's

00:19:38.360 different ways they could approach it you know it's called originalism what did the what did

00:19:41.960 the authors think or it's called they call it the living tree i call it the judicial advocacy

00:19:46.840 but they can kind of make up their own story and and things like you know bike lanes that are now

00:19:52.520 becoming constitutional charter rights uh and you know in british columbia one judge said that

00:19:58.600 uh it was a constitutional right to do hard drugs in playgrounds you know like crazy stuff that and

00:20:04.520 then it and then as you said it takes years to actually for the supreme court to decide whether

00:20:09.720 they agree with the lower courts or not. And so we get stuck in this mess. One of the problems is

00:20:14.960 the Canadian judicial system was never built for this kind of adversarial approach. And it was

00:20:22.580 never built to be the supreme position in our democracy. And so it's never caught up. Whereas

00:20:29.480 in the US, you go to court and you're in and out within six months to a year. In Canada, it's two,

00:20:35.440 three years. Well and then this living tree though just seems to be growing like a weed in a lot of

00:20:40.040 bad ways. It was at the 2004 Haida decision. I mean people assume that consultation for example

00:20:45.560 is entrenched in the constitution when it comes to indigenous people and no it's not actually.

00:20:49.520 That work doesn't appear anywhere there but the justice ruling in 2004 brought in the obligation

00:20:55.960 to consult based on you know respecting treaties. That was read in though. That wasn't part of the

00:21:00.920 constitution but now it becomes considered a constitutional right that's right and now that

00:21:05.680 that's starting to evolve into consent rather than consultation and we have this animal that

00:21:11.560 just makes things more and more difficult to deal with uh but also we can't seem to reform our

00:21:17.480 constitution in any other sort of way either so how do we deal with the impasses that we come

00:21:21.360 well two quick things one is you talked about the forest fires well the simple reality is the

00:21:26.820 forest fires have been hit by two things one is the tariffs to the u.s when trump was complaining

00:21:31.400 about the uh for the the the smoke coming down i thought to myself you know what why don't we cut

00:21:37.540 our trees down sell them to the united states without tariffs bring down your housing costs

00:21:42.920 and we'll be able to manage our forests again anyway he didn't want to do that um but the

00:21:48.440 other thing is that the uh the duty to consult has really become you know i want to call it

00:21:54.640 kind of legalized blackmail that we know because the court insisted on something and then the

00:22:00.960 governments have not set parameters around it it's really a negotiation and so when when one

00:22:06.620 side has the government support of the you know requirements I mean it's undefined so they can

00:22:13.080 kind of you know it's it's it's common almost like constitutional blackmail and I don't mean

00:22:20.380 in a negative way but uh and i don't mean that they shouldn't be consulted but it needs a frame

00:22:26.140 a framework and the and governments haven't done that and so what's ended up happening is it has

00:22:30.860 devastated the forest industry and the and the um forest management was largely conducted by the

00:22:36.940 forest companies and they've frankly most of them have moved to the united states now and so that's

00:22:41.980 one problem the uh the second part of your question was uh amending the constitution is

00:22:48.620 a non-starter we tried in 2021 we're going to try it again here with the upcoming referendum the

00:22:54.300 first nine questions uh but you know in 2021 the equalization question was just basically

00:23:01.020 disregarded and so my view of it is we have to break the egg and that means that i think we

00:23:07.420 should have had a referendum in 1982 to get the citizens approval we didn't do that i think that

00:23:14.940 obligation still exists and i think we should have a referendum on do we accept or reject the 1982

00:23:21.100 constitution well that's part of uh the basis of one of your your podcasts that have already dropped

00:23:26.380 is that you know we never really had the consent of canadian people on a document so important as

00:23:30.540 the constitution and the charter of rights it was all done by a small group essentially of of

00:23:36.460 elites absolutely i mean as my personal opinion being there at the time and i i think in the

00:23:42.780 second episode i divulged that i actually voted against it um because i didn't want us to become

00:23:48.300 american and which i think arguably we have uh you know even we uh anyway the uh my argument is

00:23:57.580 that that you know the government promised they wouldn't take away rights uh and they did that

00:24:02.380 and uh and and they didn't do it with our informed consent no and then but the and there's rights

00:24:07.900 that never went into the charter in the first place too that are in question i mean property

00:24:12.060 is a big one uh we we do have property rights but they aren't entrenched in the charter and

00:24:18.140 constitution so if there's an infringement on it you don't have a really solid basis to defend

00:24:22.540 yourself whether it's expropriation or or in the case of title being given to a indigenous band

00:24:29.260 you're kind of out of luck well look at the cowichan decision that's what i'm saying yeah

00:24:33.180 i mean the cowichan decision the judge virtually said what was i to do in the constitution

00:24:38.140 indigenous have land rights in section 35 3 and there are no land rights for the general population

00:24:44.940 so what am i to do and and she makes a good point that the instructions from the constitution are

00:24:50.700 indigenous have land rights that are recognized and protected the general population doesn't

00:24:56.300 and um and and then when uh i don't know if you noticed but recently one of the land owners it

00:25:02.300 was a company that was developing warehouse uh warehousing they wanted to continue on their

00:25:07.580 program and they can't get financing because lenders won't give them the money because they

00:25:12.300 don't own the land and say they tried to intercede in the court case and for a bunch of reasons the

00:25:18.860 judge said you know it's too late you don't have standing and just basically punted them out and so

00:25:25.740 the the fundamental problem and bc doesn't get this because they just they regard in bc they

00:25:32.460 They tend to regard Ottawa as something very distant and not involved in their lives.

00:25:37.620 We view it as something that's attacking us.

00:25:40.580 They view it as something different. 0.98

00:25:42.040 I call them the orphan of Confederation.

00:25:44.240 We're the abused child.

00:25:45.380 They're the orphan child.

00:25:47.420 And so they're looking at DRIPA as their problem.

00:25:51.920 But it's actually founded in the Constitution, just as you said.

00:25:55.800 Well, I mean, using the family analogy, we've got the drunk uncle in Quebec,

00:25:58.800 and we've got the uh you know neglectful father in ontario so getting on to changing the charter

00:26:05.180 constitution as you said perhaps through a referenda or something like that uh how do we

00:26:09.920 get the federal will though to want to make those kinds of changes there's part of the problem we

00:26:13.700 have yeah i mean part of the problem is is the federal the federal entity that the federal

00:26:20.760 government has a veto on any changes any changes what they don't have is the will of the people

00:26:26.520 And so what we need to do is, and this is the Alberta should lead, not lead part.

00:26:33.020 If we lead the rest of the country to say, break the egg, 82 constitution doesn't work.

00:26:39.240 We need a people's driven constitution and then possibly get British Columbia on side because of their land issues and some other things.

00:26:48.720 Hopefully get Saskatchewan on side.

00:26:50.620 if we were to have that and Quebec is already outside of the constitution we would have more

00:26:55.500 than 50 percent of the population outside of the of the constitution it cannot stand it's an

00:27:01.480 interesting way I go about it I mean I'm of a similar uh mindset and I feel the egg needs to

00:27:05.420 be broken so we can uh you know re-evaluate it though I take more of the secessionist approach

00:27:09.960 as opposed to trying through a more general uh referendum I guess I mean the bottom line is

00:27:16.040 we seem to be in a pressure cooker though if we don't change something substantially this country

00:27:20.120 is going to shatter one way or another oh absolutely we we've you know we we gave away

00:27:26.280 our economy uh in under nafta and we're realizing that that was a mistake uh at least i'm realizing

00:27:32.320 it was a mistake because we have no control over our economy now we we we ceded it to the united

00:27:37.680 states we then we we got rid of our british parliamentary system and decided to to duplicate

00:27:45.160 the American system which is judicial and it's judicial supremacy and and all that stuff and so

00:27:52.220 when do we actually turn and say who are we as Canadians or who are we as Albertans or Western

00:27:59.020 Canadians and start to drive towards who we are and I think I think this might be the point where

00:28:06.640 you know Alberta separatism is the catalyst for us actually thinking those things through and

00:28:12.880 you know who knows what happens at the end my aspiration and this is why we call it the nation

00:28:19.080 of people my aspiration is that the people will be in charge and we'll tell the government what

00:28:24.600 to do rather than the other way around that would be really refreshing that's absolutely yeah

00:28:29.040 well I mean the time went quickly I knew it would so before I let you go though I mean you've had a

00:28:33.660 couple episodes dropped as you said there's a whole bunch of them coming really looking forward

00:28:36.840 to it's a conversation we need to have and very timely as we are really in national flux as I

00:28:41.280 mentioned Quebec's really kind of getting on the edge now too uh what can people look forward to

00:28:45.640 in these coming episodes uh and where can they find them I know western standards carrying them

00:28:49.800 I guess is pretty straightforward yes yeah so we're going to talk about vision of Canada

00:28:53.680 and uh you know in one of the next episodes um I think the uh we're actually going to talk about

00:28:59.960 the character uh in the next the next episode and that how the character in western Canada is

00:29:05.880 different than the colonial character in the east and we're going to talk about where that

00:29:11.200 came from the history behind it and why we're different and uh and then we're going to talk

00:29:15.740 about there's three different visions of canada and none of the three want to talk to each other

00:29:19.920 and we admit the other two exist and then after that we're going to talk about um about the social

00:29:25.040 contract and so this is all very foundational stuff later on we're going to bring in some

00:29:30.540 guests and and get their views on on you know what their their perspectives are and and ultimately

00:29:37.140 we're going to our intention is to drive that uh taking kind of a business plan and look at it

00:29:41.980 what are our strengths and weaknesses outside um outside environment like you know the for example

00:29:49.040 the president of the united states has said that he wants to annex us well what pressures does that

00:29:53.760 put us under and then we're hopefully kind of come up with a recommendation great well i appreciate

00:29:59.140 you taking the time to come and talk on the show today i'm looking forward to those episodes as

00:30:02.560 they drop and uh it looks like it's going to be a fascinating conversation super i look forward to

00:30:06.740 And I do hope people get engaged and informed.

00:30:10.060 That's our aspiration.

00:30:11.220 Well, that's it.

00:30:11.960 And actually, if people have feedback, since you're still airing these and shooting these,

00:30:15.000 how can they get a hold of you, actually, if they wanted to?

00:30:17.500 Go to our website, nationofpeople.com, and just info at nationofpeople.com, and they

00:30:23.580 can catch me.

00:30:24.180 Excellent.

00:30:24.640 Great.

00:30:24.860 Thank you again.

00:30:25.420 Thanks, Corey.

00:30:25.860 I'm sure we'll talk again soon.

00:30:26.820 Yeah, look forward to it.

00:30:27.520 Right on.

00:30:28.340 So check it out, guys, nationofpeople.com.

00:30:30.460 And that's Randy Royer.

00:30:31.380 I mean, it looks like it's going to be a fascinating and important series on the go.

00:30:34.980 So, you know, we're all kind of reevaluating where we are, what we're doing, where we're heading, and it's coming towards a breaking point.

00:30:43.500 Maybe it's imagined. I don't know. I mean, in 95, everybody thought the nation was at a breaking point.

00:30:48.560 Well, it narrowly escaped that. We've gone on for another 30 years.

00:30:52.400 But here we are asking all of those same questions again.

00:30:55.560 I will back up a little quickly, too. I mean, just I see Will Vassar pointed out, he said, you know, back to the WNBA thing.

00:31:02.740 So I just want to get on that because that's where I started things.

00:31:04.980 because he's a better watcher than I am.

00:31:08.180 And there's nuances to the league that I didn't cover in my monologue.

00:31:10.880 As he pointed out, an added layer to the debate is the Fever,

00:31:12.940 the most polarizing team in the league.

00:31:14.660 They have Kaitlin Clark, which you can see even as a non-viewer myself,

00:31:18.020 I've heard the name, you know, who brings the WNBA massive attention.

00:31:22.620 Other teams want to take cheap shots at them.

00:31:25.000 Yeah, the motivation is to some of the physical attacks, I guess,

00:31:27.820 on that particular team.

00:31:29.440 You know, there's a lot of intricacies that go on in professional sports

00:31:32.200 and things that stand out.

00:31:33.640 But the league has been growing. It's been catching interest. It's been getting there. I mean, they've been struggling for a long time, I think, for the WNBA to kind of try and get into the massive viewer base for the NBA. But now we've got this whole woke fiasco kind of coming in.

00:31:47.580 You know, I think, this is just my view, as I've demonstrated, I'm certainly not a WNBA expert, but all of this attention being drawn on the league and some of the characters within it, the players within it, and things like that, this ridiculousness of, you know, the potential men coming into the draft or playing in the league and so on, I hope they just rule with common sense and say, that's enough.

00:32:10.020 You're born with these chromosomes.

00:32:11.160 You do not play in the league.

00:32:12.200 Simple as that.

00:32:13.080 That's the way it goes.

00:32:14.520 Let's move on with life.

00:32:15.540 but that whole discussion has shown such a spotlight on it that you know there's that many

00:32:20.060 more new viewers and this league can continue to grow and be entertaining and good for people 1.00

00:32:25.280 but if they go the wrong way if they really are that woke they really are that stupid and I'm 1.00

00:32:29.660 afraid you know we can't underestimate the stupidity of people anymore it'll be the end of 1.00

00:32:35.240 the league it'll be the end of the league I mean really you know I wasn't kidding around that much 0.99

00:32:39.960 about you know what would it look like if a couple of those guys these former NBA players

00:32:45.380 who were jokingly putting their names forward into the draft?

00:32:48.560 What if one of these team owners says,

00:32:49.960 you know what, yeah, I'm going to draft one or both of them.

00:32:52.900 And they get out on the court and the floor with these women. 1.00

00:32:55.520 They're going to knock them around like, you know,

00:32:57.500 I'm not saying these men are necessarily violent or anything,

00:32:59.080 but you can't play around that discrepancy between them.

00:33:02.160 It would turn into a novelty sideshow for, what,

00:33:08.100 a few games into the season,

00:33:09.540 and that would probably be the end of the league.

00:33:11.520 So I hope they're thinking harder. 1.00

00:33:13.480 but it's really brought not just the league into the spotlight, but the utter stupidity 1.00

00:33:18.460 of the trans ideology and what it's got to at this point. I mean, come on. You know, 1.00

00:33:24.300 an individual wants to identify as another gender, you know, dress up, get surgery, do the works, 0.99

00:33:30.060 marry somebody. Fine. I don't care. By all means, I hope it makes you happy. I hope it's 0.98

00:33:34.920 good and you can lead as functional a life as possible. If a person comes up, presents as a, 0.80

00:33:40.220 You know, a female, a male prefers to be called that out of respect.

00:33:44.600 I typically will.

00:33:46.100 The gender ID you want to give.

00:33:48.620 But we still have to put limitations on things to reflect reality.

00:33:52.120 As I mentioned in the monologue, there was an American prison where a number of prisoners got pregnant.

00:33:58.620 In other words, the man they put in with the women prisoners wasn't just, you know,

00:34:02.820 this wasn't somebody who had surgery and had the nuts and berries cut off or anything like that.

00:34:06.480 This was a fully functional man with all the parts.

00:34:09.020 and clearly a straight one.

00:34:12.140 Likewise, a battle in British Columbia

00:34:14.600 over a women's shelter.

00:34:16.060 Women's shelter, women who had been assaulted

00:34:18.740 by presumably a man most often

00:34:21.380 and they're trying to feel somewhere safe

00:34:23.700 to recover, to rebuild, to get on with life. 0.96

00:34:26.160 And these woke arseholes put men in with them, 0.98

00:34:30.080 put men in with them 0.98

00:34:31.760 and made it a legal battle

00:34:33.060 to put men in with these vulnerable,

00:34:36.000 already victimized women.

00:34:37.880 That's how sick the woke ideology is.

00:34:41.500 So if the prisons and women's shelters weren't enough to bring common sense in,

00:34:47.100 well, it's sad that that wasn't enough.

00:34:49.640 But maybe the WNBA will be what it takes to make people realize this is getting ridiculous.

00:34:57.720 All right, let's have a look into how well our federal government is spending our money.

00:35:02.100 Let's just pivot a little bit, you know, some happy news.

00:35:04.440 This one's in the Western Standard.

00:35:06.260 The Senate Speaker, her name is Raymond Gagne, I don't know, I can't pronounce some French

00:35:13.680 names, you know, says so much.

00:35:16.680 Who knew what the name of the Speaker was in the first place?

00:35:20.480 Nobody, because it's the Senate.

00:35:21.860 They don't do anything. 1.00

00:35:22.840 They're useless. 1.00

00:35:23.420 It's a patronage pit. 1.00

00:35:24.520 It's just somewhere you stick people because you owe them a political favor.

00:35:29.380 They get a good pension and don't have to work very hard and get a massive salary.

00:35:32.540 Well, she has billed taxpayers for $875,000 for international travel.

00:35:40.740 The Taxpayers Federation found this since she was appointed three years ago.

00:35:45.800 $300,000 in travel.

00:35:47.520 I mean, this is on top of all the hundreds of thousands they take out of us and everything else.

00:35:51.500 $300,000 in three years for a person that nobody in Canada has ever heard of, much less anybody overseas.

00:35:58.900 What purpose do we have to send a senator out of Canada, the Speaker of the Senate?

00:36:06.700 None.

00:36:07.580 This is just more of the gravy train for them.

00:36:09.960 And how on earth, what sort of five-star hotels and platinum treatment are you getting to run up a bill like that?

00:36:16.900 And you know what the consequences are going to be for her for that?

00:36:19.420 None.

00:36:20.440 Nothing.

00:36:21.400 We're continuing to take it up the keister, guys.

00:36:24.760 This country is ripping you off.

00:36:26.440 your work, your taxes, the stuff you see coming out, this is what it goes towards.

00:36:31.220 This is what it goes towards. You know, even the prime minister, when he has what,

00:36:33.680 single flights where there's a hundred and some thousand just in food costs, so he can treat all

00:36:38.040 his friends to the most expensive of possible foods. But at least I understand why a prime

00:36:45.420 minister has to travel. I understand why a prime minister can't fly coach. I understand why it'll

00:36:50.500 cost more than your typical flight, though that's still above and beyond, and it's ridiculous.

00:36:54.660 but I can understand that there's no damn reason the Speaker of the Senate should be costing over

00:37:00.960 300,000 or just under 300,000 a year for travel expenses come on for international travel that's

00:37:08.740 not just flying back and forth to the Senate because she represents somewhere else no this

00:37:11.420 is just international travel alone but nothing will happen nothing will come of it speaking

00:37:17.340 of nothing happened we're getting a little darker here and speaking of our bad courts and and our

00:37:22.760 ridiculous rulings from them. The Edmonton Police Service, they've warned us that Jamie Edward Meads,

00:37:29.900 he's 38, he's considered a significant risk of harm to the community. Yeah, he should be because

00:37:35.920 he's got a 20-year history of rape and assault. He's had eight known victims identified during

00:37:43.040 that period. He was convicted of assault by bodily harm when he choked, suffocated, strangled,

00:37:48.820 and aggravated assault, forcible confinement, intimidation, all against a woman last year,

00:37:54.180 2025. Just a little over a year ago, he's loose again. Do you think he might re-offend?

00:38:02.700 And you see, this isn't a shoplifter. This isn't somebody who's going to do minor harm. This isn't

00:38:06.740 a car thief. He's a rapist and a woman beater. So why do they keep releasing him? Because he's 1.00

00:38:13.620 Indigenous. Look into it. He's a Gladue case. What's a Gladue case? That's the geniuses in 1.00

00:38:20.540 our court system. They ruled in the Gladue ruling who I believe she was with the Niska or Cowichan 0.79

00:38:26.220 or one of those bands. Either way, whereas Indigenous offenders must, the judges have to 1.00

00:38:35.000 take their race into account and give them reduced sentences whenever possible. In this case, it 1.00

00:38:40.740 Should he be possible?

00:38:41.900 A judge should be able to say, I don't care about the Gladue principles.

00:38:44.600 This man is a hazard to society. 0.99

00:38:47.460 He should die of old age in prison. 1.00

00:38:49.600 So he doesn't rape another, a ninth woman and beat them. 1.00

00:38:53.540 But nope, he's loose again.

00:38:55.000 All the Edmonton police can do is warn us, hey, this guy's on the loose again. 0.60

00:39:01.000 Try not to be the one that he's going to assault and rape this time.

00:39:04.840 But there's going to be another one. 0.75

00:39:05.900 We know it.

00:39:06.980 We can't protect our citizens.

00:39:08.600 The state is failing us.

00:39:10.740 What is the point of the state?

00:39:12.980 What is the point of the government?

00:39:14.240 One of the few things, the most basic principles of a government is to keep the citizenry safe.

00:39:20.540 To keep us to do what it can to prevent monsters like this man from harming us and harming our women, harming our daughters and children.

00:39:29.560 And it's failed.

00:39:31.060 It's failed and it continues to fail. 0.99

00:39:33.300 This state isn't worth a crap. 1.00

00:39:35.240 Canada is broken. 0.98

00:39:36.640 People wonder why I support independence.

00:39:40.000 It's, oh, how could you possibly want to bust up this beautiful state? 1.00

00:39:42.980 Because the state's crap. 1.00

00:39:44.460 It's releasing guys like this to come out and rape people. 1.00

00:39:46.780 That's why. 1.00

00:39:47.520 And here's another one.

00:39:49.480 Mendehany Johans, not a Canadian, by the way.

00:39:52.820 He came as a refugee.

00:39:54.940 He's had two convictions for sexual assaults on strangers, too.

00:39:59.120 Not accusations, convictions. 0.93

00:40:02.500 He's repeatedly breached his court orders because they keep letting him out to rape more women.

00:40:07.680 He's been described by police as high risk.

00:40:10.000 and can't deport him. They won't deport him. He's not even a citizen. Why the hell is this rapist

00:40:18.400 here? Why is this rapist here? The immigration minister repeatedly in parliament keeps telling us 1.00

00:40:24.560 that inadmissible people don't get to stay. Well, what does it take to become inadmissible?

00:40:30.780 Half a dozen rapes? A dozen rapes? Why is this so hard?

00:40:37.000 you know a lot of things in politics are complicated a lot of things are nuanced a

00:40:43.620 lot of things take some thought and discussion getting rid of rapists shouldn't take a lot of

00:40:49.100 discussion keeping them in jail shouldn't uh be something that uh does such uh Canadian

00:40:59.260 Spider-Man says uh sorry Corey I have to hard disagree on the state being responsible for our

00:41:02.080 safety that gives them the power over our independence takes away individual accountability

00:41:04.760 which is wrong. Well, I'm not 100% libertarian in an anarchist world. I do believe, though, I agree,

00:41:10.300 I think we got some area of agreement that we should have more ability to protect ourselves,

00:41:14.680 period, anyways. That right should be paramount in the first place. I fully agree there. I believe

00:41:20.160 in castle law and those sorts of principles. But still, in an organized society, the state

00:41:26.780 should have a degree of policing and law enforcement. And not everybody is capable or

00:41:32.860 willing, you know, to have the firearms required or ability to fully protect their household or

00:41:37.740 themselves. And that's where as a society, I think we should try and manage to, again, protect those

00:41:45.660 liberties of people as much as humanly possible. But one of the obligations of the state, though,

00:41:50.240 is that management of those things. We can't go into a full free-for-all either. You know, I do,

00:41:57.620 as I said, I'm quite libertarian, but at the same time, we do need to grieve it. Either way,

00:42:02.420 the state's failing on that end and that's part of it too is as long as the state is failing we

00:42:07.340 should be opening up more ability to take the law into our own hands if the state won't do it if the

00:42:13.580 state's failing i think it's our obligation to citizens to take care of ourselves and take care

00:42:18.540 of our neighbors that's the anarchy it's going to lead to and uh you know i see a commenter lzgp

00:42:25.100 laying out all the things yeah just one after another justice system's a mess health care

00:42:29.040 system's a mess. The border system's a mess. Yes, everything's a mess. Yet I get called every name

00:42:34.560 in the book for pointing out, well, the only way I can think of to try and solve this is through

00:42:39.480 independence. I'll leave that with one more mess that's going on. I've been talking about that.

00:42:43.600 Elections Alberta is a mess. As we're going into this referenda, I say referenda, it gets confusing.

00:42:49.360 Referenda is the plural for referendum. Referendum is just one of them. Either way, as we're going

00:42:53.600 into a bunch of them being held this fall. Elections Alberta is just a gong show. They

00:42:58.680 won't, again, with Lukasik, who is clearly campaigning, won't deal with applying equal

00:43:04.140 scrutiny and obligations upon his campaign whilst following the other ones with a fine-tooth comb.

00:43:10.320 And now with the scrutineering, the biggest step in holding them, you know, that we can hold

00:43:15.240 elections accountable, having people there in person to watch the vote, watch the count,

00:43:19.420 watch the process. Well, it turns out for the first time ever, there's a two month

00:43:23.300 cutoff before voting date for scrutineers. What this means is we can't get scrutineers anywhere

00:43:30.440 after August 24th. What the hell? And they certainly haven't been expressly talking about

00:43:36.580 that. It has been available on the website, but they haven't really been letting us know. I run

00:43:39.700 a third party advertising group and they won't tell us the process on how you can get people

00:43:44.020 appointed between now and the 24th. So they're telling us I must get this done by the 24th,

00:43:49.220 but we're not going to tell you how to get it done.

00:43:51.000 And then once the deadline passes, 0.98

00:43:52.260 well, you're up shit creek. 0.97

00:43:53.000 You can't have a scrutineer. 0.99

00:43:55.740 This is Elections Alberta.

00:43:56.620 We contacted them a couple of days ago.

00:43:58.720 Still waiting on a response. 0.99

00:44:01.440 What are you clowns doing? 0.98

00:44:04.820 Just make an application for them. 0.98

00:44:06.680 That's why we're even asking at this point,

00:44:08.480 but apparently Microsoft Word eludes them.

00:44:13.260 This is the top authority of elections in Alberta

00:44:15.780 as they keep screwing this stuff up.

00:44:19.220 the integrity of the entire process is going to be questioned no matter which side loses in this

00:44:24.360 they're not going to take the outcome seriously because the electoral authority is either

00:44:30.060 incompetent or has been corrupted somehow not good not good at all if you can't have

00:44:38.480 a clean democratic action your democracy isn't working it isn't working so i mean i don't know

00:44:47.260 I don't know how much more pressure can be put on elections.

00:44:49.040 People said the premier should step in.

00:44:51.060 I like to remind people that's not a precedent we want to see.

00:44:55.360 We don't want to see the premier poking into the electoral thing.

00:44:57.820 It should be an all party committee.

00:44:59.340 It might even have to come to a judge,

00:45:00.920 but somebody has got to intervene because that electoral officer is,

00:45:04.280 I don't know what the hell his interest is,

00:45:05.940 but it doesn't seem to be in democracy and protecting those rights.

00:45:09.500 Well, I'll leave it at that guys. Hey, make sure to tune in to the pipeline tonight.

00:45:13.540 We're going to have a kind of a different panel lined up due to some people not

00:45:16.540 necessarily being available today but we're going to cover some issues that'll be really important

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Western Standard - August 13, 2026

The WNBA has become the prime battleground in the culture wars

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