Western Standard - Time to SMASH the Alberta teachers’ strike

00:00:00.000 Good day!

00:00:27.220 Today is October 8th, 2025.

00:00:29.140 I'm Derek Phil, the publisher of the Western Standard

00:00:31.660 And you're watching The Pipeline

00:00:33.160 I've got our usual

00:00:35.380 Crew of malcontents

00:00:37.360 On today, former Western Standard

00:00:39.280 Opinion Editor, Nigel Hannaford

00:00:41.140 Good evening

00:00:42.380 Western Standard Senior Alberta Columnist, Corey Morgan

00:00:45.460 Always a pleasure

00:00:46.580 And Western Standard, British Columbia Columnist

00:00:49.540 Elise Mills

00:00:50.440 Thank you very much, it's a pleasure

00:00:53.500 Yes

00:00:54.460 Alright, well we got

00:00:58.340 It was a week where we didn't have any trouble figuring out what to talk about today.

00:01:04.040 Hasn't made a lot of news other than on our pages, but Canadian comedian Ben Bankus,

00:01:11.580 who's actually kind of made it semi-big time.

00:01:14.580 He's gotten all over the states and whatnot.

00:01:16.680 He's doing a Canadian tour, coming through.

00:01:19.540 I had booked some tickets, I think eight tickets for Western Standard Calgary staff

00:01:24.440 to go and see him when he came

00:01:25.800 and would perform at the

00:01:28.540 Grey Eagle Casino, and he got cancelled

00:01:30.560 for a joke. He posted

00:01:32.700 on Instagram and Twitter

00:01:34.660 to X on

00:01:36.260 National Shame Day,

00:01:39.320 which

00:01:40.440 Western Standard employees do not get off 1.00

00:01:42.080 unless they're caught surfing.

00:01:45.140 But, yeah,

00:01:46.920 a comedy show

00:01:48.660 cancelled for being offensive.

00:01:50.680 Remember when we talk about that?

00:01:51.660 um alberta premier daniel smith uh making a very interesting power play um kind of colin

00:02:01.460 mark carney's maybe bluff probably bluff but we're gonna find out if it's a bluff um so colin

00:02:07.380 a bluff is maybe a bit presumptive but that's my guess uh well he's been trying to have it both

00:02:11.560 ways on pipelines he's formed he's against them everyone can vote for carney uh he's he's a

00:02:17.880 rorschach test of uh how up your elbows are and uh she her plan is uh getting him off the fence 1.00

00:02:26.400 and it's getting a lot of the right people very angry about this uh tamara leach and uh barber

00:02:34.080 have been sentenced i'm sure you've all seen the news uh and they have gotten very stiff

00:02:39.240 sentences stiffer than uh some pretty damn serious criminals including rapists thieves robbers

00:02:47.280 people who commit very serious 0.88

00:02:49.640 assaults

00:02:50.900 we know what's really important

00:02:53.880 what the government takes seriously in Canada

00:02:56.160 you can give people

00:02:57.940 fentanyl on the streets 1.00

00:02:59.140 that you know will kill them and kill them 1.00

00:03:01.620 which I think should be classified as murder 1.00

00:03:03.260 and you're going to get in many cases

00:03:06.060 a lighter sentence than organizing

00:03:08.060 a peaceful protest with bouncy castles

00:03:09.940 to demand your freedom back

00:03:12.280 but we're going to start

00:03:14.140 something a bit closer to home

00:03:15.900 here in Alberta

00:03:17.020 uh the teachers for the public schools are on strike um lucky me i don't send my children

00:03:25.500 to a government uh alberta teachers association run school i sent my kid to a charter school

00:03:32.360 so my kid is still going to uh to school that should be all you alberta parents watching who

00:03:37.820 i don't yet send your kids to a charter school you should charter schools

00:03:41.180 they're kind of like a private school except there's no tuition they're like a not-for-profit

00:03:46.380 school and it's fully funded doesn't i don't pay any tuition for my kids to go and uh they're just

00:03:52.020 there's all sorts of benefits like my kids not having propaganda shoved down their throats uh

00:03:58.200 every uh hour of the school day what's the waiting list to get into the school that your kid goes to

00:04:04.100 i'm not sure how it is right now but they keep on expanding spaces they've got they open up a

00:04:07.920 second campus because demand is so great it's a growing business it's booming it's a booming

00:04:12.100 industry and um it's just a fantastic program and uh our teachers don't seem to strike now i think

00:04:21.460 we're only uh i guess the school's on fourth year i think we haven't had a strike yet and the teacher

00:04:27.140 the teachers are very invested it's really great so if you're not yet going uh sending your kid to

00:04:31.140 a charter school you should be check them out wherever you are if you're in calgary look at

00:04:34.420 calgary classical academy there's other options uh i think they're even looking at studying at

00:04:38.820 at Edmonton Classical Academy because they're so successful.

00:04:41.820 Yeah.

00:04:44.100 But the teachers are on strike.

00:04:46.280 Now, I'm actually kind of angry at the UCP here

00:04:49.680 for making such a generous offer

00:04:52.400 to the Alberta Teachers Association.

00:04:55.400 12% raise over, is it three or four years?

00:04:57.700 Four years.

00:04:58.260 Yeah, 12% raise over four years.

00:05:00.840 That's more than most people are going to get.

00:05:02.820 And that's just increasing all the grids. 0.93

00:05:04.860 You might, you know, with how long you've been there,

00:05:07.300 you might move into a higher grid so you might get

00:05:09.340 more there's a good chance you're going to get more than

00:05:11.400 12% over four years but the whole grid moves

00:05:13.380 up 12% over four years all

00:05:15.280 sorts of other things they

00:05:16.780 negotiate more teachers more teaching assistants

00:05:19.540 giving them all this stuff

00:05:21.240 and of course

00:05:23.040 and the union

00:05:25.120 recommended the deal to the membership didn't they

00:05:27.320 yeah you know to be fair to the union boss

00:05:29.180 they actually recommended the deal

00:05:30.940 and the teachers voted overwhelmingly

00:05:33.580 to reject it

00:05:35.460 um

00:05:36.460 I don't know. I'm not very sympathetic to the union bosses, but in this case, they recommended

00:05:41.680 the deal. I'm actually upset with the UCP for putting forward such a generous deal, considering

00:05:47.460 how little in the school year teachers have to work. And teachers, you know, during the school

00:05:51.920 year, you know, they work hard and they deal with a lot of crap. I mean, there's kids like me that 0.92

00:05:58.140 are difficult to deal with. I understand it, but they get more time off than anybody and virtually

00:06:04.880 any job that's gainfully employed

00:06:06.620 and they reject this

00:06:09.000 deal.

00:06:11.020 I've got an idea

00:06:12.020 for ending the teacher strike.

00:06:15.100 I don't really have a very good analogy.

00:06:17.260 Corey told me I shouldn't use this analogy

00:06:18.880 but I'm gonna...

00:06:20.880 I don't think I said anything you shouldn't use.

00:06:23.600 Oh, no, no.

00:06:24.940 Maybe it was someone else I was talking about today.

00:06:26.620 Someone else in the office thought

00:06:28.620 I shouldn't use this analogy because it's bad.

00:06:30.440 But I really don't know how else to demonstrate the point.

00:06:32.700 This is a hostage negotiation.

00:06:34.880 The teachers are holding our kids hostage.

00:06:38.400 We're holding their contract hostage.

00:06:40.460 And here's what I think we should do.

00:06:41.520 We've got to figuratively, purely figuratively, 0.98

00:06:44.500 start shooting some hostages to let them know that we are serious. 0.95

00:06:48.740 Every single day that the strike goes on, 0.96

00:06:52.100 the Alberta government should convert a government ATA public school

00:06:56.880 into a charter school.

00:06:58.860 So, okay, it's Monday.

00:07:00.520 If you won't have a deal by the end of today, that's one school.

00:07:04.160 Tuesday, we're doing another school.

00:07:06.040 You do that throughout the first week.

00:07:07.140 Every single day, we're shooting a figurative hostage.

00:07:10.140 We're turning a government ATA school into a charter school.

00:07:14.960 And if you get to the second week, fine, we're going to do two a day.

00:07:17.900 And this is a threat I think the teachers would have to know that they're serious about. 0.99

00:07:22.220 You've got to know that you're crazy. 1.00

00:07:23.280 You're going to shoot the hostages. 1.00

00:07:24.600 Again, terrible analogy, but this is the only way I could really get my point across here.

00:07:29.940 that charter schools are better for kids.

00:07:34.360 They're better for everyone

00:07:35.260 besides the power of the unions.

00:07:38.040 And the unions are not there

00:07:39.760 to look out for the interests of the kids.

00:07:41.380 They are there legally mandated

00:07:42.880 to look out for the interests of the teachers.

00:07:45.120 Fine, but that's not what's important to me.

00:07:47.280 What's important to me

00:07:47.860 is my kids getting a good quality education

00:07:49.780 and being able to be good, productive,

00:07:52.520 free citizens in the world

00:07:53.420 when they come out of it.

00:07:55.080 So that's what I think we should do.

00:07:56.740 The Alberta government,

00:07:57.780 I'm already angry at you

00:07:59.040 for offering them such a generous deal. 1.00

00:08:02.040 These guys are just too stupid to realize it. 1.00

00:08:05.040 And they waited until kids were back in class. 1.00

00:08:08.420 They didn't struggle for the summer when they could have.

00:08:10.620 They waited until kids were back in class

00:08:11.920 before doing this, holding our kids hostage.

00:08:14.280 But charter schools massively outperform

00:08:16.680 the ATA government schools.

00:08:19.040 This is how you do it.

00:08:20.340 And frankly, it becomes then a good thing every day

00:08:22.860 that the teachers drag their heels

00:08:24.300 and refuse to sign on to a very generous deal.

00:08:27.740 We get more charter schools out of it in the end.

00:08:29.960 I think if you start doing this,

00:08:31.980 the teachers are going to come to the table pretty damn soon.

00:08:35.220 But I hope not too soon,

00:08:36.480 because I want more charter schools for kids in Alberta.

00:08:40.060 You do. I do, too.

00:08:42.920 You know, we're already getting our wish

00:08:45.360 because that whole area of education

00:08:49.600 that is outside the public system

00:08:51.420 has grown substantially in the last five years.

00:08:55.380 You know, it varies around the province, but I'm told that in Calvary,

00:09:00.640 certainly kind of the western end of Calvary,

00:09:03.940 there's something like 30% of kids are being educated outside the public system.

00:09:09.240 And it would be in schools such as you were referring to, the classical academy,

00:09:15.220 but also Christian schools.

00:09:16.740 Some people just homeschool their children and find it works out better for them that way.

00:09:21.400 the thing that i am uh i have a sort of a horrible theory about but this is more than about the money

00:09:30.040 the education industry for that is what it is and by that i'm talking about not only the

00:09:37.400 civil servants who work in education in the ministry but also the teachers themselves

00:09:44.660 the ata there is a critical mass within that you know john hilton brian calls it the blob

00:09:51.320 whatever you call it it's it's an industry and it's not just the money they actually want control

00:09:58.920 they don't like the idea that parents elect mlas mlas find themselves an education minister and

00:10:06.200 they set the curriculum because these people have got ideas of the right yeah the idea wants to be

00:10:11.400 certain yeah and so this is a this is one of the uh one of the things that's driving this

00:10:16.760 and I hope the government toughs it out.

00:10:22.540 Well, it's sounding like it.

00:10:24.180 I mean, that's interesting.

00:10:24.800 Chris Sims from the Taxpayers Federation also wrote a piece

00:10:27.260 and was saying it, look, you know, she's saying get winter boots,

00:10:30.480 teachers, because it looks like Smith's settling in

00:10:32.460 for the long haul with this one.

00:10:34.260 The attitude from the government so far is, okay, you know what,

00:10:37.220 we're going to help parents with a few bucks

00:10:38.680 so that they can get alternative care for their children

00:10:40.620 during the strike.

00:10:41.820 They're saying we're going to help you weather the storm,

00:10:43.860 like we aren't rolling over for this demands right now.

00:10:46.760 So that's a different take than governments who often capitulate pretty darn quick when it comes to something like this.

00:10:52.100 So I think this one's just warming up.

00:10:53.680 Yeah, at least I know maybe it's a bit insider Alberta here for you coming from B.C.

00:10:59.360 But we had that Corey alluded to this.

00:11:02.160 The government is taking the revenue that's essentially being saved by not paying these teachers while they're on strike.

00:11:07.980 And it's using it to at least partially offset the cost of parents who have to put them in child care or do extra driving around.

00:11:16.740 They're giving it to kids.

00:11:19.580 Incredibly to me, you know, Nahid Nenshi, the NDP leader.

00:11:25.720 Incredibly came out against that.

00:11:29.880 Like, I mean, he was supposed to be the moderate.

00:11:32.980 He's not supposed to be from the old government union, old school NDP.

00:11:38.080 You know, he's purple.

00:11:38.820 He's not red.

00:11:39.340 He's not blue.

00:11:40.140 Not orange.

00:11:40.980 um but i i'm i'm trying to figure out his politics on this move where you know he just says i i know

00:11:48.860 is he proposing to continue to pay them are we just going to pay the teachers while they strike

00:11:54.040 uh i mean they'll then strike for all time i'm not i'm not really sure where he's coming at this

00:11:58.640 from um i've been trying to figure out what the where the ata is coming from um i i know i talked

00:12:05.180 to some uh some kids who live in the area near me and they've been given the propaganda i i remember

00:12:10.560 I first became politically active in the fifth grade

00:12:12.900 as a kid growing up in a small town

00:12:15.100 Ontario. There was a teacher strike when Mike

00:12:16.940 Harris was the premier and

00:12:18.920 it politically activated me because

00:12:20.940 the teachers were pushing a bunch of propaganda

00:12:22.840 on us and it was

00:12:25.040 the first time I had authority figures

00:12:26.600 that I thought were not being truthful

00:12:29.140 with me. I was like this

00:12:30.700 this seems like 0.99

00:12:32.760 bullshit and they were telling us to 1.00

00:12:34.680 come out and give them 1.00

00:12:36.840 hot chocolate and sandwiches on the picket

00:12:38.800 lines i actually uh i had little glass vials stink bombs and i'd walk in for 10 time my shoes

00:12:44.720 i dropped stink bombs on the picket line not because i really care about politics but because

00:12:48.400 i didn't like my teacher for lying to me but uh that was my first act of uh of terrorism so um

00:12:55.760 anyway i just i the politics of this are bizarre i think it's it's somewhat uh what cory's saying

00:13:02.000 is the ata is used to having a lot more control they were given a huge amount of control uh over

00:13:07.360 things under Alison Redford, and that

00:13:09.360 persisted on. It doubled down a bit more

00:13:11.580 with Rachel Notley,

00:13:13.520 but it really began with

00:13:14.980 in earnest with

00:13:17.020 Alison Redford as Premier, who owed

00:13:19.420 her job as Premier into PC leadership to the

00:13:21.260 Teachers Association here.

00:13:23.160 But also, I just think of this, the

00:13:25.220 ATA is just kind of spoiling for a political

00:13:27.440 fight. I think they just want to fight

00:13:29.340 the UCP, and they've kind of boxed

00:13:31.400 themselves in now, where

00:13:33.120 the UCP

00:13:35.560 can't give them any more. The government's running a

00:13:37.320 deficit. It has not controlled its spending. That's on the UCP, but part of controlling its

00:13:40.780 spending is dealing with maniacs like the ATA. I'm not really sure what their game is here. They

00:13:45.980 seem to have boxed themselves in. Well, let's just start with, you've mentioned two politicians

00:13:51.280 manufactured by Stephen Carter. So Nenshi is the made-up politician, and Redford, as we know,

00:14:00.420 was involved with Stephen Carter. So well done. That's the contribution to Alberta by Mr. Carter.

00:14:06.100 you're talking to

00:14:08.720 a

00:14:09.080 he picks up really well

00:14:12.480 yeah

00:14:13.580 one day

00:14:16.540 we'll have to get into the mistakes

00:14:18.540 of political consultants and how it's

00:14:20.780 determined Alberta State

00:14:22.340 and the millions they make

00:14:24.560 along the way on the pathway

00:14:26.500 of our tiers

00:14:27.160 you're talking to somebody that

00:14:30.340 my earliest memory of school

00:14:32.160 was my teacher

00:14:34.360 striking in grade one

00:14:36.100 and my parents and other parents getting involved and saying, listen, we're going to teach these

00:14:42.080 classes. So back in the 80s, that's something parents could do in British Columbia, but

00:14:47.100 obviously things have changed. Out here in BC, we're watching you with a smirk, because

00:14:53.640 as you know, we had rolling teacher strikes. There were some terrible years there. And it was a

00:15:00.300 collection of about six years where my child was going through elementary school, and she didn't

00:15:05.420 have a year that wasn't interrupted at least once. I really regret not sending her to a charter or

00:15:11.820 private school. And this is, you know, I felt guilty about pulling her out away from her friends.

00:15:18.940 I would suggest every parent just go through the fire, just move them out to a private or charter

00:15:25.220 school. This is, as we learned in BC, because what you've done in providing some sort of, I think,

00:15:31.740 stipend i guess to parents um or voucher um to help them a long way is something we have done

00:15:38.940 in bc everything that is uh on the stage in in alberta with this art with this fight with the

00:15:44.700 ata is really reflective of every choice and decision that my former colleagues and my former

00:15:52.380 bosses made in british columbia we tried every trick in the book we have held firm we had a very

00:15:59.660 long strike um and when we realized that this was no longer about money but was about our effort to

00:16:06.620 take control back of the teachers college things started to change um and my suggestion as sort of

00:16:14.620 looking at this and i am surprised that your teachers did not vote with the recommendations

00:16:19.180 with the offer that was recommended uh by the union uh bosses that's something i haven't seen

00:16:25.740 in british columbia before but i think this is revenge tactics revenge politics it's over an

00:16:31.380 ideology and um nigel you wrote a great piece about this today and referred back to a interview

00:16:39.300 that you had i think roughly a year ago now um where you spoke to a young woman who was talking

00:16:47.160 about charter schools and yes thank you i remembered her last name and unfortunately

00:16:53.800 I couldn't remember her first name. But I found that to be intriguing because that's what we

00:16:59.440 found out. And, you know, I came from a coalition party, blue liberals, red Tories, fiscal

00:17:07.520 conservatives, and my ministers of education were predominantly liberals, and they turned out to be

00:17:13.680 the hardest on these unions. But I will say it is about revenge politics. It is not about the money

00:17:20.900 that you're offering. It's about also capping class sizes. The problem that Daniel Smith's

00:17:26.380 going to have is most parents in Alberta do not want to be sending their kids to a classroom

00:17:32.160 that's heaving at 37, 38, or 40 students per class. Nobody does. And not every parent,

00:17:39.260 especially as we're looking at the economy today, can afford, even Alberta, even in prosperous

00:17:45.400 Alberta, can afford to look at a charter or private school. Actually, charter schools in

00:17:50.520 Alberta have no tuition. There's no tuition in charter schools in Alberta. The only question

00:17:55.120 is, do we have enough charter schools? Which is why I think we should start converting public

00:17:59.140 schools into charter schools. All we need is really the buildings for it. There's the demand

00:18:04.320 for it. Everyone wants to send their kids to there and there's no tuition. You're missing 1,200 spots

00:18:09.620 in charter schools right now. And you might as well just double that by the time, because by summer,

00:18:14.380 that's probably going to double as well. So you're right to look at that. And I think that's a

00:18:18.260 fantastic thing. I wish that was something that was offered in British Columbia. But I would say

00:18:22.380 that I think if you can look at the cap, I think easing the cap without giving them control

00:18:28.200 would be some amazing political judo. But what they're looking for is control. Control over

00:18:36.820 what they're teaching, what they're talking about. They refuse, all teachers in this country

00:18:41.740 and their unions or federations refuse to get back to traditional teachings.

00:18:48.260 okay like what about financial literacy just a real a real quick point elise when we talk about

00:18:56.340 the teachers wanting control let's distinguish between the teachers organizations and some of

00:19:02.260 the great teachers that we all know personally who really aren't into this they're not the ones

00:19:07.220 who want to put the dirty books in the in the school library that comes from up the up the scale

00:19:13.540 So those are the people that we're fighting with.

00:19:16.620 So, Tamara Leach and Barber, we already knew some time ago,

00:19:21.840 they were found guilty in the biggest mischief trial in the history of the world.

00:19:27.280 They were sentenced just the other day.

00:19:32.580 Well, Derek, I think our editorial had it about right.

00:19:35.320 Yeah.

00:19:36.000 You know, Leach and Barber got hammered worse than people who do truly horrible things.

00:19:41.640 And why?

00:19:42.060 Because they challenged the legitimacy of what the liberal government was doing with COVID regulations in 2022.

00:19:49.940 Governments just hate that.

00:19:51.520 So this was a political prosecution, and the government wanted to deter other people.

00:19:57.320 I mean, Tamara Leach and Chris Barber were handed conditional sentences for leading one of the most peaceful, heartfelt protests that this country has ever seen.

00:20:07.620 Their only crime was refusing to stay silent when government power ran roughshod over ordinary Canadians.

00:20:16.480 I mean, we quoted Alan Borovoy, the late Alan Borovoy, great defender of civil liberty.

00:20:26.620 And he was once asked, he actually stated this.

00:20:31.120 He said, what else do people have than peaceful protests when government power runs roughshod over them and they don't listen?

00:20:41.440 And that's the question that's at the very heart of this moment.

00:20:45.380 Tamara and Chris stood for freedom, our freedom.

00:20:48.960 And for that, they were vilified.

00:20:50.840 They had the bank accounts frozen.

00:20:52.440 They had their trucks confiscated.

00:20:54.640 Years of their lives stolen by endless, you know, three-week protests and three years in the legal process.

00:21:00.140 yet they never called for violence

00:21:02.160 never broke faith with Canada's

00:21:04.060 democratic ideals

00:21:05.160 and you know peaceful dissent

00:21:08.420 is not a crime

00:21:09.360 it's the lifeblood of a free nation

00:21:12.020 I beg to differ it is a crime here

00:21:14.080 well it is because of crime

00:21:16.060 no question

00:21:16.840 you know did they break some laws

00:21:19.320 yeah you're not allowed to just set up

00:21:21.940 in a street for a prolonged period of time

00:21:23.660 but

00:21:24.380 people have been doing this for quite some time

00:21:27.980 in Canada without ever getting charged

00:21:29.480 Let's remember the so-called Idle No More, very weirdly titled, but Idle No More, when Harper was in power.

00:21:37.100 A conservative government in power, and these guys were blocking rail lines, highways, they set up encampments, and they did not have bouncy castles.

00:21:46.660 They had the distinct vibe of violence in the air that if you came to break them up, they would violently resist.

00:21:54.780 here. There was no violent resistance even when

00:21:56.860 they sent mounted troops in

00:21:58.700 to break these guys up, riding over

00:22:00.660 Granny. We will remember that video.

00:22:03.360 So, did they break the

00:22:04.860 law and commit mischief? Yeah.

00:22:07.220 I think they did.

00:22:08.720 But they did much less than

00:22:10.880 many, many other protests that have taken

00:22:12.780 place over the last

00:22:14.300 10 to 15 years, where there were

00:22:16.800 no prosecutions at all.

00:22:18.800 And then, they've now been sentenced.

00:22:21.240 And they've, you know, we note this

00:22:22.820 in our editorial. We cite

00:22:24.780 quite a few examples uh cory where um sorry i'll go to uh elise uh they cite quite a few examples

00:22:32.020 elise where uh rapists uh people who have attempted murder um people who have committed

00:22:41.340 major acts of physical violence have received significantly less severe uh sentences uh than

00:22:49.900 Leach and Barber

00:22:51.840 and it's such a sacred cow

00:22:54.200 in Canada, you're not allowed to question

00:22:55.860 the objectivity and fairness

00:22:58.340 of the justice system. If you question

00:23:00.380 it, you're questioning the constitutional

00:23:02.260 foundation of Canada. You're

00:23:03.900 somehow beyond the pale to question it.

00:23:06.780 I think at this

00:23:08.320 point, we don't even have to question it. We

00:23:10.180 know it's bullshit. 1.00

00:23:12.640 Bingo. So 1.00

00:23:13.960 a good example would be the story I think that

00:23:16.160 we discussed while

00:23:18.140 it was still warm and sunny

00:23:19.820 outside was the gentleman that went before court he had paid to for child rape he was a permanent

00:23:28.300 resident in the process of his application to be a full-fledged Canadian citizen and there were 0.88

00:23:35.080 several he was arrested for the paid rape or the attempt to rape school-age girls and I mean

00:23:41.500 elementary school-age girls and the judge intervened and said I don't want to give you a 0.68

00:23:46.980 long sentence. I want to be careful because I think it's going to hurt your citizenship. I'm

00:23:51.080 sure you all remember this. It wasn't that long ago. He ended up with a lesser sentence

00:23:55.860 and less conditions than both Tamara and Chris. Another good example would be over the weekend

00:24:02.580 where Samajoon, a terrorist entity, a designated terrorist entity, held a massive event outside

00:24:13.660 the vancouver art gallery the vancouver police the rcmp and the city of vancouver stood didn't even

00:24:19.980 stand by they didn't even show up they were allowed to propagate hate anti-semitic slogans

00:24:27.180 and encourage violence this country is broken it's not just the repeat bail offenders it my issue

00:24:35.260 with all of this is that the ottawa police uh for a capital city have are not used to being

00:24:44.060 challenged are not used to large events uh it's shocking to me as somebody from vancouver and i

00:24:49.660 think it would be shopping shocking to somebody from toronto as well where we're in constant

00:24:53.740 protest mode uh the city and and the city is made up of decision makers in high profile places

00:25:00.940 I also think some of this, well, not some of it, but a lot of it had to do with the crawlback from the illegal use of the emergency that I believe it was illegal.

00:25:12.280 I do not believe there was a justification for that.

00:25:14.540 And when you look at that massive Hamas rally that was on Capitol or was on Parliament Hill, sorry, not Capitol Hill, Parliament Hill last year, last fall, where ISIS flagged for being flown and streets were being shut down.

00:25:30.640 and threats of violence were going back and forth

00:25:33.020 and the cops were dragging people out,

00:25:35.740 nobody was arrested and, well, nobody was charged

00:25:39.580 and nobody's gone through the criminal courts in Ottawa

00:25:42.020 based upon that event.

00:25:43.760 So we have two tiers or maybe even three tiers

00:25:47.080 of justice in this country.

00:25:48.840 The third tier would be for First Nations people 0.96

00:25:51.420 and we know what the second and first tier is in Canada.

00:25:55.460 Yeah.

00:25:56.600 Corey, I'm going to skip you on this one

00:25:58.040 because we're short on time.

00:25:59.460 uh yeah it's okay uh oh uh elise is gonna get double here uh she come to you uh because we're 0.96

00:26:07.400 gonna talk pipelines here whenever there's a problem it's always you too bc and quebec it's

00:26:15.360 always you too whenever there's an issue we know it's you too um so uh we have the national

00:26:23.180 priorities office

00:26:25.620 created by

00:26:27.280 Carney. This is supposed to cut through the

00:26:29.380 red tape, get big things moving.

00:26:31.280 Get Canada building again.

00:26:33.040 Very noble, good idea. At least

00:26:35.240 in theory, you know, is it just another layer

00:26:37.280 of bureaucracy? Maybe. Or maybe it does help cut

00:26:39.320 through it. But, okay, this is what

00:26:41.300 we got, so let's try it.

00:26:43.160 And no surprise

00:26:45.280 when the initial list

00:26:46.400 for the national priorities came out, it did

00:26:49.260 not include any pipelines, because no one in their right

00:26:51.360 mind right now wants to build

00:26:53.060 a pipeline

00:26:54.080 when you have the No More Pipelines Act

00:26:57.220 the Impact Assessment Act

00:26:58.960 and you certainly don't want to build it

00:27:01.360 to BC's north coast

00:27:03.120 because there's a tanker band

00:27:04.420 so you've got a pipeline there

00:27:06.280 well it's not allowed to go anywhere

00:27:08.200 you just put it in barrels and buried underground essentially

00:27:11.260 so

00:27:12.040 Carney was able to say

00:27:14.600 I can't say yes or no to a pipeline because

00:27:17.060 there's

00:27:18.300 no proponent

00:27:20.120 so the Alberta government says alright

00:27:22.240 I want to see your cards

00:27:24.180 and they put some money on the table. The Alberta government

00:27:26.460 is going forward as the proponent

00:27:27.680 to get this ball rolling

00:27:30.640 to see if it gets approved

00:27:32.140 through the National Priorities Office here

00:27:34.280 and if so, then it's going to seek

00:27:36.360 someone in the private sector

00:27:38.400 to pick it up.

00:27:39.940 I think it's

00:27:41.120 it was a good way, I guess

00:27:43.400 at least, in my view

00:27:46.000 to force Carney to put his

00:27:48.240 cards on the table, show us his cards.

00:27:49.960 i'm sure that daniel smith and kudos to daniel smith because she has managed to do something

00:27:55.460 that very few politicians in the last almost three decades have been able to do which is called the

00:28:00.020 federal government's bluff but i'm very confused so we have this office which by the way is the

00:28:05.240 second incarnation of this office uh people forget but there was uh mr harper um had a

00:28:11.880 infrastructure office um and that didn't work either because things got voted down the other

00:28:19.100 thing is so you're you you have that infrastructure office or that national products office but then

00:28:24.100 you also have bill c5 which is sort of like the fast track to improve a lot of different things

00:28:29.460 um and then but you're holding on to specific legislation that impedes not just oil tankers

00:28:37.560 uh off the coast are off of the west coast but actually impedes a lot of other economic activity

00:28:43.660 that we desperately need.

00:28:46.860 British Columbia is a great example

00:28:49.880 of a jurisdiction that might as well

00:28:53.280 just be allergic to prosperity.

00:28:55.600 It has done everything in its power

00:28:57.780 to put a closed-to-a-dismas sign on its doors.

00:29:01.700 We don't have really any energy companies left,

00:29:05.560 and those guys left a long time ago.

00:29:09.240 We're also facing down

00:29:11.200 one of the nastiest uh recessions uh about to hit our shores uh so i'm not sure what's going on in

00:29:18.300 david eddie's mind uh but kudos to miss smith for for pushing um to recalling carney's bluff

00:29:25.080 um but carney i i'm very unclear as to what carney's doing uh i'm completely confused because

00:29:33.360 he's also now put keystone xl back on the table with trump as a way to toss those tariffs off

00:29:38.860 the table so you know i know we're short on time i could go on but you know apologies from british 0.59

00:29:44.840 columbia not all of us are as ridiculous as david eb and by the way can we just note that his voice 0.67

00:29:49.980 was cracking yesterday he looked he was about to start crying because daniel smith called him 0.98

00:29:55.360 un-canadian and mo and scott mo piled on i mean how embarrassing for me uh so okay cory so we

00:30:02.020 have an official apology from British 0.97

00:30:04.040 Columbia now.

00:30:07.660 That apology

00:30:09.840 is not accepted.

00:30:12.020 Not accepted.

00:30:15.100 But then we saw

00:30:17.780 yesterday, Carney meets with

00:30:19.840 Trump at the White House.

00:30:22.920 Wasn't a lot of elbows up.

00:30:23.940 It was actually very chummy. It was actually probably

00:30:25.780 the way, if you're being smart with a guy

00:30:27.800 like Trump, you know,

00:30:29.120 Oh, you're just fantastic.

00:30:31.640 You're transformative.

00:30:32.800 He used the word transformative a lot.

00:30:34.640 And Trump was very nice back.

00:30:36.600 You know, if you're willing to blow some smoke up Trump,

00:30:38.920 it seems to go a long way.

00:30:40.420 He likes that.

00:30:41.540 And it was actually pretty cheery.

00:30:44.520 At least the public part of me was very cheery and nice.

00:30:46.500 We don't know about pie and closed doors,

00:30:47.800 but it seemed to go well.

00:30:50.600 Didn't come back with a trade deal,

00:30:52.260 but the CBC reported at least

00:30:54.100 that Carney put Keystone on the table.

00:30:57.260 that might be

00:30:59.560 okay, so Smith has

00:31:01.800 you know, she's called

00:31:05.300 I'm gonna beleaguer this

00:31:07.780 analogy, but she's called 0.97

00:31:09.820 Cardi has to show his

00:31:11.800 cards now on a pipeline

00:31:13.360 but maybe this is his way

00:31:15.900 of not

00:31:17.580 completely melting down the whole thing

00:31:19.460 that he'll say no for British 0.98

00:31:21.820 Columbia, because there's voters

00:31:23.840 he needs in British Columbia

00:31:25.220 but he's not going to lose

00:31:27.880 terribly many votes, probably

00:31:29.720 if he allows Kistan to go, because where is it passing 0.59

00:31:31.820 through? Eastern and

00:31:33.620 Southern Alberta, which is about the least

00:31:35.760 liberal places on the surface of the

00:31:37.820 earth

00:31:38.080 and then, you know, so all he has

00:31:41.820 to do is sign off on the international side

00:31:43.720 so Alberta gets a pipeline

00:31:44.820 but it's going to go south instead

00:31:47.780 of west

00:31:48.520 although it's argued, I think, pretty strongly

00:31:51.680 that the west pipeline is more important

00:31:53.580 because that takes us to international markets

00:31:55.000 because by being so capped up to the American market,

00:31:57.560 we're continuing to sell at such a discount.

00:31:59.900 So that's why we're actually probably better off

00:32:01.360 getting to Asian markets on the West Coast.

00:32:05.400 Do you think that's it that, you know,

00:32:08.280 he's maybe setting it up for Keystone

00:32:10.980 as a way to soften the blow

00:32:12.220 for saying no to a West Coast pipeline?

00:32:14.020 Well, he sure shows himself as weak then.

00:32:16.060 I mean, everybody came to that conclusion.

00:32:17.920 Canada, for the first time in recent history,

00:32:20.360 where the whole country polled,

00:32:21.440 was in support of a pipeline to the coast.

00:32:23.580 for the sole reason of realizing we're hyper dependent on the United States for this industry.

00:32:28.500 And it has us over a barrel when we get a trade dispute. So it means Kearney's completely given

00:32:32.420 up on the only way to ease that is to broaden your customer market. The only way to do that

00:32:37.640 is to get a pipe to the coast. So he's given up on that. And then when we start that discussion

00:32:42.300 about lacking a proponent, nobody's raising their hand to have Lucy pull the football away again,

00:32:47.800 heading down Keystone. TC Energy said to hell with you. I mean, they took Canada out of it.

00:32:52.380 they're basically uh well to be fair their their final pullout was when biden killed it yes but

00:32:59.040 they're still tired of losing you know there's no companies eager to lay it on the line anymore

00:33:04.480 so that would have to be some talks i mean yeah biden killed it trump would have to make it quite

00:33:09.240 clear and then there's the whole battles of everything through nebraska and everything

00:33:12.260 else that went as that expired are they starting again with it they're pipeline shy so uh yeah

00:33:18.800 Yeah, Kearney might be going that route, but boy, what a pathetically weak route to go then.

00:33:22.680 You know, the thing that I haven't heard is whether he wants Keystone to carry decarbonized oil.

00:33:29.260 You know, this idea that you bury an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide to the oil that you're carrying through the pipeline.

00:33:37.160 And that's the trouble with Kearney.

00:33:38.480 You never really know what he's put on the table and what he hasn't.

00:33:42.740 And Keystone gets my vote, but what exactly is the deal going to look like?

00:33:48.800 Is there something you can make believe?

00:33:51.060 I know lots of Republicans, and I know lots of people, you know, a few feet from Trump's office.

00:33:57.320 And I spoke to them this morning because my mouth was agape.

00:34:01.200 Obviously, I felt it was, you know, a shell game that was going on.

00:34:05.560 It was to test to see if he could wiggle out some of those tariffs.

00:34:09.820 And my former colleagues down there felt the same way.

00:34:13.640 You know, my understanding of how this really went was Mr. Carney acquiesced often.

00:34:18.800 as we've seen before uh but there is something that's going to get done but the auto sector

00:34:25.920 is a no-go for trump so far so kari's got to deal with that and he has this deadline in november

00:34:32.320 coming up with you know danielle smith uh where we will really understand what that how big that 1.00

00:34:38.480 bluff is um but keystone is cory points out the expired licenses through nebraska uh lack of

00:34:46.960 of social license but i do think some of that sentiment has changed since trump has come back

00:34:51.920 into office and i think trump thinks he might be able to win it problem is he's he is and i will

00:34:57.440 say the best guy to talk to the energy ceos uh he's the best guy to say come on i need you guys

00:35:03.920 to build something i need you guys to build a keystone but that's not going to be uh enough

00:35:09.320 for for daniel smith and it is so far down the track no pun intended uh but we have we already

00:35:16.540 have a beautiful project called northern gateway we just need to take it to prince rupert versus

00:35:21.980 kittimat so when david eby says oh this is just some sort of pie in the sky and it's a government

00:35:27.660 project and hey where's british columbia's money because that guy's is part of eb's ranch

00:35:33.900 his hysterical tantrum yesterday he's like i want some money if they're going to get this

00:35:38.300 he literally says if they get this

00:35:40.320 I want a project too

00:35:41.880 yeah

00:35:43.040 it's all become so

00:35:46.440 nonsensical and quite frankly

00:35:48.160 embarrassing

00:35:48.700 okay speaking of

00:35:52.180 nonsensical we're going to segue

00:35:53.960 to our last segment here and we've got to keep a tiny

00:35:56.220 bit of time for parting shots

00:35:57.360 so

00:35:59.380 I think he's from

00:36:02.220 Toronto or Toronto area originally Ben

00:36:03.940 Bankus

00:36:04.520 you scroll through Instagram

00:36:07.920 or Twitter, there's a good chance

00:36:10.000 you've seen him. He does

00:36:12.100 some racy comedy.

00:36:14.020 He does, some would

00:36:16.000 say racist, others would say

00:36:17.620 racist and hilarious impressions

00:36:19.900 of Olivia Chow.

00:36:22.400 You know, he's

00:36:24.000 controversial. He is

00:36:25.620 not afraid

00:36:28.040 of what people call him.

00:36:29.740 He's very funny.

00:36:32.620 Some would say inappropriate.

00:36:34.260 That's fine. But guess what?

00:36:36.080 That's free speech.

00:36:37.920 And it's comedy.

00:36:39.340 And you can't have one without the other.

00:36:43.480 So I decided, you know, this guy's pretty outside the ordinary lineup of comedians.

00:36:52.040 So I decided to buy eight tickets for some of the Western Standards Calgary staff to go down and see them.

00:36:59.500 It's the Grey Eagle Casino.

00:37:00.780 Grey Eagle Casino's got a great venue.

00:37:02.780 I've gone to concerts there and shows.

00:37:04.620 There's even been political conventions there.

00:37:06.980 It's a great place.

00:37:07.920 um but it is on a reserve and ben bankus um uh curry made uh uh he he posts i i don't think it

00:37:19.020 was shot that day but he posted a video on uh i guess it's called truth and reconciliation day

00:37:23.700 uh national surfing day uh uh making a joke that involved residential schools and whatnot

00:37:30.860 not, you know, I watched it, I was like, ooh, spicy, but I, you know, certainly didn't think

00:37:37.340 he was not advocating hurting anyone, killing anyone, harming anyone, but it was definitely

00:37:42.820 spicy, and then I guess he says there were two complaints to Grey Eagle, Grey Eagle pulled it,

00:37:49.240 and he's now rebooked. Well, yeah, so I'm kind of mixed on this. Comedy is the front line of

00:37:53.880 free speech, though. I'm a big George Carlin fan. He made it pretty clear you can joke about

00:37:58.940 anything. And then that routine,

00:38:01.180 he goes into a joke about rape. Some people

00:38:03.120 might be offended in the works,

00:38:05.300 but that's his point making.

00:38:06.940 It's a joke. You don't like it.

00:38:08.920 Don't come to my show. And

00:38:10.960 he fought. He got charged. This was a big

00:38:12.980 battle. And Bankus

00:38:14.920 is sort of trying to do the same thing. And I think he was

00:38:16.860 being purposely provocative, though.

00:38:18.800 When you put out that particular joke

00:38:20.900 on there on Truth and Reconciliation Day,

00:38:22.920 knowing you're going to do a show

00:38:24.740 at a casino that's on

00:38:26.680 reserve land. One of the complaints might have come from him for all I know.

00:38:31.000 I mean, you know, publicity stunts aren't new from

00:38:33.600 comedians. As well, it is a private place.

00:38:38.640 They do have the right to say no to whoever's going to perform, and they're not. It'll be

00:38:42.580 interesting to see, though, because he's stirred things up. He's got in the scroll. It's when we start

00:38:46.520 to see human rights charges, things like that, where they say

00:38:50.380 you can't say that joke, no matter what venue you're in. And I've got a feeling he's

00:38:54.200 looking to try those waters and he'll probably

00:38:56.300 find them pretty soon with the nature of some of his jokes

00:38:58.420 yeah

00:38:59.100 Nigel, I'd agree

00:39:02.400 it's a private venue, they have a right to not

00:39:04.240 have him, but

00:39:05.780 it's not a good, like I generally like

00:39:08.540 the Soutina, like they're relatively

00:39:10.520 well run

00:39:11.240 you know, their band members

00:39:14.640 tend to be

00:39:16.180 better off than a lot of other band members in Canada

00:39:18.640 you know, they don't get everything

00:39:20.640 right, but they, relative

00:39:22.480 to some others they're getting some things right uh but this just i think it shows a thin skin

00:39:27.680 especially right now you know they've already banned media from going around there kind of

00:39:31.280 conveniently after the chief was charged with rape uh not yet convicted not tested in court

00:39:36.720 but he's been charged with rape but then some other thing happened and then they all of a sudden

00:39:40.560 ban the media from being there this is the reserve you said was reasonably well run uh yeah it's a

00:39:45.760 a little bit. I said relatively.

00:39:48.060 Relatively. It's

00:39:49.940 less medieval than some others.

00:39:52.760 But yeah, I've

00:39:53.820 generally had a lot of respect

00:39:55.480 for where they do things. Anyway,

00:39:57.600 it looks thin-skinned,

00:39:59.480 and I think all it did is raise

00:40:01.960 his profile. Well,

00:40:03.620 so it did.

00:40:05.660 I think I'm with Corey on this one.

00:40:07.760 There's no obligation if you think that somebody

00:40:09.820 is going to insult you that you have to rend them

00:40:11.700 your church hall to do it in.

00:40:13.860 So he went to Yuck Yucks,

00:40:15.500 and there they go you know um he sold out several nights in a row now yeah yeah i mean uh if this

00:40:22.140 was just a way to publicize his show then it certainly worked very well well he already had

00:40:27.740 a show at a big venue he was gonna be able to do one show and one big show on one day now he has

00:40:32.060 to do a couple of small see where i where i start to get anxious is when publicly owned places start

00:40:39.580 to ban people because it's like you've had sean foyte going through the canada in the summer

00:40:44.860 anytime great eagle is semi-publicly owned it's owned by a reserve which is a a quasi order of

00:40:51.100 government so but you know but it's a great thing i can make the distinction for them to their

00:40:57.580 benefit but uh you know when you get parks camera they're getting into the act and saying well you

00:41:01.820 can't be on your show here then uh i mean maybe that's what he should have done book the parks

00:41:06.700 Canada spot in the...

00:41:08.620 Wouldn't that have been a story?

00:41:10.860 Send him a note.

00:41:11.900 When is the show?

00:41:15.680 I think it's in

00:41:16.940 November, or is it October?

00:41:18.580 It's pretty soon. It's coming up.

00:41:20.500 Send him a note. Tell him the book Parks Canada.

00:41:23.260 Anyway, that's it.

00:41:24.340 And he's got a lot of tour dates.

00:41:26.360 We're going to go to Parting Shots now, but

00:41:28.020 for everyone watching,

00:41:30.360 look up his clips.

00:41:32.360 You will probably be offended,

00:41:34.040 but that's okay

00:41:36.740 but if you laugh while you're being offended

00:41:39.520 that's a good time

00:41:40.580 that's a great time

00:41:42.920 we call that Dave Chappelle

00:41:45.360 we call that Dave Chappelle

00:41:46.860 yeah exactly

00:41:49.220 my favorite people

00:41:51.400 are both funny and offensive

00:41:53.180 at the same time

00:41:54.200 they go really well together

00:41:56.300 look him up

00:41:57.320 he's got a bunch of tour dates

00:42:00.920 he's got obviously Calgary

00:42:01.920 he's probably got Edmonton

00:42:03.500 a number of others.

00:42:05.740 You'd be surprised if you didn't have a Saskatchewan and BC

00:42:07.700 stuff as well.

00:42:09.980 Yeah, you should check it out. It's

00:42:11.540 a lot spicier than anything you're going to see on CBC.

00:42:15.260 Okay.

00:42:17.180 We'll go

00:42:17.680 to our parting shots. We'll start with you, Elise.

00:42:20.820 So, my parting

00:42:21.820 shot is to Premier EB

00:42:23.660 and the

00:42:25.240 embarrassment, the embarrassing presser

00:42:27.880 that he held yesterday.

00:42:29.720 I would like to remind

00:42:31.580 Mr. Eby that he's part of Confederation and part of that agreement is our mutual

00:42:36.540 contribution to the success of Canada. I would prefer him to stop crying at these press conferences,

00:42:45.800 floundering through them, stop spreading misinformation, stop intentionally twisting

00:42:51.500 what Confederation is and what the individual rights of each province is. I would like him

00:42:58.000 to sit down with both Premier Moe and Premier Scott

00:43:01.600 and have an adult conversation.

00:43:03.780 I would like him to recognize that his political future,

00:43:07.440 the end is very near,

00:43:09.340 and it will have nothing to do with the pipelines.

00:43:12.180 It will have everything to do with his lost offices,

00:43:16.840 not only within his caucus per se, but within his party.

00:43:21.060 But Canada, Canadians have woken up. 0.94

00:43:23.060 There is a political revolution happening in this country

00:43:26.900 where they have realized that this type of incompetence, ideology over confidence,

00:43:34.120 has cost us billions and billions in investment,

00:43:37.520 and therefore good-paying jobs that have a future.

00:43:41.180 And I would remind Mr. Eby and anyone of his ilk that your days are numbered.

00:43:45.920 All right.

00:43:46.900 Corey, I'll go quickly.

00:43:48.780 Frances Whittowson was assaulted in Winnipeg by a violent protest last week,

00:43:52.800 not a nonviolent one.

00:43:54.020 She's posted the videos online.

00:43:55.540 and she's trying to get police action. 1.00

00:43:57.080 There's obviously been charges, right?

00:43:59.060 Not yet.

00:43:59.860 So maybe view those videos

00:44:01.740 and perhaps send a note to the Winnipeg police

00:44:03.520 saying you don't want to tolerate seeing women assaulted

00:44:05.420 for trying to speak in public places.

00:44:06.820 Yeah, we've got the story up at the Western Standard.

00:44:08.600 Share that story, folks.

00:44:09.920 Get that story in the Western Standard.

00:44:11.400 Share it and tag the Winnipeg police.

00:44:14.400 Let's see if people committing assault against her 1.00

00:44:17.200 get half the sentence that Tamara Leach and Chris Barber got.

00:44:22.980 Which brings me to my parting shop.

00:44:24.820 There are two people who should be on a conservative ticket somewhere in the country.

00:44:29.740 That's the kind of people we want in Parliament, not in jail.

00:44:34.260 All right.

00:44:35.920 Mine is for the illustrious Alberta Senator Chris Wells.

00:44:40.880 This is the creepy dude who Trudeau appointed to the Senate.

00:44:45.640 Very well known in some circles for, leads, I don't know, some LGTBQ alphabet soup department. 0.83

00:44:54.820 I think at the University of Alberta, where he just talked about gay stuff all day.

00:44:59.620 I really don't know any other way to describe it.

00:45:02.020 He just talked about how awesome it is and how persecuted he is when he's very much not.

00:45:09.560 Not going to get into it, but dude's got serious, serious, creepy vibes.

00:45:14.620 And I guess, you know, maybe they were paying him a quarter million dollars a year or something at the University of Alberta.

00:45:21.360 I don't know, because he's complaining about how hard done by he is, make it $180,000 a year as a senator for life, plus benefits, plus pension, plus travel.

00:45:35.120 Yeah, look, being a politician has got some downsides.

00:45:39.020 I had to drive all the way up the road to Edmonton every week.

00:45:42.900 That sucked.

00:45:43.620 I had to drive all over creation.

00:45:45.000 But it comes with a job.

00:45:45.880 You don't like it?

00:45:47.140 Resign.

00:45:47.940 Someone else will do it.

00:45:49.500 It's a job for life.

00:45:50.460 It's the greatest gig in politics

00:45:52.580 in the Democratic world because it's not

00:45:54.640 Democratic. It's awesome.

00:45:57.560 It'd be great to be appointed

00:45:58.700 for life to a position of power

00:46:00.680 and never have to face election

00:46:02.660 again. That is awesome.

00:46:04.400 And the guy's complaining about $180K.

00:46:06.820 So, that's that.

00:46:09.300 Well, if he gives it up, maybe

00:46:10.520 you know, if they're

00:46:12.660 looking for a liberal appointment,

00:46:14.560 maybe it's time for Corey tonight to

00:46:16.400 finally get what he's been looking for.

00:46:18.340 Oh, that's a parting shot.

00:46:20.340 There we go.

00:46:20.780 Shots fired.

00:46:22.240 Okay.

00:46:22.960 Corey, Nigel, Elise, thank you very much.

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Western Standard - October 09, 2025

Time to SMASH the Alberta teachers’ strike

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