Western Standard - Toronto’s nationalized grocery store experiment will be a catastrophe

00:00:00.000 Good day.

00:00:28.660 Hey, welcome to the Corey Morgan Show.

00:00:30.860 I'm going to get right into it.

00:00:32.460 You know, in the mornings I drive, I torture myself with talk radio

00:00:36.400 because the Western Standard hasn't bought a transmitter and a broadcasting license yet.

00:00:40.240 So I still got to listen to the old school talk radio.

00:00:42.320 And here in Calgary, they have what I would call the Alberta morning Yenta hour 0.92

00:00:47.400 where you've got Thomas Lukasik's wife and another former classic rock morning show host

00:00:54.040 babbling about inane things for an hour on your morning drive between the news updates that I

00:00:59.000 actually tuned in to listen to. But they talked about, and I guess they'd actually gotten Jeff

00:01:03.480 Rath to come in for an early morning interview. And they were saying, yeah, we're going to talk

00:01:07.240 about Jeff Rath in the next segment. I thought, well, that'd be kind of interesting. We'll see

00:01:09.960 what's going on. He's part of the independence movement. And then they brought it on and had a

00:01:13.420 one minute clip of Rath. And then they spent 14 minutes explaining why the independence movement

00:01:19.440 is complete trash. Okay, that's fine. But also the thing they complained about is said, 0.99

00:01:24.580 we keep inviting these guys from the independence movement to come on and they won't come on to our

00:01:27.600 interviews. Good Lord, can you blame them? Either way, I want to torture your ears. Tune into those

00:01:33.480 hens between nine and 10 on mornings on AM radio. It's getting to be the last days of that sort of

00:01:37.460 broadcast. Independent media is the way things are going and these sorts of things. So thanks

00:01:40.960 for tuning in. I'll get on what I meant to go on about now. And that's food. The food production

00:01:46.160 and distribution system in the Western world. It's an incredible marvel. I mean, with modern

00:01:49.800 advancements, food production's expanded beyond population growth, and it continues to do so.

00:01:55.160 Oh, my teleprompter doesn't. Just give me a moment and I'll catch up with that, hopefully.

00:02:00.740 Oh, there we go. So in 1950, let's just look at some of those numbers. North America averaged

00:02:06.700 40 bushels of corn per acre. Today, those same fields have yields surpassing 180 bushels per

00:02:12.240 acre. Soybean, wheat, canola, other staples, they've had similar rises in yields. Meat,

00:02:17.220 dairy production, those have increased. Specialty crops and meats are also more prevalent than ever.

00:02:21.880 Niche producers of rural retail operations and they supply farmers markets and local selections

00:02:26.860 of grocery retailers throughout the continent. For internationally produced goods, I mean,

00:02:30.980 the selection is higher and more affordable than ever. Even in the depths of winter,

00:02:34.440 frozen cities in Canada can get fresh fruit and vegetables at reasonable prices. And this is due

00:02:38.480 to an incredible and vast distribution network with rail trucks and flights moving refrigerated

00:02:43.680 products. So those overseas goods, frozen transports opened the world as well. It's ironic though that

00:02:48.900 the avocado toast crowd tends to be from the urban living socialist set demanding people

00:02:54.000 buy local. I haven't seen any avocados grown in Alberta, but they can bring them to them year

00:02:57.520 round. And while there's only a small number of major grocery companies, there's still dozens of

00:03:01.920 dozens of options for people to choose from if they want to go to smaller outlets. Prices tend

00:03:05.980 be a little higher at smaller stores due to economies of scale and reduced distribution

00:03:09.580 ability, but they provide an option. Competition among retailers is high and consumers are well

00:03:14.860 served by the ability to shop around. I mean, for people with press for time and with money

00:03:19.180 to burn, they got home delivery of groceries. It's become commonplace. All of this affordable

00:03:23.980 convenience is due to the free market evolution of the food industry. And now the morons within 1.00

00:03:28.380 Toronto City Hall want to undo it all. I mean, from the 1920s until the 1990s, the Soviet Union, 0.99

00:03:34.060 they grew in size as well, but their food production and distribution abilities didn't.

00:03:39.540 Government-managed food systems led to chronic food shortages and hunger. Food distribution was

00:03:44.040 used by the state as a weapon, killing millions of Ukrainians in the 30s. Ukraine was one of the

00:03:48.380 highest grain-producing nations in the bloc, but due to putative quotas mandated by Moscow,

00:03:53.920 starvation became rampant. This was convenient for Stalin, who was trying to quell an independence 0.94

00:03:58.460 movement in Ukraine. The world saw the dangers of leaving food production in the hands of the 0.96

00:04:02.820 government. Socialists today, though, still haven't learned that lesson. By the 1970s, the Soviets had

00:04:08.180 managed to modernize their systems enough that starvation became uncommon, but shortages still

00:04:13.240 persisted, and this election was terrible. I toured the Soviet Union in the late 80s, and while they

00:04:17.920 were fantastic hosts, it was a few weeks of the worst food I've ever endured. I was presented

00:04:23.500 with a much better layout of food in my hotels than the common Russian was, and it was bad. Today, 1.00

00:04:28.000 a generation of spoiled and poorly educated fools gaining power in North America by taking control 1.00

00:04:33.260 of municipal governments. They're going after the food distribution. Extremists 1.00

00:04:37.060 are being elected by a naive snowflake generation to city halls and administrative offices, and

00:04:42.440 they're being filled with the same twits. And Calgary even had a little room for city staff

00:04:47.140 to cry in and play with toys if the stress of public hearings overwhelms them. The offices

00:04:51.000 of municipal halls are infested with these emotionally inept souls. Now in Toronto, 0.97

00:04:55.880 by a vote of 21 to 3 the city council voted to task their bureaucratic team of incompetence with

00:05:01.520 them opening four government-run grocery stores they feel the people who can't efficiently fill

00:05:06.660 a pothole or collect garbage can manage to run a business as complicated with as narrow margins as

00:05:11.120 grocery retailing food is different than many of the things that government gets into for example

00:05:15.460 unlike with bridge construction food delivery can't withstand just delays of years while city

00:05:19.680 staff try to work their way through their own bureaucratic mire it will spoil another difference

00:05:24.340 is they're entering an already competitive market. If the city-run grocery stores don't deliver

00:05:28.640 services as efficiently as the private stores do though, people won't use them. The city won't have

00:05:33.260 that monopoly. So why do these people think they can succeed? Well to quote from Hayek, if socialists

00:05:38.260 understood economics they wouldn't be socialists. They honestly believe that grocery provision is

00:05:43.060 easy and that retailers are secretly hiding massive profit margins. They don't understand

00:05:47.060 the logistics competition or staffing and these grocery stores will fail catastrophically. The

00:05:51.760 The only question is how many millions of tax dollars are going to be sunken into these poorly run

00:05:54.980 union dominated storefronts suffering from a lack of selection due to incompetent management

00:05:59.580 before they do finally get shut down. This dip into Soviet style food distribution in Toronto

00:06:04.900 is going to serve as yet another working example of why governments must stay out of services

00:06:09.460 private enterprise already does well enough. People with common sense will see the lessons here.

00:06:14.400 Socialists though never will. So don't forget to vote wisely in your next municipal election guys

00:06:18.760 or maybe you'll see grocery stores being run by Gondek's old crew in Calgary soon.

00:06:24.280 All right.

00:06:24.900 Well, what else is going on out there, Dave?

00:06:27.480 Hello, comrade.

00:06:28.500 Hey, comrade.

00:06:29.920 Very good.

00:06:31.040 Oh, I'm looking forward to that potato and black bread diet.

00:06:33.240 Oh, it'll be wonderful.

00:06:35.360 So April Fool's Day, did you get caught by anything?

00:06:38.620 I didn't get caught by any of them, no.

00:06:40.460 Most of them were.

00:06:41.280 I mean, there's some creative ones out there, but I was on guard for it this year.

00:06:45.060 I've been caught before, prior years.

00:06:46.840 Ours was pretty good.

00:06:47.580 We got people by the hundreds.

00:06:49.480 That's what Derek was saying.

00:06:51.040 Yeah, the comments are 50-50 on people who forgot the date.

00:06:54.300 Who believed it.

00:06:54.820 Yeah, it was still up on the site.

00:06:56.700 You can go read it if you want.

00:06:58.880 Liberals thinking about taking God out of O Canada.

00:07:03.080 It wouldn't surprise you.

00:07:04.200 It wouldn't.

00:07:04.860 I mean, the world's gone so crazy that it's hard to make something that people would not believe anymore.

00:07:10.540 I know.

00:07:11.040 It's crazy.

00:07:13.060 Speaking of unbelievable, the NDP convention on the weekend.

00:07:17.580 That was weird.

00:07:18.600 Oh, boy.

00:07:19.280 And I'm looking forward to talking with Alex about that.

00:07:21.900 He's going to come on.

00:07:22.660 He was putting up great clips from it.

00:07:24.360 Oh, my Lord. 0.99

00:07:25.340 What a collection of lunatics. 0.99

00:07:26.740 We are now being mocked around the world because of it. 0.99

00:07:30.240 Fox, Greg Gunnfeld, last night, mocked us, as did all the way to Australia.

00:07:36.700 Sky News says we're not a real country anymore down in Australia.

00:07:40.460 And you know what?

00:07:41.500 It's hard to argue after seeing that.

00:07:45.060 Really, people had to watch that twice.

00:07:46.540 I would think I'm wondering, is this a premature April Fool's joke or a Portlandia series expansion

00:07:51.840 or something? And no, these were real serious in their world people. Yes, yes. Another reason you'll

00:07:59.000 be happy to be living out near Pritis, Calgary property taxes, 8.1%. That's a bit high for my 0.97

00:08:07.120 liking. It was only 1.2% and then the province got its filthy hands in there on the education.

00:08:13.460 and I think it was the largest tax increase for their part in history.

00:08:19.000 Yeah, to be fair on those things, you know, don't get on the city's case this time.

00:08:22.980 It usually is the city, but no, this is bad governance on the part of the province.

00:08:27.700 Be sure to send your emails that way.

00:08:29.360 Yeah, of course, you know, it's people wanting more schools and teachers and teachers' aides.

00:08:33.080 It's got to be paid for, right?

00:08:34.040 Oh, sure.

00:08:34.740 But there's always a room to cut spending somewhere.

00:08:36.060 There's always a room to cut spending somewhere.

00:08:38.720 There was some good news today on Maya Gabola.

00:08:42.500 She's that little girl who was shot in the head at Tumler Ridge.

00:08:45.720 Just awful, awful injuries she suffered.

00:08:48.200 She's been moved out of ICU for the first time now and into recovery.

00:08:52.880 And there was talk of maybe moving to Los Angeles.

00:08:56.680 Dana White, the head of the UFC, said he'd pay for her care there at a top brain rehabilitation institute.

00:09:03.760 And Pierre Polyev has injected some rare common sense into the federal political scene by saying he's going to cancel the $90 billion high-speed rail boondoggle if he gets elected.

00:09:16.420 And a boondoggle it will be.

00:09:17.720 Oh, it's just that we know every one of these projects around the world never stays within budget.

00:09:23.980 And, I mean, even the budgeted number they're talking about is outrageous.

00:09:26.640 Yes, it is outrageous.

00:09:28.160 And 4.24 this afternoon, Corey.

00:09:31.040 Tune in as Artemis II, weather permitting, set to go to the moon.

00:09:36.120 First time in more than half a century that we've had it that way.

00:09:40.000 So, I mean, you probably can't even remember the first time, can you?

00:09:43.400 Well, the first moon landing was prior to my birth.

00:09:47.720 It was right around my birth, so I don't remember much of it,

00:09:51.600 but I'll be excitedly watching it today.

00:09:53.580 Yeah, so I like this stuff.

00:09:55.140 it's it's good that they're expanding that that space race a little again yeah and we've got a

00:09:58.580 canadian on board too which makes it all the more watchable so yeah good luck to them yeah it should

00:10:04.100 be interesting and again i just hope it goes safely i mean one thing i do remember of course

00:10:07.380 was the the disaster in the 80s and uh the end of the shuttle program and nobody needs to watch that

00:10:12.260 on live tv again nope exactly right so good luck all right well thank you very much oh i've forgotten

00:10:19.140 something the most important thing uh just before coming in here i launched a story from our jackson

00:10:25.540 lawyer an exclusive investigation on how easy it is to get doctor's notes in alberta now they've

00:10:32.180 got these uh dial a doctor and he went about to try and get see how easy it was to get two weeks

00:10:39.380 off and it's no problem you just phone up these doctors say that you're a little stressed and

00:10:44.020 And they'll say, well, we can give you two weeks for $35, or we can give you three weeks for $55, and just as simple as can be.

00:10:53.200 And Jackson was even prescribed sleeping pills, you know, not over-the-counter stuff, but the real heavy addictive stuff.

00:11:02.300 And, you know, all he said, well, I'm having trouble sleeping these days, and bang, prescription.

00:11:06.220 Oh, there's another $55 you owe us.

00:11:08.320 Yeah.

00:11:08.820 So that story's up there now.

00:11:11.200 It's a very important issue.

00:11:12.720 It's a growing problem, not only in Alberta, but I think across Canada.

00:11:17.300 Yeah, I read that actually just before the show got going because it popped up just as I was waiting and prepping.

00:11:21.680 And even give volume discounts if you want to preemptively say, I'm going to be sick next week and the week after too.

00:11:28.720 So, you know, we'll just buy three weeks of sick notes off of you at a volume discount.

00:11:33.420 That's insane.

00:11:34.020 It is insane.

00:11:35.240 Just in time for me to go away for a few days.

00:11:37.480 Yeah.

00:11:37.760 I have a note for it.

00:11:39.440 Okay.

00:11:39.960 Well, enjoy that trip.

00:11:41.320 I'll envy you seeing green grass and blossoms and things.

00:11:43.300 I know, I was looking forward to cherry blossoms.

00:11:45.560 It's all good.

00:11:46.880 Okay, well, thank you for the update.

00:11:48.880 Enjoy the time with the grandkid.

00:11:50.660 Yeah, we'll see you next week.

00:11:51.720 See the rest of the updates from your trip, maybe.

00:11:53.500 You bet.

00:11:53.940 Right on, thanks.

00:11:55.400 That is our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:11:57.440 And yes, lots going on.

00:11:58.540 That was a great piece out of Jackson.

00:11:59.960 It really was.

00:12:00.520 Check out the site.

00:12:01.100 Of course, once you're done with the show, it'll be right up top there.

00:12:04.020 He did that work on it, you know, doing the dialing and so on.

00:12:07.280 And the reason Jackson can do that,

00:12:09.000 the reason Dave can afford to take three precious days away from here is because you guys have been

00:12:14.600 subscribing. So check it out, westernstandard.news slash subscription, $100 for a year. Speaking of

00:12:20.080 volume discounts, $10 for a month. It's well worth it. Get past that paywall, help support our

00:12:25.860 independent media. And, you know, a commenter, CB fixes all says, you know, so a new phone,

00:12:31.780 a dealer, this country's going down the toilet fast, you know, and that's really a concern

00:12:36.680 Because I like these initiatives.

00:12:38.760 Our healthcare system right now, though, is overwhelmed.

00:12:41.260 It's stretched.

00:12:42.440 And having some of the things that could be done, perhaps, you know, over the phone or over the internet or ways like that, if we could ease some of the pressure, whereas people don't feel they have to always go to an emergency room or to a clinic or a doctor's office, it could really take pressure off the bulk of the system.

00:12:58.480 But when we get these pill pushers abusing it like this quickly, this could kill those sorts of initiatives right out of the gate. 0.59

00:13:06.680 And it's terrible. And I mean, the addiction epidemic is huge. It's massive. And Monty

00:13:12.600 Gauche is an addictions doctor. He was quoted in that article too. Jackson spoke with him.

00:13:17.700 Something I saw, I don't know if I talked much about that, when I worked out in the eastern

00:13:21.180 states and I was working out by Ohio and across the river from West Virginia, Steubenville area.

00:13:26.680 Either way, I got a thorn when I was using a chainsaw, drove really deep, a huge long thing

00:13:31.140 into my arm. And you could feel it under there and I was worried about it. So I hit a doctor

00:13:35.000 in West Virginia. And this clinic, you know, and I just wanted to get it looked at, maybe get it

00:13:39.940 removed or pulled out or something. And the doctor comes in. And the first thing he asked me is,

00:13:44.640 what's your pain level on one to 10? I said, I don't know. It's not that bad, two or three. I'm

00:13:48.100 just worried about this thing. And he looks around it and everything's well, you'd need to see an

00:13:50.740 orthopedic surgeon to deal with that. It's beyond what we could do here. What's your pain level one

00:13:54.640 to 10 again? I said, don't worry, it's fine. And he just left. And then while I was filling out the

00:13:58.840 paperwork, because I had insurance and everything was working in the States, I saw people coming

00:14:03.180 and going. And then I realized that they're all coming and they're leaving with a script. This

00:14:07.200 doctor was just writing out oxy prescriptions, hand over fist. He was a pill pusher. This was,

00:14:13.440 you know, 15 years ago, 12 years ago. This was the beginning of the addiction epidemic we're

00:14:16.820 enjoying today. And it started with medical professionals. So look, I think there's good

00:14:24.540 ideas on trying to have phone and internet means to access medical informations, but we can't let

00:14:29.240 it turn into what happened down there and unfortunately it is a very important piece

00:14:33.740 that Jackson exposed that's what's already happening here unfortunately there's some

00:14:38.320 opportunistic doctors who are just going to turn this into pill factories all right let's get on 0.76

00:14:42.160 to something a little lighter and a little darker at the same time uh some of the NDP convention

00:14:47.060 news Alex Zoltan our BC fellow out there just put out brilliant clips of it all weekend and I mean

00:14:53.260 it was comedy that wrote itself plus we'll get some updates because BC's boy they got some really

00:14:57.480 interesting politics getting rolling there and Alex has been covering it excellently so let's

00:15:02.000 bring him in for the first time on my show Alex Zoltan our man on the ground in BC hey how's it

00:15:06.540 going great thank you thank you for having me yeah it's about time to get you on here uh so

00:15:14.300 I mean where do we begin you know uh they streamed it maybe the NDP will stop streaming

00:15:20.340 conventions in the future uh I appreciate your taking it upon yourself to tune in and and uh

00:15:26.660 bring out those those show highlights for us uh what what inspired you to do that well i should

00:15:31.880 give a shout out to my western standard colleague waleed tamtam i believe he's in brazil and he

00:15:37.060 messaged me on saturday and said are you watching this ndp convention and i said no should i be and

00:15:42.040 he says absolutely this is your bread and butter so so i tuned in and the insanity just was right

00:15:49.120 away it was quite quite exceptional i feel like i need to call one of those doctors in alberta to

00:15:53.260 get a sick note for two weeks after covering it there you go well you know the sick day plan for

00:15:58.520 the standard so i mean you might get the time off but you're gonna have to do some tap dancing on

00:16:01.760 the corner or something to get some money for it but uh i mean i don't know where to begin with

00:16:07.600 the weirdness explain the equity cards you know what what was this concept so the equity card

00:16:14.200 concept as i understand it according to the ndp's bylaws and constitution there they identify five

00:16:21.300 equity seeking groups so that would be lgbtq quote-unquote people uh visible minorities

00:16:28.740 indigenous folks women who are not just differentiated from trans women and predicated

00:16:35.380 on the belief that trans women are women and disabled individuals so there were color-coded

00:16:41.220 cards for each of these different groups there was a resolution passed on day one that only the

00:16:45.940 gender equity cards would allow people to bump ahead of the line and this was for points of

00:16:52.660 privilege points of information during the resolution process it was later amended on day

00:16:58.820 three to expand the equity card system because there were so many disagreements about which

00:17:03.700 cards held priority over others so they built their victimhood hierarchy i think there was a

00:17:09.620 a point system attached to it as well uh you know and they go into race and disability and and then

00:17:16.800 the the cognitive dissonance is just astounding like do they they obviously don't they don't

00:17:22.780 understand how deeply into discrimination they actually sunk in their pretzel like efforts to

00:17:28.560 try not to discriminate oh absolutely and then there was also an issue of intersectionality if

00:17:34.380 you accept that phrase where if you're a black woman do you get to go ahead of the line as

00:17:40.380 opposed to somebody who is a white woman or if you're a trans identifying woman who is biologically

00:17:45.840 male does that give you priority over a biological female and none of these details were really

00:17:50.300 hammered out very well which i think was one of the reasons for a lot of the conflict

00:17:53.360 well and just watching them again that's what was so comical was how seriously they're taking this

00:17:58.540 with each other, how upset they were getting, and that a very bizarre chairperson, I mean,

00:18:05.640 at one point, even choked on using the word straight accidentally when talking about a

00:18:10.340 lineup, not sexual orientation, but to stand in line and realize I shouldn't even use that

00:18:14.780 word, she thought.

00:18:16.000 Yeah, she triggered herself.

00:18:18.660 Triggered herself.

00:18:20.520 Oh, I could go into a bad line of jokes there.

00:18:22.660 so what what else was accomplished at this gathering aside from selecting Avi Lewis as

00:18:30.780 their leader were there some policy things or other issues addressed or not really a lot of

00:18:38.560 the resolutions had to do for instance they had one resolution where they wanted to expand

00:18:42.580 government funding of media that that's no surprise given that they're basically the

00:18:46.220 socialist party of Canada there were a few other resolutions such as increasing the amount of

00:18:51.120 hybrid availability for the next convention which they expect to be in two years i don't know if

00:18:55.500 they can afford it though because they're not uh they no longer have official party status and

00:18:59.920 based off of the financials of the party they're they're in pretty dire straits um yeah it was a

00:19:05.580 six-month leadership race which i found interesting because that's longer than we take to find the

00:19:11.080 prime minister longer than our federal elections last so yeah it was a real gauntlet and nobody

00:19:17.800 paid attention to it until the convention and i almost feel bad because i feel like i put the ndp

00:19:21.880 back on the map well it it certainly did but i don't know if it was in a good way i mean normally

00:19:29.080 a leadership race a change it would lead to a bit of a bounce a sympathetic portion of support for

00:19:34.600 a little while but i mean they've turned themselves into a laughing stock after this i mean perhaps

00:19:39.800 avi will find his feet and and then try to find a rational course to to build this party but he's

00:19:46.200 not off to a good start no it's not a good start at all and it definitely is indicative of a very

00:19:53.320 radical leftward shift for the NDP I feel like um Harrison Faulkner asked Pierre Polyev about

00:19:58.760 the convention yesterday and I think that Pierre Polyev had a bit of a missed opportunity on the 0.91

00:20:02.680 question because he basically said yeah they're ridiculous you know I'm paraphrasing of course

00:20:07.480 but what I think might he might have said that would have been beneficial to the conservative 0.59

00:20:11.320 party of Canada said there's a lot of good working class people at that convention who

00:20:15.800 may feel politically homeless now they should know that they have a home with the conservative party

00:20:20.360 of canada because there were i mean i just mostly showed all the freaks but there were normal people

00:20:25.480 there too and they probably do feel rather politically homeless now because they aren't

00:20:29.000 really a working class party anymore they're an extreme radical left party yeah i mean the

00:20:33.720 old lunchbox carrying union members the the trade unions those ones that used to be the core of the

00:20:40.440 ndp and the conservatives actually took kind of a bite out of that demographic already in the last

00:20:44.680 election i i suspect as you said it's a missed opportunity but they've got a chance to take a

00:20:50.840 much bigger bite of that now or the liberals as well because it's just a little too much for them

00:20:56.040 uh either way i i just have to say i i appreciate you putting those tweets out as the weekend went

00:21:01.560 and grabbing those those highlight clips i imagine there must have been a few lucid moments that just

00:21:05.880 weren't as exciting or funny to to put out there for folks not that many so something you've been

00:21:13.880 watching though as well and more importantly and closely and it's in your your realm there though

00:21:18.520 is is the leadership for the bc conservative party right now and uh i you know nationally

00:21:24.760 is not making big news but it is a big deal this is uh very much uh potentially the the government

00:21:30.120 in waiting in british columbia how's that race been developing so far um i would say that it's

00:21:35.880 been developing rather unpredictably so i would say it's a five horse race currently um an angus

00:21:41.320 read poll just came out today and it showed that the bc conservatives as a party are ranking just

00:21:46.280 above the ndp so whoever wins this race could very likely be the next premier of the province

00:21:52.440 yeah so uh but i mean if they could just get over themselves there's nothing conservatives love more

00:21:59.560 than turning the guns against themselves i mean it was a quite an incredible story to watch the

00:22:03.960 the rise and fall of rust head you know from a battle a breakaway uh assuming the leadership

00:22:09.560 of a party that really was just back in the weeds with single digit support to coming within a

00:22:14.200 hair's breadth of winning an election in an upset to being tossed out by his own membership

00:22:20.440 essentially only you know a little while later uh do you think that this race might lead to a

00:22:27.160 sense of unity is is there a chance that they'll get it together with a leader because when you're

00:22:31.320 talking about a five horse race the problem is one horse wins and the other four start new parties

00:22:36.360 I completely agree. I think that the leadership race is going to be the easy part. The hard part

00:22:41.240 is going to be uniting the caucus and as well the base. 1BC is also a bit of a bit of a interesting

00:22:49.960 potential mix-up to the whole thing. They've recently aligned themselves with Yuri Fulmer,

00:22:55.560 who I frankly consider to be a bit of a fringe candidate from the outset, but that could change

00:23:00.280 things significantly as well yeah so so the the conservative split dirt or issues could still

00:23:07.720 surface out of this potentially uh what is the timeline for their race uh it's still kind of

00:23:12.440 got a ways to go doesn't it yeah so i believe that the race should be finished may 30th but

00:23:18.200 just today the peter millibar campaign which is ranking number one according to the poll that he

00:23:22.520 commissioned um they asked for an extension because they're not convinced that the current

00:23:27.640 system the membership system is on the up and up so that'll be an interesting thing to watch as well

00:23:33.880 yeah well again that's unfortunate i mean especially if you get a front runner i mean

00:23:36.920 if they're well self-perceived front runner i don't know but if they're considering

00:23:43.160 cracks within the system that's when you already see that if a person doesn't win the complaints

00:23:46.920 are going to come claiming it was rigged and you get the darn split like i i would say arguably

00:23:51.320 and that's why you know i'm an opinion guy you're trying to cover things in a balanced way but i 0.93

00:23:55.320 But I think Eby is currently the worst premier in the entire country.

00:23:59.520 He's definitely weak.

00:24:01.160 I mean, there's an opportunity to unseat this man. 1.00

00:24:03.820 Again, if the conservatives could just get their own crap together. 0.99

00:24:07.260 I would agree. 0.99

00:24:08.760 Eby is currently ranking very, very low in the polls.

00:24:11.640 He's the least popular premier in over a decade, according to recent data on the popularity of the B.C. government.

00:24:19.260 The issue that you have in B.C. is that conservatism in B.C. is very complex and unique.

00:24:25.880 in the sense that it's a patchwork of different brands of conservatism especially in northern bc

00:24:31.960 and also in the kootenays in the okanagan it's more of a libertarian type conservatism

00:24:36.200 and it it's actually quite progressive and so it's such a complex patchwork in terms of uh

00:24:44.360 in terms of the system and then also the majority of the province for better or worse lives in

00:24:48.200 vancouver or vancouver island where people are very very liberal and so it's going to be an uphill

00:24:53.160 climb for whoever becomes the leader in that sense yeah so lower mainland bc has changed a lot uh

00:24:59.240 since the 90s i mean it's been the same and it's changed i mean i remember it though as being

00:25:04.200 volatile you couldn't take any writing for granted in the past federally i i remember there used to

00:25:08.920 be like a reform party member of parliament to be the most conservative of conservative types

00:25:12.680 and right next door they'd have an ndp member of parliament and then there'd be a liberal one and

00:25:17.080 they would switch too i mean that that could flip from a reform seat to an ndp seat uh is it more

00:25:23.000 solidly liberal now though are there some swing you know communities left in the lower mainland

00:25:28.380 um absolutely i mean places like richmond have become quite conservative and i think that's in

00:25:34.500 reaction to a lot of the bc ndp's safe supply legislation a lot of newer immigrants tend to

00:25:40.660 be more conservative ironically um and so that is also working against the bc ndp it'll be a very

00:25:47.160 very interesting election. Yeah, I think a lot of it depends on who the leader of the BC

00:25:52.980 Conservative Party is and whether or not they can unite the base around a common set of ideals and

00:25:58.680 principles. So, Abby, getting back to common sets and principles, I kind of pivot again back to the

00:26:04.340 federal NDP just since you kind of mentioned that too. Has David Eby responded to that federal race

00:26:09.940 yet? And I mean, I know other NDP leaders provincially are running for the doorways to

00:26:14.280 distance themselves from uh avi lewis and his group uh has he been doing that because i mean

00:26:20.800 that could be a handicap for him too oh absolutely it puts him between a rock and a hard place um

00:26:25.820 because the federal ndp is just so far left that it doesn't even align with the bc ndp anymore who

00:26:30.820 are largely considered the most progressive wackos in the entire country and so the issue

00:26:36.040 was broached uh yesterday in the legislature uh really a war bus who's a conservative bc

00:26:41.580 member of the legislature asked whether or not the bc ndp was prepared to denounce abby lewis's

00:26:47.120 comments that lng is fentanyl for the environment it's just an insane statement and they were not

00:26:53.260 so it appears as though the bc ndp is not prepared to take a step back from the federal ndp

00:26:58.160 and i guess that'll be a development that we'll have to follow closely as things progress yeah

00:27:03.680 well i imagine the conservative leaders there will make sure to keep hammering that tie with

00:27:07.600 them and that's what's happening in alberta already uh premier smith is is tying the head

00:27:11.460 nenshi to that federal party and just beating him over the head with it and there's not much

00:27:15.000 he could do because they're constitutionally tied at the hip so uh that'll happen in bc as well i

00:27:20.220 imagine unless he be picks a side uh before you know i i let you go there's so much to cover and

00:27:26.420 the time's kind of gone fast what else are you covering in bc though i mean it's a a huge chunk

00:27:29.920 of western canada that doesn't get reported on nearly enough and i'm glad you're out there

00:27:33.600 covering stuff? Yeah, mostly what I'm covering is what's happening in the legislature. It's a

00:27:38.120 very animated place at the moment. There's a lot of fighting, a lot of heckling. One of the

00:27:42.840 conservative members was arrested last week on domestic violence charges. So that's also become

00:27:47.000 a major talking point in the legislature. I'm not really sure why, because it's not really relevant

00:27:51.060 to governing. But that's been an interesting development, along with the BC conservative

00:27:56.120 race, as we've addressed. And there's also some very interesting court cases occurring as well.

00:28:02.940 There's the one, the Drug User Liberation Front.

00:28:05.700 That one will have national implications when the result comes in.

00:28:09.500 And that's a charter challenge for two individuals who have been convicted on three charges for trafficking heroin, cocaine, and crystal meth.

00:28:18.660 And they're challenging it under the charter, saying that it deprives them of their right to life, liberty, and the security of person,

00:28:25.180 as well as freedom of discrimination on the basis of disability on the notion that extreme

00:28:30.300 substance abuse is actually a disability in Canada. Yeah, but they're the facilitators of 0.98

00:28:36.720 the guys who were on the abuse. You know, and you think you could throw that out of court,

00:28:41.380 but we know our judges, we can't trust them. Oh yeah. And that court case is probably costing

00:28:45.640 taxpayers millions. I think it's going to be extended past FIFA, which is another event that

00:28:51.100 We're covering closely at the Western Standard, because I imagine that the Vancouver Police Department and the PCNDP are doing their best to clear the downtown east side of all the homeless people for a couple of weeks the same way that they did during the Olympics in 2010.

00:29:04.720 Well, and East Hastings, downtown east side Vancouver, I mean, that's been a nightmare since the 70s.

00:29:10.140 I don't know where and how they're going to manage to shield that.

00:29:13.500 maybe they'll detour roads just so people don't pass through that area for a little while

00:29:17.740 because that's a whole well we could do a whole show segment on that that area alone

00:29:22.400 uh so uh when when does that fifa uh start i mean that's a huge event it's going to be something

00:29:27.320 else i'll be honest i'm not a soccer fan so i don't have it put on my calendar but i'm pretty

00:29:32.160 sure it's in a couple of months and during the 2010 olympics it was quite remarkable i was

00:29:36.780 attending ubc at the time and you could walk down downtown east side hasting street and not see a

00:29:42.160 single homeless person which is the only time i've ever seen that in my lifetime i grew up down

00:29:46.740 there you know i've been here for decades and so uh i assume what i've heard through the grapevine

00:29:51.920 is that they just put people on a bus and they send them to chelowak for a couple of weeks they

00:29:56.340 maybe give them a hotel or something uh well as long as they don't send them to uh just a warning

00:30:02.020 for you uh you know our news editor dave naylor is a hardcore uh soccer football fan so uh he'll

00:30:09.360 be expecting you to be watching some of the uh happenings on with i mean there's more to that

00:30:14.560 event than just the matches themselves anyways i mean the international spotlight the activities

00:30:18.720 the protests or things like the city will do to try and put a better light on things i imagine

00:30:22.440 you'll be watching closely to see what kind of stories emerge from that well yeah maybe i'll

00:30:26.900 get a media pass and go check it out and pretend i'm a soccer fan for a few days why not i mean

00:30:33.000 you just gotta get drunk and uh you know if somebody taps you too hard fall down and fake

00:30:37.640 an injury and you've got it down i'm i'm more than qualified for for all those things right on okay

00:30:46.260 well uh before i let you go you know uh we people will find your stuff on the western standard news

00:30:51.460 but where else are you online and and you know where they can find your work and your stuff

00:30:55.200 yep western standard um as you had mentioned uh just before i came on encourage everybody to get

00:31:00.620 a subscription and support them and i'm also on x and i post every day and uh yeah so excellent well

00:31:08.620 a belated welcome to the western standard family i uh loved your work on x and your your writings

00:31:14.880 so far looking forward to seeing more coming out of bc as you cover stuff for us out there alex

00:31:19.520 thank you so much thank you for having me thanks so one more time guys yeah look him up alex zolt

00:31:24.880 I mean, we really filling that, you know, B.C. void and getting that news out there.

00:31:30.120 It's a part of the West and it's an interesting part of the West.

00:31:34.000 You know, there's a commenter.

00:31:34.780 Hi, Alex, from somebody, Theo said they met in Squamish.

00:31:38.380 There we go.

00:31:39.280 And it's just some of the most exciting politics in Canada tends to come out of B.C.

00:31:44.640 You know, the lunacy of the NDP convention came.

00:31:48.200 That was in Winnipeg.

00:31:49.240 But don't worry, many, many, many of those delegates, including that weird chair-it person was out of British Columbia.

00:31:56.940 I mean, they got a lot of sane people in BC, too.

00:31:59.060 They got a lot of great people in BC.

00:32:00.540 And that's part of what makes it that interesting combination, you know, not just geographically.

00:32:06.620 As Alex was saying, interior BC, northern BC, very, very different than lower mainland BC.

00:32:12.660 But even within Lower Mainland, BC, it's a very mixed demographic and economy and culture.

00:32:19.200 You name it.

00:32:20.040 It's all there.

00:32:20.920 So, yeah, Alex will have his hands full covering everything that's going on there.

00:32:24.800 So I was talking at an event last night about this.

00:32:27.780 I kind of covered this.

00:32:29.140 So my apologies to some of the folks who might be watching who were in attendance.

00:32:32.500 I'm just going to rehash some of that because I did start the speech out by making fun of the NDP gong show.

00:32:38.740 And, again, if people haven't seen some of those clips, you really should.

00:32:40.880 it's just it's hilarious until you realize these people are serious and uh how absurd these people

00:32:46.700 are and it's it makes for easy low-hanging fruit to poke at but then I turn it to point to the

00:32:51.960 other reality in that they aren't harmless okay that that woman who was chairing it uh her name 1.00

00:33:01.360 is Adrienne Smith and she's a lawyer out in British Columbia she worked to defund a rape 0.99

00:33:08.100 support center because that rape support center wouldn't let women into it. So women who have 1.00

00:33:15.140 been sexually assaulted, abused, needed somewhere to hide, somewhere to feel safe, somewhere to

00:33:19.300 recover, somewhere where they can, you know, again, just deal with what's happened. This

00:33:25.720 nutcase felt that they should have to have a bunk next to them with men because she's really that 1.00

00:33:34.600 nuts. That because the guy said he's a woman, you can put that guy into a rape center. And we've 0.99

00:33:44.960 seen this with women's prisons in the States. There was a trans man impregnated a bunch of

00:33:51.580 women in it. There's other cases, again, in shelters where some trans, and not every trans

00:33:56.480 person's a sexual predator but some are and they've got the plumbing and they don't belong

00:34:04.920 in a rape shelter but this woman this lawyer helped defund that center because they wouldn't 1.00

00:34:10.020 allow people with peckers into a woman's sexual assault center that's how crazy these people are 1.00

00:34:15.380 and they get their way she's won human rights commissions uh challenges thirty thousand dollars 0.95

00:34:21.740 for a small business because they fired somebody who later claimed they were non-binary and that

00:34:26.000 that was the reason for it. Plus those Froot Loops and lunatics that you saw getting up to the 1.00

00:34:31.860 microphone with their equity cards and all of their ridiculousness. Where do you think they 0.99

00:34:37.240 get the money to travel as delegates to somewhere like Winnipeg and do these things? Well, guess

00:34:42.160 what? They're in your teacher's lounges, guys. They're teaching your kids. That's one of the

00:34:46.100 main sources of these nutcases. They're working in the civil service. They're working in municipal

00:34:52.840 offices. They're working in federal government offices. That's where these people go. They get

00:34:58.320 their liberal arts degrees. They're crazy. They can barely maintain their jobs as baristas for 1.00

00:35:03.300 too long. They finally either get a government job or upgrade to a teaching certificate and move

00:35:07.780 into there. And then they spread that gross, weird ideology everywhere they can, whether it's through

00:35:15.120 a government job or even more concerning as teachers. As I said, the NDP, the federal NDP

00:35:24.520 have lost the union vote. They've lost the trade union vote. They've lost their traditional labor

00:35:30.380 vote, but they still have the purple haired teachers union vote. Those nutcases that are 1.00

00:35:37.200 dominating the monopoly, almost paramonopoly system of our education system. So here's a

00:35:44.960 good news story. For people in Alberta, if you've looked at Bill 25, the Premier Smith just dropped

00:35:51.060 and it's great. It actually takes the battle back at the unions, in the classrooms. And that's a

00:35:59.700 bill in Alberta that is going to regulate and depoliticize and ban these teachers from bringing 0.98

00:36:06.540 their ideological crap into the classrooms. It's going to make it so that the only flags allowed 0.60

00:36:11.860 to be flown at schools are the Canadian flag, the provincial flag. And I believe there was

00:36:16.860 some exception for a, uh, uh, French Albertan flag or something like that. No more rainbow 0.95

00:36:22.880 asterisk, uh, whatever, you know, flag of the week it is anymore. No more Palestinian flags, 0.83

00:36:29.980 no more of that crap, no more teachers yelling at kids who refuse to go out and take part in 0.99

00:36:36.540 pride thing like we saw in alberta a little while back a kid a child was a muslim one which is some 0.99

00:36:42.300 of the irony was berated by a teacher in front of the rest of the class and told that you don't

00:36:47.740 belong here can you imagine if it's been anybody else telling a young muslim kid that they don't

00:36:53.260 belong here and that was recorded but this was a teacher so somehow it was okay because the kid

00:36:57.820 didn't want to march out and take part in the pride thing i don't have a problem with pride

00:37:02.620 stuff but i have a problem with our bloody schools imposing it because they go above and beyond and

00:37:07.580 they push that extreme ideology like we saw from the nut bars at the ndp convention we're not 0.56

00:37:13.420 talking about minor stuff on accepting somebody for being who they are and all that fluffy things 0.53

00:37:17.980 these are the crazies and smith is cutting them down at the knees and saying that's enough you 0.79

00:37:24.380 stick to the curriculum or you're bloody fired you're out of here and already i was listening 0.97

00:37:29.100 again as i said i hurt myself with talk radio but oh some of them oh my lord we already have

00:37:33.340 a teacher shortage and they're gonna leave no they aren't no they aren't they're qualified

00:37:37.180 to do anything else it's gonna pay them that well and they're willing to do the work that

00:37:41.740 would pay them that well what are they gonna go to the oil field sorry you don't get three months

00:37:45.900 off a year with pay in the oil field a massive pension like that every long weekend off every

00:37:52.540 second friday off arbor day off you name it you don't get that you guys have got a good gig

00:37:59.100 They're not going to leave. Some might. And if they do, those will be the worst of the loons

00:38:03.540 anyways. Get the hell out. And I'm certain there's some silent teachers in other provinces

00:38:08.560 who are saying, you know what? I would like to move to Alberta and teach there because it's one

00:38:11.960 of the highest paid teaching jurisdictions in Canada. And I can apply my trade that I was drawn

00:38:16.980 to in that very important job and actually teach kids how to learn. Use critical thinking,

00:38:23.360 math as well science arts not distracting them with their political ideology and garbage the

00:38:32.520 courage i can't say enough of smith to take this on because we've known about this teachers unions

00:38:38.900 have been a problem throughout all of north america from california to alberta to ontario 0.95

00:38:45.740 those unions have slithered in and taken over and they're spreading their crap to kids rather than 0.98

00:38:51.120 teaching them anymore. And I know there's thousands of great teachers in there and they're 0.98

00:38:55.040 stuck going with the flow. You don't speak up in that union environment or you do get drummed up

00:38:58.960 because they're closed shops. The next thing I want to see is right to work legislation,

00:39:02.620 but they're not going to be able to pull that crap much longer. And Hey guys, welcome to the

00:39:07.940 cell phone world. And I know they've banned cell phones from a lot of classes and things like that,

00:39:11.440 but as we've already seen, you guys are always, always under scrutiny. So you're going to get

00:39:17.880 recorded. Some kids got that phone hidden down below. If that teacher starts on an ideological

00:39:23.020 diatribe, don't worry. It's going to end up on YouTube and you're going to get fired as you

00:39:26.740 should. Stick to your job, you guys. You got a good gig and you got an important gig. And when

00:39:33.300 you do it right, we do value it. We really do. And I know it's not always easy taking care of

00:39:38.160 somebody else's little bastard hellions. Not every kid is good. I put teachers through a lot of 0.98

00:39:42.460 misery when I went through school and some of the stuff I did, I do apologize retroactively to those

00:39:46.980 poor teachers who I gave gray hair as the nasty student I was. They put up with a lot of junk. 0.93

00:39:52.360 They put up with a lot of crap from parents. They put up with a lot of crap from people like me. 1.00

00:39:58.620 But that's part of why they're well compensated. That's part of why it's a calling rather than a 0.64

00:40:02.760 regular job. And enough complaining. Just get back to teaching again. That's all people want.

00:40:10.740 And I think there's a whole lot of teachers again. They're not, they're already in there

00:40:13.820 and they're thankful bill 25 is coming down they won't put their hand up and say it because the

00:40:18.140 union crowd around them won't let them but they're happy to see this and i'm looking forward to that

00:40:23.420 i'm so happy because so many politicians just scurry away in terror when it comes to taking

00:40:28.460 on the teachers union they really do they just don't want to they just throw money at it

00:40:32.700 and back off and that isn't happening this time premier smith's not backing off in fact 0.71

00:40:38.460 she brought on the attack she didn't just defend us against the latest crap out of the union she 1.00

00:40:42.220 brought the battle back to them and some of the nutty school boards and other folks involved in

00:40:47.340 these things so this is a great development uh to turn that back around you know i i've seen

00:40:54.220 some of those discussions some of the folks who keep screaming that premier smith should take on

00:40:57.980 an independent stance this ties together in a way look she's got enough on her plate 0.99

00:41:03.980 she's been defending the ability to have a referendum for independence the independence

00:41:07.900 movement has got enough. That's all they need out of her. Let Premier Smith keep doing what she's 1.00

00:41:13.100 doing because she's doing some great stuff over there. Don't let her dive into the mire of the 0.76

00:41:17.340 independence movement. That's not her place. That's not her mandate. She doesn't need to. 1.00

00:41:21.540 So quit pushing on that and stick to the independence movement itself.

00:41:26.300 And let Premier Smith start making Alberta the better place it should be. Think about that.

00:41:32.820 The more moves she does like this that drive out the real Fruit Loops, the real lunatics, 1.00

00:41:36.900 and makes them leave that handful of teachers who really will pack their bags, 0.97

00:41:40.580 take their purple hair, and get the hell out of here. 1.00

00:41:42.260 Good.

00:41:43.340 That's fewer people who are going to vote yeah, no in the upcoming referendum, isn't it?

00:41:48.100 And maybe some of those teachers who will move to Alberta

00:41:50.100 to get into an environment where they can actually teach again 0.97

00:41:53.100 rather than being stuck with the ideological crap they've been forced to feed. 0.95

00:41:58.380 Those are the yes voters. 0.99

00:41:59.920 Don't worry.

00:42:00.820 Premier Smith is doing the job she's there to do.

00:42:05.560 And she's doing a good one.

00:42:06.500 Not perfect. None of them are. None of them are. And God knows she's made mistakes.

00:42:12.300 But hey, it's awesomeness. Bill 25 is great. And well, the teachers don't like it. Sucks to be

00:42:19.600 you. But yes, the independence has reached the signature bar. That's been a lot of the discussion 0.99

00:42:24.040 lately. It's interesting. So they needed 178,000 signatures. I've listened to some interviews.

00:42:29.040 They think there's more signatures that are out and there's some that haven't been counted. And

00:42:31.980 there's cases and cases that haven't become, they figure it's probably more like perhaps

00:42:34.940 250,000, 240,000. They should safely be beyond there. Uh, tactically, I don't know why they

00:42:42.420 released that. I think part of it was pressure. It seemed like every few days there was a story

00:42:47.540 from legacy media or Dwayne Brad or somebody be coming along and say, look at this. They're on

00:42:51.060 the ropes. They're never going to pass it. I mean, we saw news stories the other day saying,

00:42:54.100 oh my Lord, they're having problems. The rural addresses on driver's licenses are making it 0.95

00:42:58.560 difficult and they can't get the petitions done. And I think maybe it frustrated them because

00:43:03.040 they're getting calls from people saying, are we close? Are we getting there? Are we, what's going

00:43:06.580 on? Are we not going to make it? You know, there's still a month to go. So they felt we got to let

00:43:10.560 people know that the bar has been passed, unfortunately. And I know there's others who

00:43:16.600 are encouraging petitioners to stay out there and keep pushing and keep petitioning, keep showing

00:43:20.500 a presence and a lot will, but a lot won't now. I mean, it's hard work. It's a lot of trouble. It's

00:43:25.480 a lot of time and they're going to take their foot off the gas for a bit now because they know

00:43:29.040 they've passed the bar and that's unfortunate because this campaign if a person's looking to

00:43:32.760 get a good vote or even possibly a winning vote in October means that there's got to have to be

00:43:36.920 campaigning from today until voting day you can't afford to take your foot off the gas the petitioning

00:43:41.120 gave a form of campaigning working towards that but either way it has been announced look there's

00:43:46.680 going to be a referendum this fall there's going to be I had some other people panicking because

00:43:49.960 they're bringing in legislation that's talking about how you won't be able to hold a referendum

00:43:53.480 within a certain period of time from a set election date and stuff like that fine but don't

00:43:57.720 worry they already said clear as day these active petitions currently are exempted from that law

00:44:02.280 they're not going to stop the referendum so many people keep thinking smith wants to block the

00:44:05.820 referendum if she wanted to do so she could have done it six months ago easily is she gonna vote 1.00

00:44:11.540 yes i don't know but she wants this thing to be held and it has to be now lukasic got his hundreds

00:44:18.580 of thousands of signatures wanting a question on a ballot stay free alberta's gotten hundreds of

00:44:23.220 thousand signatures it's time to have it out you can't leave that question hanging in the air

00:44:27.000 anymore and everybody knows it premier smith knows it too it's going to a vote this fall it's going

00:44:31.340 to be one hell of a political year in alberta in canada one of the most exciting and interesting

00:44:36.840 ones we've ever seen we've never had a referendum in the west before never so it's going to be

00:44:42.580 something else oh one more thing before i let you go uh yes uh you know gun grab gary there is

00:44:49.020 talking about. So yes, the deadline is passed for people to voluntarily declare their firearms

00:44:55.060 and so on. And they think they announced 47,000 have been declared across Canada after two months

00:44:59.340 of the program. That represents 2% of all the guns prohibited. And yes, Alberta and Saskatchewan

00:45:05.540 refuse to cooperate. Our police forces won't do it. They're not going to get this done. I'm just

00:45:11.220 saying, don't cooperate, guys. Don't break laws. Just if you don't have them, you don't have them.

00:45:17.800 Never give up your firearms or your property in general.

00:45:20.660 All right, guys, that's my time for today.

00:45:22.100 Tune in to the pipeline.

00:45:24.360 A little later, we're going to break down some more issues.

00:45:26.540 Again, make sure to watch Nigel's show, some of the stuff Leah does and others.

00:45:31.080 Subscribe to The Standard, support independent media, hit the like and share and all that good stuff,

00:45:36.340 because that's how we can get the word out there.

00:45:38.520 And keep tuning in.

00:45:39.980 This is how we will beat legacy media and their associated unions.

00:45:44.200 Have a good one, guys.

00:45:44.780 Thanks.

00:45:47.220 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - April 02, 2026

Toronto’s nationalized grocery store experiment will be a catastrophe

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