Western Standard - Triggered： Bringing Triggered To A Close

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's Friday, August 12th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I'm Cory Morgan. This is

00:00:39.680 our daily live rant, opinion, news, interview show. And as I'll explain in a bit, yeah, we're

00:00:47.320 kind of getting into the last week of it here. But either way, we'll go out with a good final

00:00:51.940 week as we go. And I'll explain what it's all about in a few moments here. Let's start though

00:00:56.600 with some of our important things.

00:00:58.800 I got to cover these daily observances.

00:01:00.360 Just so you know, guys, you know, I look those up,

00:01:02.500 put them in so folks can have something to talk about

00:01:05.140 while others are logging on and getting on with the show.

00:01:07.900 They're easy to look up.

00:01:08.860 And there's always something to be observed with every day.

00:01:11.080 Today is Truck Driver Day.

00:01:13.580 So yeah, you know, of all things,

00:01:16.080 this would have been more of a subdued day a year ago.

00:01:19.240 But now we've gotten more appreciation, I think,

00:01:21.560 of our truck drivers than we've ever had before.

00:01:23.880 Boy, they were the ones who stood up

00:01:25.640 for Canadian rights or at least spurred and started that whole thing when no other identifiable group

00:01:30.380 did. So today actually is the international day. You're supposed to recognize truck drivers and

00:01:34.580 aside from things such as the trucker's convoy last winter and things like that, they also

00:01:41.140 deliver your food. They work some long shifts. They lead a whole different lifestyle. Honk honk

00:01:46.760 is paradox he is saying and send your appreciation to those truck drivers out there, guys. It's also

00:01:52.780 So speaking of the underappreciated, the forgotten, it's middle child day.

00:01:57.220 So yes, if you've got to remember, or people from way back with the Brady Bunch viewers

00:02:01.680 who grew up with that like I did, of course, the middle child always gets forgotten.

00:02:07.980 So I mean, this is the one day, give them one day out of 365 days of the year anyways, 0.95

00:02:12.660 where you can kind of remember, oh shit, yeah, I do have another one, don't I? 0.97

00:02:15.200 This is the day you recognize your middle child just to keep them from going too far 0.94

00:02:19.260 off the edge and you'll have them to read about them in the newspapers when they grow up later on.

00:02:25.200 So, all right, let's talk about what's going on. Good to see you guys, by the way, in the

00:02:28.880 comments. Scroll. It's always, I really appreciate it. I like seeing what's happening over there.

00:02:33.540 This is the advantage of being live. Well, I'll talk about the disadvantages of being live. Yeah,

00:02:38.640 Shane there, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. Yes. And I like that exchange, you know, that being able to

00:02:46.400 keep things moving live and fluid as they go. So make use of it. Be civil with each other.

00:02:53.160 And Jane pointing out that I am the middle child. Yes. And you see, look at that. It's made me with

00:02:57.620 this terrible sense of personal insecurity and need to get out there and seek attention through 0.95

00:03:03.320 things like live shows and inflammatory columns and being an arsehole on Twitter. If I'd have 0.86

00:03:08.320 just had more attention when I was younger, I would have been so much nicer. All right. So I

00:03:12.100 got a couple of good guests too, before I get onto that. And one of which is Michelle Sterling

00:03:15.460 from Friends of Science. She's been a regular, of course, and always lots of good conversations.

00:03:19.900 I want to talk about ESGs and more of that sort of stuff and the pressures on our industries and

00:03:25.660 things like that. As well, we got Reid Small. He's our BC reporter there. Our producer will

00:03:31.700 be gushing over him as he comes on to speak to us about BC stories and such. And yeah, Reid's got

00:03:37.640 lots on the go. It sounds like there actually is a race going on for the leadership of the NDP out

00:03:41.820 there at last. There's two of them have put their hats in, but they both sound pretty hard left.

00:03:46.220 All right, I'll get on to what you saw from the title of the show and a bit of a hint

00:03:49.660 of, you know, yesterday that it came out. So I'm going to get straight to the point,

00:03:53.860 and I'll explain why. So next week is going to be the final week for Triggered. I'm not leaving

00:03:59.760 the Western Standard, but I am stepping back from my full-time position, and that's going to include

00:04:04.520 doing this show, because of course it has to, I have to be here five days a week quite early to

00:04:08.760 get this going. We began this show, you know, just to review it last January. And since then,

00:04:13.240 we produced over 150 episodes with hundreds of guest interviews. The viewership's grown and we

00:04:17.740 have a fantastic audience who I really appreciate. And we've had some great discussions. You know,

00:04:24.340 we've covered a lot of things. The show's evolved. It's improved. And of course, Nico's excellent

00:04:27.960 production work and others helped create a great product here, guys. All that said, it's been kind

00:04:33.380 of quite a grind to keep up with things at that pace. And we're a young news organization and

00:04:37.380 taking on a show like this actually was pretty ambitious on our part. So I've had a, this is

00:04:42.260 where I'll get onto the, it's not you, it's me part of the story. And there's truth to it. I've

00:04:45.980 had a few careers through my adult life. I was in the oil field for over 20 years, traveling

00:04:49.940 throughout North America. And I've owned a few businesses, varying success. I never actually

00:04:55.660 had done a daily nine to five downtown sort of job before. I thought I was at a point in the life

00:05:00.620 where I wanted a more stable, consistent 40 hour a week career. Well, I was wrong. I'm afraid

00:05:05.740 actually the regularity has been wearing on me. I sort of prefer a more chaotic environment if

00:05:10.400 that can be believed. And I'm more comfortable in not knowing what I might be doing a week from

00:05:15.860 next Tuesday rather than having a set calendar. And I know that sort of thinking drives organized

00:05:19.680 people crazy, but that's just the nature of me. So working here certainly hasn't been any kind

00:05:25.120 of hell on earth by any means. There have been some great times and I enjoyed many aspects of

00:05:28.800 things both on the show and off of it. I just had to face the reality that just isn't the role I

00:05:33.840 belong in right now. And I've been growing increasingly uncomfortable in the job. So I've

00:05:37.980 been thinking about this for quite some time. And I realized a few weeks ago, I was actually

00:05:41.020 starting to watch the clock while I'm in the office, you know, to get to the end of the day.

00:05:43.940 And that let me know I'm in the wrong role. I'm at a point, if I'm just not enjoying it,

00:05:47.760 you know, in full, and I'm enjoying lots of it, I just can't continue. So I wrote a letter to the

00:05:51.720 boss. And we started working on transition me out of my full time role. With some time and searching,

00:05:57.040 we found an excellent new opinion editor, who's going to be starting and announced pretty soon.

00:06:01.420 the harder part was figuring out what to do with this show. I mean, Triggered really helped build

00:06:05.940 and develop our digital presence. We have a well-equipped studio and a number of skilled

00:06:10.100 people here now supporting these productions. And these resources won't be going to waste.

00:06:14.700 There's going to be more productions coming. They're just going to be changing a bit.

00:06:19.100 Linda Silbodian, for example, made a fantastic documentary on that shameful Canadian abandonment 0.94

00:06:24.200 of our allies in Afghanistan. And Melanie Risden has been doing some fantastic shows with their

00:06:28.900 interviews and series. Mel's going to be creating some more stuff, actually, new stuff to look

00:06:32.400 forward to really soon. We're going to have some announcements coming up on that. So there's a lot

00:06:36.020 to look forward to as the Western Standard continues to grow and fill that void that the

00:06:40.140 legacy media has created and news and opinion. We're going to be producing five more shows next

00:06:46.180 week, and the final episode with me at the helm of Triggered anyways is going to be next Friday.

00:06:50.400 And yes, and again, just that reminder, I'm not leaving the Standard. I'm going to be contributing

00:06:53.880 with columns, appearances on shows like The Pipeline, and perhaps doing other special

00:06:58.220 events and productions. My role just won't be full-time doing this every day anymore. And of

00:07:02.720 course, I'm still going to be visible all over social media and spreading my assholery far and 0.94

00:07:06.440 wide as I always have. Just not in this show. So we still have a week to go and I'm not formally

00:07:10.920 going to say goodbye right now, but I just do want to share what's up with you all. I really do

00:07:14.820 appreciate you guys, even the ones I bark at in the comments scroll now and then. And I just want

00:07:19.520 to keep everybody up in the loop with things. So, all right, with that down, let's get on to what's

00:07:25.820 making more important news today, and talk to our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:07:31.480 Hey, Dave, how's it going today?

00:07:34.140 Sorry, very sad, sad day.

00:07:38.920 You know what? At least you're not working full time.

00:07:41.560 You'll be able to, you know, spend more time with your hobbs, kind of like bees.

00:07:45.840 I understand a bit of a problem with them yesterday that we've got some exclusive footage of.

00:07:51.100 Rob, can you roll that video of Corey and his bees?

00:07:55.820 What the hell happened there, Corey?

00:08:08.640 That's the magical flatulence in beekeeping. 0.65

00:08:11.200 What you have to do is swallow a queen bee and manage to draw the bees to the other end.

00:08:16.140 Where the hell did you find that thing?

00:08:20.260 Many thanks to Rob for getting that ready for this morning.

00:08:23.980 We've had a crazy busy news morning.

00:08:27.780 Corey led off with an attempted assassination against Salman Rushdie in New York.

00:08:34.680 You'll remember in 1988, I believe it was, he wrote a book called The Satanic Versus, which did not paint Islam in a very good light.

00:08:43.700 The ayatollahs in Iran put a $3 million bounty on his head.

00:08:47.820 and he's been able to you know he was in hiding for years and years and years has

00:08:53.740 finally come out over the last few years and and was it was making a lecture today in

00:08:58.680 in new york when an attacker ran on stage some reports say he was stabbed up to 15 times

00:09:05.340 and suffered some very grievous wounds he's been choppered to hospital and we're just waiting for

00:09:12.360 an update on his condition and police at the scene took the attacker into custody. So that's

00:09:21.180 a developing story. Keep checking back and we'll have all the updates on that. Also developing

00:09:26.940 today is Donald Trump and his search warrant set to be released at 1 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.

00:09:34.720 Our Mike Thomas will be all over that on what the FBI was looking for and what they seized and

00:09:40.420 what they found in Melania's panty drawer. And hot on the site right now is followed to our

00:09:48.940 exclusive that Jonathan Bradley had yesterday, where TD Bank trainers were caught giving seminars

00:09:56.020 telling TD staff not to vote Conservative, because Conservatives don't like Indigenous people,

00:10:02.220 they just like pipelines. Well, that created a firestorm on Twitter, and we've got a story up

00:10:09.200 there now on some prominent Canadians and their reaction to the story.

00:10:18.120 So those are the three major stories we've got at the moment. We're going to have more TD Bank

00:10:23.800 comment this afternoon. We've got an interesting column from our Dave McAchuk. You'll remember

00:10:29.840 earlier, I guess two weeks ago, it was announced that Dina Henshaw received a quarter million

00:10:36.500 dollar bonus for her work on COVID. She's Alberta's chief medical officer. Well, our Mr. Makachuk

00:10:42.980 is urging her to give it to charity. We all suffered during the pandemic and, you know,

00:10:50.860 Ms. Hinshaw could go out and buy a condo in Costa Rica or a new Bentley, but Dave's urging her to 0.98

00:10:57.140 give it to some charities and he lists them. And if the good doctor follows through, Dave will

00:11:02.900 match it. Not to a quarter million dollars, but he'll donate $20 to every charity that Dr. Hinshaw

00:11:12.220 donates to him. So I think Dave's a poor pensioner. He's not getting much money for

00:11:16.320 pending columns for us. So that could be a financial hardship for him, but I'm sure one

00:11:21.980 he'd love to do. Well, it's probably a safe bet that he's probably not going to have to match

00:11:27.000 them, but I'm certain he will put his money where his mouth is if Hinshaw actually steps up. I like

00:11:31.060 the creative way to talk about how those those dollars uh could be used right now yeah you know

00:11:36.160 dave's a very generous guy and supports a lot of charities uh so yeah it'll be interesting to see

00:11:41.700 if uh dr hinshaw does anything about it right on well uh appreciate the update dave and uh and and

00:11:50.360 the fantastic b video and i'll check in with you after the show okay cory thanks that is our news

00:11:57.260 editor, Dave Naylor. Again, you know, listing some of the top stories that are going on today.

00:12:02.580 And of course, lots that will be coming out throughout the weekend. We do have a number

00:12:06.440 of reporters across the country. I'll be speaking to Reid out in BC. We've got that Newfie up in

00:12:11.300 Alberta here. He's doing a great job. Mr. Green up there. We got Chris Olkorn in Saskatchewan,

00:12:16.220 Matthew Horwood in Ontario. It's really been taken off. And of course, Jonathan Bradley,

00:12:20.180 who really hit it out of the park with that TD breaking story going on there. And the reason

00:12:26.120 we're covering this stuff. Nobody else broke that. Nobody else found it because we're an

00:12:29.580 independent media outlet, guys. We don't take tax dollars. We aren't asking for them. We just

00:12:33.900 refuse to take them. And we rely on you guys as subscribers to keep doing this. And you've been

00:12:39.580 great. We got thousands of subscribers for $99 a year, $10 a month. You get full access to this

00:12:45.760 stuff past the paywall and straight in, you know, unique content columns, things like that. Like

00:12:51.080 Macachuck with his shots on where to put the money that Dr. Hinshaw has gotten to, again,

00:12:59.540 that stuff on TD. So just that reminder, help support independent media, guys. It's important

00:13:04.440 for us. $10 a month, ah, it's a pittance. Like those lefties like using when they have a new

00:13:09.140 spending initiative, less than a cup of coffee a day. And I'll talk about some good coffee,

00:13:13.200 you know, when you get that savings that you can buy for that, by the way, when I'll talk about

00:13:15.680 sponsors, but that'll be in a little while. So let's see what else we got in the comments,

00:13:20.080 girl. Yes, I am going to miss you guys. Most of you anyway. Some of you are jerks. For the most

00:13:25.480 part, you're pretty good. Either way, yeah, it's just time to move on. Time for things to change.

00:13:30.160 It's not coming, you know, it sounds cheesy. It's not coming to an end. It's evolving. We're moving

00:13:33.560 on to different things. I'm certainly not gone altogether. I'm way too crabby and have way too

00:13:39.220 much to say. I'll just be saying it, you know, in different ways or in different spots. I'll still

00:13:43.460 be out there and we'll see what happens. I'm only 51 years old. I mean, I've got a grandmother who

00:13:47.140 just turned 103. The world's not getting rid of me that fast or that easily soon. We're just going

00:13:51.540 to change some stuff. As Al was saying, will the trigger platform continue with someone else?

00:13:55.780 I'm not sure. Like we're still looking at some things. There's going to be a lot more digital

00:13:59.060 content coming out because this show does eat up a lot of the resources of our daily routine and

00:14:06.180 that. I mean, with the production and planning and the gear and that, and then with this not

00:14:10.600 happening at least initially every day like that, it gives some room to kind of rejig and look at

00:14:14.320 some of the other productions that we can focus a little more on and expand on uh as i said those

00:14:19.060 who've been watching melanie risden's uh series has just been going fantastically if you follow

00:14:24.140 on youtube you won't see it there because we watch it we keep getting kicked off over there so

00:14:27.260 you'll find those on rumble and facebook um yeah we're still kicked off of uh twitter for the time

00:14:33.640 being i guess uh western standards account uh well they're probably going to make that full

00:14:37.460 one week suspension for daring to report on and as dave said that's one of the top stories it's

00:14:41.460 another one from Jonathan. It was just a story because Denmark has banned vaccination of children.

00:14:47.640 That's all, you know, for COVID-19. We didn't give the opinion on why the ban happened or anything

00:14:52.780 like that. We just reported a story and tweeted it and we got punted for a week as well. That was

00:14:57.880 kind of combined with a story from Chris Oldkorn in Saskatchewan about kids being, foster kids

00:15:03.140 being vaccinated without parental permission. So we'll see what happens as things move along.

00:15:09.040 You know, I mean, definitely we've set things up for a live broadcast.

00:15:11.920 A little bit of what happened, just to give some candid inside stuff, is we kind of bit off almost a little more than we can chew to start with.

00:15:18.420 I mean, this was a big endeavor for us as a publication that's not even three years old yet.

00:15:24.260 You know, it was only just basically over two years old when we started to start doing a live show.

00:15:28.000 And it's been a great learning curve.

00:15:29.260 And it's been going.

00:15:30.000 It really has been going well in a lot of ways.

00:15:31.640 but uh we almost should have started with a bunch of you know easing in record productions

00:15:37.420 smaller interviews things like that and we dove right into a daily grind with a full-on show like

00:15:43.500 this because there is a void that needs to be filled i mean talk radio people know it for the

00:15:46.960 most part it's horrific now it used to be great i mean a lot of us uh cut our political teeth

00:15:51.120 listening to some great talk radio hosts and interviews and now it's it's it's got awful

00:15:56.200 So, you know, we've created this show to fill that.

00:16:00.340 And it's gone really well.

00:16:01.620 It's gotten to where it has.

00:16:02.700 Now it's just kind of time to reevaluate and reset.

00:16:05.320 But I'm pretty sure, I mean, I can't say for sure when and how,

00:16:08.500 but there's going to be more live productions coming of some sort.

00:16:11.240 There is a void to fill.

00:16:12.500 We'll just have to do it carefully and make sure we do it right.

00:16:15.720 And we'll go from there.

00:16:18.040 Princess Corey consuming all the cake.

00:16:20.040 Yeah, I don't know.

00:16:22.300 Shirley saying, you know, what's happening.

00:16:23.840 As I said, it's just time for me to move on from the full-time role, you know, and I'm still going

00:16:29.340 to be contributing to the standard and I'll still be coming up on stuff. We'll still be doing

00:16:33.280 specials and things like that. We're just going to change it. We're just learning as we go because

00:16:38.340 yeah, we've got a good audience. We don't want to abandon you guys. All right, let's go through

00:16:43.360 some of these new stories of what else we got going on. This one is a beauty I found sitting

00:16:48.340 out there on the land of Twitters. And this was, I can't remember which outlet put that out. Zero

00:16:55.200 Hedge. It's more of an aggregator, find stories from elsewhere. But apparently the Deutsche Bank

00:17:00.120 is predicting that wood's going to be used for heating purposes in Germany a lot where possible

00:17:05.700 because they're in the midst of such a energy crisis right now. And that a growing number of

00:17:13.060 households are already using firewood for heating, and they're very worried about it. There's going

00:17:18.880 to be a run on it. The price of wood's going up. People are starting to scavenge. People are going

00:17:21.680 in the trees. This is how bad it's getting. This is how nutty it's getting. This was the country

00:17:26.960 that everybody celebrated only a few years ago. Look at this green shift in Germany. Look how

00:17:31.060 wonderful they are. Look what a brilliant move they've done. Wow, these guys are darn near net

00:17:35.800 zero. Now they're net screwed. They're looking into a winter, and they are dependent on sporadic 0.99

00:17:41.700 sources of gas. They're rushing to reopen their coal capacity. They've even shut down their

00:17:46.940 nuclear. So now it looks like they're going to be burning wood. And let's not pretend this was just

00:17:51.020 due to the Russian Ukraine situation. We were talking about this. I think Michelle probably

00:17:55.860 came on the show to talk about this last year. They were talking about cooking over candlelight

00:18:02.100 last year to just about this time because they knew they were coming up on an energy crunch.

00:18:07.160 And we've got to remember, this is the path that our federal government wants us to go down.

00:18:11.780 We've seen this path as a proven failure for citizens.

00:18:14.700 It's a disaster, yet we're still moving on full speed towards this disaster.

00:18:20.120 This train is running towards a crash, and I don't know what on earth is going to stop it.

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00:19:48.780 Friends of Science in. I kind of left it open. Hey, Michelle, how are you doing? I'm good. How

00:19:52.700 are you? Thanks for having me on the show, Corey. Good. No, it's always good to have you back. And

00:19:57.200 And I did, as I said, I don't have a specific subject in mind

00:20:01.800 because it's just so easy to talk to you

00:20:03.020 and the same subjects keep coming up.

00:20:05.140 I want to, we kind of covered this last time, I believe,

00:20:07.380 but still we keep hearing about ESGs.

00:20:09.340 You know, that's that buzzword, that's that term, that's that push.

00:20:12.240 Because this is something that's more, in my view,

00:20:14.680 frightening almost than when the government's bringing in

00:20:16.840 their environmental controls.

00:20:17.780 It's when we're seeing corporate efforts to try and embrace this ideology.

00:20:24.280 And they're bringing in some pretty crazed policies,

00:20:26.680 i think almost self-destructive can you can you kind of explain what esgs are well the esgs are

00:20:33.400 a new form of accounting if you like for a company's performance like rather than

00:20:41.080 counting them based on their financial performance it's based on very subjective

00:20:47.400 views on environment social and governance and so this is where also all the things like the

00:20:53.400 diversity and inclusion come from you know having every body of every description on your board

00:20:59.800 rather than people who are technically competent who could add something to your board of directors

00:21:06.120 it's having a climate risk person or or group it's accounting all of your scope one two and three

00:21:14.200 emissions which means when you get down to scope three if i'm a potato vendor and i sell you

00:21:20.440 potatoes, I have to try and figure out what you're going to do with those potatoes and how much

00:21:25.640 emissions there will be from it. So I mean, I don't know if you're going to make chips from

00:21:30.600 them, bake the potato, you know, turn it into a salad. So I could actually be held legally liable

00:21:39.160 if I make a mistake and lie about your end use in the scope three assessment. So it's really a way

00:21:46.680 to hogtie corporations and also individuals into carbon constraints and legal liabilities

00:21:55.400 for things that are beyond their control it's a terrible thing and in fact Al Gore's generation

00:22:01.320 investment management is one of the key pushers of it it says so on his website and the push for it

00:22:08.760 comes from what's called the UN PRI the united nations principles for responsible investment

00:22:14.920 this is a group of about a thousand institutional investors pension funds they sit on something like

00:22:21.640 a hundred trillion dollars in assets under management and they have been pushing esg

00:22:27.320 accounting since 2005. so what this means is that if you're a corporation your investors if they're

00:22:34.760 signatory to the unpri principles they will come to the board and say listen guys we think that

00:22:41.880 you should align with the paris agreement and we think that you should go along with say what the

00:22:47.080 eco-fiscal commission says and does and this happened in 2015 with nei investments nei

00:22:54.520 investments is the credit unions of canada and desjardins out of quebec if you can believe that

00:22:59.960 credit unions were the basis of community funding and support during the depression

00:23:05.720 and now they're actually crushing and destroying freedom of speech and free market investment

00:23:11.880 Yeah, well, and this sort of sickness travels through, you know, all of the, even the major institutions, of course, and though it's not an ESG thing, it shows a lot of that attitude of, I think, almost a quizling sort of thing.

00:23:25.600 I mean, these companies are just bending over for the activists who push and push and push, and they'll never win.

00:23:30.080 They're feeding a crocodile. And like with TD, that story we broke yesterday with the recording of that person talking to them about how Indigenous people are against pipelines.

00:23:43.480 And thus, anybody who supports pipelines is anti-Indigenous. Thus, you must not support the Conservative Party.

00:23:48.140 This is what they're training staff with. Plus, this is, I guess, in a roundabout way, telling them don't invest in energy things.

00:23:56.140 I mean, it's anti-Indigenous to invest in pipelines.

00:23:59.300 Like, that's some of the ludicrous mentality that starts coming through.

00:24:02.380 And that's how the, you know, extreme activists have been shutting things down.

00:24:05.880 It's not just blocking railways and projects.

00:24:08.440 They're getting into the boardrooms and they're managing to succeed.

00:24:11.660 That's right.

00:24:12.440 And, you know, we have to look at people like Mark Carney, who came out and said that firms not considering climate change will go bankrupt.

00:24:19.500 Well, OK, investors said, fine, we won't invest in oil and gas, then we'll just back right off.

00:24:24.220 This is why we have an energy crisis. You know, for decades, the UNPRI and its little signatories have been pushing governments and corporations to divest from fossil fuels.

00:24:35.780 ENGOs have been pushing pension funds at universities to divest from fossil fuels.

00:24:41.960 And ironically, it was the World Economic Forum in 2006.

00:24:45.860 In their annual report on global risks, they clearly stated that a global oil price shock would be very destructive to the global economy.

00:24:56.580 Now, they took that off their list of global risks in 2020.

00:25:00.880 And they also took pandemic off the list.

00:25:03.380 They replaced it with climate change.

00:25:04.940 Now, why would they do that? Is this a situation where people like, say, George Soros, who capitalized on shorting the British pound and made a fortune, he nearly bankrupted Britain, I think was back in the 80s, perfectly legal what he did.

00:25:23.800 But is this a situation where markets have been so manipulated that certain parties are now capitalizing on the energy crisis while, as you mentioned, in Germany and in Europe in general, people are being pushed completely into heat or eat poverty?

00:25:40.040 People will die from these policies and from these bad decisions made by these market manipulators.

00:25:46.800 How do we stop them?

00:25:48.660 Well, that's the biggest question is how do we stop them?

00:25:51.200 And it's getting so insidious and it's hitting on so many levels and it's so

00:25:54.700 absurd. I mean, I'm just hoping that as we see these world examples, I mean, 1.00

00:25:58.680 some people can wake up like, look, we're seeing it in advance.

00:26:02.340 What's happening in Germany today is going to happen to us next year or the

00:26:05.420 year after, if we continue on this course.

00:26:09.440 And what you have to know in Germany, it's the green movement that taught

00:26:13.260 Germany out of diversifying their sources of energy.

00:26:18.140 It's the Green Movement being financed by Russia in Germany, and Germany and the EU are actually financing the conflict in Ukraine.

00:26:28.080 They are paying hundreds of millions of dollars every day, so they're financing it and destroying their own economies in the process.

00:26:37.220 It's an unbelievable non-conflict war strategy to crush a certain sector of the global economy.

00:26:47.060 And it's working, unfortunately, very well.

00:26:50.440 Well, I like to think, unfortunately, I've said it before recently, things are going to have to get worse before they get better.

00:26:55.740 People have gotten complacent. 1.00

00:26:57.120 They don't act until they get that direct kick in the butt. 1.00

00:26:59.120 But that kick is on its way. 0.98

00:27:00.620 And I see some of this, like this is a story just today that climate change rewrites to the National Building Code.

00:27:07.220 uh this is from the government and from a few years ago they think it's going to add thirty

00:27:12.260 thousand dollars per home in costs to every home going forward that's just the national one now we

00:27:17.700 got you know lunatics like gondek with her 87 billion dollar climate plan who i imagine wants 1.00

00:27:22.660 to expand even on that like we're in a cost of living crisis and these regulations are coming

00:27:27.540 through that are going to make the cost of living and the cost of having a home or living in a home

00:27:31.700 go through the roof but but they're just doubling down and going further and further with this

00:27:36.020 Right. And you have to realize that the Deutsche Bank put out a report on building back better.

00:27:41.860 And their idea to build back better was exactly related to that retrofitting example that you

00:27:49.220 gave. And they said, perhaps we need an equal dictatorship. Because what happens if a person 0.51

00:27:55.380 doesn't want to retrofit their home? What happens if they can't? Maybe it's built in such a way that

00:28:02.580 it can't be retrofitted. So does that mean that we're going to just run right in and expropriate

00:28:09.600 their home? Are we going to force them? Maybe they can't afford it financially. What is the

00:28:14.560 government going to do under an eco-dictatorship for climate neutrality? And I want to make the

00:28:20.220 point that there is no climate emergency. This is what's known as representative concentration

00:28:26.440 pathways and this is where the concept of a climate emergency came from this is a an implausible

00:28:33.760 scenario because it has none of the mitigations that we presently have but this has been the

00:28:39.900 foundation of most climate research and you can find an article by roger plk jr called the

00:28:46.440 unstoppable momentum of outdated science so he found that actually this has been used in most

00:28:55.200 scientific research. But if you remove it, you can see there's no climate emergency. And so

00:29:02.720 what he presents in his article is that we've been using a catastrophic scenario as if it's

00:29:12.100 business as usual, when it's not, it's implausible. And the IPCC itself has now not seen this as our

00:29:21.000 likely future which they did in previous reports because they were relying on all the scientific

00:29:25.480 papers that used rcp 8.5 so there's no climate emergency it's over we do have time there's

00:29:32.360 absolutely no need to rush on any of these things and we do have time to figure out additional

00:29:39.320 solutions and going down the path of germany and the eu is just a a suicidal mission it's

00:29:47.960 catastrophic and it will take years for them to fix what they've done if ever it will kill a lot

00:29:54.800 of people yeah and that narrative is everywhere that's something that came up recently you know

00:30:00.940 with everybody watching and finally i think some people are kind of catching on i mean we see that

00:30:05.320 sharing in the internet where they look back because every weather picture when you watch

00:30:09.560 the weather forecast and you see the map and oh my god the world's on fire everywhere's blazing

00:30:15.060 red and roasting and I'm surprised they don't show you know people burning up on their you know

00:30:19.780 spontaneous human combustion in the background and people have pulled up weather images of the

00:30:25.040 same forecaster only from three or four years ago with the same temperature trend and it was green

00:30:30.460 and blue and nice and normal because it is normal at most we're in a bit of a heat wave. Yeah we call

00:30:37.220 it summer or we call it summer and just so you that your viewers know this will be appearing

00:30:44.200 everywhere. This is Show Your Stripes. This was designed by Ed Hawkins, who's a climate scientist,

00:30:51.800 and this is supposedly showing the heat, the growth of heat from the last 150 years or so.

00:31:01.300 Now, Dr. Roy Spencer has another version of this that he did over 2,000 years ago,

00:31:06.780 which completely blows that away. But this is going to be the cover of Greta's new book

00:31:11.200 coming out in the fall in october just in time for cop 27 so you know i've often said look at

00:31:18.500 climate as a big marketing exercise then a lot of things start to make sense it's just a way to

00:31:24.260 commercialize or push companies and and products that nobody wants to buy but if you make it a

00:31:31.480 crisis and and tell people that this is the only solution well then of course the government will

00:31:37.160 have to prop it up with subsidies and save the planet. And of course, you won't mind because

00:31:42.180 your children's future is at stake, right? Yeah, they'll all be bankrupt thanks to these clowns. 1.00

00:31:48.720 Well, and everything's an emergency now. That's the whole thing. Every time the government wants 0.99

00:31:52.640 to step on individual rights, go into an authoritarian move, it's an emergency. It has

00:31:57.780 to be an emergency. We do it for our own good, whether it was implementing the literal Emergencies

00:32:01.360 Act, or again, I listened to Joe Biden a while back saying we have a health emergency of firearm

00:32:07.860 deaths. As long as you can use that buzzword emergency, then they feel that they got the

00:32:11.540 moral authority to say, we're going to set aside individual rights and we're going to intervene in

00:32:16.400 your life because we have to address this emergency. And that word is being terribly

00:32:20.920 abused as are we. Yes. Well, I do want to say we do have some good news on our blog. We have a

00:32:29.120 report now from Robert Lyman, and he did an assessment of Canada's environmental success

00:32:34.760 story. It's an amazing untold success story. So I hope that people will look at that and

00:32:40.060 at least feel a little bit more confident and feel good about the air quality, water quality,

00:32:45.420 and land use in Canada, because what he shows is completely the opposite of what all of these

00:32:51.360 crazy engo show and of course the engo's just used the catastrophe narrative for fundraising

00:32:59.460 right so i mean and actually under the um canada revenue agency act i don't believe that they

00:33:07.600 should be able to do that because they're gaining a personal benefit from promoting something that's

00:33:12.560 a false narrative but i'm not a lawyer so i'll leave that to your viewing audience to get active

00:33:19.460 and get out there and see what you can do.

00:33:22.160 Well, that's it.

00:33:22.880 We got all the information we can.

00:33:24.460 And maybe I'll just kind of finish with something

00:33:25.660 that's finally been making some news more, but not enough.

00:33:28.640 I mean, we're not seeing a lot in the mainstream,

00:33:30.700 but those proposed, you know, fertilizer reductions.

00:33:33.980 I mean, the agricultural community is raising the alarms.

00:33:37.380 Most people say, guys, we cannot do this.

00:33:41.020 You know, if you want an emergency,

00:33:42.580 we're going to have a starvation emergency

00:33:43.920 if we shoot the price of food up that high.

00:33:45.920 Plus, it'll do environmental damage

00:33:47.300 if we back off with the current type of use of fertilizer, it's madness.

00:33:51.940 Yeah. Professor Christopher Essex wrote a great column on True North about this whole issue. And

00:33:58.500 I recommend that people read it because what they're proposing is ludicrous and not essential

00:34:04.580 at all. And just before we go, I want to say that everyone can buy a clay pot and some candles and

00:34:12.340 And, you know, here's how you can heat your home.

00:34:14.920 This is what people in Germany are going to be doing next year.

00:34:18.000 If they don't have wood, they'll be even cooking with the clay pot heaters.

00:34:23.240 So, you know, trouble ahead for everyone.

00:34:25.860 Be prepared.

00:34:27.320 Yeah, I mean, I wrote a column recently where I called them Luddites

00:34:30.320 because it's true that they actually really want to reverse

00:34:32.640 all the technological advancements we've made

00:34:35.300 that have made, you know, our modern, comfortable lives possible.

00:34:39.360 They want to set us back.

00:34:40.160 and they're taking away our means of going back.

00:34:42.700 Like at my own place, I got some wood-burning stove,

00:34:45.260 but I had another one and this wasn't the government.

00:34:47.240 But boy, if you're insuring your house

00:34:49.200 and you want to have a wood stove,

00:34:50.840 they do not like that.

00:34:53.060 They pretty much, it's going to cost you a fortune

00:34:55.040 in retrofitting and changing that thing to get covered.

00:34:57.820 That might not be part of other things. 0.97

00:34:59.140 That's just them covering their butts. 1.00

00:35:00.400 But man, we're getting ourselves so dependent

00:35:03.060 on modern sources of keeping ourselves warm and fed.

00:35:07.320 Yet at the same time,

00:35:08.080 the government's taking away our abilities to do that.

00:35:10.160 I can only see disaster in it.

00:35:12.740 Right.

00:35:13.160 Well, I watched a Globe and Mail webinar a couple of weeks ago,

00:35:17.040 maybe a month ago, with a guy named Chris Henderson was one of them,

00:35:22.100 and the other guy was from IBM.

00:35:24.060 Of course, IBM loves the climate catastrophe because then they get to build

00:35:27.420 more supercomputers, and they love wind and solar because then they can put in

00:35:31.380 nine-figure IT forecasting equipment.

00:35:37.860 So this guy, Chris Henderson, was saying, yeah, let's break some China.

00:35:42.380 So they actually want to mess up the existing reliable, affordable, efficient grid and break some China and throw in a whole bunch of wind and solar.

00:35:53.400 And that will just break the system.

00:35:55.500 So it was unconscionable to me that the Globe and Mail was promoting this kind of viewpoint so dangerous to our society.

00:36:04.500 And also interesting to note that this fellow, Chris Henderson, had received something like $45 million over the past X number of years from Aboriginal funding from the Canadian government.

00:36:18.700 And he's running around promoting wind and solar to people who don't have clean drinking water.

00:36:24.140 Yeah, I think we've got more pressing priorities than worrying about having the wind blowing and generating power.

00:36:30.100 Well, all we can do is keep calling them out and informing people.

00:36:33.240 And I mean, that's what you guys do.

00:36:34.960 You do a great job of it.

00:36:36.740 And, you know, there's always lots of background for what you put out there.

00:36:39.360 As you said, you're friends of science.

00:36:40.480 You're putting the science out there for people to look for themselves.

00:36:43.880 So just to remind everybody, can people find more information on what you're doing and get some of that great information?

00:36:50.140 You can go on our main website, which is friendsofscience.org.

00:36:54.000 We also have a plain language youth-oriented bilingual site called climatechange101.ca.

00:37:00.020 we're on YouTube Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Instagram and we're going to be

00:37:06.860 opening up on gab soon as well so you know just reach out to us and if you've

00:37:12.960 got questions we'd love to hear from you if you've got comments please put them

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00:37:23.360 of operations so we have been asking people if they would just donate $20 just

00:37:28.640 as a celebration of the years that we've offered this information free of charge to the public.

00:37:34.000 We're a small nonprofit. We don't issue tax receipts. We're not a charity. But anything

00:37:40.400 you can do to help us along, we appreciate it. And thank you so much, Corey, for having me on

00:37:44.880 the show so many times. I really appreciate your openness to hearing our point of view and for

00:37:50.800 sharing the energy insights that are now so critical to our population everywhere.

00:37:56.200 It's no problem.

00:37:56.860 It's always great to have you on.

00:37:57.940 It's always a fun and easy and productive conversation when we have you.

00:38:02.000 I'm sure we'll be talking again on another platform soon, Michelle.

00:38:04.920 So thanks again for contributing and everything you guys do.

00:38:07.480 And I'll talk to you later.

00:38:09.280 My pleasure.

00:38:09.940 Thank you.

00:38:10.880 Thanks, everyone.

00:38:11.880 Bye-bye.

00:38:13.260 Yes, that was Michelle Sterling.

00:38:14.800 And yes, a friend of the show.

00:38:15.840 She's been on a number of times.

00:38:16.980 And as I said, she's always fantastic on here.

00:38:19.540 Their organization offers so much.

00:38:21.300 You need that counterpoint.

00:38:22.940 And they're not just some blog throwing out, you know, speculation or just countering things.

00:38:28.140 It's a scientific type of group.

00:38:30.480 They said, this is the information.

00:38:31.700 These are the facts.

00:38:32.700 This is what's out there.

00:38:33.780 And we're not being allowed to share a lot of that on these platforms.

00:38:37.260 So, you know, we've got to push back against that in the sense of get out there.

00:38:41.380 The information is out there.

00:38:42.500 We're not going to see it in the legacy media, but it is out there.

00:38:45.220 She said there's some great stuff on True North.

00:38:46.980 I like to say some great stuff on Western Standard, of course, Rebel, Epoch Times.

00:38:50.700 There's all sorts of platforms.

00:38:52.040 we can beat that push of misinformation from the legacy media.

00:38:56.020 And I think we have been, but it's still a battle.

00:38:58.360 You know, we're still off of Twitter with Western Standard for a few more days.

00:39:01.320 And it still astounds me.

00:39:02.940 I mean, I could see it if we were putting out a tweet saying,

00:39:05.980 don't do this or do that, or, you know, something like that,

00:39:09.460 where we were taking speculation or advice.

00:39:11.420 But it was just, I mean, our Western Standard account,

00:39:13.780 we don't use that for debating or anything.

00:39:15.040 It's just a tool to post a link to our stories as they come out.

00:39:18.020 These were both news stories.

00:39:20.220 And we actually got yanked on Twitter for a week for it.

00:39:24.060 Got to watch it.

00:39:25.020 So get to those sources, though.

00:39:26.620 As I said, there's good sources out there.

00:39:28.320 There is real information, counter information.

00:39:31.180 And you can find that with Friends of Science.

00:39:33.580 All right, let's see.

00:39:34.460 I'm going to speak before I get on to some more news items about us.

00:39:37.740 Speaking of sponsorship and paying our bills and staying independent,

00:39:40.780 the Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

00:39:43.560 These guys have been sponsoring us for quite some time.

00:39:45.640 If you own a firearm, want to own a firearm,

00:39:48.000 or if you just support the rights of others to own firearms,

00:39:51.140 you've got to be a member of these guys.

00:39:53.160 Their membership isn't that expensive.

00:39:54.500 This is what it gets down to is we've got to take care of ourselves.

00:39:57.500 You've got to kind of kick up because no one's going to do it on your behalf.

00:40:00.820 Well, Tony Bernardo and the Canadian Shooting Sports Association

00:40:04.000 will do it on your behalf, but you've got to be a member, right?

00:40:06.280 And they're pushing back against this government

00:40:07.760 that's trying to take away your property, 0.96

00:40:09.220 your ability to target, shoot, to hunt, to collect,

00:40:11.800 whatever you want to do.

00:40:12.460 It's your business.

00:40:13.740 The government's trying to take all that away.

00:40:15.300 And if you don't organize, you're going to lose.

00:40:18.940 So get on there.

00:40:19.580 Plus, there's all sorts of resources as well.

00:40:21.220 Just as an organization, as an association, like I said, links to events, to gun trade shows or shooting sports events, things like that.

00:40:31.400 It's all there.

00:40:32.220 Check them out.

00:40:32.780 Canadian Shooting Sports Association.

00:40:34.320 Kind of the easiest way is just to Google them.

00:40:36.020 And their website is cssa-cila.org.

00:40:40.040 Take out a membership.

00:40:40.820 It's for your own investment in yourself.

00:40:44.080 All right, let's see what else we got going on.

00:40:46.040 Ashley Ellis says he's trying to get the 100s to adopt him, but so far no luck.

00:40:49.840 Yeah, well, keep trying.

00:40:52.560 Just got to get the right bowl cut and, you know, some black pants with no buttons on the back or something.

00:40:57.540 And I wish you the best with it.

00:40:59.340 You know, if things really go to hell, if they really do, I don't imagine this true dystopian catastrophe, but I do worry about it. 0.80

00:41:06.780 If we hit a real energy crunch and a food crunch, I tell you, it's the urban hipsters who are pushing all this crap who are going to suffer the most.

00:41:15.620 It's the ones living in these high-density neighborhoods downtown that don't even know how to grow a geranium, much less where they might be able to get clean water for themselves if things go bad or to get around or heat their place.

00:41:27.960 They're going to be up for a hard, hard time.

00:41:29.960 Hutterites, they're going to be fine.

00:41:32.260 Or I see the burden is sweet.

00:41:34.060 A commenter saying they have a wood pellet stove.

00:41:36.380 it's clean burning and the wood particles are recycled manufactured in Alberta. You got wood

00:41:40.320 stoves, things like that. I'm not going into the whole survivalist thing, but I'm saying if you get

00:41:43.620 some hard times, we start seeing brownouts and things like that with like this ridiculous push 1.00

00:41:47.840 for electric vehicles, even though we don't have the infrastructure for it. You might need some

00:41:51.840 other needs to, you know, or means to generate things to keep yourself going or at least going

00:41:57.220 in comfort. And I tell you, I'll be a lot more comfortable out in my acreage than a lot of the

00:42:01.560 people in the city if it comes to that. But we should avoid this. We shouldn't have to

00:42:05.120 hit the crash. As I said, we're watching it in action in Europe right now. It's already crashing.

00:42:11.640 It's already falling apart. It's already a mess. Let's stop this. We're sitting on some of the

00:42:16.340 best natural resources on the planet, everything from coal, oil, gas, metals, forestry. We shouldn't

00:42:23.000 be sitting on our hands. We should be developing it. And we do responsibly. But we've got a

00:42:27.360 government that's trying to transition us out. Yeah, they're going to transition us into poverty. 0.95

00:42:33.120 Energy. It's a need, guys. We need it. We live in Canada. It's frigging cold in wintertime. I'm

00:42:40.560 afraid this has to be said, but with the people like Prime Minister Ding Dong there, I mean,

00:42:44.360 he's never really had to worry about things like that. You know, the maid starts the fire in the

00:42:48.480 bedroom for the bearskin rug for him and whomever to spend a romantic night. But those of us in the

00:42:54.080 real world, have to deal with bills and energy. And we will actually freeze to death if we don't

00:42:59.280 have it. Let's see. Yeah, Dave brought that up with a laugh earlier, you know, with Doug Ford.

00:43:07.260 Well, you know, there's that story. But yeah, showing the bees all in the guy's butt. And I 0.99

00:43:10.500 keep bees. I'm an amateur beekeeper. A first year one. So a novice, I guess, would be a better way.

00:43:14.860 I see. And yeah, what's that? Maryland saying, Doug Ford, it's well, the live bee on a presser.

00:43:20.660 He needs my help. I don't know if I could help with that, but we've got other things going on.

00:43:28.000 I just got an update from our news editor, Dave Naylor, on something there.

00:43:32.560 Maybe we'll pop him in quickly to bring us up to date on that.

00:43:36.340 It sounds like some sad news, Dave.

00:43:38.240 It is sad news. Corey confirmed that the actress, Anne Heche, has passed away in hospital in California.

00:43:46.540 She was in a bad car wreck earlier this week in which her vehicle basically drove into a house and garage and exploded.

00:43:55.540 She had been in a coma for several days, suffering what's called a catastrophic brain injury and burns.

00:44:04.540 Her agent said she wanted her organs donated, so they were in the process of doing that.

00:44:11.540 And just a few minutes ago, it was announced she has passed away.

00:44:14.540 way. She gained fame when she was married to the talk show host, Ellen, for a bit and sort of faded

00:44:22.460 out of public view for the last couple of years. Was doing a podcast last week. I think it may

00:44:30.100 have been Thursday. Don't quote me on that. But evidence of cocaine and fentanyl in the blood. So

00:44:40.600 she was certainly not fit to drive and did so, and it's ended up costing her her life.

00:44:47.880 Well, yeah, it's unfortunate. I mean, she's, I don't know, I don't keep up much with celebrity 0.83

00:44:51.960 news, but seeing them, you know, things fall apart and just wastefully, I see some of those videos

00:44:56.360 that came out of that and everything. I guess in some senses, we could be thankful she didn't hit

00:45:00.200 anybody. You know, it was just a lone tragedy, I guess, but still sad to hear. Sad to hear. And

00:45:07.320 again, another, apparently what seems to be the pitfalls of getting hooked on drugs or doing

00:45:15.000 drugs, Corey. Fentanyl is a dangerous, dangerous game to play. It is indeed. All right. Well,

00:45:21.360 thanks for the update, Dave, and we will talk to you later. Thanks, Corey. All right. And yeah,

00:45:28.840 some others pointing out some of the shows that Anne Hesh had been in, the remake of Psycho,

00:45:32.320 angela saying car crash right uh yeah it was a car crash uh there was a lot of videos of it at one

00:45:38.020 point she was she crashed into a garage somebody took a still it looked like there was a bottle

00:45:41.800 of vodka at her feet but with the um checking of her blood and everything now she's gone into

00:45:46.240 hospital it sounds like she had a lot of fentanyl and cocaine in her i you know and i don't know 1.00

00:45:50.440 i mean i don't follow celebrity news too much i don't know how much trouble she may or may not

00:45:54.100 have been in personally uh i almost wonder like i there were some bad old times i've talked about

00:46:01.020 that on here. I've been clean and sober for a long time, but I went through quite a period there

00:46:07.380 through the late nineties and sometimes, and I put a fair amount of crap up my nose. I was 0.89

00:46:11.140 fortunate enough to get away from that without a serious issue. It took a lot longer to get off

00:46:15.160 the bottle, which I've been dry for years, but cocaine is dangerous on its own. It's a rough

00:46:21.020 drug, but it's also constantly stepped on. The bottom line is the guys, the dealers that make

00:46:26.160 the money will always cut it with something else before they sell it to the next one. They get

00:46:28.960 themselves a couple ounces of that crap, they'll cut it in with something so they make a little 0.99

00:46:33.100 more on it and send it on to the next guy. A very popular and common one was baby laxative. I guess 0.99

00:46:37.580 this is soluble when you bring it in and, you know, it doesn't hurt anybody necessarily. Though

00:46:42.200 I tell you, after you go through a weekend in an eat bowl full of baby laxative, you're really

00:46:46.340 going to have to be buying some new underwear and things. But either way, you know, aside from the

00:46:50.800 joking on it, I guess nowadays fentanyl is often commonly cut into that stuff. And, you know,

00:46:58.300 because it's relatively cheap. It's, it's not as benign as something like say baby laxative or

00:47:03.540 even, you know, uh, uh, baking powder or something. And it maintains a still some sort of high. I've

00:47:09.540 never had that crap in me and I have no intention of it. Um, but she may have inadvertently gotten 0.99

00:47:14.920 some stuff spiked with that. You know, if it's even a person's used to unspiked Coke and then

00:47:19.580 they go shoving their head full of it and it turns out it has a bunch of fentanyl. It sends

00:47:22.020 you way off and onto a different, uh, edge. I don't know. It's all speculation, but as others

00:47:26.240 are saying, you know, and Jet Gorg and others just don't. It's the drugs of God, they were

00:47:32.980 always bad and they've gotten a lot worse now. And it's unfortunate, you know, just to see somebody

00:47:39.420 passing on, whether you liked your politics or whatever, the bottom line is it was somebody

00:47:42.600 who was still relatively young. Looking at those videos, it was terribly dangerous. She was

00:47:46.980 obviously very wasted, whatever way it was in her car at high speed. And thankfully, at least she 0.64

00:47:52.280 didn't run anybody down and everything. But yeah, we bring those live updates on this as things come

00:47:57.220 on, good news and bad. All right, let's see. Here's some interesting claim. The Department

00:48:04.960 of Public Works says that working from a home saves money. So this is getting back to the

00:48:10.920 government. They're ineptness, they're incompetence, they're terror of the unions. They're trying to

00:48:18.340 find their excuses. The bottom line is we reported on that the other day. A lot of these guys who

00:48:22.520 started working from home during the course of the pandemic don't want to come back. They like

00:48:28.020 it too much. They've settled in. This is cool. I like this. I don't have to go back and do all

00:48:32.120 that work. And it's showing this is part of why the passport renewals are way behind immigration.

00:48:39.120 Pretty much every government service has fallen terribly behind. And it's a mess and it's a wreck

00:48:44.540 and a lot of it's because these guys are at home. Look guys, it only saves if you're doing your job

00:48:49.520 and I'm going to take my shots because I always do with lazy federal government civil servants

00:48:53.620 and actually civil servants on most levels. I know there's some hardworking ones out there,

00:48:57.340 but come on guys, your reputation for being lazy paper pushers didn't come from nowhere.

00:49:01.800 You weren't doing a hell of a lot when you were showing up for the office. Once you started going

00:49:05.420 home, it only went downhill. So you guys try to polish that turd and claim that you're going to

00:49:10.420 save money by having these clowns at home. Not until you clean things up and actually get a work 0.95

00:49:14.000 ethic out of them. But they're, you know, they're scared of those employees. I mean, in the real

00:49:18.740 working world, we talked about that before when a report came out saying that they don't want to

00:49:23.280 come back to work. Well, if this was the real working world, you know what happens? You get

00:49:26.520 fired. You say, you show up for work or you're done. In this case, they're busy kissing their

00:49:33.520 butts and trying to make the excuses to say, well, maybe this is a good idea. It's not. If you guys 0.98

00:49:37.940 can learn how to maintain the services you had already while they're remote, then I can live

00:49:41.680 of it because yes, there are a lot of jobs that can be done remotely and from home and

00:49:46.920 effectively, but you've got to have controls in place. And obviously the government doesn't

00:49:50.240 have that. So fix that first before you worry about, uh, letting these guys sit around at

00:49:55.400 home, suckling on our, uh, collective taxpayer teats at the expense they have to afford these 0.99

00:50:00.920 clowns much longer. All right. Um, let's see what else we got going on here. Oh yeah. I got 1.00

00:50:08.380 Reid. I'm bringing him in. What am I thinking? He's got distracted as I'm clicking on things.

00:50:11.600 So I got Reid Small in the lobby. He's our BC reporter. He's been on a number of stories and

00:50:16.780 we're going to catch up and get updated on BC. How's it going, Reid? It's going good. Thank you.

00:50:21.380 Right on. Good to see you. Lots going on out there kind of lately in some strange ways. I mean,

00:50:25.720 I'll start with kind of the more dull one in a sense, but it's important. The last time I had

00:50:30.740 you on, we were talking about the NDP leadership race. This is a race for the new premier and you

00:50:35.360 only had one contender. I mean, you'd think it was such a top job, you'd have a lot. But finally,

00:50:38.740 you have two now. Yeah, yeah. As we talked about last time, Premier Horgan announced his

00:50:44.440 forthcoming retirement from his role as a leader of the party. And that was in June. And several

00:50:50.220 weeks went by, and no one was announcing that they'd be running for leadership. A whole bunch

00:50:55.600 of people said that they wouldn't be. And a lot of those people threw their support behind

00:51:01.000 Attorney General David Eby. And it was kind of understood that he was going to, after some time

00:51:07.300 had passed, make his announcement that he'd be running. Sure enough, after several weeks went

00:51:12.620 by, he sent out a tweet saying, big announcement coming this afternoon. Everybody kind of rolled

00:51:16.700 their eyes and were like, yeah, well, we know what's going to happen. You're going to announce

00:51:19.660 that you're running. No one else is going to run and you're going to be a leader of the party

00:51:25.160 a lot sooner than the December 3rd election, considering no one else would have been running

00:51:30.680 against him. Well, all that changed a few days ago. Anjali Apodurai, she's a well-known climate

00:51:39.240 activist in BC. She ran for the federal NDP in the riding of Vancouver Granville in the 2021

00:51:47.140 federal election. She lost to her liberal opposition by less than 500 votes. So she's

00:51:53.340 very well-known and just out of nowhere, she announced that she'd be throwing her hat into

00:51:57.800 the ring and uh david eby was probably pretty excited to to coast through uh without having to

00:52:06.820 go through any debates or anything like that but uh now he's gonna he's gonna be forced to answer

00:52:12.340 some questions uh from uh i guess what you could describe as the more radical environmentalist side

00:52:18.920 And Apadurai is, you know, she's very much anti-coastal gas link.

00:52:26.100 She was up in Wet'suwet'en a couple of weeks ago.

00:52:29.560 So she's very much involved with, you know, the old growth, anti-old growth logging crowd, anti-fracking crowd.

00:52:36.900 And a lot of that group, they feel like Ebi, who used to be an activist himself, has, you know, in her words, become, you know, an establishment guy.

00:52:48.920 and uh so she's uh looking forward to uh representing the uh the environmentalist crowd

00:52:55.400 and uh kind of throwing a wrench into the gears i mean evie's got the majority of support uh 48 out 1.00

00:53:01.640 of his 57 person caucus has said that they're supporting him uh so this is more of uh just

00:53:07.800 throwing a wrench into the gears and prolonging uh the process and forcing him to answer some

00:53:12.760 questions but uh it seems i mean again most people would say that he'll still end up winning the

00:53:18.440 leadership, but we'll see. Yeah, well, I mean, again, as you said, I mean, neither, well, at

00:53:24.420 least from a conservative point of view, we're really people I would consider moderates. But

00:53:29.180 still, at least I think it's in everybody's interest to have a contested race, even if

00:53:35.560 she's coming kind of from the activist viewpoint, you know, make there be some events, make there be

00:53:40.260 some debates, some discussion, because I mean, there's nothing more undemocratic than an acclaimed

00:53:44.860 to leadership no absolutely and uh yeah the uh the election is on uh december 3rd and if uh if

00:53:52.740 she didn't throw her hat into the ring uh eb would have been premier i mean possibly by october uh 0.64

00:53:58.960 but now you know that's going to delay it a couple months and there might be some some dialogue uh as

00:54:05.140 you mentioned she's also uh i have the name here uh the director of campaigns for an organization

00:54:13.300 called the Climate Emergency Unit,

00:54:16.040 which is a Canadian organization

00:54:17.660 whose overarching goal is to, quote,

00:54:20.480 press for the implementation

00:54:21.920 of wartime scale policies in Canada

00:54:24.500 to confront the climate crisis,

00:54:27.000 which is pretty interesting.

00:54:29.800 So we'll...

00:54:30.240 That's not your statement.

00:54:31.600 Yeah.

00:54:32.980 Well, the crazy of politics, I guess.

00:54:35.280 I imagine she's a pretty long shot,

00:54:37.420 but at least hopefully it'll,

00:54:39.340 as I said, bring in some more debate.

00:54:41.700 Looks like you got a couple of fans

00:54:42.860 in the comment scroll there.

00:54:44.220 You know, Jet Gorgon and Angela Williams,

00:54:46.360 the BC gals are all coming out for you here. 1.00

00:54:48.560 Just that reminder, we do have a BC reporter

00:54:50.580 and we cover those stories.

00:54:52.300 We don't talk about it nearly enough out there.

00:54:54.560 They can find my email at the bottom of my stories.

00:54:57.400 Great.

00:54:58.440 Okay, there's more going on.

00:55:00.340 Speaking of extreme activists and lunacy,

00:55:02.240 the old stand by the Gastown steam clock, 1.00

00:55:05.860 some idiots poured molasses on it? 1.00

00:55:08.040 Yeah, the Stop Fracking Around, a new organization, a Vancouver-based organization that just formed this last week. They launched their website. And yeah, they showed up and they got the megaphones out, they got the ladder, and they started dumping molasses on the steam clock, which they said represented oil and gas. 1.00

00:55:32.980 uh and uh again it's hard to to really understand what it is that they want because they key they

00:55:40.160 use a lot of words like we want change now we need radical change it's just they're saying a

00:55:45.500 lot of words without really saying anything um but uh on their website one thing that they are

00:55:50.380 clear about is that uh by 2025 they want uh no fracked gas uh to be used to in any building in

00:55:58.860 Vancouver. Yeah, I mean, it's just a sad destruction. I mean, Gastown's kind of a cool

00:56:05.200 part of town. And I know some people have been upset over the history of it with Gassy Jack,

00:56:09.860 because apparently he wasn't really a nice guy, but he was a historical figure. And then that

00:56:14.020 clock, that steam clock, I mean, that's a pretty unique item. It's a very old and different sort

00:56:19.200 of attraction. And to have these tweets, you know, ruining it to make their political point,

00:56:23.420 It's just annoying to say the least.

00:56:26.360 Yeah, one of the media contacts for the organization is Brent Eichler.

00:56:32.200 I think I'm pronouncing his last name right.

00:56:33.980 But he's been involved in sable growth protests and a bunch of other highway disruptions.

00:56:40.580 He was one of the guys that went on the hunger strike a couple months ago.

00:56:44.620 So it's the usual suspects.

00:56:47.680 Yeah, well, so, okay.

00:56:49.760 Well, getting on to the bizarre and the weird and the kind of extreme, that gender reveal deal. 1.00

00:56:56.900 Can you expand a bit on that?

00:56:59.460 Yes, this was during one of the pride parades in Vancouver.

00:57:05.660 It blew up on social media, a video of a four-year-old, biologically female-born child,

00:57:14.340 I guess you would say announcing officially that she is a boy and social media just blew up after

00:57:23.860 that tons of arguing in the comments but it's yeah it's interesting because we've seen this

00:57:31.640 happening a lot more young kids under the age of five you know coming out as trans there was

00:57:38.820 in the story I mentioned a BC registered psychologist named Dr. Wallace Wong. And

00:57:44.880 he started his practice. He's like a, he specializes in like transgender issues in

00:57:51.540 children and other sexual issues in children, gender related stuff. And he started his practice

00:57:56.280 in 2010 with four patients. And by 2019, he had more than 500. So, you know, we've seen a big

00:58:04.760 increase. And he also mentioned that his youngest patient at the time was not even three years old.

00:58:09.540 So we've definitely seen a lot more of that.

00:58:14.040 The same doctor, Dr. Wallace Wong,

00:58:18.060 he also, there was a recording of him

00:58:20.160 at the Vancouver Public Library in 2019

00:58:22.880 that you can find linked in the story.

00:58:25.600 And he said, he referenced data

00:58:28.040 that only 2% of children

00:58:30.060 that are experiencing gender dysphoria

00:58:32.040 actually grow up to be transgender. 0.75

00:58:34.640 98% are either gay or masculine females or feminine males.

00:58:41.360 And he said that and he acknowledged it.

00:58:44.420 And in the same speech, he also recommended that parents wait no longer than six months

00:58:52.220 to medically transition their child if they're experiencing gender dysphoria.

00:58:57.160 Because to not rush that would, in his words,

00:59:01.100 indicate that there's something wrong with transgenders.

00:59:03.900 So, uh, he, he recommends that parents wait no longer than six months to, uh, medically

00:59:09.440 transition their children with, uh, hormone blocking treatments.

00:59:12.420 Uh, and he also said, this is all in the recording that you can find in the story.

00:59:16.440 Uh, he also said that, uh, if, if you, if your, uh, health office, uh, won't give your

00:59:23.600 child the treatment, he recommends not knowing he was being recorded, obviously, uh, that

00:59:27.860 your child fake, uh, a suicide.

00:59:29.740 He said, pull a stunt. And then he said, suicide works every time. They'll give you what you want. 0.94

00:59:36.440 I should mention that the child in the story, the four year old is not undergone any medical

00:59:41.200 treatment or anything. It's a purely social transition. But yeah, well, when you're socially

00:59:47.580 meddling with kids at that age, I mean, come on, you know, this is where the trans activist

00:59:52.240 community, I like to distinguish between the two is that, you know, I stirred that hornet's nest

00:59:57.020 on Twitter the other day and they were all swarming all over me. And a whole bunch of

01:00:01.020 mean tweets from people with anime avatars and, you know, self-declared Marxists.

01:00:05.380 That's the activist element of them. They're crazy. They're way over the 0.98

01:00:09.000 edge. And I hope they're finally overplaying their hand. I just wish they'd leave the damn

01:00:12.880 kids alone. I mean, somebody's 18, identify us however they please, get 1.00

01:00:16.960 whatever medical procedure you can. But a four-year-old is going to do 0.97

01:00:20.920 whatever they think is going to get affirmation from their parents. So, I mean, there's no doubt the

01:00:24.860 parents are, there's no child wants to be a trans person at that age. I mean, they also will 1.00

01:00:29.960 identify as a dinosaur the next week and an astronaut, the one after that. We don't stick

01:00:34.720 him on a spaceship and send him to the space station. Yeah. Yeah. And in BC, we have something

01:00:42.280 called the Infants Act. And within that, there's a mature minor consent, which is basically

01:00:50.060 legislation that says a healthcare practitioner can undermine the parent or guardian

01:00:57.100 if they deem that the child is mature enough to consent to a procedure and properly understand

01:01:03.920 the potential risks and benefits. And that includes puberty blocking treatments. A lot

01:01:10.080 more people have become aware of this legislation over the last couple of years because of puberty

01:01:15.120 blockers and because of covid vaccines and children and conversations surrounding that

01:01:20.640 but uh yeah that's that's definitely interesting and there was uh actually a case just a couple

01:01:26.080 years ago um it's under publication ban but the the father is referred to as a cd i believe

01:01:32.560 and the state actually intervened and he was he had his hands were tied while his uh his child

01:01:39.120 uh underwent uh puberty blocking treatment and on the provincial uh provincial health services

01:01:46.320 authority website uh it says on under their puberty blocking section uh that if you stop

01:01:52.480 taking the treatment you will simply resume puberty uh as you were before and then at the

01:01:58.640 bottom of the same page it says the long-term consequences of puberty blocking treatment

01:02:03.760 for bone development and height are unknown and so they contradict themselves on the same page

01:02:09.120 But as far as the Infants Act goes, I mean, a lot of people might think that's a good thing if you've got, you know, your child's at school, they get injured or sick or something, and they end up at the hospital and a healthcare worker has to make a decision.

01:02:22.700 Or, you know, the old example that you used to hear about was, you know, a child ends up hospitalized with an infection and the parent doesn't want them to get antibiotics or something like that.

01:02:34.940 So the state comes in and says, no, we're going to, you know, save this child's life.

01:02:39.240 But over the last few years with, you know, all the transgender stuff and puberty blockers, it's forced a lot of people to revisit that legislation. 0.96

01:02:50.340 Yeah, there are some serious consequences.

01:02:52.660 I mean, we all know at least that, I mean, that's children are developing.

01:02:56.540 They're growing.

01:02:57.260 It's integral.

01:02:57.900 The reason the body is producing these hormones, it's more than just the gender aspect, guys.

01:03:02.400 It involves their bone development, their brain development, their physiological well-being.

01:03:08.800 And when you start messing with that, you make permanent changes.

01:03:11.320 They can't change their mind once they're 18 and their body is a developmental train wreck. 0.95

01:03:17.200 And again, when I get people this being pushed far more by the parents rather than a child who's identifying one way or another, as some others are kind of saying, it's child abuse.

01:03:27.440 Yeah.

01:03:28.100 And that's the thing is a lot of people will say, yes, that is child abuse.

01:03:31.720 But the arguments of, you know, like Wallace Wong or other, a lot of other, you know, healthcare practitioners, for example, they would say that, you know, it's child abuse to prevent your child from getting the puberty blocking treatment that will allow them to live that, you know, as their true selves.

01:03:50.280 So it's this, this crazy situation where it's like, one person saying this is child abuse, the other person saying this, and it's just, it's become so divisive, like with everything else.

01:04:00.200 but recently Sweden actually implemented a policy where no child can get puberty blockers before the

01:04:09.460 age of I believe it was 16 and then between the ages of 16 and 18 they have like a very like

01:04:17.000 honest rigorous process where they like are actually honest about you know the what the

01:04:23.620 treatment does and I think it was Astrid Lindgren is the name of the children's hospital there

01:04:28.300 And the top doctor there said that the treatment was akin to chemical castration.

01:04:35.020 And they actually used the drug Lupron to chemically castrate sexual offenders in Korea.

01:04:42.980 So, again, there's just been no honesty around the conversation.

01:04:48.140 And, you know, like I mentioned before, the contradiction on the Provincial Health Services Authority website, just right there.

01:04:53.560 um you know the idea that this is just like a safe treatment uh and uh a child is is mature

01:04:59.740 enough to to consent to that um i mean just look how many regrettable tattoos are out there oh yeah

01:05:06.100 i've got a few of them and uh but uh yeah i mean it sounds like sweden's taking kind of a good

01:05:11.400 common sense approach i mean it's not denying that there's some people that truly want to be

01:05:15.140 trans and it's time to change and they transition later and it makes them happier and you know good

01:05:19.340 for them, but let's just make sure that, well, for one, gotten up to at least 16, and then very

01:05:24.320 informed consent on moving along with what could be some permanent changes, but just shutting the

01:05:29.580 door on this ridiculousness with the minors. I mean, I saw, you know, of course, memes are always

01:05:34.620 out there, but there's a great one that just kind of says it all. It showed a pair of your usual

01:05:37.860 blue-haired progressive parents, and oh, the child, I'm paraphrasing, the child says she likes the

01:05:42.760 color blue and likes playing with GI Joes. Let's take her to the surgeon. You know, like, it's 1.00

01:05:48.140 almost at the point that it's at. I mean, they're kids, they go through all sorts of things, just

01:05:51.560 just hang on, you know, let them get to their teen years, because that's kind of a point I think,

01:05:56.140 too, I'm certainly don't know for sure. But you know, they're pretty confident, at least more in

01:05:59.880 their sexuality, if they're gay or different. By 16, there's a much better idea of what's going on,

01:06:05.060 and that confusion starting to settle. Right. And yeah, as I mentioned before, that, you know,

01:06:10.860 Wallace Wong, the same doctor mentioned that, you know, only two out of 100 kids who are

01:06:16.940 experiencing gender dysphoria end up actually being transgender most of them are gay uh masculine

01:06:22.720 female feminine male uh and then also the gender reports uh dot ca they've got some interesting

01:06:28.860 data there and over the last decade they said they've seen a tenfold increase uh in medical

01:06:34.180 transitions of uh children like under 18. yeah well and i i saw others with what we saw some

01:06:42.120 school teachers one who obviously was pressuring the kids a lot and said wow look at that you know

01:06:45.700 nine out of 17 of my students have now declared themselves to be trans like really come on no 1.00

01:06:50.760 but uh the battle goes on i mean i i think i i don't know i just hope that uh some common sense

01:06:58.260 prevails eventually on it all right well is there anything else you're working on before i let you

01:07:02.860 go there uh yeah i've got a the listeners can uh stay tuned for a story that i've got coming out

01:07:08.640 uh this weekend that's uh exploring the question of whether or not bc officials will be re-implementing

01:07:14.000 COVID mandates in the fall. A lot of people are questioning that. And so I'm going to do a deep

01:07:18.560 dive into that question. Well, that's not controversial. Okay. Well, good. Looking

01:07:25.440 forward to that, Reid. And thanks for coming on today. And yeah, we'll keep up that good coverage

01:07:30.480 out in BC. Awesome. Thanks so much, Corey. Thanks. So yes, that is our BC reporter, Reid Small,

01:07:37.100 covering a lot of stuff. A good common sense guy. I don't know. We got some weirdos in the

01:07:40.540 commenting there, the Rob Ward guy and things. But I mean, they are all expressing support for

01:07:45.060 our fine journalism out there. And actually, Reid is a really good journalist. He's doing some good

01:07:48.820 stuff out there and covering, again, the things that the legacy media isn't. And this is just

01:07:55.100 getting to be way too far. And it's funny, you know, because as I said, I got the, as somebody

01:08:01.480 else put it, you know, the trans mafia after me on Twitter yesterday. It was a high profile

01:08:05.740 trans activist tweeted, go ratio this guy. And that's just a term for everybody coming on. They

01:08:09.820 call me every name in the book. Doesn't hurt my feelings. I just block them. But part of what

01:08:14.780 got them wound up was I just did say that the trans activists are setting back the LGBTQ movement 0.98

01:08:22.680 by decades. And I still stand by that. And I mean, well, do you understand what the T is in that?

01:08:26.920 Yes. And I understand the difference between the T being a trans person and a trans activist,

01:08:31.640 because those are two separate things altogether. And I guess, yes, there's rational trans activists

01:08:37.360 out there too, absolutely, because there are some trans rights that should be respected,

01:08:40.840 and I'm fine with that. But the insane cancel culture way out in the fringe, transitioning 1.00

01:08:45.780 four-year-olds, canceling feminists, swimming with their balls, hanging out in a woman's swim meet, 0.99

01:08:52.340 they've got to be called out. It's insane. They've gone way over the edge. They've gone way too far. 1.00

01:08:57.800 The ones that want, I mean, we saw recently with a change room, what some senior citizen got banned

01:09:03.060 from a YMCA change room

01:09:04.960 because she complained 0.99

01:09:06.260 because an unsurgically changed trans person 0.63

01:09:09.500 was hanging around in there 1.00

01:09:10.600 with the cock and balls 1.00

01:09:11.380 hanging out in the ladies change room. 1.00

01:09:12.840 Guys, if you haven't taken the parts off,

01:09:15.980 you don't belong in there.

01:09:17.820 We got to draw some lines somewhere.

01:09:19.580 But the activist crowd is pushing it

01:09:21.700 way, way, way too far.

01:09:23.640 And they've got to be called on it

01:09:25.260 because it does push it way back.

01:09:27.360 And the reason they got so furious with me as well

01:09:29.020 was a trans activist had gotten swatted, 1.00

01:09:31.340 which means some idiot phoned the police and made a fake report of violence and firearms, 0.99

01:09:38.460 so the police all show up with a SWAT team, and it's very dangerous. 1.00

01:09:40.940 It could have gotten her killed.

01:09:42.620 Awful, awful thing. 0.96

01:09:44.500 And they're saying, you're saying she deserves it?

01:09:45.740 No, not for a second.

01:09:47.420 Not for a second.

01:09:48.540 It's a terrible thing to do.

01:09:49.660 It's an assault.

01:09:50.640 It's violence.

01:09:51.480 It puts police services at risk.

01:09:53.200 It puts people at risk. 0.96

01:09:54.440 What I'm saying, though, is the polarization being created by these lunatic fringe trans activists, 0.98

01:09:59.700 And most often, they aren't even trans people. 0.99

01:10:01.640 They're loony activists who think they're doing a good cause. 0.91

01:10:04.820 It's causing, you know, and I'm not saying,

01:10:08.100 so you got to be careful with the talk on this.

01:10:09.600 I'm not victim blaming, but it's really inflaming some of the nut bars

01:10:13.460 and bringing them out of the woodworks because they're going so far over the edge.

01:10:16.980 And I tell you what, if you want to get people standing up and getting,

01:10:20.100 pushing back hard, start pushing always in the face of kids like you guys have.

01:10:24.460 And we protect our kids.

01:10:25.580 It's instinctive.

01:10:26.160 It's natural.

01:10:26.640 A mother mouse will bite your finger if you reach in for the baby mice. 0.97

01:10:31.480 You guys are starting to push on the kids now.

01:10:33.800 People are getting pissed off.

01:10:35.760 Cut it out.

01:10:37.100 Stay where you are. 0.99

01:10:37.820 Again, that division, it gets pushed back on trans people who just want to live their lives without bothering with all that crap and everything else. 0.97

01:10:44.700 Or people in the LGBTQ community. 0.97

01:10:46.800 They earned and worked their way up to the proper acceptance that they should have had 100 years ago, 1,000 years ago.

01:10:52.200 But then we got these guys who just, that line just has to keep getting pushed and crossed.

01:10:55.380 and you're pushing it too far

01:10:56.780 and it's leading to more problems.

01:10:59.520 It's causing problems to others.

01:11:01.880 Was it Mr. Smarty Pants saying,

01:11:03.300 why is the show stopping?

01:11:04.080 Yeah, I won't reiterate the whole thing,

01:11:06.160 but at the very start,

01:11:07.220 if you get a chance,

01:11:07.920 you can review it in my opening monologue.

01:11:09.800 I kind of explain where we are.

01:11:10.940 We'll still get five more episodes after today.

01:11:14.660 But yeah, it was interesting.

01:11:15.560 That's the first I'd heard.

01:11:16.440 You know, I'm glad Reid brought that up then

01:11:17.700 with the Swedish deal, you know,

01:11:19.660 where they're talking maybe more

01:11:20.920 of a common sense approach with it, right?

01:11:22.960 And I like that between 16 and 18,

01:11:24.400 that it means a lot of consultation, just making sure you know what this is about, you understand.

01:11:28.780 I remember when I went in for my vasectomy in my late 20s, I already had a few kids,

01:11:32.380 I want this, but that doctor made sure to have a good long conversation with me. You sure,

01:11:36.340 because you can reverse one, but it's not an easy process. And eventually, yes, he was settled. He

01:11:41.800 was sure I knew what I was getting into. And it turns out he was a terrible vivisectionist. It

01:11:45.820 was an awful procedure. I had a hell of a time, but I'll share that story for another time.

01:11:49.540 But consultation is important with a consenting adult knowing what they're getting into.

01:11:55.300 And there's no frigging way a four-year-old has any idea about these things. 0.91

01:11:59.360 And it's ridiculous to stick them in front of the crowds. 1.00

01:12:01.040 And I wonder as well from that mother who's clearly some sort of lunatic sticking her child out like that and doing that crap. 1.00

01:12:07.420 But the crowd all clapping like a bunch of idiotic train seals around it. 1.00

01:12:10.900 Most should have been just saying, what the hell is the matter with you? 1.00

01:12:13.460 Got to call out the activists, guys.

01:12:15.600 And I do lay some of that on the feet of the trans community and others because they got to speak up.

01:12:22.300 Because, of course, I just get dismissed. 0.99

01:12:23.220 Ah, you're a straight old white man bigot. 0.99

01:12:25.240 Whatever. 1.00

01:12:26.800 But you guys and gals in the trans community, you're only going to get more flack if you allow these nutty activists to lead the charge. 1.00

01:12:37.520 Allow them to drive the news. 0.58

01:12:39.000 Allow them to be what people are talking about with trans issues.

01:12:42.200 Yeah, it's unfortunate.

01:12:43.140 to, I know you quietly just want to sit back and lead your lives, but that's not going to be allowed

01:12:47.560 as long as these activists continue to dominate this discussion right now. And you're going to

01:12:51.760 have to push back and say, that's enough of you guys. And some of them do. There's, there's some

01:12:54.400 very vocal activists, trans activists are saying, you know, that's enough, but you need more because 0.98

01:12:59.340 they're a screaming mob of lunatics and they go too far. And just at that point, when I'm talking 0.95

01:13:05.160 about with, you know, on Twitter, when they swarm, you see, that's what they do. It's what they do.

01:13:12.440 Here's a contrary opinion.

01:13:14.040 Everybody gang up and suddenly I got 500 comments

01:13:16.380 calling me every name in the book.

01:13:17.620 And their hope and goal is that,

01:13:18.920 see, this person will be so annoyed and offended with it

01:13:20.760 that they just won't ever touch the subject again.

01:13:22.920 Well, no, that won't work in my case.

01:13:24.660 And if you're on Twitter and that sort of thing happens,

01:13:25.920 just block them.

01:13:26.440 It drives them bananas, but just block them. 0.98

01:13:28.060 They can only come after you at once.

01:13:30.140 Any social media.

01:13:31.380 It's the easy way.

01:13:31.900 It pisses them off because then they're, you know,

01:13:33.400 disempowering them.

01:13:35.600 All right.

01:13:36.700 Crazy times, crazy times.

01:13:38.500 Let's see now.

01:13:40.620 What else we got?

01:13:42.720 Somebody mentioning dingling shades of Ray Stevens.

01:13:46.500 Ah, yes, a lot of comedy songs out of that guy.

01:13:48.280 He did come up with My Dingling and The Streak

01:13:50.860 and other such fine things from way back in the past.

01:13:53.180 I was dating some of the audience and myself

01:13:54.660 to recognize these things.

01:13:56.740 This is something, I guess, another poll.

01:13:59.220 Well, let's see, you know,

01:13:59.640 Department of Health Research found it 0.99

01:14:00.960 only 34% of Canadians really gave a crap 0.96

01:14:04.620 on whether or not they single-use plastics. 0.96

01:14:06.260 They didn't see that as being the top issue

01:14:08.260 or anything that's bothering them.

01:14:10.120 In fact, they were more concerned

01:14:11.360 about common environmental threats, including cigarette smoke, carbon monoxide, mold, even

01:14:15.240 asbestos, radon gas, plastic, way, way, way down there, way down the line. This is reality.

01:14:24.980 Unfortunately, our government policy doesn't follow the reality on these things, though, does it?

01:14:28.760 So they don't care what we think. They don't care what we're actually concerned about.

01:14:34.340 They're going for their single-use plastic straw bans. It just goes too far. When's it

01:14:41.300 ever going to be enough, right? But these are the things that our ideological government are doing

01:14:45.080 and that's what they push. It's all about virtue signaling. It's not about reality.

01:14:49.800 Here's a report from Reporting the Obvious. The number of family-run small businesses crashed in

01:14:55.440 Canada from pre-pandemic levels. The Department of Industry just discovered that. Really? You

01:15:01.100 noticed that, did you? Good work. Good thinking. So yes, lockdowns killed small business. We sort

01:15:08.580 have told you that before you locked the businesses down. What do you think was going to happen when

01:15:13.540 you were shutting down the little restaurants and bars and retail outlets while leaving Walmart open

01:15:19.440 Canadian Tire? Because it didn't have any health basis because people were still lined up even if

01:15:23.820 you had your stupid little stickers on the floor and masks. You destroyed those small businesses, 1.00

01:15:29.140 those low tight margin businesses, those businesses of character, those businesses that

01:15:34.380 take part in the community of local owners, you crushed them. And they didn't, you know,

01:15:40.780 they're not all gone, but you wiped out a whole whack of them. It was at 33% of all small and

01:15:46.560 medium-sized enterprises had closures during the pandemic, like not permanent, but temporary.

01:15:51.560 There's only so much they can handle with that. These aren't people with a lot of money.

01:15:55.660 I sold the restaurant and pub just before that I owned, just before the pandemic hit. We were so

01:16:00.120 lucky for that because I was so tired after running it for five years. I don't think I would

01:16:03.840 have had it in me. I don't, Jane and I would have had it in us to keep running that place through

01:16:08.000 the pandemic. We wouldn't have made it. We would have closed our doors for good. It would have been

01:16:11.360 too much. Thankfully, the new owners, you know, they had more energy and they're fresh in. I feel

01:16:15.460 for them. What a terrible time to take on a brand new pub and a restaurant. You know, they couldn't

01:16:20.040 know what was coming, but good on them. They held out, but lots didn't. Lots, thousands and thousands

01:16:25.320 of businesses gone under. And these are businesses that people put everything into. They put their

01:16:28.840 houses behind it. They put their life savings behind it. They put all their work and effort

01:16:32.360 into it. And these lockdowns killed it. And what do you got assholes in Prince Edward Island pushing

01:16:39.120 saying we want more lockdowns. And as Reid was saying, there's people pushing now for more 0.99

01:16:42.780 restrictions in BC. How much more can we crush business? I see some of the irony too. This is

01:16:46.720 usually pushed by left wing pecker heads who say they're anti corporate. Well, guess what do you

01:16:51.620 think is doing when you do this? Who do you think is benefiting? Not the mom and pop store, the big

01:16:58.240 corporate chains. Which restaurants are remaining? It's not the nice character place that was a

01:17:03.300 family-run business anymore. It's the chain restaurant. It's the Red Lobsters and the

01:17:10.020 others like that that make it. That's what you get, though. The left doesn't understand what

01:17:15.020 they're asking for. They never do. Just like when they scream about corporate profits, I was pointing

01:17:18.340 that out. If you don't like corporate profits, just remember your pension, whatever it might be,

01:17:22.100 whether it's a private pension, whether it's CPP, or hopefully the Alberta Pension Plan in the

01:17:25.600 future, rely on corporate profits. You're a corporate shareholder, even if you don't know it.

01:17:29.400 It doesn't grow by magic. And when we got massive inflation going on, your only hope of having a

01:17:33.600 pension that's going to cover your ass when you do get too old to work is that there's some 0.92

01:17:37.700 corporate profits that made the pension investments grow. So if you want to make corporate profit zero, 0.90

01:17:42.580 that's fine. But do you understand you're kicking yourself in the balls? They don't understand that 0.99

01:17:47.020 though. They don't. Likewise, when they feel that, oh, the government, you know, just like Trudeau

01:17:52.700 saying I'm borrowing. So you don't have to know you're borrowing on my credit card. And who do

01:17:56.460 you think benefits with massive government debt as interest rates go up? It's not mom and pop

01:18:00.400 street corner lenders. It's big corporate world. It's lending the money there. Again, you guys say

01:18:06.380 you hate the big corporate world. You're their, you're their best friends. So think a little

01:18:11.480 harder, but I mean, asking leftists to think harder is kind of a, an exercise in futility

01:18:15.540 quite often, isn't it? Uh, let's see. This was an interesting poll. 55% of Albertans oppose

01:18:21.460 Alberta ditching the Mounties. Now let's talk about polls. This poll was commissioned though

01:18:25.640 by the National Police Federation, the RCMP union. So take that one with a big giant grain of salt.

01:18:32.960 I did have, you know, to their credit, Kevin Halwa come on and he talked on the show about

01:18:37.020 why they felt that we shouldn't move to provincial force and everything. But when you get that group

01:18:41.460 that actually commissioned a poll and lo and behold, it turns out despite the fair deal panel

01:18:46.140 finding that most Albertans wanted a provincial police force, these guys found that most Albertans

01:18:50.640 didn't. But even they had to admit, this was mostly in the urban areas. You see,

01:18:56.320 in the rural areas, most people wanted a provincial force, even with their polling,

01:19:01.380 because in the urban areas, nobody deals with the RCMP. You don't have them. You got city police,

01:19:06.220 Edmonton's got their city police, Lethbridge has a, Lethbridge's police is something special.

01:19:10.000 That's a separate story. You know, Edmonton police, Calgary police, rural areas are the

01:19:14.760 ones that have to deal with the RCMP, and they're not happy with them. Not happy with the coverage,

01:19:17.760 not happy with how it's working. And then there's the people in the cities who are looking at the

01:19:21.200 broader issue, which is we just don't want more controls from Ottawa and the RCMP are an Ottawa

01:19:27.120 controlled force. They answer to Justin. We don't want that anymore. That's why we want to move.

01:19:33.980 So, I mean, that poll, though, it shows any group can get any number. Who knows how, which

01:19:38.340 demographics they questioned and what the question was and what the lead up was to be able to get

01:19:42.080 that result. But even then, it wasn't a very strong endorsement of keeping the RCMP.

01:19:45.900 here's an interesting one and i actually found this on the cbc our one and a half billion dollar

01:19:52.080 dinosaur there electric vehicle repairs down the road could be costly and difficult to find

01:19:57.960 wow you figured it out did you i mean it's not so shocking that i guess that cbc figured out

01:20:03.680 because this is the obvious again but then they even reported on it because yes nobody knows how

01:20:09.720 to fix those things you do you can't go to your average street corner people don't ask about that

01:20:13.820 aspect too. They're like any other machine. It's going to wear out. Parts are going to wear out.

01:20:17.780 Things are going to have to get fixed. The automakers, you can take it to the dealership,

01:20:22.160 I guess, but they're going to be backed up and there's only so many people know how to do it.

01:20:24.900 And independent mechanics won't have a chance. Getting back to, let's talk about the big

01:20:28.280 heavyweights rather than the little street corner guy. So just one more reason why this mad push,

01:20:34.380 and it is a mad push towards electric vehicles, is not going to serve us well whatsoever.

01:20:39.500 However, maybe eventually the time will come that they're better, but they're nowhere close yet.

01:20:44.160 And it's just ridiculous to be banning fuel, you know, carbon burning fuels before we have an alternative yet.

01:20:53.200 And this one's big, I think it should be bigger and we'll see how it goes on the night.

01:20:56.860 As more and more information comes up, I really hope the investigation, the inquiry into the use of the Emergency Act, I really hope it's thorough.

01:21:03.180 I hope it digs deep because I mean, we're basically the government's whole case is falling

01:21:07.560 apart as to why they imposed a version of martial law upon Canadian citizens. So it says on the

01:21:13.000 night before Trudeau took that historic step of invoking that act, an intelligence advisor

01:21:18.760 told cabinet, they said, this is court documents that are finding this stuff, said we might be on

01:21:23.980 a breakthrough here for negotiating with them. And this was the stuff that Ottawa was going on

01:21:28.940 because they did negotiate. The mayor did negotiate some stuff and some truckers moved

01:21:31.580 out of one area in that, and they continue with the negotiations. It sounded like they were on

01:21:35.240 the brink of negotiating another move, because again, a standoff. That was part of the thing.

01:21:38.700 They're never going to leave unless we intervene. Well, we'll see. It sounds like they're on the

01:21:42.140 brink with some of the organizers of possibly having some of them move off, a negotiating

01:21:46.500 breakthrough. When you're on the brink of a breakthrough, you don't go nuclear and say,

01:21:51.120 screw it, we're going to impose the Emergencies Act. It's the renamed War Measures Act. I'd just

01:21:56.220 like to remind everybody that that's how extreme that act is. It's an act that suspends human

01:22:00.480 rights for an emergency. You don't take it lightly. That's why there's a mandatory, you know, inquiry

01:22:07.300 following up on the use of that act. And every bit of evidence coming out sounded like Prime

01:22:13.080 Minister Trudeau did not have any justification for imposing that strong a tool. Whether it's a

01:22:19.060 problem whether you agree with the protests or you don't agree with the protests, they could

01:22:23.400 have been dealt with without imposing that act. Here's a small one. It's interesting. So this is

01:22:31.680 a little different. And it's kind of a plus size. Good news thing. So some Alberta is only native 0.89

01:22:36.860 lizard species. We don't have a lot. I didn't even know these existed down in southern Alberta. I ran

01:22:40.360 into these in Texas and New Mexico when I was working. They're like a version of the horny toad, 0.94

01:22:45.160 you know, which isn't the proper name for it, but it's a type of lizard. And those horny toads, 0.95

01:22:48.440 they shoot blood from their eyeballs if you have bugged them. It's their defense mechanism. It's 0.99

01:22:52.760 really gross and unique. But either way, Alberta has a species that's like that too. A branch,

01:22:59.280 it's I guess about the size of a chicken wing. It's funny, I worked in the south a lot in Alberta,

01:23:02.380 I ran across rattlers, even one scorpion, things I didn't realize we had down in the Old Man Valley.

01:23:06.680 I didn't see any of them. But either way, an annual search of these things, and they found

01:23:11.160 a record amount of them. There's loads of them. And they're thrilled because these were endangered

01:23:16.600 in Alberta. They were pretty rare and everything. So it's a good news environmental story. Of course,

01:23:19.700 the bad news, I guess, as far as that goes, maybe it's because it's been warmer is why they're doing

01:23:23.120 better. I don't know. Let's see what else we got. We've got a story on vegetarian women are more 1.00

01:23:30.320 likely to suffer hip fractures. This is a study that came out. Yes. Yes. Women are more inclined 0.99

01:23:37.420 to get osteoporosis. They do have to watch more carefully as they age and making sure that their

01:23:42.040 bone density is good and things like that. And guess what? If you're living on grazing and lawn

01:23:45.740 clippings and crap like that, you're not getting necessarily the calcium and things you need that

01:23:50.320 you typically get from a meat diet. So this is kind of, again, reporting the obvious sort of

01:23:54.040 thing, but it gets back to that denial of biological reality, denial of nature. We keep

01:24:00.360 doing that, don't we? Well, one of which is, oh, we can just switch over to a vegetarian diet.

01:24:04.840 Guys, we got canines. We got forward-facing eyes. We're meant to eat meat. We can reduce the amount.

01:24:10.760 I think we should be very humane with how we raise and treat our meat, but we are meant to

01:24:15.320 eat it. In fact, if you can't eat it, you won't be able to go and feed a cow a pork chop sometime

01:24:19.780 and see how it's doing with it. We are meant to eat meat, and we have health consequences when we

01:24:25.200 give up on eating meat. There are supplements. I mean, a proper vegetarian diet can be done,

01:24:29.460 but you've got to be careful with it. You've really got to make sure that you fill the voids

01:24:34.160 in your dietary features that you wouldn't typically have if you had meat coming in,

01:24:40.380 and a lot of women probably aren't because they're doing it on a trendy factor rather 1.00

01:24:43.960 than researching properly. So be careful, you vegetarians, you get a long-term cost to some of

01:24:47.960 the stuff you're doing. And, uh, well, let's hope for the best. All right. I think that's about it

01:24:54.620 for today. So, uh, yeah, I got to head out and I'm going to High Prairie tonight. I haven't been up

01:24:59.540 there in quite some years. That'll be an interesting drive and, uh, spend some time there tomorrow and

01:25:04.040 look around. And on Monday, I'll be back. I'm going to have Jay Hill. I'm going to go through

01:25:07.420 a lot of our guests, our regular ones, as you know, like Jay, who comes in, he's always a good

01:25:10.520 voice on federal issues. I talked to another one of our Western Standard personalities that day.

01:25:14.900 And of course, there'll be a whole bunch more ranting and raving and opinion and news stories

01:25:20.100 to cover at that time. So thank you all for joining me today, guys. It was another good

01:25:25.660 show, or at least I think so. And I really appreciate it. And I'll see you all again

01:25:30.440 at 1130 a.m. sharp on Monday, guys.

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