Western Standard - Triggered： Energy insecurity in a nation of energy

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00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's May 9th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. I know it should be a spring

00:00:39.460 episode, but it doesn't really feel like it out there. Global warming has brought us about

00:00:42.800 six inches of snow on the west side and south side of the city, but I'm assured spring will

00:00:46.760 be coming eventually. I'm Corey Morgan, by the way. So yes, lots coming up this week,

00:00:52.820 lots of issues, lots of news to cover. I want to keep you appraised on important observances

00:00:57.300 as they come along too so today is officially lost sock memorial day so again somebody has

00:01:04.060 recognized the plight of all those socks that disappear and they've set up a memorial day for

00:01:09.300 it for all those people with those lonely single socks today is the day to observe that or if

00:01:14.320 you're really rebellious and like to live on the edge a true libertarian observation it's the tear

00:01:19.240 the tags off the mattress day as well may 9th is tear the tags off the mattress even though it's

00:01:24.460 prohibited by law. If you want to live on the edge, today's the day to do it. Okay, this is a

00:01:29.820 live show. Comments are welcome, guys. We go back and forth. I see Claudette there in the audience,

00:01:34.040 and this is part of what makes this show great, being able to have that interaction go back and

00:01:38.720 forth. I welcome comments, questions, critique. It's fine. I won't necessarily respond to every

00:01:45.360 one of them, but I certainly read them all, and it does help model the show. It makes it

00:01:51.220 worth the challenges that come with going live is having that interaction and ability to go

00:01:57.100 back and forth with you. So I've got a couple of great guests coming up today. I have a retired

00:02:01.820 paramedic, Brian Winter. He's in Cochrane. And we're going to talk about the state of Alberta's

00:02:07.260 EMS system. And he's had some good proactive initiatives going in Cochrane to try and deal

00:02:12.100 with this and things such as that. And I see the news today on the weekend in Calgary,

00:02:17.360 because EMS state of affairs got into a terrible crisis.

00:02:22.020 I mean, this is across the province,

00:02:23.420 but there were no ambulances available.

00:02:25.780 Firefighters were waiting as much as two hours

00:02:27.400 for an ambulance to show up at emergency scenes.

00:02:29.460 It's just disgraceful.

00:02:31.380 Then I'm going to have CPC,

00:02:34.460 Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate,

00:02:36.420 Joseph Borgo.

00:02:37.080 He's been on the show before.

00:02:38.700 I should say aspiring candidate, I guess.

00:02:41.160 He got disqualified.

00:02:42.840 They haven't been quite clear as to exactly why.

00:02:45.420 apparently met all of the bars for running in the party leadership race. So perhaps he could shed a

00:02:51.480 little more light on what it was about, and we'll see where it goes from there. So let's talk about

00:02:57.820 some of the things and how we're saving the world from global warming. Yes, as we can see from all

00:03:01.980 that snow out here. Well, be careful what you wish for. So after years of effort by environmental

00:03:07.400 activists demanding we leave oil and gas in the ground, they've worked. As Canada sits on some of

00:03:12.200 the largest oil and gas deposits on earth. We're still importing oil from nations such as Saudi

00:03:16.660 Arabia and Venezuela. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is still blinded by, you know, green ideology,

00:03:22.520 and he won't even consider talking about expanding Canada's oil and gas production and export

00:03:26.780 capabilities. Furnaces across the West are fired up today as a typical mid-May snowstorm has slammed

00:03:32.700 us out here in Alberta. The price for gasoline across the country is now averaging $1.97 a

00:03:38.560 leader, and it's expected to rise. Now, it's absolutely absurd that we're letting world energy

00:03:43.800 prices impact the standard of living for us all when we shut in our own resources for alternative

00:03:49.060 sources of energy that don't viably exist. Energy impacts the cost of everything. Every consumer

00:03:54.940 good we use is transported at some point using petrochemicals. The products likely used

00:03:59.260 hydrocarbons as part of their composition, and fossil fuels are used in every aspect of food

00:04:04.060 production. If we really do want to battle the pressures rampant inflation is putting upon

00:04:09.020 Canadians, the first thing we should be doing is expanding our hydrocarbon production as much and

00:04:13.740 as quickly as possible. Instead, Canada's environment minister is demanding energy

00:04:18.560 companies invest their current profits into green energy projects. It's outright idiotic. 1.00

00:04:23.880 Minister Gilboa was silent, of course, when oil and gas prices plummeted and companies were losing 1.00

00:04:28.640 billions of dollars. Some people like to point out that we're bound by world prices and it won't

00:04:32.800 matter how much we develop domestically. That's sort of a half truth. I mean, for one, if Canada

00:04:37.960 ramps up production and exports of oil and gas, it will put a degree of downward pressure on

00:04:42.300 world prices, albeit in a limited and small way. But the mess going on in Ukraine, the upward 0.75

00:04:46.740 pressure is going to continue, and we're going to see prices continue to rise. But still, if Canada's

00:04:52.060 bringing in large amounts of royalties from energy production and taxes from people working in the

00:04:56.880 energy sector in the field, we'll have room to drop the taxes and fees upon domestic consumption

00:05:01.960 of energy that contribute to the high costs. Carbon taxes, GST, other taxes on energy are

00:05:07.580 draining Canadians dry. The government has to stop punishing Canadians for consuming products that

00:05:13.080 we can't avoid. We're a winter nation and the majority of us get our heat from petrochemical

00:05:18.260 products. We're also a large nation. We have to use vehicles to get around. $70,000 Kesslas with

00:05:24.460 a limited range aren't realistic for most of us. We're also an agricultural nation. The carbon

00:05:29.920 taxes, fuel taxes, and now taxes are looming on fertilizer even are preventing us from enjoying

00:05:34.720 more affordable food products even though we again have some of the largest agricultural lands on the

00:05:39.100 planet. Most of all we're just a ridiculous nation for allowing an ideologically blinded federal 0.74

00:05:44.200 government to put us into this position for so long. Windmills and solar panels are decades away 0.89

00:05:49.260 from replacing petrochemical energy sources if they ever will at all. As the world recovers from

00:05:54.180 the pandemic, Canada should be one of the best placed nations to be able to bounce back and even

00:05:58.080 prosper. Instead, we continue to handicap ourselves with bad policies. We don't need another national

00:06:03.300 energy program. We don't want to go down the road of nationalized energy production. We've already

00:06:06.840 seen how well that served Venezuela and the government-owned PetroCanada. It was a disaster.

00:06:12.840 All we need is for the government to get out of the damn way. The world wants our products, 0.99

00:06:17.700 and investors will happily spend money getting those products to market. Until the government

00:06:22.060 ends its crusade against fossil fuels, however, we're going to remain an investment pariah.

00:06:27.220 Canadian citizens are going to watch their standard of living decline while they literally sit

00:06:30.980 upon a veritable treasure trove of energy resources. So how long is it going to take

00:06:34.820 for Canadians to wake up? How expensive will everything have to get? I fear the answer to

00:06:39.220 that. As long as central Canada continues its love affair with Trudeau Jr., things are only going to

00:06:43.620 get worse. Quebec truckers have started protests over high costs of operations due to government

00:06:48.740 policies. And while other truckers have been labeled as evil incarnate by the government,

00:06:52.660 Quebec does hold a special status, so maybe there is a glimmer of hope out there.

00:06:57.380 As soon as Quebec votes drop, Liberals tend to pay attention.

00:07:01.160 Sad, though, that it has to come to that.

00:07:03.920 Hopefully, I guess Quebec can stand up for the rest of us and we'll see what happens.

00:07:07.800 That's what's got me going today as we're looking at this cost of living and inflation issues going on.

00:07:12.580 Just a quick rant to fire things up.

00:07:14.900 So let's bring our news editor in, Dave Naylor, and check in and see what else has been happening out there in the world.

00:07:19.820 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:07:20.420 them good cory that was a bit of an ugly shock waking up today wasn't it oh man winter just

00:07:27.760 drags out to the bitter uh and it was terrible and i hear you had a different kind of feline

00:07:33.120 visitor this weekend not the normal cougar one no we got a bobcat or or maybe somebody put the

00:07:40.020 cougar in a dryer and shrunk it or something but uh yeah i hadn't seen the cougar in a few days and

00:07:45.140 Now we've got the bobcat wandering around back there.

00:07:47.500 It's been a lively spring for creatures behind my house.

00:07:51.240 We've always had a number of them,

00:07:52.340 but the cats are really on the move this year.

00:07:54.640 Yeah, well, I don't think Duke the Wonder Dog

00:07:56.640 would have any problem with a bobcat at all.

00:07:58.780 So I'm glad, hopefully the cougar has moved on.

00:08:01.920 We'll see.

00:08:03.800 Anyways, in the news today,

00:08:05.320 lots of stuff already up on our site,

00:08:07.760 led off with a Linda Slobodian column

00:08:10.080 on the UCP ballots,

00:08:12.760 talking to Rick Orman,

00:08:14.440 who is the official overseer, I guess, of the balloting on Jason Kenney's leadership.

00:08:20.500 He says he's absolutely convinced of the integrity of the vote

00:08:25.240 once the ballots get into the hands of Deloitte,

00:08:30.300 who is basically counting him up and running it.

00:08:34.660 But, of course, there's a long process before that happens.

00:08:38.960 So, you know, I guess that's the part that's in question, Corey.

00:08:43.880 We've got Dr. Theresa Tam confirming one-tenth of the federal civil service,

00:08:49.200 who had amongst the highest vaccination rates of anybody,

00:08:52.960 one-tenth of them got COVID, came down with it despite the immunization standings.

00:09:01.560 I think it was less than 97%.

00:09:03.480 Other stuff, we were highly entertained, Corey, by the conservative leadership debate.

00:09:09.220 And the one candidate who didn't show up there is claiming victory.

00:09:13.000 Patrick Brown, who was too busy selling leaderships in Atlantic Canada, says he won the debate by not even showing up.

00:09:20.680 And you can, he called it, he didn't want to participate in, quote, eye rolling political theatres.

00:09:27.680 So that was his reasoning for winning.

00:09:31.440 Other stuff we've got.

00:09:34.980 The kids playing lacrosse are having a tough time this year, Corey, because there's not enough lacrosse referees.

00:09:41.560 So apparently games are being cancelled left, right and centre.

00:09:44.800 So if you know anything about lacrosse and you want to go refereeing, make some extra money, please do so.

00:09:52.120 Member of Parliament MP James Bazan.

00:09:55.420 Some interesting comments today, Corey, about demanding the RCMP reopen the investigation into the Prime Minister's visit to the Auga Khan in 2016.

00:10:07.160 and he says if the RCMP don't want to lay charges,

00:10:11.280 they'll bring the OPP in to see what they have to say about it.

00:10:15.480 You thought we were in for a bad weather day today, Corey,

00:10:18.680 while the people in Manitoba, northwestern Ontario,

00:10:22.220 more snow, heavy rain, flooding,

00:10:24.840 they're getting the whole kit and caboodle out there.

00:10:30.240 Black Locks Reporter has got a story on the number of periodicals in Canada

00:10:35.040 going down by 9% despite more than $300 million in subsidies.

00:10:42.460 So all that taxpayer's money is not saving all the periodicals.

00:10:50.180 And that's it.

00:10:51.400 We got, oh, sorry, Scott Moe in the Middle East opening up a new trade office

00:10:54.980 for Saskatchewan and Dubai.

00:10:57.120 So lots of stuff up there already, Corey.

00:10:59.940 Lots of stuff coming this afternoon,

00:11:01.280 and hopefully the snow is all gone from my car when I get out there.

00:11:05.040 One can hope. All right. Well, thanks for checking in. I'll let you get back on to battling that new website format. I mean, it's coming along. We do have a new platform and it's going to be really good once we get her there, but just some patience for the readers, you know, getting used to things. And for us, we still have a few wrinkles to iron out, but it's going great so far, kind of.

00:11:24.380 Yeah, my technological skill involves turning something on, turning it off again, and then hoping that fixes everything. So it's all fun and games for the time being.

00:11:33.140 Right on.

00:11:33.960 Okay, thanks, Dave.

00:11:34.800 I'll see you after the show.

00:11:36.220 Thanks, Corey.

00:11:37.180 Great.

00:11:37.800 That was our news editor, Dave Naylor.

00:11:39.600 And yes, lots of stories on the go.

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00:13:09.160 again, get clear unfettered news in there. So yeah, speaking of that weather, I mean,

00:13:14.380 I guess it could be much worse. Manitoba has been getting the flooding. They always have,

00:13:18.780 you know, the area is known for it. I know we'll have our usual climate alarmists saying,

00:13:22.500 oh, if we just got rid of natural gas heating, it would stop flooding in Manitoba. It's flooded

00:13:28.640 in the Red River Valley for the last, I don't know, 10,000 years or so. We certainly don't

00:13:33.380 want to exacerbate it, but I'm not trying to understate the pressure and suffering a lot

00:13:39.740 of people are dealing with out in Manitoba and Ontario right now. But for now, let's just deal

00:13:45.740 with the more immediate pressing emergency they have to deal with and not worry so much about

00:13:48.960 some of the more broader discussions on why these things happen. One thing I guess I'll talk about

00:13:55.940 with cold weather, a news story I saw, is it's good for keeping some of the nasty, creepy,

00:14:02.780 crawly things away. So this is a story that popped up, and of course, I was just mortified.

00:14:07.260 The Joro spider apparently has been spreading up towards us. You can see that big yellow,

00:14:12.080 black, and red thing. It hitches rides on cars and trucks, and they expect it will make its way

00:14:18.060 up into Canada soon. This is an invasive species and I can imagine why. So this again reminds you

00:14:27.000 as to why having access to firearms is still a good thing because I don't know if a can of raid

00:14:32.520 would deal with one of those big nasty ugly things. So I just thought I'd pass that along

00:14:37.080 at least because it does say the one thing that they think might keep it from lasting in Canada

00:14:41.060 is that they can't overwinter very well. So maybe these spring snowstorms at least for what misery

00:14:46.760 they cause us. We'll keep the Joro spiders from coming in and setting up shop up here, 1.00

00:14:52.420 because I think I'll be just fine if we live without these things. Let's see. Speaking of 1.00

00:14:57.880 bad reporting, let's talk about the Washington Post. This one was a beauty that jumped out at

00:15:02.240 me this morning. Yes, they've got a study that is determined that finding healthy lifestyles may

00:15:10.420 improve life expectancy. No, really? You figured that out. And it was worth a headline at that.

00:15:19.460 Living healthy makes you live longer. This is where the mainstream media is today, guys. I mean,

00:15:25.480 if you really want the easy money, I don't know, you got to be one of those researchers to get

00:15:28.460 a commission or however it works to do that sort of study. Wow, you know, if you eat good foods

00:15:34.580 and you exercise and you don't do unhealthy things, you can probably live longer. And where

00:15:40.360 would we be without the Washington Post to remind us of all of that in case we'd forgotten at some

00:15:47.900 point? So yeah, the headlines are just, they always keep my vein pulsing in the mornings when

00:15:54.840 we get things going. So again, you know, hey, I report on casual things and so on. We have all

00:15:59.820 sorts of stuff. And, you know, I talked about the observance of missing socks, but that's part of

00:16:05.960 the fun for the show. We're not going to spend money studying things such as why is water wet

00:16:09.900 or why does the sun rise in the east, nor would we have to study why living a healthy lifestyle

00:16:15.300 might make you live longer. Who was it? Shannon asking the name of that spider. It's called the

00:16:20.540 Joro spider, J-O-R-O. And yeah, I guess they've been coming up for quite some time. They're very

00:16:27.260 large. There's not much to scale that thing on there with that, but they're big hideous things.

00:16:32.060 And I'm not big on spiders. You know, one of the things I love Texas. I really do. I spent a lot

00:16:36.800 of time working down there. I miss it. I'm hoping we get to the point where I'll start snowboarding

00:16:40.500 and spending my winters down there, getting out of that with Gene. But one thing that always got

00:16:46.840 me down there was those massive spiders and they come in outbreaks. They have these things they

00:16:49.840 call banana spiders, great big huge ghibli things. Ah, they would just kill me when I'd be out there

00:16:54.660 riding the quad and then they'd be crawling up your arm and freak you out. They weren't prone

00:16:58.380 to biting, but they'd give you the heebie-jeebies for the entire day. Either way, let's hope that

00:17:03.080 again, whatever we're getting out of this wet snow and misery, we start preventing some of those 0.97

00:17:07.960 wretched, wretched spiders from coming up this way. Let's see what else we got. You know, 0.93

00:17:13.380 that was interesting out of Dave for this story. So we got that on the website. And with Patrick

00:17:18.260 Brown, you know, so as I've commented before, and we streamed the entire leadership debate,

00:17:23.240 by the way, that's all available on our Rumble channel and full if you didn't get the chance

00:17:27.740 to catch it. It was kind of, I mean, it was very heated. I mean, they were, they were on each

00:17:32.760 other's cases, a lot of shots fired back and forth. And there's some truth to it, that that 0.96

00:17:36.500 does sour some people on politics. When you see politicians behaving like that, when it's that

00:17:42.240 vitriolic. But I don't know about Brown's strategy though. Maybe, I mean, at least I've seen some

00:17:48.460 indication of what it might be, is that he thinks that Canadians over the course of the race will

00:17:53.720 become so soured over the whole leadership race in general, that they'll go to him by default.

00:17:59.300 Because aside from that, he's been invisible. He won't talk to media. You know, he sends out

00:18:04.280 releases, things like this. But we haven't seen much of him anywhere. He's, he doesn't attend

00:18:10.760 debates. I mean, whether you like them or not, people tend to look at those as an example then

00:18:15.720 of where their leaders might take them. And I mean, Brown could have come in and been like

00:18:21.860 Atchison, Scott Atchison as MP was actually very calm and controlled and was a voice of reason in

00:18:27.560 that debate. So was Babber. So I don't know if standing outside and throwing rocks back at the

00:18:34.480 participants of the debate is a good strategy on the part of Brown, but at least I've seen some

00:18:38.380 indications of what this strategy is, because again, it's been kind of bizarre. You're running

00:18:43.320 for something where you need popular votes and you're not getting out there. I mean, I hate to

00:18:47.740 say it, Mr. Brown, but aside from political wieners like me, most of the people in the West have

00:18:52.340 absolutely no idea who you are. And you need votes all across with that weighted system with

00:18:58.040 the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race, you need to win ridings all across the country in

00:19:02.480 order to pull it off. So I don't know what this tactic of trying to keep a low profile is going

00:19:09.300 to pay off in the long run. But we'll see. I mean, some people have also, when I was criticizing him

00:19:13.360 before. They said he's quite an organizational powerhouse. So I guess time will tell. It is

00:19:18.480 going to be a terribly long race. And I know some people are going to be sick of it by September 0.64

00:19:21.940 10th when the vote finally does come along. So I see the guest in the lobby. Before I get to him,

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00:20:49.640 And I'd seen a recent release he'd put out there. He's a retired paramedic. And he's been working

00:20:55.480 on addressing the issue. Hi there, Brian. Can you hear me all right there?

00:20:58.680 so good morning cory good morning glad you could join us today i've been looking forward to this

00:21:07.780 uh it's as i kind of said the introduction of the show uh it's hitting the headlines today in

00:21:12.080 calgary uh ambulances hit another crisis level firefighters are waiting for hours for ambulance

00:21:17.720 service um things are getting really really dangerous out there with this shortage of uh

00:21:23.540 ems coverage right now and you've been working i guess to address that uh in cochran

00:21:27.800 Yes, Corey. I'm a retired paramedic at times over 30 years. And last August, there was a public meeting held at the Cochrane Legion, organized by another retired paramedic, just to let the citizens of Cochrane know that there's issues with the current ambulance system run by the province.

00:21:52.520 We had about 80 people in attendance. And from that 80 people, we have formed a Cochrane EMS Citizen Action Group. We have 14 members where we meet Corey twice a month. We have an agenda. We develop terms of reference.

00:22:12.620 And what we're trying to do, Corey, is just let the citizens know that there are issues.

00:22:21.260 And we had an open house or we had a booth at the annual Chamber of Commerce trade show this weekend.

00:22:30.140 And we had 268 people sign a petition.

00:22:35.660 uh currently before the trade show we had about 2 300 names uh that members of our group have

00:22:44.200 gone door to door uh and now we've got uh roughly uh about 2 350 3 360 signatures uh and uh we're

00:22:55.840 meeting with our mla uh peter gunthry um next tuesday evening uh to present the petition to

00:23:02.520 him and he's agreed to take it to the health minister and basically uh we as a action group

00:23:09.000 corey figured that there are three simple ways that we can actually fix the system

00:23:15.800 number one is that our emergency crews are doing non-emergency transfers uh into calgary

00:23:23.160 which is taking our current unit into the calgary system and once they get in there corey they're

00:23:28.840 waiting in the hospital for four five six hours uh our another crew is doing another transfer

00:23:36.440 and then we're left with no units protecting cochrane so when someone calls for a medical

00:23:43.000 emergency the units could be coming from anywhere in southern alberta they could be coming from

00:23:48.920 banff they could be coming from canmore they could be coming from didsbury and to us it's just not

00:23:54.600 acceptable so number one what we've said is that let's farm out the non-emergency transfers to

00:24:01.800 another alternate source whether that's private or whether the ahs step up and put more transfer

00:24:09.560 units there we don't really care we just want to keep our emergency ambulances in cochrane

00:24:16.120 number two is hospital wait times this is just an issue you can go into any particular hospital

00:24:23.720 and see five six eight ten ambulances lined up and they've got their patients in the hallway where

00:24:30.920 these paramedics are basically looking after a patient until there's a vat available

00:24:37.800 number two is or number three uh cory is flexing uh our crew uh starts at a shift in calgary and

00:24:46.760 they're flex anywhere in southern alberta they're going to uh oles they're going to didsbury

00:24:52.520 uh and uh which is again keeping our emergency crews uh away from cochran so we have come up

00:25:00.480 with three simple plans and that's what our petition is about uh if and these these could

00:25:06.460 be fixed very easily uh so if they took our our particular three points uh and applied them uh

00:25:14.680 it would keep our units in cochran yeah and what i appreciate what you're up to is again you're not

00:25:21.220 coming from an ideology. The bottom line is you just want to get more ambulances available to

00:25:25.760 people when they need them. That's the thing. As you said, whether it's public, whether it's

00:25:29.160 private, it doesn't really matter. The bottom line is there's underservice right now and it has to

00:25:33.940 change. And you've pointed out three ways that that can be improved. I'd like to get back to

00:25:39.200 the broader policy issues in a few minutes, but something else impressed me. You're working on a

00:25:43.460 proactive thing in that you're accepting though, that there's going to be slow service and response

00:25:47.800 times for a while so working on preparing people at least to be able to uh just people themselves

00:25:53.000 to empower themselves to respond to emergencies and perhaps stabilize people and and save their

00:25:57.480 lives until an ems officer can get there can you expand a bit on that yeah basically at our booth

00:26:02.840 we had on the weekend we said if you know the unit's going to be delayed for whatever length

00:26:07.800 of time do you have a plan b uh and we had uh information there in first aid courses

00:26:15.080 we had information there on cpr courses and we also distributed the amount of aeds that

00:26:21.800 are in cochrane currently we have 20 aeds located through cochrane uh and just to give you an

00:26:28.760 example uh corey last september a 70 year old golfer collapsed at the ninth hole in cochrane

00:26:37.720 he went down there happened to be residents that back onto the golf course

00:26:43.160 They went out and performed CPR.

00:26:46.040 The AED was retrieved from the lobby of the golf club.

00:26:52.060 And he was revived before EMS arrived because they were delayed.

00:26:57.320 And currently, right now, we're holding two charity golf tournaments, one in Calgary next week or sorry, next month and one in Cochrane next September.

00:27:11.660 And all the proceeds are going toward more AEDs in Cochrane.

00:27:17.520 Since we started our campaign, a local service group, Corey, has agreed to donate $20,000 to purchase more AEDs in Cochrane.

00:27:28.580 So if we get $10,000 or $15,000 from these charity golf tournaments, put it with the $20,000, we'll have $35,000 that we can purchase and increase the number of AEDs in Cochrane.

00:27:40.080 We want them registered. So if a particular person is calling and saying that an individual has collapsed, there's no pulse, no heartbeat, the dispatcher will say, hey, do you know you have an AED within a block or two blocks or whatever the situation is?

00:27:58.580 And in this particular case, the gentleman, the 70-year-old gentleman is out currently golfing, but he was clinically dead before an AED was used last September.

00:28:13.080 Yeah, and just to expand a bit for people who aren't familiar, so an AED is kind of a portable layperson's defibrillator unit, and I got taught on those in occupational aid in the past.

00:28:24.860 they're at quite user friendly and safe. But you know, not everybody necessarily knows what those

00:28:29.740 are. And we're seeing more and more of them. But the more we can see out there, the better,

00:28:33.220 of course, because you never know where or when you're going to need one.

00:28:35.840 Exactly. And they're basically foolproof. You're turning the thing on, it actually talks you

00:28:40.740 through how to use it. And if the person has a pulse, it will basically say stop and evaluate

00:28:47.660 the patient. So it requires a bit of instructions, but anybody can use them. And there's some

00:28:55.880 maintenance that's required with respect to the pads and the batteries. But basically,

00:29:02.580 they're sort of a foolproof thing. And the AEDs is what really saves the patient. CPR will keep

00:29:11.900 the blood flowing. But AEDs is what happens when you shock the heart to get the heart back into

00:29:18.300 some type of rhythm. Yeah. So, and there were other things you'd mentioned, as I kind of talked

00:29:23.460 about, there's first aid courses people could take down in the urban areas, but we're seeing

00:29:28.120 it everywhere too, keeping naloxone handy, epinephrine even. I mean, there's items that

00:29:33.620 need immediate intervention with people that late people could actually apply if they just had a

00:29:39.380 little of the knowledge and resources in order to do it, you know, just assuming that you're

00:29:42.900 going to have a longer time for an EMS arrival. Well, that's correct. You know, it's sort of a

00:29:47.400 band-aid effect until we can resolve the EMS crisis in Cochrane and Alberta. But we're encouraging

00:29:56.300 the residents of Cochrane and area to make sure that they have a current CPR, a current first

00:30:03.040 state course. They know what an AED is. And in fact, two members of our 14 member committee

00:30:10.160 have already purchased personal AEDs. They run roughly about $1,400, $1,500, depending on where

00:30:19.300 you buy them from. So they have taken upon themselves to purchase AEDs for their own

00:30:25.520 personal family. Yeah. So, you know, moving away from that. And like I said, I just like that at

00:30:31.200 least, you know, it's, it's, uh, being, uh, pragmatic. I mean, we just, there's a bigger

00:30:36.320 issue to be addressed and it's not saying we can kick the can down the road for EMS response times.

00:30:40.940 It's just saying, Hey, as citizens, there's lots of things you can do to protect yourself in the

00:30:44.300 meantime, even if we fix the EMS response time issue somehow, it'd be good to have that many

00:30:48.580 more, uh, resources and people trained on them, uh, if they should ever need them. So getting back

00:30:54.400 to that though, I mean, it's particularly acute with, with rural, uh, services though. I mean,

00:30:58.780 Cochrane could barely be called rural these days. It seems to be actually mostly anything that's

00:31:02.300 nearby a large center like Calgary. I live in Prittis. Our ambulance gets pulled into the city

00:31:06.720 all the time. This has been new. I mean, since what was it during Ed Stelmeck's time, I believe,

00:31:13.100 when they sort of centralized all the EMS services, wasn't it?

00:31:16.340 Yeah. Basically, we ran in Cochrane. The ambulance service started on July 1st, 1983.

00:31:23.820 I actually was a paramedic in Calgary, came out to Cochrane in the early 80s,

00:31:29.720 took the title of fire chief because I was with the fire department.

00:31:33.520 And then in July 1st, 83, we started our own service.

00:31:37.940 And then the province, for whatever means, decided to take over the service in 2009.

00:31:44.000 And ever since then, it's gone downhill.

00:31:47.520 in 2009 before we took the ambulance service over we had two first line response units in 2022

00:31:56.400 with the population of cochrane close to 35 000 people triple we still have 2000 we still have

00:32:02.160 two units um so it really hasn't come up uh kept up with the uh with the population growth and the

00:32:09.120 amount of calls that we've got um and so if if the government would do our three simple steps

00:32:16.640 It's a start on trying to keep our units in Cochrane and rather having a unit coming.

00:32:22.200 There's been situations where a car has started from Vulcan coming to Cochrane for whatever instant.

00:32:29.540 Luckily, there were cars that cleared from the closest hospital.

00:32:33.580 But can you imagine having a car coming from Vulcan if you've got a heart attack or a stroke or whatever?

00:32:39.380 It's just it's not acceptable, Corey.

00:32:41.680 no and then it's it's not just the long runs but it's something you've referenced earlier too

00:32:46.820 whether it was in patient transfer or other things but when they get to those larger hospitals they

00:32:50.980 can often be locked in and doing hallway care i wrote a column on this last uh summer and i drove

00:32:56.440 by and checked out the rocky view just randomly and pulled in and went out back and and sure

00:33:01.040 enough there were i counted nine ambulances all parked behind there and presumably all of the

00:33:06.860 attendants were stuck inside at the hospital that should be out and about somewhere, I mean, ready

00:33:13.020 or possibly in the middle of providing services. But then it gets into a kind of a larger,

00:33:18.220 more complicated issue, because then it comes down to the healthcare itself and, you know,

00:33:24.500 hospital staff signing off on taking patients, right?

00:33:27.360 Yeah, exactly. And we've been told that if you go ahead and drop off a patient at a hospital,

00:33:34.420 it's called abandonment but we're not abandoning them in the in a jungle somewhere we're taking

00:33:40.700 them to a first class hospital in a in a particular urban setting um and the problem is is that they're

00:33:49.040 downloading the the uh the availability of the for us to look after or the paramedics look after

00:33:56.200 the the patients we brought in because they're short-staffed uh when we ran the service in

00:34:02.040 Cochran. If you spent more than 15 minutes at the hospital, you were too long. If you're a

00:34:08.680 paramedic attending, you would give your report to the triage nurse. She would tell you what bed

00:34:13.640 you would need. Your partner would get the ambulance ready and within 15 minutes, we're gone.

00:34:18.800 But now in 2009, Corey, the paramedics are part of the AHS staff. So I don't know, they think they

00:34:26.760 can download the availability of the patients to the paramedics, which is absolutely wrong.

00:34:33.620 In fact, I think it's criminal. I think it's criminal that they're holding hostage,

00:34:39.340 the paramedics at a hospital where they should be out in their area. And for us,

00:34:45.820 it should be back in Cochrane. Well, yeah, I mean, it's a waste of specially trained skill sets. I

00:34:51.740 mean, they're specially trained people in hospital for caring for patients once they've come in.

00:34:55.500 an EMS attendant, a paramedic, I mean, they've got the training and the ability to be out and

00:35:00.460 about. That's the point. That's the purpose. They should be in the field and either taking part in

00:35:05.680 a transfer or stabilizing something out there. And we're just completely misappropriating a

00:35:10.880 resource when we're using them as care personnel in hospital hallways. Well, that's right. And

00:35:16.240 they're using the paramedic staff as you want to say in quotations, babysitting. Now, if you bring

00:35:24.860 If you walk into the hospital, you have there's a clock there saying your particular time to look at, get looked at could be two or three or four hours.

00:35:35.160 But the only difference is that we're bringing somebody in by ambulance.

00:35:40.800 If it's critical, they probably will get a bed.

00:35:43.840 If it's not critical, they'll say, go to the hallway and wait until your turn comes up.

00:35:48.840 Well, why can't we put that particular patient in the waiting room as if he walked in?

00:35:54.160 But no, the system won't allow us to do that, Corey.

00:35:59.200 Yeah, so there's, I mean, there's trouble on a lot of fronts.

00:36:01.660 I mean, I've been screaming this one from the rooftops for a while.

00:36:05.260 As we know, we both know Don Sharp, and he's a great guy, and he's brought my attention to it.

00:36:09.880 I went to meetings down in Okotoks that he was helping host, and it just seems once in a while we'll have a tragedy,

00:36:15.980 and this will hit the news, and everybody gets upset, and then they all forget about it.

00:36:19.420 But this problem just isn't going away.

00:36:22.720 But at least you're making a twofold approach.

00:36:24.640 One with at least, well, let's see how we as citizens can get up and help each other and help mitigate the damage.

00:36:31.220 But at the same time, we've got to change this system altogether because it's just not working.

00:36:35.860 It's got to start at the top.

00:36:37.760 And look, in Airdrie was that last month they transported two patients by fire truck to their urgent care in Airdrie because there was no ambulances available.

00:36:49.420 um and the city of calgary as mentioned in the herald last week i think a crew stayed with the

00:36:54.540 patient for three hours waiting for an ambulance well that takes that particular fire crew out of

00:37:00.460 service it's not fair it's not fair at all no and again it's a different train i mean the fire crews

00:37:07.260 are trained to respond to medical emergencies but they're also trained to put out fires i mean if

00:37:10.940 there'd have been a large fire emergency that they could be delayed it goes all the way down the line

00:37:14.940 It does. So it's a system failure. But we got to start somewhere. So our 14 volunteer committee is very committed. Like I say, we had part of our crew went out and collected almost 2,500 signatures based on our three-point plan that's going to be meeting with our MLA next Tuesday.

00:37:41.500 and he has promised to take that to the minister.

00:37:46.020 And, you know, those 2,500 signatures,

00:37:48.380 that could be 5 or 10 or 8 or 12% of the voting public

00:37:52.560 for that particular MLA.

00:37:54.580 That's got to make a difference, Corey.

00:37:57.420 Absolutely.

00:37:58.100 Well, I really appreciate you coming on to talk to us

00:38:00.560 and I appreciate the work you're doing.

00:38:01.960 I mean, all we can do is keep trying

00:38:03.200 and keep hammering on it and reminding them

00:38:05.140 and hopefully eventually we'll get a positive change.

00:38:08.000 Where can people find more information

00:38:09.300 on what you're doing out in Cochrane

00:38:10.600 and, you know, perhaps helping out or taking part?

00:38:13.180 Yeah, we have a Facebook page.

00:38:16.520 If they go to Cochrane EMS Citizen Action Group,

00:38:21.620 you'll pick up our Facebook page.

00:38:23.380 We're trying to keep the residents of Cochrane updated of, you know,

00:38:28.920 of success stories plus failures and to let them know what's happening

00:38:33.740 in the community of Cochrane.

00:38:35.700 There are other community groups around.

00:38:38.220 There's Airdrie, there's Okotoks, there's Banff, there's Canmore.

00:38:42.340 And they can go to those particular websites as well,

00:38:45.140 or Facebook pages to see what's happening in their community.

00:38:50.300 Great. Well, I hope we can get more people on board

00:38:53.440 and that Mr. Guthrie gets some people's attention in government

00:38:56.240 and we can lead to a resolution.

00:38:58.540 But in the meantime, we'll just have to keep the pressure up.

00:39:01.080 I thank you again for coming on today, Brian,

00:39:03.120 and I hope we can talk again sometime down the road.

00:39:04.820 Okay, no problem. Thanks a lot, Corey. Appreciate that.

00:39:06.880 Thank you.

00:39:07.740 You bet.

00:39:08.720 So that's retired paramedic Brian Winter, and he is based out in Cochrane.

00:39:12.300 And it's really so acute, and it seems like such a straightforward common sense issue.

00:39:17.040 Yet, why is it, you know, with government, it just seems that things that have the most

00:39:20.740 simple solutions are somehow the most complicated to get done.

00:39:24.780 And, you know, they've got it down.

00:39:26.940 It's really good.

00:39:27.600 I mean, into it being in the sense of a three-step solution.

00:39:31.500 You know, they're not just pointing at a problem.

00:39:32.840 That's something I'm prone to.

00:39:33.780 I lay out problems on here all the time is, of course, you do have to address a problem before

00:39:39.540 you can solve it. But as far as that goes, you should go further and present a solution. And

00:39:45.120 that's what Mr. Winter and the other volunteers with them are doing and donors pointing out how

00:39:51.320 to fix the system, as well as just some mitigating efforts to at least help people when you face the

00:39:57.960 fact that the system is going to be somewhat slow. And it's not for lack of money, guys.

00:40:01.400 The money that's gone into healthcare this last few years, I mean, increases have been massive.

00:40:08.020 It's just not being spent right.

00:40:09.640 It's not being spent efficiently.

00:40:11.860 And as you know, I was saying that there's ambulances backed up, piled up in emergency rooms all across the city and they're draining other areas.

00:40:20.200 And the, I can't remember the name of the union, but if you look on Twitter, there's the emergency services union and they're out there and they post all the time pictures because it shows an ambulance on a map.

00:40:30.940 And it shows times when you see ambulances coming out of Banff to service, you know, Strathmore, or people, as Brian had said, somebody was coming out of Vulcan to service Cochrane. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous long distances these ambulances are going, and they're leaving people underserviced and at risk. We should be solving this, and we should be on it.

00:40:49.280 But it's, again, lost in the realm of ideological debate and the frustration, you know, we've got the wrong, these are specialized, professional, skilled people, and you need them out doing what they're trained to do.

00:41:03.260 And they can't do that when they're spending an hour and a half driving on a highway to respond to an event, or if they're spending two, three, four, five hours sitting in a hospital hallway.

00:41:12.340 It's ridiculous, and it's a misappropriation of resources. 0.72

00:41:16.020 As Brian said, it's almost criminal. 0.90

00:41:18.440 This is putting people at risk

00:41:19.500 or something with obviously

00:41:20.840 an administrative battle going on.

00:41:22.820 If we need more triage staff

00:41:24.780 or treatment staff in hospital emergency areas,

00:41:26.880 well, then let's work on that.

00:41:28.400 But to do it as a band-aid to stick paramedics

00:41:31.820 locked up and caught waiting

00:41:33.980 to drop patients off like this is not sustainable.

00:41:38.020 And this has been going on for years

00:41:39.240 and it's getting worse.

00:41:40.060 And that's part of what ticks me off.

00:41:42.260 You know, we watch our stats

00:41:43.220 when I write columns, when I do things.

00:41:44.880 I understand not all of my columns are brilliant

00:41:46.920 and get massively widely read, but the ones I've written on this issue don't gain a lot of legs.

00:41:53.200 They don't gain a lot of steam. Like, folks, pay attention. I know it's one of those things you

00:41:57.200 don't like to think of until, you know, it kind of bites you in the butt, but this can bite you 0.99

00:42:00.240 in the butt in the worst possible way. I mean, one of the first rules with healthcare, especially 0.97

00:42:05.120 in emergency healthcare, is time. You know, the faster you can get professional treatment,

00:42:11.340 the better your chances in a serious emergency of coming out of it without being seriously harmed

00:42:16.580 or having long-term consequences, or of course, even worse, dying. Speed is the essence. It's

00:42:22.060 everything. And that's why ambulances have the red flashing lights. That's why these guys

00:42:27.320 are trained to get in there on the ground and move quickly, get people into the care that they

00:42:32.080 can provide in an ambulance, and then get them to that hospital and into treatment where they've got

00:42:36.880 the rest of the facilities there. It's integral. Likewise with fire. We're tying up firefighters

00:42:42.860 on, on, on medical things. And this is exhausting them too. These resources, like we just are not

00:42:49.240 spending our money well. And, and things that are very important. We're not talking about public

00:42:53.520 art guys and some of the other stuff we pass money away on. This is the thing that number one, you

00:42:57.980 know, as running in elections and in, in managing campaigns, the top two issues with people in

00:43:03.580 polls are almost always the same, particularly provincially, healthcare, and then education.

00:43:09.460 Healthcare is on the top all the time.

00:43:11.220 Well, healthcare is being horrifically managed

00:43:13.480 and it's putting us all at risk

00:43:14.720 at great expense of that.

00:43:17.000 And we've got to reevaluate.

00:43:18.360 So I'm glad, I really appreciate

00:43:19.780 that Brian and Don and others

00:43:21.820 are at least trying to bring this issue to a head

00:43:23.740 and hopefully before we see more tragic events happening

00:43:26.800 and things such as that.

00:43:28.240 And again, doing some proactive stuff.

00:43:30.920 I guess just get back on to some other comments there.

00:43:33.180 I noticed Damien was commenting,

00:43:35.480 one of the commenters,

00:43:36.280 having difficulties accessing the website. As I said, we've migrated to a new one. It's a little

00:43:41.000 different. You don't need a whole new account. You might need to change a password. You send

00:43:47.300 an email to info or support if you need to, but nobody should have to set up a whole brand new

00:43:53.000 account. I know things have changed. Some of your cookies in your computer might not make it as quick

00:43:57.160 and easy to log in if you've got an account, but we're not making people real sign up from scratch

00:44:01.520 all over again or anything like that. It's just some growing pains, I guess you could say, and I

00:44:06.820 appreciate everybody's patience with us as we iron it out. It's only been a few days since we moved

00:44:10.320 over to it, and it's going to make for a much better website for everybody all around, though,

00:44:15.000 in the long run. Oh, there we go. Damien's saying he's fixed it. Okay, perfect. See? So, yeah, and I

00:44:21.060 know, I get, as like Dave was saying on the computer too, you know, sometimes all we can do

00:44:28.280 is turn things off and on again. And that's the extent of our tech abilities, but it should all

00:44:35.260 be working for folks. And again, I appreciate the patience on those lines. So let's see what else

00:44:41.380 we've got going on the news. And yeah, let's look at this $54 million in student loans forgiven.

00:44:51.040 So more than 50 million in unpaid student loans are going to be forgiven at taxpayers' expenses

00:44:54.640 This year says the Department of Employment cabinet

00:44:57.520 had suspended debt collections as a COVID relief measure

00:45:00.420 in 2020, and now they're just saying,

00:45:02.880 ah, okay, we'll let it go.

00:45:05.620 You know, this entitlement,

00:45:08.720 I wonder why our money seems to be just going

00:45:10.600 into a bottomless pit.

00:45:12.180 I mean, I think the student loan program is fantastic.

00:45:15.100 I mean, it's tough.

00:45:15.880 If somebody's coming up, they've graduated,

00:45:18.300 they want to go into post-secondary, they got plans,

00:45:20.960 but education's expensive.

00:45:22.460 Here's something, you know,

00:45:23.100 they don't have a big credit rating.

00:45:24.140 It's not like they can throw it on the gold card and get in there.

00:45:26.880 Here's a system that they can qualify for,

00:45:28.940 and it's low interest and generous payment terms and spread out.

00:45:32.540 But you've got to get them to pay it back.

00:45:34.300 It's a loan.

00:45:35.440 It's not a grant.

00:45:38.560 It's not a handout.

00:45:39.380 We get enough of those through the rest of our lives and everything.

00:45:41.660 But the more the government starts writing these off,

00:45:44.280 the more other students, of course, are going to be demanding the same.

00:45:47.560 We can't give this pipe dream of socialists,

00:45:52.120 of free education to everybody in the post-secondary.

00:45:55.200 I mean, I know they're always talking about that.

00:45:56.980 We can't, we can't.

00:45:59.440 It costs too much as it is.

00:46:01.580 And then we're going to get people signing up

00:46:03.020 for some of the most, I mean, I'm sorry,

00:46:04.660 we only need so many sociology degrees out there.

00:46:07.560 We got a little bit of supply and demand

00:46:09.120 take care of some of this, guys.

00:46:11.400 The STEM trades, high employment areas,

00:46:13.940 you know, those aren't the ones complaining

00:46:15.220 about being able to pay off their student loans.

00:46:17.640 You're not seeing engineers having difficulties with this

00:46:19.960 or people who've managed to use some student funding

00:46:23.760 and loans for even trade training

00:46:26.000 and plumbers, electricians, things like that.

00:46:28.500 They're out working, they pay off their loans.

00:46:30.180 No, it's just the person who thought

00:46:31.460 that they could take interpretive dance

00:46:33.480 and specialize in that and get a doctorate in it

00:46:36.560 and find out that there's six figures in debt

00:46:38.520 after putting a decade into it.

00:46:40.380 And lo and behold, aside from doing the odd presentation

00:46:42.880 in a coffee shop in Hipsterville,

00:46:44.840 nobody really cares about your degree

00:46:46.320 and you can't pay your bills with it.

00:46:47.960 That's not my problem.

00:46:49.880 And maybe if we stop forgiving these loans,

00:46:53.900 they'll get a little more careful

00:46:54.880 about what they're doing.

00:46:58.100 I mean, there's still a whole lot out there.

00:46:59.800 There's 4.7 billion in loans out there.

00:47:02.340 So 53 million sounds small,

00:47:04.640 but that's $53 million, guys.

00:47:06.680 That's a lot of money.

00:47:08.000 We shouldn't be throwing it away

00:47:09.700 or writing it off anywhere.

00:47:12.020 Lord knows if you own,

00:47:13.900 if you as a small person,

00:47:15.240 now I know if you're a connected liberal funder

00:47:17.140 or something and you owe CRA money,

00:47:18.880 You might be able to get out of it.

00:47:20.180 But for your average person, if you owe CRA money, you're up the creek.

00:47:24.020 And you have to pay it, and they were relentless.

00:47:26.420 They will chase you down until the end of time.

00:47:28.460 They will squeeze every nickel out of you.

00:47:31.160 And I don't think that student loan collections should be as relentless as CRA.

00:47:34.600 Those guys are horrible.

00:47:35.880 But it should be the same principle. 0.53

00:47:38.140 You owe the money, pay it back.

00:47:40.380 That's the way it works.

00:47:41.800 Data shows that 9% of students default on debts.

00:47:44.840 And that's the lowest default rate since the parliament brought it in.

00:47:47.440 So that's not bad.

00:47:48.880 but then they've gone up, you know, and down and it's not good enough, guys. We've got to follow

00:47:56.300 up on these. Just writing it off. Isn't the way to go. Keep on it. It's our money. And it's unfair

00:48:00.820 to the students who worked their butts off, graduated, got to work and paid off their bill.

00:48:05.860 You know, what are you telling them? Yeah. Sorry for you being responsible and paying your bills,

00:48:11.580 but we're going to give that a deadbeat. What is it right off their debt?

00:48:15.340 uh speaking of more government irresponsibility and uh subsidies you know so here's the the other

00:48:22.520 one dave mentioned that when we had the news check-in so uh 390 million dollars in subsidies

00:48:27.500 to periodicals so these are like weekly news magazines papers things such as that things that

00:48:33.180 we refuse to take any uh tax funding for by the way none of those subsidies are coming to the

00:48:38.220 western standard but 390 million dollars recently have gone into all of those in the last few years

00:48:43.440 and the number of periodicals in Canada, what happened?

00:48:46.960 It fell, 9%.

00:48:48.680 So almost 10% of them are gone,

00:48:50.860 even though we're pouring all of this tax-funded money

00:48:53.020 into these.

00:48:56.020 And then, of course, then there's another $595 million

00:48:58.780 that went to newspapers.

00:48:59.960 And again, not us.

00:49:01.780 And it didn't create the jobs as promised,

00:49:03.920 because it doesn't, it won't work.

00:49:05.580 Subsidies don't work.

00:49:06.640 Get out of the way.

00:49:08.400 That's what you have to do.

00:49:10.180 Not subsidize, not steal money from taxpayers

00:49:12.280 and give it to publications that can't stand on their two feet.

00:49:16.620 Look, the old publications are having a really hard time.

00:49:19.640 And it's because the world is changing.

00:49:21.320 It's changing dramatically.

00:49:22.820 They can't pull in the advertising revenue like they used to.

00:49:25.700 It's not there.

00:49:26.360 You don't make a bunch of money off of classified ads and obituaries like you used to be able to.

00:49:32.000 Unfortunately, a lot of those places are still carrying a lot of the overhead, too.

00:49:35.380 Of course, they've got giant buildings.

00:49:37.160 They've got, you know, printing presses.

00:49:38.900 Have you ever seen how thin the Calgary sun is these days?

00:49:42.420 It's practically a brochure.

00:49:44.580 You know, you used to go out on a Sunday and you'd get this great big thick thing.

00:49:47.420 I'd spend a whole afternoon reading that.

00:49:48.960 Now it's just a flyer.

00:49:51.480 And it's just the way it goes, though.

00:49:54.020 We can't maintain this by just continuing to subsidize them.

00:49:57.960 They've got to pivot.

00:49:58.780 They've got to change their model.

00:50:00.100 They've got to do it a different way.

00:50:02.760 Or they've got to go.

00:50:05.000 That's the way it works.

00:50:06.240 And I know it leads to some lost jobs.

00:50:08.300 There's some great veteran journalists

00:50:10.280 that are getting laid off

00:50:11.520 and they're having a difficult time

00:50:13.920 finding new employment.

00:50:15.020 But again, you've got to find other ways to do it.

00:50:18.860 Subsidizing doesn't work.

00:50:20.420 If the goal is to keep people working,

00:50:21.840 if the goal is to keep these places in business,

00:50:23.380 well, we're seeing the numbers coming in now.

00:50:24.720 It failed.

00:50:25.880 It failed.

00:50:26.700 There's fewer publications

00:50:27.800 and none of it created any more jobs.

00:50:30.240 So cut it out.

00:50:31.320 It's not working.

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00:51:45.360 don't stand up for yourself, they're going to win. It's frog in water slowly, but surely they keep

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00:52:11.160 worth looking into. Okay, let's see what else we've got in the news. Scroll to rant and report

00:52:19.280 and rave about. Oh, I got some more of those numbers for the money going to some of those

00:52:22.660 periodicals. Let's see some of these things. $6.4 million went to Reader's Digest. You know,

00:52:29.000 and I can see why Reader's Digest is failing because as long as people have phones to read

00:52:33.940 on the toilet, they don't need Reader's Digest anymore. Look, come on. That's really what 90%

00:52:38.080 of Reader's Digest always was. I mean, it was perfectly encapsulated stories just long enough

00:52:42.720 for an extended visit to the bathroom, but not something you'd have to commit a whole afternoon

00:52:47.280 to. Now that you can read the news on your smartphone or whatnot, you just don't need it

00:52:51.580 anymore. So six and a half million has gone to them. It doesn't seem to be helping any. I don't

00:52:58.240 even know when I've seen one anymore. Can you get them? I mean, they're still there. I guess

00:53:01.240 they're taking money. $4.9 million to Canadian living. Yeah, big ones. $4.1 million to McLean's,

00:53:08.760 of course. And yeah, some of the writing coming out of McLean's is quite stomach-wrenching.

00:53:15.380 Again, there's a reason readers are turning away from this stuff. And it's not always actually just

00:53:19.000 from the changing advertising market and things like that. Sometimes it's just awful content.

00:53:22.800 Life Magazine, $476,000, I don't know, that's Toronto Life, sorry, $1.8 million to Toronto

00:53:30.100 Life. And here's a neat one, the National Observer, which is a Vancouver environmental

00:53:34.520 advocacy website. But somehow, I guess they're considered a periodical and weekly, and they

00:53:38.960 got $476,000 of your dollars. Isn't that nice? Toronto IT website, The Logic, got $367,000.

00:53:48.700 The United Church Observer. Again, very, very progressive. You notice some of the trend on

00:53:54.740 two of these smaller outfits that are getting your tax dollars. They're all lefties. $338,000

00:54:01.000 to them. And then, of course, the Narwhal, which is total trash, exceedingly biased junk. I believe 0.99

00:54:08.180 they were part of that scandalous mess with CBC-funded reporters who were actually acting

00:54:13.300 is environmental activists at CGL, one of the blockades. Well, they got $254,000 as well

00:54:20.720 from you to keep putting out the garbage they've got. So yeah, your tax dollars at work, guys.

00:54:28.600 It's hard not to get a little depressed at times. So yeah, that's something that

00:54:33.620 my last guest had mentioned earlier. I'm just looking at the news stories. So Alberta's

00:54:38.280 shortage of ambulance paramedics reached new levels of desperation. That's from the news

00:54:41.100 story. This is the text I'm reading here. Resulting in firefighters waiting up to two hours for EMS

00:54:46.660 to arrive, according to the union representing paramedics and the firefighters association.

00:54:52.480 They're calling the problem a deep code red. And the word deep red means there's nothing left.

00:54:57.600 The crews are on their knees. These are the words being used. The lack of ambulances is plagued and

00:55:02.440 overworked and understaffed emergency response system across Alberta. But it's gotten this bad

00:55:07.180 now. I mean, something we didn't cover as well, and it's a huge thing that's drawing on these

00:55:12.860 guys, and that's a bigger issue, but it's the opioid epidemic. I mean, this system was never

00:55:17.580 meant to deal with this many overdoses, or they keep calling it drug intoxication or poisoning

00:55:24.140 these days, whatever you want to call it. Somebody took the wrong stuff, fentanyl, heroin, meth,

00:55:30.000 all of these things, but it's leading to massive pressure. When you're in downtown Calgary,

00:55:33.420 you see those ambulances going, you see those fire trucks going, more often than not,

00:55:37.640 they're going to an overdose. In Alberta, I think we're over five fatal overdoses a day.

00:55:42.960 And a lot of them are in people's households. I had a guest on talking about addiction. I think

00:55:46.620 60% of the fatal overdoses, they're not on the streets, the ones we see and everything.

00:55:50.640 They're in people's homes. But either way, they still eventually will need an EMS response.

00:55:56.880 And of course, that doesn't count. So five a day are dying. I don't know how many a day are

00:56:00.360 surviving with EMS responding to these things.

00:56:03.000 But that's another big problem on what's going on out there

00:56:06.540 and what's pressuring our EMS system.

00:56:10.220 Let's see here, in other news,

00:56:13.500 Alberta's joining the legal challenge.

00:56:16.380 It's the first province to intervene

00:56:18.360 in the federal court challenge

00:56:19.440 of cabinet's use of the Emergencies Act.

00:56:20.860 So only three provinces supported

00:56:23.760 the cabinet's declaration of it.

00:56:25.200 There were only three provinces thought it was a good idea.

00:56:26.820 Don't forget Doug Ford was one of them.

00:56:29.040 Don't let Doug off the hook. It's election time for him right now. And he behaved abhorrently

00:56:34.820 during the pandemic. He was terrible. So only three provinces did support it. Alberta wasn't 0.60

00:56:41.660 one of them, nor was Saskatchewan or a number of others. And so Kennedy was saying, it's our duty

00:56:46.580 to do everything we can to protect Albertans' freedoms and liberties from this kind of breach.

00:56:50.060 No government should have the power to seize a person's property and withhold their assets

00:56:54.560 That's without due process in the law.

00:56:57.220 So the province said Friday, I guess it was,

00:56:59.040 their granted intervener status,

00:57:01.560 the challenge filed by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

00:57:04.500 By the way, just to give a heads up too,

00:57:06.220 I'll be talking to John Carpe with the Canadian Constitution Foundation this week.

00:57:11.400 We'll get some updates because they got a bunch of challenges.

00:57:13.120 The courts are going to be piled up a whole lot in hindsight,

00:57:16.420 looking at the government stepping on everybody's individual rights like that

00:57:19.920 with the actions of the Emergencies Act last February.

00:57:25.900 But Alberta has gotten on board with it again,

00:57:28.240 you know, as the only province

00:57:29.340 that's gotten the intervener status at least.

00:57:30.900 And it helps, everything helps.

00:57:32.460 Keep pushing, you know,

00:57:33.280 we've got a lot of challenges going

00:57:34.840 with Kenny on a number of levels right now,

00:57:37.520 but at least, you know,

00:57:38.300 it doesn't mean everything he does is wrong.

00:57:40.560 And I mean, the Civil Liberties Associations,

00:57:42.360 those guys are kind of inconsistent

00:57:43.480 in some of their things they believe

00:57:44.640 are individual rights, which aren't.

00:57:46.300 But at least in this case, they are pushing back

00:57:48.360 because it was a gross violation of individual liberties.

00:57:52.260 So Alberta's on board.

00:57:54.700 And Trudeau in the Commons, of course,

00:57:58.040 when it comes to these things,

00:57:59.080 has just gotten as partisan as ever.

00:58:02.140 And he says, he was shooting at the Conservatives, actually,

00:58:05.880 and says they're worried that it's going to show 0.99

00:58:07.140 the level to which their support for the blockaders

00:58:09.400 contributed to the difficulties of so many Canadians. 0.99

00:58:11.360 Oh, kiss my butt. 1.00

00:58:13.640 Virtue signaling clown shoe wearing idiot. 1.00

00:58:16.560 But I mean, you know, 1.00

00:58:17.360 he just turns it into a partisan spin

00:58:18.840 with everything he does.

00:58:20.300 We got a very serious issue

00:58:21.660 and more investigation

00:58:22.660 and court challenges coming.

00:58:24.680 And well, just hopefully

00:58:26.400 something goes through.

00:58:27.500 Again, I don't know what it takes.

00:58:29.280 I really don't.

00:58:30.060 David Creighton wrote earlier today,

00:58:32.500 referring to it,

00:58:33.260 calling him Teflon Trudeau.

00:58:35.260 I mean, the amount of things

00:58:36.600 that guy has done.

00:58:38.100 And I, hopefully something comes out

00:58:40.100 of this conservative leadership race

00:58:41.400 in a party or something 0.99

00:58:42.260 to manage to unseat that clown. 0.99

00:58:45.040 I don't know what it takes. 0.98

00:58:47.240 But he's still pretty solid as things sit.

00:58:54.340 Shirley saying, I fear that Kenny's just virtue signaling.

00:58:57.800 Yeah, I don't know.

00:59:00.220 We'll see.

00:59:00.660 I mean, it's easy to throw court challenges out

00:59:01.960 whether you think they're going to win or lose

00:59:03.140 to make it look like you're going to do something.

00:59:04.100 Just like the ones against the carbon tax.

00:59:06.000 You had to try, but you knew there probably wasn't much chance

00:59:08.120 and it didn't work.

00:59:11.180 And now we'll see what happens.

00:59:12.800 Connie Morris saying Northern BC has the same problem with ambulances, small communities up there.

00:59:17.380 If two attendants for the ambulances, and if one is off, then no driver, the volunteer fire department is out there.

00:59:24.860 And then, oh, then they got RCMP dealing with it.

00:59:27.820 This is healthcare.

00:59:30.580 The way it used to be in Alberta, and that's one of the things that the guest was referencing, local areas got their own attendance.

00:59:37.700 Sometimes it was private.

00:59:39.400 Sometimes it was public.

00:59:40.760 I mean, the municipality would deal with that.

00:59:43.840 And there were a lot of private providers.

00:59:45.800 And I know that the healthcare purists go bananas with it.

00:59:48.640 But you know what?

00:59:49.280 Private's usually better.

00:59:50.740 And you're going to pay for it either way.

00:59:53.260 And I was at a town hall meeting down.

00:59:56.040 There's some of the problems that we got going on with this whole thing too.

00:59:59.380 And the town hall was being held down in Okotoks when I attended on this issue.

01:00:03.800 And as soon as they even talked about private ambulances, 0.70

01:00:06.400 there was a woman there who went haywire 1.00

01:00:08.300 and started laying out all the union points,

01:00:11.100 almost as if she had them all rehearsed

01:00:13.060 and ready to go before she showed up.

01:00:14.980 Because she did.

01:00:16.640 Because there's another big problem too, 1.00

01:00:18.160 and it's not just government policy, it's unions.

01:00:20.580 And they make things, it's funny,

01:00:21.660 because it's the EMS union that's pushing back

01:00:24.260 and it's frustrated with this, 0.78

01:00:25.680 but there's nurses unions that really like being able 0.99

01:00:28.180 to use EMS to take pressure off of their work 0.99

01:00:30.520 in the emergency room floors.

01:00:32.120 So they don't want to see necessarily a change

01:00:33.880 to that status quo.

01:00:35.700 We've got to look at all of these aspects. 1.00

01:00:38.300 So fighting against, blindly fighting against privatization of anything is stupid. 0.99

01:00:43.100 It's closing a door without a point. 0.99

01:00:45.420 And it's as the guest said, it doesn't matter if it's private or public.

01:00:49.480 Just got to get the job done.

01:00:51.780 And municipalities were working perfectly fine before Ed Stelmack came in and changed it all.

01:00:56.700 And they had a lot of private services that were doing just fine.

01:01:00.660 And now you're spending the money.

01:01:03.500 You still spend the money municipally.

01:01:04.940 You still pay all those taxes, but you're not getting any services

01:01:07.060 because they've centralized everything

01:01:08.620 and the bigger cities just drain

01:01:10.400 all of your ambulance resources

01:01:12.020 into the city centers

01:01:13.020 and into the big hospitals

01:01:13.960 and then they sit in the waiting rooms

01:01:15.000 and then you're underserved

01:01:16.540 in the outlying communities.

01:01:17.860 Plus, as it was showing,

01:01:18.940 Calgary itself is running out of them too.

01:01:20.540 It's just everywhere.

01:01:22.000 So let's get realistic

01:01:23.180 and start looking where the real problems lie.

01:01:25.920 And there's a multifaceted one,

01:01:28.020 but we sure can't let the unions off the hook on it.

01:01:30.860 So this was out of Kenny from his speech.

01:01:33.420 You know, there was the big gathering.

01:01:34.500 We got a whole bunch of video, by the way,

01:01:35.820 on our channels with Rumble,

01:01:38.340 and I really strongly recommend Rumble.

01:01:40.880 We won't get canceled on there.

01:01:42.820 But, you know, we also have YouTube and Facebook

01:01:44.520 and Twitch and a whole bunch of other areas.

01:01:46.540 And Matthew Horwood, our Ottawa guy,

01:01:51.140 was covering a lot of the big conference,

01:01:52.760 the conservative conference over the weekend

01:01:54.260 out in Ottawa.

01:01:55.300 Nico was out there,

01:01:56.280 and they did a whole bunch of great interviews

01:01:58.220 of all sorts of conservative leaders and individuals,

01:02:01.020 and they're all posted up there.

01:02:02.200 So, you know, if you're looking for some viewing stuff,

01:02:03.780 get on there, guys.

01:02:04.420 we got some great content out there of a lot of stuff in that conference because not everybody

01:02:08.300 could get out there themselves, but at least you could hear from some of those attendees and people

01:02:12.080 who were out there. Plus, as I said, the whole leadership debate is up on the site there.

01:02:18.280 So Kenny on that during his speech, because of course he had to address it, the deadline's coming

01:02:21.940 up. I think it's in two more days, I believe, that everything has to be received by Deloitte

01:02:27.420 and Touche for the mail-in ballots for the leadership review for the UCP. And the results

01:02:34.160 are going to be released on the 18th.

01:02:35.500 We're going to do something to cover it,

01:02:36.840 but I don't know how.

01:02:38.820 I'm trying to set it up.

01:02:40.280 We're going to be watching and covering that live,

01:02:42.600 but I keep inquiring at the UCP

01:02:44.540 and they keep saying we'll have the results

01:02:45.680 when we have the results.

01:02:46.380 So I don't know if it'll be noon that day

01:02:48.720 or at 1130 that night, the usual clarity.

01:02:52.480 They wonder why they struggle in the polls.

01:02:54.620 Can you not just do that?

01:02:56.040 Can you not just set a time for us

01:02:57.960 and say this is when it's coming out?

01:03:00.160 You're going to have a week of counting.

01:03:02.820 Why can't you say four o'clock, Red Deer, this is where we're doing it?

01:03:06.160 But they won't, because this is a government that just seems incapable of transparency

01:03:10.700 until they're forced, until they're cornered into something before they deal with anything.

01:03:15.760 And then they don't know why they're losing grassroots support.

01:03:18.320 They don't know why people are sick of them, why people don't trust them.

01:03:21.820 So Kenny spoke, gave a speech to the conservatives, and he said,

01:03:25.860 if he loses the race, he will in all humility step aside and let there be a leadership election.

01:03:30.980 He said he will do that.

01:03:33.440 He said also, though, if they choose a path of unity, meaning he wins,

01:03:37.020 he believes all of their members will expect every member of their caucus and team

01:03:41.120 to also respect the decision of the members democratically.

01:03:44.100 And he expects a clear run, you know, going to the 2023 election.

01:03:49.240 Okay, but that's not going to happen.

01:03:52.120 I know he's reaching out.

01:03:53.440 I mean, I know he's understanding.

01:03:55.000 It's as I've said before, if he wins, I don't know,

01:03:57.760 if he wins with 80%, nobody's going to get trusted anyways.

01:04:00.540 But I mean, maybe that's about a number or even 70% where you can say, look, there's

01:04:04.120 a majority of the party supports you.

01:04:07.680 You know, so let's just put everything together, get on with it, win the next election, and

01:04:11.620 we can get back to fighting inside the party afterwards.

01:04:14.520 But people won't trust it with the amount of things now that there's challenges, there's

01:04:18.140 things that have gone to elections, Alberta over it now, they're investigating.

01:04:21.220 It sounds so much like the leadership race that never did get resolved and settled from

01:04:24.760 years ago.

01:04:26.140 This is just not a government that anybody trusts.

01:04:29.020 And if he comes in with 55% or 60% support

01:04:31.760 and says, that's it, I've got my mandate.

01:04:33.140 No, you don't. 0.99

01:04:33.960 That mandate sucks. 1.00

01:04:35.700 I don't care about 50% plus one. 0.99

01:04:37.380 This is an internal party measure of your performance.

01:04:41.660 Leadership reviews are usually more in the 80, 90% range,

01:04:44.980 not 50% plus one.

01:04:47.460 If you can only win 50% plus one of your own party,

01:04:50.700 you are not gonna win a large segment of Albertan voters.

01:04:54.660 You gotta be able to do better than that

01:04:55.780 with your own members.

01:04:58.160 I miss this transparency. Guys, I don't know if you're ever going to learn it. It's probably too

01:05:02.480 late. I'll hold my breath. But, well, we can hope for the best. Let's see. We've got some other

01:05:09.920 news popping up. More human remains found in Nevada's Lake Mead. For people, if you're not

01:05:15.160 familiar with it, you know, that's the one with the big Hoover Dam kind of formed. It's the big

01:05:18.720 lake over from Las Vegas. You fly over it on your way and you see it down there. It's been getting

01:05:23.100 lower and lower there's been drought and the reservoir is getting low and uh lo and behold

01:05:27.940 over and over they keep finding barrels and bodies on the edges of it um just kind of you know i mean

01:05:33.440 it's morbid but it's kind of not surprising uh as people have always known i mean there's always

01:05:38.900 been that talk i guess these are guys who didn't feel like digging in the desert so they dumped

01:05:42.900 the bodies and barrels in the lake but vegas always has been a mafia city and uh there are

01:05:48.200 innumerable bodies buried all over the place. It turns out a lot of them were in Lake Mead.

01:05:53.260 So, and they're saying they anticipate much more as the water keeps dropping.

01:05:57.760 Just strange news out of the world of weirdness that's out there. Let's see. Well, it looks like

01:06:05.280 my guest isn't going to make it. So, well, I guess, you know, I was hoping to talk to Mr.

01:06:10.560 Borgol about why he got disqualified from the CPC. He said he'd put everything in and he'd put the

01:06:17.520 $300,000 in and all that. But maybe as with this show, he didn't understand the deadline and didn't

01:06:22.600 make it on time. You know, you set an appointment, you make it. And there are deadlines and things

01:06:26.480 like that. Either way, I'd offer the chance for him to explain on the show. I'm afraid he's just

01:06:30.500 going to have to pass on it. So for the time being, we have, no, yes, five other candidates

01:06:36.220 to choose from as Nico's got listed on the bottom. Patrick Brown, actually six, sorry. Those are the

01:06:42.440 ones from the debate there. And Patrick Brown, I don't know if he's ever going to

01:06:48.600 attend debates or not, but if he does, he'll be one of the six that are on there who made it into

01:06:56.740 it. And there was a lot of others who entered and didn't make the cut. Gary saying, how much water

01:07:02.000 did you drink while in Vegas? Well, the last times I was in Vegas, no, actually I have been there

01:07:05.640 since I quit drinking. Either way though, most of the times I was in Vegas, water was on the least

01:07:10.220 of my consumptions typically. But yeah, thinking of it coming from Lake Mead, well, welcome to the

01:07:15.880 world of recycling. But yeah, Claudette saying, yeah, he was on Shadow Davis last night.

01:07:25.160 It's not what you said. Well, Claudette, he had the opportunity to come on here. He didn't.

01:07:30.400 So I can't interpret further. So yes, I don't smile on people who stand me up for guest

01:07:37.280 appointments. I don't like it. I send many emails out. I send the time of day. I send the links. I

01:07:41.420 send them to multiple people. I don't know what the reason is. It might be an honest mistake,

01:07:44.960 whatever it happened, but I only have so many spaces for them. I do think he's a decent person.

01:07:49.920 I do think he was probably unfairly barred from running for it, but he had an opportunity now to

01:07:55.360 expand on it and he's passed on it apparently. So it's unfortunate. Either way, we'll see what

01:08:01.620 comes. I mean, he's, he's, he might work further in political things down the future. All right.

01:08:07.780 So tomorrow I have John Carpe from the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms on. He's

01:08:13.140 going to give an update. And of course, those guys are busy, busy, busy. Lots of court challenges,

01:08:17.260 lots of things, you know, they've been standing up for Tamara Leach and her legal challenges.

01:08:21.440 And they got challenges out on the

01:08:22.900 Emergency

01:08:27.400 Act and things such as that. And then Christopher Oldcorn, our Saskatchewan

01:08:31.160 reporter, and he also writes the odd opinion columns on bigger things, you know, outside of

01:08:35.100 that. And he wrote one that was really good if you look it up on the website. Actually, it's called

01:08:38.380 Go Woke, Go Broke. And he listed out some of the things, you know, Netflix is losing money

01:08:42.480 while Spotify is actually

01:08:44.800 growing in, you know, subscribers and everything, despite them all

01:08:51.000 saying Joe Rogan was going to bring them down.

01:08:52.980 So that'll be a good chat.

01:08:53.960 You know, just bending over and going woke all the time

01:08:56.660 doesn't always pay off for you.

01:08:58.300 And there'll be lots of new study items

01:09:00.260 and other things for me to rant about

01:09:01.340 and go on about tomorrow.

01:09:02.340 So thank you all for joining me today, guys.

01:09:04.500 I appreciate it.

01:09:05.840 And I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow morning again

01:09:08.500 at 11.30 a.m. Mountain Standard Time.

01:09:21.000 We'll be right back.

Western Standard - May 10, 2022

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