Triggered： From farms to rodeos to COVID cults.
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Summary
In this episode of Triggered, we discuss the challenges faced by the ag sector, and how Bitcoin can help solve them. We also have an update on Ty Northcott, who is facing charges related to the "Big Rebel Rodeo" and other issues. Recorded in Vancouver, BC!
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hey it's january 14 2022 welcome to this episode of triggered i'm cory morgan and i'm chronically
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triggered this show is going to be coming every day at 11 30 a.m mountain standard time monday
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until friday with the exception of next week actually we're going to take a short breather
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for it a week off uh there's gonna be all sorts western standard content coming out actually
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and uh we'll be discussing some things uh i'm probably gonna pop in for a special i'm leaving
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the country gonna do some things down south for a bit among which is visiting my mother if she's
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tuning in today uh mom's birthday is today so uh yes we celebrate that moment when the person
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who brought me into this world was brought into this world herself happy birthday mom if you're
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watching if not i'll do the the good son thing and send you a facebook message soon uh so yeah
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good to see you ashley and uh thanks for the thumbs up and sharing and as i said this is a
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show that i want to see interaction you know comments let's talk back and forth this is sort
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of the replacement this is where talk radio is going and we do have uh podcast ability you can
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download the audio if you can't come on and catch the shows live every time listen to them at your
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leisure and we're probably going to be getting it set up soon so that you can listen to it live you
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know through your devices like Alexa and all those things you know while you're doing things at work
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or around the house or wherever we can have these discussions and spread the word I got a good show
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today it's gonna be a lot of an agricultural theme in a sense that kind of fits with the big
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Yellowstone craze going on and all that though hi Sandy we've got Kelly Malmberg I had him on
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before actually and unfortunately we had some technical issues and Kelly's an agricultural
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producer down in Blackie and you know we just got so many things going on I mean the the ag sector
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is having such a hard time. They always are. It's a tough way to make a living. You know,
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it's a good lifestyle, but they certainly have their challenges. And then the other thing is
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we've got a lot of very expensive food items going on. Like what's going on? The farmers aren't
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getting all the money. The consumers are paying all the money. Where's it going? Maybe Kelly can
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answer some of those questions. Then I'm going to talk to Ty Northcott. For those who may remember,
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Ty was, he held that rodeo back in Bowdoin last May, you know, the big rebel rodeo. We were set
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up there with the Western Standard. It was a really good time. And there was a lot of hysteria
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over it. Oh, it's going to be a super spreader event. You're going to kill people. It didn't
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turn into one. We just had a really good time out there. But Ty has been charged and it's still
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dragging through the courts. They're putting them through the ringer. I believe his next court date
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is coming in about 10 days here in Alberta. I'll get an update from Ty and see what's going on with
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him, how it's been going. He's done a good job. I hope he's got more rodeos coming. And hi there,
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Hey, Doug, I'm going to be in that same country as you in just a few days.
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And I will be reporting from freedom as I pass through the States, you know, being able
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to breathe freely and away from these insane restrictions of Canada.
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Well, we've got a cult of fear who will not let COVID go.
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I mean, as the Omicron variant or Omicron proves to be much weaker than previous incarnations of COVID-19,
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I mean, how this variant is spreading like wildfire, but the symptoms are remarkably weak.
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Most people don't even realize they're infected until they actually test positive for it.
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Alberta's official COVID-19 case count is well into 60-some thousand active people right now.
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Dr. Dina Hinshaw said that the number is likely 10 times that.
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That means we have over half a million Albertans currently infected with the Omicron variant.
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Well, when I checked last, among ICU admissions in Alberta, 11 were identified as Omicron infections.
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66 of general hospitalizations were Omicron cases.
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These are the sort of medical pressures that a bad outbreak of the common cold presents.
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I mean, they'll hit the vulnerable and they put some people in the hospital.
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But this isn't the plague, but we're acting like it.
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This virus could have mutated into something much more rather than less deadly.
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The high transmissibility of the variant may be a hidden blessing.
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I mean, we're seeing pressures in the workplaces due to staff calling in sick,
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and we're also seeing people gaining a whole new level of immunity against COVID-19 through a low-risk infection.
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Researchers have found that many people who have been vaccinated and then become infected with the Omicron variant
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are gaining what they're tentatively calling superimmunity.
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They might have as much as a thousand percent better resistance against COVID-19
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than somebody who's not been vaccinated and or infected.
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So how are the doomsayers responding to these new developments?
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They're working to raise the level of fear, demanding more lockdowns,
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and insanely calling for mandatory vaccinations across the country.
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There's a number of unions in Alberta calling for complete lockdowns in the province.
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Our hospitals aren't even close to being overwhelmed at this point.
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And some journalists have gone completely off the rails.
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I'm just going to quote some stuff from Randy Boswell, who wrote in a global news column.
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How hard should Canada be pushing unvaccinated citizens to finally get inoculated against COVID-19?
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We should be persuading and pressuring vaccine holdouts in every way we can think of.
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Short of all out public shaming and frog marching them to clinics and forcing needles into their arms.
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I'm not sure Boswell, where he thinks he stopped short of public shaming, because that's what he's doing already.
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And the entire rest of his column is dedicated to shaming and inflaming public sentiment against people who have chosen Knox to be vaccinated.
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The measures he proposes and supports to push people into vaccination are not terribly short of the frog marching he's talking about.
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While children are at a remarkably low risk from all of the variants of COVID-19,
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The panic-mongering advocates are demanding school closures
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and the implementation of even stronger masking mandates.
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Again, the weaker this thing seems, the more hysteric the panic porn pushers get.
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They're doing harm to the entire nation due to their ideology.
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These people need to be called out and they need to be shamed for the damage they're doing.
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And I'm not talking about the unvaccinated.
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There's some people who built their entire essence around the COVID-19 pandemic.
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and they get off on terrorizing people over it.
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and they've built a sense of purpose around it.
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who believe they're saving the world from itself
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to reduce individual liberties as much as possible.
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and warned of doom and gloom being but two weeks away
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They've adopted a zero-risk outlook towards the pandemic control,
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They overlook all of the damage caused by government restrictions
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while exaggerating the harm caused by the virus itself.
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these zealots will seek out something negative to counter it.
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They're almost jubilant when a 14-year-old Albertan
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was listed as the province's first COVID-19 fatality last summer.
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Their sanctimonious cries of, I told you so, were hard to miss.
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The disappointment was almost evident in them when it was found that the death of that young
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In fact, it turned out to a huge embarrassment for the government, and they pressured the
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family over all these jubilant assholes celebrating what they thought was the death of a child
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They then scoured the internet to find outlying cases of young people succumbing to the virus
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in other parts of the world in a desperate hope to maintain the illusion that COVID-19
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As with any cult, there's no reasoning with the adherence of this one.
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We can only learn to sideline them and ignore them as we would any other lunatic howling the end is nigh while ringing a bell and accosting people in city streets because that's what these people are.
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They're just using the internet now rather than city streets.
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And unfortunately, a lot of them are politicians and journalists who have a fair reach with their crazed apocalyptic predictions.
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We may be nearing the end of this two-year nightmare and we should be looking forward and ahead to better times.
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The people who have learned to love living within this emergency don't want to let it go, though.
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Their voices are getting more shrill and their predictions more dire as they face the prospect of normalcy in people's lives.
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Let's work to ensure the voices of reason begin to dominate the discussion as we start to see the light at the end of this tunnel.
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The doomsayers have disproportionately loud voices for their numbers.
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We can shut them down with a message of cautious optimism.
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To let them win now is to accept a perpetual state of restrictions.
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Now, I'm going to check in with Melanie Rizden. She's one of our news reporters. You see a lot of her stories at the westernstandardonline.com. She's constantly putting them out there and she's going to tell us what is making the news today and what we got to look forward to. How are you doing, Mel?
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Good. Aside from that, again, I'll be escaping soon.
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Well, why don't we stick to what you were ranting about. We do have a few stories that we've put out today in the COVID realm. BC firefighters have lost a case. They had an appeal by a group of BC firefighters to halt mandated vaccines, and that has been rejected by a Labour board adjudicator.
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So we've got details on that on the website, and people can look into the reasoning behind that.
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MPs have voted to say federal snooping of people's cell phones to the tune of 33 million Canadians during the pandemic is going to head to an ethics committee for investigation.
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apparently not too happy that the feds were snooping into people's whereabouts during the
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pandemic. So that's another story we have up right now. Looks like because likely because of COVID
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and some of the craziness that's come, a lot of people are looking to de-urbanize. So it looks
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like there's a record-breaking amount of people migrating from urban centers to rural. Looks like
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from mid-2020 to mid-2021, 59% increase in that de-urbanizing movement of people. So we've got
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that up. Let's see what else we have. A federal report recommending climate change insurance be
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made mandatory. So that feels like it's going to be an expensive year ahead of us with that on the
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table uh and we've got a couple of great columns out right now uh one from linda slobodian where
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she's uh taking a stab at prince andrew uh he was stripped of all of his military duties and uh
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he's he's uh looking at uh some an investigation uh yeah you can see there uh it's on the website
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you can read into it and see what our columnist linda has to say about her thoughts around this
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story. We also have another column up from Dave Makacheck. He is comparing Trudeau and Trudeau's
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accomplishments to that of a bomb-sniffing rat. And that is a really interesting comparison that
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I really suggest our readers dig into. We also are working on a piece on inflation. I believe
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you mentioned it, Corey, about how prices are just skyrocketing when it comes to food and the cost of
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goods. So our reporter Eva is working on a story on inflation. Apparently, according to a recent
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survey, Canadians, that's their number one concern is the rising cost of consumer goods and the cost
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of food. So, and I, again, think you're going to be touching on the fact that just yesterday,
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the price of pork has jumped by 50%. I'm not sure if people have noticed that in the stores yet,
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but you will very soon. Great. Yeah. It's been interesting with that. And Kelly's going to be
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coming on pretty soon, Kelly Malmberg, to talk a bit, at least from an agricultural producer's
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perspective. I mean, the thing is with the food, it's a long and complicated supply chain all the
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away from the the egg producer to us when we finally get it in the supermarket but somewhere
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in the middle these prices are going through the roof and from what we can hear it's not the people
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producing and we're getting that money and it's not the people buying it or getting any savings
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so we got to try and track down where we're getting hooped here because uh it seems to be
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happening yeah that's right the other thing uh we've got out right now and uh i'm working on a
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little bit further uh on this story is uh the story of the family that was um you know evicted
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and this has created a massive amount of division.
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Now, I believe the family was featured on Fox News.
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not only Canada-wide, but through the states as well.
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and you know commenting on mainstream articles that this family you know it's a travesty that
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this family is needing to choose between getting vaccinated and the care of their child who is
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their four-year-old son is undergoing cancer treatment right now but then you've got the
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other side of the coin where you've got a lot of people arguing that they're in a facility where
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you know immunocompromised kids are staying and and so you know a lot of people arguing that
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a vaccine should be mandated in that kind of environment to protect all of the people that
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come through the house and are, you know, in and around these children who are immunocompromised.
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So very divisive. I mean, the topic has been so polarizing to begin with. It's just growing.
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Yeah, that was frustrating because I've always admired Ronald McDonald House. I mean,
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it's been a fantastic charity and they've helped thousands and thousands of families when they're
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dealing with a terrible time and dealing with medical treatment for their children. But for
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them to take this ridiculous stand, and I know it puts them in a rock and a hard place. And I mean,
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I think part of that's due to a lot of that misinformation from the fear mongering jerks
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I've talked about before, where they were always talking about the unvaccinated spread COVID. No,
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they don't. Or at least no more than the vaccinated. We've discovered that maybe a year
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ago, we had an excuse for this, but we don't. So now yes, a four year old child in such care
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is now been evicted from a Ronald McDonald house. And it's harming their whole charity. It's
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dividing people again in the worst possible way. It's no wonder that story is still holding up so
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strongly. Yeah, we've got a piece out today, just got a response from the Ronald McDonald House on
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their vaccine policy. So again, they are, you know, very focused on keeping their facilities
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and their environment that these immunocompromised children are in as safe as possible. So they are
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doing what's been recommended to them and what their board has has decided on but yeah very much
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polarizing people yeah i mean all i can say to those i mean for the people who are still going
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to ronald mcdonald mcdonald house facilities or even mcdonald's itself i mean you might want to
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hold off of donations but you know be nice to the folks at the working at the drive-thru window the
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people working at those ronald mcdonald houses i mean they're they really are working very hard
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for for the best outcome even if they're dealing with some some regulations that might not be
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realistic. Well, and I think it's probably wise to point out right now that Ronald McDonald House
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is not McDonald's, the restaurant. The McDonald's restaurant does support Ronald McDonald House,
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but you don't go to a Ronald McDonald's house to get a burger. So I just thought I would clear
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that up for some people who may not. Yeah, it's getting confused by the two. Yes, it's the charity
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that was formed. I mean, I'll give a quick background. Some people might not be familiar
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with it too uh that that mcdonald's you know a huge corporation and a lot of them do do that
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they'll pick a particular uh charity i mean i think tim hortons has a lot of camps around the
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country ronald mcdonald house gives a place for if parents have their their children getting
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treatment extended treatment in a hospital they have facilities where the families can stay and
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try and live a little more normally and and affordably i mean if you live out of town and
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your child's in the hospital you could bankrupt yourself on hotel bills that's right and they
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can stay close to their children while they're being treated and and it's a very very good cause
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And it's unfortunate that this unholy mess has come out of it.
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So we'll certainly be following and watching this as that develops.
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Maybe we can get a, I don't know, some reasonably good idea to come out of this.
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I'm further triggered on a few things, but I'll calm down a little bit and talk to Kelly
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you'll see what Melanie and Eva and Dave and Reed and a whole bunch of people are working on.
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there because they're supporting us okay let's get on to our guest there i shouldn't drag him
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out much longer i already abused him so badly last time with technical issues uh kelly malmberg
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coming from southern alberta hey kelly how you doing good cory good off sounding much more clear
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this time i hope i'm coming in well to you it's kind of frustrating uh the challenges of a live
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show yeah last week that was tough i i was struggling but yeah you're coming in pretty
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good now excellent well we put you through the ringer see there now the interview is just easy
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you can actually hear me and uh respond so uh you might have heard me talking a bit earlier you know
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i mean people don't think of the whole supply chain they don't think of how food gets on their
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table necessarily it's fair enough we got a lot of things to think about but i mean it begins with
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the agricultural producer and uh i guess you know give us a rundown it's like there's some things
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you can't do anything about such as the weather and there's things we can do such as policy but
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But you guys have been having a tough go lately, huh?
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Yeah, like we were trying to say last week, last year was probably the worst year I've ever seen.
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And as you guys can remember, you know, we hit 40 degrees.
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Some of those days, it just decimated our crops.
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So right now, we're sitting probably the lowest grain stocks I've ever seen.
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It was also North America in general, parts of Europe and China.
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So, yeah, low grain stocks, and you guys have seen it in the grocery store.
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Yeah, I mean, it always travels down the line, and it's a long way of producers.
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We saw some things actually, it looks like bread price fixing came up again.
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But if you wonder why bread's expensive, well, we got some very large producers
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and commercial bakers and retailers that it turns out we're working together
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to kind of keep those prices fixed on people and but that price that you see that's probably what
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people don't see is that's not trickling down to the people are producing though the stock that
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goes into those goods is it well you know if you think about it um you know the yields were down
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like an average wheat yield in my country so south of calgary east high river you know you can
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usually pull off a 40 50 bushel wheat crop and to put that into you know in respect to a loaf of
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bread. One loaf of, one bushel of wheat produces about a hundred loaves of bread. So the price
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you're seeing isn't really the price, you know, isn't really what we're getting for the wheat.
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We make a lot of bread off of one bushel. So yeah, I don't know. I'm not saying it's price fixing,
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but our crops weren't that poor to see that much of an increase on a price on a loaf of bread.
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No, and I don't expect you to call it that. It's just some investigations have been finding that
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down the down the line um and another another challenge that's been hitting you outside of the
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weather though is is uh expenses for your inputs and the carbon tax i mean that's a impacted
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fertilizers uh you know equipment things that you're using and uh again you've got to pass
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those costs down somewhere yeah um like going into 2022 fertilizer prices are probably double
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um there's lots of crop inputs and it's a lot of the logistics of getting stuff we get a lot of our
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raw material from china and overseas um but yeah going into this spring with the poor yields we had
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last year um you know these guys are you know they're hurting financially and now these crop
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inputs are going to be basically double for example um urea fertilizer is usually around 600 bucks a
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ton phosphate's a little higher and that's essentially doubled so you know we're looking
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that $1,200 urea and phosphate. But I guess one silver lining is the crops did so poorly
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last year, we still have a fair bit of nutrients in our soil. So guys are definitely going
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to cut back on how much fertilizer they put in their fields this year. But yeah, crop
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inputs, herbicides, it's going to be a seed shortage because there wasn't a lot of crops.
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So yeah, we're cautiously optimistic. Grain prices are awesome right now. But another
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dry year and a lot of these guys are going to be in some big trouble. Yeah let's hope we get some
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some good snowpack going into spring maybe you can wait until a little longer you know before we're
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thigh deep or something but we need to get that moisture into the ground there's no doubt about
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it and it's just it's a huge element of well all of Canada we've always been a big agricultural
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producer and we forget about it we don't talk about it enough I mean if our ag producers hurt
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we all hurt you know we talk about the energy sector we talk about auto manufacturers
00:25:24.220
but uh again i mean our cost of living in general if a segment of our economy goes down we're all
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going to pay the price for that yeah and you know um talking my wife the other day it's like the
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grocery store it's kind of getting weird in there you know there's stuff there's lots of stuff
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missing um you know this whole covet thing uh the the floods that went through bc there's a lot of
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things going on right now and it's not just us like you know we grow a lot of beer beef and bread
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and milk. But a lot of the produce, you know, especially this time of year, you know, we rely
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solely on California and Mexico. And, you know, if Trudeau goes through with this unvaccinated
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truckers, you know, that's 10% of our trucking industry is unvaccinated. You know, that's going
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to affect us big time. It'll be really interesting to see what happens here. I think Saturday's when
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they really clamp down on the unvaccinated crossing the border with our supplied goods. So
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um yeah there's a lot going on right now we got uh high input cops high input uh on our crops
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but also produce coming in beef prices are really high and that's not trickling that's not coming
00:26:35.500
from the cattle producer that's that's getting stuck at the packing plants in the stores you
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know a lot of people are sick um packing plants are running a smaller crew so yeah i 22 is going
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be a fun year hopefully we get some moisture and we can get back to some normalcy that's for sure
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yeah and then the meat packing industry i mean it's kind of we created our own monster in a
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sense i mean we like our our quick low-priced food i mean that's the reality and economies
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of scale help with that so the bigger the plant the more they can process the more they can bring
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the prices down but then we found ourselves dependent on just a handful of major beef
00:27:12.600
packers uh and pork and poultry as well that well if one or two of those go down we're all in a lot
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of trouble and we really see some some repercussions uh uh on both ends i mean you've got only so many
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places to take your product to and consumers are suddenly seeing massive price hikes because of
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you know of outbreaks or strikes in those plants yeah like um i was talking about a friend of mine
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he has a feedlot here by brandt and he says you know we're basically basically relying on four
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packing plants that account for 85 percent of our kill capacity and you know there's high demand and
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yeah they're making good money but i heard i think cargill at high rivers got 40 covet cases
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and so there's a lot of disruption going on but they're making big money we need more kill capacity
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and there's just so much demand for uh you know no matter what uh they're saying about meat
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reduction it's pretty high demand right now i don't know what's going on in the pork you know
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i heard you guys talking earlier about the pork uh prices and how they've doubled i'm not a big i
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don't know a lot about the pork and but they do feed a lot of grain to them and um but it's all
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locally produced and those animals are here it's just a matter of getting it on a plate yeah in
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that case it was ham and it was down in the the states but of course it always trickles up here
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eventually and it was a supply chain thing i think that shot it up but it's showing how sensitive
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those price prices are on so many products uh i see a commenter cheryl saying yeah she bought
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beef direct from a farmer and it wasn't cheap i mean it's still expensive to get no matter how you
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do it jane and i bought a half a while back and filled our deep freeze and used it but i mean it
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uh it wasn't terribly cheap but at least we could bypass the uh the packers you know we went through
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uh redger lake meats for it and and uh and our producer that we bought off you know got a better
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price than she would have bring it to the processor but not everybody can do that and that's a big
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uh outlay of money and you got to have a connection directly with the producer i mean
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I mean, personally, I think if we could just get more, like so many things, competition,
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get a few more packers out there, a few more facilities, you know,
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break those semi-monopolies, both the producers and the consumers will win.
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Yeah, I know, you know, a lot of these feeder guys, you know, a lot of,
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there's been lots of groups over the years, like, you know,
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They tried to, you know, we've tried to bring our own packing plant in,
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but it just doesn't seem to you know there's just so much involved to it um manpower especially
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but i yeah i totally agree cory um i know in our neck of the woods we've got some local hutterite
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colonies that have full meetings you know they've got meat inspectors there um arrowhead colony for
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example a lot of people from the high river country uh they're very reasonable priced and
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yeah i would encourage trying to go like you said rib deer lake um there is lots of opportunity to
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try to support some of the local butchers, high river producers.
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Yeah. And then as Cheryl was saying, you might not save a pile of money,
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but you get more direct to that producer and to a smaller, uh,
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packing place, which will help add to that competition that we really want to
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see. As you said, there were others that tried it. I mean, it's a tough,
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expensive business. You need big facilities. You need a lot of health for good
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reason. Uh, you know, levels of health inspections and bureaucracy,
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unfortunately you're never going to get really, really cheap meat,
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but it does impact, I mean, our dairy, our poultry,
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Are you seeing much movement perhaps on producers
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so strongly control those agricultural sectors?
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just well you know it's that topic is it's such an unknown nobody knows about it nobody ever
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questions it the masses just go to the store and i see their um you know they are going to be raising
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their prices i think they started january 1 and they're going to go up 10 so they're actually
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they're raising their prices higher than the average rate of inflation they're a very powerful
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organization they've got um you know on every constituency board i can almost guarantee you
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It doesn't matter which political party you're in.
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They're strong supporters of supply management.
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And there is, you know, it didn't work with the grain.
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The Canadian Wheat Board was probably the most communistic,
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And, you know, I watched my grandpa and my father go through it,
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you know, and they sold their grain for next to nothing
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to make deals with the Russians and the Chinese.
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But supply management, I'm not a big fan of it,
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but very strong uh group very strong lobbyists um they'll probably never get rid of it but i think
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if people actually uh i just don't think they're informed enough to understand how it works
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it is a you know a good supply it's a steady supply it's well regulated but yeah it's that
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really um i think it's something needs to be looked at um to open it up and let everybody
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have an opportunity i don't know how it's so locked in right now we've got guys that paid
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big money for quotas and I just don't know how they do it. I see with the Americans now
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through that new trade agreement, you know, they're actually in a lawsuit right now that
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they're not allowing enough U.S. dairy in. So we'll see what happens with that.
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Yeah, it's impacting things with trade and otherwise. I mean, other countries did have
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it. Australia and New Zealand had supply management. They got out of it. It was expensive to get out
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because, I mean, you've got a lot of families and companies invested and they spent a lot of money
00:32:42.980
on those quotas. I mean, you can't just cut their legs out and leave them ruined. So you have to
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kind of phase it out. But if we can move towards that discussion, because it really, I mean, I
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think most of us agree, isn't the system that serves most people well? There's been some studies
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showing that the average family can be paying anywhere from five to 700 a year more in groceries
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just due to supply management alone. And, you know, that's reason enough to start getting out
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of that. Yeah, you know, it's, I don't know, I'm a big cheese connoisseur. And we just, everybody,
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all we do in this country is make milk because that's where the money's at um you know maybe if
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we opened it up we'd be able to get some more uh some better grade cheese like cheese in this
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country is brutal but yeah we didn't make good milk we have a steady supply um and hats off to
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those guys they're they're on every board and uh don't matter if you're a conservative or a liberal
00:33:32.400
they love supply management because they're told to well they know how to lobby you know you got
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to give them credit where it's due and uh you know they like spread the fear I like the cheese
00:33:41.240
example I mean for people to think back think 30 years ago when all you could get was a handful of
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crappy different kinds of beers once we opened it up it allowed people to do so many more of these
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craft breweries and everything now you can get crappy craft beers all over the place but there
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are some good ones among the mix too I mean you know leave it open it up let's get some variety
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same with cheeses I mean there's so many great ones but you've got to open it up and bring them
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in uh the other example bringing up the wheat board I mean yes you remember as well as I when
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when we finally started dismantling that old dinosaur,
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and I've probably got about a handful of people
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but if we'd had the wheat board marketing our grain
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this last year they would have been marketed it a year ago we're getting about 10 12 a bushel right
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now they would have probably had most of it sold for about six bucks we would have probably got
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seven eight bucks so that's my dig at the wheat board but i'm sure glad it's gone that's for sure
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right on well i appreciate you coming on because these are things again a lot of our
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urban or just non-agriculture producing you know listeners and viewers and so on
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don't necessarily know about i just like to get that voice from people on the ground and
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And, you know, be patient with our agricultural community and be supportive.
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They're a big part of our things in the West, and they're having a tough time.
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And, well, one of the ways is learning what's going on out there and talking about it.
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And I'm glad we didn't mess with you with audio issues this time.
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So, yeah, you know, again, it's such an important sector for us in Canada.
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Most people, if they have been out here for a couple of generations, they look back and their family members came over here to be sharecroppers or farmers, you know, and get rolling on things.
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And they're having a tough time and it's all connected.
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I mean, there's so many issues, you know, from the weather to government policy, to supply chains, to the bloody COVID.
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And yes, this trucking idiocy that they're going back and forth with.
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Okay, so where are we at? We've got a little bit of time to talk before we get to
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Ty, who's going to come in and talk to us for a bit. Let's see, you know, look at some of these
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Omicron study results. I'm just looking at the CDC saying there's a 53% less chance of
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hospitalization, and repeated boosters. Oh, I know what I want to get to. Sorry. Okay.
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I do have one picture that was sent to me as a meme. I'm looking to get more and more of those
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all the time, but somebody sent one that was kind of funny and it's the Dina Hinshaw cat.
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I think maybe if, there we go, Dina Hinshaw's cat. I can add a little humor on some things
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that are serious. I mean, we get tired of Dina and yes, her bangs are something outstanding.
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they've become something of a trademark for her. And this cat just matches it. I think one of the
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funnier things I saw, it was people saying before a press conference, watch for her bangs and what
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level they're at. And if they're higher or lower, you know that we're going to be seeing longer
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lockdowns. Sort of like watching the groundhog at a groundhog day to try and predict the weather.
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City council, you know, so I'll get onto that. Yes, Cheryl sent that to me. Thank you, Cheryl.
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I did get that. And again, as I said earlier, aside from the other fella, send me these memes,
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send me these pictures. We can break some things up with humor. We can have a chuckle with things
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while still talking about serious issues. It can be done. And memes are a fun way to communicate
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them and just funny pictures and things like that. At Corey B. Morgan, you can see my Twitter
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account there that Nico's pulled up. If you want to see me on Twitter, that's where I get my most
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unrestrained discourse and conversations going. And of course, you know, send that stuff off to
00:38:49.420
me, I'm more than happy to look into them. Now, another one, just to show, actually, just a
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cartoon, because I tweeted that out recently. And it's when I'm talking about Calgary City Hall,
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because they are speaking of going back into the Flames negotiation. And something got leaked.
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There was an article in the Herald by Corbella. And I guess from an in-camera meeting, which means
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they're in hiding. These are Nenshi's favorite things. Now, it seems Gondek is much the same
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way, they've decided to have a third party go and try and beg the Flames to reopen negotiations,
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to try and get on their knees and cry and say, please, please, we're sorry. We didn't mean it.
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We want you back. We understand. We love you. We need an arena. But the best part of what came out
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of that meeting, I guess, was there was a vote in camera. And I know a couple of councillors,
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you know, Gondek's, you know, fart catchers who are already in there on council are upset that
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And there's been a lot of discussion with that.
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Her little weasley chief of staff, Stephen Carter,
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to call a special meeting when the deal was falling apart.
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She could have brought council together. She chose not to because she's trying to say, well, I'm just one person. I couldn't do anything. Yes, you could have. And you chose not to. You wanted that deal to die. And now it's blown up. And now they don't want you to have any more part in it. I don't know if the flames want to come back to the table, but they're going to be having the upper hand now.
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I mean, as was said in some of the articles and other things about that so far, it's city council who blinked and, you know, the negotiations from this point going forward are going to be with them in a much stronger position.
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um there's uh yeah there's some discussions where we're talking about privacy we're talking about
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a task force uh clint mentioned that uh yeah that's where things go to die unfortunately
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they often are but uh they have been tracking the government's been tracking us through our
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cell phones and it should be of concern for us another thing is the rcmp commissioner is urging
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people to tell them when they spot anti-government uh chatter on the net you know this uh pointing
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fingers going at each other, getting neighbors against
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neighbors, things like that. That's the stuff of
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authoritarians that always scares me. It happened
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if their neighbors are breaking rules. And now the RCMP
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Lucky, we're going to have to have a future show
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because there's some very controversial things coming
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out about her. And that's that federal force. One day, one day, we may start towards the Alberta
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agenda that we started talking about 20 some years ago, the fair deal panel, the things that
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Jason Kenney promised, which is let it talk and talk and more talk and more talk and more deferrals.
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It means he doesn't want to do it. If Kenney wanted to do something, do it. The RCMP has some
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fantastic members. They got some great policemen among them and women. But their organization's
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broken. It's corrupt. It's a mess. And it's controlled by Ottawa. It's time to move on to
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our provincial police force. I mean, some of them said, oh, it's going to be more expensive, maybe,
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but it'll be worth it. Is everything about money when it comes to policing? And hey, who's to say
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if we start bringing in an Alberta police force that a lot of those members won't be former RCMP
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members? It doesn't mean we have to fire them. We just got to change the training and the mandate.
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so yeah, let's see, they're not worried about the commissioner
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talking about us spying on each other, let's talk about how we can
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with some of his promises to distance ourselves from Ottawa
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Something that Melanie brought up as well, and that's been an interesting trend,
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is people are moving to rural properties, the de-urbanization.
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Yeah, I think for generations now, the trend has always been everywhere around the world.
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People move from rural areas and into the big cities.
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They're going downtown, and there it is, that headline.
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We're right on the footstep of Calgary, but we're out of the city, and we love it.
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I mean, it's great out there. It's worth the extra little while of driving. And we're seeing loads and loads, the largest net migration from cities, basically, in modern time has happened. It's for a number of reasons. You know, the pandemic, I mean, it's definitely tied to that. It's a consequence of that. People don't want to live in a packed downtown apartment sharing elevator buttons and laundry facilities. They want to get out and stretch their legs. They want their own little piece of space.
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And now that, you know, due to the pandemic forcing so many companies to get people working from home, they're realizing even without being regulated to do so, they want to keep doing so.
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You know, maybe they only need them in once a week.
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Why am I down here with all these attics and dirt and human feces and high parking rates?
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And, you know, we've had the discussions with Shane Wenzel and Marcel Latouche, because it's led to quite a problem.
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I mean, we do have a city that's turning into a donut.
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You know, Calgary's got 1.4 million people or so, and they're all fleeing the core, and they're all settling on the outside.
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And it's an imbalance, but it's where consumers want to go.
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So maybe we should start talking about development more on that basis then, you know.
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Quit trying to jam everybody down, down, except where the consumer demand is, and do our development that way.
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I mean, we've got to figure out something to fill that ever hollowing central donut over there.
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And if they aren't living in the country, they're heading to the suburbs.
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I mean, that's something that's been happening a lot as well.
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They aren't going deeply into the inner core and urban areas.
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This is Pamela Jones Kenny saying they live on 273 acres in a small community in B.C.
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Yeah, far less regulations and people have common sense.
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Yeah, and I mean, I ran the pub down in Paredes for years,
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from when you get into a rural area versus an urban.
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Though there are still some people without common sense,
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and imbeciles do populate just about every area at times,
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including rural, but I did find it greatly reduced
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in the rural areas, or even if you don't like your neighbor,
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you're not right next to them, so you can escape them
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and disagree with each other with a little more distance
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and they tried to substitute with testing and regimens for that. Now they've raised it though.
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So even if you've had two vaccinations, if you work for AHS, now you got to get tested all the
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time to keep going to work if you can get a test. But what they've done now also is said, okay,
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but if you haven't got the booster, you have to get tested. If you haven't been vaccinated,
00:46:45.820
you've got to pay for your tests. If you haven't vaccinated, you don't have to pay for your tests.
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Like these multiple tier policies are spreading. I mean, they're spreading within organizations,
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they're spreading into government policy. It's all over the place. Talk about, I mean, I've never
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in my lifetime seen our society so divided among themselves and so many efforts to do so. What's
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the workplace got to be like in those spots between the vaccinated and unvaccinated? I mean,
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we're here at the Western Standard. We've got multiple people who've made multiple choices.
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I'm vaccinated. I know people go wild whenever I talk about that. I would never get over yourselves.
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That's the thing with the free choice, by the way. Don't get upset with me when I say I'm
00:47:18.940
vaccinated. I'm not getting upset with you when you say you aren't. It's a choice thing. It's not
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that hard. And we can do that here and we can get along and we can work in the same workplace.
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But these government run places, not so much. You know, we don't get a common sense applying,
00:47:36.160
unfortunately, when you get into a larger bureaucratic organization such as AHS or some
00:47:40.900
of the larger companies where a lot of these things are going on. I want to talk about another
00:47:45.260
medical uh story actually that was kind of interesting coming up was a fellow and I don't
00:47:51.920
know if he's still going I hope he is uh had a pig heart transplanted into himself the other day
00:47:57.720
you might have seen that in other news I don't know if we have a standard story on that one but
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I just think it's kind of cool and interesting so yes this pig was raised specifically for the
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purpose of transplant organs uh it had yes some genetic modifications onto it and I guess this
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gentleman didn't qualify for regular human transplants. You know, hearts are rare and
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hard to come across and they have to prioritize between people who have a higher and lower
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percent chance of survivability. And they basically said, well, you want to be the one
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to try this out because you're kind of out of luck waiting for a human one. You got nothing
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to lose in trying. So he said, yeah, go for it. And it seems to have worked. And the last
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I checked, he was still living and the heart was pumping away. Talk about a deal breaker.
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I mean, or a deal changer, I guess, a game changer.
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I mean, if we can start, you know, unfortunately, not enough people have voluntarily been, you know, signing up to be organ donors.
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You know, as strong as among medical things, suggest people do it.
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It's the cheapest and easiest charity you can give to is giving an organ.
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And, you know, if we can start, but there's never enough and it's difficult to get by.
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if uh we could start doing it through pigs for that purpose why not kidneys lungs i don't know
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corneas there's all sorts of things i'll come back to that but i see ty it looks like he's
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still on the road i know he was busy he's been traveling in that so i think maybe we'll pull
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him into the show fast while he's still uh available i don't want to cause an accident
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there so uh ty northcott he is the gentleman who yes held the big rebellious rodeo um we'll have
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them pulled into the show in a moment here and uh we'll have a chat and get an update
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hey there you are careful you're driving there good good to see you it's been a while i saw you
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at that uh briefly at the uh ucp thing there a month or some ago but uh oh shoot i missed you
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there well i can't remember i'd seen seen so many people there it was a busy weekend yeah no i just
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said a quick hello and moved along there. So good to see you again, though. I see you're busy as
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always. I know I was trying to get you the other day, but you were on the road. Yeah, we're just
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headed home from Grand Prairie. My oldest daughter just got her new house yesterday and we set it on
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the foundation. So it was a good day yesterday. Well, good, good. Right on. Hope the roads were
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good. So let's, I guess, get straight to it and check in. You said the last time I talked to you,
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You said your next court dates, perhaps January 25th for your having dared to hold a rodeo in Alberta.
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Yeah, we we've been pushed back a few times and it looks like right now the 25th, I don't know.
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It looks to me right now, like a lot of the cases are getting pushed back because of the Ingram case.
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I don't know if ours is that case or not, but, um, or I don't know if we're that situation or not,
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but it kind of seems like a lot of them are getting pushed back because of that.
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Yeah. So what exactly were you charged with then?
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Yeah, we got that part. So I imagine that they'll have a big list of, uh, I mean,
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it's truly the fun police. I mean, we know, we were at that rodeo for two days and we had a hell
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of a time. That was the best time I had all spring. And then best time a few thousand Albertans had
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that spring. And you know what? Nobody got sick. Nobody got hurt. It was a really good time. And
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I'm guessing just some Alberta Health Act violations are what they're upset with you for.
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Yeah, it was one violation in the Health Act. I can't remember what exactly it was.
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I don't worry about that stuff. I let my lawyer do that. We're in pretty good hands, I think.
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and we just feed them whatever information we can to help the case along and just kind of wait
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and see. I'm kind of excited to get to court sooner or later and see if we can't iron out
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some issues with our Alberta Health Services and our tyrannical government we have right now.
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Yeah, well, we found that with a lot of these things with people they've charged, whether it
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was, you know, Chris with his restaurant or other things is they drag it out. And often when they
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get there, they finally drop it. But I think a lot of this, they drag their heels. They might
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drop it on you though. You're living in stress. You don't know, but they're just want to drag
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it out until hopefully they think this pandemic will come to an end and they'll just kind of
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quietly fade away and let life go to normal. I wonder if that might be what they're up to with
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you right now. Well, if they're trying to stress me, they're not. Good. Perfect. They're losing.
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So have you got more rodeos in the can and we got stuff to look forward to this spring?
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Well, in 2021, we had a couple events that went forward that would have been regular events in 2019.
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In our world, there's optimism, but not like you would hope.
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Like right now is kind of a booking time for a lot of our events.
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pretty much rode off all of our spring indoor events and uh i think we're gonna see what ones
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would move to an outdoor venue for 2022 and then uh go from there yeah well i mean that's what we
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talked about a lot earlier when i've had you on past shows you know i mean albertans forget that
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this is an industry with generations and generations of tradition and having a terrible
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so many industries having a terrible time with the covid and you guys have to keep live stock
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literally what the term is it's not something you can just throw on a shelf and wait until the
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pandemic's done or doesn't cost you to keep i mean you've got your your uh as you call them
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animal athletes that you care about you're keeping them fit and ready and they got to get out there
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and get used and uh you know these these rodeo whether it's competitors or producers or organizers
00:53:58.640
or like so many other businesses going broke well um probably the easiest way for me to explain it
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And some of them are family, or a lot of them are,
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So you try and hang on to them as long as you can,
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and different people over the last year or two to just keep our numbers down and
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we're just trying to make her work right now. I hear you and just that reminder people you know
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these are specially raised and trained animals you can't just go into a herd of cattle and pull a
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bull out of there and throw it out into the field or grab somebody's horse and use it for Bronx I
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mean these are specialized animals that takes a number of producers to be able to keep up with
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so if we don't have rodeos we're going to lose that well exactly and it's kind of looking like
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you know some of the people that were raising the animals for us on the side some of them
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have kind of went under in the last year or two or lost interest and when we do get fired up if
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we ever were to get fired up to 100 again there's going to be a lot of stress on the rodeo system
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um i i don't see us ever getting back to where we were in 2019 but i hope i'm wrong
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but i i just don't ever see it yeah and that's just a sad development and again it's such a
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traditional uh fun and distinctly western uh you know industry it's i mean there's no not much else
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in the world that shows it like that uh has these kinds of gatherings i'm glad you're there's one
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thing i found with you you're good and stubborn anyways i don't imagine you're giving up anywhere
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we're just uh seeing a setback right now i see a lot of the commenters are saying you know put on
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a rodeo and uh i'll be there like we got a lot you got a lot of supporters some people really
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want to make sure that you can uh carry on and do all right so i'll let you get on i see you're in
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the truck there and uh i really appreciate you coming in to check in with us and uh keep us up
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to date you know we want to keep reporting on that and see what happens to you we'll be watching your
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your court date and see if anything actually happens or if they kick the can down the road
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again um where can people find out more about what you're up to ty uh we've been pretty quiet
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on our social media just because it's a slower time of year like we're seasonal so uh if you
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watch northcott rodeo inc facebook page uh usually if we're uh contracting for other groups or doing
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our own events it's most of our stuff is on that page and uh we've got some things in the work for
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possibly April, more than likely May because of the weather. So yeah, just kind of keep an eye
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on that. It's always good talking to you, Corey. I get some of the best interviews from you. I
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really appreciate it. Oh, I appreciate it. It's always fun and easy to chat with you. It was
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great coming over to visit with you when Jane and I came out that way. She of course loves to
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get out onto the farm for a bit like she grew up at. So well, keep fighting the good fight there,
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Ty and well I hope to see you soon and yeah Ty and Gail of course yes I should mention Gail and
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we'll see you again soon maybe another rodeo. Excellent really appreciate that we'll talk to
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you soon. All right have a good one well that's Ty Northcott and be sure to support these guys I
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got something breaking coming up here soon in a minute too but yeah you know check them out at
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the Northcott you look it up on Facebook they keep you up to date he has his stuff going that rodeo
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really was a good time I can't think of a better you know a more Albertan protest than to hold a
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rodeo you know to say we're standing up for ourselves we're being Albertans we're unapologetic
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and if you as you've seen from uh from Ty yeah he doesn't take any bs he's just standing up for
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himself and pushing back and uh oh I saw uh Dave there okay he sent me a comment he's busy and
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working hard from the newsroom but yeah we've got something breaking uh and we'll be breaking when
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when Ty gets exonerated in court, I hope, and we'll report on that too, and we'll talk to him
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again. But what we got here, it's exclusive, just published, I'm just reading this from a comment
00:58:24.500
now, so go to westernstandardonline.com to see what's going on. The woman at the center of the
00:58:28.760
Shang-Chi sex scandal has launched a fundraising campaign. The woman identified in legal papers
00:58:34.140
as HH, who was 16 at the time of the sexual encounter with Chu in 97, when Chu was a police
00:58:40.320
officer. The case went through two internal investigations, no charges were laid. She's
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saying she hasn't spoken out publicly out of fear for substantial harassment, severe threats,
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concern for her family and employment. She's writing in a GoFundMe post, she's looking to
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raise $25,000. Since the news stories are written, she's been forced to take on legal expenses to
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keep her identity protected and try to keep herself and her family safe. Several people,
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including a news outlet, have made her identity known. I don't believe that was us. We respect
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people and their privacy. And she says she's been getting threats and her home and vehicle
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have been targeted. So, you know, the Sean Chu horror story, you know, a mess is just won't
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seem to go away. For those not familiar with it, Sean Chu is the counselor in ward for
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uh he well he's admitted as much to a a bad choice of judgment back in the 90s as a young
00:59:40.260
police officer uh and uh picked up and apparently now you know it's he said she said uh had i guess
00:59:48.540
some he did he claims he didn't know she was underage uh had uh gone to his place with her
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i believe and there was some fondling and things that had happened uh it went through a lot of
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investigations. It was, he was reprimanded by the police for, you know, conduct unbecoming,
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but he wasn't charged with anything or convicted with anything. And Sean ended it. Now, Sean got
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reelected in Ward 4, but what had happened? And, you know, let's clarify some of this stuff. I want
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to anyways. I mean, I'm not going to try and say what Sean did was right or good or bad. That's a
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whole separate thing. There's definitely some, some things he did that were just not good. There's
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no getting around it. When you're that old, leave the younger ones alone, damn it. But it all came
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out the week before election day when he was running for re-election. Suddenly it got released,
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it goes public. That's ugly, gross political play. That was the move of somebody who didn't care
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about the victim. They didn't care about Sean's indiscretion or what it might be. They just wanted
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to make sure he lost the election. They could have put that out obviously long before that,
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but they wanted to do the maximum amount of damage. So they waited until the weekend just
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before election day and threw it out there into the public field to, you know, try and ruin his
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chances of getting reelected. It had quite an impact, I would suspect. He won by only 100
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and some votes. I mean, some people were pretty horrified by it. It's up to the voters. I'm not
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saying what Sean did was good or bad. Well, I think what he did was bad. Whether or not it is
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something to fire him from elected office or not, well, that's up to the voters.
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whoever released all that stuff didn't do it with
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in mind they just wanted to win that election and that's why they
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was inconsistent and was found to be untrue. So I think, I suspect, again, whoever wanted to do this
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damage to Sean's reputation, the reason they waited until just before the weekend, it didn't
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give him a chance to put out the further parts of the testimony. They just wanted to put out the
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bad parts and not give him a chance to defend himself against it, which again, he still did
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some stuff. So stuff's still breaking. This girl has definitely been very upset for Sean for
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getting on 30 years now, and now she's looking for some money. So we'll see what comes out of
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that, that ugly mess. Uh, whatever happens, I, I suspect Sean's probably on his final term in
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city council, uh, an ugly thing. So Western standard online.com that's, that's breaking
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for you to check out. All right. I'm going to get back to where it was for Ty popped in. Like I said,
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he was on the road. So I want to go quickly. I see a commenter there. This one's interesting.
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Franco Shadavari, but you know, some things doesn't like my getting vaccinated or whatever.
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I don't care. We don't agree. But he says, I'm not smart. Well, okay. Well, I'm the one with the
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show and you're just a pecker head commenting on Facebook. We'll see. But you know, that's fine.
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lots of people don't consider me bright but then he goes on saying oh I'm an organ transplant
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pusher yes yes I am I think it's a good idea I think if your heart's worn out and you got the
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option to get another heart it's a good idea you live longer kidneys livers I got an uncle blew
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his out finally quit drinking still alive 20 years later with a liver transplant what world are we in
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where there's actually anti-organ transplant people really well that's fine and I don't
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believe in forced medication. So when your guts go out, I do hope there's a thereafter for you.
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I'll go for the organ transplant and I'm going to donate my organs. Yes, when I'm done, if there's
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anything usable in here, make use of it. If I can help somebody else with it, by all means,
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take anything you want from this body. I can't believe there's people actually opposed to organ
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transplants. I guess I shouldn't be too shocked. You know, the internet is a wild, wonderful,
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dark and weird place. So yes, I am an organ transplant pusher. I do wish that more people
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would sign up to donate. As I said, it's a nice cheap charity. It's an easy one. You know,
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you just got to have it on your driver's license. And if something happens, they can take it out of
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you, give it to someone else. I like one of the things somebody said before was, don't think of
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it as you giving an organ to keep somebody else alive. They're giving their entire body to keep
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one of your organs alive. You know, it's a good exchange. There was a young fellow in politics,
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He had been a recipient of a double lung transplant back when I believe he was 15 years old.
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He used to come to our place to play poker and that.
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You know, sometimes people just can't get a break with health and he passed away young.
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But he was a big advocate for organ donation and the benefits of it.
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I mean, he died way too young, but he would have died back when he was 15.
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At least he did get a period of time living and, you know, giving us the chance to experience
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So again, getting back to this gentleman, there's a picture up now of so far he's still
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he's had a pig heart transplanted into him, keeping him going. And as I said, there's never
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enough organs. So if we're at this point where we can start, again, raising animals for organ
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transplants and saving lives, let's do it, guys. I love some of the technological advances we have.
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I think, unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we're getting a lot of medical mistrust. People aren't
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feeling the faith in researchers and medical practitioners as they used to. Politicized
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clowns like NDP Joe Vipon, who I like to mention all the time. Yeah, they don't help raise one's
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faith in the medical community, but most of them really do want to save lives as do the researchers
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and that transplant thing. I just think it's kind of cool and worth talking about, but yeah,
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leave it to somebody on here to still be upset with that somehow anyways. Sorry, but I will
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remain as a supporter of organ transplants for those who need them. I don't think it's a conspiracy
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of any sort. They're not out to hurt you. So, um, I'm gonna probably tie this off pretty soon
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here. Some people talking about, uh, Ty Northcott being, um, yeah, I like Cheryl's statement now
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should be automatic unless otherwise stated the reverse of what we have. I kind of agree with
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that. You know, I mean, I, I don't believe in forcing a transplant from somebody if they have
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a, just a personal feeling about it or a religious feeling or whatever, but why not have the big
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thing than saying there, you know, the stamp on your driver's license, don't take anything. I,
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And we're having a lot of discussions these days
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to have our choices of what to do with our bodies
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I mean, you can really make a world of difference
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don't. Of course, it's choice. This one gets lost so much in our extreme and polarized times is
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respecting the choices of others, allowing the choices of others. We don't all have to be uniform
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on things. If it's not harming somebody else, leave it alone. So organ donations, they aren't
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harming anybody. I know people talk about perhaps some of those things, you know, you go to a dentist
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in Mexico and you wake up after getting your teeth filled and you find a little scar and you're
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missing a kidney. But I don't think for the most part, these things are happening. Organ donations,
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It's usually a beneficial thing for a number of people, particularly the recipients of those organs.
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If I'm missing any organs when I'm down there, I will report on that.
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I'm probably going to be doing a update from down there just to talk about how things have been down in the Free South.
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How is it living unmasked, you know, and outside of this atmosphere of fear?
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The Americans and people I've spoken with who've gone to the States and that, that's
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They come up here and, holy cow, you guys are still living in this misery of masking
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yourself in every place you go in and living in fear and constant fearful updates.
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But they're not wrapping their whole lives around it as much as we have been lately.
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And, you know, a Supreme Court decision. I'll finish with that too. People might have seen
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that down in the States. Their Supreme Court acted the way it should. It told Biden to roll
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up his vaccine mandate and stuff it up his geriatric butt. The rights of the people came
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before the legislative wishes of the president, and the court stood up and said, no, that's not
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going to happen. And that's the way due process works in a system with multiple levels of
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Government in Canada, unfortunately, our courts do not stand up for the rights of the individuals
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very often at all. They seem to be quite beholden to those who appointed them, and we're all losing
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for it. So check in next week, though. Have a look around. We're going to have more stuff coming out.
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Melanie's got some great interviews that are going to be coming out. She does some awesome
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