Western Standard - July 21, 2022


Triggered： Green energy dreams are crushing Europe


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00:00:00.000 Thank you.
00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's, what is it? It's Wednesday. Aha. We dismissed our staff meeting today,
00:00:38.260 so it throws my days all off. July 20th, 2022. Welcome to Triggered. This is the Western
00:00:43.640 Standards live daily show. We have guests, news, and plenty of opinion out of me. I'm
00:00:49.240 Cory Morgan, by the way. And we have another good show coming up for you today. So being
00:00:55.160 live, this is when I like to remind everybody we've got that comment scroll. And I love
00:00:59.980 seeing, hey, we got Marita Coburn checking in from Kentucky already. I like seeing people
00:01:04.500 checking in. I like seeing people converse and using that, you know, to make the whole point
00:01:09.340 of this being live is having some interactivity, a fluid sort of production and going with the flow
00:01:14.400 of things. So send questions, comments my way, converse with each other, do what you will on
00:01:19.100 there. Again, just keep it civil. You know, we had somebody a little out of line on the comment
00:01:22.940 section yesterday. I had to block them. I never liked doing that. You want to keep the discourse
00:01:26.640 open. You don't have to be nothing but a sweetheart. I mean, hell, I'm not. But we do have to stay
00:01:31.720 reasonable and civil, particularly when it comes to my guests. We get people who come on and,
00:01:36.100 hey, we don't pay for our guests. They're coming on their own accord and we treat them as guests
00:01:40.840 while we're here, even if we don't agree with them. Either way, good to see you all checking
00:01:44.680 in from all over out there, guys. Ashley, Claudette, Bonnie, out in Coronation. I did some
00:01:50.720 time out there with the oil field on that strip between there and Astor and all that.
00:01:55.220 So, yeah, it looks like scorching in Kentucky at about 100 degrees or more.
00:01:58.400 Yeah, a lot of the world is very hot right now.
00:02:00.660 Things are lighting up.
00:02:02.540 It's one of those heat waves.
00:02:03.760 Seems to be hitting all over the place.
00:02:05.080 It's pretty warm up where we are in Alberta, but nothing beyond the pale or out of control.
00:02:10.760 All right, as folks check in and sign in, let's get on with the daily observations and
00:02:15.420 see what's happening out there.
00:02:16.640 It is, this is a big one, it's National Nap Day.
00:02:20.980 So this is the day, don't let yourself get tired, don't overwork yourself.
00:02:24.560 yourself, take a breath, lay down, have a nap, recharge. I don't know. I'm not a napper. I can't
00:02:31.540 do that. But hey, those who can, good on you. And once I lay down, I'm down for the count. You know,
00:02:36.020 I mean, it might take me a long time to get asleep. I got to get a full sleep. And none of this 20
00:02:39.900 minutes and I feel better afterwards. I'm not sure how that works out for other people, but it does
00:02:43.020 for a lot of others. So today's the day where you should be recognizing it, celebrating it,
00:02:47.660 and taking advantage of it. It's National Nap Day. It's also Fortune Cookie Day. This is another one.
00:02:54.560 And again, you want to see what's going on in the future.
00:02:56.740 There's where I mixed.
00:02:57.420 I like opening them.
00:02:58.240 I like seeing the little thing in there.
00:03:00.120 You know, they've gotten a little less prescriptive.
00:03:02.180 They always seem to be just nice, fluffy statements, but all the same. 0.99
00:03:04.880 And the cookies usually taste terrible, but they are a tradition when you eat Chinese
00:03:08.320 food and they sort of cap the meal off in a fun way.
00:03:10.740 Our dogs enjoy eating the fortune cookies.
00:03:12.460 Once I've read the fortune within it, I'd still like, you know, some good tips to come
00:03:18.780 into those rather than all that nice, fluffy stuff, you know, keep the toilet lid down
00:03:22.380 or is your fly zipped up?
00:03:23.660 Stuff like that.
00:03:24.560 But for now, it is the day you celebrate those fortune cookies.
00:03:28.580 So maybe get out there, get some Chinese food for a change.
00:03:30.860 It's hot all over.
00:03:31.900 Don't want to heat up the kitchen cooking and everything like that.
00:03:35.780 Go get some takeout and enjoy it.
00:03:38.880 Okay, I've got a couple of guests on today.
00:03:40.720 We've got some BC content going on.
00:03:42.960 And our BC reporter, our main one, Reid Small,
00:03:45.420 we're going to talk about the NDP leadership race.
00:03:48.220 I mean, their premier has stepped down, looks much like Alberta.
00:03:51.180 He's still sitting there as premier, again, much like Alberta.
00:03:54.060 but he's going to be replaced and it's a long race it's going all the way to December so
00:03:58.220 we'll see what's going on with it who's throwing their hats in and what's happening with it as
00:04:04.020 well let's see we've got yes Penticton business owner Jason Raynan and he owns a gym and a
00:04:11.920 mechanical shop out in Penticton and they've been getting robbed chronically they've had a lot of
00:04:16.780 problems out there crime is high again we're seeing this everywhere and he started a Facebook
00:04:20.840 group with other business owners, basically going out and getting their property back. They've been
00:04:26.120 going out in person, finding the thieves, or even, you know, they found, I think he basically set up
00:04:30.340 a sting with one of the thieves who broke into his place and stolen something. You can see that the
00:04:34.500 guy was trying to sell it online. He set it up. So the guy showed up and then he took his property
00:04:38.420 and said, to hell with you. I'm not paying you, of course, and took it away. So yes, we've got him
00:04:45.220 coming on, and that'll be an interesting discussion. As a guy who's been robbed a couple
00:04:50.560 of times when I had my own business, I can definitely sympathize with that. When we get 0.97
00:04:53.680 limited police resources, I don't think it's unfair for business owners or homeowners or
00:05:01.480 individuals to start standing up for themselves, protecting their own property, protecting
00:05:04.860 themselves. Yet our RCMP, our police always hate that. I mean, we've seen that from all the way
00:05:10.040 back in the self-defense case with Eddie Maurice, you know, defending his family, and he got put
00:05:13.720 through the police ringer, or again, businesses like this where they get upset. I mean, the police
00:05:18.480 have the role, but they got limits. Let us take care of ourselves, guys. It'll take some of the
00:05:22.680 pressure off you. I know a vigilante might not be as controlled as a police officer with training,
00:05:28.200 but we just can't allow them to run rampant. We only got so many resources, so let's prepare for
00:05:32.920 it. All right, let's get on to what I'm going to rant about today because it's been interesting
00:05:37.460 news watching this. Energy reality, one of my favorite subjects, and this is not nearly enough
00:05:42.480 people understand energy reality. But right now, energy reality is slapping Europe hard in the face.
00:05:48.960 So, I mean, while the common citizens are taking the brunt of this energy reality check,
00:05:53.060 the decision makers still seem to be blinded by ideology and living in an alternative universe
00:05:58.140 where fossil fuels aren't needed. The excuses are coming in fast and furious. Green energy
00:06:04.260 apologists are blaming the pandemic, supply issues, and of course the war in Ukraine for
00:06:08.200 their energy crisis. The problem is the crisis was pending well before any of these events ever
00:06:13.900 happened. So I'm going to pick on Germany as they've been the national poster child for green 1.00
00:06:18.680 energy. Germany committed an insane amount of money and set impossible emission reduction targets
00:06:24.040 and then started legislating their existing energy generation systems out of existence,
00:06:28.600 including coal and inexplicably nuclear. They've called this initiative, and I might be mispronouncing
00:06:34.500 and I'm sure Derek will correct me later, Energy Wind, and it was the biggest political project
00:06:39.620 since the reunification of the country. It's huge. And the initiative has been a catastrophe.
00:06:45.020 The Energy Wind is costing Germany right now about $36 billion a year, and they've been at it for
00:06:50.260 decades as money's poured into renewables like biomass, wind, and solar. They slowed their
00:06:55.920 growth in emissions a bit, but it hasn't even dropped. There's no way Germany is going to come 1.00
00:06:59.700 even close to their targets. And Der Spiegel cited a recent estimate it's going to cost $3.8
00:07:05.340 trillion for Germany to meet their energy goals. $3.8 trillion. Think about that. That's $3,800
00:07:15.180 billion. It's not going to happen. They're not going to come up with that money and they're not
00:07:19.680 going to reach those goals. Now, while they're shutting down their own energy sources, Germany,
00:07:24.020 of course, is filling their void with the increasing dependence on Russian natural gas
00:07:28.420 imports. That way they could claim fantastic numbers on their domestic energy sources while
00:07:32.840 forgetting to mention the impact on their imported sources. It was a shell game. Germany, now they're
00:07:38.260 desperate. They're firing up their coal generation plants and reopening coal mines as they're
00:07:43.000 facing a winter supply crunch, and they're going to be in a lot of trouble. They still won't
00:07:48.060 consider, though, keeping their remaining three nuclear plants operating for fear of angering
00:07:52.080 their Green Party. Ideology is putting citizens at risk for the winter. Germany's not alone.
00:07:57.760 They're just the worst example of the bunch. Pretty much all of Europe is facing an energy
00:08:01.560 crisis, and much of it's due to their focus on unrealistic green dreams while shunning efficient
00:08:06.360 conventional sources of energy. The EU is now proposing to somehow force their 27 member states
00:08:12.260 to reduce natural gas consumption by 15% starting on August 1st. They're going to enforce it. How?
00:08:18.540 I don't know. It's doubtful that many nations can or will meet those reductions as winter looms.
00:08:23.640 Natural gas in much of Europe is in need, not a luxury.
00:08:27.040 If the EU starts penalizing nations for non-compliance,
00:08:30.520 this could actually lead to a shattering of the EU itself.
00:08:33.620 A 15% reduction in natural gas use.
00:08:36.540 It will economically castrate the EU.
00:08:39.420 Energy-intensive industries are going to be forced to cut production,
00:08:41.860 leading to layoffs and inflation as supply chains for consumer goods
00:08:45.280 are screwed with even more than they've already been.
00:08:47.800 Meanwhile, the citizens, well, they're going to be shivering and rather upset.
00:08:51.840 The crisis looming for Europe this winter is unavoidable.
00:08:54.560 There's little that can be done in the short term, and people are going to suffer dearly.
00:08:58.440 There's no getting around that.
00:08:59.320 In the long term, though, we can fix this issue.
00:09:01.400 The world needs to rein in their ideologically insane leaders.
00:09:05.640 Justin Trudeau, speaking of which, is government still obsessed with shutting down conventional energy development.
00:09:10.600 He's attacking Canada's oil.
00:09:12.640 New emission caps are being proposed that will harm and chill investment into Canada's already battered and beaten energy sector.
00:09:19.220 Canada should be ramping up production and fast-tracking pipelines along with LNG terminals
00:09:23.920 in order to feed the world because they're desperate for our energy.
00:09:26.920 Instead, we're shutting in some of the most abundant energy reserves on Earth.
00:09:31.440 Meanwhile, we've got Joe Biden groveling and begging for more oil from Saudi Arabia
00:09:35.220 while he refuses to entertain new pipelines from Canada or expanding exploration in Alaska.
00:09:40.540 You know who's smiling?
00:09:41.900 Putin.
00:09:42.480 He's smiling as Europe keeps paying a premium for Russian gas.
00:09:45.340 He holds them by the balls, and he increases exports to China and India.
00:09:50.140 The day may come when renewables become a viable alternative to hydrocarbon-based energy,
00:09:54.400 but it's clear that that day is still far away.
00:09:56.580 The mad rush to shut down oil and gas is causing world suffering.
00:10:00.860 Of course, the elites in power don't understand, or they don't care.
00:10:04.000 In Trudeau's case, it's both.
00:10:05.500 He's never had to struggle to pay a utility bill,
00:10:07.840 nor have most of the people in the halls of power around the world.
00:10:10.820 So strap in, kids.
00:10:11.680 the world's in for a rough energy ride as energy reality slams nations, especially winter ones,
00:10:17.660 this year. The protests seen around the world in the last year are going to be nothing compared
00:10:21.180 to those that come. Because when people can't heat their homes or feed their families,
00:10:25.320 nothing else matters. Being chided for their energy use by vacuous leaders such as Justin
00:10:30.900 Trudeau is only going to inflame them. Desperate times are going to lead to desperate measures.
00:10:34.620 We can't pretend we didn't see it coming, guys. The green dreams failed. Well, that's what's got
00:10:40.480 me going today. Now, let's get and check in with our reporter, Amanda Brown, and see what's getting
00:10:47.840 everybody else worked up out there. Hey, Amanda, how are you doing? Good morning. I'm very well, 0.99
00:10:52.380 thanks. How are you? Good, good. You know, I just vented. I feel a little better, a little more
00:10:57.080 relaxed. The vein in my head is starting to come down a little bit. Okay. Well, I'll distract you
00:11:02.360 to help you get over that a bit sooner, but I have to start by saying, aren't we all missing
00:11:08.140 dave in the studio i have to say it's so quiet he's it's not sitting here ranting about his
00:11:12.700 chickadees or whoever it was who was pooping on his car yes he he will be back and and uh people
00:11:19.400 will get the uh ongoing uh discourse but it's been a nice refreshing change we're reaching our
00:11:24.940 gender targets now uh rotating through the rest of you guys in the newsroom while dave takes a
00:11:30.660 break there yeah i'm missing his uh humorous quips from on the corner of the studio here
00:11:35.040 anyway yeah let's get stuck in one of the biggest stories today is inflation in Canada is now up at
00:11:43.160 8.1 percent it pains me to say that's the largest jump Canada's had in that's the largest you know
00:11:51.720 that's the highest inflation rate would basically had in 39 years and those are stats that are
00:11:56.100 coming out of stats Canada the press release said that Canadians are paying 54.6 percent more on gas
00:12:03.600 which is kind of tough when most Canadians are now spending so much time in their cars as they
00:12:09.380 drive around trying to enjoy the summertime going out on vacation and because they want to avoid the
00:12:14.860 airports. The agency also said that accommodation prices are up a whopping 49.7 percent which is
00:12:23.580 of course making those vacations even more expensive and there seems to be no end in sight
00:12:29.320 So that's some news on the website today.
00:12:34.900 Also, Canadians are rising against the federal push for vaccine passports and other health-related mandates.
00:12:42.280 A new Angus Reid poll surveyed Canadians across the country and reported that less than a year ago,
00:12:49.100 Canadians, 70% of them, said that they supported vaccine mandates.
00:12:53.820 And that's actually now down to 25%, which is quite a significant drop.
00:12:59.320 And mask mandates are apparently more palatable, but not a great deal more, but not spectacularly popular.
00:13:09.440 But around half of most Canadians say that they would accept a mask mandate.
00:13:15.760 Most of the pushback is coming from men, most of them under 55.
00:13:22.080 And they're basically saying that they wouldn't be happy about further health restrictions.
00:13:26.920 two out of three of those of that demographic basically saying, no thanks, no more. 0.98
00:13:34.860 Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, best known to most of us as AOC,
00:13:43.000 and her peer Ilhan Omar, both actually faked wearing handcuffs at a pro-abortion rally
00:13:51.400 on Tuesday in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:13:56.020 Both of them pretended to be handcuffed
00:13:58.160 by holding their hands together behind their backs.
00:14:01.640 Who knows why they would want to do that?
00:14:04.040 Answers on a postcard, please, to the Western Standard.
00:14:07.420 Yeah, you know, further with that,
00:14:09.880 I mean, it's not just them hamming up actresses,
00:14:12.320 trying to act like they're being roughed up
00:14:13.680 and roughly arrested at a protest or something,
00:14:16.600 but was the complicit media.
00:14:17.960 That's the other half of that story.
00:14:19.340 because ABC and NBC both showed optics and visuals of them from the front with their hands behind
00:14:24.660 their backs. So everybody assumes that they're handcuffed. Any of those reporters could very
00:14:29.060 easily have shown, no, they're actually loose hands behind their back, but the media happily
00:14:33.820 played along with that. And that's the other half of this story. So I just like to point that out.
00:14:38.500 Yes. And we've got a good photograph showing that she's got her hands clasped behind her back and
00:14:43.680 there's obviously no handcuffs there. A bit later in the protest, she was forgetting that she was
00:14:50.280 pretending to be handcuffed and AOC raised her hand to punch the air in defiance and then returned 0.99
00:14:55.660 her hands to behind her back. The Metropolitan Police Department arrested 17 House Democrats
00:15:02.360 during the protest. Outrageous, radical, rebel rousers that they all are.
00:15:08.040 and uh lastly the you know the one of the more notable stories on the website um this morning
00:15:15.580 is that very sad story about the calgary lady who was mauled to death by the two dogs last month
00:15:22.480 um those dogs or those dogs owners now have some serious charges uh being you know being raised
00:15:32.040 against them so they are going to be hauled over the calls and justifiably so that that was a very
00:15:38.760 disturbing story that we reported on and there's a good update on the site for anyone who's
00:15:43.800 interested um so upcoming stories a new poll out comparing support for sharae uh versus polieva
00:15:51.960 is in the works and that's jonathan bradley and uh also the poll is uh shows that support for
00:16:00.280 conservative versus liberals is actually growing quite significantly and I'm
00:16:04.340 halfway through a story that that I'm enjoying writing up actually I
00:16:08.980 interviewed dr. David Vickers yesterday quite extensively and he's commenting on
00:16:15.140 a study that came out of Qatar earlier in the week I saw last week about the
00:16:22.260 but basically the strength of natural immunity versus the COVID variants and
00:16:28.280 how essentially it's overtaking the effectiveness of the vaccines so look out for that one too
00:16:35.960 yeah that's uh that's where we have it today right on well lots on the go as always and uh
00:16:41.880 glad you're enjoying some of those writings i mean that's some of the half of the fun i mean that's
00:16:44.840 why we get good stories you guys like getting in there you know you're actually interested you're
00:16:49.080 digging in and finding that information and then sharing it it's it's dry if it's just plain old
00:16:53.400 newsprint so uh it's it's great stuff and it's appreciated absolutely all right well thank you
00:16:59.240 for the update amanda i'll let you get back to it and we'll check in with you after the show
00:17:03.240 yep you're welcome thanks very much cory hey thanks it is amanda brown from the newsroom
00:17:08.360 just filling us in on a lot of the stuff they're working on local international national all those
00:17:13.560 news stories it's where i remind everybody as you can see nico's got that down at the bottom there
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00:17:25.340 As I pointed out, I don't know if ABC and NBC take tax dollars in the States,
00:17:29.200 but it shows that that legacy media is terrible.
00:17:31.560 They played along with AOC and her brother marrying friend there as they got arrested
00:17:37.200 and let them do their little fake handcuffing thing.
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00:18:07.100 keep producing like this. All right, let's look at some of this other news story. Pamela Jones
00:18:10.380 Kennedy saying that poor woman only died because of poor ambulance response. That should be a fact 1.00
00:18:13.480 in the charges to the dog owners. There's multiple facets to that story. And I've interviewed people
00:18:19.320 on that one and I've written on that one because it infuriated me because yes, it took the ambulance
00:18:23.580 40 minutes to get there. She was just, or a half an hour or something like that. She was just
00:18:27.600 like a six minute drive. If you look on Google Maps from the largest hospital in Alberta and it
00:18:33.680 took them half an hour to get her there. She died. She was a senior who was ripped to pieces.
00:18:37.620 That's a huge issue that can't be forgotten in this. And our government said, oh, we're going
00:18:40.800 to study it for four months to see what we can do about it. Not good enough. They're also saying
00:18:44.280 we're going to put 20 more ambulances on the road. Well, that's 20 more ambulances are going to be
00:18:48.380 stuck in hospitals sitting around while the nurses refuse to sign off on their patients. 1.00
00:18:52.360 That's the problem. Everybody knows that the government's terrified of the unions and they
00:18:55.500 won't do anything about it. So putting more ambulances just bungs up the hospitals further.
00:18:59.920 They've got to change the process. And it was reported as well, when that woman was laying
00:19:05.240 there bleeding to death after a dog attack, there were 18 ambulances in Calgary sitting there,
00:19:09.800 idling in hospitals because they couldn't sign off and get their patients out. But the other part
00:19:15.420 is too, I don't know if that would factor in the charges to the dog owners. I guess it could say
00:19:18.620 that perhaps it might not have led to a death otherwise, but those dog owners should be charged
00:19:22.080 as well. If you've got three powerful animals that clearly weren't well-trained, that were
00:19:27.480 clearly potentially dangerous, they killed a woman, it's your responsibility to make sure that those
00:19:32.720 animals are not loose and harming people. It's yours. It's the person who's responsible and the
00:19:37.020 people. So, I mean, I don't know, you know, I'm not saying these people should go to jail for
00:19:40.900 the rest of their lives, but they should most definitely be charged and convicted and punished
00:19:45.900 because it was just beyond the pale. I mean, again, I talk about dogs and pets all the time.
00:19:52.320 I love them. I own some strong, powerful dogs as well. And absolutely, well, they're well-trained,
00:19:58.800 they're gentle, but if they weren't, there's no way I would be letting them getting loose and
00:20:03.200 around people. It's just wrong and people need to be held responsible. And this poor woman paid a
00:20:08.580 terrible price. Like I said, on two levels, on one because of a broken healthcare system 1.00
00:20:12.700 and on the other level because of neighbors who were irresponsible, awful dog owners. And what an
00:20:17.020 awful way to go. So yeah, we'll see what becomes of that story. I'm not going to let that one go.
00:20:22.300 I want to see what happens with our ambulance service. All right, let's bring in our first
00:20:25.580 guest. And that is our BC reporter, Reed Small. And talk about, we've got some big changes. We've
00:20:32.680 got an NDP leadership race going on out there in BC. It doesn't seem to be making a lot of news
00:20:37.580 outside of BC, but it's a big deal. You guys are picking a new premier. Yeah, nearly three weeks
00:20:43.520 ago, our current premier, John Horgan, announced that he'll be stepping down from his role as the
00:20:49.000 premier. And so the question on British Columbians' minds has been who the new premier is going to be.
00:20:54.900 And last night, the answer to that question became a little bit more clear, although we all
00:21:00.820 expected it to be the case. And that's most likely going to be the attorney general, David Eby.
00:21:07.940 All the other cabinet ministers that anyone would have expected to have thrown their hat into the
00:21:12.460 ring have confirmed over the last couple of weeks that they won't be running for leadership. A bunch
00:21:18.940 of them have thrown their support behind Eby even before he made the announcement last night.
00:21:23.660 But last night, yeah, to the surprise of nobody, he said he will be running for BC NDP leadership.
00:21:30.820 And as of now, he's the only one to be doing so.
00:21:34.880 The timeline set forth is for December 3rd is when the leader will be announced.
00:21:41.700 But of course, if the deadline to enter the race is October 4th, so if no one else is
00:21:48.180 joined by October 4th, then that December announcement may be irrelevant and David Eby
00:21:53.900 may be the premier of BC as early as November.
00:21:56.860 You know, if he's acclaimed, I mean, there's some of those differences, I guess, we see with the NDP.
00:22:01.320 They tend to be centralized.
00:22:02.600 They tend to like doing things within.
00:22:04.440 You know, with the Conservatives in Alberta, we've got, I think, 11 people with their names for it.
00:22:08.520 We'll see how many cross the bar.
00:22:10.420 But it would look very weak for Mr. Eby if he just got acclaimed, right? 1.00
00:22:14.380 I mean, you know, you want to see a race.
00:22:16.360 I mean, you don't have a mandate if you've just been appointed.
00:22:18.740 So, I mean, they could be entering some dangerous turf if they don't get some other candidates in this.
00:22:22.980 Right. Well, I mean, he claimed last night that 48 members of the party's 57-person caucus have thrown their support behind him. So that's, you know, a remaining nine members, unless one of them, you know, decides to throw their hat into the ring, he's going to be the premier.
00:22:42.520 So some other candidates that were expected would have been Jobs Minister Ravi Kallon or the Minister of Finance, Selina Robinson.
00:22:50.620 Kallon was very quick after Horgan's retirement to announce that he wouldn't be running for leadership and that he was going to throw his support behind EB.
00:22:58.380 Selina Robinson a few days ago said she wasn't going to be running for leadership.
00:23:03.120 She hasn't clarified where her support lies yet.
00:23:06.680 But yeah, it seems like the writing's on the wall.
00:23:09.140 so they've put out some of the rules i don't know how deeply you've gotten into them you see the
00:23:14.320 cutoff for october the race is going to be held in december that's it's a long period
00:23:18.140 uh is there a a high bar do you know that's been set like in alberta that's been part of the
00:23:23.500 problem it's 175 000 and a thousand signatures from members all over the province uh what does
00:23:29.260 it take to enter the ndp race uh the initial fee is uh 15 000 and that is for the uh october 4th
00:23:36.700 deadline. And then basically up until November 13th, there's going to be a series of other fees.
00:23:46.460 And I think that it totals $40,000 if I'm not mistaken. So yeah, that's, that's going to be
00:23:53.200 the amount, which is not cheap. That's for sure. No, but the $15,000 has to be in by October 4th.
00:24:00.460 Yeah. And I mean, that's a reasonable fee in my eyes, you know, make sure a person's serious and
00:24:04.540 they aren't just dipping their toe in the water. Yet it kind of speaks a lot. You know, that's why
00:24:09.800 I want to examine this a little, because we've got these parallels going on. I mean, Alberta,
00:24:12.880 $175,000 fee, and it still hasn't stopped 11 people from throwing their hats in yet in BC with
00:24:18.600 what sounds to be a reasonable fee. And it's running for premier. I mean, this is a sitting
00:24:22.860 party in power. And so far, only one person. It's just quite striking. Yeah, again, and like I said,
00:24:29.660 And, you know, he claims 48 of the 57-person caucus is supporting him.
00:24:35.920 Again, it's, like you said, it's all very internal.
00:24:40.560 It seems like there was a lot of, like, backdoor stuff happening.
00:24:44.080 It's, this is the surprise to no one that he is the only person in the race right now.
00:24:50.640 And it didn't take long for the BC Liberal caucus to chime in with a scathing press release issued last night.
00:24:57.560 they're you know criticizing him for all sorts of things the BC Liberal MLA from representing
00:25:05.260 White Rock Surrey Trevor Halford is saying that as soon as EB is premier and he's not living in
00:25:12.200 Horgan's shadow that he's going to revert to his radical activist ways quoting Trevor Halford there
00:25:20.300 um and yeah he he does come from uh you know he he used to be an activist he published a legal
00:25:27.840 manual in 2007 all about uh how to sue the police uh effectively um and so he's uh you know got two
00:25:35.860 young kids he's 44 years old he'll be uh you know he's really appealing to that sort of younger
00:25:41.380 radical uh portion of uh british colombians and that's exactly what the bc liberals are really
00:25:49.140 going after him for, for being, you know, quote, too radical.
00:25:53.620 Okay. So, yeah, I just see a commenter, Gail, I'll just answer. She's asking who sets the
00:25:58.880 amount to run for premier. And that's a party thing. That's party by party. In this case,
00:26:03.420 it will be premier because it's the party in power, but it's all internal, whether it's in
00:26:08.100 Alberta or in BC. So, I mean, they could set it at $5 or at 5 million. It's up to them as a party
00:26:13.340 and their committee and whatever their internal structures are. So with the voting system, I mean,
00:26:18.820 let's say another candidate comes in against the EB there. Uh, is it a one member, one vote for the
00:26:24.960 NDP or is it something of a delegate system? Uh, it's a one member, one vote. And, uh, the deadline
00:26:32.320 to vote, uh, to join as an eligible voting member is September 4th and voting will begin on November
00:26:38.320 13th. Okay. Yeah. We were talking about that. And I mean, I know you're a little younger, but
00:26:42.860 delegate systems used to be so much more popular, you know, and I think they were terribly
00:26:46.640 undemocratic but boy they led to great political intrigue we used to watch those conventions and
00:26:51.200 you'd see all these different teams and they'd be wearing the same t-shirts on the floor and
00:26:54.800 literally after one vote passed you'd see the negotiations being made and a cluster would
00:26:59.680 move across and support another one of the candidates and uh i i think it's a better
00:27:04.080 evolution for everybody even ndp to go one member one vote but boy we lose out on a lot of great
00:27:08.080 political intrigue yeah okay well let's move on to then uh to a little more bc stories while i got
00:27:15.520 to one you just put up recently about the supporters of Tamera Leash being pretty outraged
00:27:21.020 as we got violent offenders walking free among us. Right. Yeah. They've been highlighting
00:27:27.560 on social media a number of different cases. And again, violent offenders going through what you
00:27:35.120 might call the revolving door system is nothing new, especially in BC, but across Canada.
00:27:41.440 One of the cases I highlighted was dealing with an adult man who he had thousands and thousands of photos recovered from his computer of what was described as the most disturbing child pornography described by police.
00:28:00.040 And, you know, he's currently a free man and people are looking at that and they're going, this is crazy.
00:28:04.700 Why is why is someone like that, you know, walking free right now with a conditional sentence when Tamara Leach is currently in custody?
00:28:15.860 And of course, people will say, well, she, you know, she she was free before, but she, you know, failed to meet the requirements for her bail.
00:28:26.960 And so they'll say that. And but again, her supporters are not happy.
00:28:31.960 They're really making a lot of noise and highlighting a lot of interesting cases.
00:28:37.300 Yeah, well, whether people support her or not, you know, I just wish people would apply a little more common sense to these things.
00:28:42.640 I mean, even if they think, you know what, she took part in something that's wrong and I want to see her fined or convicted when she gets to court.
00:28:49.340 You got to apply a little common sense thing. 0.51
00:28:50.880 Is she presenting such a threat to society, though, that she has to stay in jail until trial? 1.00
00:28:55.600 When, again, as you point out and compare, we've got child sex offending perverts who are walking the streets, most definitely providing a heck of a lot more risk to people than she ever would. 0.96
00:29:07.640 You know, just you don't have to support her to support reasonable application of justice.
00:29:13.020 Right, right.
00:29:13.720 And then there's the same day she was denied bail on July 8th.
00:29:18.200 There was that 29-year-old professional swimmer.
00:29:21.620 He was sentenced to four and a half years for sexual assaults that took place, I believe it was in an apartment in Calgary.
00:29:32.220 And he's appealing that. And a judge of the Alberta Court of Appeal has granted him bail right now.
00:29:40.180 And again, his guilt for the crime that he's appealing right now, that he was initially charged with, is yet to be unequivocally determined.
00:29:48.840 But a lot of people are saying, like, look, this is crazy that, you know, whether he's innocent or guilty, the crime that he is, you know, being charged with, that he's attempting to appeal, is much more heinous than what Tamara Leach is guilty of, if anything.
00:30:08.840 Yeah, well, again, this is in their eyes, yeah.
00:30:11.040 Yeah, looking at, you know, something you've been, you're always writing a lot of stories and stuff.
00:30:15.440 I think we, you know, I'm just picking up some stuff from BC that we can relate to everywhere.
00:30:19.020 We'll kind of pivot a bit.
00:30:20.660 There's a Vancouver park board, you know, the bike lane battles, those happen in every
00:30:24.660 city.
00:30:25.080 These municipal cyclists just have their thing, but it sounds like their meeting, as soon
00:30:30.440 as they had a couple of people oppose them, they just shut down the meeting and walked
00:30:33.260 out on a proposed bike lane, was it?
00:30:35.500 Yeah, yeah.
00:30:36.200 The board's chair said that he took a recess when things started getting a little bit heated
00:30:44.640 regarding the conversation of bike lanes and he said he didn't want to focus on bike lanes at
00:30:48.920 that time but the conversation kept being brought back to it by the third speaker who's a local
00:30:54.620 Vancouver lawyer so he took a break came back the back and forth continued decided to take
00:31:02.340 another break and then upon returning from that break he said that he had spoken to other
00:31:08.540 commissioners and staff and that the energy quote the energy in the room was making them feel unsafe
00:31:14.400 and so that for that reason he was going to adjourn the meeting and when the third speaker
00:31:19.960 the the local lawyer tried to vocalize his concern with that the chair responded by saying
00:31:25.400 yeah this is exactly the type of interruption that is perpetuating these feelings among
00:31:32.160 the commissioners and staff and then he asked the meeting snowflakes and they're managing the
00:31:39.420 meetings i mean come on was there you know i mean i could see it if there was a big screaming
00:31:43.820 protests and people were rushing this chair or something like that but uh it sounds to me like
00:31:48.620 just it was just some upset people speaking up because they should be allowed to right and this
00:31:53.420 lawyer he the concern he was raising was uh specifically the uh the bike lane in stanley
00:31:59.420 park uh which has taken over uh a lane of traffic uh since the early days of uh covet 19 uh and uh
00:32:07.020 that has been creating a massive, long traffic jams.
00:32:12.380 And he's saying that people who are disabled or have mobility issues
00:32:16.540 who have no other means of getting to the park are suffering as a result of this.
00:32:21.740 And that's the angle that he's taking.
00:32:25.060 Yeah, well, we'll see how that goes.
00:32:26.900 These battles happen, like I said, in every city.
00:32:29.460 They're starting to upset some people.
00:32:31.020 They were losing a lot of road space for limited use for cyclists.
00:32:35.380 So we'll watch us see how that committee learns how to deal with unsafe environments, those poor souls.
00:32:42.140 So, I mean, I guess I'll finish up with this one's kind of interesting.
00:32:45.580 BC nurse was suspended. 0.86
00:32:46.740 It sounds like she was creating fake vaccine cards.
00:32:49.980 Yeah, this was happening in 2021.
00:32:52.800 They didn't specify exactly the dates, but because they were calling them vaccine cards,
00:32:58.940 I would imagine it was when you were able to use like a little cardboard slip,
00:33:03.940 um which eventually would have been transferred and registered into the uh the card verifier as
00:33:09.980 you see there uh but yeah she she uh helped four people obtain uh fraudulent uh covid-19 vaccine
00:33:17.180 credentials um and she faced a uh six-month suspension for that and that that was ruled
00:33:24.580 last week but the incident like i said was uh when the vaccine card was actually in place in bc
00:33:31.340 and some people are getting pretty upset you know just to clarify because i saw a couple emails in
00:33:35.880 that one too just the excerpt you know all of our stories get an excerpt and there was a quote and
00:33:39.440 it's in quotation mark guys because somebody said is this the stand to the western standard yes i
00:33:43.960 saw that yeah it was an excerpt where it says she should be fired losing or losing the nursing
00:33:48.580 license criminally charged with fraud and fade away into oblivion or jail that was a quote from
00:33:52.560 somebody within the story not the stand to the standard look for those quotation marks on the
00:33:56.800 outside, and it really changes the context. But I might as well just kind of remind folks, isn't it?
00:34:01.600 Yeah, and it's almost like anyone that doesn't recognize the quotation marks might not even be
00:34:06.860 worth responding to or acknowledging. Yeah, I know, but sometimes there's confusion or people
00:34:12.080 read in a hurry, so it'll be a little general. Fair enough, I get it. All right, before I let
00:34:17.180 you go, is there anything you're working on we can look forward to popping up in the near future
00:34:20.320 here? Yeah, I'm going to keep following various criminals, violent and non-violent, that are
00:34:26.700 being routinely released with a BC focus, but I'm also going to be covering stories from
00:34:31.560 across Canada as well. And I've also got a story coming out this afternoon of a woman who
00:34:36.540 tragically died of a heart attack. And despite living a stone's throw away from her local
00:34:43.540 hospital, she died because the hospital was closed due to staffing shortages. So I think that ties
00:34:50.640 into a broader issue. So that'll be coming out this afternoon. Yeah, we're seeing those stories
00:34:56.240 in every province now we really got to re-examine our system all right well looking forward to that
00:35:00.460 I'll let you get back to work there Reid thanks for checking in with us today and we'll talk to
00:35:04.760 you down the road thanks very much Corey great thanks that is our BC reporter Reid Small as you
00:35:10.700 can see he's got a lot on his plate he's always coming up with those stories and a lot of them
00:35:13.900 apply you know they're interesting across the country to all of us it was interesting just to
00:35:18.240 see those differences between the BC party race and the Alberta one boy very vast differences
00:35:25.040 even though both are, you know, to replace the sitting premier.
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00:36:45.200 All right. So yeah, it was interesting hearing from Reid, you know, in closing that another story in BC with a heart attack and somebody dying near a hospital because of lack of resources. We got to re-examine our whole system. You know, Rachel Notley in Alberta was beaking off yesterday saying that we need to pour more resources into healthcare. We need, it's lacking money. It's falling apart. My God. Since when she was in for five years and then followed by Kenny, they have massively increased spending on healthcare.
00:37:15.200 The only part I agree with her is it's falling apart.
00:37:17.140 Now, if you're doing something over and over again
00:37:18.960 and it's not working, stop doing it.
00:37:20.800 The NDP only have one solution to anything.
00:37:22.760 Socialists always only have one solution to anything.
00:37:25.180 Steal somebody else's money and throw it at it.
00:37:27.880 All Notley would do is get more union people
00:37:29.420 to bung up the system further.
00:37:30.840 We need to look at the entire system,
00:37:33.040 not just spend more money.
00:37:34.420 We have been spending money.
00:37:35.620 We can't pretend there's been cuts.
00:37:37.020 There haven't been.
00:37:37.700 It's been expanding and the service is getting worse.
00:37:40.260 So if you're putting more money in
00:37:41.960 and the service is getting worse,
00:37:43.740 do something different doing something different wouldn't be voting for the NDP guys we've been
00:37:50.500 there it didn't work I look at some of the other comments though and as we were talking uh you know
00:37:56.300 with that case with the dogs and I saw some of their folks yeah it's different it's a comment
00:38:00.640 from Ashley which is true you know there's pack mentality this was three dogs that came into the
00:38:04.360 yard and attacked and I mean dogs are animals and they're powerful ones you know some are brighter
00:38:09.040 than others but they're still instinct driven animals and when they get rolling I mean you
00:38:13.180 watched three dogs, my two fosters and my current dog, when they get going in the backyard with a
00:38:18.260 rope and tug of war and get moving, they get hyped up and hyped up and hyped up and sometimes get
00:38:22.820 into a little fight with each other because they get too wound up and lose a bit of control.
00:38:26.140 You got to try and intervene or whatever. But three of them start going, you know, to them,
00:38:31.200 it was probably almost a hunting game with that poor old woman. I mean, I don't fault the dogs.
00:38:35.620 I do believe that at this point, the dogs have to be put down. I hate that. I hate seeing that.
00:38:39.860 but the three of them have gotten into a yard and killed an elderly woman.
00:38:44.780 You just can't let that go, and the owners have to pay a price for this, absolutely.
00:38:49.820 But there's different standards, and I bet you, I'm just throwing it out, I'm guessing,
00:38:52.860 but I bet you, if any of those dogs had come in one by one, this definitely wouldn't have led to that,
00:38:58.140 like might not even have led to an attack whatsoever, because they're a little more wound down.
00:39:02.220 But as they get together, as they're running around, they get, as was said, the pack mentality,
00:39:06.260 and they can become dangerous.
00:39:08.460 And again, you own three powerful dogs.
00:39:11.240 That means you keep them secure.
00:39:13.840 You don't let them go running loose
00:39:15.140 and do something like that.
00:39:16.920 So yeah, it was an awful, awful situation
00:39:20.360 and we'll see what comes out of it.
00:39:21.780 Let's look at something a little lighter.
00:39:22.840 This is something I was surprised
00:39:23.880 that Amanda didn't bring up.
00:39:25.020 This is a big news item
00:39:25.920 I saw going through the Twitter scroll.
00:39:27.920 Apparently Arnold Schwarzenegger
00:39:30.280 deliberately farted in the face
00:39:32.180 of Miriam Margoyles,
00:39:33.740 who is an actor on the set
00:39:35.500 of End of Days. You know, I don't go into the celebrity stuff on here too often, but if it's
00:39:41.160 weird enough and freak show enough, I have to have a look at this one. I guess she was in Harry Potter
00:39:47.320 and a number of other things, and she did an interview, and she was complaining about her
00:39:51.560 time working with Schwarzenegger, and there were scenes where I guess he was standing over her.
00:39:56.660 She was supposed to be part of Satan's army or something, and he thought it was funny to
00:40:01.420 fart in her face while he was doing it. I guess to this day, you know, that was 22 years ago.
00:40:07.460 She's still pretty upset about that and has made it public. Either way, take it as a badge of honor,
00:40:17.200 you know, Ms. Margoyles, you know, you guys get paid well for your Hollywood stuff and you got
00:40:21.540 to have a unique experience with the Terminator. So, you know, suck it up or gag it out. At least
00:40:28.840 we see something different popping through the new scroll on stuff. What else have we got going
00:40:35.180 on here? We hit the AOC. You know, I'm watching some city stuff. Calgary too. They're having a
00:40:41.400 debate now in city council. And this happens in every municipality. Guys, as I said, we got the
00:40:45.260 energy crisis coming. We got inflation. We're going broke. We're up shit creek. We got a lot
00:40:49.120 of problems coming. And what are our leaders doing? We don't pay nearly enough attention
00:40:53.860 to our municipal ones. Guys, these guys charge you a fortune. They affect your economy. They
00:40:58.100 affect your businesses. People don't watch them closely enough. And in Calgary, they're all
00:41:03.280 debating over this vertical farm project that they're thinking of subsidizing with our money,
00:41:08.100 a whole bunch of vertical farming. Hey, you want a vertical farm? Good for you. It's not the role
00:41:13.120 of the city to backstop it. It's not the role of the city to subsidize it. But here they are,
00:41:17.820 they're wasting precious hours, and they're going to waste probably hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:41:22.440 And this is above and beyond their $100 million ineffective wasted slush fund through Calgary
00:41:27.960 economic development. They're robbing you, you guys, and they're giving your money to
00:41:32.600 buddies, to woke projects, to things like that, while other businesses are suffering and having
00:41:40.360 a hell of a time trying to get by. You've got to knock those ideologues out of office.
00:41:47.220 In the municipal level, they're the worst. Man, you think they're bad in Ottawa and in Edmonton
00:41:51.920 or Victoria or Regina or wherever your politicians are, your civic ones are the worst. Look at the
00:41:57.720 more closely. Don't let them keep sliding under the radar. They're screwing you blind guys.
00:42:01.740 So yeah, that's what they're working on in Calgary right now. You know, here's something 1.00
00:42:04.960 that kind of ties into it. So, uh, there's a tax claim, you know, that the government's claiming
00:42:09.940 that, Oh, look, the carbon tax is getting people out of their cars and saving the world and changing
00:42:14.420 the temperatures. And you know, all those magical things it's supposed to do. Is there anything a
00:42:18.100 tax can't fix? Is there anything a tax can either way? I guess it can, uh, you know, get rid of
00:42:24.280 prosperity, if that's what your problem is. And let's see, bus ridership, though. So, I mean,
00:42:31.440 this should be something that, okay, people got tired of getting gouged with their carbon tax
00:42:36.280 in their cars, so they've decided to move to the bus. Well, no, no. It still hasn't recovered to
00:42:42.440 the pre-pandemic rates. People aren't getting on the bus. They're still driving their cars. All it
00:42:47.040 is is that they're getting poorer for it. They don't want to ride transit. Transit sucks.
00:42:50.840 it's inconvenient. It's not practical for a whole lot of people. And Sylvia's saying,
00:42:56.880 yeah, the rural politicians aren't much better. I know, I know. And we've got to watch our
00:43:00.760 municipal levels on every, you know, our politicians on every level. And even then,
00:43:04.940 I mean, how many people can name their county Reeve? Have they watched? Have they seen?
00:43:09.680 Mine's Suzanne Oil. See, I, oh, I can name her there. Now go out there if you live early and 0.82
00:43:15.360 look up your Reeve because you got to know who they are, guys. They're representing you. And
00:43:18.660 Suzanne, she hasn't been doing crazy stuff, thankfully, but others have.
00:43:22.360 So, yeah, the bus ridership people aren't doing it.
00:43:24.160 The Taxpayers Federation pointed that out.
00:43:25.740 I'll have Franco on later this week to talk about a few things.
00:43:27.960 We'll talk about that, too.
00:43:29.640 And that's happening across the country.
00:43:32.040 And in Calgary, I mean, we've got a number of reasons for it, but we're down to there's like 64% of people are riding the transit that did pre-pandemic.
00:43:39.280 So, you know, almost a third still won't get back on those trains.
00:43:44.120 More than a third. 0.88
00:43:45.420 Because they suck.
00:43:46.260 They're dangerous.
00:43:46.960 They're full of junkies.
00:43:47.600 They smell like piss.
00:43:48.660 They're expensive. Think harder, guys. This carbon tax crap is not doing anything to change our
00:43:54.160 behavior aside from making us more broke. And liberal fart catchers, they've been talking about
00:44:00.060 that with, oh, look though, it's revenue neutral. We give you the money back. No, they don't. They
00:44:06.320 give some checks to some people. Some get more back than what they put in, but most don't.
00:44:11.220 And it's inefficient. They're pulling money out of one of your pockets, taking a bite out of it,
00:44:15.320 and then handing it back and saying you should thank them.
00:44:17.420 And it's not changing any behavior,
00:44:18.880 making the world better in any sort of way.
00:44:20.940 It's a ridiculous plan, a ridiculous program.
00:44:23.540 And while we're all going broke,
00:44:24.740 it's one of the things that should be dropped right away
00:44:26.540 as inflation has beaten the hell out of us.
00:44:29.760 Jet Gorgon's saying, what's a Reeve?
00:44:31.260 So yeah, Reeve, think about it.
00:44:32.400 If you live in a rural area, but you're not in a town,
00:44:34.620 it's kind of the equivalent of a mayor for a large area
00:44:37.180 would be the best way to put it.
00:44:38.380 You know, you got regional councillors
00:44:40.100 and this might vary province by province, I'm not sure,
00:44:41.980 but that's what it is in Alberta.
00:44:43.760 So a county reeve is sort of the top counselor
00:44:46.260 and there's different ways they rotate them
00:44:47.740 or select them.
00:44:48.960 But you still vote for those positions
00:44:50.460 for those local counselors and things like that.
00:44:52.480 And you really should pay attention
00:44:53.540 because they do have a direct impact on your life,
00:44:58.840 whether you like it or not.
00:45:00.600 Let's see, here's the Canadians are divided
00:45:02.120 on treatment on drug addiction.
00:45:04.360 You know, this is something that's getting bigger and bigger.
00:45:08.220 Researchers estimated 24% of Canadians
00:45:10.100 are unsympathetic to drug addicts
00:45:12.560 and 25% were very sympathetic.
00:45:14.640 So the majority kind of just land in the middle,
00:45:16.920 which is, I guess, kind of normal.
00:45:19.280 People are sympathetic to it, but tired of it.
00:45:21.360 You know, I think it's, I mean, I feel horrible 1.00
00:45:23.000 when I see some young person, a curb crawler, 1.00
00:45:25.780 walking back and forth with their cardboard sign,
00:45:28.740 and they got that, you know, speed bumps all over them,
00:45:32.000 and they look like death walking, because they are,
00:45:34.080 and they probably won't live much longer, I feel for them.
00:45:36.960 But at the same time, I'm also sick of the high crime rates
00:45:39.860 that come from having them in the area,
00:45:41.280 the problems they're causing, the pressures on the healthcare system. So it's not so much
00:45:46.160 blaming them, but we really want to see something addressed. That's all. We want to see a fix to it,
00:45:51.600 but it's a tough, tough, ugly situation. As far as people not sympathetic, just remember,
00:45:57.200 it could be anybody who ends up that way. Anybody. You get addicted, it could be your son,
00:46:01.340 it could be your neighbor, it could be your parents. People get hit. And out of the blue,
00:46:06.520 I talked about that a while back, there was one man who in San Francisco, I mean, he
00:46:10.340 He is an addiction advocate, I guess you could say in a lot of ways.
00:46:14.760 He was middle class, doing well, middle-aged, family, the whole works.
00:46:18.580 Had a sports injury, got on painkillers.
00:46:21.860 When he got off the painkillers and the doctors wouldn't prescribe him anymore,
00:46:24.200 he was heavily addicted, started buying them on the street.
00:46:26.620 And it expanded, it expanded, and he ended up hitting full rock bottom,
00:46:30.240 living as a street person in San Francisco before recovering.
00:46:33.580 So this can happen to anybody.
00:46:34.960 This was a guy who would look like a Norman Rockwell household before one sports injury
00:46:39.620 And then two years later, he's on the street living in alleys in San Francisco.
00:46:43.960 So, you know, just keep that in mind.
00:46:45.580 We should allow some sympathy, but we should also try and find some solutions.
00:46:51.080 Let's see here.
00:46:52.800 You know, Jane Pricing, this is a personal choice, no different than smoking.
00:46:56.360 Jane, it's not that easy and it's not that simple.
00:46:59.080 And getting off of addiction isn't a matter of just quitting.
00:47:02.040 It doesn't, if it worked that way, there wouldn't be as many addicts.
00:47:05.040 They're not, it's not like they're happy.
00:47:06.440 It's not like they're having a good old time sleeping in alleys, getting robbed, living in
00:47:12.280 that misery, going through withdrawal all the time, being looked down on by people who are
00:47:17.180 disgusted with them. This is not something people are choosing. Addiction by its very nature takes
00:47:24.320 your own common sense away. You aren't thinking right when you're addicted. You aren't in your
00:47:29.420 right mind. You aren't rationing the right way. And, you know, so you can't just, I know, say
00:47:38.180 quit. And I see so many responses, a lot of responses to people who've never been addicted
00:47:42.580 before. Fair enough. Good for you. I think it's great, of course. But I mean, if you have dealt
00:47:48.820 with real withdrawals, if you've dealt with real, you know, getting off of something, and I've been
00:47:54.160 open about that. I'm an alcoholic. I haven't had a drink in years, but I tell you, it was a long
00:47:57.720 journey to get sober. You need help. You need help. You're not going to think the right way
00:48:04.740 and do it by yourself. So, I mean, again, we still have to have personal accountability. I agree with
00:48:12.120 you. It still comes down to the person. It comes down to the addict. But let's try and remember
00:48:16.920 that there are people who are in a different condition. And I get, you know, sometimes people
00:48:21.220 throw things out in the left and right are both guilty of it. And I watch that, these shallow
00:48:24.340 discussions on it. When they say, that guy just needs to get a job. That addict is in no condition
00:48:29.680 to get or hold a job. And then there's other ones on the left. They just need housing. Guys,
00:48:35.500 no, a lot of them are far beyond the point of where you're just sticking them in a house. A house
00:48:39.500 isn't their issue. They'll need a home once they get off the addiction. They'll need a job once
00:48:44.960 they get off the addiction. But the priority one is to get them cleaned up. And that's very,
00:48:49.660 very hard. It's difficult. And the success rates, even with treatment for people, particularly with
00:48:55.740 opioid addictions are terribly low, but they are much better with treatment, much better with
00:49:00.620 treatment than the success rates. If you didn't treat them at all, if you didn't offer anything
00:49:05.120 to them. So I'm, you know, it's a problem. It's huge. It's costing us all. We're seeing it on
00:49:10.140 the streets every day. We just need to have more, more nuanced discussions about it. Look at the
00:49:17.560 the whole thing. Uh, Brian saying, yeah, 14 years, doctors kept him on oxy and it was an absolute
00:49:22.720 nightmare. And, uh, yeah. And, you know, there's a lot of levels to this, you know, somebody saying,
00:49:28.040 God damn the pushers. And that's true. And some of those pushers are doctors. It's not, I don't
00:49:31.640 know so much in Canada, but I, I related that on here before when I had to visit a clinic in West
00:49:36.300 Virginia and I found myself in a clear, true pill pushing clinic. I mean, this doctor refused to
00:49:41.840 even help me with a thorn I had stuck in my arm, which is what I went in for. And he was constantly
00:49:46.040 asked me what my pain levels were because he wanted me to get another prescription. And I was
00:49:49.940 watching these people coming and going while they're in the waiting room in and out and in and out
00:49:52.540 while he's making his money just writing prescriptions because it's easy work and just
00:49:55.340 keep firing it out there. And you get those addicts and you got permanent customers. And then of
00:49:59.440 course, if they can't get the prescriptions, it gets worse. So we've got a big problem with a lot
00:50:05.220 of sources, a lot of issues. You know, as Pat's saying, we need more rehab and detox centers.
00:50:09.280 Absolutely. It's just a complicated, ugly problem, but it's not going away for avoiding it either.
00:50:16.040 it's hitting everywhere. We see it in small towns too. And, uh, it's a, it's a problem.
00:50:22.240 Here's another one, a story, pandemic impact at church, COVID lockdowns sharply cut church
00:50:27.240 attendance stats. Can said yesterday, um, yeah, that's not a real shocker. You know, I, I live
00:50:34.940 with a church just down the road from me, actually a little one. It's kind of a neat,
00:50:37.880 it's real cool, uh, scenic thing. If people have been to Prentice, they've seen that before and
00:50:41.540 and it's a ways away from me down there.
00:50:45.280 It's been kind of neat.
00:50:46.240 It's one of those tiny churches.
00:50:47.260 It's been there over 100 years,
00:50:48.540 and they had a congregation of a dozen or 15 people,
00:50:51.320 maybe mostly elderly, and it's never come back.
00:50:54.320 I mean, the church is still there.
00:50:55.280 It's still maintained.
00:50:56.760 But I guess, you know, since they found new places to go
00:51:00.340 or different things, they just haven't found the basis
00:51:02.460 to reopen and carry on with it anymore.
00:51:06.000 So it's unfortunate, and I imagine it's happening,
00:51:08.360 as it's seen by this study, with a heck of a lot more churches.
00:51:10.660 I mean, people who moved on to praying at home or participating in other practices, they're just kind of staying there.
00:51:16.260 We're seeing that with the workplace to a degree as well.
00:51:19.000 Myself, I mean, I'm not a man of faith on any level.
00:51:21.380 I don't go to anything.
00:51:22.740 You know, I'll go to somebody's church if they want me to for a wedding or something.
00:51:25.960 But either way, churches serve a role.
00:51:28.940 I don't have a big beef with them.
00:51:30.460 I mean, a lot of people see them as an important social spot.
00:51:34.560 It's a place they gather.
00:51:35.500 It's a place where they meet their neighbors.
00:51:36.820 It's something they look forward to.
00:51:39.060 And it's sad to see that disappearing for a lot of people who found those gatherings and those things important.
00:51:46.480 The levels and consequences of the lockdowns in this last couple of years, we're going to be studying this for decades.
00:51:53.540 And I won't move from saying we overreacted.
00:51:56.160 We caused way more damage than good, way more damage.
00:51:59.500 And still we're seeing the discussions.
00:52:01.320 We're seeing the people.
00:52:02.080 We're seeing them screaming in front of the rooftops.
00:52:03.700 The seventh wave is coming locked down.
00:52:05.720 The seventh wave is coming mask up.
00:52:07.560 The seventh wave is coming. Shut down businesses and sports. No. No. How many times have we got to punch ourselves in the balls over this? Obviously, it didn't work. It hasn't gone away. But what have we got? We got rampant inflation. We got world disorder. We got an addiction epidemic going on. People out of business. People stressed. Churches, as I said, with people not attending anymore. And you guys want to keep doing that? You want to keep shutting things down?
00:52:33.740 keep putting a hammer to the economy and to people's life cycles and styles stop it stop it
00:52:41.660 we can't legislate our way out of a pandemic we tried it failed dismally and at a terrible terrible
00:52:48.320 cost and uh i just how circular have we got to get with these things it just never quite stops
00:52:56.780 still waiting for my guest here i hope he pops in um either way there's always lots of things
00:53:02.160 to talk about. So let's see. Paradox is saying, you know, pleased to see the standard article
00:53:09.160 showing the lower desire for mandates, at least. Yeah, it's coming down. It's coming down.
00:53:14.980 Still, a lot of people want to see them. And, you know, hopefully it's just as we keep learning,
00:53:20.000 it doesn't matter what you think. Let's look at it. That was always their term before. Follow
00:53:24.300 the science. Follow the science. Well, let's start doing it. We got the science. It's been
00:53:27.780 two and a half years since this crap started. And we're finding out what doesn't work. Lockdowns
00:53:32.400 are one of them. It doesn't stop it. And it causes terrible damage. That's a lot of what we need.
00:53:37.700 Again, I know, maybe I'm living in dreamland as bad as those people who think we should have
00:53:41.440 green energy sources replacing hydrocarbons overnight. But we need government to actually,
00:53:47.440 before they start policies, do a cost benefit. Look at it. Look at the cost because they got,
00:53:54.260 it was hard enough to show any benefits of the lockdowns, but they conveniently always overlooked
00:53:59.200 the costs of it, the social costs, the economic costs, the repercussions. So they use this as a
00:54:07.880 convenient excuse for pretty much everything, for employment shortages, for product shortages,
00:54:13.060 for inflation. Oh, it's just supply chains. It's just supply chains. It's just supply chains. Well,
00:54:16.480 why are the supply chains screwed up? It's because you assholes locked the world down.
00:54:21.260 that's why they didn't just suddenly blow up you guys went in and messed with the economy you got
00:54:29.780 in there and you kicked it and it's not recovered and it's going to take a while it's a whiplash 1.00
00:54:34.940 effect and still we have ding-dongs who want to lock the world down every time their neighbor 0.75
00:54:39.240 gets the sniffles if you're that scared lock yourself up go to an island build a grass hut 0.93
00:54:45.500 and live on it. But leave us the hell alone. We're done with this. It's over. It has to be over.
00:54:52.420 And look at the, yeah, you know, Pamela commenters, you know, saying, Pamela and Ashley saying, you
00:54:57.340 know, well, yeah, they were talking about glory holes. This is how absurd they were getting. Or
00:55:01.440 yeah, the signs keep a two meter distance. Did that make a difference anywhere ever? Really?
00:55:06.580 The little arrows on the grocery stores, as Ashley points out? No, it was virtue signaling.
00:55:11.200 They're going to look like they're doing something when they really aren't.
00:55:15.420 God, it just doesn't stop. 0.76
00:55:17.900 Ah, speaking of entitlement, here's a BC woman who won a $1,200 payout from Air Canada because
00:55:23.320 her baggage was delayed two days.
00:55:25.100 I mean, I guess credit, dude, how the hell did you pull that off?
00:55:28.420 I used to work in the States a lot, and I'd fly around all the time, and they would chronically
00:55:32.520 lose my luggage.
00:55:33.360 Part of it was because I had this cheap boss who would basically get me a flight to somewhere
00:55:38.360 like Pittsburgh and he would have me, you know, just pick the cheapest one on Expedia and I'd end
00:55:43.700 up with like 12 connections to get there. I've pretty much seen every little airport in all of
00:55:47.700 North America over the years I worked for him flying around. But of course, when you have that
00:55:51.680 many connections, chances are they're going to bugger up and lose your luggage at one point or
00:55:54.520 another. Most often, I would see by the stamps on my luggage tags when I would finally get it
00:55:58.060 delivered to my hotel by courier a couple of days later, it would go to North Carolina for some
00:56:03.300 reason. I don't know, some sort of hub for luggage, I guess. But I never got anything aside from one
00:56:08.300 those little blue packs, you know, with a toothbrush and some other stuff and an apology
00:56:11.800 from the airline saying, you know, we'll get it as soon as we can. Uh, she got 1200 bucks for two
00:56:17.560 days, two days. And she got her back. Uh, they offered her 500 even to begin with, but, uh, no,
00:56:24.580 she went further and went to a tribunal and they rolled, she's going to get $1,200 because they
00:56:29.060 lost her luggage for two days. Man, I was missing out. Like I said, if I could make money like that
00:56:34.500 over that because it must have been half a dozen times it was lost. That's a good chunk of cash.
00:56:38.920 I could have bought, you know, like a side vehicle with all I'd win out of that. I don't know about
00:56:42.340 these tribunals and stuff where they punish and they win. You know, what's that Marina Cogburn 0.99
00:56:48.740 saying? They have to pay you for your inconvenience. And that's fair enough. But I mean, $1,200 for two 0.57
00:56:52.800 days? That's, again, that's pretty healthy. And hey, I'm typically not sympathetic to Air Canada.
00:56:58.580 I am not a fan of that airline in any way, never have been, but that's what she's doing.
00:57:05.860 So, okay, here's another one.
00:57:06.920 This is Alberta First Nation wants to move ahead with its own police force.
00:57:09.620 So this is the Siksika Nation.
00:57:11.360 They're just east of Calgary.
00:57:13.000 They used to be known as the Blackfoot Reserve, you know, when I was younger, and we'd get over there.
00:57:16.520 It's a sizable one, a prairie one, and they want to get their own police force.
00:57:21.780 They've got one in Galician.
00:57:22.840 It's an RCMP detachment.
00:57:24.140 That's the town that kind of borders on the reserve.
00:57:25.920 It's half in, half out of it.
00:57:27.600 And they're saying Ottawa's got a roadblock
00:57:31.260 preventing the creation of a new forest right now.
00:57:33.700 So I'm not sure what's going on,
00:57:35.320 but they're having difficulties with policing, of course,
00:57:39.900 and they want more direct stuff.
00:57:40.840 This is where I think, yeah, let them have one.
00:57:43.700 Now, some people might not know
00:57:45.400 some of the nuance with that reserve
00:57:46.820 and a lot of reserves in general.
00:57:48.200 I know that reserve well.
00:57:49.340 Again, I traveled a lot.
00:57:50.280 I worked in the oil field a lot.
00:57:51.420 I spent time on these.
00:57:53.300 Blackfoot Reserve had a police force of their own
00:57:55.740 actually in the 90s.
00:57:56.740 it lasted about eight or nine years. Unfortunately, that police force had a whole lot of problems,
00:58:02.520 big problems. Corruption. Citizens were more afraid of their tribal police than they were
00:58:07.980 of the criminals by the time that force was finished with. And that's basically why the 0.85
00:58:13.840 contract was not renewed and it went away. But just because it was done wrong the first time
00:58:18.560 doesn't mean it can't be done right later. Part of the problem then is it was the early 90s.
00:58:23.420 that's when the big self-government trend, it was almost, you know, a fad. Let's just keep throwing
00:58:27.440 complete self-government at reserves. Kind of a good idea, well-meaning, but some of them,
00:58:31.960 the bottom line is if your reserve had corrupt leadership, all you're doing is empowering the
00:58:35.480 gangsters. And you still have to have some checks and balances and controls for the sake of the
00:58:40.880 citizens on there. So I think things have gotten better. And, you know, reserves are unique places
00:58:47.100 to police on. I mean, you've got all sorts of different, and rural in general.
00:58:53.420 You know, unique families, unique needs, unique challenges, things that are different than you would deal with off reserve in any other area. Plus, you know, a lot of mistrust between police and citizens and a lot of tension. And I think having a reserve force, if it's well organized and not corrupt, of course, and it's very possible to do that with a lot of local citizens and ones who know, you know, what's going on out there, I think it would do a lot of good for the reserve.
00:59:19.860 I hope the federal government relents and lets these guys set up their own.
00:59:23.920 The Sutina Reserve next to Calgary has their own police force,
00:59:26.540 and it seems to be doing quite fine.
00:59:28.600 I mean, it doesn't solve every problem, but having a local force,
00:59:31.300 you have a much more trusted police force going on in there.
00:59:35.300 I mean, for the same reason I'd like to see a provincial force
00:59:37.140 for all of Alberta in general.
00:59:38.600 So I say power to you guys.
00:59:40.360 I hope that you can get your own force in the Siksika Nation, 0.99
00:59:43.820 and I hope it goes really well.
00:59:45.400 Because, again, there's a lot of social discord on the First Nations
00:59:49.460 a lot of challenges and a lot of crime. So, you know, policing is more of an acute need for them
00:59:56.980 than it is for others. So, I mean, that's just kind of a good news, bad news. I think, you know,
01:00:01.060 there's a good move and quite often when a First Nation wants something, Ottawa will relent.
01:00:04.760 So I think they're going to get one and let's hope they do it really well. Somebody mentioned
01:00:08.120 Hobima and yeah, that's another one that that's the Sampson Louisville Reserve or used to be known
01:00:14.140 is, well, I think now it's got some long First Nations name in Cree or something that I can't
01:00:20.460 pronounce. I'm sorry, guys, I can only keep up so much over the years. That one in Hobima has
01:00:25.320 had some terrible crime over the years and gang issues. I don't think they have their own police
01:00:29.860 force, but it's another challenged reserve in Alberta. We'll see if some of these things help
01:00:34.700 though, get some stability, make people more comfortable. Getting on to, yeah, getting across
01:00:40.860 the country. The same story I'm seeing everywhere else like going on about it. I get worked up and
01:00:44.380 annoyed with people again, speaking of personal responsibility and with pets, not just in the ones
01:00:48.660 that can get vicious and dangerous as we saw in the terrible Calgary case, but just keeping your
01:00:54.900 pets. So, I mean, all of these COVID pets are coming back in. All these people have bought 0.99
01:00:59.020 themselves comfort animals while they were on lockdown or working from home. And now this is
01:01:03.540 inconvenient. Now I'm going to work and I still have to walk this thing. I still have to feed it.
01:01:08.380 I get vet bails.
01:01:09.580 Ah, screw it.
01:01:10.060 I'll throw it in to rescue. 1.00
01:01:11.800 You know, that's animal abuse is what it is.
01:01:14.060 The animal came in, it settled in, it trusted you.
01:01:16.680 It made a home.
01:01:17.460 It thought it had a family.
01:01:18.960 And as soon as it was impractical, you took your irresponsible lazy ass and you dumped
01:01:23.260 it into a shelter.
01:01:26.720 This poor thing's sitting in a cage and it doesn't know what the hell it did wrong. 1.00
01:01:30.080 What it did wrong, got adopted by the wrong irresponsible prick.
01:01:33.660 Either way, it's happening everywhere, guys.
01:01:35.340 If you can foster animals, if you can adopt them, you know, there's such a backlog.
01:01:42.100 This is Regina.
01:01:43.320 They've had, yeah, you know, not a huge city, but they've had 200 more animals come through
01:01:47.500 their doors just in the first few months than they typically do in any other year.
01:01:51.740 People are abandoning these poor animals all over the place, and these things need homes.
01:01:56.600 Check out, you know, I've had people on from Positive Match, and I've talked to others,
01:02:02.500 some really good rescue organizations, ARCS, or even your SPCA, and look at fostering, look at
01:02:07.760 owning an animal. And of course, if you're not in a position to own an animal, though,
01:02:12.820 don't get one. Don't. That's fine. It's allowed. I would rather, if it's not your thing, just don't.
01:02:19.920 That's why these things are in here in the first place. Make your decision carefully, too,
01:02:23.220 when the time comes. And Sylvia's saying, it's better than dumping the animal on a road in a
01:02:32.480 shelter, and they dump it on a road in a rural area. But it's still bad. And just think harder
01:02:40.300 before you get your pets. It should be a life commitment to the animal to the end, between you
01:02:50.220 and the animal. It should be a family member. And yeah, it's not easy. There's a lot of days I don't
01:02:54.960 want to go up and pick up that gross fly ridden crap in the back. I don't like it when they've
01:02:58.240 eating another one of my remote controls, the fur that gets all over my suit. But I put up with
01:03:03.640 that because I love the animals. And if you don't like all that, then don't get one. But you know,
01:03:09.140 either way, there's a real crisis going on with them right now. So if it's time, you're thinking
01:03:13.980 of it, another thing is get some of the older ones. These are the ones that are suffering the
01:03:17.820 most. They really are. They're the hardest ones to adopt out. These are the ones that in my view
01:03:21.200 have been emotionally traumatized. They're older. It means they've probably been in a household for
01:03:24.540 a fair amount of time. And then for whatever reason, it ended up in shelter. And it's not
01:03:29.420 always somebody being bad. Sometimes it was somebody who got physically incapacitated,
01:03:35.960 they got sick, or they got injured, or just a family change that came that was beyond their
01:03:40.980 control. I don't want to crap on everybody who surrendered an animal. There could be some very
01:03:47.420 realistic reasons why it happens. But they've got a lot of them out there. So let's help them. They
01:03:53.380 can't help themselves. They trusted us and we've got to do it. Wendy pointing out, sad when people
01:03:56.840 vacate their homes and the animals are left there. Yeah, I read a horrible story about a dog that was
01:04:02.600 left in one of those crates in a house in an apartment that was vacated and when they found
01:04:06.400 it, it was dead and it starved to death and it actually tried eating its own paws. These are
01:04:11.240 people I want to see in jail. Speaking of people who should be in jail, here's a group claiming
01:04:19.160 responsibility after tires of more than 30 SUVs were deflated in Kitchener, Ontario. This group's
01:04:25.220 probably two or three cellar dwelling assholes, you know, the usual Antifa types and so on, I would
01:04:32.660 imagine. But they're saving the environment. They're saying, they've been leaving notes saying
01:04:35.840 your gas guzzler kills. And they went out in the night and they let the air out of people's tires
01:04:39.740 and their SUVs. And of course, not only does it, you know, inconvenience the owner of the SUV,
01:04:47.200 you can damage the tires. Of course, you're damaging property. You're messing with somebody's
01:04:50.540 property. It could be dangerous if a person leaves in a hurry and they're not attentive and they whip
01:04:54.100 out into the street on flat tires. These guys should be charged and heavily charged. And I tell
01:04:58.380 you what, it seems that unfortunately my guest isn't showing up. It's just the challenges of
01:05:02.940 lives sometimes. But his group, like I said, was pushing back his businesses against the crime
01:05:09.580 they've been dealing with and things like that. And I tell you what, if I see somebody out meddling
01:05:13.280 with the tires in front of my house, I'm not going to call the police. They take 40 minutes in my
01:05:16.380 to respond anyways. I don't think I'm going to shoot them or anything, but I'm not going to
01:05:21.320 respond nicely. I'm not going to just ask them to leave. I'm going to get them out of there and make
01:05:27.740 sure they understand that it really wasn't a good idea to mess with my property. And I think more
01:05:32.100 people have to do that. We don't need to tie up our court systems, guys. As citizens, we can take
01:05:37.860 care of ourselves. Don't forget, juries, they always tend to favor the citizen. Let's see another
01:05:45.760 little note or tip for folks, always keeping cash on hand. Experts say after a massive Rogers out
01:05:51.840 of jail, everybody remembers Rogers went down a little while ago and you know, we've crippled
01:06:00.320 the country. I mean, we need more competition. We need a lot of things, but either way, it's just
01:06:03.160 a good tip. You should keep, listen to other people talking, keep a hundred dollar bill
01:06:07.240 stuffed somewhere in your glove box or your vehicle buried deeply. So the thieves don't get
01:06:11.720 it or somewhere in your home or just in your wallet. Cause you just never know, or even having
01:06:16.120 a few twenties cause you know, it might not be somewhere to break it. But I mean, folks on that
01:06:19.240 Friday, I think it was with cash in their pockets had a hell of a lot more, you know, better day
01:06:28.120 than those who were reliant on debit. So yeah, stuff coming along on there. All right. Well,
01:06:35.880 I'm going to move it along here, guys. We'll probably call it a day. We've missed a guest,
01:06:40.500 but I've covered a lot of the news stories.
01:06:41.920 We've talked about a lot of stuff.
01:06:43.720 So come in tomorrow, guys,
01:06:45.560 and let me see what we've got going on. 1.00
01:06:47.460 We've got Amariza Gunnick,
01:06:49.380 and we're going to be talking about the D-Care program going on.
01:06:53.560 And we're going to speak to Arthur Green
01:06:55.660 because the big deadline is coming up for the leadership for the UCP.
01:07:00.540 They've got until 5 o'clock tonight to get their signatures in
01:07:03.840 and a large part of the deposit they have to.
01:07:06.000 So I've got a feeling we'll have a much different picture
01:07:07.820 of exactly who's running in this race tomorrow.
01:07:09.820 than we do today.
01:07:11.020 So we're going to talk to Arthur about that.
01:07:12.360 He's the Western Standard Bureau reporter
01:07:14.820 up in the legislature in Edmonton.
01:07:16.380 And of course, I'll be ranting about something new
01:07:18.260 and talking about news items as well.
01:07:19.900 So thanks for tuning in today, guys.
01:07:21.900 We'll see you again tomorrow at 11.30 a.m. sharp.
01:07:39.820 Thank you.