It's August 18th, and we're celebrating birth control day, National Fajita Day, and a hot day to celebrate the tortilla. Plus, we talk about how to deal with the heat and drought in the West.
00:09:12.200I've got, I can get testimony on that one.
00:09:14.420Yeah, it has been a smelly couple of years, but hey, big news, big news in the world of hockey, especially the Calgary Flames. Calgary Flames have signed free agent, center iceman Nazeem Qadri from the, or used to play with Colorado Avalanche, won a Stanley Cup last year.
00:09:32.940Flames have signed him to a reported seven-year deal worth $7.5 million a year.
00:09:40.600So that's really strengthening the Flames lineup.
00:09:44.060They're now very deep in center, so they're going to be a team to watch this year for sure.
00:09:50.820And speaking of hockey, there's a nutcase NDP lady out there, Zerilio, I think is her name, from BC.1.00
00:09:58.740She tweeted that, hey, you know what? Because of climate change, we should remove all indoor ice. It's really creating a lot of climate change and emissions. So I don't think that's going to go over well with the millions of hockey players, figure skaters, curlers, speed skaters, ringette players, and on and on and on that have fun on ice and indoor ice in Canada.
00:10:25.860But we'll see how that does for the NDP.
00:10:29.860Jonathan Bradley's got a story on Yale, that prestigious university.
00:10:35.940Their medical institution is now helping transition kids as young as three years old into different genders.
00:10:47.400We've got a good column by David Creighton, speaking of craziness on the Justin Trudeau COVID hysteria.
00:10:55.860And we have the potential to have a doctor serial killer in Ontario, Corey.
00:11:01.680A doctor is now being charged with three more murders, elderly patients at the hospital that he worked, bringing the total number of charges that he's facing to four.
00:19:41.560i'm glad you do recognize that that's where the problem is they're getting smuggled in by the
00:19:47.000hunters well no you're catching them by the hunters they're getting smuggled in by the
00:19:49.580thousands if you guys get the courage to crack down on the aquasasne reserve and some of the
00:19:53.540area other areas where they're actually crossing the river all the time but i know you don't want
00:19:57.700to do that do you that's where the guns are coming from but no you guys are you know if you want to
00:20:02.300see a federal politician's butt pucker up into a knot just mention first nations and cracking down
00:20:06.720on something. So instead though, Mendocino drifts further because he starts at pointing out how we've
00:20:11.980got a bunch of illegal ones, but then says, and we're going to make everybody safer, of course,
00:20:15.320by taking away all of the legally owned firearms and handguns that everybody's been following the
00:20:19.660proper process for. Starts right, ends wrong. Well, I guess for a change, it's a bit of a break from
00:20:27.060the regular stuff and that he did start sort of correctly anyways, but don't hold out hope for
00:20:31.440rational policy coming from the minister of lies. All right, let's bring in somebody who's not prone
00:20:36.980to lying. He's one of our reporters. He's our parliamentary bureau chief. It's Matthew Horwood
00:20:41.120from out in Ottawa for what I imagine will be the last appearance on Triggered. So thanks for
00:20:45.160joining me today, Matthew. Thanks, Corey. I do my best to be honest. What's that? I do my best to be
00:20:50.520honest. Well, that's appreciated. Yeah, we don't get return readers that much when we spread BS.
00:20:54.920The only people who go back over and over for BS are liberal voters, but we don't have a lot of
00:20:58.340them anyways. Exactly. Don't want to end up like mainstream media. So, you know, here's the top
00:21:04.260story I've seen, at least the most recent from you, you covered it, and that's in the Ontario,
00:21:08.720Dave mentioned that in the news update, was this doctor with now three more charges for murder
00:21:14.440laid against him. So that would make it four. Just a note that Dave didn't mention, he's out
00:21:19.060on $10,000 bail. I guess if he'd murdered them in a bouncy castle, they might keep him behind bars.
00:21:24.900but since he's just a run-of-the-mill mass murderer, they'll say, well, you know, here's
00:21:28.380to put in 10,000 bucks and try not to run away over the course of the next few months or kill
00:21:32.740more folks. But it's a pretty disturbing case. Yeah, it's interesting what gets the attention
00:21:39.540compared to other cases. But yeah, this Brian Nadler, he was charged Wednesday with three
00:21:45.140additional counts of first-degree murder, all of them involving elderly patients. The RCMP
00:21:50.620investigated him back in March 2021. They were alerted to many suspicious deaths at the hospital
00:21:58.000and they found that he had been, you know, it looks like he might have murdered a bunch of
00:22:03.240people. But his lawyers are saying that he will be vindicated, that all four patients died of COVID-19,
00:22:10.300not because he murdered them. And yeah, he's out on a $10,000 bail. He needs to notify the police
00:22:18.920if he changed his address, and he cannot work. Obviously, he has lost his medical license. So
00:22:24.720we'll see what happens with that case. Very disturbing. We'll see how many more victims
00:22:28.120might end up appearing. Yeah, well, I'm glad they've suspended his license, at least for what
00:22:34.100that's worth. So credit due. I don't imagine too many people going in for a checkup with the guy
00:22:39.680with that history at this point anyways. But just a weird story. And it's funny, you know,
00:22:44.360we see these David brought up when we were talking about that in the newsroom with a horrible case
00:22:47.860over in the UK with a doctor and he'd killed hundreds. It was one of the worst mass murders
00:22:51.200in history. I guess just if you're some kind of psychopath who wants to get access to people
00:22:56.620killing seniors, you know, it slides under the radar. It's just awful. We'll see what happens
00:23:00.280when the facts come out, I guess, in that. So getting on to healthcare, just moving through
00:23:05.400your stories. This is interesting too. And of course, the first part that everybody gets worked
00:23:09.680up with, what Ontario is saying is going to fund surgeries at more private facilities to try and
00:23:14.360help with the pressure and the burdens. Every province is going through this right now.
00:23:18.840They're also talking about, you know, seeking out more ways to get nurses and changing long-term
00:23:24.560housing and beds for things. But as soon as you use that private word, people kind of go bananas.
00:23:29.940Yeah, people don't like to hear the provincial government talking about private health care,
00:23:34.560that's for sure. But yeah, they're talking about covering a number of different measures,
00:23:39.560covering the exam registration fees for international trained nurses. They're going
00:23:44.420to send patients waiting for long-term care beds to a home, none of their choosing until one opens
00:23:49.700up. So a couple of different, and of course, as you said, trying to get surgeries done in
00:23:54.980more private settings. So they have a lot of measures to handle this tremendous backlog of
00:24:00.740healthcare workers. But the main problem, and I've spoken to a couple of nurses, and this is
00:24:04.740what they say, is that there just aren't enough nurses to work. So many of them are considering0.79
00:24:09.180quitting. They are worn down. They don't see an end in sight for these backlogs and this
00:24:15.900huge increase in medical conditions that have been hitting them. And this winter looks like
00:24:20.980it's going to get even worse, Corey. Even one of them I spoke to, they said that a lot of nurses
00:24:25.080are considering going into the plastic surgery business because that's where the money is. And
00:24:32.180that would be obviously much less stressful than being in what are essentially war zones,
00:24:36.520these hospitals this winter. Yeah, no, that's disturbing. I mean, and we're seeing it across
00:24:42.080the whole country. I know in the Maritimes, we've seen some facilities reducing or closing or
00:24:48.180running out of doctors altogether. Here in Alberta, we've had urgent care centers that
00:24:52.160are reducing hours. I mean, you know, of all things, we know that we don't always just get
00:24:56.000sick or injured, you know, between nine to five. It can happen in any hour. But all of these
00:25:00.220facilities are desperate. They're just running out of resources and they don't know what to do
00:25:03.520any longer for sure it's definitely not just an ontario problem it's all across canada all across
00:25:08.000the us across the world i would imagine i mean you look at every like every business has a help
00:25:12.580wanted sign so why would hospitals be any different especially when you're going to be
00:25:16.320going through the things nurses and doctors go through with such uh such a little pay but um
00:25:21.840yeah it'll be uh interesting to see how they handle it this winter um my heart goes out to
00:25:27.940the nurses. It's going to be, could be dicey. Yeah. Well, let's look at, you write some stuff
00:25:33.240out. It's kind of, it's federal, but it's on the international front as well. So Canada's
00:25:38.660committing to send a bunch more funding to Ukraine. They are going to send $450 million
00:25:46.040to buy heating oil. They have already sent $2 billion to date to Ukraine. And that's all well
00:25:53.800good if you want people to stay warm in the wintertime but you should also consider corey
00:25:58.040that ukraine is rated one of the most the second most corrupt country in europe just after russia
00:26:04.120and out of one transparency index they were ranked 122nd out of 180 countries for corruption
00:26:10.360so my question is how much of that money is going to be actually going towards heating the country
00:26:15.960and how much of it is going to be misappropriated to be lost to corruption to go to support the
00:26:20.520country's billionaire class um but of course that's not something that's really appropriate
00:26:25.240to talk about you can't bring up ukrainians corruption problem you can't talk about the
00:26:29.400neo-nazi battalions that canada is indirectly supporting and you can't talk about what
00:26:35.320amnesty international pointed out and finally confirmed was that the ukrainian armed forces
00:26:39.720were essentially using their own citizens as human shields so they are uh unpopular narratives to
00:26:46.120to talk about, but, you know, it's not, the world isn't black or white, Corey. You, not every, you
00:26:51.720know, you have a war between two countries. Both sides are going to be doing some pretty unsavory
00:26:55.940things. And it's, it's too bad that's, you know, taxpayers' dollars might get just lost into a
00:27:01.460black hole of a country. Yeah, that's always a hazard. I mean, whether it's a third world place0.74
00:27:05.880or a war-torn place, or again, in Eastern Europe, where they're still shaking off kind of a, you
00:27:10.620know, I mean, they moved on from the socialist rule of the Soviet Union and into, well, often,
00:27:15.880as we see in Russia and the Ukraine, it tends to be run by gangsters to a good degree or a
00:27:20.980semi-democratic sort of state. And then when you send funding for those countries, even though
00:27:26.000they are in need, it's rare that it gets down to the ground where a person initially intends it to
00:27:31.000be. Exactly. There's no mechanisms to make sure and to ensure that all that money goes to where
00:27:37.180they say it's going to go. And there was a case of the wife of a Ukrainian MP that was found
00:27:42.900fleeing the country with a suitcase full of, I think it was 20, 25 million US and European dollars
00:27:49.560that they just had in a briefcase. So you wonder where that money might have come from, what it
00:27:53.540should have been used for, and whether a lot of our tax dollars might end up in similar situations
00:27:59.160in some suitcase flying over the border with some Ukrainian billionaire's wife. Who knows, right?
00:28:07.420Yeah, well, it's quite a mess just over there in general and in Europe in general. I mean,
00:28:12.860it kind of, you know, if anything, we might have to be sending, well, I hope we don't, but sending
00:28:17.140foreign aid to Germany to try and heat themselves. I mean, this, I don't think this was your story,
00:28:20.740but they were talking about buying firewood to keep people warm this winter because their energy
00:28:25.620crisis is getting so acute out of there. I mean, if it's a cold winter in Europe, there's going to
00:28:30.820be problems in every country out there this year. Exactly, Corey. I did actually mention that in one
00:28:36.100of the stories I wrote about Germany, they're going to have a horrible winter. They're, as you
00:28:40.540said, the Google searches for firewood are exploding because Russia has basically shut
00:28:47.020off or nearly shut off the pipeline of oil going to the country. So all these German cities are0.99
00:28:51.920talking about different measures to save energy, which is dimming streetlights, you know, shutting
00:28:57.260down gyms and other recreational centers, you know, talking about cold showers. I mean, it's a
00:29:04.040really dicey situation for Germany, especially made worse by the fact that they have a serious
00:29:08.980drought in the country that is going to make things even worse. So I mean, who knows, maybe1.00
00:29:13.980we'll be sending aid over there as well. It's but all of Europe, it's a really dicey situation.
00:29:20.640Yeah, or even rather than sending aid, it'd just be nice if we had liquid natural gas terminals,
00:29:24.560like most of the developed world that has liquid natural gas reserves or gas reserves, and we
00:29:29.300could actually be exporting it to countries that could purchase it. But I guess Canada's being the
00:29:34.260Boy Scout. So we're just saying let them burn wood. Yeah, exactly. It's really too bad.
00:29:38.980It is. So, I mean, speaking of Boy Scouts, I'm just going a little farther back with Public Works. Maybe, you know, because I know it's tough on you in Ottawa and Parliament's not going. There's still always lots of stuff to write about, but, you know, they're all out shaking hands and hitting barbecues right now still. But some of this committee stuff comes forward and this Public Works basically saying, yeah, we know SNC-Lavalin has got some criminal issues and everything. But, you know, let's let bygones be bygones. It's been a while. You know, we're still going to do business with them.
00:30:08.980yeah corey it's uh it's it's really shocking to see that they would just put all that behind them
00:30:15.780and they would ignore the obvious scandal that happened that is still fresh in people's minds
00:30:19.940just because it happened 20 years ago it doesn't mean that it wasn't a huge deal and that it's
00:30:24.900still a perfect example of liberal corruption that doesn't seem to get uh it just gets memory
00:30:30.100hold you know that the liberals seem to jump from scandal to scandal and it never gets i don't think
00:30:35.700the attention it really deserves uh by the media by the conservatives and by the public at large
00:30:41.380and so it's it's really too bad that's again all these things just keep getting memory hold
00:30:45.540and hopefully this next election we will be able to see all these uh all these issues come back up
00:30:51.620and trudeau will have to be held accountable for them and explain why he is so embroiled in scandals
00:30:58.980constantly it seems well you gotta wonder i mean is snc lavalin really the only company on earth
00:31:04.100it's capable of doing some of these contracts. I mean, they pretend like there's no other
00:31:07.140competitors and nobody else who can do it. I mean, the realism is it's the only company
00:31:13.300in Canada that's so strongly entrenched within the federal Laurentian elite. That's what the reality
00:31:18.660is. Oh, exactly. Once you're in bed with a company like that, you don't want to lose them,
00:31:22.900even if there's a little bit of corruption going on. That's just going to be so much more of a
00:31:26.820paperwork and a headache. So you're going to look past all those things.
00:31:30.260So what else are you working on there? What do we get to look forward to as we start heading
00:31:33.860into the weekend so i interviewed uh pollster nick nanos about the conservative leadership race
00:31:40.820what he said was it seems according to fundraising numbers let alone the uh various different polls
00:31:46.660on popularity that pierre polyev has this one in the bag um that he is going to be the next leader
00:31:52.660of the conservative party and jean chariot unfortunately is uh not going to make the cuts
00:31:58.020he also talked about trudeau's popularity numbers why they seem to be going down and and why people
00:32:02.980aren't jumping towards the ndp and they're kind of the young people are switching towards the
00:32:06.820conservative party so it should be an interesting story that'll come out tomorrow i also have an
00:32:11.380interesting one on the five toronto area doctors that passed away uh sadly in july i interviewed
00:32:18.100two alberta physicians that are convinced that it had something to do with the vaccine despite
00:32:24.340the media and the hospitals declaring otherwise now very interesting conversations i had they
00:32:29.620argued that um there has been they've seen an increase in uh cancers accelerating due to the
00:32:36.820vaccine and they've seen cases of uh athletes collapsing with basically myocarditis heart
00:32:43.060attacks um because of uh because of the vaccine which would explain four of the different deaths
00:32:48.900that that happened in july so a very interesting take on that we'll have to see how this goes on
00:32:55.140because there's certainly going to be, as I've been reporting on,
00:32:59.380you know, lots more injuries, lots more deaths from these vaccines, unfortunately.
00:33:04.060Yeah, and I mean, I don't want to set off the horrific algorithms again,
00:33:07.580but, you know, it's a good time to remind you.
00:33:08.920Yeah, sorry for mentioning that. I should have censored myself.
00:33:10.800Oh, that's okay. No, you can mention it.
00:34:10.820It's frustrating. You know, I mean, we should be allowed to have the discussion.
00:34:14.160I mean, that's a discussion in itself of, you know, the social media giants and sort of the censorship that happens within them.
00:34:22.460And like I said, Leon, it's a little self-serving chat, but that's why the importance of independent outlets like ours and having people on the ground like yourself going out and getting this information and reporting it is so important right now.
00:34:35.380Yeah, exactly. And I've seen a little bit of the tide turning in terms of vaccine injuries.
00:34:40.040I mean, CBC did a showcased one man story a couple of weeks ago.
00:34:45.280There's been some other alternative outlets starting to really talk about this.
00:34:48.060The Epoch Times being a perfect example.
00:34:49.840So it's going to be interesting to see over the next couple of months as the vaccine injury stories keep piling up and coming out into the mainstream versus, on the other hand, as we head into winter and the cases go up of COVID and other, you know, the flu, maybe monkeypox, the federal government considers either sending us into lockdown or mandating the third booster or both.
00:35:11.480So I think those opposing forces as they come together are going to make for a very hot autumn, perhaps.
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00:38:29.800people aren't talking about maybe because it's a bit of a morbid uh approach to things but it's
00:38:34.480true. It's not just the healthcare system, for example, as to why we're being overwhelmed all
00:38:40.440over the place. Our health facilities are just, it doesn't seem to matter how much we spend on
00:38:45.060them, they can't keep up. And a lot of it is our broken system. I mean, our system is just so rigid,
00:38:50.060it legalizes many, many means of competition or private provision or breaking out of the
00:38:57.640government monopoly. But another problem, and a financial problem in general for us, and in
00:39:03.760healthcare, is, well, the baby boomers are all getting really old right now. And I'm not trying1.00
00:39:11.620to get into some age disputes or anything. I'm just talking about demographic realities.
00:39:16.160You know, so people who understand the baby boom happened just after World War II, those soldiers
00:39:22.620who came back, came back with, you know, pretty virile and in a good mood. Plus, there were some
00:39:29.000boom times happening in the 50s and times were good. And there was just a whole whack of kids
00:39:33.800were born over the course of, you know, 10, 20 years there. And I'm a Gen Xer, I guess, if we're
00:39:40.220going to identify generations, but there's the boomers. And it was a large demographic segment
00:39:45.340of our population. And that segment, though, has been working its way up, working its way up.
00:39:48.900one of our most productive segments, getting up into the 90s even. But now that tide's kind of
00:39:53.780turned, they all started retiring. And instead of pumping money into the system, now they're
00:39:59.000drawing out again. And again, not blaming them, but now you're cashing your RRSPs. Now you're
00:40:04.620collecting your pension. You're not paying nearly as much in taxes. And the other part that's just
00:40:10.200a reality of aging, and I'm not saying we should cut off medicine or anything, is it's in our final
00:40:17.020years when we use the vast majority of our healthcare resources. When you are in your 80s
00:40:22.840and 90s, I've got a grandmother who's 103, but she's in a full care home. And I'm glad they're
00:40:30.660caring for her. And she's on a great number of medications and needs a lot of help to get0.66
00:40:35.540through. And I mean, that just rises as we go. So we've got this very large segment of the
00:40:40.260population now that need very, very regular medical interventions, doctors visits, medications,
00:40:45.780care centers, nursing homes, that all takes skilled medical professional help in order to
00:40:52.600maintain them. Well, maintain, that sounds so cold. Keep them alive. Keep them in a decent
00:40:58.180standard of living, you know, and we do as good a job as we can with it. And it's not like the
00:41:03.420old, old days either. It's not so simple as to, is the old days the way it used to be is I guess,
00:41:07.020you know, grandma and grandpa move in with the kids and help raise the kids while the family
00:41:10.560goes out to work. You know, that's the old style of a family unit. And it doesn't put the pressure
00:41:15.020onto public services as much, but this is where we are today. This is where I'm pointing out a
00:41:20.520challenge. And I have to admit, I don't have an easy solution to point to in this case. I know
00:41:26.740we can fix things up. We can definitely make them better. And, you know, another one of our areas is
00:41:32.660long-term care facilities for seniors and others are, see, here we go, Sylvia. Now, let me get
00:41:38.920there. Sylvia. What? I beg your pardon, Corey. What's wrong with baby boomers? I didn't say a1.00
00:41:43.440damn things wrong with baby boomers. I'm not starting on an anti-age thing. I'm talking about1.00
00:41:46.880realistic demographics, okay? Let's not get into this. Let's have the discussion without getting
00:41:52.920defensive the second it starts. I'm not shooting at the boomers. And as you say, what about the1.00
00:41:59.840boomers that are still in their home because they don't want to be a drain? I know. I know. And I'm0.89
00:42:03.800glad they are. But as they get in their 80s and 90s, most can't maintain it anymore. So we've got
00:42:09.200to start talking about how do we deal with it? How do we best keep that high standard of living?
00:42:14.640I like seeing some of the initiatives with home care, getting people out so we can keep seniors1.00
00:42:18.800in their homes as long as humanly possible, because that's where they want to be. And it's
00:42:23.800still far cheaper for everybody else if it's, you know, short visits. But the LinkedIn users saying,
00:42:29.940you know, wondering if assisted suicide for geriatrics is going to be legalized, you know,
00:42:34.180and those Swiss suicide pods. I know, you see, I don't like, I'm not proposing at all going down0.82
00:42:38.340that route. I mean, we've talked about that before. I'm not a man of faith. Hey, I think
00:42:41.640this is what we got. So we want to stretch that out as long as humanly possible with
00:42:46.060a decent standard of living. So, you know, let's do so. But we got to start having some
00:42:52.520discussions because we have, you know, a demographic pressure that's building and coming
00:43:00.480up right now because of that. That's just a reality of what's going on. Jet Gorgon's
00:43:04.740bringing up a good point saying, I'm a boomer and I don't care how it still works in the
00:43:07.460trades. Yeah. I mean, there's some of the things that are really good too, though, is as you see
00:43:11.680the articles all the time, you know, 80 is the new 60 or things like that. Like people are living
00:43:17.520longer, they're healthier, longer, and they can stay in the workforce a lot longer. And most of
00:43:22.240us want to, I, I, it depends on the person, but I'm not in a rush to retire as long as I'm able
00:43:26.940and, and, uh, you know, physically capable, mentally capable. I want to keep working. Maybe
00:43:31.480my idea will be different. You know, when I'm older, I don't know. But when we're talking about
00:43:39.260dealing with healthcare challenges, pressures, and so on, we have to, as I was saying,
00:43:46.400it's a sensitive subject, then people get defensive and they get upset. But we got to
00:43:50.680have the discussion because it's not getting better for not talking about it. And with any
00:43:54.480luck, we all get there. So help the seniors of today, because we're going to be the seniors
00:43:59.480of tomorrow. This is all in our interest. Paradox is saying we struggled with my father's dementia
00:44:05.640for two years with no help from home care, two hours per week. It's worse than useless. Yeah.
00:44:10.200And that's, I mean, the publicly serviced one isn't necessarily good. There's private services
00:44:14.280that provide that are better, but not everybody can afford that. And in a case, eventually when
00:44:18.920you get things like dementia and so on, then eventually often you need to have that person
00:44:23.640go into a full-time care facility. So let's talk about it though, because again, we're getting
00:44:28.600a case of our whole country running low on tax-based resources for many many reasons
00:44:35.160but this is among them i'm not trying to blame the boomers so everybody don't get your backs up
00:44:39.960a demographic reality is not blaming somebody something it's pointing out something that's
00:44:43.640happening and let's make it better sheila gray saying high standard of living are you kidding
00:44:47.880me i i'm not sure which part you're speaking of i want it to be a high standard of living
00:44:51.960uh we we've got room to improve on it i mean yeah we don't want to be warehousing our seniors the0.99
00:44:56.360the people who raised us, the people brought us where we are today, you know, and just keeping
00:45:01.280them alive. We want a standard of living. We want it to be decent. And it's, it's very, very
00:45:06.540expensive. That's a reality too. So how can we make it more cost effective? How can we make sure
00:45:12.860that as many people are cared for as possible in an affordable way? And, you know, and trying to
00:45:20.320make those last years as good as possible. And paradoxically saying, we knew it was a demographic
00:45:25.840time bomb coming and we fiddled. I think there's a degree of it. You know, we kind of knew it was
00:45:31.700coming, but we don't like talking about it. It's one of those things we're squeamish about. We
00:45:34.360don't like thinking about it. You want to see discussions. I see Jane commenting in there. Yes,
00:45:38.600my wife's saying, Corey loves boomers. He's married to one. Yeah, Jane's a year or two older0.98
00:45:42.060than me. And actually when you cut the cutoff line for who's a boomer or not, she falls into
00:45:48.100the boomer and I do love her dearly. So either way, these are discussions we have to have and
00:45:54.000you want squeamish, I'm terrified of death. Oh, absolutely mortified of it. And I avoid discussing
00:45:59.880it whenever humanly possible, particularly with my own, but it doesn't matter whether I want to
00:46:04.020talk about it or not. Eventually it's coming for me. And likewise with seniors, I'm just saying
00:46:12.280this, it's another step or another portion of what we've got going on right now. And I'm talking
00:46:19.560from a fiscal point of view or a resource point of view, we got to start discussing these things
00:46:23.320because we have a healthcare system that's falling apart right now. And I want to see a
00:46:29.160lot of reform for it. I want to fix the care system as much as we can, but we also have to
00:46:36.600look at how we deal with these things because we can't avoid them whether we want to talk about
00:46:41.740them or not. Here's an interesting thing. Speaking of government coming after our resources,
00:46:51.000our hard-earned money, our things, and that's our homes. You know, we've heard that a number
00:46:55.980of times and we know it. The government is eagerly eyeing, you know, I spoke earlier of the value of
00:47:01.020home equity, how important it is, how empowering it is, and how we're robbing our First Nations
00:47:05.280citizens of that empowerment and that that means and mechanisms of savings. The government wants
00:47:11.400to steal your home equity. We've reported on that a number of times. I mean, we know they do. They
00:47:16.440keep putting out study after study with a Canadian, uh, you know, the CA, uh, is this CMRH or whatever
00:47:22.700the, that, that, that government branch of, of real estate. And they keep talking about how they
00:47:26.680can come up with a home equity tax on your primary house. They want your equity. You don't keep
00:47:31.260sniffing around and trying to find ways to do it. And then they've always get caught and they
00:47:34.960pretend, no, no, no, we're not coming after your equity. One of the steps where we could see that
00:47:38.400those liars want our home equity is they desperately want money, our money. Uh, CMHC,0.99
00:47:43.500Thank you, Paradox. Darned acronyms. They've been getting the revenue agency. When you file
00:47:51.660your taxes, you have to report the sale of your primary home. I mean, they don't take any part
00:47:57.260of it, but they've already put you in the habit. If they're not going to tax it, if it's not
00:48:01.420taxable, it's none of your damn business. We don't need it in there. You shouldn't have to
00:48:06.120have it in there. You will get fined $8,000 if you don't tell them about a sale of your home.
00:48:11.540Why? Why? It's none of your damn business. I don't have to tell you about the sale of my car. I don't have to tell you about any other sales. Why do you want to know about the sale of my home? Why would I be fined? Why are you putting a gun to my head to threaten me with fines? And I tell you, it turns into a gun to the head. I'm going to go on a bit of a libertarian rant, because it still always comes down to force.
00:48:34.340because people say, well, it's just a fine. It's not a criminal thing. Yeah. Well, what if I don't
00:48:37.440pay it? Well, they'll seize your assets. What if I don't have any assets? Well, then they'll
00:48:41.220eventually, we'll get to the point. You'll be incarcerated. What if I don't want to be
00:48:44.120incarcerated? They'll arrest you. What if I tell them not to arrest me? Well, they will put a gun
00:48:47.120to your head. In the end, it's always a gun to your head. It's your property. They want to steal
00:48:52.240it. And they want you now to already get in the habit of registering any sale of that property
00:48:57.260when you do your tax return. By force, they're telling you to register that.
00:49:02.040Why would they do that if they didn't want your property?
00:49:04.500Well, at least for what it's worth, Pierre Polyev and Scott Aitchison, both who are running
00:49:09.720for the Conservative Party of Canada, have brought that up and they're addressing it
00:49:22.960I mean, when they're picking what you have to report by law to them and what you don't,
00:49:27.380And when they want you to always report your home equity, what you sold, they're sniffing around at your money.
00:49:33.060And when I was talking about retirement, I was talking about us being able to pay our bills or last as long as we can in our homes and things like that.
00:53:54.180I wouldn't think. Well, we'll see when that ever finally fades out. I suspect there were some
00:54:00.720people made a heck of a lot of money selling COVID tests as well. So, you know, there's a
00:54:04.740good motivation to make sure everybody knows they have it, whether or not they can feel it.
00:54:10.700So let's see the next one down. This was kind of interesting. I mean, I spoke with a member of the
00:54:15.480union that represents the RCMP. They're pretty upset with the potential of a provincial force
00:54:20.880coming in. They've had quite a strong campaign against that provincial force coming in. But at
00:54:25.180least when asked directly, the RCMP said, I mean, they're willing to work alongside a government
00:54:30.300provincial force if one came in. That's right, Corey. And earlier this week,
00:54:35.260the Alberta NDP called the blueprint released by the UCPA a boondock and saying nobody actually
00:54:44.460wants this in Alberta. However, the proposed provincial police force will add 275 frontline
00:54:52.620officers in the province of Alberta. I know being from Newfoundland, we have a provincial police
00:54:59.660force in Newfoundland, and it's called the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. And they coincide,
00:55:04.920you know, with the RCMP in the province. And, you know, they put out some good work,
00:55:10.940stuff that, you know, that the RCMP can't get to with lack of resources and funding across Canada.
00:55:18.380You know, these provincial police forces actually really do help provinces that they work in. So,
00:55:24.800So, you know, it was nice to see the statement by the Alberta RCMP Deputy Commissioner today saying, you know, they're willing to work with these provincial officers.
00:55:33.940And when it comes down to it, Corey, it's about the citizens of Alberta.
00:55:40.120And, you know, rural crime seems to be a real problem here in rural Alberta.
00:55:45.980I know I'm in Bonneville and, you know, we have a lot of farmlands surrounded by different communities.
00:55:52.260And, you know, there are a lot of crimes that do occur that the RCMP, I won't say don't get to, but, you know, take a little bit longer to respond with policing priorities.
00:56:04.080You know, in Bonneville, crime seems to be seems to be quite high with, you know, misdemeanor crimes, regular, you know, break-ins and occurrences.
00:56:14.900And I've spoke to the Alberta RCMP and, you know, it all comes back to the justice system, Corey.
00:56:20.760I mean, it's a catch-and-release system, and, you know, don't quote me, but I won't say any names from the RCMP because it was an off-the-record conversation.
00:56:32.360But, you know, the officer told me about seeing the same people over and over and over for the same crime.
00:56:37.860So, you know, maybe a provincial police force can relieve some of the pressure and stress that RCMP officers are dealing with in Alberta.
00:56:47.660Well, that's it. And I mean, a lot of the case people are making, I know those studies, those polls that came out, for example, I reported that or spoke on that the other day. That poll was commissioned by the same RCMP union that doesn't want to see an Alberta provincial police force coming in. And then the poll that's saying that Albertans don't want this.
00:57:07.640And when you break that pool down, you found actually that rural people, even in their pool, still wanted it.
00:57:13.660And we can't forget that people living in the cities that didn't want it.
00:57:17.660Well, these are people that already have city police forces.
00:57:19.920So what does it matter to you? You guys wouldn't know an RCMP car if you ran into it.
00:57:23.960You've got city forces. You only see the occasional one if you're out on the highway.
00:57:29.040It's rural areas where there's concern. And it's not just the extra 275 officers.
00:57:34.300I contend we could train in a more specialized way.
00:57:37.940I mean, the RCMP will transfer somebody.
00:57:39.660You know, you finish your training in Quebec.
00:57:41.180Okay, we're going to station you out in Alberta.
00:57:44.060It might take them two years before they get to know the local community,
00:57:47.920the different unique needs that they have culturally, you know,
00:57:51.660what their specific issues are, because it's a different form of policing,
00:57:54.400say, in Bonneville than it is in Lethbridge or as it is in Newfoundland.
00:58:01.340And, you know, that's I very rarely state my opinion, trying to remain unbiased.
00:58:06.760But, you know, I totally agree with you.
00:58:09.440Like RNC officers in Newfoundland, you know, they know the community.
00:58:14.400They grew up in the communities that they that they work in.
00:58:18.560And I would assume that, you know, a UCP creation of a provincial police force would do the same thing when it comes to recruiting.
00:58:26.780I mean, they would recruit officers that, you know, even so much as to say, you know, recruiting, you know, people with First Nations backgrounds to deal with, you know, the different communities that the RCMP aren't used to dealing with, Corey.
00:58:42.820Well, yeah, and the other, you know, frustration for a lot of us out here is that, and I'm glad you brought up Newfoundland, and just for people to point out that, why is it controversial when Alberta wants to do something when other provinces have been doing it for years?
00:58:54.660ontario has their own force quebec has their own force newfoundland has their own force when alberta
00:58:59.060wants it we're a bunch of assholes well hang on a minute like you know give us a break we're not0.84
00:59:04.020asking for something that hasn't been done before or that that's uh beyond reason i mean too corey
00:59:10.980people in alberta like i said i i spend most of my day on the phone with after record conversations
00:59:17.460talking to people getting people's opinion and a lot of people's opinion on the rcmp after the
00:59:23.700truckers' convoy is, you know, they've lost faith in the RCMP. We've seen a woman trampled
00:59:30.800in Ottawa by the RCMP and, you know, tractors fidgeted with during the Coutts border protest.
00:59:38.460And, you know, I think a provincial police force will be a good change of pace
00:59:42.360for Albertans and, you know, maybe can restore trust in peace officers and, you know,
00:59:49.620their ability to police our local communities.
00:59:53.140And a person's shot isn't necessarily against the individual officers all the time.
00:59:57.140It's the management and the structure of the RCMP where most of the people seem to have their difficulties.
01:00:01.160And we're seeing some evidence hitting the news of potential direct meddling a couple of times
01:00:05.360with the prime minister's office into the RCMP's mandate.
01:00:08.860People would feel more comfortable perhaps if they were shielded from that with a provincial force.
01:00:12.820And then the other thing is there's nothing to say that some current RCMP officers
01:00:15.900couldn't, well, move on and join the provincial force.
01:00:17.940that's what i was thinking too cory and again now the ucp hasn't really released how much it's going
01:00:24.680to cost but i would assume as they add more and more provincial police officers right now they're
01:00:30.940just saying 275 but you know in five years this could be a force of 700 or 500 officers and you
01:00:38.520know i know cold lake is a is a city nearby here and they just you know in municipal politics you
01:00:45.960You know, they just hired another RCMP officer and paid for by the city to, you know, help with the crime.
01:00:52.700But I would assume that a provincial police force, you know, once it's rooted in Alberta and people see the great work that they do, that they would, you know, in Newfoundland, they have a program at Memorial University, which they actually teach these officers for the RNC.
01:01:10.620And I would assume that Alberta would look at the same thing, adding a policing program to the University of Alberta.
01:01:19.800Yeah. No. And again, you know, just that final note, too, for people, if they got the emotional attachment, we're not talking about getting rid of the RCMP.
01:01:26.220It would just be a reduced role. I mean, they're still going to be present. There's still be a federal force.
01:01:30.120It's just they wouldn't be the main hands on local force any longer.
01:01:33.460Yeah, that's correct. I mean, the UCP government is not looking to, you know, get rid of the RCMP. We're not going to kick them out of Alberta. But, you know, it's a great chance, I think, for Alberta to reduce its crime rate.
01:01:48.520I mean, the more the merrier, as we say in Newfoundland, Corey.
01:01:54.100And I think it would also be great for the youth of the province who have considered going into policing,
01:02:01.920but not really as a route with the RCMP.
01:02:04.840And then maybe there's young youth that leave Alberta to go police in Ontario or police in Newfoundland or anywhere else.
01:02:13.280you know, and maybe we can keep those people right here now and, you know, keep the tax dollars in
01:02:18.660Alberta. Yeah. So, well, let's pivot a bit to one of your stories from a couple of days ago.
01:02:23.860This has been on a sad note, unfortunately, but it's the case. I mean, it's a good news story.
01:02:28.080It seems to be recovering, but that horse they've labeled Starvin Marvin and it kind of, you could
01:02:33.940segue in a sense, this is the Alberta SPCA Peace Officer. So it's sort of a quasi law enforcement,
01:02:39.220but they specialize in animal welfare and we've been as your story said there's more calls like
01:02:44.500this unfortunately of people who aren't uh aren't caring for their animals and and people forget
01:02:49.480about you know you hear about dogs and cats but there's livestock that can be horribly treated as
01:02:53.660well uh that's right cory i can't take all the credit for the headline our editor mike came up
01:02:59.000the headline but you know i've seen this uh before in my career before working with the western
01:03:04.280standard i worked with a local news source here in bonnieville and i actually attended a property
01:03:10.360where the same thing happened although the horses weren't well there were some horses rescued but
01:03:16.600you know upwards to 10 horses died and it was because the the owner simply couldn't feed them
01:03:21.960and you know we see this across alberta you know the cova pandemic has hit farmers uh you know
01:03:29.000You know, I won't say more than everyone else, but, you know, it's been a tough couple of years on farmers and livestock.
01:03:38.960And, you know, Alberta SPCA officers say, you know, this is a prime example of dating neglect.
01:03:46.140And, you know, it's really not the owner's fault.
01:03:48.820Well, it is, but it was a lack of planning, Corey.
01:03:51.840You know, the horses were able to breed.
01:03:53.860And eventually, you know, he couldn't afford or she couldn't afford.
01:03:57.460It didn't say if it was a male or female that owned him.
01:04:00.320He couldn't afford to feed him, and, you know, he had to be rescued.
01:05:02.960I mean, complaints involving livestock make up about half of approximately 2,400 complaints received by the Alberta SPCA each year.
01:05:13.020I know, like I said, I previously reported with another news company about the same situation.
01:05:19.160And, you know, sometimes all it takes, Corey, is for the owner to speak up and ask for help because there aren't, you know, a bunch of surrounding farmers in the area.
01:05:30.080I'm sure in Red Deer County, it's the same way.
01:05:33.140You know, there's farms around and sometimes all it takes is for you to speak up and say, you know, I can't feed my horses.
01:15:20.800These guys have more ways to move those goods than they ever used to.
01:15:23.280So they're stealing from those rural properties.
01:15:25.740They're not completely out of control, though.
01:15:28.100They can get that far and they can plan.
01:15:29.340So if they know if the chances of you getting shot or very badly injured by going out of these rural properties is very high, chances are they're going to reconsider their career plans.
01:15:39.880And we're going to feel more comfortable on our rural properties as well.
01:15:44.020So allow us to protect our property and you won't need nearly as many police as we have.
01:15:51.700As it is, everybody's got to buy a backhoe to go with their firearm and that's expensive
01:15:55.620and it's a pain in the butt and you don't want to let ground disturbance and everything.0.72
01:19:58.740But in the meantime, it's going to be a great production,
01:20:01.360just showing the history and what's happened with her
01:20:03.300and, you know, documenting that for people
01:20:05.980who haven't kind of seen it all in one package.
01:20:07.800So it's great looking forward to seeing that come out tonight and see it all put together like that.
01:20:13.400Yeah, we'll have that coming for a live watch tonight at seven o'clock on all our channels.
01:20:19.300And then I was going to point out too, once that goes out, I'm going to put together a sort of a summary and have everything together so that you can go to one spot on our website and you can have access to all seven of the episodes.
01:20:33.880And you can just see how the Western Standard has been very busy and very dedicated to the coverage throughout all of this when it came to, you know, lockdowns, mandates, civil liberties, things like that.
01:20:48.280So, yes, it's it's been a very it's been a very interesting series to cover and very rewarding.
01:20:56.100Excellent. Well, looking forward to it, Melanie. And and for more of your productions is, you know, you're going to carry on beyond this.
01:21:02.220So thanks for checking in with us on the show today.
01:21:05.360And we'll look forward to watching your productions.