Western Standard - Triggered： The final episode

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:00:30.000 Good morning. It's August 19th, 2022. It's a Friday and welcome to what will be the final

00:00:36.460 episode of Triggered. I'm Corey Morgan. So this, I guess I say it in past tense, was the

00:00:42.340 Western Standards daily live show. There's going to be other stuff coming, guys. There's going to

00:00:46.240 be live things. I'm not vanishing either, but this had been running from 1130 until one. It had my

00:00:52.720 daily views, rants, interaction with you guys in the comments, scroll, which I really do enjoy.

00:00:59.060 That's one of the things I am going to miss with this show is ranting at you guys or still just seeing some of the discussion and new ideas coming up that I hadn't thought of.

00:01:08.260 That's why live and interactive is so good.

00:01:10.200 Unfortunately, it's very wearing as well.

00:01:12.300 I'll expand a little bit in that a little bit here as people get on.

00:01:16.020 So let's look at a couple of observances before we move along, though, guys.

00:01:20.280 It is National Hot and Spicy Food Day.

00:01:23.360 This is a good one.

00:01:24.580 And, again, I love the hot and spicy foods.

00:01:26.540 That's one of the disputes we unfortunately have in my household. I've got a fantastic wife and 0.99

00:01:31.720 living quite well, but we differ. She's Dutch and she just likes that. Not flavorless, but she's not

00:01:38.320 big on spicy foods. Me, oh man, the spicier the better. Either way, today, I mean, there's so 0.99

00:01:43.200 many great spices, flavorful foods out there. Today's the day you're supposed to celebrate

00:01:47.260 that. Get those down. Buy that two-ply toilet paper. Make sure to schedule yourself a good

00:01:51.720 bath for tomorrow, maybe even a little ice cube somewhere if you really have to, but indulge,

00:01:57.400 take it down and make the most of those spicy foods. There's so many great ones.

00:02:02.880 It's always been my thing, you know, I think the better foods, I mean, I gotta admit, you know,

00:02:05.840 when it comes to Northern and Southern, hot areas make better food. The farther North you get,

00:02:10.920 the more bland you get. I think Dave got upset when I talked about that once before, but it's

00:02:14.540 true, you know, I mean, do you see many, like Dave's been going on about Finland lately on how

00:02:19.620 there is a very appetizing prime minister or president or whatever it is for that country

00:02:25.400 there. But if the food, nah, I mean, when I was in Finland, the only thing we did was McDonald's.

00:02:30.180 I mean, northern places, there's nothing good there. Likewise, get down south, Italy,

00:02:37.640 you know, North Africa, India. Oh, great foods. Either way, get those spicy foods in today,

00:02:43.020 guys. It's also National Men's Grooming Day. In celebration of that, I did some extra manscaping 0.70

00:02:49.240 this morning. Everything's a lot more tidied up than it typically is. You won't be able to see

00:02:53.340 that, but the world's a safer place due to it. And I'm probably going to need to get the drain

00:02:58.320 snaked at home. So today, guys, you see, this is the way it's a nice thing of being a guy.

00:03:02.940 We only got to worry about this once a year. Apparently we only have one annual grooming day

00:03:06.720 and you can just kind of let go for the other 364. We're not held to the same standard. There

00:03:12.300 is a double standard out there. We've been watching that actually, as we watch CTV imploding

00:03:16.060 over the fact that Lisa Laflamme apparently let herself gray, go gray. And that's unacceptable 0.73

00:03:22.120 for a woman. You know, for men, they can go gray and age out on national networks, you know, 0.79

00:03:27.740 until they're in their seventies. But for women, apparently you go gray and you're on the way out 1.00

00:03:31.580 the door. I'm just happy, not for Lisa Laflamme or some of that attitude. We're seeing the old

00:03:37.100 legacy media dinosaurs dying and they're killing themselves with every little action they do.

00:03:41.260 and we're filling the void with alternative media. So keep up the good work, guys. Carry on.

00:03:47.460 Smart thinking. CTV is really clearly rising in the ratings and national respect these days.

00:03:52.720 So let's see. I got a couple of good guests on today. Edmonton City Centre prospective Liberal

00:03:57.680 candidate Zach Abdi. I could be mispronouncing his name. This was kind of cool. I was just kind

00:04:02.200 of going on a bit about the Liberal Party. They've had troubles. They weren't able to find a leader

00:04:06.500 by deadline. And I went on a bit of a rant on my show about it the other day. And I talked a bit

00:04:10.500 about uh um a divine uh not divine laurence decor who led them back in the 90s and how they've been

00:04:17.700 doing well and how the party has a long history and it's gone down well zach did a uh tiktok video

00:04:23.420 kind of in response to me he differed with a couple of things on it but it was very positive

00:04:26.740 and upbeat and i just thought that's kind of cool like i saw it when i was going through the twitter

00:04:29.300 scroll what's this somebody you know talking about my rent about my rent so i thought i'd bring him

00:04:33.920 on and we'll talk a little bit about the liberal party because it's seeing somebody who's optimistic

00:04:37.940 and enthusiastic about a party that's in such a tough way. And it'll be an interesting discussion.

00:04:43.660 I know there's not a heck of a lot of liberal supporters among our audience. I'm not a big

00:04:47.140 liberal supporter myself, but I still like seeing people with that kind of attitude and optimism

00:04:51.760 going into politics. I was just really kind of impressed with it. So I think it'll be a fun

00:04:55.420 conversation. Again, even if we come away from it not changing any voter views, who knows.

00:05:02.180 Then we're going to have the Western Standards. Chris Oldcorn on. He's our Saskatchewan guy,

00:05:05.680 he writes columns as well we'll just review what's going on in saskatchewan what he's been

00:05:09.120 writing about what his opinion stuff's been about and of course i will cover news and other things

00:05:15.200 as we go through the day so just that reminder to everybody yeah it's uh you know uh yeah jet

00:05:22.000 gorgon saying you know in the tropics they're spicy so you can't taste or smell the rot there's

00:05:25.440 there's some truth to that and you know i think there's a bit of a preservative quality with the

00:05:29.360 spicy stuff too but i mean look at what they eat in iceland they got they got that fermented shark

00:05:34.400 you can smell from six miles away. They've just accepted that they're going to eat

00:05:38.140 foul rot and stuff rather than trying to mask it or make it taste better. So now again, I'll go with

00:05:44.540 the spicy stuff. I quite enjoy it. And let's see. So, you know, lots of folks saying that,

00:05:51.440 you know, they're regretting the show's coming to an end. And so am I. I mean, I'm not leaving in a

00:05:56.480 rage or not leaving because I hate it. And Rose is asking why it's ending. And I'll explain it

00:06:00.020 again in a bit here. Now, Shirley's saying she'll miss me. And hey, I'm going to miss you guys. I

00:06:05.000 will. But I'm not vanishing. I'm not vanishing. So, I mean, the show's been doing great. We've

00:06:09.920 got a great audience. We've been covering a lot. We've been at it for, boy, almost eight months

00:06:13.500 now, five days a week, two guests every time. And it's been a workout and it's been great. We've had

00:06:19.720 some incredible guests. We've had some good discussions and conversations. The challenges

00:06:24.960 came with me. I tired out and found I just wasn't quite fitting in well in the downtown office

00:06:34.480 environment. The tie, the nine-to-five, the predictability. It's just my nature. I live in

00:06:39.320 a preferred eclectic world bouncing around with disorder and some craziness. And oh, there's

00:06:47.400 plenty of disorder and craziness here at the Western Standards offices, but it wasn't enough

00:06:51.000 from me. So I, you know, I gave notice a few weeks ago, again, you know, make sure we could

00:06:54.320 transition it. We got Nigel Hannaford coming in, taking over the opinion editing here at the

00:06:58.960 Standard. Like I said, it's not just the show. I do have been doing the opinion editing for quite

00:07:01.980 some time. And, you know, it just, it was time for some changes for me. And the show's come a long

00:07:08.240 way from where we were when we began eight months ago in a tiny little closet of a studio. And I

00:07:14.260 mean, it was a closet and it would get so hot in there, even in wintertime. I'd be sitting in there

00:07:19.380 and poor Nico would be all of five feet in front of me.

00:07:22.400 There, there's some video shots of myself in the old studio,

00:07:27.480 the green screen hanging.

00:07:28.340 That's how much room we had.

00:07:30.180 As you can see with the background, movie magic,

00:07:32.720 it doesn't necessarily look as cramped as it was,

00:07:35.980 but that's where we got going.

00:07:37.140 We've moved into bigger offices now, a much bigger studio,

00:07:40.020 got better gear, got better practice.

00:07:41.860 I like to think I'm better at my ranting and interviewing as well.

00:07:45.320 A lot of things have come along.

00:07:47.020 And yeah, here's the new studio.

00:07:48.140 Nico's putting up a picture of it on the left there. This is what I'm sitting in now. And even

00:07:52.000 then it gets pretty full in here when we bring a bunch in. But that's more like my view on the way

00:07:57.300 out. We got a glass wall. I can look out into the newsroom there. And oh, well, here's a real time

00:08:02.280 shot of me from behind. And as you can see, Melanie working to my right there and the light's

00:08:06.480 glaring off in there. But yeah, we got a real open concept. Nico's waving. Melanie's waving. There we

00:08:11.580 go. Just to give some behind the scenes look of where I've been working all this time and where

00:08:16.760 all the rest of our stuff gets produced here at the Western Standard. And I just want to talk

00:08:21.240 about that. Like I said, my time's kind of moving on from this show, but I'm not gone. I'm still

00:08:27.380 going to be writing columns for the Western Standard. I might appear on the Pipeline or

00:08:30.560 some other specials. Tracy Totten saying, can't you do the show from home? I don't know. I might

00:08:36.040 do all sorts of things. We'll see. It's me. I'm not going to shut up. I'm going to take a breather

00:08:41.020 for a little bit, but I've always got more to get on to. I mean, I do just to push on for other

00:08:45.860 people, if they're looking to see some of the other stuff I do, I do have a YouTube channel.

00:08:50.320 You can search that out. Of course, I've got my own website at CoreyMorgan.com and I'm on Twitter,

00:08:57.120 Corey B. Morgan. And again, you're going to see my columns here at the Western Standard still

00:09:02.440 appearing and I'll be doing things or specials and stuff like that here. Again, I'm not leaving

00:09:06.900 in a rage or the place isn't falling apart or I wasn't fired or anything like that. It's just a

00:09:11.780 change, a change and a transition. But I like to be able to review too, and just to show how much

00:09:15.660 we've grown. And this show certainly wasn't a waste over this eight months as Nico kind of

00:09:20.180 showed with those pictures and everything. We have come a long way that the whole digital product,

00:09:26.480 the respectability, that the whole basis with the Western Standard is a world ahead of where it was

00:09:30.780 before we began this venture. And there's going to be a lot more coming. And as we see with those

00:09:36.460 series from Melanie and things like that, the digital productions are going to keep coming.

00:09:39.980 So just want to reiterate all that.

00:09:44.100 And again, we'll just have a good final show here, guys, and cover some issues and have some fun.

00:09:49.860 And yeah, like I said, not gone, just changing things.

00:09:53.560 All right, let's see.

00:09:54.660 Let's get on to the newsroom and see what else is happening out there with Mr. Naylor, our news editor.

00:10:01.240 Hey, Dave, how's it going?

00:10:03.160 Oh, man, you and Lisa Laflamme in the same week.

00:10:06.480 Journalism will never be the same.

00:10:08.100 I just refused to color my hair for Derek.

00:10:10.520 There you go.

00:10:11.560 You'll notice I'm a bit dressed down today, Corey.

00:10:16.060 I declared today was Hawaiian shirt day in the office.

00:10:20.960 There you go.

00:10:21.900 I have a group photo with you.

00:10:23.940 You're the only one wearing a tie.

00:10:26.040 We thought that would be apropos for your final day.

00:10:29.660 So I declared it, and mainly because Derek's away today,

00:10:32.920 and hopefully not in a place where he can monitor this broadcast.

00:10:36.840 So, you know what, Corey, it's been a pleasure over the last couple of years doing these updates with you, and I plan on continuing them.

00:10:44.980 We'll have a morning news update video going out every day.

00:10:50.500 But, sir, the pleasure has been mine the last few months.

00:10:55.020 Right on. Well, actually, it's good. I was wondering if we're going to, you know, because that news update's been a big part of this.

00:11:00.080 I mean, kicks off people's day or their midday to say, well, what's happening, what's up on the site, and give them stuff to review and seek out.

00:11:06.180 So good to see a continuation.

00:11:08.420 Yeah, and there's lots of stuff already.

00:11:09.840 It's a busy news Friday, Corey.

00:11:12.200 Our main story at the moment is Matthew Horwood, our Parliamentary Bureau Chief, has got an interview with Nick Nanos, a noted pollster in the country, who basically says it's a slam dunk for Pierre Polyev in the federal leadership race.

00:11:26.920 He says the numbers are all looking good and it's all pointing to a first ballot victory for Pierre Polyev.

00:11:35.160 Another candidate, Leslyn Lewis, sent out an email this morning speaking about the Nuremberg Codes

00:11:41.660 and warning that a day of reckoning may be coming.

00:11:45.980 The Nuremberg Code was set up after World War II to prevent, basically, experiments on humans.

00:11:54.820 And Ms. Lewis thinks a day of reckoning may be coming again on that.

00:12:00.260 Jonathan Bradley has got a story on seven more Freedom Convoy supporters having their charges dropped due to lack of evidence.

00:12:08.640 Surprise, surprise.

00:12:10.340 A good story from our Christopher Olcorn.

00:12:13.100 Long-term care home outbreaks of COVID in Saskatchewan, up 1,500% from the last reporting period.

00:12:22.720 And speaking of Ms. Laflamme, CTV has announced they're launching an investigation into what the hell happened there and led to her firing for having gray hair.

00:12:36.660 Also from Chris Holkorn, a good story on the youngest ever transgendered model,

00:12:43.460 a 10-year-old, used to be a boy, now is a girl, was walking the catwalk at New York Fashion Week.

00:12:52.400 And there's a good story from Christopher there.

00:12:55.800 And we've got a few good things to come this afternoon.

00:12:58.240 My new favorite politician, you've mentioned her, the Prime Minister of Finland.

00:13:04.900 More intimate dancing videos revealed today, not with her husband.

00:13:11.040 And she has admitted she has taken a drug test to clear her name from the video that was released yesterday of her partying it up.

00:13:19.320 So she looks like a good time.

00:13:22.740 And a very important story coming from Matthew Horwood again,

00:13:28.060 dealing with the tragic deaths of five doctors in Ontario over the last couple of weeks.

00:13:33.940 Matthew has talked to some experts, including a Calgary doctor, who says we need to look closely

00:13:41.580 at vaccines as being the cause of those deaths. So that'll be a controversial story. And we're

00:13:49.480 going to get that up soon, Corey. Right on. Yeah. And I know nobody else likes touching those

00:13:53.840 stories, but somebody's got to cover it. We keep getting punted for it, but we're stubborn. We're

00:13:58.440 not giving up. We're still not back on Twitter yet. So yeah, we'll keep on top of it, Corey.

00:14:07.080 Well, right on, Dave. Thank you for the very colorful check-in with that shirt. People could

00:14:12.180 hear you over his loudness all the same. And I'll look forward to your news updates, though I'll be

00:14:17.260 watching them rather than taking part in them. I'm told Christopher Oldcorn, our Saskatchewan

00:14:23.740 reporter, when he comes on today, we'll have a show scrambling for people to, well, I'm sorry,

00:14:29.120 we'll have a shirt that will leave people scrambling to turn down their screens. So

00:14:33.100 I look forward to that. Live it up on this last Friday triggered. Right on, Dave.

00:14:38.600 All right. That is our news editor, Dave Naylor. Yes, we do those daily news check-ins. As you

00:14:45.120 can see, lots on the go, you know, reporting on everything from international things like the

00:14:50.280 prime minister of Finland's partying ways to more local things. You know, you can see that story too

00:14:56.200 for that, that, you know, that young fella in Edmonton who passed away, that kid who was the

00:15:02.600 strong Oilers fan. We cover it all, local stuff, international, national. And the reason we're

00:15:08.000 doing that is because you guys have subscribed and we really appreciate that. And, you know,

00:15:13.360 so CTV, these outlets, they're falling apart, guys. They're dinosaurs. They're going by the

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00:16:36.520 you can see that screen so you wonder where i turn my head to the right all the time to look

00:16:39.700 at the comments and everything you can kind of see that view over there that's why my head's

00:16:43.220 always going over to see what you're saying, because the camera's in the front. I don't have

00:16:46.040 a screen quite right behind them. That stuff's going to be coming, I guess, I imagine, or whatever

00:16:50.120 for future shows and things, but that's why my head's always working left to right, especially

00:16:54.320 today. I really want to get into those comments today, chat with you guys a bit more. You know,

00:16:58.180 as I said, I'm accessible. I'm online, but I'm not, you know, going to be here as daily and

00:17:03.620 regular as before. Arthur Green, our intrepid Bonneville presence up there, saying, proud to

00:17:09.600 work with you, Corey. Bye. Yes. And I'm not gone, Arthur. I just won't be here all the time every

00:17:14.080 day with these things as we go on. So let's see what else we got going on. Yeah. That story with

00:17:22.240 the prime minister in Finland, it is something. She is, you know, easy on the eyes as a prime

00:17:28.860 minister as far as those go. But, you know, these scandals, I mean, I'm not living in Finland. I

00:17:35.180 I don't know. But it looks to me that she's a young lady. She's been partying it up. And those

00:17:39.700 videos got out. They were private videos. It didn't look beyond the pale. I guess a little

00:17:46.020 undignified if somebody thinks it's a prime minister. But I imagine that the Finns knew

00:17:50.200 they were electing somebody who's young and still out there and having a lively time and everything.

00:17:55.440 So it shouldn't be such a shocking thing. Again, you wonder about some of the double standards that

00:18:00.060 politicians can be held to sometimes, particularly female ones. And, you know, she submitted herself 1.00

00:18:06.400 to a drug test because she was at a party where she was, there's some video of it. They're dancing

00:18:13.260 and living it up and everything else. Well, you know, a lot of us did that when we were 30

00:18:17.460 something. Sometimes I think in our digital age, we get a little too fickle and we almost canonize

00:18:24.720 our political leaders and expect perfection out of them. She's just being human and living a little 0.96

00:18:28.980 there. But I guess it's up to the voters and people in Finland as to whether or not her behavior is

00:18:33.940 acceptable in a prime minister. God knows our own prime minister hasn't always behaved in his best

00:18:39.460 ways in his youth either. And Canadians, at least a lot of them have gotten over that. But an

00:18:45.940 interesting story anyways, you know, and the thing is too prior to everybody having a smartphone and

00:18:50.780 everybody recording everything you do all the time, people did little things and you never did

00:18:54.900 see it. They got forgotten or it was just chatter between friends or social acquaintances. Now

00:18:59.460 you can do the most minor of things. It goes up on the internet and suddenly the whole world sees

00:19:04.280 it as we're seeing there. We're living in some great and interesting times, but there are also

00:19:08.460 some terribly risky times for some politicians too. If you're up and coming and aspiring to go

00:19:13.760 somewhere, be careful with what you're allowing to get on video because it could come back and 0.98

00:19:17.660 bite you on the butt later. So speaking of up and coming, ambitious young politicians, I've got Zach 0.96

00:19:23.480 Abdi on deck there. Let's bring him in. So, you know, I gave some background earlier. Some people

00:19:28.520 have joined the show since I was talking about the Alberta Liberals earlier. Not typically a

00:19:34.440 party we talk a lot about here, but you responded to it with a TikTok video and I thought it was

00:19:39.540 great. It was upbeat and optimistic and corrected me on what you felt was wrong with it. And you

00:19:44.660 are an aspiring Liberal candidate in Edmonton City Centre, I believe. Perfect. Yeah. Thanks

00:19:50.400 having me corey it's good to be on the show for the first time it's kind of sad to see your show

00:19:55.520 come to an end um but yeah as you alluded to i am running for the alberta liberal party nominee

00:20:01.680 for edmonton city center and um a bit about my background i was born and raised in ontario but

00:20:07.200 i've been living in alberta for almost the last 10 years and in downtown and some of the issues that

00:20:13.360 i've been hearing on the doorsteps is public safety issues with petty crime on the rise

00:20:19.040 talking to self-employed workers and them not getting a fair deal when it comes to

00:20:25.200 the gig economy, and as well as people, a few conversations about a public, sorry,

00:20:30.820 a provincial sales tax. Okay, and I guess being in the urban area of Edmonton, the issues are

00:20:36.880 very similar to here. We're in downtown Calgary. As you said, petty crimes, we have an addiction

00:20:41.640 epidemic. It's led to a lot of challenges for people living in urban areas, and you get

00:20:46.740 everything from from shoplifting to uh uh bike thefts or car break-ins is that sort of what

00:20:51.860 you're addressing or yeah um like one of the and part of the reason why i'm running is a little

00:20:57.060 bit a little bit more about myself is my partner and i we recently bought a condo in downtown

00:21:01.300 edmonton two years ago we love it here it's amazing we're close by the river valley and

00:21:05.700 we've gotten to we've gotten to know the community and connect with folks and a lot of the petty

00:21:11.380 crime that we've been seeing it's usually stuff to do with needles on the floor public drug use

00:21:16.740 public defecation. And a lot of that stuff isn't being addressed by the current in covenant MLA

00:21:23.380 and as well as the current government. And there's things that we can do in the short term,

00:21:29.260 such as, for example, installing public bathrooms or working with the city and funding public

00:21:33.800 bathrooms in and around the downtown core, right? Our vulnerable neighbors do have a right to some

00:21:39.800 dignity. And businesses too, right? A lot of the businesses, the vandalism, they see against

00:21:46.520 their property. It's usually confrontational and has to do with maybe access to the bathroom

00:21:51.440 or maybe staying inside. And we can do things to alleviate some of that pressure.

00:21:56.600 Okay. So we've got a general election that looks like probably about seven, eight months away

00:22:01.860 coming up. And presumably, you know, you'll probably be running in it. And it's something

00:22:05.900 that you'd responded to. And as I'd said in my earlier show, I mean, the Liberal Party,

00:22:09.560 for people who don't know, it's the oldest party in Alberta. They were our very first governing

00:22:13.820 party with Rutherford. And, you know, they had ups and downs. But what you'd spoken on as well,

00:22:20.300 of course, the highest point in living memory was with Lawrence Decor leading it, the former mayor

00:22:24.940 of Edmonton. Very well respected, Albertan. And he came very close to actually winning the election

00:22:30.420 and becoming a liberal premier. Again, I argued it was only he had the ill timing of catching the

00:22:37.000 wave of Ralph Klein that sort of just overwhelmed him and he didn't quite make it in. But he was

00:22:41.300 running on a very, you know, you questioned the word conservative, fair enough, but a fiscally

00:22:46.440 tight campaign platform at that time, because debt was high and interest rates were high.

00:22:51.980 But your party's been in kind of a long, slow decline ever since then. And you've got a lot

00:22:57.380 of rebuilding to do. And then you're currently kind of stuck with an interim leader. What I was

00:23:01.540 impressed with was your optimism and still going forward. How do you look to make a mark, though,

00:23:06.740 within such a short time until the election?

00:23:09.720 For me, that's a good question.

00:23:12.060 And to be a liberal in Alberta, you have to be optimistic.

00:23:16.560 And to me, yes, it's a fact that we have been in decline.

00:23:22.820 And I think a big reason for that has to do with controlling the narrative.

00:23:26.580 A lot of folks get us mixed up with the federal liberals

00:23:29.360 and can't seem to distinguish the two.

00:23:32.280 And for us, it's just going back to our roots.

00:23:34.940 and Lawrence Decourt to me he's not just one of my favorite liberal politicians but one of my

00:23:40.060 favorite politicians not just in Alberta but all of Canadian history and for the things that he's

00:23:44.940 advocated for and if we go back to our roots talk about fiscal responsibility because I'm a firm

00:23:51.120 believer a strong economy leads to better outcomes for everyone and we can do a better job in

00:23:56.400 tackling social issues when the economy is strong and a lot of that message has been lost just due

00:24:03.880 to more press and attention going to the rival parties, such as the UCP and the NDP?

00:24:10.100 Yeah, well, Alberta had kind of occurred as we'd always been more of a multi-party system,

00:24:15.740 or at least recently, you know, we had a number of NDP seats. We had a large number of liberal

00:24:20.140 seats. We had the progressive conservatives in, we had progressive conservatives in Wildrose.

00:24:25.460 We've kind of fallen into a true two-party system for the time being. And personally,

00:24:31.280 I like to see more parties in there. I really actually do. And I think, you know, a liberal

00:24:36.640 presence would help reduce the polarity. I mean, I don't want to see a liberal government. Look,

00:24:40.440 I'm an apologetic libertarian conservative, but I think our legislature would be a lot more

00:24:45.560 balanced if we had sort of that voice in the middle sitting in there as more of a classical

00:24:51.380 liberal anyways. Absolutely. And that's what the Alberta Liberal Party is for me, right?

00:24:56.000 Liberals in terms of the classical sense, right? And the center strong on fiscal issues and

00:25:00.420 and also moderate on social issues. And we can get there if we get a better job in controlling

00:25:08.040 the narrative. And when it comes to representation, I do agree, right? If you look, I know federal

00:25:13.500 issues and provincial issues are two different matters. But if you look, if the fact that the

00:25:18.580 federal liberals picked up two seats in Alberta and managed to capture, I think, slightly under

00:25:22.980 20% of the popular vote in the province, we can do that as well here. We just have to build our

00:25:27.580 party's presence we build the infrastructure and just focus on positive messaging yeah so i mean

00:25:33.680 the messaging and another challenge you have i mean have you heard or i'm not sure how tapped

00:25:37.500 you in you are with the party mechanism you need a leader uh uh you know john's been doing what he

00:25:42.440 can as an interim but uh is there going to be something scheduled to try and draw somebody in

00:25:47.900 i know it was an uh unfortunate outcome seeking a leader nobody uh put their name in kind of but

00:25:53.020 you're going to have to get somebody in before the general election because that's where you need to

00:25:55.740 speak for and brand the party? In terms of right now, for me, my focus is just on the campaign

00:26:00.580 and connecting with folks in Edmonton City Centre. The party is working on what the next steps are,

00:26:07.340 but I can say with positivity and certainty that the Alberta Liberal Party will be around

00:26:12.040 and I will be a candidate on the ballot. Okay, great. I saw actually, I think it was on Twitter

00:26:17.820 or somewhere else too, there's another Edmonton gentleman who's running for a nomination. So

00:26:21.160 there's some folks on the ground like yourself who are still planning on making a go with the

00:26:25.040 next election so you're you're not uh vanishing yet well absolutely one of our um our regional

00:26:30.260 um directors um irene hunter she's the regional chair for edmonton and she's been doing a really

00:26:35.840 good job in building the party's presence in edmonton i believe um we have um abdi buckle

00:26:41.420 um who's run who's considering running in millwoods and there is um jacob um who's also

00:26:47.660 running in sure in i believe strathcona short park area so there's a lot of things happening

00:26:52.200 the edmonton area and the party is rebuilding our infrastructure here okay and you did touch on one

00:26:57.880 of the challenges that your parties had is unfortunately you know whether you like it or

00:27:00.840 not you end up wearing the reputation of the federal liberals and i do believe the current

00:27:05.960 provincial liberal party doesn't have a a formal tie to the federal party aside from the name

00:27:12.120 no um and it's it there's no uh formal links or anything right and it's and it goes back to um

00:27:17.960 just sticking with the narrative right because the alberta liberal party we do well when we

00:27:23.400 stick to when we control the narrative and when we focus on issues um that are relevant to the

00:27:28.360 province and to albertans and we can make a comeback right and we've seen um liberal parties

00:27:32.840 in western canada bounce back we've seen it in the case in yukon and manitoba they made some

00:27:38.680 small but steady progress and saskatchewan you know they're also making their gains there too

00:27:43.860 Yeah, well, and then starting, you know, everything starts small initially.

00:27:47.160 I was with the Alberta Alliance Party way back when we had one seat almost 20 years ago, I think it was,

00:27:53.720 and worked that up eventually through a lot of work and compromise up into official opposition,

00:27:59.100 and then became the Wildrose Party, and then we blew it all up and screwed it up.

00:28:03.200 But a party can come from a small seat and with some work can still rebuild.

00:28:07.800 Well, absolutely. And Rachel Notley, one thing I admire about her leadership is proof of that,

00:28:13.480 right? She built the NDP up, right? And we can do the same thing with the Liberals. And one thing

00:28:19.640 I'm excited about, a lot of the people who are working with Irene and with the party in the

00:28:23.960 Edmonton area are young folks. They're committed to the party and they're committed to the Liberal

00:28:28.680 cause. Great. Like one of my commenters there, I think it was a paradox. Yeah, just it was

00:28:34.360 mentioning and i wanted to ask too uh the alberta party i mean they're of a very similar type

00:28:39.720 platform i think trying to land in in what they call the middle though always saying middle makes

00:28:44.920 it hard to define where you actually are uh but i mean sometimes some of the resources perhaps or

00:28:51.080 supports being drained in multiple directions have you been in communication with the alberta party

00:28:54.920 at all uh no but i'll actually tell you a funny story um i'm not involved with the with the alberta

00:29:01.000 party but um i actually did um and maybe some of the folks at the alberta liberal party will get

00:29:06.600 a bit upset but i actually did take out a membership with the ucp and i did cancel it a

00:29:11.160 week later because i was just so fed up with the direction of the party um there's no um really

00:29:17.080 third option or alternative and for me the alberta party is a party that kind of shapeshifts with

00:29:23.160 every leader and becomes and doesn't really have a true cause or values and it was actually when

00:29:29.560 I was walking with my partner and our dog by the Lawrence Decor lookout point that's where I made

00:29:34.120 the decision to run for the party and help and be committed to rebuilding it because ultimately I

00:29:39.320 do think there's a place for our party and Albertans do deserve as you said a third option

00:29:45.000 right and I believe we do provide that option well that's great well I really do appreciate

00:29:50.200 and like I said I was impressed with your optimistic attitude and the way you approached

00:29:53.960 it you see I focus on crabbiness and ranting and things such as that I think there's a role for

00:29:58.520 that as well of course but uh you you uh countered uh you know uh my point on on mr decor and in

00:30:05.080 what i'd call the you know reference the party is conservative leaning back in the 90s and uh

00:30:09.880 i just think you're taking a good pragmatic approach up there in edmonton so i was happy

00:30:13.560 to see that there's still some life going on and somebody with some common sense making a go of it

00:30:17.800 so uh where can people find information about your campaign and where you're going zach um definitely

00:30:22.440 so they can reach me at my website at zachabdi.ca and from there they can find links through

00:30:28.920 from my social media some of the issues that i'm running on and any upcoming events as well

00:30:34.200 great well thank you very much again for joining me today zach i think you are the first provincial

00:30:39.080 liberal i had on this show and you cap off my final episode of this show so i i appreciate it

00:30:44.040 and we look forward to seeing how you do up there for sure and i'm glad to be here and i'm glad to

00:30:47.800 ended on a upbeat and positive note. Great. Thanks, Zach. Take care. Bye. Okay. So that's Zach Abdi from

00:30:54.120 running in Edmonton City Centre. And as I said, that's pretty different for me. I mean, this is

00:30:58.760 definitely a show with a predominantly conservative audience. In some ways, as I said, I mean, I've

00:31:05.720 run for and I've worked within up and coming small parties, parties looking at a minority amount of

00:31:12.320 vote, a limited amount of support. And it's a tough go. But I mean, it does help me build a

00:31:18.320 little bit of respect for people who are going to put their neck out there and give it a go.

00:31:22.780 And he just seems so positive. I wanted to talk to him because the liberals, I mean,

00:31:26.120 it does have a long history and they weren't, as some others have pointed out, liberals kind of

00:31:30.580 pushed way over to the left where they used to be. It used to be a little more of a center left

00:31:35.480 rather than this, this getting almost into the NDP waters. And I think that's part of what killed

00:31:40.020 them. When David Kahn was running them, Kahn is very far left. And well, if people are going to

00:31:45.700 go far, far left, they're going to go NDP. There's no sense just pretending with a liberal party.

00:31:49.980 They got to define themselves to what they are. And I would rather see a liberal opposition than

00:31:54.820 an NDP one. Like we've got a polarization in the legislature right now. We got UCP, we got liberal.

00:32:01.100 Oh, we got the people that Kenny's kicked out of the party over in the independent corner over

00:32:03.980 there. But it's still, especially if we're looking at Edmonton City Centre, look guys,

00:32:10.840 UCP's never going to win a seat in Edmonton City Centre.

00:32:13.000 Not going to happen.

00:32:14.200 But, you know, having a good common sense liberal in there

00:32:16.180 wouldn't be necessarily such a bad thing.

00:32:18.180 A pretty long shot.

00:32:19.340 I mean, it's a long, long shot for a party that right now

00:32:22.060 can't attract a leader.

00:32:23.900 I imagine they don't have a heck of a lot of money.

00:32:26.840 But they do have a lot of history and a name to themselves.

00:32:31.040 And who knows what will happen.

00:32:32.580 As I said, things change over the course of years quite quickly.

00:32:37.780 I mean, people would have written off the Alberta party.

00:32:39.420 or I mean, the Alberta Alliance Party, you know, 18 years ago, or whenever the heck it was when I

00:32:43.920 first got involved, you think, ah, this is never going anywhere. And well, it kind of went somewhere.

00:32:47.240 And as I said, kind of flared out, but it was part of the evolution of where things are today.

00:32:54.040 And I don't know, as others are pointing out, you know, Pamela, and don't worry, Jet, I pick you

00:32:59.520 up for questions too. But there's that tie, you know, to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, to the federal

00:33:06.080 liberals. It's a hard reputation to shake. I mean, the federal liberal party has abused Alberta

00:33:11.140 so many times over so many years under so many leaders that wearing that name in this province

00:33:17.300 is a pretty difficult go to say the least. It's not a quick way to electoral viability around here.

00:33:26.240 Either way, Zach has a positive attitude and he's got some balls to make that run for it. So

00:33:30.940 So I just, yeah, I was glad I could have him on today.

00:33:34.860 You know, one final shot.

00:33:36.380 I really do like to listen to every voice out there,

00:33:38.760 even the ones I won't necessarily fully agree with.

00:33:41.100 I mean, you listen to the guy.

00:33:42.800 Zach's clearly a bright guy with a good attitude.

00:33:45.040 I think we could do far worse than people like him

00:33:48.260 in the legislature to add a voice to it

00:33:50.980 versus, you know, some of the NDP members, right?

00:33:54.160 Who were way the heck out there.

00:33:56.040 Let's get some common sense in there.

00:33:58.360 Some of the old liberals do have common sense.

00:33:59.800 I mean, if you look at political leanings and labelings, you know, some people call that divisive, counterintuitive, fair enough.

00:34:08.360 But I mean, if I label myself in any sort of way, most of you guys know I'm a classical liberal.

00:34:13.780 That's the term for it.

00:34:14.600 Unfortunately, the modern liberals have sort of ruined the liberal name.

00:34:17.960 But it's, you know, I've always been for small government, heavily focused on individual rights, you know, closer to just that classical libertarian, I guess, in a way.

00:34:27.180 and, you know, socially indifferent.

00:34:30.020 I have my own things, you know, my own views and everything.

00:34:34.260 But most of the views are,

00:34:35.220 I don't care if somebody's views

00:34:36.280 are totally different than mine.

00:34:37.040 If you want to do your thing, do your thing.

00:34:39.440 Just leave me the hell out of it.

00:34:41.180 Unfortunately, and that's always the mark of extremism.

00:34:43.580 And that's where I get a problem,

00:34:44.420 whether it's the extreme right or extreme left.

00:34:46.920 If people are on the extremes, they can't let it go.

00:34:49.240 They want to force everybody else 0.98

00:34:50.720 to take part in what they're doing.

00:34:52.240 And they want to force everybody else

00:34:53.860 to embrace their politics.

00:34:55.680 and we certainly see that, say, with pandemic legislation and things like that, you know.

00:35:03.680 I like it this way, thus everybody else has to be this way and it's just not the way to go with

00:35:10.620 things. Paradox, he's saying maybe Corey's leaving to run for the Liberal Party or leader

00:35:16.860 of the Liberal Party. No, that's not going to happen. I am one of those who will never say

00:35:22.080 never, but I tell you what, the odds of me getting into actual formal politics again

00:35:28.720 are extremely slim. I'm certainly not leaving with any political plans or aspirations. None

00:35:34.400 of that's going on. I did get that from a few people when, you know, when we first put word

00:35:37.660 out that I was, oh, who are you running for? What are you doing? Or which campaign are you

00:35:40.720 working for? No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not. I'm much better to be able to talk about it

00:35:45.060 than to take part within it. So yeah, if you see me run, it'll be similar to my run for the NDP

00:35:50.640 nomination that I did a few years ago, which was more of a parody run than a real one. It would

00:35:57.220 have been pretty fun if I'd won that nomination, but unfortunately, Madam Notley kicked me out of 1.00

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00:37:36.440 in conservative businesses. It's a nice change. All right. Some of these stories, let's go through

00:37:42.500 some new stuff. This one got me. I'm going to be doing some more Uber driving. Somebody mentioned

00:37:47.160 that on there. I like driving Uber. I've never made apologies for it. I had some crackpot lefty

00:37:51.560 in the backseat of my car, I don't know, a year and a half ago. It sounds the wrong way. He was

00:37:56.100 a passenger while I was Uber driving and he was live tweeting it, I guess. I'm looking, oh, look,

00:38:01.200 Cory Morgan driving Uber. Oh yeah, I never made a secret. I like it. It clears the mind. I get to

00:38:05.980 talk to people and listen to people, most important of all. And from a completely different

00:38:10.860 mix, you get everybody in Uber. You never know who's going to come in. Sometimes they want to

00:38:14.160 be silent and stare at their phone. Sometimes they want to talk about sports. Sometimes they

00:38:17.660 want to talk about the weather. Sometimes they want to talk politics. I just listen. And I tell

00:38:22.280 you, I learn a heck of a lot more with Uber passengers and listening on those conversations

00:38:26.940 than the hours a day I spend reading through news stories and books and things like that.

00:38:31.400 Though, I mean, of course, I gather a lot out of those as well. So I'm going to be doing a lot

00:38:35.300 or Uber in the time to come here, because it's flexible and I quite enjoy it. Something's going

00:38:40.820 to annoy me on it, though, is watching the roads and doing these things. Southeast Calgary. This is

00:38:45.600 a pure example of how this city and many urban areas have an anti-automotive ideology. It's not

00:38:54.640 pro-bike lane. This exposed truly what it's all about. It's all about anti-car, and they finally

00:39:00.440 kind of came right out of their anti-car closet with this with uh there's 18th street for people

00:39:05.820 who don't know it it goes down into an area that probably the urbanite extremists that we have in

00:39:10.940 city council along with that extremist mayor with their high density zealotry and this whole wanting

00:39:15.300 to pack everybody downtown there's quarry park it's like a an office building complex a bunch

00:39:21.200 of them down in southeast calgary and uh it's surrounded by residential it's sort of a new

00:39:26.840 way to look at cities people could work in an office environment without having to go all the

00:39:30.140 way down to a city center. There's actually a separate bunch of office towers and everything

00:39:34.180 down that way. Of course, the crazed build up, build up rather than out group hate that, you

00:39:39.580 know? I mean, they lost, I think Imperial moved down there and a few others because they didn't

00:39:43.300 want to live in Ninchy's downtown and they still don't want to live in Gondek's downtown. That's

00:39:47.020 why we've got massive vacancy rates down here and empty buses for a number of reasons. But either

00:39:53.380 way, 18th Street, one of the main ones to get to Quarry Park. Well, the goofy lefties on city 0.82

00:39:58.820 council by one of the Courtney's, I think it was Penny, Penner or something, said, there's too much

00:40:03.980 traffic on there. It's too fast. We need to slow that traffic down. That's been a Calgary thing

00:40:08.580 for quite some time. Traffic calming. What it is, is automotive harassment. That's what their

00:40:14.000 campaign's about. That's why they do it. And they use bike lanes to do it as a tool. So they're

00:40:20.160 going to put a bike lane and close two whole lanes on this. There's two lanes north, two lanes south.

00:40:26.200 They're going to put them down to one lane roads, these busy roads that people need to commute, that people need to come home and go to work.

00:40:32.360 And they're going to bung it all up and put bike lanes on them. 0.99

00:40:36.160 And there's bike paths right next to this road, right next to it.

00:40:39.340 There's not a lack of bike infrastructure.

00:40:41.000 So it's not to service cyclists.

00:40:43.020 And there's no sense trying to service cyclists because they're the most whiny people on earth.

00:40:46.140 It's never enough.

00:40:47.540 It's never enough.

00:40:48.140 Go to downtown Calgary, look at a bike track, and guess what?

00:40:50.840 They're riding in the middle of the frigging road anyways because, well, that's 10 feet off my path.

00:40:54.100 I'm not going to use it.

00:40:54.880 Or, I don't want to wait at the red light with that, so I'll just pretend to be a pedestrian and take my bike across there.

00:41:00.300 It's never enough. 1.00

00:41:01.160 And I know, there's some good cyclists out there, but most of them are assholes. 1.00

00:41:05.200 And people know that. 0.99

00:41:07.060 And down on 18th Street, down in that part, over in Southeast Calgary, there is definitely not a lack of cycle infrastructure.

00:41:15.300 So why don't they just close the lanes then?

00:41:17.340 Why go through this charade?

00:41:19.060 charade. Why fake that you're putting bike lanes in to calm traffic and make things safer? If you

00:41:26.460 really wanted to do that, you'd just put more speed traps out there. We already know how to do

00:41:30.040 that. You guys make revenue out of it. You could stick a person out there with a radar gun and

00:41:35.420 they'll easily pay for themselves writing up all those nice tickets. But they're sticking these

00:41:41.980 out in the middle of a residential area on a busy road, residential commercial. It's a connector

00:41:46.240 road. And again, there's no demand for it. There are bike lanes next to it. This shows exactly what

00:41:53.460 the whole agenda of the bike tracks, the bike lanes is. It's an ideology. It's these extremists.

00:41:59.520 They feel if they can hound and harass drivers enough, people will just say, okay, I've had

00:42:05.420 enough. I'll give up and I'll ride the bus to work or I'll ride a bike to work or I'll walk or I'll

00:42:10.980 ride a unicorn because it's about as frigging realistic. It's Canada. People aren't going to

00:42:15.820 ride a bike in January. But you don't get realism with the ideologues and municipal and well,

00:42:24.160 pretty much any governments. So they're using these bike tracks and look how it's working.

00:42:28.440 Downtown Calgary, of course, there's much bigger reasons as to why downtown Calgary has turned into

00:42:32.720 a dystopian nightmare with 30% vacancy. But a part of it, definitely a part of it is all the

00:42:38.120 road parking, the ground level parking, they've gotten rid of it all down here, all of it. And

00:42:43.020 they've stuck bike lanes on, empty bike lanes. You know, on the odd nice day, you'll see a few

00:42:46.520 folks riding, but not enough to warrant taking out all those roadways. And what happens with all that?

00:42:51.780 Well, all those ground level businesses that used to be downtown, the retailers, the little

00:42:56.140 restaurants, the pubs, they're gone. Go to check out all the for lease signs down there. And again,

00:43:01.180 it's more complicated than that. There's also a lot of, you know, addicts and crime and other

00:43:05.400 problems going on downtown. The drop in the oil prices, the emptiness of these

00:43:09.080 office buildings, but a large part of it. And businesses tried to say that, but they got

00:43:16.660 shouted down. In fact, they got lied to when they said, don't, don't, don't worry. It won't hurt

00:43:22.080 your business when we take away all the parking there. Of course it will. And the business owners

00:43:25.540 knew that. And they take away all the immediate parking. And guess what? The businesses went broke

00:43:30.360 because if your customer can't pull up, grab some products and leave on a retail level in downtown,

00:43:35.140 they just won't do it. And the other myth that these guys like to spread is that cyclists are

00:43:41.340 good customers. And let me tell you, I know firsthand that that's bullshit. And I fell for 0.99

00:43:45.420 that. I fell for that. I lived down in Prentice. We used to see it down there. I mean, it was one

00:43:49.120 of the things I loved when I moved down there is I noticed that there's all these people parking

00:43:52.940 and getting off and riding their bikes all around my area. And I said to Jane, holy crap, we live in 0.51

00:43:57.220 the place where people go out of their way to escape. Like this is gold. It's beautiful living 0.97

00:44:02.040 down here. When we bought the pub, we thought this is one of the target audiences we're going

00:44:07.400 to do. Look at all these cyclists around here. I mean, there's hundreds of them and there's been

00:44:10.400 a lot of the roads are just crawling with them in summer. We will sponsor bike races and we'll

00:44:15.800 carry light foods and all sorts of things, craft beers, all this stuff to target them and bring

00:44:21.100 these cyclists in because they're definitely a market for us out here. Guess what? We were wrong.

00:44:25.100 They are the cheapest buggers you could ever possibly try to target as a market. Not every

00:44:30.080 one of them, we'd have a few come in and sit down and have a beer or have a sandwich or buy, you

00:44:36.220 know, some bottled water or something. For the most part, though, they just wanted to plug my

00:44:40.800 toilet, complain about the taste of our water and walk out on their clacking plastic shoes. They

00:44:45.680 were a terrible group to target. They drive out there in their high-end SUVs with their bikes

00:44:50.280 hanging off the back. And then they actually fill up our whole community hall parking lot in Prittis

00:44:54.360 so nobody else could park there for weddings or family reunions. And they'll sit on lawn chairs

00:44:58.380 and eat packed lunches while sitting around their tailgates after they've ridden up and down the

00:45:02.420 roads to show everybody how green and fit they are. They're spandex fetishists, and they don't

00:45:07.020 spend any damn money. Either way, I just wanted to get my bike rant out for the day, considering 0.85

00:45:13.160 when it's just so profoundly stupid as to take an entire road lane out of an important artery 0.98

00:45:19.260 in Southeast Calgary like that. And again, it exposes their agenda. It has nothing to do with 1.00

00:45:26.380 getting more people on bikes. I mean, those are the numbers that come out every year too. And

00:45:29.780 they pull people in everything. And guess what? The amount of regular bicycle commuters in the

00:45:34.640 city, like people who commute to work and back, because that's what they always talk about what's

00:45:37.440 so important. It sits at like two to 4% of the population. It's tiny. I mean, there's a lot of

00:45:42.740 recreational bike riders. Sure. Lots of people do. Calgary's got some of the most extensive bike

00:45:47.300 trails in North America, but actually folks who need to commute downtown and get to offices and

00:45:53.500 buildings and things like that? No, it's a tiny amount. And the more lanes we build, it doesn't

00:45:58.060 change. That amount doesn't get bigger because it's just a tiny minority of people who want to

00:46:01.960 do that, who want to get up that much extra early, who want to, who have the ability to show up at

00:46:08.400 the office and shower on a hot day after riding their bike and change their clothes for work

00:46:12.760 or in wintertime, freeze through the slush and snow and all that crap. And then most of all, 0.91

00:46:18.460 what these guys don't realize is it's not working and not just getting people on bikes,

00:46:22.220 but it's driving people out of the cities.

00:46:24.840 They whine, whine, and whine about urban sprawl.

00:46:27.680 Oh, big deal.

00:46:28.800 It's happening.

00:46:29.540 In fact, you guys are making it worse

00:46:31.300 because businesses are locating outside of the city.

00:46:35.280 Look at the county of Rocky View.

00:46:36.840 They're doing great.

00:46:37.780 All sorts of industrial and office

00:46:39.440 and all sorts of things popping up out there,

00:46:41.860 along with, of course, the people and dollars

00:46:43.380 going to work there.

00:46:44.520 Okotoks, you can't find a house in that town.

00:46:46.820 They're growing so fast

00:46:48.140 because people don't want to live in this city,

00:46:50.280 pay these taxes,

00:46:50.980 and be under that crazed woke government. 0.99

00:46:52.760 So they're going down there

00:46:53.720 and they're commuting up here.

00:46:55.460 So think harder, 1.00

00:46:56.320 quit trying to jam that crap down our throats 1.00

00:46:58.180 because it's not helping your city a bit. 1.00

00:47:00.640 It's not achieving your goal.

00:47:01.860 It's not making it more dense.

00:47:02.940 It's in fact doing the opposite.

00:47:07.000 What's this?

00:47:08.100 A caller on CHQR once called in

00:47:09.780 with a major complaint about cyclists.

00:47:11.080 His assertion was they're unlicensed,

00:47:12.620 unregistered, uninsured.

00:47:14.180 Therefore, they should never get precedence

00:47:15.520 over motor vehicles.

00:47:16.300 Yeah, I'm mixed on that, you know.

00:47:18.380 And I don't see more government.

00:47:21.680 I mean, I don't like seeing more government as a solution to anything. 0.97

00:47:24.520 And I don't want to force the cyclists to go through all that crap. 0.94

00:47:27.880 They don't necessarily need to. 0.97

00:47:29.460 Just get out of it.

00:47:32.080 You know, as somebody else was saying, he's a cyclist, but he can ride on the roads.

00:47:34.700 Yes, and they always had.

00:47:35.960 And I had another cyclist talking to me at an event the other day.

00:47:41.560 He was saying he rides, but he doesn't support the lanes and everything.

00:47:44.180 he felt safer when he was on the roads in the past when you again had some respect and it was

00:47:49.040 shared space there's always going to be jerky drivers absolutely dangerous ones out there but

00:47:55.060 there's also a lot of jerky cyclists there always were too and i remember the bike couriers when

00:47:59.240 couriers were a much bigger thing you know 20 30 years ago before email and all that and uh boy

00:48:04.080 those guys were hair raising riding downtown the way they would weave in and out of traffic

00:48:08.540 and drive things nuts but the bike lanes they don't fix anything they don't help anything

00:48:12.820 particularly downtown, we don't need it. If we want recreational riding, we literally in Calgary

00:48:17.820 have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dedicated kilometers of bike paths all over

00:48:23.980 where you can go ride with the family perfectly safely and have a good time. The whole point of

00:48:28.380 all these bike lanes downtown is traffic hindrance and harassment on an ideological basis, and it's

00:48:34.140 not helping anybody. Either way, we'll see. They're saying it's a trial project, this idiotic one down

00:48:40.000 by quarry park by the way but we know these trial projects they always become permanent 0.98

00:48:43.180 all right let's bring i see chris old court i can't miss him in that lobby with that shirt

00:48:48.340 there it looks like a fireworks going off down there uh in the background and uh see what's

00:48:53.940 happening out there in saskatchewan so uh hey chris good to see you hey cory nice to be on

00:48:59.920 yeah congratulations on your final show it is indeed uh as i said or at least final triggered

00:49:05.960 who knows what comes down the road and so on but i definitely wanted to talk to all of our regular

00:49:12.040 reporters and columnists and guests in this final week so we get to to cap it off with you i was

00:49:16.360 going to get you earlier but i see you were out traveling all week yes i drew well that was that

00:49:21.640 was quite the drive i drove from uh regina to toronto and back to pick up my daughter was

00:49:26.040 coming back from brazil so because the flights were so messed up but uh it was going to be next

00:49:32.120 to impossible to actually fly there to pick her up depending on what happened with her flight from

00:49:36.760 brazil my flight from regina to toronto so it was just actually easier to drive 6 000 kilometers in

00:49:43.240 six days well thank you thank you trudeau for making the airports a complete mess it's quite

00:49:48.760 a haul you managed to keep your eyes open for that interminable northern ontario stretch then

00:49:53.480 uh you don't get to really realize just how big ontario is till you try and drive it oh yeah like

00:49:58.280 like that's more than half the drive is Ontario. Yeah. Yeah. It's about almost 18 hours of the

00:50:05.960 26 hour drive is in Ontario. So it's quite a big province. It is that. And it's just the biggest

00:50:13.400 headache of it's all kind of packed into that one Southern part. Actually, the rest of them

00:50:16.940 aren't so bad necessarily. Yeah. All right. So let's go through some of the stuff you've been

00:50:22.700 working on. Maybe we'll start with, what was your most recent opinion piece there that we put up?

00:50:28.280 Are we talking about the private jets?

00:50:31.940 Yes.

00:50:32.820 Yes.

00:50:33.320 Okay.

00:50:33.800 So I wrote a piece that was actually a news piece on the World Economic Forum and them

00:50:39.760 wanting us to get rid of our cars.

00:50:41.880 I heard you earlier talking about bike lanes and public transit.

00:50:44.680 Same idea.

00:50:45.880 They think that we should give up our cars because it'll be better for the environment.

00:50:50.580 So I wrote an opinion piece basically saying, well, when you give up your private jets,

00:50:55.860 I might consider giving up my car, given how much pollution private jets actually put into

00:51:03.880 the atmosphere of CO2 emissions, which is what everybody's worried about. And just to give you

00:51:08.760 an example, the private jets actually emit more CO2 than commercial jets, even though they're

00:51:16.540 smaller. And one of the reasons is they have to fly at a closer to the earth, so they have more

00:51:22.660 gravity they got to fight against. And plenty of these people in the WF have no issues using their

00:51:28.900 private jets. As a matter of fact, the biggest issue they have at their annual conference is

00:51:33.640 parking all the private jets, not parking the cars, but parking their jets. So some have to

00:51:39.120 actually land, get off their jet, their jet then flies to another airport to be parked until it

00:51:43.900 flies back to pick them up and then take them to wherever they are going to next. Some of the

00:51:50.280 biggest emitters out there. I'll just use Kylie Jenner. There's actually a Twitter account called

00:51:55.640 Celeb Jets, and you can go and see every single celebrity. It posts immediately once their plane

00:52:01.880 starts flying from one spot to another. She is one of the biggest users of her private jet and for

00:52:10.180 incredibly short trips. So a couple of weeks ago, she used her jet five times in one week for flights

00:52:18.500 of less than 20 minutes, including one flight for three minutes. Now, to put that into perspective

00:52:24.460 for the CO2 emissions people, a three-minute flight by Kylie Jenner actually was worse for

00:52:31.760 the environment than 10 Ugandans for their entire year in terms of their carbon footprint,

00:52:39.540 a three-minute flight. Meanwhile, we're being told to reduce our carbon emissions, and the fact is

00:52:45.380 the people in the top 1%, their carbon emissions are 30 times the level we need to be at by 2030

00:52:55.040 to keep the planet from warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Interesting part, the lowest

00:53:02.760 50% of the population already are below what that target is. The real problem is people at the top

00:53:11.340 flying around in their private planes and they are using a lot more energy and emitting a lot

00:53:18.300 more carbon into the atmosphere than you and i are cory even if we are riding our bikes or driving

00:53:23.740 our cars it doesn't matter they're still the biggest emitters yeah and i'm glad you brought

00:53:27.860 up that that website that tracks those celebrities because yeah i saw that embedded in your story

00:53:32.060 there and it's a great site it's it's worth watching because i think that's what it takes

00:53:35.740 to drive home to some of the people you know what if they were conspicuous conspicuously consuming

00:53:40.340 they're rich they're you know eating caviar for breakfast lunch and dinner good for them it's the

00:53:45.740 hypocrisy that's the problem when they're telling everybody else to cut back everybody else to stay

00:53:50.920 close to home everybody to eat a hundred mile diet you know people like dicaprio with a yacht

00:53:56.280 that's bigger than than some apartment buildings uh is flying around the planet telling us we got

00:54:01.540 to tighten up that needs to be exposed and so many of these hollywood elites are all you know

00:54:07.140 on the left side of politics

00:54:09.640 and are constantly chirping on climate change

00:54:12.260 and all this stuff.

00:54:12.860 And some of their homes

00:54:13.460 are the biggest emitters as well.

00:54:14.620 It's not just their jets.

00:54:16.460 And for example,

00:54:17.480 some of the other people

00:54:18.320 that round out the top emitters of CO2 for celebrities,

00:54:23.240 you got people like Taylor Swift,

00:54:25.580 you got Jay-Z,

00:54:26.440 you got Floyd Mayweather.

00:54:27.740 They're all using a tremendous amount

00:54:30.480 of private jet travel.

00:54:33.400 Uh, I, I do understand that once you get to a certain level of celebrity that you need

00:54:39.340 to be concerned about your, uh, privacy and safety, I get that.

00:54:44.360 Um, but there are plenty of ways you can still travel commercial air and protect your privacy

00:54:49.740 and safety.

00:54:50.900 So it's, I think at some point, some of these people think they're entitled to a private

00:54:56.200 jet, uh, that they don't have to fly with the rest of us.

00:54:59.720 Uh, but like I say, my story, I've flown first class a bunch of times.

00:55:03.020 yes, the food's better, the seats are bigger. But really, it's not all that bad. I'm pretty

00:55:07.760 sure you can tough it out. In first class, it's not exactly like, you know, you're being asked to

00:55:15.380 ride a horse or something. No, and I read an article recently from somebody else in a different

00:55:20.100 publication, but they're talking about how a lot of world leaders actually fly commercial, not for

00:55:25.780 official functions. Fair enough. You know, you're a president, you're a prime minister,

00:55:28.660 you should have a different degree of security. I don't begrudge them needing a private jet for

00:55:34.020 those functions and things like that. They got to bring people with them. But when they go on

00:55:37.520 their personal vacations, even Boris Johnson flew commercial and he, you know, leads a country much

00:55:43.260 bigger than ours. That's dealt with a lot more direct threat to the prime minister. When it was

00:55:47.440 his personal time on a vacation, sure he flowed first class and sure he had security. That's all

00:55:51.400 fair. But he didn't take the private jet for that because it's a private thing. Trudeau on the other

00:55:56.120 And he's bouncing around surfing and down to Costa Rica and all over the place on this.

00:56:01.760 And we're putting the bill.

00:56:03.220 Yes.

00:56:03.700 And actually, speaking about Trudeau's trip, I also mentioned that in my article.

00:56:07.220 It's an eight-hour flight to get there and eight hours to get back.

00:56:11.140 And he's flying on what is essentially a private jet.

00:56:14.860 And the amount of admissions that he used was the equivalent of a person commuting to work two hours a day,

00:56:22.900 every single day of the week, seven days a week.

00:56:26.120 For a year and a half, just flying one way.

00:56:30.340 So he's flying around the country telling us to curb our emissions.

00:56:35.060 And he's probably in the top five emitters in all of Canada.

00:56:39.900 The hypocrisy with Trudeau just keeps going regardless of what topic we bring up.

00:56:45.520 But this one, especially since he was flying around on his private jet to make climate change announcements,

00:56:52.240 as he was doing in the weeks prior to going on that vacation to Costa Rica.

00:56:57.820 Yeah. Likewise, others like Mr. Suzuki with his three houses and so many of these climate

00:57:03.620 hypocrites. I'm just glad you wrote it up just to keep pointing it out. I don't know if we'll

00:57:07.120 ever get a solution to these jerks. But again, as I said, hey, go around. You can fly to the 0.99

00:57:11.780 corner store for all I care. Just don't tell me how I'm supposed to live if you're going to do it.

00:57:15.880 Yeah, I mean, I'd say like they're complete hypocrites. And if you if you look at any successful organization, leaders lead by example. And we're not seeing a good example here for what they want us to do compared to what they're actually doing themselves. 0.97

00:57:35.680 so i said basically ban if you agree to ban private jets then i will start to consider my

00:57:42.560 own carbon emissions but at the present moment in time i am a small emitter compared to the people

00:57:49.040 telling me i need to reduce it and quite frankly i just bought a car that's uh gas powered not

00:57:54.120 hybrid so not electric because i can't get anywhere i live in regina like 400 kilometers

00:58:00.980 gets me nowhere no in winter even less yeah yeah or if i decide to tow something even less so the

00:58:08.900 the evs are not there yet not even close well let's get into some of the the new stuff this

00:58:13.060 is a concerning story uh with the long-term care outbreaks you got going on uh with covet out in

00:58:18.180 saskatchewan uh a 1500 spike like you know covet i think kind of realizing for for healthier

00:58:26.100 younger people it's it's not as high of concern but we do know also people in lawn care facilities

00:58:31.060 can be very vulnerable to it and it can cause a lot of harm well here we go again yes we saw a

00:58:38.020 massive spike uh in saskatchewan depending on what province you're in they some provinces

00:58:44.180 uh have outbreaks of anywhere that has an outbreak uh in saskatchewan they only track outbreaks in

00:58:49.140 long-term care homes and care homes. And the outbreaks went from three last month to 46,

00:58:57.380 which is 1500% increase. But keeping in mind, this is in care homes where the average age is

00:59:07.620 above 75. The average age of someone in a long-term care home is like where you're actually

00:59:15.220 have full nursing care is over the age of 80. So it's no surprise that older people are getting 0.92

00:59:20.740 the flu. We don't have many people dying from it though. We only have seven deaths per week

00:59:27.540 from COVID-19 related illnesses. And the interesting thing here is they're also the

00:59:33.300 most vaccinated. They also in the same report showed the vaccination levels of people over the

00:59:39.300 age of 65. And it was substantially higher than the general population. Now, there's the whole

00:59:47.780 argument that, oh, if you get vaccinated, your symptoms will be less severe. We actually have

00:59:52.260 no proof of that. No one's really done an actual scientific study on that. We've just kind of been

00:59:56.600 told that after the vaccine wasn't a vaccine. And actually, there's a clever comment of someone on

01:00:01.960 my story who actually said we should stop using the word vaccine and just start calling them shots.

01:00:07.540 And I tend to agree with that. But unfortunately, I have to use the government language for the time

01:00:11.220 being. But I think at some point, we really need to stop calling them a vaccine and just refer to

01:00:16.660 it as like a booster shot or a flu shot or something. Because quite frankly, vaccines,

01:00:22.820 I don't want to fall over. You can get kicked off YouTube for this sort of talk.

01:00:26.820 Oh, boy. I despise it. And it's wrong. But I get your point.

01:00:32.500 yeah well one of my stories got us kicked off uh twitter so it's it's wrong and you know that

01:00:38.900 that's something maybe we can kind of round out our conversation with i mean we're an independent

01:00:42.900 media we've got views you don't just write news you write columns and that's part of what we

01:00:46.900 discussed um and it's the i think you know independent media is the future we're doing

01:00:52.020 great the standards growing rebels growing true north is growing epoch times and uh and and the

01:00:57.780 legacy media is fading but we are beholden unfortunately still we're dependent on those

01:01:03.300 social media giants youtube facebook google twitter and boy they are really ramping up

01:01:10.980 the uh abuse to chill our conversation to times like right now when we got to care be careful

01:01:16.260 about how in depth we want to go on it yeah and uh that's a bad development for news i i'm i'm not

01:01:22.980 overly pleased in the, even like long-term, not very overly pleased with social media giants,

01:01:29.620 but lately it's been, the censorship has hit an entirely new level. As we, like the story on

01:01:40.580 Twitter, the guy was banned there, my story, my story had nothing to do with COVID-19. It was

01:01:45.460 about, it was a story about government employees doing the opposite of a government policy.

01:01:50.340 um it could have been anything i was talking about i could have been talking about you know like

01:01:54.340 dog catchers and they're you know catching too many dogs that aren't violating you know

01:01:59.940 dog laws or something it could have been anything uh in there it was a government

01:02:04.980 like it was a story about government workers not doing what the government has instructed them to

01:02:10.340 do that's a story it doesn't matter what the content is and somehow twitter you know bans

01:02:16.740 us for it it's ridiculous it was news and we still haven't uh we're trying to get through the appeal

01:02:22.420 and we've been failing they won't address it and it's uh it's an almost um condescending attitude

01:02:29.940 they take i guess we could get right back on twitter if we would just delete those tweets

01:02:34.020 yeah but we they we've been waiting over a week for the appeal because we don't want to delete

01:02:38.660 them because they were news copy we don't want to set that precedent to say hey we i mean to delete

01:02:43.620 them is admitting we did something wrong we're just tweeting news copy and the process is the

01:02:48.980 punishment we can't get back on there and uh we're stuck uh you know it might have to delete those

01:02:54.420 things and on top of it that story that i wrote on the social workers at the time it was only two

01:03:00.900 social workers this story is now much bigger um and this afternoon you'll see a story coming out

01:03:07.460 um where the ministry of social services is trying to find out who spoke to the western standard and

01:03:14.020 they have their social workers going to doors sending emails trying to figure out who spoke to

01:03:18.500 us now no one has caved so far and said yes i was the one that did it um but this story is much

01:03:24.740 bigger it turns out it's not just two social workers it's an it's an entire you know sub

01:03:29.060 department within the ministry of social services who is actually doing what i discussed in that

01:03:35.140 story so it's not to rogue social services we now have a rogue department including i have two

01:03:41.300 whistleblowers who are social workers who were in a meeting where they said the the supervisor

01:03:48.820 department said that we need to get these kids vaccinated as fast as possible before the

01:03:55.140 government steps in and stops us yeah that is what twitter wants to censor yeah that is because

01:04:06.900 yeah yeah so you'll see that coming out too there's more coming on that so that story that

01:04:12.260 twitter banned us for um that was like the little crumb at the beginning and now things are actually

01:04:18.180 starting to you know the and pull on different strings and the the story is starting to really

01:04:23.620 come out about how widespread the actual issue is within social services. And they want to try

01:04:29.820 and find out who it was. And someone anonymous source of the government obviously doesn't want

01:04:34.840 to be named, is not pleased that a government ministry is more concerned about finding about

01:04:42.120 who talked about it than figuring out how to actually follow the government's policy on

01:04:47.180 COVID-19 vaccinations for kids. And I think it's a worrying thing that any government

01:04:52.360 wants to find out who were the ones that talked.

01:04:56.720 That's not their job.

01:04:58.660 We've got weak whistleblower legislation

01:05:00.360 and you can see why.

01:05:02.540 We'll move on and finish up with a story.

01:05:04.240 And I'll tell you,

01:05:05.060 my own personal Twitter account

01:05:06.840 has only been suspended twice.

01:05:09.180 Only, you know, some people never.

01:05:10.660 In both cases, it was because I misgendered Jessica Yaniv.

01:05:15.920 She was the one, if people might recall,

01:05:17.520 was a transgender activist who got upset

01:05:19.160 with a bunch of estheticians in Vancouver 0.98

01:05:21.000 because they wouldn't wax her balls oh yeah yeah yeah she threatened me a while ago yeah i know i 0.96

01:05:26.360 know who she is before i was with the west western standard yeah i referred to her with the wrong 0.98

01:05:31.400 pronoun and i had my account yanked that happened actually twice but that's twitter and where they're

01:05:37.560 at so segwaying in uh we'll just more your next most recent story to wrap things up uh a 10 year

01:05:43.880 old has become the youngest transgender model on the new york fashion week yes yes quite an

01:05:49.080 accomplishment. This individual, Noella, is her female name. She started refusing to wear boys 0.99

01:05:57.240 clothes when she was a baby. And obviously until she could put words together, she couldn't say no,

01:06:04.240 no boys clothes to her two non-binary parents until she could speak. And then they took her 0.99

01:06:10.260 to a gender affirming clinic, which said, no, she's actually female. So they started to socially

01:06:16.500 transition her at the age of four. She officially changed her name to a female name at age seven and

01:06:22.700 is now the youngest transgender model to walk the runway, which she did for a company called

01:06:27.100 Trans Clothing Company, which is a company that specializes, according to their website,

01:06:32.380 in transgendered clothes because normal clothes don't fit transgendered bodies as they transition. 1.00

01:06:39.360 And that's who she modeled for. So she's now officially the youngest transgender model at

01:06:45.060 new york fashion week i do not know if she's the youngest at any fashion week but of a major fashion

01:06:49.920 weeks she is the youngest yes that's the absurdity that i think where the activists are overplaying

01:06:55.340 their hand and they're pushing it just too damn far uh you know we got billions of people in the

01:06:59.540 world okay there's always gonna be some nuts and some of those nuts are gonna be parents and some

01:07:02.680 of those parents are gonna influence their children into some ideologically extreme things

01:07:06.880 kids are impressionable they will do whatever their parents push them towards yes leave the

01:07:11.380 kids alone. You know, once somebody's 18, if they want to identify as whatever the hell they

01:07:16.380 please, by all means. But when you're under, when you're four, when you're seven, when you're 10,

01:07:22.380 just let them be kids. Just because you don't want to wear a blue pair of pants when you're

01:07:28.860 two years old does not mean you're the wrong gender. Or for that matter, 50% of kids right

01:07:35.420 now would probably, of adults would probably be the opposite gender of what they were born with. 0.92

01:07:40.740 like it's crazy i mean like i got pink shirts i got a pink golf shirt i wear golfing does that

01:07:46.320 mean i tee off from the ladies tees no i i still play from the men's tees even though i'm wearing

01:07:51.440 a pink shirt but it doesn't mean i'm transitioning to a female uh i just like the fact that i it's a

01:07:57.500 nice pink shirt to wear golfing you know and we're the point of where some of this just seems

01:08:03.440 completely absurd to me just just because a two-year-old won't wear boys clothes and they 0.59

01:08:08.520 want to wear like you know a pink pair of pants instead of blue does not mean you transition your

01:08:15.900 child to another gender I mean we even had a term for it you know tomboy you know girls who were

01:08:21.180 when they were younger who were more into playing with trucks and stuff like that that that we had

01:08:27.000 a term for it it wasn't like it was a small group of like 10 people over here in the corner that

01:08:31.300 were the only ones doing that you know there was a term for it uh and all of them you know most of

01:08:37.120 grew up and did not change their gender. And a lot of this is just parents are starting to fight

01:08:46.220 back about this. We've even seen this in San Francisco, where they removed three school board

01:08:51.640 trustees who were pushing a radical gender and CRT, a critical race theory, into the schools,

01:09:00.580 and they replaced them and put them in three conservative school board trustees in a recall

01:09:06.280 who would have thought that San Francisco would be the place like recalling their liberal

01:09:14.100 school trustees and replacing them with conservative school trustees and we're

01:09:20.740 seeing this come out in a bunch of other spots as well and we're starting to even see

01:09:24.900 some real pushback by parents to say hey like teach my kids math but when it comes to health

01:09:32.360 stuff. That's a family thing. That's not something that you hide from us and take our kids away from

01:09:38.360 us. Because we don't agree with what you're telling our kids to do. And if you're 25 years

01:09:46.700 old, you can have whatever plastic surgery you want to change yourself to look whatever way you

01:09:51.180 want. But when you're five years old, or in the case of this kid, two to four years old, I mean,

01:09:55.920 she was completely socially transitioned to a girl before she even got to kindergarten.

01:10:00.540 That's where I think child services should actually be focusing their efforts, not on trying to find out who spoke to the Western standard.

01:10:08.960 Yeah, it's just a crazy world.

01:10:11.400 Well, before I let you go, what are you working on?

01:10:13.200 What do we got to look forward to, Chris?

01:10:15.160 I've got a couple more stories on social services coming up.

01:10:18.340 And also, I have some excerpts from the Christian Schools Discipline Manual from back in the early 2000s that has been at the center of the recent controversy here in Saskatchewan,

01:10:30.440 which now involves three separate Christian schools that have staff at them that were at the original Christian school where the abuse took place, including an exorcism, which didn't work.

01:10:44.260 Surprise.

01:10:46.240 And so that's coming up as well.

01:10:47.540 and I have actual excerpts from the actual discipline manual that they have.

01:10:51.460 So great. Well, thanks for checking in, Chris. It's been a slice. I'm sure I'll be seeing you

01:10:56.260 again on other shows or something. And of course I'm still going to be at the standard, but this

01:10:59.780 will be the last triggered appearance. So I appreciate it. I appreciate that, that fine shirt.

01:11:05.700 And yes, this was an honor of you, Corey. Well, thank you, Chris.

01:11:09.860 And in case anybody wonders why I'm wearing a Hawaiian shirt, that's why it's in honor of

01:11:14.420 of Corey. So I just want to call you for that. Thanks, Corey. All right. Thanks, Chris. We'll

01:11:18.200 talk again. That is our Chris Oldcorn in Saskatchewan, as you see, covering those

01:11:22.540 stories and sharing his opinions on a lot of things. So it's just some great stuff. He comes

01:11:26.200 up with a lot of, you know, original, unique, exclusive content. Just that other reminders

01:11:31.480 you can see from Nico, take out a subscription guys. That's how we can beat them. This is how

01:11:36.400 we can keep getting that newsprint going. Beyond that, I'm going to hit our last sponsor for the

01:11:41.560 day too, and that's the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. They've been sponsoring us for a long

01:11:46.320 time too. They help us stay on the air and in print, if you want to call it print nowadays.

01:11:50.820 They are a good group. If you own a firearm, if you're looking to own a firearm, if you've got

01:11:54.860 friends who own firearms, if you support the rights of people to own firearms, you should be

01:11:59.200 a member of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. It's not that expensive at all,

01:12:03.760 and it's well worth it. I mean, we've got a government that is, again, ideologically driven.

01:12:07.900 they want to take away your property, they want to take away your ability to responsibly use

01:12:11.800 firearms. We saw it's ridiculous. Trudeau is trying to shut down all handguns that have been 0.96

01:12:17.280 owned harmlessly by people across this country for a hundred years. And meanwhile, they're

01:12:22.940 lightening up on sentencing for gangsters, for the illegal guns, for the smuggled guns. It's just

01:12:29.320 bizarro world. If we don't stand up for ourselves, guys, we're going to lose. So you got to get on

01:12:34.000 there, guys. Take out a membership. Join the Canadian Shooting Sports Association. This is

01:12:38.740 how you can pushback. This is how you organize. This is how you win. Check them out. CSSA-CILA.org

01:12:45.480 or just look up Canadian Shooting Sports Association. Okay, so speaking of the independent

01:12:50.720 media, I saw a comment there earlier from when I was talking to Chris from Jordan Cron saying,

01:12:55.700 just leave Twitter. You realize you're saying the company's behavior and ethics are something you

01:12:58.480 agree with every time you use the service? Well, no, it's saying I have to use it. Likewise, Jordan,

01:13:04.980 I see you're messaging from YouTube. And I don't think you necessarily agree with every bit of

01:13:09.280 YouTube's censorship as well. But if you want to get to the larger productions and find things,

01:13:14.620 unfortunately, for now anyway, these social media giants are the main ones doing it. We do stream

01:13:20.620 to Rumble. And unfortunately, it doesn't integrate as well with some of our stuff. I can't see the

01:13:24.640 comments from people on there. And I know there's some people watching on there. And I appreciate

01:13:27.640 that. And we don't get kicked off Rumble all the time, but the amount of viewers that come in from

01:13:32.660 Rumble are a fraction of what comes in on YouTube and Facebook. And being a publication, we need to

01:13:38.880 get out to everyone else. I mean, the subscribers, that's how you can bypass it. Get on here, get

01:13:43.600 straight to this stuff. But we need all of these platforms so people know where we are. It's not

01:13:48.540 delivered on a doorstep any longer, like an old newspaper. We have to use these social media

01:13:53.460 Giants, whether we like them or not. Twitter, for example, I mean, I've got, what, 30,000 followers

01:13:59.580 on there. I can really amplify my stories, Western Standard stories, other things, just by tweeting

01:14:05.660 them. I can get them out to a broader audience, share them, and get more viewers, more viewers

01:14:09.460 for the show, more readers for my columns, more readers for other stories I thought were

01:14:13.460 interesting on the Standard or elsewhere, and Gab or Getter, and that they just don't provide

01:14:18.460 nearly that reach. Hoping it changes, hoping it evolves and it gets better. But for us,

01:14:24.220 at least in alternative media, independent media, it's just not an option to get away

01:14:29.160 from these platforms yet. We'd like to, but we have to use them. It's a relationship that we

01:14:33.440 got to maintain. And unfortunately we get pushed around. I had so much high hope when Elon Musk

01:14:39.440 was looking to shake up Twitter. And it's amazing when he was on the way in, how much Twitter

01:14:43.020 already improved. It got better just knowing he was coming. And we saw old accounts being

01:14:49.420 reinstated. I saw my follower growth start to grow. It had been flatlined forever because I'd

01:14:53.700 been shadow banned like so many other conservative blue checks out there. And as soon as Musk's

01:14:58.460 steel fell through within a week, holy cow, they're banning all sorts of conservative

01:15:02.440 commentators again. The growth in followers is flatlined again. It's frustrating. But at the

01:15:10.000 same time, I can't get away from them yet. Hopefully we get there. You know, the more the

01:15:14.280 merrier. I want to see more social media things sprouting up. I mean, things evolve. Platforms

01:15:20.500 come up that we never really would have thought about. I mean, whoever saw Twitter coming in the

01:15:24.120 first place or Facebook, you know, and it came from, what was it, MySpace originally. But,

01:15:29.480 you know, there's creative people who come up with different ways of getting these platforms

01:15:34.100 out there and talking about things and such. So I know, I know Twitter's frustrating, Facebook's

01:15:40.520 frustrating, YouTube, but we've, they're just essential for us with what we do. And we just

01:15:46.840 can't escape them. Speaking of escaping mandatory, let's talk about a little media stuff. This is a

01:15:51.260 story. CRTC, cable and satellite TV customers in Canada should be required to pay for gay 0.90

01:16:02.040 programming. A CRTC commissioner said yesterday, a majority of regulators rejected mandatory

01:16:07.000 carriage of the OutTV network of Vancouver, the world's first LGBTQ network. And somebody was

01:16:16.460 quoted there basically saying, I would have made it mandatory. I would have forced it. It was one

01:16:19.980 of the commissioners or something. Look, I don't have a problem with a LGBTQ network at all,

01:16:26.700 but it shouldn't even be regulated. Just if there's enough people to watch it,

01:16:31.080 Just let it get out there.

01:16:32.260 I mean, don't control everything.

01:16:33.800 Let it get on the channels.

01:16:34.760 Let people buy a space on the digital network,

01:16:37.900 whatever it might be with Shaw or Rogers

01:16:39.920 or any of those, or streaming.

01:16:41.920 If the audience is there, good, good.

01:16:44.240 Get out there and watch it.

01:16:45.480 And you know what?

01:16:46.480 Other stations or carriers or cable providers

01:16:49.280 will happily, willingly pick it up.

01:16:52.160 But when you want to force it, it's bad enough.

01:16:54.280 Look, we got forced with all of our French programming

01:16:56.440 out here in the West.

01:16:57.140 How'd that work?

01:16:57.660 Well, we don't speak French.

01:16:58.520 We don't watch the shows.

01:16:59.340 but other than that, it's working like a dam. Well, forcing this isn't going to help anybody

01:17:04.720 either. If it's a good product, people are going to come out for it. So, you know, the CRTC,

01:17:12.640 C11, C18, these things, the government really wants to empower what you can see, what you can

01:17:17.800 hear. And this is another example of it with that attitude. I would force it. What do you mean you'd

01:17:22.160 force it? So you'd force private companies to have to carry a particular channel, even if they don't

01:17:26.200 want to. That's not right, guys. It's not right. Bad enough we're forced with a damn CBC. Get rid

01:17:32.880 of that thing. Get government out of it. Open it up. All right. What do we got here? This was a

01:17:38.500 weird one. I mean, this is an interesting thing with social media, speaking of which, you know,

01:17:41.740 the mob, the swarm, the lunatics, the people who lose it. And there's ones on the right and

01:17:45.740 there's ones on the left. Cancel culture can hit all sides. It definitely can. People get heated.

01:17:51.100 And the other thing that's dangerous on social media is rumors. You know, rumors have always

01:17:55.380 been able to spread like wildfire and cause problems in communities and neighborhoods and

01:17:59.200 groups of people, social media has amplified that. So this was a deal out in Orlando, Florida,

01:18:05.700 and a woman who owned a beauty or, you know, a aesthetics parlor or whatever, hairstylist,

01:18:12.800 suddenly her phone's ringing off the hook and she's got 700 phone calls from strangers screaming

01:18:18.000 at her, yelling at her, calling her a racist, calling her every name in the book, threatening

01:18:22.260 her business, giving one stars to her business, all sorts of things. She didn't know what the

01:18:27.040 hell's going on. Not to mention, by the way, she's black. So what the hell's going on here? 1.00

01:18:31.480 Well, it turns out somebody had gone on a racist tirade at a business a block away 0.65

01:18:36.340 and screaming and hollering and abusing a person of Chinese descent. And it went viral on the

01:18:42.360 internet and videos. And somebody had determined that this woman's hairstyling business is where 1.00

01:18:49.200 it had come from. They determined it was her who did it. And they were wrong. They were totally

01:18:53.740 wrong. But unfortunately, the rumor had already spread. And now we've got hundreds and thousands

01:18:59.200 of social media self-declared, you know, basically vigilantes going after this poor woman and,

01:19:05.980 you know, harassing her, harassing her business and putting her through all of this. And she was 1.00

01:19:12.240 completely innocent. So I just want to talk about some of those things with social media. It's such

01:19:16.800 a great development, such a great tool. But like everything else, we've got a real good

01:19:20.760 capacity as humanity to screw it up. So just be careful. There's one of those things we deal with

01:19:26.500 on social media too. You know, we get a lot of BS that goes around. It's incumbent. I don't want

01:19:30.840 the government to control content. I don't want them to say what's right, what's wrong,

01:19:34.220 hinder conversation, limit it. But that means we have to take some responsibility. Think twice

01:19:38.680 before acting. If you see something that's questionable, look into it. Before you go

01:19:43.000 attacking a business because you saw an internet rumor, make sure it really was that business or

01:19:49.400 that person. Because a paradox is saying, you know, are there more idiots? Are they just 1.00

01:19:57.000 concentrating on social media? I think there's the same amount of idiots. They just didn't have 1.00

01:20:00.900 the means to organize and move as a herd so effectively, you know, back then as they do

01:20:06.760 today. Now the idiots really have a whole new platform to be able to spread out there and 1.00

01:20:11.280 share their idiocy with us all, whether we like it or not. And Jordan Cronigan says, see people 1.00

01:20:18.940 nowadays get enraged on social media. They do. People work themselves up too much. And he says

01:20:24.840 it's a vocal minority. It is. But when you're talking in volumes of tens of thousands, hundreds

01:20:29.140 of thousands, or millions of people, think of some of those social media heavyweights. I mean,

01:20:33.700 think of some of those ones that are TikTok influencers who have literally millions of

01:20:38.300 followers, millions. This is a person, some vacuous twit who dances around with their jugs 0.74

01:20:43.180 bouncing all over the place. And they've got themselves millions of mob-like, cult-like 0.99

01:20:48.500 followers. And this person isn't all that sharp, however. And if they want to point and say,

01:20:52.740 hey, everybody, go get that guy, their crazed followers are going to go get that guy.

01:20:58.780 It's a scary power to have. I don't want to see it controlled. I'm just saying,

01:21:01.880 hey, we're just going to have to take the good with the bad when it comes to open communication,

01:21:05.440 social media, and the internet. So, you know, just kind of my warning to everybody as I'm moving

01:21:11.520 along with the last episode of Triggered here, that people have to take care on social media

01:21:17.340 at times. Here's an interesting one. Dave mentioned that one. 31% of people fear radio waves.

01:21:24.400 A third of people are concerned to the health effects from cell phones, Wi-Fi, smart meters,

01:21:28.300 another. Okay. You know, I'm sorry you're scared, I guess is all I can say. If you look up some old 1.00

01:21:35.940 stories, there were people who were anti-television. There were people who were anti-radio,

01:21:39.640 anti-electricity. They were terrified of those developments 100 years ago, 140 years ago, 80

01:21:45.120 years ago, whatever these different developments came along. I think, you know, I've heard of some

01:21:50.260 seniors who used to think that, you know, the people on TV could actually look back and watch

01:21:54.200 you. I mean, it only made sense if you were there when TVs were first invented. Well, if I could see

01:21:57.580 them. How can they not see me? And likewise, we get some people, if you don't understand it,

01:22:02.260 it sounds scary. So yes, these radio waves are moving around all over the place. And how can

01:22:06.220 it not be hurting me? Well, the radio waves occur naturally, even though they're coming from outer

01:22:10.560 space. As Jack Gordon says, yeah, they're Luddites, but they do exist. And hey, the fear is real. I

01:22:16.020 mean, if 30% of the people are scared, then I guess we should work on comforting them. I couldn't

01:22:20.040 imagine how bad it would be to be afraid of those when you can't walk without coming near a router

01:22:24.320 or, you know, seeing a cell tower or things like that going around. And a lot of that came about

01:22:30.880 because of misinformation in the past. There was the anti-smart meter movement with people. And

01:22:36.720 really that movement wasn't based on safety. That was based on some people opposed to just

01:22:40.220 checking on gas and things from a distance. And you get to Elizabeth May, crazy Liz, and she is

01:22:46.920 crazy. She was anti-Wi-Fi. She was saying Wi-Fi hurts people. There's no basis to it or anything 0.97

01:22:52.760 else, but she was spreading that baloney and her followers were believing it. I, I think of a

01:22:59.260 better call Saul. If people saw that spinoff from, um, uh, uh, Breaking Bad, Michael McKean was,

01:23:05.780 you know, living in a house, terrified of, of every, uh, possible, uh, wave, uh, Toilet One

01:23:10.660 Andy saying some people are sensitive to them. Perhaps it really exists. I don't know. Uh,

01:23:14.760 in that show, it was found to be kind of psychosomatic and he was just crazy,

01:23:18.060 but realistically for 99% of the world, it doesn't hurt us. 30% of people are worried,

01:23:26.260 but they're worrying over something that they really shouldn't. We got a lot of bigger things

01:23:29.660 to worry about. That's for sure. And sweating radio signals and things like that isn't one

01:23:37.740 of the bigger concerns, at least not for me. Here's a concern. You're something to be worried

01:23:41.740 about. Business debts are averaging $158,000. Now with big business, that's not necessarily a big

01:23:46.260 deal. But small business owners, and that's what this was from, was the CFIB, the Canadian

01:23:50.140 Federation of Independent Business, was talking about all these small businesses having six-figure

01:23:56.820 debts, which when you're a small business, that's a hell of a lot to carry when you're in there. So

01:24:01.700 we got to worry about things. Cheryl's wondering if I'm wearing pants. No, because I don't. Oh,

01:24:07.320 shit. You want to? Yeah, sure. Go for it. Oh yeah. Careful. I got a mic. All right. 1.00

01:24:15.800 Well, last time you're going to be wearing a tie. Yeah. Oh, there goes the green screen

01:24:20.700 and the tie is gone. Well, there, I'm glad we didn't cut the cord. Well, yeah. I got

01:24:32.060 my short tie. We're making a new fashion statement with Hawaiian shirts and chopped

01:24:37.000 Tice. Well, I just wanted to congratulate you on your list, your last show.

01:24:44.000 And we'll give you a nice play round of golf club. Well, thanks.

01:24:51.000 It's the Western standard team in here for the final episode and the tie chopping and the Hawaiian shirts.

01:25:00.800 No, that grows way too slowly now. And I already manscaped this morning. I told people about that already.

01:25:07.000 Well, thank you. Thanks for coming in on the final episode of Triggered. Do you want to come around and say hi once, Nico? I mean, I reference you all the time and nobody ever gets to see who this is. He's got the best shirt of them all anyways. And there's Nico, the man who manages to make me look reasonably pretty around here. And Jeff over there.

01:25:34.000 Come on, Jeff. Do you want to come in?

01:25:35.200 Yeah, get in here. We got Jeff and he's not, well, we don't have a green screen on now. And

01:25:41.200 Jeff's often got a big green screen on the go there. So, uh, well, thank you all guys for

01:25:47.760 coming in. And this has been the team and support, which is why we've pulled off this show this long,

01:25:51.680 the good news, the good effort from, from everybody, uh, even if they're, they're anti-tie

01:25:56.480 more than I would have ever imagined. So, uh, okay. I'm not sure what else I can say at this

01:26:02.800 All right. Well, I guess we'll sign off with the bunch here. This is the end. I usually tell you

01:26:12.880 when to tune in for the next show, but there's not going to be one. There's going to be a lot

01:26:17.000 more productions coming out of the Western Standard though in the months and years to come

01:26:21.160 and I'll be involved in some of them for sure. I'm not going anywhere. I'm just going somewhere

01:26:25.260 different. So thank you all for tuning in guys. You're a great bunch and I will see you online

01:26:31.080 I'm going to wear a shittier tie.

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Triggered： The final episode

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