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00:00:09.600 Standard chief editor Dave Naylor and here's what you need to know a report

00:00:15.040 out Friday shows Alberta insurance companies lost 1.2 billion dollars last

00:00:20.040 year as payouts came in 18% over premiums in the last federal election

00:00:27.360 campaign liberal leader Mark Carney vowed to cut the civil service by ten

00:00:31.680 percent but new figures from the parliamentary budget office shows cuts

00:00:36.420 are coming nowhere near the ten percent level Calgary police homicide detectives

00:00:42.960 are investigating the suspicious death of a woman in her 80s in the Canyon Meadows

00:00:47.700 community and President Donald Trump says he could bomb mainland Mexico to try and

00:00:54.960 take out the cartels flooding the US with drugs and that's it for now join us

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Western Standard - January 09, 2026