Western Standard - December 16, 2025


Western Standard News Update | 16 Dec 2025


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

133.17422

Word Count

186

Sentence Count

14


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 From the Western Standard, here's your news update.
00:00:08.120 I'm your host, Western Standard Chief Editor Dave Naylor, and here's what you need to know.
00:00:14.540 The Federal Government is locking away all records into allegations of 215 bodies being buried at an Indian residential school in Kamloops.
00:00:23.440 A request for an update on what happened to more than $12 million in funding to a local band to investigate the alleged bodies was met with a refusal from the Federal Government.
00:00:35.460 An Elections Canada report found people who watched CBC and Al Jazeera think of themselves as better informed on the issues of the day than the rest of us.
00:00:46.600 Industry Minister Melanie Jolie has given Ottawa a stamp of approval to the massive Anglo-Tech mining merger.
00:00:53.440 Worth nearly $28 billion.
00:00:58.560 And Canadian doctors have told a Senate committee that anti-Semitism is rife within Canadian medical schools.
00:01:07.160 And that's it for now. Join us the next time for more Western Standard news updates.
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00:01:18.460 And don't forget to visit our website at westernstandard.news.
00:01:22.440 Have a great day.