Western Standard news updates include a story on an Indigenous sex offender who got a huge break when he was not handed a jail term even after multiple breaches, now he is still avoiding going to jail. The Globe and Mail is reporting that Premier Smith and Prime Minister Carney are extremely close to signing a pipeline deal, and it is expected it could be announced at the UCP conference in Edmonton on Nov. 28th. Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says there is no evidence at all for the need for new bail laws in Canada. A Great Britain comic has been arrested for joking about Islam, and the CTF is demanding that the BC government cut travel spending. This comes after access to information documents revealed flights to Dubai for government members at $10,000 a piece, traveling in business class.
00:00:00.000from the Western Standard here's your news update I'm your host Western Standard Chief
00:00:10.400Editor Dave Naylor and here's what you need to know we currently have a story on an indigenous
00:00:16.440sex offender who got a huge break when he was not handed a jail term even after multiple
00:00:23.000breaches now he is still avoiding going to jail the Globe and Mail is reporting that Premier Smith
00:00:30.620and Prime Minister Carney are extremely close to signing a pipeline deal and it's expected it
00:00:36.640could be announced at the UCP conference in Edmonton November 28th Green Party leader Elizabeth
00:00:44.360May says there's no evidence at all for the need for new bail laws in Canada Canadians are crying
00:00:51.120out for bail reform but we're still crying with a certain amount of lack of knowledge this debate
00:00:57.720needs more evidence now C-14 attempts to balance things attempts to recognize that the Charter of
00:01:07.200Rights and Freedoms is fundamental but there are some other principles here that are being I think
00:01:12.300and I fear so politicized that we're losing track of a basic reality a great Britain comic has been
00:01:19.740arrested for joking about Islam we have a video of him being arrested at Heathrow Airport and being
00:01:26.680forced to hand over his phone and computers and give up his passwords and the CTF is demanding that the BC
00:01:35.280government cut travel spending this comes after access to information documents revealed flights to
00:01:42.360Dubai for government members at ten thousand dollars traveling in business class and that's it for now join us next time for more Western Standard news updates you can follow us on Spotify YouTube music and Apple podcasts and don't forget to visit our website at westernstandard.news have a great day