Western Standard - November 24, 2025


Western Standard News Update | 24 Nov 2025


Episode Stats

Length

2 minutes

Words per Minute

135.81055

Word Count

346

Sentence Count

29


Summary

Calgary hit with a dump of snow, Canada Post says more stamp hikes are on the way for next year, Jenny Byrne is out as Tory campaign manager, Steve Outhouse is in, and the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is investigating a situation that led to the death of a Calgary man. An Indigenous activist has won an injunction allowing him to access the Frog Lake Nation's financial books.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 From the Western Standard, here's your news update.
00:00:38.300 I'm your host, Dave Naylor, Chief Editor of the Western Standard, and here's what you need to know.
00:00:44.640 Calgary has been hit with a large dump of snow affecting everything from traffic, the roads are terrible, take it from me, I got in an accident, to the closure of the International Airport while they plow it out.
00:00:57.100 An Indigenous activist working with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation has won a court injunction allowing him to access the Frog Lake Nation's financial books.
00:01:08.260 Reports say the band had a bank account that had $102 million in it in 2013, but is now at less than $9 million.
00:01:19.120 Canada Post says more stamp hikes are on the way for next year.
00:01:23.340 This comes as the corporation lost nearly $1 billion in the last quarter.
00:01:27.800 Jenny Byrne is out as Tory campaign manager.
00:01:32.800 Steve Outhouse is in.
00:01:34.720 Outhouse had just helped the Tories win election in Newfoundland and Labrador and was also behind Daniel Smith's UCP victory in 2023.
00:01:44.060 The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is investigating a situation Sunday afternoon that led to the death of a Calgary man.
00:01:54.140 Calgary police responded to a welfare check and ended up getting in a struggle with a suspect.
00:02:00.680 During the struggle, police used a taser on the man and the man suddenly passed away.
00:02:07.440 Acer was looking for the cause and any criminality involved with the Calgary police.
00:02:13.040 And that's it for now.
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00:02:31.740 Have a great day.