Western Standard - November 25, 2025


Western Standard News Update ｜ 25 Nov 2025

Mentioned
Mark Carney Melanie Jolie YouTube Music Dave Naylor Brookfield Trudeau
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

119.98

Word count

243

Sentence count

22


Summary

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Prime Minister Mark Carney is booked in for a luncheon speech Thursday at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, as it appears he will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Alberta on a bitumen pipeline to northwest British Columbia. Pokemon fever has hit Ottawa, and the National Research Council is under fire after it paid $61,000 for a rooftop patio when the boss decided that she didn t want to have picnic tables.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 From the Western Standard, here's your news update.
00:00:08.020 I'm your host, Western Standard Chief Editor Dave Naylor, and here's what you need to know.
00:00:14.020 Prime Minister Mark Carney is booked in for a luncheon speech Thursday at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce,
00:00:19.700 as it appears he will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Alberta on a bitumen pipeline to northwest British Columbia.
00:00:27.560 Pokemon fever has hit Ottawa.
00:00:32.060 Check out our website for a video of a fight that happened in front of a local Ottawa store
00:00:37.300 as crowds lined up to get the hottest new Pokemon card.
00:00:43.020 Industry Minister Melanie Jolie is rumored to be off to Paris to become Canada's ambassador to France,
00:00:49.900 as Trudeau-era cabinet ministers are starting to be cleared out.
00:00:54.100 Prime Minister Mark Carney's ties to Brookfield is under fire again,
00:00:59.240 as it's received the financial giant owns 2,000 different companies.
00:01:05.700 And the National Research Council is under fire after it paid $61,000 for a new rooftop patio
00:01:12.640 when the boss decided that she didn't want to have picnic tables.
00:01:17.360 Nice work if you can get it.
00:01:18.740 And that's it for now.
00:01:21.560 Join us next time for more Western Standard news updates.
00:01:25.440 You can follow us on Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Podcasts.
00:01:30.700 And don't forget to visit our website at westernstandard.news.
00:01:34.900 Have a great day.
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