00:00:00.000From the Western Standard, here's your news update.
00:00:08.140I'm your host, Western Standard Chief Editor Dave Naylor, and here's what you need to know.
00:00:14.720Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the Ottawa-Alberta Energy Memorandum of Understanding deadlines will not be met.
00:00:22.180With the help of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, a Waterloo parent is challenging mandatory land acknowledgments at the local school board.
00:00:34.460The RCMP is shrugging off a federal audit showing they are thousands of officers short despite spending $335 million a year on recruitment efforts.
00:00:46.120The Federal Immigration Minister, Lina Diab, is dismissing an audit that shows thousands of foreign student cases that are fraudulent
00:00:55.260And the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Alberta Premier Daniel Smith to drop the province's fuel tax of 13 cents per litre
00:01:04.580as gas prices soar because of the war in the Middle East
00:01:08.280And that's it for now. Join us next time for more Western Standard news updates
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