Western Standard - March 24, 2026


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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

105.15

Word count

215

Sentence count

14


Summary

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A Waterloo parent is challenging mandatory land acknowledgements at the local school board, the RCMP is shrugging off a federal audit showing they are thousands of officers short despite spending $335 million a year on recruitment efforts, the federal immigration minister is dismissing an audit that shows thousands of foreign student cases are fraudulent, and the Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to drop the province s fuel tax of 13 cents per litre as gas prices soar because of the war in the Middle East.

Transcript

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