Western Standard - January 22, 2026


Western Standard News Update ｜ Housing advocate’s Cairo trip under fire ｜ 22 Jan 2026

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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

114.46

Word count

248

Sentence count

25


Summary

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Western Standard News Update Canada s housing advocate says a $14,000 trip to Cairo was not a pyramid scheme, Marie-José Houlle is under fire after she extended her five-day business trip into a two-week vacation, the Parliamentary Budget Office is ridiculing Prime Minister Mark Carney s assertion that $1 Trillion of new investment is headed Canada s way, the Barrie Police Service is the latest Ontario Police Department to say they will not participate in the federal Liberal gun grab program, and Vancouver City Council has unanimously passed a motion calling for the limits on the brightness of headlights.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 From the Western Standard, here's your news update.
00:00:07.000 I'm your host, Western Standard Chief Editor Dave Naylor, and here's what you need to know.
00:00:13.000 Canada's Housing Advocate says a $14,000 trip to Cairo was not a pyramid scheme.
00:00:20.000 Marie-José Houlle is under fire after she extended her five-day business trip into a two-week vacation.
00:00:27.000 The Parliamentary Budget Office is ridiculing Prime Minister Mark Carney's assertion
00:00:32.000 that $1 trillion of new investment is headed Canada's way.
00:00:37.000 The Barrie Police Service is the latest Ontario Police Department to say they will not participate in the Federal Liberal gun grab program.
00:00:46.000 The Toronto Police Service said the same thing earlier this week.
00:00:50.000 And Vancouver City Council has unanimously passed a motion calling for the limits on the brightness of headlights.
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