Western Standard - March 30, 2026


Western Standard News Update ｜ Liberals bump booze taxes, give themselves raises Apr 1 ｜ 30 Mar 2026


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

107.75142

Word count

215

Sentence count

20


Summary

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The CEO of Air Canada is set to retire after controversy erupted over his lack of French when talking about the Air Canada crash at LaGuardia last week. The UCP says Alberta s new premier Nahid Nenshi will have a hard time reconciling himself with the new federal NDP leader Avi Lewis. It appears the joke is on all of us Canadians as the Liberals raise taxes on booze along with giving themselves raises on April Fool s Day on Wednesday. And the Liberals are rewriting Canadian history again. The Motherwell National Historic Site in Saskatchewan is rebranding its focus from European settlers to emphasizing inequities on the prairies in relationship to Indigenous issues.

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.
00:00:14.140 The CEO of Air Canada is set to retire after controversy erupted over his lack of French
00:00:20.420 when talking about the Air Canada crash at LaGuardia last week.
00:00:24.060 The UCP says Alberta NDP leader Nahid Nenshi will have a hard time dissoning himself from the new federal NDP leader Avi Lewis.
00:00:34.640 Lewis is extremely anti-pipeline.
00:00:38.160 It appears the joke is on all of us Canadians as the Liberals raise taxes on booze along with giving themselves raises on April Fool's Day on Wednesday.
00:00:49.420 And the Liberals are rewriting Canadian history again.
00:00:52.460 The Motherwell National Historic Site in Saskatchewan is rebranding its focus from European settlers to emphasizing, quote, inequities on the prairies, unquote, in relationship to Indigenous issues.
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