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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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.
00:01:07.280 And that's it for now. Join us the next time for more Western Standard news updates.
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