Western Standard - January 20, 2026


Western Standard News Update ｜ Ottawa admits vaccine compensation failures ｜ 20 Jan 2026


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

120.51502

Word Count

234

Sentence Count

21


Summary


Transcript

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.
00:00:13.900 A federal report has found a dead pine tree mismanagement fueled the Jasper wildfire,
00:00:19.980 not, as Liberal ministers claimed at the time, climate change.
00:00:24.520 Senior Ottawa civil servants are being told to complete an 86-hour course on Canada's colonial past,
00:00:31.400 all expenses picked up by the taxpayers.
00:00:34.980 Ottawa is admitting for the first time the vaccine injury compensation system has failed Canadians harmed by COVID-19 shots.
00:00:43.840 A new report from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is warning Canada is drifting towards people being euthanized without consent.
00:00:53.700 And BCRCMP are reporting more than 50% of commercial trucks examined last year were deemed not roadworthy.
00:01:02.800 And that's it for now. Join us the next time for more Western Standard news updates.
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