Western Standard - Western Standard News Update ｜ Study shows parents skipping COVID shots for children ｜ 7 Aug 2026

00:00:00.000 From the Western Standard, here's your news update.

00:00:07.280 I'm your host, Western Standard Chief Editor Dave Naylor, and here's what you need to know.

00:00:12.880 A new study by the Public Health Agency is showing most Canadian parents are skipping

00:00:20.340 COVID shots for children as vaccination rates fall to as low as 12%.

00:00:25.080 percent. The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is driving record oil tanker traffic to Bird Inlet.

00:00:35.240 We have an exclusive story on a Canadian veteran who is facing a repayment bill of $24,000

00:00:42.200 after the feds overpaid him for more than seven years.

00:00:47.560 The BC NDP has added Bangra to the growing list of credit earning cultural dances.

00:00:55.080 Ontario Conservative MP Larry Brock has announced he will resign his seat next

00:01:00.480 month. The Supreme Court of Canada is set to hear a challenge of an Alberta's

00:01:06.840 lawyer's oath to the King. The Toronto Sick Kids Hospital has had a second

00:01:13.980 staffer charged in a child sexual abuse material probe. An advocacy group in the

00:01:22.140 United States is urging their

00:01:24.140 government to offer refugee status

00:01:26.040 to Jewish Canadians.

00:01:29.820 Conservatives

00:01:30.460 are attacking the Liberals over

00:01:32.060 restored refugee health benefits.

00:01:36.180 Fentanyl and cocaine have been seized

00:01:38.280 and two arrested in a large drug bust

00:01:40.420 in Calvary and Cochrane.

00:01:45.260 And that's it

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Western Standard - August 07, 2026