Western Standard - Western Standard projects a Liberal majority

00:00:00.000 Good day and welcome. Today is February 18th,

00:00:27.300 2026. I'm Derek Fildeprint,

00:00:29.520 publisher of the Western Standard, and you're

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00:00:33.360 Back in the studio,

00:00:35.400 safe and sound, we've got

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00:00:41.140 former opinion editor Nigel Hannaford.

00:00:43.600 Hello again.

00:00:44.960 Western Standard senior news editor

00:00:47.040 Dave Naylor. Good evening.

00:00:49.460 And back from

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00:01:00.980 is desert spots and a fifth whip.

00:01:02.380 But you're doing well on Fortnite. Oh, yes.

00:01:04.920 Okay. I'm not sure everyone's

00:01:07.100 as deep into the files as I am to be able to

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00:01:12.960 along on this show.

00:01:14.480 Okay.

00:01:17.480 There is much

00:01:18.880 clamor and hand-wringing and

00:01:20.820 pearl-clutching

00:01:21.600 because an Alberta minister, the Alberta

00:01:24.980 Minister of Education, Demetrio Nicolaitis, took a picture with an Alberta flag.

00:01:30.980 Treasonous! Treasonous that an Alberta minister took a picture and posted it on flag day with an Alberta flag.

00:01:37.820 Answers are needed. Justice must be brought forward.

00:01:42.080 And the treasonous insurrectionists must be hung. 0.85

00:01:49.180 I didn't want to talk about it today. 0.99

00:01:52.200 But we have to.

00:01:54.980 There was another significant shooting. I'm not sure if this one classifies as mass shooting, but a very significant, a very public shooting from a trans male who identifies as a female in the United States days after the Tumblr Ridge school shooting.

00:02:12.460 um it's okay though uh because this is not a thing these trans shootings are not a thing

00:02:19.440 there is no common denominator uh the media uh government officials have told us not to worry

00:02:25.740 about it in fact what you see your eyes are lying to you not a thing so we're going to talk about

00:02:32.340 why the media is correct and this is not a thing why you should ignore your lying eyes

00:02:37.660 But first, we're going to start with a decision in from the Western Standard election prediction desk.

00:02:45.020 Western Standard is now projecting a liberal majority government.

00:02:50.920 We're, what, nine months since the election, so this is a bit of a delayed call.

00:02:55.480 Actually, to be fair to myself, I projected they would always get a majority.

00:02:59.560 I think that's been a kind of consensus around the newsroom, more or less.

00:03:01.880 So you had a side bet going that they wouldn't, didn't you?

00:03:04.760 I bet that they would get it.

00:03:06.700 Yeah.

00:03:07.860 But you covered your bases with me on that one.

00:03:10.100 Yeah, I've always believed they're going to get a majority here from floor crossers. 1.00

00:03:13.920 By hook or crook, they're going to get their majority government.

00:03:18.760 Edmonton Member of Parliament, Matt Jenneru, crossed the floor just today, Nigel.

00:03:26.880 Matt Jenneru, to be fair, has always been a Liberal.

00:03:30.280 He was first elected under Alison Redford for the Progressive Conservatives in Alberta.

00:03:34.420 Which, in many ways, was actually to the left of Mark Carney.

00:03:38.860 Many of us kind of snickered at the time that it was Alberta's first liberal government.

00:03:42.420 At the time, no one even thought of the NDP.

00:03:44.120 It wasn't really a thing.

00:03:45.440 But it was kind of a good precursor government to the Rachel Notley government.

00:03:51.440 So he was always a left, very kind of left-of-center, progressive, conservative in Alberta.

00:03:56.980 Ran federally.

00:03:58.340 I'm not sure which...

00:03:59.760 Was it under Aaron O'Toole he first came in?

00:04:01.940 He spent four terms.

00:04:03.220 Four terms?

00:04:03.560 Okay, so he's been around for a bit, but he says, in an interview today, or a little meeting today, he says, he decided he was going to come around to join the Liberals after Mark Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

00:04:24.300 That was, I think, off the top of my mind, maybe I'm wrong, January 20th.

00:04:30.340 I checked my calendar, and January 20th, 2026, believe it or not, is after November.

00:04:42.560 November of 2025. Off the top of my mind, roughly November 18th or something like that.

00:04:48.600 So, January of 2026 is after November of 2025.

00:04:56.360 2025 is when he was forced to announce his eventual resignation when he got caught trying

00:05:01.400 to cross the floor to the liberals. He was already trying to cross the floor to the liberals. This

00:05:06.380 is extremely well known in conservative circles. That's what he was doing. He got found out. The

00:05:11.920 conservatives more or less made an offer. He couldn't refuse. They're like, you can resign

00:05:15.380 or we're going to blow the whistle on you and your floor crossing is going to get mucked and

00:05:19.880 you're going to look like a bad dude. So he said he needed to spend more time with his family.

00:05:24.840 Evidently, he's sick of his family.

00:05:28.040 Did not resign.

00:05:30.180 And today, join the Liberals, Nigel.

00:05:35.120 So it does, yes.

00:05:36.640 Well, you know, he's not the only one who wanted to spend more time with his family

00:05:39.860 and then changed his mind when his family spent more time with him.

00:05:43.300 I'm thinking of Sean Fraser, Liberal minister.

00:05:46.780 Two weeks of Christmas did it for me.

00:05:48.060 Yeah, Mark Miller, too.

00:05:49.520 And I think you need to handle announced a retirement.

00:05:52.620 Everything you said there is quite right, Derek. His political inclinations have never been truly conservative. I had a quick check through. I mean, my memory's not perfect, so I went to Grok, and I'd looked there as well, and I still couldn't find a single word of condemnation from our semi-official news agency.

00:06:18.280 This guy has never been spotted by the CBC as a right-wing extremist.

00:06:24.160 I mean, a lot of the people we know are conservative activists and so on,

00:06:29.100 and every now and then they say something conservative,

00:06:32.020 and the CBC steps forward and whacks them, which is what it's there to do.

00:06:36.620 I have never seen any criticism of Matt Jenner from the CBC.

00:06:43.300 So that's just a hint right there.

00:06:44.920 Well, the bare mathematics of this are that there are 343 seats in the House of Commons.

00:06:50.800 One is a speaker, so 171 each is kind of an even split.

00:06:56.580 172 is a very, very narrow majority.

00:06:59.760 And if there are three by-elections out there at the moment,

00:07:04.160 if the Liberals win all three, they presently have 169.

00:07:09.040 If they win all three by-elections, they'll have 172, and they'll have a majority of one.

00:07:14.100 Well, one of those is Chrystia Freeland's seat, which I can't imagine a universe in which the Liberals lose that right now.

00:07:19.780 So that's one. Take that off the table.

00:07:22.960 One is in Quebec, where it was decided by just one vote, and it was proven that Elections Canada had screwed up.

00:07:30.920 That election was nullified by the courts.

00:07:34.920 That one's a toss-up. What's the other seat?

00:07:38.020 That's in Ontario, isn't it?

00:07:41.380 What's the Ontario one? Do we know?

00:07:43.380 We don't know.

00:07:44.580 We're going to find out.

00:07:45.820 That's the way we do these things.

00:07:47.820 Okay.

00:07:48.300 But it's extremely close.

00:07:50.440 They might just have the majority in the bag already if they win all three.

00:07:53.940 The Liberals are doing very strongly in Quebec, so maybe they squeak out in that seat, but

00:07:57.680 that's obviously, it's going to be tight no matter what.

00:08:02.260 It'll be interesting to see how quickly Carney calls these by-elections.

00:08:06.360 Normally, political leaders, whether it's federal or provincial, drag it out.

00:08:10.640 Drag it out.

00:08:11.180 And they, you know, legally, they have to declare it on a certain day or after a certain time.

00:08:16.160 He may want to call them pretty quick, I would think, to give him his majority.

00:08:20.440 But I think the best comment, he's getting pilliared on Twitter, obviously.

00:08:25.680 The best comment coming from an Edmonton MP colleague, Kerry Diot, who said, 0.99

00:08:30.040 what a jerk, on Twitter, and then quickly realized that, all right, I'll take that. 0.99

00:08:34.880 How is that too hard? 1.00

00:08:35.960 I don't think it's hard.

00:08:37.040 That's the most polite thing I've ever heard him say.

00:08:39.020 I used to work with Kerry Diot.

00:08:40.560 Come on, Kerry.

00:08:41.180 Yeah, you know it. 1.00

00:08:43.140 You know he was a jerk. 1.00

00:08:44.940 I'm sure the powers that be in Ottawa said, 1.00

00:08:46.980 too spicy to do that.

00:08:48.620 Pierre probably have called it a betrayal,

00:08:50.800 you know, of all the Edmonton Riverbend voters

00:08:53.040 who had voted him in.

00:08:54.820 There's got to be some better process

00:08:57.060 than floor crossing.

00:08:58.680 I mean, Nigel, you've been around the longest.

00:09:00.900 I mean, what about a by-election

00:09:02.240 if somebody wants to cross the floor?

00:09:04.560 Okay, let's have a by-election, 0.73

00:09:06.060 see if you still have the support of your electorate.

00:09:08.480 I mean, that's theoretically possible,

00:09:10.140 but nobody ever does it.

00:09:11.180 okay but it needs to be a voluntary thing because i know everyone hates floor crossings when it's

00:09:17.080 from your team to the other team but everybody loves them when it's from the other team to your

00:09:21.860 team so and we got to keep in mind in our system at least officially we don't elect parties we

00:09:29.780 elect mps otherwise like mps are already essentially an electoral college for the

00:09:35.000 prime ministership if they can't change parties that they formally become an electoral college

00:09:41.820 and it even further uh strengthens even further the power of party leaders so it's what some

00:09:47.480 people don't realize you and i both got beat on a bit for trying to talk about that before because

00:09:51.000 people are saying you know they don't understand you're actually empowering the leader more if you

00:09:54.660 take away that ability there's huge unintended consequences and also uh unintended circumstances

00:10:01.700 Technically, on paper at least, it wasn't really considered to be such, but on paper, the creation of the United Conservative Party in Alberta required people to change their party allegiance from Wild Rose and Progressive Conservative into United Conservative.

00:10:15.360 uh federally from the reform conservative alliance and progressive conservative into

00:10:21.500 the conservative party of canada that was technically technically floor crossing not

00:10:27.380 really in the way and you know that wasn't in the synopsis that we're thinking of now

00:10:31.400 but there there's huge unintended consequences to it and it would make our system significantly

00:10:37.220 worse than it already is everybody in bc um you know who at least was on the side that

00:10:42.800 wanted a change in the leadership of the BC Conservatives. Keep in mind that if John Rustet

00:10:48.220 had refused to go, pretty much the nuclear option that was next was for them to leave and sit as

00:10:55.440 independence or form an independent Conservative Caucus, which would have been bigger than the

00:11:00.420 Conservative Caucus itself, and try to force them out. In the end, you don't want to mess with this

00:11:06.420 stuff and ban it. It sucks. And this kind of stuff is cynical. 20 bucks says at least one of 0.99

00:11:12.580 floor crosses get in the cabinet post probably more they're not doing it right away so it doesn't

00:11:16.820 look as cynical as say belinda stronic you know you were around in ottawa i would not

00:11:20.740 oh no no well that was before your time that wasn't the end of those not much but you know

00:11:25.940 went to the big party she threw you know yeah so uh those ones are really cynical and we hate them 0.97

00:11:33.060 and they suck but to make them illegal will actually make the system overall much worse 0.95

00:11:38.180 it's something we could look at with this though we were talking about the speed with which county 0.97

00:11:42.020 may or may not call these by-elections where he eventually has to, but if he does them

00:11:46.000 in a hurry, for those wondering if he's going to have a spring election, he's probably not

00:11:50.900 going to.

00:11:51.800 But if he's dragging it out, then they are keeping their toe on the water on possibly

00:11:56.640 having a general election because he's not going to want to rush into it, get himself

00:12:00.120 a one-seat majority, and then fall on their own sword to start an election to try for

00:12:05.120 something bigger.

00:12:06.040 He'll kick that can down the road until they fully break that open, which some people think

00:12:10.020 maybe within a month, if it's going to happen.

00:12:12.020 I think you're completely

00:12:14.020 right on this.

00:12:16.120 That's what to watch for. If he quickly

00:12:18.100 calls these, that means he wants to secure

00:12:20.120 his majority, and he'll probably govern

00:12:21.800 the cards he's got. Well, he's

00:12:24.120 going to keep on trying to take cards out of Piers' hand,

00:12:26.440 but he's more or less going to play with

00:12:28.240 Parliament as it is, and try

00:12:30.200 to reshubble around in there to strengthen his majority.

00:12:32.440 If he doesn't call these by-elections in pretty

00:12:34.180 short order, I think you're

00:12:36.160 dead right, Corey. That means

00:12:37.300 he's trying to leave his excuse open, saying, I need a

00:12:40.140 majority, keep our elbows up

00:12:42.160 and fight the bad orange man.

00:12:44.740 That'll be his excuse. He doesn't have

00:12:46.180 that excuse once he has a majority.

00:12:47.980 Yeah, and I don't think we can rule out another floor crossing.

00:12:51.300 What's going to happen?

00:12:51.900 Whether it be a conservative or NDP member,

00:12:54.500 you know, he could get his, he could just still

00:12:56.080 get his majority this way.

00:12:58.200 Yeah. So the other

00:12:59.620 riding that's

00:13:02.100 Bill Blair's riding

00:13:03.940 Scarborough Southwest.

00:13:06.900 Probably liberal.

00:13:07.920 Probably liberal, but you know, back in the

00:13:09.960 Harper Days, we did own that Scarborough

00:13:12.020 area, too. And yeah, and you had

00:13:13.940 Jack Layton running second place

00:13:15.780 over the Liberals in third.

00:13:17.840 I don't think it's happening right now. That's

00:13:19.840 going to stay a Liberal.

00:13:21.400 You could be right.

00:13:24.240 It's a win-a-bull seat for the

00:13:25.900 Conservatives, but if I'm putting money down, the Liberals

00:13:27.900 are holding that. So two of the three

00:13:30.040 I'm putting in

00:13:31.940 the Liberal column. The third one,

00:13:33.940 the Inca back. So maybe.

00:13:36.840 If I had to put money

00:13:37.960 on black or red. I'm putting it

00:13:39.940 on liberal red here

00:13:41.180 because they're doing strong

00:13:43.460 in the polls. And the liberals

00:13:45.320 have the power of the purse. They're going to dump 0.98

00:13:47.800 so much pork. What's the French 1.00

00:13:50.020 word from pork?

00:13:52.000 Pork with a C.

00:13:54.020 That came to be the same.

00:13:58.840 Ironically,

00:13:59.420 it sounds like kosher.

00:14:01.440 But yeah, they're going to drop so much pork into that 1.00

00:14:03.960 riding. It's going to...

00:14:05.380 And Quebecers. No one's 1.00

00:14:07.340 not susceptible to pork barrel spending.

00:14:09.500 So I don't mean to pick on Quebecers.

00:14:11.100 Quebecers are a bit more known for it.

00:14:13.580 They don't turn away.

00:14:14.760 You don't have to be subtle about it in Quebec.

00:14:17.020 You can just say, vote for us and you get this.

00:14:19.400 The bloc can't give you this.

00:14:21.080 They're in opposition. Vote liberal.

00:14:23.120 And we're going to, you know,

00:14:24.860 put a big statue of

00:14:27.080 Boudin Venege or something. I don't know.

00:14:29.240 Yeah.

00:14:30.280 And turning it back to, you know, what to do.

00:14:32.880 I mean, the amount of rage and cynicism.

00:14:34.520 And that's what bugs me with these floor crossings.

00:14:36.380 So it really sours people on the whole system.

00:14:39.740 The only solution I could think of, which I would never see the feds bringing in, would be maybe a functional recall system.

00:14:45.180 If the floor crossing really was that odious to the local constituents, they were that furious about it, then if you set the bar correctly, a number of people could bring about a by-election in that case.

00:14:57.760 But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for the feds to bring in a recall mechanism.

00:15:02.320 That is the correct way, I think, to deal with it.

00:15:04.900 If we're trying to tweak the democratic system on this,

00:15:08.580 well, you leave it to people to decide.

00:15:10.140 A lot of people say, ah, I'll wait to the next election.

00:15:12.480 We'll see how he does.

00:15:13.220 A lot of people will be pissed off enough.

00:15:15.320 And they will get recalled.

00:15:16.180 But leave it to there because universally,

00:15:19.780 look on your Twitter thread right now.

00:15:22.640 You can predict exactly what people are going to say

00:15:24.560 by the partisan affiliation.

00:15:26.220 Conservatives, oh, this is a betrayal of democracy.

00:15:28.620 Liberals, oh, we're adding to our team.

00:15:30.680 This just shows why we're so great.

00:15:32.320 And the exact same thing happens in reverse

00:15:34.480 when liberals go to conservatives.

00:15:36.520 But an ex-general locked his account, too,

00:15:38.980 which says a lot.

00:15:39.800 He's being very cowardly about this.

00:15:41.540 I mean, he's hiding from the public 0.87

00:15:44.220 and hoping for this to cool down.

00:15:45.720 So he knows he's being unprincipled.

00:15:47.640 He knows bloody well.

00:15:48.680 Yeah.

00:15:49.500 You know, the thing that strikes me about this, Corey,

00:15:51.440 is that this is three.

00:15:53.700 What's the matter with the conservative party

00:15:55.960 candidate screening system that these people sneak through?

00:16:00.100 Actually, if I'm not mistaken,

00:16:02.320 correct me in the comments if i am matt jenneru was appointed the candidate without even a

00:16:07.520 nomination yeah my pure poet he wasn't just not screened out he was hand picked and appointed

00:16:14.080 i rest my case so something needs to change and you got you know that's a bit

00:16:19.840 okay i don't want to be unfair here but for the most part you know what kind of candidates mps

00:16:25.920 like? Automatons. Guys who are quiet, uncontroversial, don't say anything that rocks the

00:16:34.400 boat, don't really think too much for themselves, they're going to follow the party line. And

00:16:40.000 that's what you generally were getting with that genre. But this is not an original, I

00:16:44.380 read it from someone else today. But, you know, don't be surprised when the other party

00:16:49.160 that likes mindless automatons for MPs offers them something that's slightly more lucrative

00:16:55.140 and prestigious because they're on the government side.

00:16:57.140 You can't be surprised when this is the kind

00:16:59.240 of candidates you're running.

00:17:00.620 So some of this is on Polyev.

00:17:02.980 All true, I'm afraid, but they sure need

00:17:05.220 to do something different.

00:17:07.580 One is a headline, two is a nasty coincidence,

00:17:12.820 and three shows there's something wrong with the system.

00:17:16.420 Anyway, that's...

00:17:18.580 All right, let's move it on.

00:17:21.640 So, I mean, last week, we talked about the Tumblr Ridge shooter.

00:17:31.080 Won't repeat too much, but, you know, we had, you know, Dave, the media was, I say the media in the lake, you know, the lakes in the media, was just, you know, parroting the propaganda coming from the RCMP.

00:17:47.360 It is a female in a dress, 1.00

00:17:50.100 which we all instantly, as soon as we saw that,

00:17:52.080 said that doesn't make sense.

00:17:52.880 A male in a dress. 0.99

00:17:54.040 Yes, but they said it was a female in a dress. 1.00

00:17:56.020 The RCP.

00:17:57.240 The emergency alert that went out said it's a female in a dress. 0.99

00:17:59.480 Oh, did it?

00:18:00.040 Yeah, in a school shooting.

00:18:01.360 And I said that is mathematically improbable

00:18:03.960 because women don't do school shootings. 1.00

00:18:07.000 People might call themselves women do with alarming frequency,

00:18:10.140 but actual women don't do that. 1.00

00:18:12.780 That's a point inside of the woman's column here. 1.00

00:18:16.620 And then we had gun person. We knew what was going on. We figured out, we confirmed it on the ground by like 10.30, 11 o'clock that night. The media still called it gun person, etc. for another day. Eventually, under questioning, the RCMP admitted, oh, it was a biological male, but we're still calling it cheat because we're respecting pronouns of this mass murder. 0.52

00:18:36.360 um and then we had just a a covid style propaganda campaign uh but i think this you know covid kind

00:18:47.260 of ramped up the levels of propaganda this one just went into overdrive right away so it was in

00:18:50.940 your face it was there is no trans shooting uh epidemic uh trans people are actually less likely 1.00

00:18:58.020 to do this because there's less trans people you know we're talking about proportions you idiots 1.00

00:19:02.100 It's like, of course, there's less trans people. 1.00

00:19:04.020 Of course, there are more men than trans people,

00:19:07.220 depending on how we're using those words, I guess, nowadays.

00:19:10.100 But there was just this huge propaganda campaign in your face

00:19:14.020 that was just so obvious.

00:19:17.140 Who are they trying to convince at this point?

00:19:20.480 And then days later, Rhode Island, we have this guy.

00:19:27.100 It looks like, you know, in the South Park episode,

00:19:29.360 Macho Man Randy Savage becomes

00:19:30.960 a trans woman, and he goes in and 0.68

00:19:33.300 beats all the women in sports. It looked just like that. 1.00

00:19:35.380 This guy had python

00:19:36.920 biceps.

00:19:39.860 The guy is a pretty 0.55

00:19:41.160 successful weightlifter of some kind.

00:19:43.620 And he goes in and he blasts his family

00:19:45.360 and some other people at an ice 0.98

00:19:47.420 rink, another trans shooter. I'm not sure 0.65

00:19:49.360 we classify that as mass. It was family

00:19:51.300 annihilation.

00:19:53.120 But just the...

00:19:56.340 Here, let's just play a quick

00:19:57.480 clip of our our our favorite uh far-left propagandists they are layering hate on top of

00:20:03.640 devastation for their own political purposes as i'm sure you've heard by now the suspected shooter

00:20:09.720 has turned out to be trance which actually doesn't matter parents sorry dave uh so you

00:20:15.720 know the usual suspects and the whole legacy media just in overdrive don't know how to handle this

00:20:21.560 now because they just spent days with in-your-face uh very unsubtle propaganda that this is not a

00:20:29.900 thing insisting this is not a thing and you're bigoted for even thinking it and then it bloody 0.58

00:20:35.280 happened again just days later it's yeah it's it's quite shocking uh i direct everybody to go

00:20:42.720 to our watch section and call up a derek rant that he did uh last week uh for about an hour

00:20:49.140 And he had all sorts of great statistics and whatnot on just how trans shootings are becoming an epidemic. 0.98

00:20:56.380 And then just days later, this guy, I mean, this guy was off the charts, trans freakish mental illness. 1.00

00:21:05.160 He was getting dressed up in sundresses to go to his son's graduation at school and stuff like that. 0.97

00:21:11.860 Just awful stuff.

00:21:13.180 He had Woffin SS flat tattoos, as Derek said, on his bulging biceps and long-term custody battles.

00:21:23.280 He went to the youth hockey rink, killed his wife, killed one of his siblings or one of his children, wounded another.

00:21:33.240 So Derek was right last week, and Derek's right again.

00:21:37.480 I do love to hear that.

00:21:38.580 Yeah, well, these things are happening.

00:21:43.280 They are problematic.

00:21:46.140 You know, the United States media, I've been following it a little bit,

00:21:49.700 the New York Post, those type of things.

00:21:51.760 They're picking up the transgender shooting thing big time now. 1.00

00:21:55.580 They've got a big column today saying trans shootings are an epidemic

00:21:59.960 and needs to be addressed.

00:22:01.700 Again, I think it all goes back to mental health.

00:22:03.740 This guy, Nazi tattoos, dressed up, wearing high heels in a sundress.

00:22:10.180 He looks like he's about 240 pounds. 1.00

00:22:12.280 He looks absolutely ridiculous. 1.00

00:22:14.420 Somebody's got to think mental illness. 1.00

00:22:16.820 Somebody's got to do a weapons check.

00:22:18.520 That's racist.

00:22:19.620 I think, I mean, that's part of what's happening with this, though. 1.00

00:22:23.200 I mean, the common denominator with these trans shooters, now we've seen a number of them, they're all crazy. 1.00

00:22:28.860 Just to say it bluntly, they're seriously mentally disturbed in the most violent and worst way. 0.99

00:22:32.900 they were trying to come to grips with their mental health issues, whatever the heck they were.

00:22:38.400 And it got into their heads, what I need to do, and perhaps some counselors might even put it in

00:22:43.640 their heads, what you need to do, obviously your problem is you're in the wrong body. You need to

00:22:47.780 change your gender identity. So that other fella, you know, gets his dresses, buys himself a pair of 0.87

00:22:52.900 jugs, still finds out, no, I'm still unhappy. I'm still crazy. And now I have boobs. And then they

00:22:59.520 flip i mean when they realize that's not a cure for whatever their underlying mental health issue

00:23:03.820 was but you know it's it's a and it gets hard i mean we do know some trans people they're trans

00:23:09.340 people they just want to live as another gender and they tend to peacefully do so but some cases 0.99

00:23:15.040 these are markers of somebody who's got other disturbances and maybe they're reaching out to

00:23:18.840 try and be trans thinking it might fix something yeah it could be a manifestation um uh there is 0.97

00:23:25.520 a lot of mentally unwell 0.99

00:23:27.640 people out there. 0.99

00:23:29.280 Most of them don't pick up a gun and massacre

00:23:31.820 a bunch of people. 0.98

00:23:33.680 Most trans people don't pick up a gun and 0.96

00:23:35.500 massacre a bunch of people. But 0.75

00:23:37.520 you know, this trans thing 0.96

00:23:39.500 is sometimes, probably not always,

00:23:41.700 but sometimes, it is a manifestation

00:23:43.580 of mental illness.

00:23:46.360 They're not necessarily...

00:23:47.340 We don't know the motivations of these two. We do know

00:23:49.540 one of the ones in the States, it was motivated by

00:23:51.540 trans issues where they shot up a Christian school. 0.99

00:23:53.260 um the tumblr ridge one we don't know i'm willing to bet that the one in rhode island

00:23:58.640 probably not motivated by trans it was just more again we don't know much yet but it was probably

00:24:03.720 more of a manifestation of it and that this it was a clear sign that this person is extremely

00:24:08.300 unwell uh tumblr ridge one we again we don't know enough yet but at the at a minimum

00:24:14.940 their

00:24:16.860 kind of gender outburst

00:24:19.900 is, ah, that's a new term.

00:24:21.940 The worst of it is that

00:24:23.300 because there have been three,

00:24:26.760 there will probably be more.

00:24:28.460 Oh, it's been a lot more than three. I just did a dozen

00:24:30.080 on the show. We will get the idea

00:24:32.140 that this is what you do, you know,

00:24:34.220 and eventually that five will go,

00:24:36.760 but not before somebody else 0.57

00:24:38.240 is killed. Well, no,

00:24:40.040 and it's actively encouraged. You had the BC,

00:24:42.500 I hope I'm not getting this wrong,

00:24:43.960 You get the British Columbia's solicitor, general minister of justice, you know, pictured wearing a shirt.

00:24:50.700 It's got a knife on it, like a big threatening, like a bowling knife or something, saying protect trans kids.

00:24:56.520 It's a very unsubtle message that, you know, you respect our pronouns and you respect our so-called gender identities or else violence.

00:25:06.960 Like, this is being pushed by so-called mainstream politicians, mainstream cultural figures, institutional figures.

00:25:16.260 This isn't just, they're finding this on the dark recesses of the internet, some left-wing equivalent of 4chan or something.

00:25:23.680 You know, they're being told this by senior elected government officials, that, you know, violence is okay if people don't accept you as you now pronounce yourself to be.

00:25:34.320 so I don't know

00:25:36.020 we don't know the motivations between either

00:25:38.280 shooting yet

00:25:39.160 not too optimistic about it considering how

00:25:42.000 the RCMP outright lied to us literally

00:25:44.080 from the moments that the shooting started

00:25:45.780 but or the way they

00:25:48.100 handled the Nova Scotia shooting we will get

00:25:50.180 it from Rhode Island though we will

00:25:51.920 American cops are so much better yeah

00:25:54.120 so we're more likely to get it there I have

00:25:56.000 zero faith in the RCMP

00:25:57.340 but at a minimum

00:25:59.640 people obsessed with violent

00:26:02.240 imagery and who have

00:26:04.180 try to present themselves now as a woman when they're very clearly not,

00:26:08.680 this should at the very least be a bit of a red flag

00:26:12.020 and be taken that this person is unwell, probably shouldn't have accessed

00:26:16.160 the legal firearms. You know another thing that should have tipped them off? Having the

00:26:19.800 Nazi tattoos. The guy who did the tattoos probably should have picked up 0.88

00:26:24.320 the phone and said, you know, you might want to just run a test on this guy.

00:26:28.240 Well, God knows how long someone's had it. I mean, I've known people who were pretty normal and then

00:26:32.160 mental illness set in, and it's

00:26:34.420 subtle, and eventually you can't ignore it,

00:26:36.460 but it's subtle. Who knows

00:26:38.180 when he got it?

00:26:40.400 It's me, some of this denial, though, is putting people

00:26:42.360 at risk. I don't take offense in knowing the knowledge

00:26:44.460 that the vast majority of these

00:26:46.280 shittings are done by men. I'm a man as well. I know

00:26:48.320 that the vast majority of men don't do

00:26:50.320 that, but when you're statistically looking

00:26:52.340 at the propensity, as you pointed out,

00:26:54.020 men are far and beyond

00:26:56.120 more likely, as far as that goes,

00:26:58.420 to be there.

00:26:59.500 and I see the public being put at risk when they start playing games with identifying especially

00:27:04.800 with a breaking issue we saw this in Edmonton a little while back with I think I was still

00:27:11.060 working here I just remember opening that up they put an alert out release sex offender high risk

00:27:15.500 someone this woman may offend you know assault children and everything so I click on the picture 0.98

00:27:20.780 I click on the link because there was no picture and here's this dude with earrings on and a five

00:27:25.460 o'clock shadow and this is a man now you're anybody who didn't click on that link will be

00:27:31.020 looking for a woman they'll be thinking it's some strange woman hanging around playgrounds no 0.99

00:27:34.620 it's a dude say it for crying out loud because now you're putting kids at risk

00:27:38.580 for the sake of fear of misgendering that's enough that's just well in both cases tumblr

00:27:43.640 ridge and the edmonton uh rapists here uh we looked it caught our instant uh curiosity because

00:27:51.280 again to women's credit, women don't tend 1.00

00:27:53.480 to do these things. Women are 1.00

00:27:54.920 far, far less likely to

00:27:57.440 commit sexual assault of any kind

00:27:59.460 especially. They use poisoners if they're going to come for us. 0.84

00:28:02.500 Don't you, Jane, any

00:28:03.420 idea?

00:28:05.380 Not to make light of the situation

00:28:07.480 but I wonder what ever happened to that trans teacher

00:28:09.540 in Ontario.

00:28:10.520 Probably a fagine or... 0.98

00:28:12.740 We should find out.

00:28:15.120 Follow up with Goodyear.

00:28:16.840 Yeah, fine.

00:28:18.400 Probably never was trans. 1.00

00:28:20.640 No, of course not.

00:28:21.840 I suspect he was trolling the system.

00:28:25.700 Because those things look like guns on the deck of the Missouri. 0.90

00:28:28.800 I mean, or he was very crazy.

00:28:30.340 I mean, you know, that's part of it. 0.52

00:28:32.140 That's an indication.

00:28:32.780 I think he was just trolling the system.

00:28:34.580 I don't think there was ever any danger of him going into a classroom and shooting it up.

00:28:38.220 No, thankfully.

00:28:39.340 I suspect trolling.

00:28:40.600 But, Dave, make a note.

00:28:41.620 Let's follow up with the USS Mississippi here.

00:28:45.000 It will do.

00:28:46.820 Okay.

00:28:47.180 Okay.

00:28:50.640 More Madness.

00:28:52.160 These are all just, well, I guess the last two are ever actually.

00:28:54.760 The first one, I don't know.

00:28:56.000 We were trying to be the voice of sanity on the floor crossing one, but the next one is great.

00:29:03.540 So earlier this week, I guess, was Flag Day, where we celebrate doing away with the red ensign 0.98

00:29:12.280 that our soldiers fought under for two world wars and Korea, and replaced it with a corporate logo.

00:29:17.200 So, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm crapping on the Maple Leaf here.

00:29:20.960 I don't know if I'm more about the Alberta flag,

00:29:24.300 but I don't know, something about the red ensign still stirs my heart.

00:29:28.740 And so it's flag day.

00:29:30.320 We're in a relatively partisan vote.

00:29:34.500 The Liberals just decided what the national flag was without kind of bipartisan consensus.

00:29:39.320 Canadians have since accepted it.

00:29:40.860 It's a fairly cranky minority of curmudgeons, maybe like Nigel, 1.00

00:29:45.480 who have not quite accepted it yet.

00:29:47.200 still reminiscing about the glories of the

00:29:49.420 empire. But,

00:29:51.060 it's flag day.

00:29:53.440 And all the politicians are out posting pictures

00:29:55.520 with them. I tripped pretty close

00:29:57.400 to home there, didn't I?

00:29:58.460 You had nothing

00:30:01.320 to say.

00:30:02.920 I'll save the king.

00:30:05.920 Anyway, politicians

00:30:07.540 are doing their thing, Corey.

00:30:09.500 They're all posted pictures with Canadian flags.

00:30:12.240 Demetrio Nicolaitis,

00:30:13.540 actually, it wasn't

00:30:15.320 made into a big news story when I did it,

00:30:17.200 When I was in politics on Flag Day, I'd always post a picture of the Alberta flag flying on my land.

00:30:23.280 You know, and some people, you know, yeah, I was poking the beast a little bit.

00:30:26.640 I knew what I'm doing.

00:30:28.200 But, like, the media didn't make it to a news story.

00:30:32.720 But I guess independence is much bigger in the news today than it was back then.

00:30:36.100 So hang on one, sis. 0.99

00:30:37.440 It's a priority flag day. 0.96

00:30:38.360 Yeah, I don't know.

00:30:39.420 I remember doing stories on

00:30:41.800 you in the Calgary sun

00:30:43.660 because your condo person wouldn't let

00:30:45.840 you fly the Canadian flag.

00:30:47.400 That's when I was a Federalist. There was a time.

00:30:49.700 I was not a time.

00:30:51.300 God did not fortune, favor me to be

00:30:53.720 born in Alberta. It's only by the grace of God

00:30:55.680 who made me one. I was baptized in the

00:30:57.760 bow. There you go.

00:30:59.660 Sorry to interrupt. Yeah.

00:31:01.720 That's actually the first time I think we ever talked

00:31:03.740 back when you were working in Nissan for that story.

00:31:06.740 Rick Bell was pissed he

00:31:07.740 didn't do it. Anyway,

00:31:09.420 Dimitrios does this fundraiser

00:31:12.400 I think raised something like $300,000

00:31:14.320 or something

00:31:15.260 to bring in attention to

00:31:17.320 her sister had been murdered

00:31:20.480 by her former spouse

00:31:21.820 it was obviously a very terrible

00:31:24.500 thing and in her memory

00:31:26.300 he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro

00:31:28.060 I know Dimitrios

00:31:29.380 good on him

00:31:32.060 he must have been working out

00:31:33.220 I couldn't do it but anyway he's got a picture of himself

00:31:36.440 at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro with an Alberta flag

00:31:38.460 i'm not sure if it just happened because it was like i don't know anyway media loses its mind

00:31:44.520 the usual twitterati or i don't i'm on blue sky but i mean i would just imagine what blue sky is

00:31:49.900 doing um uh and then city tv uh does this thing i forget the let's put it up here i don't remember

00:31:57.440 the name of the headline but let's let's throw up this uh headline from cd tv um just

00:32:03.500 how delicate are these people now that uh you know holding a picture of yourself with the

00:32:10.620 alberta flag an alberta minister with the alberta flag treasonous implied treasonous yeah it's

00:32:17.340 absurd and it's showing the tone of where things are going to be going in this next few months

00:32:21.800 this is already happened actually a little while back we were putting on that standard with that

00:32:25.900 clown who managed to get an alberta flag pulled down in a safeway store yeah that was the forever

00:32:30.440 Canada guy who's working, it wasn't Lukasik himself, but it was the people working in his 0.98

00:32:34.160 organization. Saying it was offensive and unfortunately a reactive manager actually

00:32:39.140 listened and pulled it down for a very short time and to their credit it went right back up with

00:32:42.840 like oh no no this isn't what we do. But these symbols they're going to now read in what people

00:32:50.300 are doing. We saw this during the convoy too. We saw them talking actually about people waving

00:32:53.980 Canadian flags. So you watch out this is an extremist. They're waving a maple leaf. Yeah

00:32:58.400 All these elbows up, people were saying, I am now ashamed of the Canadian flag. 0.76

00:33:02.900 The Canadian flag is this far-right fascist symbol. 0.78

00:33:06.440 And to do it, but I mean, just the foolishness of taking that tactic when it was a fundraiser for his deceased sister's legacy on domestic violence.

00:33:15.980 Like, do you guys not just research a little bit before you throw that headline out?

00:33:19.660 Oh, no, they knew.

00:33:20.760 That was in the story.

00:33:22.440 They knew it, and they did it anyway.

00:33:24.760 And I think it's besides the point.

00:33:26.600 He flew an Alberta flag.

00:33:27.780 yeah he's a mr i mean that's what they did his flight yes guys i know the reporter that did the

00:33:34.540 story very well name is uh nadia moharib she's a good friend of mine she worked for me for about

00:33:39.640 20 years at the calgary sun she was perhaps the most loving and generous reporter i've ever worked

00:33:47.680 with she she's the type that would go to the family of a you know fire who was forced out by a fire 1.00

00:33:54.620 she would cook them dinner the next day and became friends with them and she would just

00:33:58.620 she just had a heart of gold somewhere she lost the plot here uh and i told her uh when i was

00:34:04.460 talking to her i wouldn't have run the story wouldn't have even assigned it uh she'd been

00:34:08.700 flooded with hate uh she's been called you know muslims and all she's not a muslim uh 0.97

00:34:16.060 but that's that's the tone people are are taking with her um so yeah it was it was a dumb story it 1.00

00:34:23.180 It was a dumb, dumb, dumb idea to begin with. 1.00

00:34:26.980 I don't know why she pursued it. 1.00

00:34:28.300 I think Corey is right.

00:34:29.480 You know, we're seeing now the temperature increasing almost every day.

00:34:34.220 Canvassers for the independence petition are getting harassed.

00:34:39.700 Apparently, we had a case of somebody being assaulted, and we're trying to confirm that.

00:34:44.440 So it's only going to get worse.

00:34:46.980 Yeah.

00:34:47.400 But I mean, to take something is innocuous.

00:34:49.360 Yeah. 0.99

00:34:49.540 Oh, just dumb move. 1.00

00:34:50.460 they'll move. But I mean, and to be fair, fair enough, that is what the independence move is 0.99

00:34:55.120 wrapping themselves around. There's not necessarily a logo or a party or whatever. You go to any of

00:34:59.320 those signing stations and it's going to be surrounded by Alberta flags.

00:35:02.280 It's the Forever Canada Federalist one. They had Canadian flags there. It's good on them. Whatever.

00:35:07.340 To read that into anytime anybody else waves, because that's what they've done. It's now

00:35:11.400 anytime somebody is waving it, they're going to imply that you are an independent supporter. I

00:35:15.520 only wish that every person who was doing that was the case, but it's going to get worse.

00:35:19.500 So we've created this monster.

00:35:21.540 I am reminded of the other story that we had on the front page today

00:35:25.620 to go back in time with what we call things,

00:35:29.460 but it was your lead story, Dave, about this guy, Mark Miller,

00:35:33.940 the immigration minister.

00:35:35.700 And what is he lamenting?

00:35:37.020 He is lamenting the fact that there is illegitimate media

00:35:41.120 that threaten Canada's social cohesion.

00:35:45.220 and he called out the CBC in particular as being something you really have to fund

00:35:51.860 because it helps to keep Canada together.

00:35:55.680 Now, this story that we're talking about isn't a CBC story.

00:35:59.520 I'd be surprised if they didn't cover it, but it wasn't their breaking story.

00:36:04.120 But certainly the news outlet that did publish it is, by his definition, legitimate media.

00:36:12.740 They've been around for a while.

00:36:14.340 Well, they don't take, you know, they leave the truth alone unless it feeds the narrative.

00:36:21.320 And they got in on this and tried to make it look that somebody who was doing a thoroughly

00:36:25.980 decent thing was actually an insurrectionist, potentially a terrorist, you know, an independent

00:36:34.800 seeker for Alberta, threatening the social cohesion of the country.

00:36:39.920 So who do you want?

00:36:40.840 Do you want the legitimate media?

00:36:43.720 Where do you want people to actually go and suss out a story,

00:36:46.900 find it, publish it, tell the truth?

00:36:51.680 I think, to an extent, on Corey's point,

00:36:56.080 the flags are symbols of both sides.

00:36:59.100 Now, I think it's possible for someone to be a proud Albertan

00:37:04.340 and want to stay in Canada, and that's fine,

00:37:06.420 and they can have both flags.

00:37:07.900 So people might be not proud of Alberta.

00:37:10.860 they're kind of ashamed of the redneck stereotype

00:37:13.120 and they just want the maple leaf

00:37:15.160 okay well I'm less

00:37:17.200 with you there but fine and you know

00:37:19.040 some people like me just fly the blue

00:37:20.560 on our land

00:37:21.640 at least nowadays

00:37:23.740 but these are symbols

00:37:26.320 but to make a big story

00:37:29.100 that it's you know

00:37:30.740 implying it's somehow treason for someone

00:37:32.500 just to have the Alberta flag

00:37:34.160 the Alberta flag now needs to be

00:37:36.280 shunted we gotta take it down the flagpoles

00:37:39.020 for now this is now a dangerous symbol they would have never said that to a quebecer and their two

00:37:45.740 referendums uh the federalist side was always very careful to say you know say fly the uh i don't know

00:37:51.740 what you call the quebec flag but you know the quadruple the quadruple fleur-de-lis uh you know

00:37:57.100 fly the fleur-de-lis proudly alongside the maple leaf or even don't even fly it but you know stay

00:38:01.820 in canada but it's okay they never tried to denigrate quebec's national symbols but these

00:38:06.460 These people are very clearly ashamed of Alberta's.

00:38:09.000 They're now a symbol of sedition.

00:38:12.340 Mr. Nicolavius actually took an oath of office to Canada through his oath to the king.

00:38:21.000 No, you take an oath to the king, not to Canada.

00:38:23.660 Well, I've taken an oath to the king, but he is the...

00:38:26.160 And he's also the king of Canada.

00:38:27.660 Yeah, so it's not exactly an insurrectionist thing to...

00:38:31.660 No, but on this oath thing, when people say, hey, you took the oath to the monarch,

00:38:35.340 there's 11 crowns in Canada

00:38:37.580 there's the Canadian crown

00:38:38.900 and then there's 10 provincial crowns

00:38:42.200 it is an institute

00:38:43.540 it is loyalty to the crown itself

00:38:45.220 not to a constituent part of it

00:38:47.440 you can, you know, if it's done

00:38:49.540 constitutionally or what not

00:38:50.680 there's nothing

00:38:52.180 there's nothing in your oath that is

00:38:55.520 you know

00:38:57.480 dishonest

00:38:58.200 getting back to the flags, one of the things I love

00:39:01.520 about Texas, and there's many things about Texas

00:39:03.540 But I tell you, you never forget you're in Texas, even in a residential neighborhood when you're driving around, because that Texas flag is everywhere.

00:39:10.880 And they do, for the most part, identify as Texas first, American second.

00:39:15.240 They don't necessarily have a big thriving secessionist movement, though they do have a little one going on there.

00:39:20.360 But they put that Texan pride first and they wear it front and center.

00:39:24.860 And often you'll see a Texan flag and an American flag.

00:39:27.120 But you really see that state flag in ways that, you know, I just came from the states.

00:39:31.380 I didn't see Arizona flags everywhere when I was in Arizona or California flags.

00:39:34.880 But when you're in Texas, you see that flag everywhere.

00:39:37.700 And we're seeing a little more of that in Alberta.

00:39:39.580 In fact, a lot more.

00:39:40.320 You see a lot more blue flags going on residential streets than you used to see.

00:39:43.840 It's turning into a different kind of symbol, and that does scare some Federalists.

00:39:47.020 And I think that's why they want to try and imply a little shame or just remind people,

00:39:51.560 maybe you shouldn't be flying that right now.

00:39:54.040 And I think it'll have the opposite effect. 0.96

00:39:55.920 But that's other people saying, you know, screw you.

00:39:58.660 I'm going out to buy two more off Amazon and run them up in front of my house. 0.73

00:40:01.760 Just want to give a quick plug to Cabinet Minister Todd Lowen.

00:40:05.220 He also made the trudge up Kilimanjaro.

00:40:07.880 Oh, okay.

00:40:09.360 But he's a little less surprising.

00:40:10.520 He is an outfitter and a big hunter and stuff.

00:40:16.420 Dimitri is a bit more of a city boy.

00:40:18.740 So, okay.

00:40:20.020 You know, this reminds me.

00:40:21.900 I'm not going to announce anything here.

00:40:23.720 but i think i want to run some kind of flag program i want to run a flag program here i'm

00:40:29.740 i'm gonna do something i'm gonna do something this is an announcement but mark this is uh this is

00:40:34.660 maybe uh this is the larvae it was two o'clock all right there we go all right nigel gory dave

00:40:42.920 thank you thanks parting shots oh geez okay well fine go ahead we gotta be short we're short on

00:40:51.060 time okay parting shot tomorrow night 6 45 p.m daniel smith addressing the uh the province you

00:40:58.200 can bet it's going to be on immigration and how alberta wants to tighten up the number of immigrants

00:41:03.700 coming here you can watch it uh on the western standard 6 45 tomorrow night do it daniel do it

00:41:12.320 you know what i'm talking about all right cory following up on that i've been hearing a lot on

00:41:16.320 the news about how calvary's had a record number of accidents a record number of fatalities on the

00:41:20.360 roads and now with some people including

00:41:21.860 Marcus saying we should bring back more

00:41:23.740 photo radar to fight it. One thing and I

00:41:26.700 drive a lot. I spend a lot of time on the

00:41:28.320 road in the city and out and this is

00:41:31.080 anecdotal but I tell you what when it

00:41:33.440 comes to winter driving conditions that

00:41:34.740 people having the hardest time with it

00:41:36.180 tend to be new Canadians you can tell

00:41:38.720 people not from winter countries and to

00:41:40.520 be fair after a couple years they might

00:41:41.860 be brilliant drivers it takes a little

00:41:43.440 bit of time to get used to driving in

00:41:45.780 that sort of condition it's a special

00:41:47.660 sort of skill but if we're really going

00:41:49.860 to address the issue grab a pair of knackers and point to where a lot of the problems are really

00:41:54.900 happening with winter driving accidents instead of thinking that sticking up some photo radar

00:41:59.640 thing in a construction zone is going to change it. Jeremy knows better he I remember him campaigning

00:42:05.120 against photo radar it was like that was a big wild rose thing back in the day it doesn't do

00:42:10.780 anything. It's a money grab. It's a money grab. If you're gonna be honest with it fine then put

00:42:13.980 him out and just say it's a money grant. Put a sign next to it.

00:42:15.660 Yeah, it's a driving tax.

00:42:17.720 Nigel? So, delighted

00:42:19.900 to see that Don Cherry is getting the

00:42:21.900 Order of Ontario.

00:42:24.000 I'd like to buy him a drink, but

00:42:25.800 who I'd really like to buy a drink for is the

00:42:27.680 guy who got him on the list to receive

00:42:30.160 the Order of Ontario. That was a good thing,

00:42:32.160 Doug. I don't know how that is, but

00:42:34.120 Order of Canada next, please.

00:42:37.580 Yeah.

00:42:37.800 Time's for an insurer for that. Well, if

00:42:39.620 he doesn't get it soon enough, maybe

00:42:41.740 he gets Order of Alberta.

00:42:43.980 Okay, not enough time for me, so we're going to pull it there. Nigel, Dave, Corey, and John running the show. Thank you very much. And thank all of you for joining us here today. Remember to support the work we're doing, go to westernstandard.news, click on subscribe. It's only $10 a month or $100 a year for unlimited access to all Western Standard content and to support the work that we are doing here. Thank you very much for your time today, and God bless.

00:43:13.980 We'll see you next time.

Western Standard - February 19, 2026

Western Standard projects a Liberal majority

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