Western Standard - WS reporter Jonathan Bradley on attending his first drag show

00:00:00.000 I appreciate you coming in so we can chat.

00:00:01.920 You know, we like talking about those.

00:00:03.560 You did something that's a little different last weekend.

00:00:05.560 I'll start with that one right off the bat.

00:00:07.460 You went to, I believe it was at Twisted Element?

00:00:10.860 Yeah, it was at Twisted Element.

00:00:11.700 Okay, so just so people know, Twisted Element is a gay bar in Calgary.

00:00:15.100 It's a well-established one.

00:00:16.300 And you attended a family drag event.

00:00:19.780 Yes.

00:00:20.980 There were children as young as two watching these drag performers get up, dance around.

00:00:25.920 One drag queen stripped off her top clothes as she was performing. 1.00

00:00:28.640 It was rather disturbing to watch.

00:00:31.840 I've necessarily felt uncomfortable at times.

00:00:35.020 That's, you know, unfortunate.

00:00:36.720 I mean, it's one thing to have a drag event where you've got trans people or drag people around, 0.84

00:00:41.280 even if there's kids there.

00:00:43.260 I mean, I don't think that's necessarily bad.

00:00:44.960 But when it's a drag show, there's a degree of sexualizing. 1.00

00:00:48.460 It's more of a stripper mentality or burlesque anyways and things like that, 1.00

00:00:52.060 which I don't think, you know, we should be bringing young kids to a straight burlesque show either.

00:00:56.660 Absolutely.

00:00:57.020 And it was disturbing to watch these performers.

00:01:00.180 Some of them were even, like, doing some rather sexualized dance moves.

00:01:03.540 There was one point as well where I was kind of disturbed where the intermission was a drag story time.

00:01:08.560 And it was one of the drag king read the kids this book about this,

00:01:13.020 I think it was like a three or four-year-old child who ended up transitioning.

00:01:15.080 And three and four-year-old children, like, sometimes think they're superheroes or princesses.

00:01:21.040 So making a gender transition like that is rather severe. 0.99

00:01:25.180 Yeah.

00:01:25.480 I mean, just let them be kids.

00:01:27.060 You know, I mean, I've always been, well, not always.

00:01:29.240 I had to grow up.

00:01:30.080 I mean, I, but I mean, I'm very tolerant.

00:01:33.440 If a person's trans, great. 1.00

00:01:34.800 Identify how you will.

00:01:35.880 If that's what makes you happy. 0.95

00:01:37.400 You know, gay, lesbian. 0.99

00:01:39.200 Your business, bi. 0.92

00:01:40.880 I don't care if you're an adult and everybody's consenting.

00:01:43.220 But there's that first part, the adult.

00:01:44.640 Well, and now it just seems we found all the rights and brought them to a great spot.

00:01:49.900 But there's the activist element that just has to push it now towards the kids.

00:01:53.360 And that's where a lot of people are starting to get upset, even the trans community.

00:01:56.520 Yes, there are many people in the LGBT community who are offended by some of the more extreme elements in their activism.

00:02:04.140 And you did have that at the end of your story.

00:02:05.780 I believe one drag performer who, you know, was speaking on that sort of thing, saying, that was Kitty Demure, saying, you know, people stop taking your kids to these drag shows.

00:02:15.300 And this is a drag queen. 1.00

00:02:16.440 She's very supportive of this.

00:02:17.960 Just don't bring the kids. 0.98

00:02:20.200 Yes, she talked about how a drag queen is kind of like a porn star or stripper. 1.00

00:02:24.880 And she's like, you wouldn't want your kid idolizing one of those.

00:02:27.140 So why would you want them idolizing a drag queen? 1.00

00:02:29.200 Yeah.

00:02:29.480 And likewise, there's another one.

00:02:30.740 And I'm forgetting her name offhand.

00:02:32.140 She's a very outspoken conservative trans person. 0.94

00:02:34.880 What's that?

00:02:35.240 Lady Maga?

00:02:36.180 No, not that one.

00:02:37.220 But I think there's a few conservative trans people out there anyways.

00:02:40.100 Blair White?

00:02:40.600 Blair White.

00:02:41.020 There we go.

00:02:42.080 And she's made a great statement.

00:02:43.880 I'm going to paraphrase it and probably ruin it.

00:02:46.280 But in the sense of, you know, you wouldn't look at a run-of-the-mill stripper or porn star spinning around a pole as an example of a good woman.

00:02:54.660 Why would you look at the ones who are performing at some of these shows as necessarily good examples for children of trans people?

00:03:00.640 Well, even if a person's coming up trans, it doesn't mean they necessarily want to be a stripper and things like that.

00:03:05.380 But they just seem to keep pushing that limit.

00:03:07.420 And it's frustrating.

00:03:09.020 Yes.

00:03:09.980 Was it good otherwise, though?

00:03:11.040 Good drinks, service?

00:03:12.300 I mean, the shows, they used to do them down in a place called Boys Town in Calgary, like, I hate to say, you know, like 30 years ago.

00:03:18.140 And it was a popular thing.

00:03:19.460 But it was unimaginable that you would bring kids to a drag show, that's all.

00:03:23.220 But, I mean, they were actually events that people had a lot of fun at and good entertainment and socializing.

00:03:28.460 Was it, aside from the family aspect, a decent show?

00:03:32.000 Yeah, it was all right.

00:03:32.960 Not your thing, necessarily.

00:03:33.900 Not my thing, really.

00:03:35.980 No, that's fine.

00:03:37.100 But we've just come to some crazy times.

00:03:40.480 I mean, and again, you know, it's a twisted element.

00:03:42.900 It's their place.

00:03:43.740 Good on it.

00:03:44.640 It just doesn't have to be a family event, necessarily.

00:03:48.320 That's all.

00:03:49.460 I don't know.

00:03:50.460 Like I said, there's a lot of value in drag shows. 0.92

00:03:52.280 I thought they were great in the past.

00:03:53.520 But I never considered taking my kids to the park.

00:03:57.840 So, oh, well, whatever.

00:04:00.900 Okay, let's talk about some other stories.

00:04:02.400 So, what have you been working on this week?

00:04:04.000 So, one big story we had come out earlier this week was I filed an ATIP request for your listeners who aren't familiar.

00:04:10.040 ATIP stands for Access to Information and Privacy.

00:04:12.840 It's where you can get secret government information.

00:04:15.040 All you have to do is basically pay the $5 fee, and then the government goes through and gives you a file.

00:04:20.180 And we obtained a Western Standard obtained a file showing that the RCMP apparently only paid $527 in overtime pay during the Freedom Convoy.

00:04:29.240 Anyway, that seems rather unrealistic, the government saying otherwise, but I'm pretty sure that it just made no sense.

00:04:36.920 Yeah, I mean, you know, it was a big action.

00:04:39.580 There were a lot of staff on hand, you know, we're to believe they only had eight-hour days throughout the course of that entire thing.

00:04:46.840 Yeah, and it was funny seeing that they said, oh, $527 in overtime pay.

00:04:50.560 They did say in the ATIP request that they spent, it was $1.6 million on transportation, which seems reasonable, given that all sorts of RCMP officers came in.

00:05:02.120 And I think they spent something like $13,000 on accommodations, which could seem practical.

00:05:07.280 And then it was like $6,000 on, like, food, which kind of seems a little low.

00:05:11.060 But, I mean, then again, these were just early government figures.

00:05:13.360 But it was definitely interesting seeing that the RCMP had this information and was willing to give it out to me.

00:05:17.300 Yeah, and there were some other things, I think, that came up, though.

00:05:20.840 There were some, like, buffets that they attended and things that were pretty expensive that got expensive.

00:05:24.660 You've got a lot of people traveling, but those can add up.

00:05:27.300 It just seems a little odd, though, when you're that many people and there just isn't that much overtime.

00:05:36.180 I've got a feeling the compensation, because you're asking a lot for someone to travel across the country and spend a couple of weeks somewhere.

00:05:40.940 They probably called it something else in the compensation than, you know, a travel bonus or extreme circumstance.

00:05:46.640 Or I have no idea what they'd label it.

00:05:48.480 Another story I did recently that your listeners might be interested to know was I was going through some government expense reports from the Alberta government.

00:05:54.920 And I found that Alberta UCP leadership candidate Lula here spent more than $1,000 on pies for a function.

00:06:02.000 She said this function was for hospitality purposes.

00:06:05.020 But it was rather interesting seeing that she spent more than $1,000 on pies for an event.

00:06:09.020 Yeah, that's a good chunk of pies going on.

00:06:14.200 And hospitality, you know, this isn't the government's role to expense these sorts of things.

00:06:20.300 And if it's a party thing, which I think this one wasn't, but, I mean, she should be coming out of her constituency's pocket, not the government's one.

00:06:27.140 But they expense some of the most bizarre things.

00:06:28.840 Yeah, like I was digging through some other candidates' expense reports just to see if anyone had anything else that was rather large.

00:06:35.780 Pretty much everyone else was clean.

00:06:37.040 You know, there was like a few here and there where someone was like, oh, I spent a few hundred dollars for my staff on coffee and tea.

00:06:41.640 Or I spent a few hundred dollars on candy for this event.

00:06:44.260 But if you ever want to have, like, see your jaw drop, definitely go through some expense reports.

00:06:49.800 You'll find some rather shocking findings.

00:06:52.600 Well, yeah, thanks to watch.

00:06:54.320 You know, and this comes up, I guess, you know, over the course of a leadership race that's going on right now.

00:07:01.540 And basically, I mean, the other candidates, some of the advantages of ones like, I guess, Brian Jean and Daniel Smith who weren't in office very long.

00:07:09.560 So they won't have records that somebody could pick.

00:07:11.600 Presumably they haven't done anything wrong anyways.

00:07:13.020 But you didn't find anything that untoward from the rest of them then?

00:07:15.300 No, nothing really.

00:07:16.380 That's good.

00:07:16.840 I mean, it's good you see you got public disclosure of these expenses because, I mean, that's part of what, you know, gets them.

00:07:22.020 I mean, we lost a municipal politician in Calgary because he ridiculously expensed a bunch of things.

00:07:27.860 And it was to the point of him getting charged for it, I believe, in the end.

00:07:31.100 So what else have you been working on there?

00:07:34.000 Well, right now I've been working on a whole bunch of stories.

00:07:37.500 I'm going to be speaking with a Saskatoon father probably today or tomorrow.

00:07:42.000 His son was refused health care because the dad wouldn't allow the son to take a PCR test to get into the facility.

00:07:50.000 I saw it on Twitter and I followed up with the person who posted and we're going to be having a conversation soon.

00:07:55.980 Yeah.

00:07:56.440 And I see other things.

00:07:57.600 So we got an advocacy group.

00:07:59.140 They're looking for testimonies for a trial.

00:08:01.180 I mean, this is a, well, they're saying COVID crimes against humanity.

00:08:05.440 There's a pretty loaded premise going on.

00:08:08.280 Yes, that's the Canadian COVID Care Alliance.

00:08:10.580 They're one of their board members, Philip Oldfield, I believe that's his name.

00:08:17.700 I don't have it in front of me.

00:08:18.920 He said that he wants to file this lawsuit with the International Criminal Court to try and hold provincial governments and the Canadian government accountable for alleged crimes against humanity.

00:08:29.180 He said he was looking for people who had experienced serious harm or injury or just negative side effects from like vaccine mandates or COVID restrictions, things like that.

00:08:42.720 And yeah, he, it's on their website.

00:08:45.680 So you can definitely check it out if you're interested.

00:08:47.000 All right, well, let's see what else we got.

00:08:50.120 Yeah, this is the Campaign Life Coalition and the Wilberforce Project.

00:08:53.480 I mean, this happens with every leadership campaign.

00:08:56.700 They're unapologetic, you know, basically anti-abortion or socially conservative groups are speaking up in the UCP leadership race on which candidates they may or may not prefer.

00:09:09.000 Yes, so Campaign Life Coalition said their top choice is Todd Lowen because he's a pro-life Christian and they said that they're, they like Travis Haves as well, but they said that they were a little concerned about some of his recent comments about abortion.

00:09:24.120 And Campaign Life Coalition said that they wouldn't support any of the other candidates because they're for abortion.

00:09:31.780 Wilberforce Project was a little different.

00:09:33.060 They said that they were endorsing Todd Lowen and Travis Haves and they said rank them one or two however you want.

00:09:39.280 And they also said that they like some of the other candidates who had more socially conservative policies but didn't really identify as them.

00:09:44.980 And they are opposed to Leela here and Daniel Smith becoming leader because they're pro-choice.

00:09:51.100 Yeah, well, I mean, Smith's always unapologetically been, you know, a libertarian rather than a classical small C conservative.

00:09:56.920 But one policy, I think, from her platform that would appeal to social conservatives is her plan to add COVID-19 vaccine status and political affiliation to the Alberta Human Rights Act.

00:10:07.920 And that could help social conservatives?

00:10:10.220 It could help, yeah, everybody.

00:10:11.780 I mean, basically with choice on medical status not being something you can discriminate against somebody on.

00:10:17.620 And I think it's a very fair thing to put in.

00:10:21.440 You know, as we were talking about before with the guest I had from Valor Law and Slobodian that Linda had been interviewing her, they had taken people and publicly, I mean, around their workplace, shamed them.

00:10:32.480 They had pressured them.

00:10:33.800 They'd exposed their medical status to co-workers.

00:10:35.980 If this had been almost any other kind of thing in a workplace of a discrimination, there would have been something under a Human Rights Act.

00:10:41.080 And there's nothing to protect people for medical status.

00:10:43.760 It's time to put that in there.

00:10:45.000 Of course, we definitely saw serious violations of medical freedom in the last year with vaccine passports and vaccine mandates.

00:10:52.100 It's rather talking to see that people would be done at entry to a restaurant or a movie theater because they wouldn't take vaccines.

00:10:58.420 So what else we got here?

00:10:59.780 The former Supreme Court justice.

00:11:01.200 This has been a big one.

00:11:02.120 We haven't written a lot on it because sports is kind of a bit of our fringe.

00:11:04.560 But it's big news is that Hockey Canada review that's going on right now.

00:11:08.420 And it looks like they're pulling out some heavy guns, at least, to try and review this thing and try and sort this mess up.

00:11:14.360 Yes, former Supreme Court justice Thomas Cromwell will be leading the independent review.

00:11:19.260 And Hockey Canada said that Cromwell will be looking at their structures and systems.

00:11:23.900 They want to get their structures and systems up to the caliber of similar national sport organizations.

00:11:30.520 And he's going to be assisted by these two lawyers, I can't remember, from the law firm that they're going to help with.

00:11:34.360 And all this stems from Hockey Canada with all the sex scandals and the sexual assault cover-ups.

00:11:39.940 Yeah, well, we've got a lot of stories on the go.

00:11:44.020 Let's talk a little health care for a moment here.

00:11:46.280 That was an Ontario story, but we're seeing this breaking out everywhere.

00:11:49.800 I mean, this was on a poll that showed seven in ten Ontario nurses felt they were unable to provide adequate care.

00:11:55.320 Yep, they talked about in the study how many nurses were feeling burned out or were missing meals to, you know, fulfill extra responsibilities, things like that. 1.00

00:12:07.840 My best friend actually is a registered nurse at SickKids Hospital, and she was telling me all about how they've been really dealing with a whole lot of pressure lately because of the staff shortages, since many Ontario hospitals have vaccine mandates in place.

00:12:20.200 And the vaccine mandates are strict, like, they don't even allow religious exemptions in many cases.

00:12:24.580 It's the only two exemptions you can really get are if you have a heart problem or if you're allergic to the vaccine.

00:12:30.820 Yeah, so, I mean, that's been a contributing factor as well within things.

00:12:35.320 But, I mean, the problem we're seeing everywhere, everywhere.

00:12:37.500 I mean, we're seeing the emergency care center in Calgary is reducing hours, and in Ontario, they're shutting things down.

00:12:43.640 Maritimes, I saw some hospitals cutting.

00:12:45.500 And, I mean, it's funny, we see Rachel Notley up there screaming and howling, and it's Kenny's fault, it's Kenny's fault, it's the UCP's fault.

00:12:49.940 Well, no, it's everywhere in Canada.

00:12:53.580 It's the system.

00:12:54.700 When are they going to clue in, I think?

00:12:56.260 You know, guys, it's the system.

00:12:57.960 It's not like anybody cuts spending either.

00:12:59.340 We've increased spending this last two years on health more than anybody ever imagined, yet it's getting worse.

00:13:03.800 I did two stories recently.

00:13:05.120 One of them was about the Calgary Hospital that was cutting hours to their urgent care center, and the other was the Airdrie Hospital.

00:13:12.840 I think, I can't remember the exact title.

00:13:14.740 They're closing on weekends in the evenings because of staffing shortages.

00:13:18.400 Yeah, and it's happening all over, but the discussion just seems to be the wrong way.

00:13:23.360 They're always, well, we just need more money.

00:13:24.540 We need more money.

00:13:25.200 Well, we've already spent more money.

00:13:26.980 That's why you need to have private health care.

00:13:29.520 Well, that's why some of us certainly advocate for, at least some systemic reform.

00:13:34.260 And we've got to change the way it's being done.

00:13:36.400 It's just not working.

00:13:37.460 I attended Daniel Smith's campaign rally, it was about two-ish, three-ish weeks ago, and she spoke about the health care and how it was a problem.

00:13:47.140 And she said, one way that we could solve this is by repealing the vaccine mandate, which the next day the Alberta Health Services ended up doing.

00:13:54.240 I mean, heck, she had a premonition probably about that because she said that many health care workers were just getting up and leaving the province.

00:14:02.820 At her rally, she spoke about a doctor who she met.

00:14:05.600 He was from South Africa, and he got up and left and went back home because he was tired of dealing with the vaccine mandate.

00:14:12.080 Yeah, well, and another one I was talking, it wasn't the vaccine mandate, but it was just our system in general.

00:14:16.960 I talked about that on the show yesterday.

00:14:18.240 He's a fellow looking to come here, a nurse from Croatia, and he's been trying for two years to get in on Ontario and the bureaucracy and the applications.

00:14:26.560 And then he finally threw his hands up and said, ah, screw it, I'm going to Texas.

00:14:29.400 So, I mean, you know, we've got a lot going on that's keeping us from getting good qualified people coming in to help serve these staffing shortages right now.

00:14:37.700 I mean, I'm from Ontario, and we're well known for our long hospital wait times.

00:14:41.220 I haven't been inside a hospital in Alberta yet.

00:14:43.800 Hopefully, it won't have to be, but, yeah, in Ontario, some of the wait times are really bad.

00:14:47.780 Yeah, young and healthy.

00:14:49.000 I mean, we always want to avoid a hospital whenever possible.

00:14:51.280 You know, nobody really ends up there if they wanted to, but, I mean, that's something.

00:14:55.560 I think it's always a top story in every provincial election, always the top issue, anyways, if they pull.

00:15:01.140 Health care is always in the top two, and they're going to have to deal with that.

00:15:05.980 These leadership candidates are going to have to deal with it, and they're going to have to deal with it going into the general election.

00:15:10.080 I mean, the next Alberta election is coming up in April, and we'll find it.

00:15:16.060 We'll see who the next premier is, and, I mean, some of the candidates have really interesting proposals with health care, like Daniel Smith wants to create health spending accounts and give $300 to everyone who, every Albertan, to use on things like psychology, dentistry, chiropractic.

00:15:29.740 I think that could be a worthwhile idea, and it might allow her to pick up some momentum and maybe even win. 1.00

00:15:35.720 And with some people, I mean, some of the fear, too, is, I mean, people have built this sacred cow out of the health care system.

00:15:43.080 And I can tell you right now, I know how, you know, the campaigning works, and Rachel Notley and the others are going to be saying, you know, assuming, say, Smith won.

00:15:50.240 Well, they'll be saying it about no matter who wins.

00:15:52.560 As long as they're conserved, they're going to say, they're going to tear down and Americanize the Canadian system, and you're going to die if you don't have a high enough credit limit.

00:15:59.620 And you'll have to sew up your own wounds and, you know, set your own leg.

00:16:04.360 And, you know, we know that rhetoric's coming, but at least, you know, it doesn't always have to be effective.

00:16:10.240 I'm kind of impressed in seeing somebody challenging it, even if you know you're going to get the blowback.

00:16:15.100 I think it's time they do, because they're going to get the blowback no matter what they say. 0.96

00:16:17.780 Yeah, like, regardless, whoever wins the Alberta NDP will definitely portray the winner as some evil, racist, bigoted monster.

00:16:25.260 Whether that be even, whether that be Daniel Smith or Travis Taves or even someone like Rajansani, who's a person of color.

00:16:33.600 Yeah, they only have so many lines, it seems, in opposition.

00:16:37.460 As we watch this develop, I just hope, I want to see from some of the other candidates in this race, because, you know, we've both been watching it.

00:16:44.180 Yes.

00:16:44.680 And the other ones are all being guarded.

00:16:46.880 They won't touch health care if they can at all help it, because they know it's a trap.

00:16:50.100 Guys, get a little innovative.

00:16:51.580 Talk about doing something.

00:16:52.500 The status quo isn't enough.

00:16:53.500 It doesn't even have to necessarily agree with me with privatization, but show some courage.

00:16:57.140 Like, you've got, clearly the status quo isn't cutting it, but none of them have the courage, really, to shake it up.

00:17:01.560 Yeah, privatizing health care is definitely a touchy subject, because then you have all the left-wing politicians screaming, being like, oh, conservatives want people to die, even though people are dying, waiting for health care right now.

00:17:13.240 But it's free to die waiting for health care right now.

00:17:15.060 Yeah, free to die.

00:17:16.120 So you don't have to worry about getting bankrupted. 0.98

00:17:18.840 All right.

00:17:19.520 Well, I think we kind of covered most of what you're on.

00:17:21.200 And I know, as I said, you've got a lot on the go.

00:17:23.300 You're putting a lot of those stories out there.

00:17:25.400 And I'm loving Calgary.

00:17:26.500 It's an amazing city.

00:17:27.720 Yeah.

00:17:28.000 And there's some other stuff.

00:17:29.020 So you attended the Stampede.

00:17:30.760 You've taken in some of these Western events.

00:17:32.920 You know, it wasn't just the drag show that I did.

00:17:35.280 I guess they didn't endear themselves as much to you as they should be.

00:17:37.840 I went to the Calgary Stampede.

00:17:39.420 I got to watch rodeo events for the first time.

00:17:41.660 My favorite was bull riding.

00:17:43.020 It was really cool to see if the cowboys bucked off the bulls.

00:17:46.360 I also had the, some of your listeners might not like this, I had the mealworm hot dog at the Calgary Stampede.

00:17:52.400 It was pretty tasty.

00:17:53.240 Don't worry.

00:17:53.940 Klaus Schwab didn't encourage me to do it.

00:17:56.360 Yeah.

00:17:56.760 Well, again, it falls into everything else.

00:17:58.900 If you're a consenting adult, you can eat whatever the hell you like.

00:18:01.140 And that's part of the fun with it.

00:18:02.460 I remember years ago, they did the Scorpion pizzas and all sorts of gnarly things.

00:18:07.320 But just as, I don't think they're ever going to turn into bestsellers.

00:18:10.820 But, you know, it's just part of the whole.

00:18:13.500 Yeah.

00:18:13.800 It was similar to the Canadian National Exhibition, which is our big festival in Arby Fair in Toronto.

00:18:19.400 It usually happens towards the end of the summer.

00:18:21.540 And they usually have all sorts of, like, wacky food.

00:18:23.620 They don't have any rodeo events. 0.74

00:18:24.560 So this was definitely a first for me.

00:18:26.060 It was really cool being an Ontario boy to see cowboys, you know, riding around their horses.

00:18:30.580 Yeah.

00:18:30.800 Like the one out there, I mean, people don't necessarily all dress up Western around the whole city and everything during that period either.

00:18:36.100 I mean, that's the thing with the Stampede.

00:18:37.100 It's different.

00:18:37.600 People who haven't been here before realize, like, the whole city goes wild for a week, you know?

00:18:40.760 I mean, we're allowed to come to work in jeans for a week.

00:18:43.660 And, you know, they paint up the fronts.

00:18:45.540 Every bar turns into a Western bar, at least for one week.

00:18:48.780 It's a different sort of thing for people if they haven't been to it.

00:18:51.360 Yeah.

00:18:51.460 I went to the Calgary Tower a few weeks ago.

00:18:53.520 That was also pretty cool.

00:18:54.660 I loved looking out the view and seeing all over the city.

00:18:59.360 Yeah.

00:19:00.100 Well, right on.

00:19:01.300 Well, thank you for coming in to talk to us today in person.

00:19:04.320 Thank you.

00:19:04.580 You've been on the show before, but not face-to-face.

00:19:07.880 So I'll let you get back into that newsroom.

00:19:09.560 I'm sure Dave's got a whole list of things he wants to get you on next.

00:19:12.200 Have a good day.

00:19:13.840 You bet.

00:19:14.480 So that is Jonathan Bradley.

00:19:15.820 Yes, he's come all the way out from Ontario to write for us out here.

00:19:18.980 Of course, you've got readers and viewers from all across the country out here.

00:19:24.220 And as you can see, he's written stories on things that have happened in Ontario.

00:19:27.300 And a lot of it now, he's out here in Calgary, a lot of the Alberta beat, and going out in person and checking things out.

00:19:32.220 Like I said, I don't have a problem with drag shows. 1.00

00:19:35.120 They're fine.

00:19:35.960 But just, I don't know how family they can be, you know?

Western Standard - August 05, 2022

WS reporter Jonathan Bradley on attending his first drag show

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