Western Context

The federal debt hits $1.2T with $343b spent just this past year, a tug of war arises in BC over police street checks, and a UCP bill reverts power given to unions by the NDP. Also, Trudeau and his finance minister engage in yet another ethics scandal.

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Duration: 1:00:55
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• The challenge of our lifetime’: Federal deficit to hit $343 billion this year
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• More than 70 organizations sign open letter calling for ban on police street checks in B.C.
• Union picketing and political campaigning curbed under proposed Alberta bill
• Maybe we should have been looking at WE Charity earlier
• Word of the Week: Snapshot

The media issues a trigger warning for the Canadian flag, Edmonton City Council wants to defund the police, and Horgan raises a panic in BC over the Alaska border exemption. Also, a Canadian renounces her Canadian citizenship under torture in China.

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Duration: 43:13
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• Canadian newspaper issues trigger warning over printing Canadian flag for Canada Day
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• Edmonton police face $11M budget cut amid calls to defund police
• Go straight home’: B.C. premier concerned Americans abusing border exemption
• Canadian sentenced to eight years in jail by China, renounces citizenship
• Word of the Week: Patriotism

Cancel culture strikes at UBC, the Alberta NDP calls referendums undemocratic, and Trudeau allowed disgraced MP Marwan Tabbara to run in 2019 despite allegations. Also, the media wants Canada to bend to the will of the Chinese government.

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Duration: 50:09
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• Michael Korenberg resigns as chair of UBC board of governors after he likes a tweet by Dinesh D’Souza
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• Alberta Opposition NDP label referendum bill a covert Jason Kenney power grab
• Liberals allowed MP Marwan Tabbara to run in 2019 despite sexual harassment investigation
• Feds could abandon Meng Wanzhou’s case now if they wanted to: ex-minister, lawyer
• Word of the Week: Cancel Culture

Trudeau loses out on the UN Security Council, the Alberta Fair Deal report is released, and China charges the two Michaels with espionage. Also, Jagmeet Singh allows Trudeau to shutter Parliament, and calls anyone who disagrees with him a racist.

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Duration: 56:45
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• Canada loses out to Ireland and Norway in Security Council vote
• China Indicts 2 Canadians on Spying Charges, Escalating Dispute
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• Alberta’s Fair Deal report recommends referendum on equalization, replacing RCMP
• Trudeau’s discarding of democracy only outstripped by Singh’s
• Word of the Week: Indictment

An Ontario Liberal MP is criminally charged, Vancouver and Edmonton vie to be NHL hub cities, and Trudeau’s foreign affairs Minister may be compromised by the Bank of China. Also, Trudeau’s show of protest solidarity contradicts health orders as well as logic.

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Duration: 50:35
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• Ontario MP allegedly watched home for three months before arrest there for assault, break and enter, harassment
• Vancouver ready to welcome NHL after B.C. premier announces revised quarantine plan
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• Foreign Affairs Minister has two mortgages with state-run Bank of China
• A hollow gesture’: Social justice activist calls on Trudeau to do more than kneel with protesters
• Word of the Week: Vacuous

Canada’s economic stats are much worse than reported, Canadians are told we can do better on racism, and Doug Ford appoints Jane Philpott to the pandemic response team. Also, the NS shooter’s illegal guns lead to an expanded gun ban list from the RCMP.

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Duration: 46:15
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• Canada unexpectedly adds 289,600 jobs on gradual reopening
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• Trudeau says anti-black racism is alive in Canada and ‘we need to be better’ 
• Ontario appoints Jane Philpott to lead pandemic data effort
• RCMP confirms N.S. gunman illegally acquired all 5 guns used in mass shooting
• Word of the Week: Programming

Trudeau and the NDP collude to go on summer vacation from Parliament, it’s a great time to get the Alberta economy going again, and vandalizing cars in BC is against our Canadian principles. Also, the federal government should stop appeasing China.

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Duration: 52:59
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• Liberals to Parliament: We’ll govern without you, thanks
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• Alberta government stands by comments on COVID-19 pandemic being ‘great time’ to build pipelines
• Nasty notes left for drivers with Alberta licence in B.C. as COVID-19 continues
• Digital Government Minister distances herself from online account that promoted fundraiser to sue journalist
• Word of the Week: Hysteria

Our political parties are being subsidized by taxpayers, BC’s social programs are put on hold, and Edmonton might shut down its transit system for now. Also, Theresa Tam finally agrees that our border response could have been much more proactive.

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Duration: 48:22
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• Liberal, Conservative and New Democratic parties claim the federal wage subsidy to pay party workers amid COVID-19
• B.C. could ‘go it alone’ on paid sick leave if feds won’t take the lead, John Horgan says
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• Edmonton could shut down public transit for the summer, mayor says
• Canada waited too long to close borders: Tam
• Word of the Week: Subsidy

A lack of clear messaging from the federal government stokes pandemic fears, the BC government will partially open schools on June 1st, and the Chinese government goes directly after Jason Kenney. Also, Bryan Adams learns the dangers of social media.

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Duration: 50:32
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• Business and health leaders accuse Trudeau of ‘shifting the goalposts’ for reopening economy
• B.C. schools to open on optional, part-time basis June 1
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• China hits back at Alberta Premier Jason Kenney after he called for a ‘reckoning’
• Bryan Adams’s Instagram post draws rebukes from Chinese-Canadian organization, social media users
• Word of the Week: Lockdown

Canada’s unemployed may number much higher than reported, Irving Oil sources Canadian oil overseas from coast to coast, while May and Blanchet decry our most important industry. Also, renovation costs to a government farmhouse and cottage are hidden.

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Duration: 53:36
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• Canada’s jobless rate soars to 13 per cent in April
• Irving Oil finally gets approval to source Alberta oil — but through the Panama Canal
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• Kenney fires back at May and Blanchet, calls comments about oil industry ‘un-Canadian’
• Taxpayers spend $2.5-million for reconstruction of guest cottage at PM’s Harrington Lake retreat
• Word of the Week: Circuitous