Western Context

A rise in BC gang shootings leads to questions about police methods, 2 UCP MLAs leave the party, and the Liberals resurrect a month old gaffe as a distraction. Also, we discuss just what impacts Bill C-10 will have on Canadian internet.

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Duration: 56:18
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

“The key thing is they’ve got to stop treating these gangsters like they’re poor, misfit, misunderstood kids. They’re stone-cold killers. They should go to jail.” – Retired Vancouver Const. Doug Spencer on how to solve gang shootings

• Vancouver airport shooting victim was known target. Should police publicly identify high-risk gangsters?
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• Kenney says UCP needs to be ‘on the same team’ after vote to oust dissenters
• Liberal seek answers on naked photo of colleague, demand that Bloc MP testifies at committee
• Bill C-10 doesn’t pose free speech concern despite social media impact, justice minister finds
• Word of the Week: Trust

A new study tells us what pandemic responses are helpful or not, BC establishes its own sick pay program, and a tale of school violence shows the importance of facts. Also, Trudeau’s Bill C-10 will censor content that isn’t considered Canadian enough.

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Duration: 1:01:14
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

“These politicians in Ottawa really have no clue at all what they are doing. They don’t know what they’re regulating or whose freedoms they’re infringing. I noticed they didn’t have any online content creators at their hearings.” – Journalist and Youtube content creator J.J. McCullough on the Liberal’s controversial Bill C-10 limiting freedom of expression

• Staying 2 metres apart does little to limit indoor spread of COVID-19: study
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• With no help from feds, Premier John Horgan says B.C. working on its own sick-leave program
• Investigators say assault on 14-year-old Black boy was a ‘consensual’ fight that escalated
• Ottawa’s move to regulate video posts on YouTube and social media called ‘assault’ on free speech
• Word of the Week: Censorship

Canadian media companies get outwitted by tech companies, shortsighted mayors welcome Trudeau’s gun ban, and Albertan economists want a sales tax. Also, Trudeau is willingly complicit in China’s technological takeover of Canada.

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Duration: 52:43
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

“Ironic, isn’t it, that the prime minister is prepared to accuse his own country of genocide…but unwilling to accuse China of genocide when it’s clearly taking place.” – Garnett Genuis, Conservative Critic for Human Rights

• Facebook blocks Australian users from viewing or sharing news
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• Trudeau unveils details of ‘assault-style’ gun buyback program, municipal gun ban
• Trajectory is bad’: Expert calls for Alberta to consider introduction of sales tax, carbon tax
• Huawei Canada won’t condemn detention of 2 Michaels in China
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Canada’s premiers build unity against the carbon tax, Victoria’s plastic bag ban gets thrown in the trash, and Trudeau nominates an anti-pipeline candidate. Also, former Liberal minister John McCallum invites Chinese interference in our elections.

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Duration: 44:36
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Trudeau visits Alberta pipeline site, says national unity is not under threat
• Victoria’s plastic bag ban quashed by B.C. court
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• Trudeau says anti-pipeline candidate helps him hear ‘range of views’ — an absurd argument
• Beijing should avoid ‘punishing’ Canada over Huawei case, cautions Ottawa’s ex-ambassador to China
• Word of the Week: Interference