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A family from China is tracked for money laundering, Edmonton needs to come up with a transit safety plan, and Poilievre fights off the little coalition of Charest and Brown. Also, the media and government imports the US gun control issue once more.

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“We need that full system of justice to come together to affect the required change to keep our communities safe. I think we have the laws on the books but we need the system (to act more strongly)” – Calgary Deputy Police Chief Paul Cook on the current gun laws in Canada.

Duration: 51:12
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Luxury mansions. Millions in suspicious bank transfers. And concern that a Chinese businessman accused of bribery helped froth Canada’s housing market
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• Alberta justice minister demands Edmonton mayor create safety plan for downtown and transit
• Little coalition’ of Charest and Brown spar with Poilievre during French-language leadership debate
• Trudeau signals new gun-control changes coming; here’s what the Liberals have promised
• Word of the Week: Kamikaze

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

Economic migrants are costing us almost $400M, GM is closing its auto plant in Oshawa, and Amarjeet Sohi “agrees” with pro-pipeline protestors. Also, Trudeau’s government stalls a probe into money laundering as a Liberal MP has a gambling problem.

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Duration: 48:43
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Irregular migrants on track to cost Canada almost $400 million, watchdog says
• GM closing all operations in Oshawa, Ont.: sources
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• ‘We agree with them’: Sohi on pro-pipeline protest
• Secret police study finds crime networks could have laundered over $1B through Vancouver homes in 2016
• Word of the Week: Doublespeak

Chrystia Freeland takes a break from lying on the floor to negotiate metal tariffs, the NDP hypocritically believe Kenney is dropping his mask, and allegations surface of vote buying in Vancouver. Also, Jihadi Jack wants to return to Canada.

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Duration: 53:07
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• She’s way out of her league’: Steel exec slams Freeland’s handling of tariff fight
• UCP leader finally dropping the mask on his true beliefs, NDP minister says
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• Officials investigating alleged vote buying in Vancouver, Richmond and Burnaby
• Jihadi Jack wants to live in Canada. Here’s what officials are doing for ISIS fighters in Syria
• Word of the Week: Jihadi

Trudeau shuffles his cabinet and creates a border security minister, many provinces now oppose Trudeau’s carbon tax, and Alberta’s NDP is equalizing and diversifying K-4 education. Also, Vancouver’s False Creek is teeming with raw sewage and E coli.

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Duration: 40:49
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• Trudeau cabinet shuffle brings new faces, several changes for run-up to 2019 campaign
• Trudeau’s carbon tax looks pretty much dead now that most provinces are out
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• In new social studies curriculum, there’s no such things as Albertans
• Call for clean swimming water in Vancouver’s False Creek falls flat
• Word of the Week: Sanitary

Alberta could shut off oil to BC resulting in a market shock, Edmonton’s LRT project cost jumps by $440M, StatsCan reports 15k more jobs while ignoring 39k full time job losses, and Jagmeet Singh walks a fine line on political violence.

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Duration: 42:52
Hosts: Shane and Patrick

• How Alberta could sow gas price Armageddon in Vancouver
• Projected cost of Edmonton’s Valley Line West LRT jumps by $440M
• We lost 39,000 full-time jobs, not that Stats Canada will tell you that
• Jagmeet Singh attended 2016 seminar with Sikh youth leader who advocated political violence
• Word of the Week: Talking points

On this first episode of The Right Side we discuss the future of democracy in Canada, unity in Alberta, and what budget deficits mean for each and every citizen.

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Duration: 32:48

• Most Canadians like current voting system, Liberals’ electoral reform survey finds
• Official Government of Canada Report
• Justin Trudeau the Boy Scout must settle into Donald Trump’s world
• Wildrose leader Brian Jean “prepared to stop down” and run for a merged Alberta conservative party
• Message from Brian Jean on Consolidating Conservatives (YouTube)
• Vancouver set to lose more gas stations amid boom in real estate
• Feds post another monthly deficit as 2016-17 deficit hits $12.7B after 8 months
• Former Prime Minister Stephen Harper forecasting tiny deficits.

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