Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 135

Episode Date: November 29, 2024

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We all appreciate the guy who brings a case of donuts into work every once in a while. And it's awesome and it's wonderful. But here's the thing. If you're going to be the last guy to get the donut, that's fine. That's just how it landed. Take that box of donuts and put it in the damn garbage so that I don't finish some fucking 13-hour day, walk into the break room with my stomach eating my goddamn ribs. Take one look and go, oh, thank Christ, there's donuts here.

open it up and am absolutely crushed on the inside. You don't like that, too? It was just the worst feeling ever. Actually, the one that comes to mind is the pizza box, you know? And the next time we do live election coverage, I'm going to make sure that I have an empty pizza box just for you, just for you. Oh, yeah, that's great. I love the way the mic's sitting in front of your shirt,

so it says Ron Sharpenes Iron. Ron does sharpen iron, all right? Oh, man. How's Tuesday doing this week? Oh, Tuesday's is a little bit, a little bit beat down, a little bit tired. You know, it's been one of those weeks where just you get home from work just in time to have one beer and go to bed. And then you get up at 4.30 in the morning and go do it again. And you think like, man, wouldn't it be nice if I had one of those jobs where you could have a beer or two while you're doing it?

like a bartender or a teacher or the leader of the green party in Canada. I was going to slide in the podcast host. But hey, that's me. Yes, that too. Welcome to Mashup 135 folks. Oh, I'm doing great on this side. I got Christmas shows starting tonight back to back. So I'm my own sort of stressed out right now.

I walked in here about 98 seconds before we started, which is always fun. And I got lots going on today as we have dueling pianos. coming to Lloyd Minster. And we got two sold those shows. So hopefully those go off to hit. Is it a duel to the death? It is. Yes.

It's a musical duel to the death. Yes. It should be interesting. Mashup 135, folks. We're here. We're making it work. Happy Airborne Friday to Jamie Sinclair and the boys. You know,

I was just talking to Jamie yesterday. And I got some, I think, next week I have Rod Giltaka on from the CCFR. and I think there's going to be some interesting things coming to Calgary close to the Cornerstone Forum that's going to have maybe possibly tie a couple organizations together which would be a lot of fun. That's all I can say right now because we don't officially have it confirmed. Leave us all dangling on that. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. All right. And while we're talking about everything, if you guys have any community events you want to put out in the community notes, have them ready for the end of the show. And new theme song, okay? I keep getting text about this of like people given. I might have an idea about that,

but I'm not going to say a damn thing about it till later. You know, just like how you just did. Oh. Well, I'm going to say this, okay, to the lovely people who are texting me,

saying we should use anything from the tragically hip to the ACDC, to the on and on and on. What we want is somebody from, I don't know, Western Canada, maybe with a new hip jingle that mashes in the mashup and, I've had some people using AI to try and do some things. So shout out to Peter.

That's been interesting. Just throwing it out there. Just throwing it out there to the mashup universe that we are looking for something that isn't M&M anymore because of obvious reasons. And I don't know, two weeks in a row, two weeks in a row. Tews is correcting himself. Two's, two's has a correction to make. And my big rant about how Calgary spent a whole bunch of stupid, goddamn money on all sorts of weird, dumb shit, I said that they got Dr. Quinn Medicine woman herself,

Sigourney Weaver, to design a sculpture. And of course, everybody knows that Sigourney Weaver is from aliens and Ghostbusters. And it was Jane Seymour, who was Dr. Quinn Medicine woman. It was just a Freudian slip because at any given moment in time, obviously I'm going to be thinking about Sigourney Weaver because she's just amazing. I was sitting there last week going, that doesn't make any sense. But I was like, wait a second, maybe I'm wrong. And I forgot to go check it.

So I'm glad you checked yourself or I'm glad somebody called you out on it because I did think that last. Nobody called me out on it. You said it and I was going to go later on you like. Yeah, that's it. That's a oops. Oops. Yeah, absolutely. Lots of people getting in on this value for value idea.

I'm just going to throw that back into the mashup universe as well. Maybe that's something we start in January. I don't know. I'm slow moving it on this value for value. Donald Schwartz says he's watching from Nova Scot. If you were paying attention, we didn't do Nova Scotia election coverage this morning. It's my time to do a correction or an apology. I don't know.

I had a lot going on Monday and a few unforeseen events came clashing in. And we had to pause election coverage. It really sucks because we want to make sure we're hammering away on all the election coverages. So apologize to any of the Nova Scotians that were waiting for a little mashup election coverage of Nova Scotia. It went exactly how you think it was going to go. The conservatives. The conservatives could literally form a splinter cell to be the official opposition.

So that's how one-sided it went on that. All right. All right. Now, if you, wait, wait, wait, before we invite our guests on, if you like what we're doing, make sure right now, if you're watching on Twitter, retweet this sucker. Okay, I'm talking to you, folks. Retweet it. If you're on YouTube, make sure you like it.

Make sure you subscribe. make sure if you're on Facebook, you're sharing this sucker, because we got to get out past all the things that don't want us to get out. And we rely heavily on you lovely folks to do just that. Okay. Now, Tews, what were you going to say? I was going to say, we got a special guest today. Yeah, she's okay.

She's okay. All right. She's phenomenal. She's wonderful. For those of you who tuned into our SAS election live coverage, she was one of the highlights of the evening. Well, let's bring on, Lee's. Lee, how's it going?

Hello, Sean Newman podcast viewers. Hi, Tooth. Hi, Sean. Hi. Welcome from Regina, Saskatchewan, where agribition is happening right now. Our rural component is descended upon the city, and you've never seen so many trucks and cows and tractors as you do this week in Regina. So it's been a great, great week. Happy Friday, everybody.

Are the city people complaining about it at all? they do complain. Yeah, they do complain about all of the checks being in the city. I'm like, those guys are spending all of their Christmas money in your city and you will stop complaining about them right now. Yeah, you guys could just quit your agribition. That's exactly right. It's exactly right. No, it's always an awesome week. It's always an awesome week to have the farmers descend upon our fair city and to take over the woke madness. We appreciate you descending on our little mash up here and hopping on. board for for a few minutes and i got to before we get on to the first article i do have to say a shout out to all our american listeners out there happy thanksgiving you know like i mean they just you know

shout out to all you find folks who are enjoying way too much food way too much football way too much way too much it's uh of all the american holidays other than maybe july fourth it is they shut down things like it's it's pretty cool to be down there for for yeah like arteries for example yes yes okay let's How stupid it is to have a giant turkey holiday a month, less than a month before Christmas? I mean, I get the fact that it's a big deal. I'm not going to complain about turkey, buddy. Just move it over a little bit. I feel like it's a lot of holidaying all in one compressed time period.

Once again, I'm not going to complain about too much holiday, too much compressed. Are the Newman's doing anything for American? Thanksgiving? No, we did not. Okay, I don't think we're doing anything for American Thanksgiving either. We're having back-to-back dueling piano shows. I guess so. Yeah, I guess there's that. I don't know. Maybe we'll... Two's. First headline. Come on. Okay, fine. Let's go. Snap-ney, snapety here. Let's go. 135. Let's get it on the roll. Sask NDP show their teeth. Ooh. Scary. On October 17th, Moe announced that his party would establish a policy restricting students used. of change rooms to their sex assigned at birth as it's the first order of business if

reelected. An MLA, Jared Clark said, the Premier put a target on the backs. My two 12-year-old kids, he held a press conference to soak fear and outrage about two kids at an elementary school while my children's picture was circulating on social media, identifying them while an unimaginable hate was raging down on my family. What do you think was going to go through a 12-year-old's mind when he heard the Premier of the province targeting them? The Premier owes my children an apology.

he owes all transgender kids in this province, especially transgender people in this province, especially kids, an apology for how he has made them feel so unsafe over the last year. Well, okay, here. I'm just going to start off real quick. I'm going to share this screen and just point out that,

you know, I mean, this guy had a lot to say. And, I mean, there is quite a lot to chew on here. He's got, I mean, Hey, I just, I, he's fairly famous right now. I mean, you guys might recognize this guy from being on our Canadian nickel. You're going after his teeth? I just, that's where you're going. How do you take this guy seriously, Sean?

Dude, brushes his teeth with a paint roller. Welcome to the show, Lee's. Welcome to the show. This is the level of pettiness that I'm here for. This is the level of pettiness that I'm here for. But yes, everyone, you're looking at Saskatchewan, NDPMLA, Jared Clark, who has found himself in the middle of a shitstorm of his own making, I might add, after the story of two transgender students displacing 160 girls students in the town of Balconi,

Saskatchewan. And it was revealed that it was his two biological sons. Jared Clark yesterday in the day before yesterday in the Saskatchewan legislature did a extended tour of self-victimization when he called on the premier of the province to apologize to his kids. Number one, Scott Moe did not identify or out his kids. He identified and out at his kids kids. It was him that put his kids picture in front of an NDP banner in a church and plastered it all over social media. And it was common knowledge in the town of Balgony,

which is a tiny little bedroom community about 30 minutes outside of Regina, that these were an NDPMLA's kids. So, I mean, the person that outed those children and had put his own children in the line of fire is Jared Clark himself with the help of his delusional wife. And what we're not talking about is the way that this is impacting, number one, the community,

but number two, the girls of Balgonian. So this is who I'm here today to talk about is those girls and those families and how their rights are being trampled because of the extraordinarily entitled and privileged children of an NDPMLA. Well, it's really interesting. Lisa and I were talking about this before Sean got here. But there was Regina Leader Post covered this. CTV did, CBC as well.

And they all had basically the same article. and not a single person reached out to any of the girls who were forced to go into a change room with these two dudes. Nobody talks about the parents of these kids. Not a single one. Not a single one. They copy pasted all of their stories from each other, it looks like. Quoting word for word, Jared Clark's, you know, his extended tour of victimization. The person that keeps talking about this is Jared Clark.

And I got to, you know what? I got to say this. He claims that his family experienced what was the words. It was like a, it was like a. There was a lot of words. It was like a 14 minute speech. Unprecedented hate or something like that, he said. And really, I never saw a single comment about his kids negatively,

about, you know, negatively talking about his kids or to his kids. As a matter of fact, there was a great deal of empathy shown by the Saskatchewan public to his children. What was criticized was Jared Clark's delusional parenting decisions. Yes, there was quite a lot of that. Yes, there absolutely was. And a lot of people calling for social services to investigate him and his wife, but the crazy thing is, the crazy thing is. In Saskatchewan, the genesis of gender madness was actually enabled by social services.

So back in 2015, there was a foster mother. She is a vapid left gender activist. Names Fran Forsberg. You can Google her. She's on the front page of every newspaper when there's a rally, when there's a protest, when there's that. She is the rainbow mom. She was a foster mother of 160 kids, 160 kids.

Like, you know, through her home. Logistically, how does that even work? Yeah. What kind of love are those kids getting? No, this is just a landing pad. So she has two kids of her own. She's adopted eight more. And several of her kids turned out to be trans.

And so in 2015, she came into the possession of a child, I think a First Nations child, if I'm not mistaken, who was three years old, who was maybe neglected, maybe abused, in any case, traumatized by being taken out of their birth home. and this child decided at three years old that all of his problems would be solved if he would identify as a girl. Fran Forsberg then challenged the provincial government to remove gender as a marker on, or excuse me, sex as a marker on birth certificates because she went to, you know, register this child for kindergarten at the age of five or six. And they said, well, what sex is this child? She said, that's not fair. And she challenged the government.

And this is why sex was removed. a marker on Saskatchewan birth certificates. So for everybody that is saying social services should investigate this family, this all started with social services. This all started with social services. And at the time, another really interesting aside was Carla Beck, the leader of Saskatchewan NDP was a social worker at that time. So this is all nice full circle for Carla Beck and the NDP to bring this up. But again, I will defer back to the poor girls of Balconi Saskatchewan who are watching their rights, their privacy and their safety, being galloped over for the entitled and privileged to children of a Saskatchewan NDPMLA.

Just so they can be show pieces, basically. That's right. That's right. Used as political props. Whereas Jared Clark would accuse Scott Moe of using his children as a wedge just before the election. Well, I think it's real clear that Jared Clark has been using kids as props in his political career for the last several years. So. Regina.

It seems like the epicenter of craziness for Saskatchew and Lee's Merle, you're always at the heart of it. Or at the middle of the storm of it, I should say. Yeah. Yeah. What's happening in Regina and especially in education right now is just truly hideous. You know, what's being floated to parents is if you don't like it, then homeschool your kids. And as a matter of fact, the parents of Balgoni, who have been trying to work with. their school and their school division and all the administrators for many, many months on this

issue have been told that if they don't like it, their girls are free to change at home when they withdraw from public education and are homeschooled. So this is where we're at. Girls in Saskatchewan, if they don't want to change in front of boys while they are going through puberty, are encouraged to quit school, go home and be alone and isolated. It's the It's the traillaban. It's the trailavan in Saskatchewan. And nobody seems to be interested in defending these parents to not even hearing them. I mean, if I was the leader of the government and one of these stories, one of these stories kicked up, if I became aware of it, I would have my staff burning a new road to these to these communities, to hear the parents out, to hear their concerns,

to know just to feign interest in the experience of their daughters. So we could better understand and nobody has reached out to them. Not one person, not one. Okay. It's egregious. Dumb question. But if you've got all these parents being told, look, if you don't like it, your kids don't have to go to this school,

what's stopping them from, I get the fact that there's a cost. But what's stopping them from, you know, commissioning a school bus and taking them to one of the next towns over? And just having, I don't know, four or five school buses taking all the kids. And sure, yeah, you guys, you two trans kids can have this whole damn school. And we're going to send all of our kids to propel for school. Because the school division, the school division won't approve those changes. The school, you must, you must get the permission of the school division to move a kid's school and they will not give it. The response to the school, they can't try. They can't. You're within, you're within a geographical

location in Saskatchewan and that's the school you go to. In Alberta, they have parental choice in education where you get to determine where you want your kids to go, whether it be a sports academy or whether it be a classical academy or religious, religious education, whatever, it's up to the, it's up to the parents to decide. But in Saskatchewan, it does not work that way. Not, not entirely. I know when this, maybe it's outdated, but I know when the ratchewan Madison school closed down. All the parents had wanted to, or the school board had wanted to send all the kids to Borden.

And all the parents were, it's basically like a Dog River Willerton thing where they were like, screw Borden, we're going to get a bunch of buses and they started shipping all the kids to Maymont instead. Yeah. Well, it could be, that could have been a critical mass situation.

But right now, this is just such a small, I mean, there's nothing that's closed off to these parents. I don't think there's anything that they're not looking at at this point. And they are, I mean, they've just been put through the ringer, these parents. They've just been put through the ringer. And when you're up against a wall, like a wall of opposition, this is from school administrators,

this is from the school division, this is from the ministry itself, when your government doesn't show up for you, when people in your own community are taking the position of Jared Clark's boys and saying, if your girls have a problem with this, then you're not, they're transphobic, homophobic, big fascists. I mean, they're up against a wall of opposition. And it's, I mean, my heart just really goes out to them. If anything, this just reinforces the fact that parents have no recourse when it comes to this issue. And you know what? It's not controversial to not want your kids to be influenced into these kinds of decisions. This is not controversial. And yet, you know, just right here in Regina, in our very school, there is a middle-aged man with fake tits and receding hairline and with his visible male anatomy showing through his short skirts and midriff wearing midriff bearing sweater vests.

And when parents say, right, I don't want my kids to be influenced by this at all. We're literally told you have no choice. This is not up to you. eat it or homeschool. That's it. That's their line. It's crazy. It's insane. So is the SaaS party, do you think going to address this in any meaningful way? Not fast enough. Not fast enough.

One week before the election, Scott Motte said that this was going to be, you know, their number one move if they were elected, if they were, if they had the honor to be reelected again, this was going to be their number one thing. And one week after the election, one week after their election and one week before the municipal elections, Scott Moe walked that back and said, we're just going to leave it up to the school boards. So I don't know if you heard the story about election interference in the Regina Public School Board trustee election.

There absolutely was, and that's going to unravel on them in spectacular fashion. But when they're stealing the elections and the provincial government says, right, we're just going to leave it up to the trustees. And then the trustees, along with the school divisions, steal the elections. Well, then that's, I mean, that doesn't fix any problem either, does it? No, I haven't heard anything about that. Oh, oh, that's a, that is a juicy story. So Regina Public School Division, P.S., this is highly unethical and B, highly illegal, decided that they wanted to choose their own board. So this is an institution that relies on a public vote to choose the trustees

that are going to drive the direction of the school division. Well, they went on a tour a tour of Regina public schools and told all of their teachers who they were going to vote for. They can't do that. That's called undue influence in Saskatchew. It is illegal across the board in every kind of election. Imagine if your boss puts you in a corner and said, this is who you're going to vote for, or else. Oh, you mean like unions, for example? As a hypothetical example. Yeah, you can't do that. Like it's technically unlawful. So we're going to see this happen. But what Scott Mo did was throw his flame and hot potato that P.S., the Sask Party is responsible for creating.

Back in 2015, we enshrined sexual orientation and gender identity into Saskatchewan human rights laws. Thank you, Earl. We enshrined these things into Saskatchewan human rights laws. And these groups have used those laws as a battering ram to. travel over any opposition to this, especially as it pertains to the encroachment of women's and girls' rights. And we are just done with it. We are just done with it. I am fed up to here with this. And so the action that the province is taking, they're just kicking it down the field at the, at the school boards. What we're probably, I mean, what we're at risk of ending up with is 28 different

policies, 28 different sets of policies depending on the school trustees. What we need, is somebody with big enough balls to just go, right, this, you know what, we're just not going to do this anymore. We're just not going to do this anymore. So who that man is, okay, I will hammer stars into his crown when he emerges. But what I'm here to do is give him, give him the permission to do just that. Hurry up, boys. Lee's Merle, you never disappoint. Thanks for hopping on. I'm just gobsmacked here. That was well done. Well, and given us an update from the,

epicenter of wokeism in Saskatchewan, Regina. Well, it's great to be here, boys. Like, let me know, let me know when you want me back on and we'll talk anything but sports. I just won't, I just don't do the doding. Like, I just don't do the doding.

But these big juicy stories, yeah, I'm game. I'm game. Awesome. Thank you. Sounds good, Lee. Thanks for hopping on. Bye. Bye, kids. Well, we should probably turn it off now because we're never going to live up to Lee's anymore.

How are we going to top this? Like, just, I can't decide if she should, have my job, your job, or both of our jobs. It's possible. It's possible. I'm not going to argue with you. All right. Shall we begin the actual? Yeah. Let's keep going with the rest of this. I guess.

At a much slower and less interesting pace. Yes. Coots six and a half. I didn't realize you put an article in there, too. So what article did you put in for the Coots Boys? Oh, well, this one's kind of fun and interesting. So for those of you who remember the July 2014 death of 18 year old Colton Croceau in Calgary where he was strangled to death and then his body was thrown in a storm pond in Calgary. The guy wasn't even, the guy who killed him wasn't even arrested until 2022 and he was just sentenced. How many years?

current time served plus a year, which comes out to three and a half years, if I'm not mistaken, four and a half years. And if you're new to this, the reason why we do this is because Christopher Carbert, Anthony Olenek's sentence to six and a half years. Yeah. So the next time you're really mad about the government,

rather than doing a protest at a border crossing, probably the more expedient thing for you to do is just strangle somebody. and throw their corpse in a pond. And you'll get, you'll get four years. Yeah, yeah, it just, it just makes mathematical sense. So just keep that in mind the next time you're really mad about something the government does. The more prudent thing for you to do is a killing spree.

We're not advocating for it. We're just pointing out the math. Yeah, it's just math. We're not, but I mean, I get the fact that math is racist, but this is just what we're saying. Electoral interference. So here's, I'll bring it up the full thing, but it's Nahed Nenshi's letter from the Alberta NDP to the chief electoral officer here in Alberta. By-elections tend to have low voter turnout.

The premier's cynical decision for a winter election is so close, so close to Christmas and Hanukkah risk an even lower than typical turnout. It is incumbent on elections, Alberta, to ensure the turnout is not low because voters did not know when and where to vote. I mean, there's more in it, but there's a chunk of it. Yes. I would just like to point out that today is November 19th, which means that in one year or less three days,

we'll be having the next federal election. You mean November 29th? November 26th is the next federal election, is it not? Today is November 29th, not 19th. Oh, did I say 19th? Correct. Anyway, carry on. November 29th.

Yes. All right. So anyway, the point is, is that if we're worried because winter happens in Canada and I mean, God, like, can you believe just how surprised everybody was what had happened again this year, just like last year and the year before it? And we're going to have a federal election in the middle of winter for anybody who's had to drive in the past week. I would just like to point out that us paying a carbon tax to slow global warming is probably election interference We ate the children

Time is a concept To which alludes our grasp Those who remain huddled together in cold caves Trying to remember what fire is made of The postal strike continues undaunted The Union representative man I hope this postal strike Kind of like the other Randy goes

on for like another year, just so I can read Tew's headlines on this. The union representing Canada Post workers say the Crown Corporation has been laying off striking employees as the labor action by more than 55,000 workers approaches the two-week mark. In a notice to members posted Monday, the Canadian Union of Postal

workers called the layoffs a scare tactic and it said it's looking into the situation. Meanwhile, Canada Post spokeswoman Lisa Liu confirmed the layoffs saying they are temporary. She said the organization has informed some employees. The collective agreements are no longer in effect and their conditions of employment have now changed as per the Canada

Labor Code. Quoted, our business has been significantly impacted leading up to and throughout this labor disruption. We have taken steps to adjust our operations, Lou said. I mean, this is great. So somebody said, somebody at Canada Post said basically, oh, you guys don't want to come to work anymore? Okay, well, you're fired, which is roughly what you should be doing regardless. I think it's just absolutely beautiful. And it's funny because you've got the same thing. It would have been, I wanted to talk about it this week,

but it was the same thing we covered last week where you've got CBC talking about how devastating it is for people. And then the National Post being like, nobody notices and nobody gives a shit. And then lots of other people talking about how they've switched like their last few remaining bills over to e-bills and stuff like that. And the funny thing is, is that for an organization that's struggling so hard to maintain just a tenuous grasp on relevancy, this strike is literally them nailing their own coffin

shut. And we're here for the whole thing, folks. Vibe session over the vibe session. Do you want to show the video? I don't have, I don't have the video. up but what I can't do. Well, here, I'll read it off if you want to show what you can. The federal government. I actually here.

I got it. I got it. So this is actually pretty important. All right. Who's going to show the video? Jean-Eve spoke about the disconnect between the positive news that the numbers are showing about the Canadian economy and what people are

feeling. He talked about how Canadians are feeling. And That's a really important economic point. A lot of economists have been talking about the vibe session. Let me just pause here real quick. Now, for those of you curious about all of the economists that are talking about the vibe session, this is the Google Trends of the word vibe session in Canada. 0-0-0-0-0-0-2.

2. We do this show weekly. Until she said vibe session, I'd never heard it. And you would think the two of us Yahoo's would pick up on it because it's literally what we do talking about. And on the left-hand side here, this is January 1st, 2004. This is like the entire history of the Google machine is captured on this graph. And this line that runs right along zero means that nobody ever in the history of Google had ever searched for Vibe Session until this month. So when she talks about how economists had been talking about this?

Nobody was talking about it. She's full of shit. Vibe Session sounds like something you saw on much music in like 1998. Honestly, yeah, that's actually kind of where I thought she stole it from, was exactly what you're talking about. That's what I thought when I heard it. She's saying Canadians just aren't feeling good. And that is having real economic consequences. The country's doing well.

It's all of you, yeah, who's not feeling that good that's really having. an issue on the economy. It's you people. You people who think that your groceries are expensive, they're not expensive. You're just stupid, which is a great message to have when you're looking to try and get reelected in a year.

I think they should just keep telling us that we're stupid for the next year. Yeah, I mean, you know, they kind of, the trains kind of stopped on the whole racism thing. We don't really care if they call us bigots because they do. it every damn day. And the few people who actually still get offended by the stupid things the liberals say, I think that having them being called stupid should be fun. Let's see how that goes. And then Glenn pipes in. He says, the strike is delayed my vodka shipment from Last Mountain Distillery. I won't forgive this. As a big fan of Last Mountain Distillery, I feel your pain.

Fancy socks fills our stockings. Well, if you hadn't heard, okay? The federal government is hoping a temporary break on GST will address a vibe session as GF can be. Can you say that again because nobody heard it? The federal government is hoping a temporary break on GST will address a vibe session as Grip Canadians. Prime Minister Justin Trinone announced last week that starting December 14th, the goods and services tax will be taken off a slew of items for two months to help with the affordability crunch. He's also going to send $250 checks in the spring to Canadians who are working in 2023 and earn up to $150,000. Conservative leader Pierre Pollyev and his MPs voted against this and said it is an tax cut, but rather an irresponsible inflationist, temporary two-month tax trick.

And he said now would be the worst possible time to blow $6 billion trying to save Justin Trudeau's political skin. He said reporters on Thursday. It also be noted, the block voted against this bill, but the NDP and Green voted with it. Yes. The Green said it's bad policy, but we're voting for it anyway. Which, why? Why? Like, are you just so goddamn drunk all the time, Elizabeth May, that you look at something and say, this is a bad idea.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. What the hell is wrong with you? What the hell is wrong with any of these people? You know, the interesting thing is, you know, people are actually getting into the weeds a little bit about the GST exemption and how big of a pain in the ass it is for companies. And for those of you who are longtime fans of twos, you may remember me having the exact same things to say about the conservative platform in the 2021 election where I said, like, this is just going to cause a whole bunch of stupid red tape.

And the conservative party should be the party of reducing red tape. and it kind of goes against everything. Like I said, I think I said something like this is the kind of stupid shit you would expect from the NDP, which we said a lot when Aaron O'Toole was in charge, to be fair. And so anyway, this is this is the same thing all over again, except now it's actually going to happen and now people are paying attention and they're saying, well, yeah, it's going to save a couple dollars here and there for a few consumers, but even just navigating our POS systems and doing the updates and the regulatory

compliance on it is going to cost us more money than they're saving. So this is actually a net drain on the economy that's handing out a few shillings to a select few people at the expense of business owners. And that's just classic Canada politics right there. Like this is exactly what I would expect from these fuckfucks. I don't know why I called them fuckfucks, but sure. If you don't use it, you lose it. it. Melanie Joyce Jolly's Department, Global Affairs Canada, ordered $523,000 worth of furniture

in a one-day spending spray this past March 31st in order to use up their unspent budget on the last day of the fiscal year. Now, for those of you who are just, you know, thinking about this, like, just think about this real quick. The last day of their fiscal year is the last day that they have to spend all of their budget. And so rather than saying, well, we all pay taxes. And if there's a half a million dollars in the budget that hasn't been spent, we actually as stewards of this have done a good job and we should just leave it. They said, well, fuck. Our budget's going to get cut next year because we don't need to actually spend this much goddamn money.

So we're going to spend half a million dollars in one day on fucking furniture. to justify how much money we leech from the taxpayers all over fucking Canada. And then they said, oh, we just, you know, it's part of our prudent furniture maintenance program that we do this. Bullshit. You did it on the very last day of the fiscal year. This stuff happens every year in just about every department. And it can't be a coincidence. Your prudent furniture management requires.

It's not a coincidence. Come on. They spent it on the last day. They knew if they didn't spend it. They wouldn't get it back the next year on the budget, right? They had to show it. I mean, we don't need to get into the weeds on this. I'm just saying they're absolutely full of shit.

Why would they even lie to us, though, Sean? That's the idiots. What do you mean? Why would they lie to it? Is it lying news on every single article we read for 135 weeks? It's been one, it's one thing you can trend on the liberal government is they're going to lie to us about everything. And then when they get caught, they're like, no, it wasn't. You Randy?

No. No, this is the other Randy. How many other Randy's are there? A lot. There's a lot. My word is my oath. Governments in Yukon's second largest municipality has been in a standstill since its newly elected mayor and council refused to pledge allegiance to King Charles during their swearing in ceremony.

Stephen Johnson Johnson, the mayor-elect of Dawson City said he and the four other member councils refused to take Canada's official oath to the monarch on November 5th because of the... because of the crown's history with indigenous populations. He said they stand in solidarity with the fourth counselor, sorry, Darwin Lynn, who expressed hesitancy on the morning of the investor in ceremony. Man, what a word.

Johnson said to Lynn as a member of the, man, I'm once again. Trondek, watching First Nation on whose traditional land Dawson is located. He expressed he was uncomfortable with pledging allegiance to the crown due to its history with indigenous people. Yeah. So I don't really care what your reasoning is.

If you don't feel like you're going to pledge allegiance to some random inbred fuck on the other side of the ocean that serves absolutely no practical purpose aside from giving us an ugly picture to put on our goddamn worthless money, who cares? How does that affect their ability to execute their job? It doesn't. Exactly. like pledge allegiance to fucking Satan if you want no but wasting our goddamn money no no no that's a that's a terrible thing to say on here no no you can't play no to say is I disagree with you okay but you know what I'm disagree with you I just all hardly I'm just saying it doesn't really matter that was a terrible

example that's a terrible example okay all right pick somebody slightly worse then pledge allegiance to Justin Trudeau. Once again, that's a terrible example, too. I'm going to move this on. I agree with you. Pledging allegiance to King Charles doesn't make you do your job any better or worse. Trump's terrific tariffs, Trump's, oh, my goodness. Here we go.

Trump's terrific tariffs trump Trudeau's trepidation to terminate transient trans-migrant troubles. There. Tada. Wow. All right. As everyone is aware, here's Donald Trump's tweet. As everyone is aware, thousands of people are pouring through Mexico and Canada bringing crime and drugs at levels never seen before. Right now, a caravan coming from Mexico composed of thousands of people, seems to be unstoppable in its quest to come through our currently open border. On January 20th, as one of my many first executive orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada, a 25% tariff on all products coming into the United States.

and its ridiculous open borders. This terror will remain in effect until such time as drugs, in particular fentanyl and all illegal aliens stop this invasion of our country. Both Mexico and Canada have the absolute right in power to easily solve this long, simmering problem. We hereby demand that they use this power and until such time that they do, it is for them to pay a very big price. That's what he said.

Yes. Now, it's interesting. He's saying that you guys as countries, Part of your job is to keep track of the edges of it. You know, the borders. You need to make sure that bad stuff doesn't come in or go out. And you haven't really been doing that for a long time. And as such, the U.S. has faced financial issues because now they've got to deal with higher crime, illegal immigration, the enforcement of all this stuff.

and we're kind of tired of it. So if you guys want to be dicks and just shirk your basic fucking job as a country, like what defines a country? I would say where it is on the map is kind of a big starter. And as far as where it is on a map, that's kind of the part you need to keep track up. And if they're not even doing that, then saying, hey, look, if you guys aren't going to be a serious country,

we're going to make it really difficult for you. This is, you're our neighbors and you're being shitty neighbors. And everybody is losing their, oh, I want to point this out. That's perfect. I'm glad you brought this up. So, uh, read off this tweet, please. It's, this is Trevor Tombe. He is the, uh, and I'm going to pull it up here, the professor of econ at, uh, university

of Calgary. He says, uh, in work with a Canadian chamber of commerce, I estimated a 10% tariff on Canada U.S. trade back in the time, updating this to a 25% tariff. He said, and I find that the Canadian economy would take a 2.6% real GDP hit annually or $2,000 per person. Now, here's the real interesting part is you've got all these economists that are saying, well, what's a 20% tariff going to cost us? And to the best of my knowledge, I didn't see a single economist break down how much money we would save by just stopping bad people from making bad drugs. and maybe keeping people who weren't supposed to be in the country out of the country. Like, how much,

how much would that cost the economy? I bet you the answer would be somewhere in the negatives, as in it would save us some money. All of these, all these fucking crackheads all up and down the street with their fentanyl folds, not contributing to the GDP anymore because somebody made a bunch of bad drugs that they're now hooked on. Okay, well, what if we just stopped the people making those bad drugs? just to ensure that more people didn't end up like that.

Maybe if they would get cleaned up. And a lot of people talking about it's just filibustering by Trump. Here's what Daniel Smith said. She said, we need to address those issues. She was on power play with Vassi Capulose. And she said, we can't downplay them. We can't play the yeah but game. And we can't pretend that the economic interests are going to override those very

legitimate interests. She's hopeful Alberta can make the argument to the Americans that oil and gas should be exempt from the tariffs in order to bring down energy prices, but she also said she takes the president at his word. And I think you should probably take Donald Trump at his word at this point. No two's. Yeah. I mean, what's you got to prove? Right. He's in his second term. He doesn't have to worry about being reelected. He doesn't have to worry about being popular or fair. He's just going to sit down and say, this is how it fucking is. And there's probably going to be a lot of things like that with a lot of countries in the next four years where he just says i don't really give a fuck you guys could

stop being dicks or you're going to pay for it and is it such a big deal to ask our fucking federal government to act like a few fucking grownups every once in a while nice try to's but he nailed it i did didn't i earl i he got me right up the hop but i once i realized what was going on i yeah that was some good alliteration i was pretty proud of myself smith caps production cap. Are we in goofy news? What are you talking about? Did you add one in on me? You added one in on me. No, production cap. The Chris Selly article from the National Post, Ottawa, Albutt invited Alberta to flip the bird

to federal laws? No, no, I did not. Are you talking about the ministers meeting, first minister meeting? I tell you what, twos. I read the headline enlighten us and enlighten me because obviously I have no idea what you're talking about this week and I'm ready to be entertained. Okay. Well, this is interesting because you've got a national newspaper having a fair and balanced discussion on the different parts of Canada and how they all come together and how you give fancy carve-outs and special treatments to one area of Canada.

Let's say hypothetically speaking, fucking Quebec. And then you say, Okay, well, you know what? Because the prevailing argument is that the Sovereignty Act isn't going to stand up in federal court, right? But then you say, well, here's all of this precedent that's been set by fucking Quebec, where they've just said, we're going to do what they want. And the federal government says, okay, all right, we're sorry to have bothered you. And so now you've got something that's going to absolutely fucking hamstring Alberta on its own,

let alone, for those of you. who didn't listen yet to the Silver Gold Bull, Bow Valley Credit Union that you just had up, where you guys, yeah, Nick and Brett. Yeah, but where you guys were talking, I think it was specifically Brett was talking about

how the two new bills work together to basically just make sure that nobody can get funding. Nobody can get funding capital from a bank, from a federal bank in Canada for any oil sands production. And so, you know, to say, hey, look, this is what they're doing and this is how it all fits together. And here's exactly why they are doing what they're doing. And here's the precedent for it because you already let fucking Quebec do it. And I thought it was great to actually see an honest conversation about how we feel out here by a federal newspaper.

And yeah, it's interesting. I don't know what's going to happen with it. but I'm glad Danielle Smith's doing it, because you basically just said the time of negotiations over. So now we get to goofy news. Goofy news. All right, buckle up, folks. Ontario family pulling plug on light show and leaving town

after targeted new bylaw, but the mayor says he's no Grinch. The Williams clan of Kingsville, Canda most southern town is also pulling up stakes and selling their family home. They said it's because of a new bylaw that's too broad and too restricted of their growing Williams Light Show, a 20-minute computer coordinated,

light music performance that ran three to four times nightly over the course of six weeks on their residential street. Such displays now require a permit, are limited to 30 days, and only certain hours on Thursday through Sunday is what the city did to them. And so they're out and they're disappearing from that city because of the bylaw. Fuck you, we're moving. And they specifically, the city specifically said that they passed this new bylaw because of these guys and their crazy awesome light show. that they have. Like, it's basically Christmas vacation on steroids. And the issue wasn't that the light show was too much.

It was that parking became difficult. There was too much traffic and also too much garbage, which I found to be really interesting because you wouldn't find that in Western Canada. Like, if you were going to go see somebody's house as like a tourist stop because of how awesome the lights were, You would not be leaving garbage there. But this, this thing has raised, what, like $45,000 or $450,000 for charity? It said they added a charitable component back in 2017, I think, following the death of, was it his grandmother from cancer that led to more to $45,000 raised for research.

So, yeah, it had a charitable component as well. Yeah. So these guys have raised almost $50,000 for charities by having an awesome, light show that's good for the community and there was two or three neighbors that were complaining about it and they managed to get a bylaw pass to the point where they were like you know what?

Fuck you. We're not even going to live in this damn city anymore and you guys can all eat a bag of well-lit Christmas dicks. CTV news doctors say it is fine to pee in the shower. What is CTV is doing? Whatever.

It's fine to pee in the shower folks. There's no There's no worries about that. Where did they, whatever possessed them to write this article? They were watching old reruns of Seinfeld. That's probably what they were doing. Stolen car found, spotted on a raft in Nigeria. I got to pull the video up with this. You don't need the sound.

You just need to see it being. There's, there's, there's this. I'm sorry. With Quebec plates. I'm sorry to the people who are not watching this. In Africa. Well, in Nigeria. Yeah.

And so that car, with the plate still on it from fucking Quebec. So, I mean, on the one hand, I'm glad that it got stolen from fucking Quebec. On the other hand, Jesus Christ, maybe we could, these are the ramifications of our easy bail, no real punishment, lack of justice system in Canada, is that we are an international mockery on Twitter because. shit like this happens. It's just ridiculous. Ontario town fine 15 grand after voting not to recognize Pride Month and fly the pride flag. A small rural township in the southwest corner of northwestern Ontario. Its mayor has been fined 15,000 for discrimination following a 2020 vote that decided not to recognize June as Pride Month and to reject flying the pride flag. It's in the small town of Emo.

And I was wondering where the heck that was because I lived in Dryden, which is northwest. boat as northwest as you get in Ontario. And we used to play Fort Francis side hockey note. And this is like a 20-minute drive from Fort Francis. I was like, oh, interesting. This small little obscure town doesn't want to fly the Pride flag and recognize Pride Month. And they're getting fined $10,000.

And the mayor, because of his deciding boat, got fined $5 grand. Now, the one, this whole thing sucks and it's stupid. the one not even redeeming thing but the one thing i think is noteworthy that we should see more of is that the fine was payable to the i don't know whatever random gay organization um wanted it done so it wasn't like he got fine five grand and it was payable to our national debt it was payable to the people that took umbrage with his decision now having said that This is really fucking gay. All right.

Carrying on. Calgary goes on a fluoride. Flooride. The city of Calgary is currently commissioning its upgraded water treatment equipment with plants to reintroduce fluoride into the water supply on track for early 2025. Calgary's work comes as some cities, including Montreal, recently voted to remove fluoride from their water system. Quoted,

The city is completing necessary infrastructure upgrades to Calgary's two water treatment plants with commissioning of equipment underway. the cost to reintroduce fluoride in Canada's water, Calgary's water system includes $28 million for treatment plant upgrades and an annual maintenance and operating cost up to $1 million. The article went on the site, children's teeth, and a whole bunch of different things that they've seen in the increase in problems. Yes.

Now, the other interesting thing that increases with fluoride, we just talked about this study that came out, I don't know, maybe a month ago, is that apparently it makes you dumber. Now, call me cynical. But if you're a shitty politician doing a bad job and you're implementing a policy that's going to lower the median IQ of your voter set, that's just a little bit too tidy hand in glove from my taste. Hey, everybody's mad at us because we're spending a bunch of money on stupid shit.

what if we just made everybody in town less smart, then maybe we'd get reelected. I just, I guess I should have said, I just had on Dr. Bob from Calgary talking specifically about this. So interesting, because I'd never really looked into the fluoride thing, but here it is on full,

you know, like we've talked about it a month ago, and now here it is coming back into Calgary and everything else. So it's, as it leaves Montreal. All right. Next headline. Doge of the week. I'm just going to bring up the tax codes by Mario Newfall, Norfall.

Western tax codes ranked, how does Sweden do it in 100 pages? So in 100 pages, they do it. The UK, 17,000 pages. United States, 6,800, Australia, 5,000, Canada, 3,000, Germany, 1,700, France, 500, Spain, 1,000, Italy, 800, 8, Netherlands, Netherlands, 400, Sweden, 100. There you go. That's the tax codes.

The interesting thing, because it's Canada, I'm wondering if he just looked at federal and didn't even take into account provincial. Because that's probably leaving a lot of leaving a lot on the table as far as this discussion goes. I just, I find it absolutely interesting that some of the biggest lobbyists in the states, and I don't know where Canada fits in on this, but in the states, some of the largest lobbying groups are regarding tax codes. And so you've got accountants who. go to the government and say, we need to make these laws more difficult because they have this vested interest in it. Because if the tax laws were really, really simple, nobody would need accountants. If the tax laws in, say, Canada, it was like five pages of tax laws.

It was like, you can write this off, you can't write that off, you need to pay this, done. Any random schlub, no matter how much fluoride water they drank, could be able to do their damn taxes. and then no one would have any need for accounts. So they go to the government and say, we need more work. So make the tax laws more complicated. And then that way we can come in as specialists. Because what are your options?

Well, you can try and do it yourself and either A, get it horribly wrong and miss out on a bunch of money or B, get it horribly wrong the other way and go to fucking jail. You know why I was almost late? You know what I was almost like? because of tax stuff?

Yes. I was literally on the phone trying to get through and I'm just like they want my money but they won't take my money. I don't get it. I just don't get it. Like why can't it be just so simple? I owe X, I'm going to go pay it. Anyways, it doesn't matter. That's the reason why I almost missed the start of the mashup is I was trying to pay

a bill I owe to the government and it is just like man, nothing the CRA touches works. and today was almost case and point and Sean almost missed his first ever mashup of being late, you know, like I've missed mashups. Because of the fucking government. Because of the government. Classic government.

Classic government. Washington Redskins resurrection. There should be a question mark behind that one, I think. The Senate Energy and Natural Re- It's not a question mark. I hope it's actually happening. I don't know. I don't know.

We'll see. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last week approved advancing legislation funding the revitalization of the decrepit our FK stadium site. Montana, Senator Steve Daines has said he would block legislation

until the NFL and commanders honor the old logo in some way. Of course, we're talking obviously, like, you know, everybody knows the saga, the Redskins, removing their logo,

and then coming up with the new name, the commanders, and yada, yada. Anyways, he wrote, I applaud the commanders and the NFL for their commitment to never censor the logo again and for working with the Wetzel family

to restore it to a place of prominence and honor to benefit Indian country. commander's owner though Josh Harris has said that the team will not return to its old name that's part of the article as well and I'm like I you know they're talking about not censoring it they're talking about the ability to buy merchandise with the logo on it and all that good stuff and you assume if they do that

sales for that gear is going to go through the roof and they're going to be like at some point the dollars and cents are going to make sense to turn it back into the Washington Redskins the current owner says it's not going to happen well I mean just the concept of saying that a team name is demeaning. It's not. Like you don't pick anything

aside from Ottawa senators. You don't pick anything super lame. Right? I mean, you've got the Calgary flames. The rough riders, the stampeters, the BC lions, the Vancouver Grizzlies, the Toronto Raptors. It's not the Toronto Diplodocus.

Right? So it's not like. The only one, the only other one like the senators is the, uh, the New York Mets, the Metropolitan's, right? Yeah, okay. And then, and you're like, why would you name yourself? I mean, I understand why, but. Well, Ottawa, because they've got the senators there.

And so they called themselves the Ottawa senators. It's just like how in the CFL, because you always pick names, you try to pick names. Ottawa terrible name, red blacks too. What a terrible name. Well, it makes perfect sense for Ottawa because you've got nothing but red ink and black face. Uh, I hope, I hope personally, I hope that the names come back, right? We were talking about the Eskimos and Eminton, right?

Going to the Elks, you're like, man, I'm sorry, CFL fans. I'm not a giant CFL guy, but you lose me when that stuff starts happening. And then, you know, you start to hear the talks and the rumblings and everything going on. You're like, you know, you start to do smart things. You're going to bring people back. And Washington can, you know, if they go back to the Redskins, especially with all the things that happened to, you know, the kid and everything, know, there's so much going on there that's just absolutely insane.

Here's something that isn't insane, okay? Co-vindication. Trump announced in a statement on Tuesday that he had picked Dr. J. Batacharia, a professor at Stanford University and School of Medicine, to run the nation's leading medical research agency. He said Batatariah would work with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. His pick to the Department of Health and Human Services to direct the nation's medical research and to make important discoveries that will improve health and save lives.

Together, Jay and RFK Jr. This is Trump, quoting Trump. Together, Jay and RF will restore the NIH to a gold standard of medical research as they examine the underlying causes of and solutions to America's biggest health challenges, including our crisis of chronic illness and disease. This is a giant win. RFK Jr. Everyone's like, ah, what can he really doing? And you're kind of like, maybe it's this and this. Now, Batatariah, I got a ton of time.

I think a lot of us have a ton of time. Well, how many times has you been on your show? he actually has never been on the show ever why did i think he's been on your show multiple times he's been on a ton of shows i want to make that very clear i actually have his number in my phone because i was trying to get him on the show which is really you know regardless everybody knows this guy's name everyone is excited about the fact that he's been appointed i think this is well i don't think anthony fouchy is excited no anthony fouchy is not but i mean like this is huge news. This is really, really big news that I think bodes well for the next four years and

we'll see where it ends up. But him getting a prominent place is exciting, I think. Absolutely. And then Willis Carnegie says red ink, blackface, two's from the top ropes again. Appreciate that. I hate it when you guys give him all the credit in the world because it gets them off the topic at hand, you know? Well, it's just that you were talking.

talking. I didn't want to interrupt. Should I just interrupt you next time? Yeah. And then Claire says the Edmonton broilers. Yeah, I, you know, if if the last provincial election had gone to the We're talking COVID-Ocation and you two, you're bringing them back onto the sports names. Oh, yeah, great. Yeah, the next time the NDP get in in Alberta, they're going to be the Edmonton solar panels. Congrats, Jay, Bodacharya. I think that's awesome. I think for all the amount of time that has been railroading all these doctors and absolutely. calling them quacks and tinfoil hat and everything and every under the sun. J. Badacharya is a very well respected man. And I just hope that it bears fruit, right?

Like, I hope he goes in and has a shot at doing some things because that's, that's, that's exciting. The tinfoil had things really interesting because if you look at the last several years, it was probably even more effective than I ever metted in fighting off COVID. DEI downward spiral. Walmart is the latest major U.S. company to announce a rollback of diversity, equity, inclusion, DEI policies with the retail giant telling newsweek that we've been on a journey and know we aren't perfect. The company confirmed its plan to stop using the terms latent Latin acts and DEI in official communications. Won't continue the racial equity center it found in 2020 and will ban any sexualized or transgender products marketed towards children. They join Ford Lowe's John Deere.

They join Ford Lowe's, John Deere, tractor supply, Moulson Coors, Harley Davidson, Stanley Black and Decker, Toyota, and Bud Light on removing D. Bud Light. Yeah. Isn't it interesting how you fuck around and find out? That's good news. That almost could have been the good news at the end. Well, I mean, we've had a few good news. But the other Randy update.

The federal government has suspended contract. with the medical supplies you don't say. For him co-founded by non-indigenous liberal MP Randy Bosno. I love how they threw that in. Following the revelations that the bid on government traffic tracks will claim to be wholly indigenous out.

Quoted, the suspension will last for a period of 90 days. It may be extended as necessary until a final decision regarding the supplier status under the ineligibility and suspension policy is rendered, the department said. Now, I get the fact. that this is just classic government. But the big surprising thing

for me here is that this company, which has no physical space anymore because it got burned down by arsonists, that is currently facing $8 million worth of court charges that's being sued by a half dozen different corporations

still had an active contract with the Canadian government. Sean's typing something. I don't know what he's typing. I don't know what he's doing. Do I buzz myself at this point? Should I just, should I, should I, should I? Remember the movie? It was painting game, right? It was painting game where, uh, the Rock and Mark Wahlberg were the two bodybuilding guys that

end up like, was it robbing something and then killing somebody. I forget the whole plot line, but it was like, this couldn't happen. And then the movie kept saying, no, this really happened. You know what I'm talking about, Tuz? I mean, I know of the movie. I never saw it. Okay. You never seen that? Okay. So in the movie, it just keeps getting dumber. And the plot line just keeps getting dumber and dumber and it pops up on the screen this really happened and then it goes on throughout the movie yes and then they're like grilling like that they like i forget is it body parts or they cut up hands and they're grilling it on a on like a on like a like a you know like on a barbecue and i'm like this is stupid there's no way this happened and as soon as i thought it it popped up on the

screen this really happened and it does that multiple times i feel like there's going to be a randy boseno movie or documentary made or they just keep doing that this really happened they really burned down the thing. And then he really said there was no, no, that is a different Randy. And then he said there was no cocaine. Meanwhile, there is a cocaine. And then he really said he was a, he never said he was an indigenous. Well, in fact, he was

strong cream at, you know, like. You're really on to something here on this, Sean. Like, absolutely. Like, just imagine if they did the same kind of thing that happened with Tiger King. Like, if you just took the Tiger King concept and you made a story about instead of Tiger King, you had

Strong Eagle Man. An SMP and Toos production. Strong Eagle Man. True story. Yeah. Well, I mean, like every week, we're just like, this is actually happening. Oh, I think it's, yeah.

There's a million dollar idea right there. Somebody took it to run with it. Self identification blows up by election. Madison Fleischer, running in the writing of Cloverdale Langley City, says she self-identifies as Métis and previously claimed to be Métis on some of her social media profiles. But the Wasea, Métis Society, a charter community of the Métis Nation, BC, located in her writing, said Fleischer was unable to provide any evidence to back up her claims when approached by the organization.

Yeah, she was quoted as saying, I self-identify as a Métis based on what I know about my great-grandmother's heritage, and I'm currently collecting the necessary documentation to go through the application process to receive, Métis nation, British Columbia, citizenship. I've always been vocal about not yet holding it and removed Métis for my social media bios to ensure there was no confusion in my identification. Her statement said, beyond her social media profile,

she also identifies as a non-status Métis with Ukrainian ancestry. I'm like... Let's just pause for a sec, because you know what? I mean, if she's claiming indigenous status, she probably has, you know, like a few things here in there that just make her, you know, where you look at her and you're like, okay, it could

happen, right? Like Buffy St. Marie, where you look at her at first glance, you're like, okay, I can see, I can see how she could try to pull this off. And I'm sure that if we were to look at a picture of Madison Flesher, we would say, oh, I can see why this gets confused all the time. Let's bring up a picture of her, shall we? For those of you, just listening along, you're looking at blue eyes, incredibly light, blonde hair

and a forehead that you could write a fucking book on. And yet, even with that giant goddamn head, she seems dumb enough to think that this is going to work for her after it didn't work for Randy. Or maybe she was just taking notes from Randy. It worked for him for a while.

Yeah, yeah, I guess. You know, all she's got to do is get voted in in the by-election and then after that she can be like, ha, ha, got you fuckers. But yeah, she, like, if you were to just randomly look at that woman, you'd say, oh, well, she looks very Ukrainian, which doesn't typically get confused with First Nations. Update. Revenue Canada is still retarded. I can speak to that this morning firsthand. The Canada Revenue Agency is being hit again with revelations. It failed to detect a scam

one so obvious that, according to insiders, a simple Google or corporate registry search would have prevented it. According to sources, the agency learned earlier this year that it wrongly paid out tens of millions to scammers who used phony businesses to claim Ontario tax credits to renovate or build commercial facilities. The CRA processed the tax credits on behalf of the Ontario government, but sources say the federal agency was responsible for verifying the claims and in four years never checked any of them. According to sources, CRA officials were concerned about the easiness to create a fictitious corporation and stated no review is performed to validate the legitimacy of the new corporations whenever a new corporation is registered. Quoted,

no address requested for building in question. One internal note stated, according to sources, meaning no one checked to see if the renovations happened at a specific address or even if the company itself was real. Part of me fucking loves this. You see, it never even occurred to me. And I guess this is probably why I'd make a horrible criminal, although I do want to do a heist one day. But it never even occurred to me to think like, rather than trying to send out a whole bunch

random emails hoping you could trick somebody into sending a bunch of money to Nigeria. I think. Well, the government's full of stupid people. What if we just tried tricking them into sending us money? It's so genius. It's simple. It's just perfect.

You're like every time you talk to Revenue Canada, you're like, is there a single goddamn adult in that entire organization? Is there anybody who is functionally literate? Can I talk to somebody who didn't think getting vaccinated seven times was going to be a good idea? And then you think, okay, well, you know what? If I was going to scam somebody, these would be the perfect people to do it to.

They have access to unlimited money and they're all functionally retarded. All right. Becky says I'm pretty white and have my card. Not sure what your point is. The point, I guess, where I'm trying to go with this is that if you look super duper white and you're just going. going to say that you're first nations you're probably going to you should hold on it well that's the thing

someone's going to ask you at some point and then you should probably have a better backstory than just da da da da da da da da and so just the fact that the fact that she looks like this let's say she is I imagine that this isn't the first person who's ever asked her about it and then she

very well could be and there's lots of people that could be but if you don't have your card you can't say you are if you don't have your Especially when you're rolling and if you can't if you, well, that's the thing. You're going to go into politics. You're going to go, you're going to go put it all over your social media. I mean, come on. And if you don't have a decent, even a half-assed answer, that's pretty suspect.

So I hope that makes sense. Happy news. I don't know what her happy news is. You didn't put anything in. Did you put anything in? I didn't put anything in. I realized about halfway through the episode that I was like, oh, where was that happy news? So here you go.

California man who went missing for 24. years found after sister sees his picture in the news. And so it doesn't get into a whole lot of detail. It's from the CBC. So you finish reading the article and you're like, I'm still not even sure what the hell I'm looking at here. But yeah, well, this guy went. The headlines great.

It's a great. The headlines great. The articles in this type of will fucking. We have no idea what it was talking about, but it was great. So this guy went missing in 1999. and his family couldn't find him. And then they,

a hospital in California, put a picture of this guy in a hospital and said, hey, we've got this guy. He's nonverbal. Nobody knows who he is. And so then she happened to see it. And she's like,

oh, hey, that's my brother that's been missing for like 30 years. And so they went and looked and sure enough, it was him. Although, I mean, wasn't him? Because he could have just said it was. I mean,

he's nonverbal, right? So he can't really dispute it. He just gets carted off with his new family, whether it's real or not. Happy news. I don't know, like, what, how they figured he went missing, whether this nonverbal thing was a new development or whatever, but yeah, it's, it's a happy headline. Anyway.

So, community notes. Community notes, December 8th, Wainwright, Bermillion, Loimminster, UCP, AGM, and Wainwright, 4 PM. I've been getting emails about it. If you're a UCP member in my area, you should pay attention to the, that date, maybe show up, maybe volunteer, maybe, I don't know, you decide on your level of what you want, but that is coming up right away. Here's a, here's a quick minute video on what's coming up May 10th in Calgary, Alberta.

I mean, I still say that clip doesn't have nearly enough of me in it, but other than that, it's, it's Cornerstone Forum May 10th in Calgary, Alberta. Just search me out on any social media. If you're listening to this on the podcast, go down the show notes, early bird tickets on until December 31st. I'll be there. Tues will be there. Tom Luongo, Alex Kraner, Chuck Prodnick, Kaelin Ford, Matt Erritt, Chase Barber from Edison Motors just announced. Tom Bodrovich's Palisag Gold Radio, Chris Sims, from the Taxpayers Federation, I mean, and more coming. So it's going to be an interesting Saturday in Calgary. Chase, if you're listening right now, you should drive one of your trucks.

He should. He should. Bring one of your trucks to the show. show. There you go. And Becky, Becky McCaffrey said, LOL, agree. I'm done with pretendians. Thanks for clarifying. It's not just about the whiteness.

Love your show. Thanks, Becky. And Bonnie says, awesome trailer. Other community notes, Erskine Curling Club, February 5th to 9th, 2025,

the Alberta, Boston Pizza Cup. It's the only pizza you'll find in a cup. Folks, mashup, 135 in the books. To all the people coming to the Christmas shows here in Loyminster, the Dealing Pianos, look forward to seeing you. Two's, it's been a great week. Thanks, Lees. Really appreciate you.

Yeah, thanks, Lisa, for hopping on and firing this thing up to start it off. You make me want to be a million times better at this. Until we chat again, 136 next week. Thanks for joining us this morning, folks, and we'll catch up to you next Friday, 10 a.m. right here on, well, wherever you're tuning in from. We're all over the place. YouTube, X, Facebook, Rumble. And Earl says he may make the trip from Toronto for the Cornerstone Forum. How cool would that be?

It would be, Earl. Come on out, Earl. You don't even know what you're missing. You don't even know what you're missing if you don't come. Come on out, folks. We'd love to get out. Out of here. Until next week.

Bye.