Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 162

Episode Date: June 13, 2025

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John, you got to cut out the music. Cut out the music. Because this is the music that got us pulled off of YouTube. All right. I'm so excited on this side, 162. I can't even get any of the buttons. Right. I hope you guys are enjoying watching this on everywhere but YouTube.

This is why nobody watches this on YouTube. Hey. Despite the fact that we literally have... I made mistakes. Every once in a while, Sean makes a mistake, okay? Sorry, Toos. Hey? Tuesday is so perfect.

So perfect. Not even close. Isn't it ironic that between the two of us, you're the one who gets us pulled off of YouTube? That isn't ironic. I got my entire channel removed from YouTube. I know, but you would think that if any of us was going to be the one that would get us pulled off of YouTube,

it would not be you. It would be me. And yet here we are. Okay, real quick rant. Real quick rant. People always ask me, too, what's the hardest job in the world? And some people like, oh, mother is the hardest job.

Or some people will be like, you know what? Jumping out of a plane with an M16 and shooting at bad guys is a pretty tough job. Maybe, maybe, probably, eh. But the hardest job in the world is running the checkout counter at a grocery store. And you can always tell this because they always have to have the wrist brace. I don't know of any other job where you're doing something that requires you to preemptively wear a wrist brace every time you're scanning. a bag of frozen peas. And I've never done the job,

but there's something about it that just must absolutely destroy people because they have to wear the wrist braces all the time. Can I say I enjoy your shirt choice today? Yes, yes, thank you. Yeah, the old blue truck farm. You like this shirt? I do, I do. Yeah, I got it a couple weeks ago.

What? Yeah. Really? Yeah, just magically showed up. Dale Wilker sent you a shirt. No, no. You stayed at my house and you forgot it. And I said, well, this is perfect.

I'm going to wear it on the matchup. Well, there you go. Well, I like it. That's Dale Wilker. So the old Blue Trek Farm. Anyways, he's the graphic artist that has done the, you remember years, it's got to be years ago now when we were doing the story about the Pita.

And then he drew it wrestling, Oh, yes. He's the guy who drew. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, yeah, you're never getting this shirt back now then. That's the guy. That's the guy.

Okay, well, hey, Dale, thanks for the shirt. I think it looks better on you anyways, Tuss. I'm, you know, just saying. Yeah, appreciate that. There you go. Bash up 162, everyone. How's everybody doing today? Good morning.

It's a Friday, you know. And I think there's lots of things that are definitely notable to talk about today. and we got a guy sitting in the back. We're going to talk about some of that. We got a full list of things to do today. And Sean's excited and he can't seem to get any of the buttons right. So we'll see if that continues or if we clean our act up here. Either way, 162, I don't think you've come to expect any different from us to Yahoo's on this side.

If you're watching, make sure to like, share, and let's go, Panthers. Yes, I'm required to read all the headlines. So if you have a chuckle. That's right. That's right. You know, who got a question mark on the telepronter? Come on.

I hope that doesn't come back to haunt you at any point, Sean. Well, maybe it will. Maybe it won't. I don't know. I feel pretty good. Old Leon doing what he does in, in OT,

finds a way to score one. And old Pickard walking in. Good morning, Joe Mama. Pickard comes in, saves the day. and has lost in the playoffs. Enough about that. Enough about that. Okay.

Happy Airborne Friday to everyone, Jamie Sinclair and the boys. You know, one of the things we do here is give a shortout to all the military men out there. And then let's start off with the Coot 6.5, shall we? Viva Fry had a tweet. Meanwhile, in Canada,

a convicted pedophile is allowed to serve his sentence within the community, in the community, because of modest size of the collection, and the fact that the distribution discussion was with other like-minded individuals online. Yes. So apparently the considerations for this light sentence for child pornography was that, A, it wasn't a lot of child pornography. And B, he was only sharing it with other pedophiles.

And C, it was over a short duration. They also said it was just a short duration. Really, the really obvious question. here is when when you've got a judge or anybody anybody looks at well look at a collection of of tools or something like that like I say hey come into the garage check out all these tools I have and you say you don't have that many tools it's because presumably you have some kind of a reference point you've seen you've seen collections of tools baseball cards you name it when people look at them

and be like, that's a big collection or that's an average collection or that's a small collection, comic books, whatever. And the judge looked at this and said, it's not like it's a lot of child pornography. Like, I've seen more. I've seen more.

I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that the Colonna police should maybe look at that guy's laptop. Because if part of his decision was to look at it and say, it's not like it's a lot. of child pornography. Presumably he has some kind of perspective on it.

There's a good chance I may have committed some light. There's a good chance. You don't just do this a little bit. It was only a small murder. The guy you killed was only barely dead. This is insane. It's straight up insane. And so we had that article.

and then the other one here. Crossfield Man's Sentence in 2004 child pornography case. That's not exactly true. And yet another reason why we hate the media. This guy was working at the school and his job was to do one-on-one care of a non-verbal, severely mentally handicapped child.

And he was charged originally with molest, and with creation and distributing of child pornography and with possession of child pornography. And it looks like in order to plea down, the other charges were dropped and he was just convicted, mostly of time already served, by the way, for this. This is totally, like, we talk about protecting the most vulnerable people in our communities.

It doesn't get much more vulnerable than a special needs, kid who's incapable of telling anybody if things are going sideways. And this guy just ended up being convicted mostly of time served of the lesser charges. Now, I'm guessing without knowing for sure, but I'm guessing part of it was that you can't really talk about how dark this situation is without making it a big spectacle for that kid and for the families and friends and everything like that and everybody in the community. But at the same time, this is fucking unacceptable. Beyond.

Just beyond. I have, I have nothing to add. All these things going on with kids and. It's painful. Yeah. It's beyond. I don't even, I don't have more.

I don't know. At the, you know, I just think a yellow stone. Maybe the, maybe the train station. should come, you know? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Are we bringing in, you want to bring in? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's bring in Jamie real quick. All right.

Well, welcome back to the show, Mr. Sinclair, Jim Sinclair. I think the audience knows all about you. You've been a guest to the show

multiple times. You've taken over the host, this chair, multiple times. Welcome back, Jim. He's basically trying to just be the, he's trying to just be the, He's trying to turn this duo into a three, a trio.

I was going to say a threesome. I'm like, that's not quite right. Don't say that. Hey, I don't know if you guys can hear this, but I keep getting the matchup music in the background. Is it a mashup music still playing? Mashit music is still not playing. And you are really, really slow and behind.

And faint. Okay. How about I just reset everything and then I'll link back in. How's that sound? All right. Sounds good. Okay. All right.

All right. Let's roll. Pride cometh before the fall. Pride Toronto faces $900,000 shortfall after major sponsors pull out with just weeks to go before one of Canada's largest festivals. Pride Toronto is still grappling with a wave of sponsor withdrawals of the left them nearly 900 grand short. Prompting urgent calls from the organization, individuals and the government to step in. Pride Toronto's executive Kojo Modest confirmed the organization lost major backers, including Google Home Depot, Nissan, Clorox. And yeah, the list went on.

Clorox? I'm guessing, like, a container of Clorox wipes might be just considered an aphrodisiac in some circles. You realize Pride Toronto is the largest Pride Festival. in all of North America. They spend $5 million on a parade. On a parade. On a parade. Maybe like how expensive is glitter?

Really? I don't know. That's insane. Well, it's funny because a few weeks ago, we talked about how there was a $700,000 budgeting shortfall. And now there's a $900,000 budgeting shortfall. And they're being dicks about it. Like they're calling out rather than saying,

to Home Depot or to Clorox. You guys sponsored us in the past. We appreciate it. We're disappointed that you're not continuing the relationship, but the door's always open, right? Like that would be the magnanimous way to handle this. To say, hey, you know what? You guys used to give us a whole bunch of free money.

You're not doing it this year. And yeah, obviously we prefer to get the money. But that's fine. I understand. You can't support everything all the time. Instead, you don't walk away from us when our house is on fire and when we rebuild and try to come back for the ones that walked away today they're going to have to demonstrate that they are ready and have done the work

in order to come back i can tell you right now they're never fucking coming back not after that because here's the other thing is that now if you let's say let's say you had a banner year you sponsor them one year because you just you don't even know what to do with all the money that your company made sure yeah here's a hundred thousand dollars or something like that and then they come knocking next year in and you say look we didn't make as much money we don't have the spare funds sorry um you can you can try again later and then they try and publicly shame you for not having that money the second year well other companies are going to look at that and say well fuck if we sponsor them once and then don't do it in every subsequent year afterwards we're in the news

for being dicks so we're just going to stay away from this entirely it's such a bad strategy It's just silly and stupid and pretty fucking gay. Fairies. Yeah. Different type of ferry. Ferries get pounded from both sides during Pride Month. Fairies get pounded from both sides during Pride Month. Criticism comes from all sides after BC Ferries awarded contracts to Chinese state-owned company.

On Tuesday, BC Ferries announced it had signed a. deal with Chinese state-owned Waihai shipyards to build four new vessels between 2026 and 2031 as of replacements for its oldest ships. Nicholas Jimenz, the corporation C.E.O has defended the choice by saying that there were no Canadian companies that applied for the project. In September, though, North America, Vancouver-based shipbuilder C-SPAN said that Canadian shipyards and their supply chains cannot compete with low-wage countries that have lower employment standards, lower environmental standards, and lower. safety standards. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's the same argument we have in oil and gas where it's like, well, yeah, they're obviously able to produce it with with much lower environmental impact and with less

emissions of carbon dioxide because whenever there's an HR grievance, you just settle with an AK-47. Whenever there's a spill, you just leave it out in the desert. You don't have to worry about remediation. You don't need to worry about reclaiming nature. and believe it or not, communist dictators aren't really known for having strong unions, for example. And so, yeah, they can't compete.

But here's the thing, is their solution to saying, hey, we can't compete is to say, we need a whole bunch of free money from the government. Rather than saying, why don't we make part of the procurement process to look at, you know, building standards and employee standards and environmental standards. and have that weighted in the consideration. That would be the obvious thing.

And then, okay, yeah, you know what? We're going to pay an extra $2 million, but it's $2 million going to somewhere that isn't a communist dictatorship. So, yeah. It just seems like the standard thing to do in Canada is when you want something, you ask for money. You just, in order to be competitive, we need a lot of money from the government. And we'll get into some of that.

Which means that you're not competitive, by the way. And look, I get the fact that you're not going to be able to compete on price alone with a communist dictatorship. And that's fair, as long as it's reflected in the bid process. But none of the Canadians even, not a single Canadian company even applied for this. Separation. Yes. Federal divorce proceedings. The latest from ThinkHQ polling the question, if a provincial referendum was held tomorrow asking Albertans if they would like to remain in Canada,

or become an independent country, how would you most likely vote? Remain said 64% leave 29%, the rest are unsure. When the question is whether a person would consider supporting Alberta leaving Canada, the number who would consider backing an exit for Confederation goes to 36%. Here in Alberta, the Alberta NDP, 99% are remain supporters. I don't think that shocks me or twos. No. Alberta UCP remain, only 31% leave 58%.

8% and 11% are unsure. That's a big deal. 58% of the voters for the current governing party. 58% want to leave. And so whenever this gets painted is like this extremist thing. And Nahit Nenshi gets in front of a camera and a microphone and talks down to everybody like their pieces of shit, which is just how he has conversations. But what he's saying is that, oh, he's touting to the fringe separatists.

Well, no, no, no, no, actually, technically, mathematically speaking, people who are UCP supporters who want to stay in Canada are the fringe. Yeah, I mean, I think if you're sitting there watching, as you see 58%. And I just had Martin Armstrong on the podcast, too, and he was saying he did a deep dive research into, you know, a bunch of separation movements throughout history. and he was shocked because he thought it would, you know, he would need to have 50% or 70% or whatever the number is to get something like that through. And what he found was it was 15% or less on everyone except one. So he was saying, well, 15% of people in an area is all you needed because there was a majority of people that would go along with whatever the minority push.

And 15% was an hour. So when you read 58%, you're like, holy crap. that's higher than, you know, all of his research showed. So I thought that was very interesting. And I think- By a significant margin. Yeah, you're not talking, oh, we got 17% and everybody writes that off. Even if they read it off.

You've got almost quadruple. Correct. Like, I mean, that's a high number. Now, here's the interesting thing. Look, I, one of my things is that regardless of where it is or who it is or whatever it is, the smaller group should be deferred to. So, for example, when Toronto said they wanted to ban handguns, I said, this is stupid,

it's idiotic, but I don't live in Toronto. I shouldn't be the one deciding. Okay. And as far as I'm concerned, what should be happening with any idea about separation or secession or anything like that, regardless of where it is in the world or the country, the default should be to leave and you should be required to get a clear majority to stay in Canada

because you need to have a situation where people actually want to be here like where it's mutually beneficial and Canada has done an impeccable job of not doing that over the year. There was one other article here former federal conservative cabinet minister, Rona Ambrose says the secessionist

successinist. Secessionist sentiment in Alberta. Is an unwelcome source of uncertainty for investors, but it can fizzle out quickly if Ottawa handles it right. Ambrose now the deputy chair at TD Security said Tuesday there's a feeling of resentment in Alberta and a neighboring Saskatchewan. I think that it can dissipate quite quickly if some of these underlying issues around how the energy sector has been treated by Ottawa are dealt with.

And not even just the energy sector, like all of it. the equalization, the dairy cartel, all of this stuff. Do you think the federal government in the next year can do enough to dampen what is simmering in Alberta and Saskatchewan, I might add? No, no, because it requires a little bit of acknowledging the fact that they've been dicks. And if there's anything that people in Ottawa are really bad at aside from government, it's acknowledging when you've been a dick. Yeah, when they've gotten anything wrong.

Here's the thing. Okay, so look at the members of parliament. I talked about this last week. When has anyone ever stood up in that House of Commons and said, thank you to the people who we take half of their damn money so that I can be here in this cushy job? What was the last time somebody from fucking Quebec sent you a thank you letter for the $5,000 that you send per person in your household to those whiny fucking bastards. When?

Ever. Ever. E. Francois Blanchette? There's never any, you know what? We don't like Alberta, but we get a lot of free shit from them.

And maybe we shouldn't be jerks. Nothing. Do you want to talk about all these other, the other polls from polling Canada? You want me to show them on screen? Well, I'm just going to hit a couple. Real quick.

Sure. Those who agree, my province feels treated fairly by the national government. Ontario, 81%. Quebec, 48% British Columbia, 46%, Manitoba 44, Alberta 32, 32, Saskatchewan 30. The right number here is somewhere probably just shy of 50%. Because generally speaking, if you're reaching a something of a fixed pie agreement and both sides walk away feeling like they ended up just a little bit on the short side, of it, that's probably an indication that it was a fair deal.

Because if somebody says, yeah, I definitely got the best deal out of that, it's probably even more of a better deal than they think. And you've got 81% of people in Ontario feeling like the government treats them fairly. That number is way too fucking high. I'll tell you that right now. Western Canada complains too much. Quebec 56%.

Quebec thinks. Alberta complains too much. That is the pot calling the kettle Canada's last prime minister. The NDP commissioned a poll in Saskatchewan to try and show exactly how fringe and crazy this separatism thing is. And made the dumb mistake of releasing the results, which said that over 40% of SaaS party voters support a referendum on separation. So that's not a fringe. This one, though, if Albertans choose to leave Canada, should the federal government allows separation to happen?

No, 56, yes, 32. They don't have a say in it. If the referendum vote goes through, they don't get to say that, no, we're not going to acknowledge that. If this is done by the books and Albertans say, yes, we want to go alone. The federal government does not have a say in it anymore, aside from trying to negotiate the terms.

they don't get to stop it. And then this is interesting. So Danielle Smith said she wouldn't consent to the creation of any new federal parks in Canada, which you need the consent of the provincial party to make any new parks federally. And then Andrew Coyne, just the classic asshole luringian elitist, says, that's okay. Your consent is not required. And I just want to say, Andrew, that's a really odd.

thing to say to a woman. Jim, are you back there? Are you, are you, like, I, I see him coming in. I see him going out. Are you, like, let me just, let me just get something. Okay, all right. Well, we're doing that. Let's talk about Bill C202.

Okay, Bill C202 here, I'll pop it up. Okay, and just forgive me, well, not forgive me. Give me a moment here. Okay. Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development Act, Section 10 of the Department of Foreign Affairs Trade and Development Act is amended by adding the following after subsection 2. In exercising and performing the powers, duties and functions set out in subsection 2, the minister must not make any commitment on behalf of the government of Canada by international trade or treaty or agreement

that would have the effect of, A, increasing the tariff rate quota within the meaning of subsection 2, one of the customs tariff applicable to dairy products, poultry, or eggs, or B, reducing the tariff applicable to those goods when they're imported in excess of the applicable tariff rate quota. Yes. Now, for people watching along, throw in the comments, if you have a conservative member of parliament what their last name is, real quick. Okay, so for example, for me, so this, I guess to sum it up, this is a protectionist bill designed to protect the dairy cartel

from international competitors. Okay, that's what this is. This is protectionism for the dairy cartel and eliminating or reducing the ability of foreign entrance into our dairy quota system. Now, this, given that over half of the dairy farms in Canada are in fucking Quebec, this is a bill that was put forward by the block. Okay?

Now, Lisa Ferguson, she says her MP is Stubbs, Shannon Stubbs. Now, here it is. Here's her name right there on the right hand side. Mine is Stevenson. There he is just above it. Okay. Michelle Rimpel Garner. She's on the list.

Look at that. Okay. Curric. Okay, Curric. He's the guy parachuting out. But yeah, there, oh, there it is. Battle River Crowfoot. This passed unanimously.

So for everybody in Western Canada who has a member of parliament who's conservative, they didn't vote for your local interests. They voted for the dairy cartel in fucking Quebec. 333 to 0 is what the vote was. 33 to 0. So my new guy, Stevenson, just gets elected. Brand new member of parliament Gets on a plane, flies to Ottawa,

hasn't even kicked the Alberta dirt off of his boots yet, and he's already voting for the interests of fucking Quebec. Listen, Stevenson, Stubbs, everybody. We already have enough members of parliament whose job it is to represent the interest of fucking Quebec and fucking Ontario and the fucking Maritimes in this fucking shit show of a fucking country.

you don't need to be doing it for them. I feel like you and Jamie have been taking lines from each other. Jim, what say you this morning? Well, thank you for having me. Can you guys hear me good or? We can actually hear you. Do you want to disappear off the screen again? Or are you going to stick around for a couple seconds?

I think China's hacking my internet here. Oh, yeah. Yep. Yeah. So, hey, guys, thanks for letting me on here. I was talking to, well, I was talking to Steve because Sean wouldn't answer his phone, but there's something going on. Why is that? What do I do Friday mornings?

Everybody knows what I do? I literally put my phone off. The guy named twos, what does twos do Friday morning? I know you don't get up early and get ready. Like, you're like sleeping when I call you all the time. So you just got to get up. Just get up and get some shit done. you'll feel a lot better about the day.

So, uh, anyway, real quick, real quick, really quick, Jamie, um,

Zane says David Bexty for Boe River is his MP. Here's his name highlighted right there. There's Bexty voting. After that great speech he gave last week about, about, about how all the politicians in Ottawa have forgotten the people in Alberta. The next thing he does is vote for the fucking dairy cartel.

Go ahead, Jamie. All right. So anyways, I was talking to Steve this morning at Tuse. And anyways, I was talking to him about the Israeli strikes on Iran, and he didn't quite know what was going on there. So I said, well, if you want me, I can come on and maybe just give you an update. So first and foremost, there's people that are in harm's way, and they're Iranians and they're Muslims, but they're still at the end of day,

they're humans. and they're going through something pretty horrific. So, you know, my prayers are out to all those people. And I hope them all the best and what their country is going to be going through in the next little bit here. So Israel's attacked Iran. Back in 1979, the Iranian people were put under Islamic law by the Ayatollah. So there's two different levels of government. You got your government that runs the day-to-day stuff.

Then you got your religious leaders that basically tell the government what's going to happen. And the people of Iran are really the ones that are going to suffer the most. And they want regime change. So hopefully this goes well and people stand up against their government. Unfortunately, like most dictatorships, they disdeme. arm the Iranian people. So they're already at a behind the A ball and in their way that they can protest their government.

So I wish them all the best. So in 2000, roughly mid-2000s. Jim, you, you, oh, there you are. Yeah. They went to the United Nations and said, hey, listen, like, if Iran gets to a position where they can launch nukes at either Israel or a. at the United States, they're going to go in and stop it. So it's got to that level, and they've, they've decreed that the death to Israel, death

to the United States, right? So that's what, that's what's going on here now. So that's why they're doing this. So today, the Mossad Commandos, they performed brilliant attacks inside of Iran, attacking all their missile areas, attacking the head of the government, the head of all the military leadership. And they've been very successful so far. What makes them brilliant?

So they are, they basically for 20 years have been setting up this, this attack. And they're so deep within the, the Iranian system that they're, these, these agents have been undetected. And they've been able to mass, mass, large numbers of these commandos inside of Iran to carry out these commando attacks.

These attacks have also been followed up by air strikes on all the Iranian top headquarters, all of their missile and drone sites. They've also destroyed all the airports. They've gone after all of their naval ports as well. So they basically crippled them like within the last 12 hours or so. Now, the nuclear sites have also been. Just my order 66 on them. Yeah, basically.

So this is going to be a multi-stage attack. There will be other countries getting involved. I believe that now that the Israelis have the missile areas and the nuclear areas disabled in their air defense, the Americans will launch their heavy bombers out of the Arabian Sea to go and take down the, do all the deep, deep bombing. that needs to be done on these bunkers that are like 300 feet underneath the ground that store all this nuclear capacity and where they refine all the uranium, so it's nuclear grade.

So, yeah, it's going to be horrific for the next little while. And yeah, no, there's lots of countries that come to the Israeli side, be in Jordan. Jordan has launched their aircraft to shoot down Iranian drones, which was their first. response is the drones came out of Iran, so they've been shooting them down over Iraq. Qatar is also sided with Israel, which is very, very, you know, not like a Muslim country to do. And they've also been shooting down drones for Israel. Yeah, so there's Hamas in, up in Lebanon. They've actually surrendered to Israel already after this strike happened.

So there's lots of things happening. And so the Houthis are going to be, you know, I don't know what their response is going to be, but they'll be on the side of Iran. But there's not too many people that are supporting them. And there'll be your obvious, you know, North Korean and China and all of them will be behind Iran. Maybe even Russia will see where they stand. But, yeah, this is interesting. And it's kind of, you know, odd that nothing's been said about Trump's assassination.

attempt, there was some links back to Iran. And that's been pretty quiet like crickets out there. So a lot of stuff is going to be coming out about what's going on and how the American involvement has been, you know, they've been planning this for years. Like I said, Trump gave them 60 days to comply with the regulations at the United Nations that on Iran. This is 61 days later. So it's kind of.

like this response is, has been well planned and well time. So anyways, I pray for those people over there, and I hope that they get out of this without, without being harmed too much. And it's not in the Americans or the Israelis' interest to harm civilians. So I can't see them purposely targeting them. But what the Iranians will do is start putting people around their sites that they don't want to get hit.

And it's horrific. but that's what I can foresee in the future. So that's all I got. One question before we lay off. You know, when you're looking at, you know, all the discussion around World War III, right, does this put us closer to that? I mean, obviously, I assume it does,

or do you look at it differently? Well, I always look at China as the, because they're the ones behind the scene, you know, smoke and mirrors kind of thing. They've got as heavily engaged with Europe, in Ukraine right now. Now we're engaged in the Middle East with Israel, potentially the United States also jumping into that boat

to get rid of the nuclear threat in Iran. So what is China going to do around Taiwan now? Like a lot of resources are being gobbled up by what's happening in those areas of the world. So it's really going to depend on what China, does. If China goes after Taiwan now, it's going to be, it'll be balls out like people will be going on bananas. So let's pray that there's some comrade heads around and we can prevent that from happening. So appreciate you hopping on, Jim. I hope you have some happy news.

Sorry I got to run, but it's grass cutting day and I got a, I got stuff to do here. Jim, people were at people have been asking what's your campsite? And how can people find it? Well, they got to come to God's country. Good old Saskatchew. And we're located at Regina Beach for about 700 meters from the lake. And so, yeah, it's right in Regina Beach. Does it have a name?

Yeah, Regina Beach Campground. Okay. Right there. And I assume they can. We got Facebook. We got email. Yes. So people can reach out to us.

And best thing to do is just. bombard Sean with text messages asking for my phone number because I've been I've been like people have been phoned in me and I've been like yeah it'd be good to see it come on down we'll have a beer around the bonfire so find him online folks find him online it's not a big deal if you get home to john yeah he loves it thanks you can text Sean just text Sean anytime you want yeah love you guys All right. Thank you. All right.

Thanks to Jim for hopping on. And yeah, you can text me if you want to track down Jim and his campground. Okay. I'm not too put off by that. And Vernet asked about Tom Kamiyak. I don't even know if I'm saying that right. But yeah, you can see here he's highlighted. He voted yes for that.

So. All right. Um, auditor. Federal government organizations repeatedly violated the procurement rules as they awarded G.C. Strategies, Inc., the main firm behind the pandemic arrived can scandal, nearly 100 million in contracts over a nine-year period without proper oversight. Canada's auditor general has concluded in a new report. Auditor General Karen Hogan found federal agency failed to justify procurement methods and contract costs following security measures and monitoring the work of G.C. strategies, ultimately failing short. or falling short in showing value for the money spent and even paying contractors without proof of work was done. Yes. She said there's a video.

Well, here, I could show it here real quick. I'll show maybe like the last little bit of it, where she says that basically everything went wrong. 10 departments in this audit, there's 31 federal organizations, including one crown and departments. And we found issues in almost every contract that we looked at, which tells me that there's no reason to believe.

It's limited to these two. And it's time for the public service to go back to the basics and understanding procurement rules and why they should be followed. Yes. So you know how I say that it's not as though like it would just be insane to think that the media started lying to us as soon as we were better able to fact check them? This is the same thing. She looked into a whole bunch of these and almost every single audit was a huge failure.

So the logical conclusion is that the more they would look at, the more they would find. To think that it was limited just to the ones they happened to audit would be silly. And now the company is banned from having government contracts for the next seven years, the company. Now, there's nothing stopping them from starting a new numbered company and getting contracts under that. Correct. Also, even if they had to wait seven years, they got $100 million. I think I could live pretty comfortably for the next seven years and then start applying again afterwards. These are the repercussions they faced.

I want to know what repercussions, the bureaucrats who sidestepped all of these transparency things and the due diligence. I want to know what repercussions they're facing. Because I can tell you right now that if I worked for any company and I just gave away $100 million without any of the correct paperwork, I would not be working there anymore. Nine Ontario men arrested

after the largest drug seizures in the history of Peel region with 479 kilograms of cocaine seized worth 47.9 million. Sting with me, sing for the year, sing for the laughter, sing for the tear. And as you can tell, there's Gertit Singh,

Karmishit Singh, Manpreet Singh, Sarich sat, sing. I mean, it just goes on. Five of them. Five of them are saying this. Yeah, you get the point. Okay. Yes.

Exactly. Now, did I, I might have accidentally not put this in here. Was there anything in there about the new street in, uh, in Victoria? Oh, shoot. Okay.

All right. Well, here's a rapid fire one. Pull that down. Uh, we got this. here and we got a special headline for you. I don't even know how to read that. I mean, obviously it's in, it's in, I don't know, is that Cree? Is it, it doesn't matter.

But I mean. It's in Musqueam. It's in the Hank Minam language of the Musqueam First Nations. And it says Musquium Street. Well, I mean, I can't believe you wouldn't get that right. In fairness, to, you know, Calgary. Calgary's got the same thing. No, they don't.

What street? Over by the Grey Eagle Casino. There's a whole, I forget, well, like, Sucina. There's Soutina Drive, but at least it's written in English. Fair enough. Like, how do you, if you got to call an ambulance, you got to call an ambulance, you got to call the police station. Like, it's, this is insane.

This is the actual name. Vancouver's newest street name is set to be the city's first officially named in an alphabet other than English Ah, Sasca, Vittal, the street. Like they literally Can I, can I get an ambulance to Zunz, you know, over.

Exactly, exactly. Like what happens is going to go back to you? You know where there's that blue building? You take a left after it. You head over to the next one. There's a homeless guy sitting there with a sign that reads this. You hang right there and you go to the big boulder. That's what's going to happen out of us.

We're going to go back to old farmer direction. Yeah, if you see the, if you see the van with a flat tire in the driveway, you've gone too far, right? This is, this is how the directions are going to be. Like, this is insane. Like, look at this. It's an S with a thing on it. X, superscript W M, upside down E, theta, K. Yeah, right.

SuperScript W. I mean, you don't have to go through it. Like, I can't, like, it's, it's like they took the lyrics from Freak on a Leash, the corn song, and they're like, let's just turn that into a street name. Like, so, ma kizum, ba boom, dot the boom, sacoetam. Do you sound like Jarger Binks? I mean, I might be saying it correctly. For all anybody knows, that might be exactly how to say it correctly.

Does anything at this point surprise anyone on this show? Is anybody sitting there? going, I'm surprised. You know, mashup 162. Does anything surprise us anymore? That one kind of did. Like, it's just, the virtue signaling is going a little bit too far. And I'm saying that while living in this fucking country,

that the virtue signaling is getting a little bit extreme. I'm curious in the comments. Does anybody, is anybody surprised? Are you surprised at this point? Are you just like, nope? Because I have our time. Tuesday can follow up on the comments when we get there. regardless, I'm not surprised.

Yeah, everybody laughing because that was great. That was Jar Jar Binks reading that right there. Premier Daniel Smith, the three of her ministers on Wednesday night were in southern Alberta for an hour's long town hall to discuss the province's coal policy. About 500 people packed a community hall in Fort McLeod. And the town hall came weeks after the Alberta energy regulator granted an Australian-based coal company, permission to start a controversial coal exploration on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Northback Holding Corpse projected project at Grass. Grassy Mountain was initially rejected in 2021,

with a panel ruled that the likely environmental effects on fish and water quality outweighed the potential economic benefits. Late last year, the project was exempted from Alberta's government's decision to ban open pit coal mines because Northback's application was considered an advanced proposal. The issue has been polarized in the southern Alberta when the debate has primarily revolved around the economic implications of development against environmental effects. So Daniel

Smith's basic argument is that when the NDP were in charge and they put the moratorium on coal, it left them with some contract clauses that were very expensive. I think in this case, $15 million. She said if we do nothing,

then we were told we will likely lose. those cases because they have uh um here smith also frequently said to lawsuit by five coal companies that said they're owed 15 billion by the province and lost revenues and sunk costs and she said if we do nothing then we were told we'll likely lose those cases and have to pay 15 billion dollars now so her argument presumably is is that regardless of whether this makes sense or not we have to go through it because otherwise we'll owe them 15 billion dollars and so there's a bunch of of people who say that this shouldn't happen. My understanding is that they did, I want to say Pinsh Creek, but I don't think that was exactly right. Crow's Nest Pass. They did a survey in

Crohnest Pass. So the people who actually live in this neighborhood, and it was something like 72% were for it. Now, I get it. The mountains are shared by everybody, but at the same time, these are the people who it's more their mountains than it is everybody else. And let's be honest, It's not like there's a lack of them in this fucking place, right? A non-binding referendum in Crozness passed, so 70% of voters saying they'd support the nearby coal project. Yes. 70%.

Yeah, sorry. I said 72, and that was outrageously off the mark. I'm just making sure we're getting it accurate, twos. Okay. So 70% of the people in this community want it to happen. but the people in Edmonton or wherever these eco people are coming from say no they don't want it to happen and that doesn't mean that their concerns are unfounded but I think a little bit of perspective here is important and maybe a little bit of knowledge and so to the UCPs credit they said that they're

getting a bunch of studies done right now to look at what the expected outcomes are going to be And apparently there is like one species or one not even species of fish, but there's one group of fish in one lake that would be negatively affected, which Alberta doesn't have a ton of great fishing already. But I don't know. I don't know. It's just, it's interesting and it's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of details. And if you're going to make a big decision like this, you need the details and not the rhetoric.

Federal government moving ahead with new pay system to replace Phoenix, Public Works and Procurement Minister Joel Lightbound announced Wednesday that the government is moving ahead to the final build and testing phase of the day-forced HR and pay solution for government employees replacing the Phoenix pay system. The government of Canada remains committed to modernizing its HR and pay system in a responsible and transparent manner. By investing in future of HR and pay, we are taking an important step forward in insurance. an efficient, secure, and sustainable future for our public service employees. At least $3.5 billion has been spent by the government on the Phoenix Pay system since 2017-2s. 3.5 billion. And there are 327,000 transactions waiting to be processed through the system, including 331,000 financial transactions and 9,000 transaction related to collective bargaining agreements. Now, it's interesting.

You know, we like to talk about how stupid people in the media are in this country, at least I do. They said 327,000 transactions waiting to be processed, including 331,000 and 9,000. Now, if you add those two together, it says that there are 327,000 transactions, including 340,000 transactions specifically mentioned. their math is off in either A, B, C, or all of them. And nobody ever thought, nobody on the copy desk said, wait a second. Did I ever mention, I think you're at your best when you just pick apart the grammar,

like how they've structured a headline or the actual story? I think, I don't know what everybody else thinks, but Tuesday's at his best when he just is like, This doesn't even make sense. The story is, you know, like, okay, that's the story, but look at how they wrote this. It doesn't make sense. For those who don't know, Tews constantly calls me when I do something on different things

and I write things or I do, and he just pulls me apart. And I've come to, it's an uncomfortable place to have Tews pull apart. It's a love, hate thing. Yes, but I think on this show, when you're pulling apart the, how they've written things, I'll give you all the time in the world, too, is fired away. Okay.

Well, let's move on to the next one. More than $150 million has been spent looking into a new platform to replace the pay system. Now, I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that if you are looking, you're doing an RFQ or an RFP for something that is going to pay billions of dollars in a number of years. you don't need to spend $150 million. You can go to whatever companies you want, like pay works, Phoenix pay, whatever. Be like, look, I am not going to pay out of pocket to analyze your stuff. You are going to pay out of pocket to send me all the information I need

and give me access to whomever I need to speak to. And they will say, well, if we get this contract, we're going to be literally making billions, of dollars. So yes, we are obviously fine with that. You don't need to spend $150 million of taxpayer money to do something that we would be doing already on our own for free in the private sector. This is the Trans Mountain Pipeline all the fuck over again. Student charged with attempted murder in a sword attack in Brandon. A 15-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a sword attack at Brandon Manitoba High School is at a Brandon Manitou.

Toba High School, I should say, is in stable condition as another student faces an attempted murder charge. I don't know. Do you need any more information than that? Some kid tried to kill another kid at high school with a sword. With a fucking sword. Correct. Nobody is buying.

I want to know what kind of sword. Was it a katana? Was it like a zvihander? Was it a bastard sword? Was it a long sword? Was it a machete? I don't know if I need to know the sword. I think it's wild that some kid almost died at the hands.

I think you could probably make a few guesses as to what happened if you knew what kind of sword. Okay. Nobody is buying new condos in Toronto. Nobody. Over 80% of Toronto area condos now selling for under asking, says new House Sigma data. A whole generation of people have been taught that property values only head in one direction. up. Sixty-six percent of homes in the GTA went from under-asking price in the first quarter of 2025 compared to 46 percent in 2022, and about 80 percent of condos in the region went for less

than the list price in the first part of the year compared to 49 percent in 2020. This is a graph of the months of supply for pre-construction condominium apartments. Now, because it's months of supply, it's going to be obvious. automatically adjusted for population. Because the larger the population, the more houses are going to be bought. And therefore, it's just going to equalize. So this is a really good apples to apples comparison over time. The start of the graph is January of 2004.

And it goes all the way to January of 2025. So over 21 years, the highest it ever got to was when the housing bubble crashed, it got a little over 20 months. and it's currently just shy of 60. It is very nearly triple the worst it's ever been in the last 21 years, including during the bubble bursting in 2008. Correct.

Canada sets record for number of refugee claims. Canada's moved up one spot to become the fourth largest recipient country of asylum seekers, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. Last year, Canada received a record 174,000 new refugee claims of the 3.1 million new claims reported worldwide. The country was also second largest resettlement country, globally welcoming 49,300 refugees in 2024

and led the world in granting permanent residence to 27,400 refugees. The thing that I always wonder whenever I read these articles is what are the finer points of what it takes to be a refugee? Like, if I was born and raised in Nebraska and I came to Canada, could I claim to be a refugee? What does it take? What's the criteria you need to meet? Like, do you have to be leaving an active war zone?

Do you have, do you need this? Do you need that? What does it take to be able to check that box and have it recognized as you being a refugee? And what kind of fact checking do they? Like if you just say, oh, yeah, I left a war zone. And then they look into it and say, well, you were just in Denmark. Good enough? Is it good enough?

Like, do you? Is it like when people can self-identify as being first nations and get a whole career out of it like Buffy St. Marie where nobody says anything? And maybe they'll quietly rescind your order of Canada months later. But what do you need to do? And how do we ensure? Because that number seems really high. We are fourth in the world in

Refugees, in accepted refugees. We are the 38th largest country in terms of population. That is disproportionately high. Here's what Grock quickly says. So take this with just a magic grain of salt here, okay?

To qualify as a refugee, you must have a well-founded fear of persecution based on one or more of the fallen grounds, race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, gender, sexual orientation, political opinion, be outside your country of nationality. Alternative, you may qualify as a person in need of protection if returning your country

would subject you to danger of torture, risk to life, risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment. And it says key requirements, unable to seek protection in your home country, no safe, alternative country, and not exclude you may be ineligible if you have committed serious crimes, have already been granted refugee status in another country, have safe third country status under the Canada U.S. safe third country agreement. You may be required to claim asylum in the first safe

country you arrived in such as the U.S. Well, it's, okay, so that right there, you may be required. You fucking well better. Like if you're leaving, if you're leaving a war zone and you're playing lands with six bullet holes in it, and luckily you managed to get

to New Jersey. Well, you'll probably get a few more bullet holes by the time you're done taxing. But that should be where you're claiming asylum. There shouldn't be a single person walking across the border between Canada and the U.S. who claims asylum in Canada. You name me one good reason why you couldn't make that claim in the U.S.

They're deporting everybody. They're deporting everybody who's there illegally. Not everybody who's coming in. Now here's the thing. Okay, you're not being granted asylum. All right. Well, now you can look into Canada. Fair enough.

Right? You can look into it. but to just be like, yeah, I walked across at Roxham Road and I want to be declared an asylum seeker. Well, you were doing just fine back there 20 minutes ago. What's the problem? Public safety minister recuses himself from files on two terrorist groups. The cabinet minister, leading premier prime minister, Mark Carney's border security push said Tuesday he is recusing himself from files related to Sri Lanka, terrorist group and its Canadian front organizations. and a statement sent to global news on Tuesday,

the office of public safety minister, Gary Anand Dissanda. How the heck do I say that guy's name? Do you know? Carefully. Probably wrong. I'm guessing Ananda Sangri. He stepped back from, like, you know, the other Randy, this is quickly becoming the guy who's going to be in our headlines for what?

The next four years, twos? Like, this isn't going away anytime soon. Anyways, he said he stepped back from any matter related to the, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Aleem or the world Timil, sorry, movement. The minister did not explain why he had done so except a state that it was out of abundance of caution. Both groups he cited in his recusal statement have their origins in conflict in Sri Lanka,

where he said he was born before coming to Canada in 1983 and becoming an activist, realtor, lawyer, an MP. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil, Aleem or L-T-T-E-Fawks. a 25-year civil war against Sri Lanka government forced an attempt to carve a separate state out of the tiny island nation off India's southern tip in 2006 Canada placed them on its list of terrorist entities citing its terrorist attacks against civilian centers

and political assassinations such as the 1991 killing of former Indian Prime Minister, Raji Gandhi. Ah, man, I'm just, whatever. Welcome to Sean and names this week. Okay, all right. So good background, but here's the important thing is that under Mark Carney's new leadership, the liberals and Ottawa in general, they're sitting up straight. They're taking notice. We talked about it where, you know, he's requiring that that when, um, then when people show up to meetings with him, they show up prepared.

He's making people show up to work on time. He's making them dress professionally. They're expected to follow the rules. of the law. And now, when we have this random Sri Lankan idiot who presumably is in a potential conflict of interest because that's not just any terror organization, that's a terror organization that he's in some way associated with,

well, he's required to recuse himself from it. Now, the obvious question is, what the fuck do we have a sitting member of parliament needing to recuse himself from dealing with citing policy on a fucking terrorist organization in Sri Lanka. That's an important question. But I really like the fact that under Mark Carney's leadership, people are starting to take things like showing up on time,

dressing professionally, being prepared, and recusing themselves from conflicts of interest. They're taking it seriously. And it's a new page for these guys. And I think it's great. The next step would be to ask why a member of parliament is somehow associated with a terrorist organization. But baby steps, we're on our way, we're going to get there, just let us take this journey at our own pace. I think it's wonderful.

Real quick, I just want to point out that this guy is the new Randy. And here is his latest thing. So Mark Garneau died last week. Damn shame. It's my deepest condolences to the late Mark Carney. and as someone Yeah. You know, I was sad to see the other Randy go

because I was just like this story knows no bounds like on how stupid it get. Enter Gary. We have Gary now. And Gary is going to entertain us for the days, weeks mashups ahead. I feel like they're numbered.

I feel like they're numbered. I don't know. I thought that with the other Randy too, and he just kept showing up. Yes, but here's the thing is that there isn't a call. culture of Randy's everywhere, like there was with Trudeau. Now there's a culture of show up on time, of be prepared. And maybe don't get, don't accidentally forget that the prime minister of your country,

the leader of your party didn't just fucking die. Come on, Gary, be better. I think Gary is I love how. Gary's around. Gary's going to stay here for a bet. Mark Cardi. We should take a bet. How long do you think Gary's in for? Folks, I'm curious.

How long do you think Gary stays? Here, let's bring it back up. How long do you think Gary is in? And I say I agree. Yeah. I think he's got two months. Two months? He is going to, here's what's going to happen is over the next month,

they're going to phase back what's happening with him. He's probably going to have meetings booked during question periods that he's unable to attend them sadly. And there's going to be a month of radio silence. and they're going to do the unannounced shuffle. Like when they had the minister of middle class or whatever, and then people were asking, well, what is this job? What do they do?

And they just quietly stopped having that ministry without actually announcing it. They're going to do a change where all of a sudden someone else is going to stand up there. Sean Frazier is going to stand up and say that he is the minister of safety. And this guy is going to be out and they're going to just hope that nobody notices. I'm taking the over. He's over. He is staying more than two months. Okay.

It is June 13th. He is going to be back after summer. He's going to be back. He's going to be back in the fall session. There is no way he's going to be back in the fall session. But I hope he stays forever. I'm totally with you. This guy is a gift that keeps on giving.

It's beautiful. Oh, I just wish that they would give this guy. the microphone every day. He is, and this is saying a lot, he is probably the dumbest liberal member of parliament that I have seen in the past

12 years. Gary, do better. And by better, I just mean, you keep your job, Gary. That's what I mean. Just don't find a way to get removed, Gary. I want you to be there over. I'm picking the over on two months.

Do you remember when that guy whipped his dick out on a Zoom meeting? Twice? Correct. He's smarter than that, dude. When Catherine McKenner got penguins and puffins confused, smarter than that dude. When that guy wore blackface multiple times

and said that the budget would balance itself, this guy is dumber than him. Oh, man. Poor old Gary. Gary. Okay, sir, Johnny McDone. The McDonald's statue now visible outside Queens Park for first time in nearly five years. Yeah, the statue had been covered since it was a splash with bright pink paint in July 2020

in a summer protest following the murder of George Floyd. Across the country, statues of McDonald, who considered an architect of the residential school system, became targets of vandalism. And last month, the committee that has been mulling over what to do with the McDonald's statue at the Ontario legislature voted to clear the statue and remove its covering. Yes, so this is a picture of the plywood that was up. Interesting thing missing here is the spray paint that said free John that dude is looking down the barrel of going to jail for. They actually did free John.

And they didn't even mention in this article that that that had happened. I thought that was kind of a noteworthy omission. But maybe I'm just crazy. I care about this a lot less than you think I would because. I don't really care about Canada's history all that much anymore lately. I feel like it may as well be a foreign country. Demand for energy to soar 44% from now to 2050. OPEC head says the Secretary General of OPEC said Tuesday at the global energy.

Heitham Algas. Global energy, he said at the Global Energy Show in Calgary. The group rejects global energy show in Calgary. the group projects global oil demand will surpass 120 million barrels a day by 2050. In our long-term projections, we see the forecast that global primary energy demand is going to increase by a staggering 44% from now to 2050. Our forecasts are not based on ideology. They're based on data and analysis of data. And they clearly indicate that oil would remain an integral part of the energy mix at around 30% still in 2050, he said. Now, it's interesting because Justin Trudeau very recently said that there's no business case for this.

There's no business case. There's no business case for this. And Hatham Algais, we got a lot of interesting names this week. We got that one. We had the new street in Victoria, which sounds like the sound I make when I stubbed my pinky toe. Yeah, yeah, it's quite a, it's quite a lot, quite a lot. Anyways, apparently there is a business case. This guy flew halfway across the world to tell us about the business case.

On to some goofy twos. Toronto man helping gunshot victim calls 911, gets put on hold for 10 minutes, gives up, drives the victim to the hospital himself, victim in said hospital, gets transferred to a different hospital, and is dead.

And that was a 15 or a 16-year-old kid. Yeah. Now, before we get to all the goofy news, I mean, first off, that's totally fucked. Hey, you don't call 911 to get the, we're sorry, the call center is experiencing unusual volumes. Please remain on hold and staunch the wound.

It's insane. This country is just lost its way completely. There was a couple late additions, one of them, Carla Beck, leader of the Alberta NDP, which as we know is not a serious party. She's calling for the government to give a bunch of money to people whose homes have been displaced in the wildfires. The obvious thing to do here, look, I get it.

The government has unlimited money and they can take whatever they want and they can just print more if they have a deficit. But if you actually want people to get behind this, especially in a place like Saskatchewan, you call on the communities. You fundraise. You ask people to help. That's how you do this. And by the way, having a NDP First Nations necklace. Seems a little bit cultural appropriation. But they're not a serious party.

But they just, they don't understand people. They don't understand how this works. Like I've got a buddy who's lived in La Roj's whole life. And I was talking to him and I was like, well, what's going on? And, you know, are there any sort of, you know, fundraising things?

Can we talk about this on the show? Maybe try and get a few people to draw up some support for it. He's like, I think there might be one for the rona that burned down. But everybody right now is just worried about just getting through it now and they're not even thinking about rebuilding or or anything like that. And yeah, this, the NDP, just, you've lost the plot. The solution to everything is more fucking government.

No, the solution to everything generally is the community, your friends, your family, your neighbors. That's where the support comes from. That's where you get lots of help for things like this. and you just you lost the plot put your head on straight NDP and then the other one here this one's good silver price soars above $36

US its highest in 13 years so silver is at nearly all-time highs so shout out to SGB yes silver gold bull if you're uh if you're going to buy any silver silver gold bull dot c a dot com and reference the on Numa podcast. Proposed class action claims Uber Eats is overcharging Canadians.

Uber Eats customer in Canada. Uber Eats customers in Canada could be part of a new proposed class action lawsuit accusing the online food delivery service of charging hidden service fees. I mean, there's more. They just basically are adding fees into after saying they're not. So the way it works is when you go to order something with Uber Eats, it'll say it's going to cost this much and here's your delivery. and then at the very end, right before you hit okay, there's another little fee added on. Yes. Before you look at it and hit okay.

Correct. So on the one hand, they're intentionally misleading people by hiding that fee up until the very end. But on the other hand, you're the person who hits okay. If you want $17 for someone to bring you a medium fries and a Coke, you're the person pushing the button to make that happen. happen. Yeah. I'm like, don't use Uber Eats. Like, I mean, like, but anyways, yeah, whatever. Single mom of four, you want to show the video or do you just want to comment on it? I assume you want to show the video. Well, we're not there yet. We are at, oh, no, we are, they're out of order. All right. Come on, too, and come on, here we go. All right. This, your heart

goes out to this woman. Single mom of four who are ages 21, 17, 12, and 11. I would like to tell you my story on how SNAP benefit has helped me. Sorry. Go ahead. You're doing good. Um, when I had my oldest daughter 21 years ago, I was working three jobs. One job alone. I had to pay child care, another one to pay food, which wasn't enough. Yes. This lady had a very large food bill. This lady pictured had a very large food bill. And she was able to get through with food stamps.

And if it wasn't for food stamps, she would have very obviously starved to death. You know, when I looked at this, I said the Tuesday, I'm like, I'm pretty sure I know where you're heading on. on this, is that where you're heading? It's interesting when you're looking for somebody to talk about, you know, benefits and, and, like, why they should keep them and why they're importance. And you're choosing your spokespeople. You should be thinking about the twos of the world who are going to stare at that and go, something doesn't add up here.

Yeah. I don't think that food stamps really made that much of a difference. You want somebody, you want somebody who looks like they just got out. of a German prison from the 40s, saying that they need food stamps. You don't want somebody that boats circle around with harpoons. That's living high up, that's living high hog off the government trough to mix seven different metaphors. Let's laugh a little.

Can we show the, yes, he's back. Are you watched yet? I have not watched it yet. I had clicked on him. Oh, yeah, he's back again. So if you've not been watching the show for the last couple weeks, well, let's see what happens. There's this Irishman that I found to be absolutely hilarious and apparently everybody else does too.

And I saw like six videos of his this week. So hopefully he actually gets on Twitter soon so we can talk to him getting on here. Play the clip. Is the best in the world. Fucking liar. Irish beef is the greatest in the world. Do your cows even have fucking passports? I want a cow who's lived his life.

He's seen the world, a cultured cow. If a cow hasn't had a three-day hangover in Budapest, I'm not going to fucking eating them. I want a cow who's seen the beauty of the world, but has also felt the hardship of trying to get onto a Ryanair flight with 11 kilograms of luggage. Oh, wait, British cows do have passports. How embarrassing. I've had that outburst for no reason. Well, cows have passports. That's a fun fact. Follow me. I'm delicious. That was that. That guy's just fantastic. And I like the fact that I have no idea what's coming.

That guy can, at some point, we just need to get a hold of this guy and just invite him on the show to talk. He could probably talk for the entire round. He brought him down, but I can't. Somebody's got to track this guy down. Somebody find this guy who's on TikTok, but I'm not on TikTok. Yeah, I'm not on TikTok either. Yeah, that's fantastic. Chief Justice says he does not know.

Who donated life-like bust displayed in Supreme Court? We talked about this like six months ago. Richard Wagner, who promised a new error of transparency for the Supreme Court, could not say who donated a lifelike bronze bust of him that sits prominently in the buildings of Grand Entrance Hall. During his annual press conference, Tuesday, Wagner also questioned how the gift could raise concerns of conflict of interest. I don't know who paid for that.

So how can there be any conflict of interest? See, that's a loophole. that is clever i tell you what we want smart people determining the direction this country goes in that guy looked at it and said well technically if nobody says where this eighteen thousand dollar sculpture of me came from i can't say it's a conflict of interest the way the conflict of interest uh regulations should read is that unless you know who it came from you can't accept a gift and so like the obvious thing to do would be you would just put it out, put it out, you know, do another National Post article.

And just say if the donor of this $18,000 statue does not come forward in the next month, it will be melted down. That's all you have to do. Here's Babylon Bee. Mexican Ryder adds lime to wedge Molotov cocktail. Yes, which is just the best Babylon Bee thing I've seen in quite some time. and that's saying a lot because they're pretty good. Lime wedge to Molotov cocktail. So right now there's all these riots going on in L.A.

over potential deportations. Just do your paperwork or go back, whatever. CTV News. A new U.S. vaccine panel includes members who've criticized vaccines and spread misinformation. This might have been in the happiness, folks. There you go. That's one of the guys that RFK,

Jr. He named eight new vaccine policy advisors to replace the panel he abruptly dismissed earlier in the week. And one of them is Dr. Robert Malon. Yep. And you're right. You're right. That could almost be happy news. I want to point out, here's another fun little tidbit that got thrown in there.

Dr. Robert Malone, et cetera, et cetera, rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as he relayed conspiracy theories. around the outbreak and the vaccines that followed. Conspiracy theories around the outbreak of COVID-19. Like maybe that it came from a lab? Is that is that the conspiracy theory around the outbreak that you're talking about CTV? The one that has been almost universally accepted as not being a conspiracy theory?

The one that Occam's Razor Are you trying to get us removed off YouTube? Several years ago? No, I'm just asking which conspiracy. I'm not saying that it's correct. I'm just saying the one that's actually become the mainstream accepted version of where this coronavirus came from. Is that the conspiracy theory regarding the outbreak of COVID that you're discussing? And that's why he's not credible.

Very interesting takes CTV. It's interesting that you didn't quite say it outright. You know, especially considering there was only one main conspiracy theory regarding the outbreak. and that's that it came from a lab. Why wouldn't you speak to that? Odd choice. Odd choice, CTV. Sydney Sweeney put on weight for Christy Martin biopic,

and it all went to her boobs and butt. Oh, that's just, don't you hate it when that happens? Like, I hate when I've been eating too many cheeseburgers, and it all goes straight to my triceps. I'm curious Okay While you're looking up whatever you're looking up Here's the next one

Invisible smoke from Canadian wildfires Detected over Europe according to study Invisible smoke Now given that smoke is particulate in the air Ash particulates in the air They are basically by definition visible So how could they be invisible Were we burning down invisible trees that nobody knew about?

What's going on here? Maybe. Maybe people are just kind of full of shit when they say invisible smoke. Do we issue air quality warnings over invisible smoke? Maybe. Maybe we're going to cancel everything due to invisible smoke. You can't see it. I hate how much invisible smoke there is in Canada in the wintertime.

I just thought I would hear. Yeah, let's remember me here. Okay. Sydney Sweeney. Okay. Oh yeah, that's, that's just horrible. That's disgusting. Can't believe. And there she is in the new film.

To her boobs. If you. Yeah. Yeah, it all went right to her boobs. Anyways, I was just curious, like in the article, it didn't actually show a picture of her as the boxer. Two's, show the video of the minister getting confused. Oh, we already did that. Popeyes.

Popeyes. Popeye is accused of using supplier that stored chicken in residential garages. A lawsuit filed against Popeyes, Louisiana Kitchen is accusing the fried chicken chain of buying unsafe meat from an unauthorized seller that was allegedly stored and packaged raw chicken in residential garages. And where? Ontario. Yes. The interesting thing that the word that I was expecting given the other coverage of this story, but it was just for some reason omitted here is halal. The one thing this article fails to mention that got brought up in other renditions of this article is that if you read the other ones, it says the word halal, but it doesn't hear. I'm not saying it's wrong or right.

I'm just saying it's a curious choice to try and mask the truth as somebody who's supposed to be an objective purveyor of it. Dr. Pepper recalls upgraded. Dr. Pepper recall. Man, this is where twos can harass the. headline. Dr. Pepper Recall upgraded over serious health risk. A recall in cases that Dr. Pepper has been upgraded due to a serious

health risk. What is the health risk, Sean? On Thursday, the FDA's recall is upgraded to Class 2, which the organization describes as situation in which use of exposure to a volatile volative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse

health consequences, or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences, This is remote. Although the cans produced by Jacksonville, Florida, Pepsi beverages company were labeled zero sugar. They were found to contain the full amount of sugar that is in a regular can, which is around 39 grams. There you go. Yes. So the zero sugar, Dr. Pepper, actually was just regular sugar, Dr. Pepper.

It was like the diet double do, basically. And they had to do a recall of, what is it, like 47, 47,000 cans or something? something like that because they accidentally put the wrong label on it. It was supposed to be diet, but it was just regular. And they issued a serious health risk advisory because it was regular pop and not diet. Lost RCMP memory key with informant details was offered for sale by criminals. The RC&P lost a memory key containing personal information both victims, witnesses, and informers, and later learned it was being offered for sale by criminals.

A detailed report by the Office of Privacy Commissioner Philip Dufrane reveals the RCMP told the watchdog about the breach in March 2022, prompting a lengthy investigation. The probe found the encrypted USB storage device contained the personal information, unencrypted, sorry, that's a good catch. Thank you. Personal information of 1741 people, including witnesses, complainants, subjects of interest, information, police officers, and civilian employees. Yes. The commissioner says the Mounties agreed in principle to the recommendations, but did not commit to implementing them within a specific timeline. Other interesting thing missing from this is who the fuck lost their job over it. Presumably, because it was nobody. When people talk about why they don't really feel a lot of love or support for the RCMP, it's shit like this. 1,141 people,

including witnesses, complainants, subjects of interest, informants, police officers, and civilian employees. That's fairly sensitive shit. This is a big deal. And it's not as though somebody just found it on a park bench and turned it in. And it happened to be important. This was for sale.

Criminals were selling this to the highest bidder. Correct. All right. What's next? Two is wanting me to put this in there. Oh, I didn't want to, but I guess if you do, that's fine. It's a text. It says, what time are you coming?

And then it's a picture of Stuart Skinner. And then it says, WTF, what does that mean? It means I'm not showing up. Oh, that's funny. Because the Oilers. What about the Oilers, twos? Well, they kind of got off to a bit of a slow start, didn't they? I believe the series is tied two, too, too.

Just saying. I'm just saying they lost two. They lost a couple back-to-back-to-back games. How do you think the Calgary Flames Goli's are doing right now? Oh, they're probably doing just fine. Probably enjoying life. Not a lot of add its stresses. Liberals table bill to speed up approvals for major national interest projects.

Prime Minister Mark Kearney government is granting itself new powers to quickly push ahead. Major projects, the federal cabinet deems to be in the national interest. Intergovernmental affairs minister Dominic LeBlanc tabled legislation in the House of Commons today, which would give Ottawa the authority to drop. a list of large projects. He wants to prioritize and expedite their federal approval. Carney said it has become too hard to build new projects in Canada and vowed that this legislation will change it.

We're in an economic crisis Carter told news conference on Parliament Hill on Friday. We're still facing intensifying, unjustified terrorists from our largest trading partner. And the best way to respond to that is respond at home, built strength at home. Bill C5, the free trade and labor mobility in Canada Act, and the Building Canada Act, is twin the legislation meant to break down internet internal trade barriers and cut red tape for major projects. The bill set up five criteria to evaluate whether a project is in the national interest. They include the project's likelihood of success,

whether it would strengthen the country's resiliency and advance the interest of indigenous peoples and whether it would contribute to economic growth in an environmentally responsible way. You know, I would say that the best way to handle this. Okay, so they're looking at the problem. They're saying there's too much government red tape and nobody wants to build anything. Okay. Well, what would be the best solution?

Well, if you're the liberals, you would say we would introduce other red tape to supersede the existing red tape and that would help make things better for things that we hand pick through additional red tape. It's basically if I could sum things up, that's more or less what they're doing. The obvious thing would just be to get rid of the said red tape. Yes, absolutely. The other thing this doesn't talk about is that Carney said that pipelines would only be built if all of the provinces involved agreed to it. He's giving the individual provinces vetoes over pipelines.

We talked about this last week. The man is still an idiot. despite all the good things he's doing with making people with ties to terrorism recuse themselves from decisions about terrorists. He's still doing this dumb shit.

Premier Moe. Just fully confirmed that virtually... Just real quick. Why don't we put equalization to the same standards? All provinces get a say? If one province thinks that something the country is doing

is not fair to them, they can single-handedly veto the entire thing. Okay, you know what? It's a dumb idea, but if you want to do it, apply it across the board. Let's throw equalization under that exact same measuring stick.

Let's look at equalization and say that if one province, just pick one province, any one province. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, if one province thinks that equalization is bullshit, yet. Well, let's just scrap it. Okay. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Premier Moe just fully confirmed that virtually all the fires in Saskatchewan are human

caused and some intentionally, well, I mean, this is, Alberta did the same thing last year, right? We had Shane on talking about it, if I remember correctly. Now you have the premier of Saskatchewan talking about how all fires are basically human cause. Human costs. Well, look at the way forest fires just dropped the number and size of forest fires dropped right off a cliff during the lockdowns. They've already arrested two people for the forest fires started in Saskatchewan. But it's climate change.

It's not arson. It's climate change. Kearney and it's causing invisible things to happen. And it's causing invisible smoke. Will somebody please think of the children. The invisible smoke is affecting the children. Carney says all Canadians must come together around the values of Eid. These are Muslim values.

These are Canadian values. You might want to play the video. I don't. I just want to say that I do not give a shit about the mixing, the commingling of politics and religion, regardless of the religion. Don't care doesn't matter. If you are a town, municipality, and somebody says, what are you going to do about Passover? Nothing, nothing.

It doesn't affect how the streets get cleaned from snow. It doesn't affect how the good water comes into your house or how the bad water leaves your house. We don't give a shit. We're not going to talk about it. It's not pandering. We're not going to do it for anybody. We're not going to do anything special for Easter.

We're not going to do anything special for Ramadan. We're not going to do anything special for whatever Buddhists celebrate for holidays, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, none of it. We're here to keep the wheels turning on whatever group we are elected to represent. And that doesn't include taking time out of our very busy days. We're so busy, we're making the civil servants show up on time and prepared for meetings. we don't have time to pander to any, every, or some few religions. That's it. Happy news.

All right. I would sit here and argue with you for a few seconds, but I'm like, I told Tuse I had an hour and a half because I got to pick my daughter up from a triathlon. Okay. Well, let's just pass an hour and a half. Get it right here. We don't really need the happy news. I would love to push back on this a little bit, but I'm going to go to happy news.

And me and Tews will bring out this conversation. in a different day when I just have a little more time, folks. All right. Now, that could be fun. Now, here, here's one of the first happy news. This is the city added parking fees for the beach, so the residents protested. I can just play on this, I think.

I don't need any sound on this sucker. You can see they, I don't know, is that glue twos? Is that what they did? It looks like they just filled all the slots in it with spray foam. Or is that spray foam? Oh, geez, I didn't. think okay sure i mean it's something it's i mean the machine it's just machines are inoperable damn shame i mean you know you've got these perfectly legitimate civil servants

who just want to charge people to park by the beach all they want to do is just collect more revenue and you're stopping them by vandalizing their machines this is absolutely horrible reprehensible there's no reason why it should be in the happy news. Jimmy, why did you put this in the happy news? There's nothing happy about this. I'm going to fire him. We might disagree on some things, but all

Burntons and all Canadians are on the same page about this. We want the cup. We want the cup. Let's go, Eid, Enchi. There you go. Oh, what a great guy. What an absolute class act. Look at the way he's just looking down on people while he's

trying to be personal. You know, the thing is, is if the Calgary Flames were even in the playoffs, he'd probably be wearing a Flames jersey, but they can't seem to find their way into playoffs. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think it's great the way, you know, I mean, not only is the Oilers jersey the NDP colors, but you've actually got the leader of the NDP out supporting them.

Sticking with the Oilers, do you want to quickly show the Wayne Gerexki video? That is a feel-good video. Yeah, you don't have show at all. I don't know. I don't know if you want to, but they, we'll show a little bit of it. I think a downing up ticket for a dollar. Wayne Gretzky.

Wayne Greggie gave him and his son type. I, Gregi. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Two bucks? The box is yours. You're not being owned tonight. Because the Greg Dupon is inviting you.

Donny Gap game today. All we're going? You're going. We're going. You're both going. Oh, really? Yes. Yeah.

Fast forward to when they're at the game, too. We can use them up. Okay. They're just a little bumpa baby. There they are. They're meeting Wayne. Grexie. They got a jersey signed by them.

And it would have been game one because towards the end of the video. Yep. Towards the end of the video, you can see the game winner and they're celebrating. Pretty cool moment. I mean, you know. Yeah, absolutely. For all the silliness that professional sports want to bring in to professional sports, that's a pretty cool video.

Yeah, yeah. And I mean, you know, they must have looked for a long time to find a couple special needs Oilers fans. Too's is so funny. Here we go. Here we go. Hey, boys and girls. A little, how you doing? A little OT magic from Leon.

Oh, yeah. Look at that. In the net. Let's go game five. Okay. All right. Okay. Fair enough.

Fair enough. Community notes. What are you got for us? Oh, well, we've got the, uh, so there is a by-election in, uh, in old Dizbury three hills. And what had originally happened was I was all, I was all horned up to go on a big rant against the UCP because the one that was originally scheduled. in Red Deer was canceled because they said they weren't going to go.

And as far as I'm concerned, regardless of your political stripes, if you have a candidate running who's unwilling to meet and discuss what exactly they want to do for the community that they're supposed to. I don't know, like a federal conservative party in the last election? Like the federal conservative party in the last election, for example. You know, we crap on the NDP for not showing up, but the federal conservatives didn't show up either. Carry on. Yeah.

And so anyway, that got canceled. And then they managed to find a date and time that worked for everybody. I guess they're still waiting to hear back from the NDP, which makes sense because they're going to have a pretty tough time in central rural. So all the calls I'm missing, all the calls I'm missing from different candidates that want to come on the podcast, what you're saying is, is I should bring them all on together or try to to have a bit of a forum on the podcast. Well, they're having this now. Now it's in, it's in old June 17th from 7 to 9. There is a by-election forum with commitments from all of. It's interesting because the.

The graphic is invited. Yes. So they've got commitments from all of the major runners, contestants, and NDP is invited but hasn't confirmed yet. NV. Bev Taves. Come on, Bev. Show up.

Be like Gary. Show up. Bill Tufts, the guy who wrote Pension Ponzi. He's running. A friendly reminder that join us Saturday, June 28th for Airdry's second annual car meet. Calling all muscle cars,

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All ages. Free barbecue. Rain or shine. If you're looking for a free family-friendly event, we'll see you at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 28th, at 101 Highland Park Common Northeast. And this event is hosted by Lyft Youth Fitness. So there you go.

And just brought to you by the Youth Committee, brought to you by the Youth Committee of Erdry East UCP constituency association. Yeah, and just north of Erdry, Crossfield is having their Pete Night Day. So they got the rodeo with the cabaret. Today, tonight, all day tomorrow, and the cabaret is both nights. I should, before we sign up, I get to, I told you this, and I'll say it on live there, I guess. Tonight I get to go back to my hometown school and talk to the, get to talk at the graduation.

So I get to give a grad speech, which is, well, thank you to Helmand for bringing me back. You know, when you graduate twos, I don't think you ever have that in mind. And that's certainly not one of my, I didn't have that marked on anywhere. You don't really, you don't really think, oh, you know what it would be really cool is if it had a couple decades, they asked me to come back and give the keynote speech. Yeah. And that's, yeah, it's going to happen. So, uh, gradually, yeah, well, we'll see how I do.

We'll see if they boo me off stage first, eh? So either way. You should just show up and just sound as crazy as possible. And just, just straight turning the. the frog's gay. I promise a lot I will not do that. Matcher 162 in the books.

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and we will catch up to you on 163 next Friday. Tuesday, till then. See you later. See you guys. next week.