Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 185

Episode Date: November 22, 2025

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Welcome to the MASH up. Welcome to the Masha. We use quantum computing now, but nobody understands it. And apparently the technology of it rests on there being a multiverse, and the components in the quantum computer, those atoms exist in other multiverses, and they use the computing power in those other multiverses to come up with the answers here. So they're just bogarting the atoms of other multiverse universes. So in theory, there is some parallel universe where you're doing some crazy calculation on a quantum computer and a squirrel over there will just start saying like x squared plus nine equals seven.

What are you talking about? Quantum computing, like they, the whole idea is that they're, they're bogarting the computing power of parallel universes. And so, so those atoms that are in that computer also exist in other parallel universes, and they're using the parallel universe to do the computation. And that's why it can be done in any sort of a reasonable time instead of some ridiculous calculation that was going to, uh, never happen before the heat death of the universe. But in theory, those atoms,

in those other parallel universes are doing the calculations. So just there's there's some equally handsome Sean Newman in some parallel universe who all of a sudden starts spouting off, um, quadratic equations. I hope I'm not, we're not thinking about that. And here's the thing is in theory, I'm the only one scratch in my head this morning with two is probably. Other places should have invented quantum computing by now.

It's, it's ludicrous to think that if there's that many parallel universe, is we are the first one. And if there are that many parallel universes, how come your, how come my hat doesn't just start spouting off arithmetic? I don't understand it. I don't think we've thought this through all the way

and there's holes in it. Welcome to Mashup 185, folks, where we're all scratching our head this morning with twos, how are you doing today other than the quantum computing conundering? Well, that's the thing. I'm scratching my head too. All right. well a head scratcher to begin mashup 185 welcome aboard everyone uh happy airborne

friday like it wouldn't be a friday if if jamie didn't send me a video that no jamie i've not watched now i know you're just getting me annoyed every friday morning but uh happy airborne friday all the military boys out there um in two series kevin kevin says in two's theory there could be millions of confused shons. Yes. In the best-looking Shons all across the universes are all going, what is who's talking about? Yes.

I mean, think about it. In an infinite number of parallel universes, there's one where you start off with rants, and I'm shaking my head. Yes. Somewhere that existence probably does exist. Yes. Okay, fair enough.

All right. Masham 185. If you enjoy the show, make sure you like, you share. Folks, if you're watching this on X or anywhere else hit the retweet button let's get it out to a few more folks as we know we uh we uh really rely

on our audience to help us get the message out if you have a quantum computer use it um share it using that so that we can also get into the parallel universes okay yeah somewhere yeah all right somewhere everybody's scratching your head um okay uh coots six and a half this week I thought I'd bring up a former guest to the show, Tamara Leach. Here's what she's wrote. Shout out to the MHPS, that's Medicine Hat, for keeping our streets safe. I'm happy to report that my very first police check at 1226 in the morning of Wednesday was a success. Thanks for ensuring mischief is not being spread on the streets of Medicine Hat.

We focus on a lot of the different things going on in the judicial system. Tamara Leach having wellness checks at the wee hours of the morning seems to be where we're going to is with everything going on in our society. Okay. What happens if they come to a wellness check on you and you're just out cold? Like maybe I'm a really deep sleeper. Well, she pointed to the fact that her, I think it was her daughter came home and actually, notified her because she was sleeping and had her phone on do not disturb it yeah in the morning yeah as normal i assume they i don't know maybe a police officer can text

in and tell us did they kick down the door i that's maybe not something you want to set a lot of precedent on but i don't i like it's because i mean here's the thing like in theory they could just until morning and then you know because if they're they're watching the place and they come by at like 8 in the morning and they see oh somebody's up and they go knock on the door oh hey Tamara yeah okay cool we're good like why 1226 in the morning you're just

it seems like you're trying to make something happen maybe all right well I tell you what we've got a guest sitting in the background we're going to get to Mr. Shane gets in MLA Shane here we'll bring you in welcome aboard thanks for hopping on with us thank you morning guys how are we doing good I think we're doing good I think we're doing good Tews is wearing his uh Rupp Rider jersey sorry to all the

Eskimo slash well not Eskimo now what are they Alouette yes but yeah I mean to the Alberta football fans uh you know sorry Saskatchewans on top this year and much Tuz are you going to apologize to Montreal fans no you're not for what Exactly. It was a, it was a Saskatchewan win. Now, okay. What do I, what do I have to apologize to anybody in Quebec for at all ever? We're, uh, the, the reason Shane is on. Okay, here's the headline. Alberta MLA compares transgender surgery to livestock and castration.

You've been, uh, all over the headlines. You know, Shane, there was a time when you were on the show when they would never even quote anything you said. Now they take a 10 minutes, very well done. Very well done. I don't know if it's speech or I don't know what they call it. You can tell me what they call it. But anyways, 10 minutes in the Alberta legislature and they picked on a couple words and now are smearing you necessarily of comparing transgender surgery to livestock castration. Actually, just before you get to that real quick, I would just like to point out that they have since updated the headline here.

the first time I read this article, the, the headline said, Alberta backbench MLA compares transgender surgery to livestock castration. Now you're just Alberta MLA. Yeah, yeah. They explicitly called you a backbencher in the original headline. Yeah, so it was a speech after of listening to 90 minutes. It's a 9-0. That's an hour and a half of my life.

I will never get back from the official leader of the opposition. And, you know, fellas, if I'm in there sitting on the opposite side from those guys and wondering, where the heck is Rachel Nodley, guaranteed their own people are asking the same thing. Like, trying to compare people, wow. Like, the best thing that we can do is to give that guy a microphone and let him go. And if people could actually watch that rather than listen to the snippets that the media chooses to throw out there, we would be in such a better place. So, yeah, it was a response to a 90-minute speech in which he called me out several times as the backbencher from across the aisle. If he has anything to say, he should get up and say it. Well, technically, I can't.

You can't interrupt when they're on these 90-minute speeches. So there's massive amounts of time afforded to the leader of the official government, so the premier, and massive amounts of time. I'm allotted to the opposition leaders. I can't interject. So the guy doesn't understand how the system works. Fine, he's new there. But to try to call you out and drop the gloves, it's like, come on. And this guy heckles nonstop.

Like he's been called, I don't know how many times, for trying to bring the level of the quorum down the house. So I was doing what Tekinen would do. When you're in a game, you kind of get in the corners and you chip a bit. And what drives him bonkers, as do most champagne socialists, is when you don't take them serious. Like some of the stuff that he says in there is just so outlandish, and he surrounds himself with sycophants that jump up and down and applaud him.

And I'm sitting there looking at this going, this is ridiculous. So at the end of 90 minutes, there was only 10 minutes left in the session of which, and you guys have seen it, I got up in there, and I didn't take an approach that was combative. I didn't do any of that. I sat and listened to this in the legislation that we've already passed through the house dealing with a number of items, both the health care side of at school and sports, we've already passed this. It's already reached royal assent.

This is what's out there. So the fact that we're right, where most recently we had Supreme Court judges saying pedophilia is okay to have that stuff on your computer. And if you're caught with it, well, it's too bad for you. It's not fair to put you in jail right away, you know, one year sentence. We find herself in this weird state where you've got these lobbyist groups challenging law that's been put out there with the best intent that's reached the process. At the same time, you've got big daddy Gil McGowan running out there saying as a union leader

who actually ran for the MDP and who sits as far as I know on the executive board saying they're going to take down the government. Like this is really strange stuff. So we invoke the notwithstanding act to make sure that that law that we passed out there gives a sober second thought on policy to make sure that kids can. make choices and parents can have the ability to be there with those kids to make choices at an appropriate time and age that doesn't cause irreparable damage. And they take this, this God's honest truth that people please take the time to watch it. A very heartfelt speech.

I shared some things from my past as well to know I kind of understand where we come from to make these things. We don't make these decisions lightly. So to have literally the NDP leader mad because I chirped him a bit in the house and he called me out and I gave a good speech to go down to that level, to try to pick on a lowly little MLA and then use his propaganda arm to go and do this. It's absolutely just bizarre a world. One minor correction. Gil McGowan didn't actually run for NDP leadership because he couldn't get enough money. And so he had to back out before the deadline to actually give them money.

I appreciate that. So hopeful candidate hopeful. Yes, yes. Well, I mean, you can see why guys. like that really um would be interested in the ndp you know they've been proponents of having a universal dental care and that guy's teeth are just a little bit lighter than the official orange of ndp yeah yeah twos this is like saying they allegedly broke in he actually ran he just couldn't jump through the hoops to get to the at the further state of running he ran he just didn't

wasn't successful. He walked. Sure. Um, okay, well, with Shane on twos, you had a whole bunch of things in here. Is there anything you want to ask him about? Okay.

Um, so one of the things you touched on it in the 10 minute speech, um, but there's been, I feel like most of the pushback that you guys are getting are from people who just fundamentally don't understand the non-wist. clause. Yeah, the biggest issue that I have, I referenced Charlie Kirk in this, again, to try to talk and bring down the rhetoric. What happens is, and I believe there's two parts here that are

really very concerning for me. The media has a role to play in this. When you have an event that takes place and you hyper-partisan and you're doing all this, they're literally doing things for clickbait. They're trying to get you to go to the next length. They're trying to sell their headlines okay but they're also slanted in a certain direction and they're doing that when you have somebody executed literally assassinated and shot in an open venue because you've got people so amped up and don't want to hear dialogue maybe we should just consider what we're doing there you would think that there would be some journalistic integrity the same thing holds true with the opposition so they know they can't beat us on anything that's really decent they can't beat us

on the economy. They can't beat us on foreign engagement. They can't beat us on the health file. They can't beat us in these things. So what they end up doing is, it's not even truthiness, it's lies. They literally throw this stuff out there. They twist things and they get people's emotions going. And that's literally how they keep feeding this machine. And that's what I was trying to do, you guys, was to dispel that and say, okay, knock this off. Let's stop. Let's see where people are coming from. Let's get this to a personal level. And even the heckling from the opposition once I shared you know me growing up wasn't exactly a bed of roses it wasn't the worst out there as people had it worse than me but sharing that very personal thing even the opposition

members just quiet and right down in the house so to take it from there now you're going to kick people in the shins and do exactly what I said we didn't want people to do we don't want people running around all amped up think we're going after them that we're you know going around these draconian measures like my gosh people have enough to worry about in the world right right now other than having us stir it up and making it even tougher on them. You're absolutely right about the media. I just wanted to, here's a great case in point. So Dwayne Bratt, who purports himself to be neutral political commentator.

He's a prophet, MRU. He's been talking about this quite a bit because he hates you guys almost as much as then she does. And then Tyler Dawson, who is from the Globe of Mail, said, so Dwayne's just talking here about no evidence is provided about the amount of surgery occurring below 18 and Tyler says I reported on this in 2024 there were eight top surgeries in 2022-23 and minors were already ineligible for bottom surgery and so and then this is where the part that frustrates me so here's here's what the left does they love animals they love bugs and bunnies they're the environmental saviors just ask them because nobody else ever hunts or fish or rows anything.

So they take that as one of their bastions. So they'll protect everything furry and fuzzy. They'll do that. But when it gets to people, the actual surgery, even what they're doing, bottom surgery. Okay. If I put it in the context of cattle, this is where they lose their mind because everybody can understand what happens to a cow. If I have a cow and it's a heifer, it is yet to be a fur.

it is yet to be a fully matured female. She has not yet had a calf. She has not yet produced milk for offspring. If I were to take a heifer and I were to cut off its utter, that is no longer a viable cow that could produce milk to support its offspring. If I was to have that same heifer, remove its uterus, it no longer would be able to do that. And this is just talking surgery.

not comparing people not talking about one affiliation the other just going through the basic items when they start to go down the path and when they start to see that their nice little cutesy word usage of bottom and top surgery goes away they start to make that own mental map themselves and this is where the guilt starts to come in because even when you turn the clock down and now this heifer has reached full maturity i'm going to glue a plastic utter on it and i'm going to stick in in a synthetic uterus, what happens? Like, we know that there's a ton of surgical risk that takes place. We know that it's probably not going to be efficacious in what has to happen in life.

And that's where they draw their conclusions. I did not compare kids to animals. I compared what I knew growing up on a farm of what happens when you castorate an animal, particularly a young bull calf making them a steer, that you're removing parts. don't go back on. A lot of people have never considered that, that have removed themselves with these nice cutcies and all this bubble they put around themselves of the harsh realities of the physical world or physical surgery. What I said was not inaccurate and by no way compared it to children. But they draw these conclusions because quite frankly, my hypothesis

in this, the guilty truth starts to come out and they start to feel really bad about it. So they want to salient it and put it on some other nice ideological thing. This is the problem right now. If we can't talk about animals and we're uncomfortable with what we do to animals to create sandwich meat, then maybe, maybe, maybe we need a sober second thought on the policies of what we're doing when it comes to our children. Well, you're absolutely right. And, you know, just look at the way it's, it's kind of attempted to be framed. First off, this was some far right conspiracy theory that definitely wasn't happening.

And then now it's like, it's okay, but it's only uppers. It's only top surgeries. This is like when Trudeau came out with all those famous pictures and they're like, oh, well, it would sound bad if we called it blackface. We're just going to call it brown face. And here's the thing, is an upper surgery. It's still a pretty big deal because those don't grow back either. But it's funny because he gets in this conversation where I recall that reporting,

but numbers were not part of the government's messaging. They just said they were preventing children from making life altering decisions. And then agreed, there hasn't been any data provided that I've seen in recent months. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you don't really need to collect data on whether that's life altering or not. Oh, it's life altering. The other thing, too, is that, and I made reference to it in the speech as well, that other jurisdictions across the pond, so in Europe and otherwise, that we're far more ahead of this than we are, they're retracting. They're backpedaling on their policies and pulling it back as well.

so absolutely new zealand uh you're seing the fallacies new zealand just this week um all the all the classic socialist countries you know the the scandinavian socialists that the left likes to point to is this far off utopia have all said we're not getting we're not doing any of this anymore yeah but they they always like to they always like to handpick things yeah new zeal the headline you're talking about new zealts new puberty blockers for young trans gender people. This was just this week. That's been one of the newest ones out there among other places, not just New Zealand. Yeah, and again, we're settled. We were one of the first jurisdictions,

obviously, the only province to do this in Canada at the time. We were kind of leading to the European Union wasn't quite there with us, but we've already passed this legislation. That was last sitting, you guys. So it's already enacted. It's already gone through a democratic process, whether the opposition wants to respect that or not, or people out there. If you actually do believe in representative democracy, we are flexing it. It went through the house. So now you have the judiciary, which, and I said in that speech as well, I cannot look my constituents, myself, my kids, anyone in the face and say, okay, it's okay to have child porn. Oh, it's too bad.

You know, too bad for victimizing all those kids. Well, the person that has it on there, yeah, we shouldn't really punish them. Like, this is the decision process that it's at. So to see when these other challenges are coming through that is even more sensitive, we've passed laws. We pass the laws in the house. The judiciary enforces the laws. That's how it works in our system. Full stop.

Within the Constitution, we have powers that were put in there, which the Constitution is older than all three of us here on the phone, so to speak. When they put it in place, they knew that there were not. absolutes you always had to have that override by the will of the people to make sure the judiciary was always in check and it was relevant it's modernized through the democratic process that's what we're doing so for them to jump up and down and say we're overreaching and in inalienable rights and no we're not we're actually following the constitution and the mechanisms at this really strange weird point in time where doing these type of surgeries to children is normalized and thinking a kid can make these decisions

without their parents' involvement at that time is something okay. Like, it's just, it's just not there. So that's what we're doing, folks. We're not going on the right things. Shane, before we let you out of here, I was curious to get your thoughts. I'm sure Tews has a bunch of questions there. But, you know, our conversations on the podcast have talked a lot about economic corridors and different projects that, you know, Alberta would like to see.

I would assume other places like to see as well. One of the headlines we have is Ottawa, Alberta close to a deal that includes oil pipe, on a BC coast. I don't know if you can comment on this, but I am curious. I'm definitely going to ask for a comment. I'm definitely going to ask for a comment on this leaked document. Are you prepared today to make the announcement on the mashup?

Sorry. Is that? I apologize for my rant on the other ones, guys, a little gear in my heart when it comes to kids. I do appreciate you. You don't need to apologize for nothing. No, you're being absolutely hammered in the legacy media on taking comments out of context

when there's a 10. On a very common sense stance. Yes. And that's the frightening part. Like we can't have discourse in the house because it's on Twitter and we can't even have the media report what was in the house fairly. It's just now I'm not going to let you deflect, though, Ottawa, Alberta. Are they coming closer to a deal?

Because the Grey Cup was supposed to be it. Hey, we've never been closer. So part of the thing, Sean, you've been asking me in Tuesdays about the economic corridors, you're starting to see that model come into effect. Let's put it that way. So very, very happy to see the progress. I would have liked to see a lot more progress. I would have loved to see them actually fully embrace what the economic corridors are.

Like last May, we had all the premiers in Western Canada and the North sign off on it. We had EB kind of bucking at the shoot towards the end here. but in the country's national interest, yeah, we're starting to see some of those take effect. I think that there's a massive need, not only globally, but realistically, the country's friggin' broke. They ran us into the poorhouse and beyond. We're getting to the point where you can't borrow cash. That's kind of bad. Alberta, we're seeing some downturns, obviously with the resource side, we're flexing the economy doing that.

We can still borrow money and do that, but we're definitely not in a good spot. and the only way you let us out of the box is you unleash the West and you get the products to market that people want and quite frankly try to start to erode a bit of that differential that takes place when you're sending it just one of our largest customers. So you want to do that. So finally seeing the proof in the pudding, the too bad part was we had to go down near broke

with all this other Wackadoo woke stuff and these freaky-diki socialist policies to get us to this point. But we're getting close and hopefully that folks will, we'll understand that this is one of the only ways we can get out of it. We need to get our stuff built. We need to build things again. We need to get products to market. Well, I think you're absolutely right.

We're going to talk about it a little bit later on. But there was like the actual, I think it was the privy to the clerk's council. I can't remember exactly. We'll see when we get to the article. But people in the federal government are starting to call for reductions in red tape. And actually does, so Dale Nally, he's still the minister of red tape production, right? Yeah, I was put through our tent red tape bill just the other day. Irony aside.

Well, you've got to put something in the house to take it away. That's how it works. Yes, I know, I know. Otherwise, you know, you'd have the judiciary just changing the laws. I know. But does he ever or does that office ever try to work with the federal government? I understand that it's a, it's a provincial mandate. They do.

I mean, there's, so mainly, mainly minister Naili's focus is internally, obviously, but every, every minister has a portfolio and some of those overlap and they have interface points. I believe that they get together and they all try to figure out how to harmonize some of these rules, regulatory compliance items, but the heavy lifting would typically be done through the actual ministries. And then Dale's group is trying to gather all that stuff together and then mince it up. Okay.

But now with Sean's question about the announcement, and I guess you can't, if you're not ready, fair enough. But the Grey Cup deadline did come and go. It wasn't our deadline. We would have announced something like this, like when we actually announced something like this. Like we wanted it since 2009, as far as I can recall. So it's not our announcement to make.

Yeah, but it was Daniel Smith's deadline. It was Gray Cup weekend. She won at the nine bad. It's a strong target date. We can move the Grey Cup back and it would have been a moot point, but we're getting close. And it's not us moving the lines. Like we were prepared to say something.

It's a working process, but we've never been closer. Okay. All right. Now, Sean's got the, if that isn't a political answer, I don't know what is, Tews. I mean,

here's the thing is like one of the love, hate things about Shane. is that he's incredibly good at talking circles around me and anybody. And so you're just like, love to have him on, but I'm going to be befuddled at a few points. And I'm probably not going to hear everything I want to hear. Well, brother, I wish I could tell you, yeah, this is what we're doing. But part of the superstitious part of me, too, is don't screw up something until you land it. So until there's ink on that paper, until they've settled everything they need to,

I would consider or put this out there for cautious optimism. Let's just get through that last little bit, but we've never been closer to having a good news story. Too's my frustration with Shane is we've been talking about economic corridors. Shane, you know this since 2021. We're sitting in 2025 and you're optimistic. I don't know what word I am at this point. Probably annoyed more than anything that we can't have Shane on.

Just be like, oh yeah, economic corridors start beginning at 2020. 26, life's going to be grand. I could tell you. God's the truth, but part of it to you guys is we might call an economic corridor. Somebody else might call it a ports to ports. Somebody else might call it a transportation corridor. Another one might call it an energy corridor. So when you look at all of that, my frustration is just called an economic corridor.

And you can build all that stuff within it. But everybody's still stuck in convention and they go back to. And even if I looked at a pipeline to the West Coast, my tact would have been talk about the economic corridor to the West Coast. What can we put in that? It would have depoliticized a bunch of this. But instead, our politicians and policymakers want to fall back to the known, which is to fight over one single friggin pipeline.

That's my frustration. So I share that with you, you guys. Well, I mean, you just have to explain to people that it's for transporting the products that we extract from the health care sands. Yes. It was Mother Nature's worst hair day. We're just cleaning up her environmental spill, her oil spill. So it so happens that it happens to pay for everything that you guys like.

Yeah, everything that you want free. Alberta's got a new license plate coming. Yeah. 240,000 voters over three rounds of balloting. The winner for the new Alberta license plate design is the one feature Marine Lake. The new license plate expected out by the middle of 2026. And the new, well, I don't know, new sports, the provincial motto, strong and free. Yeah.

It, you know, I haven't, granted, the NDP's had a few other things to be worried about this week. But I feel like this perfectly encapsulates the two sides of politics in Alberta. You know, you've got the conservative side that wants everything in Alberta to be strong. And the socialist side that wants everything in Canada or everything in Alberta to be free. You know, I've never looked at it that way, but I might use that in house. I'll coach you on that. By all means, by all means. If Tunes gets quoted in the house, I'm never going to hear the end of it.

That is correct. That is correct. Shane, thanks for hopping on with us. One more hot seat. Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services, some leaked documents and unnamed experts and all that usual stuff. Yeah. You know, like if people could just wait a few,

hours we'll have it all released in the house that that's always my frustration on that stuff um you know loose lip sink ships and all those things at one point in time i think i was almost feeling like running around the hallways there and leaking memos that were just absolutely fictitious things like you know unicranes land on mars or something so they could do it but whatever so on this side of it there's been a ton of work done over the last six years that i've been there consultations looking at different areas trying to figure what works what doesn't um there was a number over in europe that that have done to a different model. We already talked about Australia. In the past, Singapore is another one. So the ND's typical talking for the New Democratic Party can't remember is over there.

They always go back to this American style. So apparently, if anything's made in America, it's bad. I don't know. That's not exactly my sentiments, but here we are. So literally, if you look at Germany, you look at Denmark, their systems, they changed about, I don't know, 25, 30, 40 years ago. They used to be very similar to what we have here in present day, and they couldn't afford it. Lo and behold, they were running out of money. There was a ton of problems in their systems. They weren't getting services, da, da, da, da, da, they changed it. So literally, that's what we started looking at was these other jurisdictions that had changed.

They're more modernized, and they can allow their docs the flexibility to work on both sides at a quicker pace. So it gives all the public stuff that's taken care of, but when you got free room and the doc has free time, well, then he can do those other surgeries. Currently, I think it sits that it takes you about 18 months, so a year and a half, if you're a doc, and you decided, hey, I want to go into the public side from the private side. And then conversely, hey, if I want to go from the public to the private side, like a year and a half to try to make this thing and it was so rigid. So now you've got the flexibility to work on both sides. It allows the patients to literally go in there and get the services they need, and it literally starts taking care of these wait times. And it

it gives us quite frankly better service there's an ability outside in the in the private side for them to work more efficiently if you want to look at the shold ice model there's a prime example of what was successfully done in canada for a number of years as a private model that did hernia operations and were literally used as a Harvard school of business for the medical side of it as a business model to look at so we've had massive success stories in canada with doing that we've just been embarrassed by them for years while our administration actually looked at a bunch of the above what works and we're going, yeah, this needs to be modernized if we're going to make things work and keep going forward and afford it.

Well, I think the idea definitely has a lot of potential. I mean, we were just talking a couple weeks ago about, you know, the argument for schools and how there's always that argument that if you want better schools and if you want better results, you have to spend more money. And I was talking about the fact that that's absolutely not true because if that was an honest argument, people would show any sort of a positive correlation. They'd talk about linear regression and adjusted R squared values. And they'd say, here's the data that shows that spending more money gives you better

outcomes. And instead, in Canada, in our health care, this is federal. This is from the Fraser Institute. We're third out of 31 countries in terms of spending as a share of the economy, 27th out of 30 in terms of doctors, 25th out of 30 instead, in terms of care beds, 27th. of 31 in MRI units 28 out of 31 in CT scanners and we're last out of nine countries in surgical wait times so spending and positive outcomes don't correlate and I know but the law of the law of diminishing returns does so yeah again you reach a saturation point or in advocacy and you

have to change your process of your systems you get too big um you know something is to be said for a small agile company where you can move and then you've got a big clump or you know lumbering brontosaurus model that bleeds to death before it even knows the saber tooth tiger has bitten its tail like so that's kind of where we're at but we keep getting fixated on these things because of ideology versus practicality and the most important thing and you'll see this pervasive theme it's we're putting alberta's first ahead of maybe it's that old antiquated system maybe it's a trade affiliation you belong to maybe it's a certain ideology we're putting out Burton's first ahead of that and trying to step back, take a sober second look above

the noise, see what other people are doing. Nothing worse than naval gazing and sticking in here and Douglas Adams kind of nailed it perfectly and hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy where you've got the vogons running around as bureaucracy. Like you have to be able to get out and see more than just that to make the machine work. And if you've got other jurisdictions that have successfully done this for 30 years, hey, I don't know. Maybe we should look at that and see if it works. And here we are trying to make a change. And we warn people, or at least I did, I ask people if you think the healthcare system's good. No, you want me to fix it? Yes. And then the warning came. If you want me to fix it, you're going to have to let me change it. So that's what you're asking for. We're going to go

dig into it and we're going to make changes where it's going to make the best thing. So you can't go back, tell me to change it, want me to make things better by not allowing me to do my work. So now we're at the work part. Now we're implementing all of that stuff that we've done the consultation. And it's coming forward, whether people decide to leak documents or not, this is where we're heading. And again, it's putting Albertans first. So maybe adapt to some of the change. The sky is not falling.

You're going to get better service. Shane, thanks for us. But we're still going to have Nahed Nenshi doing it an hour and a half of Vogon poetry. That was what came to me the other day. Like literally, there's things when you're just, you know, in the middle of it. I'm thinking, well, would they allow this in Guantanamo? Like, that came to mind at one point.

And then it was literally, you know, the whole hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. And I'm thinking, yeah, the Vaughan reading poetry, go look at 90 minutes of that. And I dare you, if you don't tap out in half an hour, you're a better man than me. I had to be there. So, yeah, it's Vaughan poetry listening to Nenshi.

And the other one I'll say, too, that guy is an absolute paper tiger. The best thing that we can do is give that guy a microphone. There is nothing of substance. And if you want to ask a question, where's Rachel? Like, if I'm asking that, she was a I may not agree with her

but she was actually a strong leader over on that side they must be just list list and flapping amongst themselves right now looking at this performance because if I'm asking it they have to be well keep in mind

keep in mind that he was head and shoulders above the other candidates they actually had to make a special exemption to allow him to run for leadership they they had to break their own rules to and and when all the funding was figured out the final candidates were all women except him

and so they broke their own rules to let a man come in and take a job that would have rightfully been a woman's job. And you, by the way, were bang on when you pointed out his condescending attitude. There's a lot of things that irritate me about him. To any prospective mashup guest,

if you want to earn bonus time on the show, bring up a pop culture reference. Tews loves it. Shane is now in line with Chris Sims. Nothing but time for Douglas Adams. Shane, thanks for hopping on giving us some time today and while I'm sure it won't be the last time but we appreciate you hopping on and clearing up some things in the headlines if people were at all interested but

certainly on this end it's always interesting having an MLA come on and to talk about some things going on in realm of politics do appreciate it we managed to get the clip up on Facebook now so if you guys can share it out there so we can maybe counter some of the stuff that takes place in media one of the thing I heard too is talking about quantum computing I'm not going to go to on that rabbit hole completely because like him I've heard stuff makes you think more but I'm going to throw one at you and it might be a different podcast you guys do or something like that but it's on bio computing so artificial intelligence is going absolutely crazy bonkers that's hardware they've done this other thing of trying to find out the least

energy intensive path to do it and it's literally human brain cells so it's bioc computing it's called final spark it's already taken place for five hundred dollars a month you can rent a little baby brain and it too will do computations for you so go check that out and uh that'll make you scratch your noodle for a while i'm mashup 185 full of head scratchers Shane getson thanks again for hopping on take care guys thanks Shane okay can we get this show we what do you can we get this show on the road that one it's fully on the road we've got it's on everything else we've got her shop in the high gear and let's rock and roll I just chuckle because as soon as he did Hitchhikers got him like, oh boy,

Tews is smiling, nod in his head, he was right into it. And I'm just like, oh, yeah. I mean, I can tell you, like, it's, it's probably about chapter four or five of the first book that that happened, right? It was right after Arthur Dent's house got demolished. Okay. Whatever. Anyways, I don't need to explain it to fans and the people who don't understand it. Should go.

aren't going to get it anyway, but read the damn book. Yes. Okay. And actually the audio book is one of the versions of the audio book is narrated by Martin Freeman, who as you probably know, played Arthur Dent in the 2005 or 2004, The Checkers Guide to the Galaxy movie. Which would make the audiobook fantastic. I haven't checked out the audiobook, but anytime people are like,

ah, audiobook this night, I'm like, when it's narrated or read, I guess, by somebody who's good at it. It is fantastic. Okay, rapid fire news. Stop getting me off track here, Tews. Carney government analyzing the results of firearms, Firearms buyback pilot project made reports of low uptake. That's saying something.

The Liberals kickstarted the long-delayed program with Cape Britain, Nova Scotia has its testing ground last month, hoping to collect 200 guns and evaluated system. But the small-scale pilot hasn't been met with pushback and little uptake. It is said they heard between 10 to 22, guns were collected, which would be less than 15% of Ottawa's stated target. And here's the thing. That stated target is extraordinarily low. Cape Breton has a little over 100,000 people in it. Okay. And 200 guns, keep in mind that while

there's a whole lot of guns that were banned, the people who like the guns that are the first one's banned probably own a lot more than one gun because most people nobody has just one it's like cold source okay except awesome nobody has just one gun like this is this is nobody says this is my gun they say this is one of my guns so you think one person gave up their 10 guns basically well between 10 and 22 i'm guessing that could have been like at most four people, right, which over, out of 100,000 people is a fraction of a percent. You want to show Dallas Brody a video? The 1BC leader Dallas Brody just introduced a bill to remove truth and reconciliation

day as a holiday in BC. I assume you want to show this or do you just want to talk about it? Well, here, we'll show it. It's good. It'll go a little bit long, but we'll be fun. Bill entitled the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Statute Repeal Act, of which a notice has been given in my name on the order paper, be introduced and read a first time now. Mr. Speaker, our bill will remove Truth and Reconciliation Day as a holiday in British Columbia.

Why? Because it doesn't deserve to be one. This day celebrates the greatest lie in Canadian history, the lie that 215 bodies are found. at the Kamloops Indian residential school. But the truth is, Canadians never have committed a genocide. This holiday seeks to shame Canadians for building a civilization. Okay, that's really good. Just, I'm going to skip ahead to the vote. Opposed?

Okay, here. Member, the question is first reading of the bill. All those in favor say aye. Aye. opposed and that pretty much sums it up what do you think

oh this is good this is good I got I don't know it doesn't matter what I think I think it's interesting it got brought in as a bill the only people who supported it

1 BC and it sounded to me I could be wrong like everybody else voted it down Elizabeth May now off of our Shane Getson question about Alberta and Ottawa being closer. Now Elizabeth may have her say.

Okay. All right. There is no chance in God's Green Earth that there's ever going to be an oil tanker up the B.C. North Coast. In case you've never heard of it, the inner waters between Haida Gwai and the coast of Canada, the west coast of Canada, is something called the Hecket Strait. Should look it up. It's the most dangerous body of water on the Canadian coastline. according to the government of Canada. And the fourth most dangerous body of water on Earth.

It has tides and currents that are extraordinary, 10 to 30 meters. They sometimes go down so low that they expose the ocean floor. That's why there's been a tanker moratorium on our north coast since 1972. And you can't wish away the science. And you can't pretend an oil tanker isn't going to break apart and contaminate the coasts sloshing back and forth oil between the north coast of the mainland of British Columbia and the east coast of Haida Gai.

The Haida Nation will never stand for it. British Columbians will never stand for it. They're not just barking up the wrong tree, they're barking up the wrong forest. Really interesting. I mean, no tankers has been allowed there since 1979. It's impossible to navigate. this just phenomenal information dump from Elizabeth May.

Now, just just out of morbid curiosity, let's take a look at real-time marine vessel traffic. This is the area she's talking about. This straight here, here's how, how to why or whatever it is. Now, it's impossible for tankers to navigate. Here we have a container ship in this exact straight that she's talking about. Here, what's this? What's this?

Navigational status underway using engine. Speed and course, 13.6 knots at 1332 degrees. What ship is that? I can't read it too. You have to read for me. Sorry, that's fair. It says LNG tanker. it's impossible for anybody to navigate this with a tanker.

That's why there's been a tanker ban in place since 1979. No tankers can go through it and it's illegal for them to go through it. And yet if I look at real-time satellite data of that exact same fucking place, there is literally an LNG tanker navigating it at this very goddamn second motherfucker. Are you kidding me? Well, doesn't this what we see out of our federal government? Out of our politicians? They say one thing,

while the truth is completely opposite of it. Does this shock anyone? No. But what was interesting to me is so Alberta said, gray cup we're now past gray cup and it's closer than ever yep and it's getting close but we still don't have anything yeah and then green leader comes out says never this will never have is it possible never just showed you it's literally happening right now also let's just give here's the other first nations you have ebbie you have all these different people saying this is not going to happen yet it's

happening right now. Okay. Now, let's give her the benefit of the doubt. And let's say that nothing should navigate through this straight. Okay, fair enough. We're going to cut things off from here downward. No one's going to navigate that straight. And that's because that's why none of this can happen is because this straight.

Now, here where all these ships are, that's Prince Rupert. Okay. Now, if you look, there is a nice several hundred kilometer gap between that island and the next island north of it, Prince of Wales Island. You literally have something almost the width of a prop, well, that's exaggerating. But you've got something pretty fucking huge to just go out into the open water. You don't have to navigate that straight. You can go straight out and then turn. That's the thing about ships, is they're fairly easy.

to get around things. Kevin Davin says Elizabeth May knows about sloshing. Yeah. Oh, yes. And so anyway, like if that's the compromise, if they say, you know what, we're not going to allow anything to go through that. There is no compromise. They don't want anything. They don't want anything out there twos. They don't.

They don't. But here's the thing, is that their arguments are lies based on shit. Ontario Education Minister says he is withholding EQAO test scores. Paul Calander said he purposefully held back the education quality and accountability office results, which are usually released in September or early October in order to take a very deep dive into the numbers. I can only assume what those numbers say. These scores are an arm's length, sorry, it's supposed to be an arm's length agency of Ontario government, test students in grade three and grade six in reading, math, and writing every year. grade nine students are tested in math and those in grade 10 take a literacy test

quoted i obviously i obviously have the results but i want to make sure that i act on what i'm seeing in the results as opposed to just hand mode there and saying these are what they are man that's literally what you're supposed to do that's your job that's your job now like we can't allow people to are these results as literally are they as bad as we think they are no let's take another dive into it and see if they're as bad as they are is that apparently nobody in Ontario knows how to read and even with that they're scared of releasing these documents for people to not be able to read because even their limited understanding would allow them to realize exactly how bad these fucking numbers are correct yeah um i wonder okay here um

We had a, will Health Canada inform you that your meat is cloned? You know, since I've read this article, I think it's right here. You've got the health food professor who was supposed to be scheduled on today's show. You didn't know that, but he was scheduled and then had to back out last night. That's funny because I was, I was thinking, I was like, you know what, we should see if, if the good doctor wants to come on today and talk about this. He's coming on next Friday. But since then, so much has changed, Health Canada was preparing to legalize meat produce from cloned animals without informing Canadians. But late last night, the department quietly update its website to announce it's pausing this legislation process.

Yeah, so here's the thing is cloned meat. So for those of you who weren't following this, or maybe you missed the episodes we were talking about it, apparently you can clone cattle now. And they were just going to offer the cloned meat on the shelves right next to the other beef and not say a word about the fact that it was. a clone rather than an actual honest to goodness regular cow now the the issue was was that this was all just quietly you know a website got updated there was no big announcement it wasn't here's what we're doing and here's why we're doing it the same thing with the c fia and the ostrich isn't it's it's we're going to do this well avoiding as much scrutiny as possible and that's the worst fucking way to do it.

And you have to wonder what the motivation is. So first off, apparently Brookfield in 2022, acquired a 49% share in the biggest cloned meat company. All the money, too. It always goes back to Brookfield. Brookfield is going to be the most successful. They're going to basically, in 10 years, they're going to be Omnicorp.

Okay. But, or the umbrella corporation, pick one. They're all the same. here's if you're going to sell cloned meat all right we're going to sit down we're going to come up with this business plan okay we're going to get meat and we're going to sell it but we don't want to have to bother shoveling shit fair enough i can see where you're coming from it's not always fun you know we don't want to have to deal with calving and 40 below all of the other things that happen okay we're just going to clone these bastards all right well what meat should we clone

beef is the one you land on you're going to have cloned meat and you're going to pick the most pedestrian albeit delicious option out there if i'm going to start a meat cloning company it's going to be bronosaurus and panda and dodo bird and that tasmanian um uh tiger that that would extinct like a hundred years ago, I'm going to track down some really cool exotic rare shit. Because if someone's going to buy cloned meat, you're going to look like, should I get a dozen chicken eggs or a dozen clone chicken eggs? That's never going to sell. But if you're like, well, can I get a tomahawk of a fucking panda bear?

Yeah, I would try that. I would absolutely buy the shit out of that. And if these idiots can't even think that far ahead in the marketing, they're not that smart and if they're not that smart there's probably a lot of other issues that aren't being fucking addressed in this leave it to twos to find the silver lining and all this fair enough

is it Fuji's founder Praz Michelle sentenced to 14 years in prison I don't know if I'm saying that right yeah it's the Fugees the Fugees member Praz Michelle has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was convicted on charges of conspiracy and illegal foreign lobbying.

A judge sentenced him on Thursday after he was convicted in April 2023 on 10 counts, including violating campaign finance laws during Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid and illegally lobbying the Donald Trump administration in 27. According to Billboard, Michelle, was handed a 14-year sentence, which will be followed by three years of probation. Okay. Now, this is how far the Fugis have fallen, okay? Acon missed their big debut because he was in jail. I think it was for drugs or murder or something like that.

All right. Then he came out later and met us do some collab with them. But they used to be a bunch of badasses. And now, fast forward a couple decades. Michelle was initially charged in 2019 and went to trial four years later. The trial lasted for three weeks and included testimony from Leonardo DiCaprio on behalf of the prosecution. This is not the I got shot nine times 50 cent that rap used to be. This is so fucking pedestrian.

He was ordered to forfeit more than $64 million after he was found guilty of orchestrating a foreign influence campaign to coax the United States into dropping an investigation into a Malaysian financier. What in the fuck? you're a Malaysian financer facing facing charges and you think your best way out of this is to get a washed up ex-rapper whose relevance ended decades ago to try and get Leonardo DiCaprio

to speak on your behalf to the government how many fucking steps are involved in this and don't you think maybe there's a simpler way to do it 15 more BC conservative riding association board members demand party find new leader that puts a signature total up to 30 people now or 30 signatures yeah and keep in mind that one of those riding associations doesn't even exist anymore because of this exact same thing the the calls are mounting the peasants are revolting police investigate early morning extortion related shooting in abbotsford and early morning shooting at the house in abbotsford is linked to a continued, a continuing extortion case, please say. The Abbotsford Police Department confirmed that this is a targeted incident related to an ongoing extortion investigation. Last week, the home of prominent business owner in Surrey was targeted by gunfire for a second time.

As extortion cases continue to plague the local South Asian Canadian business community, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke has called on the provincial government, provincial and federal governments to increase police officer presence in the city by 150 to respond to extortion shootings. The Surrey Police said Tuesday, this year in Surrey alone, they have had 74 extortion-related victims, 101 extortion files, and 44 related shootings. And I'll tag on this. City of Surrey puts up $250,000 reward fund to combat extortion. So if you, the Surrey, what did it say? Surrey Police Service will handle the information received with care and sensitivity and determine the value of any reward.

payments will only be issued if information directly results in identification, prosecution, and conviction. But they've got a $250,000 reward now on extortion. Yeah. BC's complex escalating extortion violence linked to India says former RCMP chief superintendent. So, you know, if you're wondering why this stuff never used to happen and why it's happening now, maybe we should check a few people's paperwork. Um, I didn't write it down to's, uh, Sharon Carr tweet. Uh, I'm, I'm missing the tweet though.

Okay. All right. So Sharon Carr, we talked about this last week about the AI written article. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Somebody, somebody call me out on this. Did we play the race card?

Did we talk about how this is something that a certain race of people, I don't even know what race she is. But whatever race it is, did we even mention the fact that she is? have to come kind of a race. In fairness, I'd have to go back and listen to the playback, but we were talking about journalist integrity, if memory serves me, correct. Yeah. Okay. Well, we didn't mention race.

But imagine waking up and being told your opinions are fabricated, that your thoughts and work were generated by something other than your own brain. Now I had being told the real problem is your appearance, your job, your skin color, and that you should go back home. Spoiler alert, my home is... You know, the funny thing is, is actually I think it would be kind of a little bit tongue in cheek and hilarious, but this whole thing reads like it was written by AI. We openly criticize this article, and we did not mention her nationality, of which we don't even know what it is. Well, our nationality is Canada, Canadian, I guess, but whatever her heritage is.

Do you want to, the Bangu, Harmon Bangu talking about Adrian Dix, is that further down? or do you want to bring that up right now, too? No, that's good. That's good. Here, I'll pull it up on screen. Adrian Dix brought in the Name Act changes to stop dangerous offenders from hiding behind new identities. The legislature passed his bill unanimously because it was basic common sense. So what happened at the BCNDP convention this weekend, their own delegates voted to repeal the very act, very protection protections Dick's created. did Adrian Dick stand up for his own bill?

Did he defend the safety measures he claimed were important? British Columbians need straight answers. So they voted to do away with that. So the idea behind this bill is that convicted child molesters, once they get out of jail, can't legally change their name afterwards. So that way it isn't like, oh, hey, aren't you Bill so-and-so, the child molester? You're like, no, no, my name's Frank. Oh, okay, okay, never mind that.

you just kind of look like them you must get that all the time right this bill was passed to avoid that exact thing and then at the uc or at the np a gm they they said actually you know what we want to get rid of it and pass unanimously now look i get it you know um more business minded um theoretically right of center parties they want to look after their voter base all right they want their voter base to be as large as possible and so they and take care of them and so they promote things that are business friendly and it just so happens that that lines up with the interests of the individuals in the country because they want to be better off financially and the country itself because they want to be better off financially and and the liberals

for example they take care of their voter base which are people who want handouts and backroom deals okay now what does that say about the NDP when they're unanimously passing a resolution to repeal a law that would was designed to make yes child molesters to disappear back into the folds of humanity budget vote we we the budget passed two's yep yes it did now one of the things that came out was Shannon Stubbs not there? Okay. So there's been lots of things.

And MP Shannon Stubbs has been approved for medical leave. She's in the early stages of recovery from major jaw and chin surgery performed at the Royal Alexander Hospital in Emmington. The procedure corrected a significant medical condition rooted in complications from birth. That's on her account. Yeah, so she must have been on a 50-year wait list. Now, if I scroll down in here, I don't know if this is all true. But for the unformed lemmings regarding Shannon Stubbs, she tweeted in the morning,

surgery fully planned and non-emergency, had full app-based voting from her phone, earns 211 grand year plus benefits, zero attempt to voter arrange a proxy, already missed two previous confidence votes. Interesting. You can't arrange a proxy for a confidence vote. Okay. Thank you too. And apparently the app on their phone requires facial regulations. recognition. And so with her facial surgery, she was unable to, it was unable to recognize her.

I'm guessing that there's probably also, you know, you can probably put in a pin or a password as well. Just like there's got to be some kind of a safeguard. And to the best of my knowledge, there was no ticket created saying, hey, I'm trying to log in and unable to. And then, yeah, we've got a man hiding behind the curtain in the House of Commons. Why do we have curtains in the House of Commons? why do we even have something to hide behind in the House of Commons?

But here's the thing. So this vote passed by two. You had two conservative MPs abstain. It looked like there were going to be more abstaining until it came out, until it went around that it was going to be passed because not everybody votes all at the same time. So you vote, then you vote, then you vote. And as soon as the math got figured out, then Andrew Shearer, one other guy ran to their seats and they're like yeah i want to vote it down too but if you're a

cynic you'd look at it and you would say that they were planning on abstaining from the vote if if that's what was going to be required to have all of the conservatives who were there vote nay and still have it pass and there's a bunch of people saying well yeah of course that's what they did nobody wants to have an election right now i want to have an election right now let fly the dogs of And the thing about it is, is that if there was an election, the conservatives would lose. They put their own political interest ahead of fair and honest representation of the interests of their constituents. Again, this is the exact same thing that we gave Jagmeet Singh an unending pile of shit over because that's literally what he did for fucking months. self-interest ahead of the interest of the constituents that's it and it just keeps going on

like that forever it doesn't matter what side of the fence you're on and you can justify this however you want but if the conservatives were ahead in the polls they would not have been any abstentions yes we're seeing Shannon Stubbs Shannon Stubbs would have come in in some kind of like a ridiculous I don't know face mass thing like she's the invisible man If that vote was necessary to push forward an election that the conservatives thought they could win, there's nothing that would have kept it from happening. You want to read this? Or do you want Abby Lewis in here?

Yeah. Abby Lewis, I'm with the majority of NDP caucus who voted against the austerity budget that would have made Stephen Harper smile, a gusher of corporate welfare and weapons spending that does nothing to make the lives of working people more affordable. Prime Minister Carney needs to remember he has a majority mandate instead of arrogantly forcing. Sorry, thank you. Minority mandate instead of arrogantly forcing through a budget without changes playing brinkmanship when Canadians are clear they don't want an election.

Budgets like these underline the imperative of rebuilding the NEPs so we can offer Canada an alternative to the disastrous pro-corporate agenda of the liberals and conservatives. Okay, so for those of you who don't know who Abby Lewis is, he is one of the contenders for NDP leadership. And he sees a $78 billion deficit as an austerity budget that would make Stephen Harper smile. He looks at what is one of the biggest deficits that this country has ever had with no major, no, like it's not like everybody's scared of COVID still. And we've still got this.

And he sees it as an austerity budget. avie lewis perfectly encapsulates the thoughts and beliefs of the majority of nDP voters and i can't think of a person who would be better suited to represent those thoughts and beliefs on the world stage than abie lewis uh let's do some elbow draggers shall we stood elbows up elbows down folks canada stuck in a vicious circle of low productivity bank canna says um Here's a couple of quotes. To put it bluntly, we're stuck in a vicious circle when productivity is weak. It's much harder to meet current challenges and seize opportunities for the future.

There's no quick or easy way to improve productivity and no single sector can do it alone. The challenge is complex and longstanding structural issues are at play. If we want to fix this, we'll need to be thoughtful, systematic, and resolute. Mr. Vincent went further in his remarks on Wednesday by suggesting three areas. Policymakers should focus on improving the country. investment climate, increasing competition and developing talent. A certain level of regulation is essential, of course, but it's fair to ask if we could regulate better.

This could mean speeding up approval processes, re-evaluating the scope of some rules, and reducing the overall uncertainty around regulation. We also need to address overlap redundancies and contradictions between the different levels of government. Wow. You listen to that. You think, well, he's obviously a fan. of the mashup.

This is the drum that we have been beating for years. We can actually say that now. I mean, we're going on over three years of the show. So yes, you can actually say that. Like we have literally been saying for three years that Canada is going to a dark place. And there is a very easy, simple solution. And it's to get rid of the federal government and provincial governments, but government in general, just fucking with every.

who wants to be successful you have uh ryan gilderson showing this name this band it's kamala harris and christia freeland on stage with i assume camela harris's new book so maris his new book and christia freeland and look i i am just so tired sean uh it's we got to have our elbows up we got like like that thing trump did at the at the at the um at the uh speech that one time You know, we've got to do elbows up. Elbows up is super important. And I'm really tired of our extremist politicians bringing U.S. style politics onto our soil. There's this.

All right. Markomania and pull this up. Okay. It says, Canada at number 33, U.S. at number 39, the dynamic due of bad public and private health care. This is countries with the best health care. We're not even on the list. So we're third. We're the third highest.

in terms of or as a percentage of economy. We talked about this before with Shane. And I was looking for this. I put it in the wrong spot. That's why it's here. But we're not even on the list of top 30 for health care overall. Which shocks nobody because the third or third in spending. If you talk to anyone searching out like major procedures,

where are they searching anywhere but Canada? Because the wait times, if you can even get it done are ridiculous. And if you get it done, they're going to fuck it up. You got president of the state. The CBSA Union reveals that Canada lets in refugees via an app on their phone due to understaffing. No physical interaction ever occurs. They land and click a few buttons and walk into Canada and get money. 10% don't even use the app.

You could show the video if you want to. That's a really good summary. But here's what it is. This is one of our bureaucrats. And that's called One Touch. So essentially we get tombstone data. We do some biometrics. and the claimant is then allowed into the country

to complete their security screening and such on their own through the one touch system. They have, I believe it's 45 days. So they say they're a refugee and then somebody in the government says, okay, download this app on your phone. And then you have 45 days to fill out all of the stuff required on this app.

10% of the people who do that don't, they just disappear. so you go up you say hi my name's Sean I'm here to claim refugee status do you have any questions and they say no we're too busy download this app and fill it out in 45 days you say okay cool see you later and that's how you get into this country or one of the ways that you get in one of the ways yes Nutrion rules out Canada for new export terminal chooses U.S. site they've a Longview, Washington for its new export turnover worth up to $1 billion, a blow to the current government after it promised to attract sizable investment in mining and resource sectors.

Saskatoon-based nutrient is the largest global producer potash. And it went on to say, quoted, logistics are really important component of ensuring that Canadians potash can be competitive on the global stage, said Mr. Reynolds, who added that global potash demand is expected to grow from 72 million tons to 80 million tons. tons by 2030. The long-term stability of Canadian potash is what is best for Canada. Mr. Arnold said transporting potash is more expensive than mining it, he said, and to stay competitive, the company needs to focus on capital costs. If we're not competitive from a logistic point of view, and if we have a misstep here, that's not going to be good for Canadian potash.

This is helping Canadian podash remain competitive for the long term. The best thing that we can do to keep Canadian potash competitive is to get it. out of the country as quickly as possible and then deal with it somewhere else. Correct. One of the other things here? Recent labor strikes at the port and the Canadian railways have also been

a source of uncertainty for Canada's shippers nutrient included. One of the deciding factors of this was the uncertainty of okay, if we set it up to go to Vancouver, well, there's a whole lot of people that are all

unionized and swing way too big a stick and they could really fuck things up. So even though there is a few things happening in this country right now, they're done in a way that just like, okay, like as soon as it's out of the ground, as soon as it's out of the ground, we've got to get it

out of the country. And there we can figure out how to disperse it globally. That's the state of Canada right now. The Winnipeg Sun, is this beginning of Canada's collapse? It's talking about separation and how, people shouldn't write this off. One of them is Quebec. It says the timing isn't fixed, but the direction is unmistakable.

While most Quebecers still oppose separation, the PQ is gaining momentum. Ignoring that would be irresponsible. And then it says, but the most pressing dangers coming from the West and warning signs are impossible to miss. It says Saskatchewan is home to one of the largest carbon sequestration projects on planet. It earns applause in Europe and Asia, but barely a mention in its own country. How long can a federation survive when the engine of its economy is. is treated like an inconvenience.

For provinces like Manitoba, this is a direct threat. If Alberta and Saskatchewan decide, they've had enough equalization payments collapse, Manitoba would face financial devastation. Services would be slashed. Our economy would take a hit that would take generations to recover from. These are not speculative warnings. They're mathematical realities.

The article goes on and on and on and on. Yeah, but the point is, is that this is the perspective of somebody, this is in the Winnipeg Sun. this is a Manitoban perspective on we should probably stop being such dicks to the people who are paying all of the bills because if they stop paying all the bills we're fucked that's the gist of this article chinese blades near mount st anne the 171 blades for the first phase of the largest wind power project under construction in quebec do indeed come from china it has been learned even though a winter my play factory that has already been subsidized by the government is an operation in Quebec? The mayor of the town where that factory is says that they actually saw the wind turbine blades going by. So you subsidize.

They got manufactured in China. Yeah. So they subsidize a wind turbine factory in fucking Quebec. And then they get somebody in China to build these wind turbine blades. They put them on a fucking boat. go all the way across the Pacific, get them on a train, go all the way across one of the biggest countries in the world, the second biggest country in the world, to the other fucking end of it, drive past said factory on their way to be installed.

And that is somehow a great way to run a fucking country. Top Ukrainian ministers submit their resignations as the country is rocked by a corruption scandal of recording responding to public backlash, Zelensi called for the dismissal of his justice and energy ministers amid the investigation. They later submitted their resignations, the prime minister said, anti-corruption watchdogs, the same agencies Zelensky sought to weaken earlier this year, revealed the findings of a 15-month investigation, including a thousand hours of wiretaps resulting in the detention of five people, and another seven linked to about a hundred million in kickbacks in the energy sector.

Internally, this scandal will be used to undermine unity and stability within the country. externally our enemies will use it as an argument to stop aid to Ukraine it looks really bad in the eyes of our European and American partners you know who else has been a big funder of the Ukraine that got left off that list us and yeah it does look fucking bad and you saying like like oh it's just a one off sure we have a bunch of corruption in this industry But everything else is on the up and up, and you can keep sending us money. And did we bring up the fact that Krista Freeland was going to be in Ukraine, but now she's moving to the UK. Is there any timing there that's interesting? Well, actually, that is kind of interesting as far as the timing goes. I saw that this morning, but I didn't have enough time to get into it because I don't know the specifics of, so she's still an MP. She's also the ambassador for economic growth to Ukraine or whatever.

Yes. okay now does she still have that job i don't know is she resigning as a member of parliament i find it interesting this huge scandals breaking in ukraine and all of send christia freeland now she's going to be the CEO of roads correct which happens to be where um what's his name oh yes mark carney did his uh masters in phd uh man okay carnage carnage carney yes okay Drivers, show this video, please, of Eminton. This is, I'm like, this is great. Carry on.

Okay. I'm just going to caption this saying, the buck stops here. The audio is a song. But somebody, like, they haven't even, they haven't even field dress this deer. There's just a whole ass deer that they're dragging. toe behind oh man and it's a pretty decent rack on that yeah it is yeah it is i was waiting for it to catch fire like i was wondering is it gonna spark and light up i don't know well i mean there's sparks coming off of it so presumably um something i don't know with

you can't really tell what's being what it's being dragged with but there's some kind of metal in there because it's sparking off the road which means that it's probably not going to be there for too long like does he even know it's there like did someone just someone just just tie a buck to the back of his car as a joke. I'm failing to see the point here. And if he keeps driving much longer, so will that deer. If that is goofy enough, here's some goofy stuff for you. Fire at COP 30, the summit in Brazil.

You want to show the video of the summit fire? Of course I want to see. So COP 30, the International Climate Change Conference, that gets held in some ridiculous exotic location every fucking year is apparently, I don't know, people are saying that this place is just absolute fire.

I love this. Climate Live, entertainment culture pavilion. On fire. You want to show... Okay, seriously, like, let's talk about... Let's talk about the impact of that to the environment. how much carbon dioxide was released into the atmosphere when that happened?

How many other dangerous chemicals? The only saving grace about having it at the World Climate Conference is that all the planes there already burnt all the jet fuel, which meant that it probably didn't go up in flames nearly as much as it would have anywhere else. You want to show Avi Lewis's video unequivocally opposed to any... No, actually, I don't, I don't, I don't. All right, fair enough. I changed my mind.

Let's move on. He's an idiot. How about the real Mr. Bench video? Yeah, I got to reload it here real quick because it's acting funny. Bear with me half a sec. If you want to stick on COP 30, Canadian doctors lead a dance and rap performance, you could do that too. No, I showed this one. I got this.

So for those of you listening, this is just a guy driving along on his skidoo. And he's bumping. and around and he sinks in and he falls down but not as far as his pants did he is stuck in the snow upside down and his pants stayed up but he's inverted and so now his ass is hanging out the bottom of him upside down kind of looks like our federal government doesn't it's uh yeah yeah it's an upside down asshole that's basically what our government is on every issue um um so anyways it doesn't have anything to do with the news i just thought it was hilarious show uh canadian i don't i don't want to show this either but if you want to talk cop 30 all right here fine show this one

all right here we go these are canadian doctors who traveled all the way to brazil to perform this song That's what Canada is spending their money on. Correct. You want to show the video of Philadelphia? One third of Philadelphia has lost their snap. All right. One third of the Philadelphia has lost their snap benefits during the government shutdown. So instead, community members have come together and created food distribution sites to feed the people of Philadelphia for free.

Because food should be a human right, not a political bargaining tool. So this is from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. This is a Twitter account advocating for socialism. And they're talking about how when the government stopped providing free food to people, the community stepped in to take care of it themselves. So when the government stopped being socialist about the food, the free market and the individuals within it took care of the problem without the need of government intervention and at no point did they clue into the fact that the video they're showing makes the exact

opposite point of everything that they believe in secretary sean duffy uh it's not your imagination traveling has become more uncivilized here are some facts 400 percent increase in outbursts on plane since 2019 one in five flight attendants report experiencing physical incidents unruly passengers events doubled since 2019 it doesn't have to be this way the golden age of travel starts with all of us it's time to bring back civility and manners when we travel this is this is bold i'm gonna here air travel and the men and women that's the old timey video made the dream possible flying was a bastion of civility.

But today. But today. The government put out this video. Basically telling people to start acting like grown-ups. Toronto orders kids basketball, hockey nets removed by encampment stay. This is another. they're one of these things where you're like this can't be real but it is real it's exactly what

I would expect yes this yeah this um basketball net and there's there's maybe a better picture of it uh there was a better picture of it somewhere else right here um so technically it's on the utility right of way but that's fine that's totally normal lots of things are like that everywhere in every city but uh they said that it needs to be removed for the consideration of snow removal on the street in the winter. It's probably, it looks like it's about four or five feet off the curb. And it's been there since 2019. Wouldn't you say somebody's got a dick for a neighbor?

Oh, somebody's absolutely got a dick for a neighbor. But also, if you're working at, I don't know, the call center for the city of Toronto or anywhere. And you get a call like that. Be like, okay, well, I'm sorry, what's the, what's the problem? I'm going to stop here right here. Is our audio getting bad? Is this a one-off? Are we?

I don't know. I don't feel, I can hear you clearly too, but if anyone else is having issues, let us know. Hit us up in the comments. You sound, you sound just, just normal. But it's been there for six years. Somebody says terrible. I don't know. We can't.

It's something. Somewhere past us, because you sound fine to me and I sound fine to you. I know, we had this issue. Remember we had this issue like a month ago? I wonder what's going. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe we've got to talk to Streamyard about it.

But anyway, bear with us, folks. It has been for a while. I assume he means today. Yes. Um, so anyway. Yes, bad. Okay, we get it. We get it.

Thank you. Thank you for the feedback, everybody. Yes, it's bad audio. God damn. me and twos are having fun we're having fun we're lagging everywhere else you guys you well someone is messing with your stream isn't that probably the case i had an interesting phone call with mrs twos yesterday where just the the call just did sort of weird things jumped around you couldn't complete the call and then um and then it hung up when when picked up

and then i just hit the button to call back i was driving i hit the button to to call her back and then it said uh call can't be completed as dialed and i'm like i just hit the button to to redial i didn't type anything in so yes i'm pretty sure that ceases is now they got mad at us after teasing last week and they're two chicken to come out to the match well then knowing knowing that too's let's let's maybe speed it up here and finish it off because i assume it's not going to get better we've we've learned this issue before um the food professor put out one reader sent me these pictures I hate this grapes advertised in Imperial at

$3.89 a pound in big numbers but charged $11 a KG at the till roughly 25% more. Please check your receipts under the scanning code of practice you can get these grapes for free when the scan price is higher than the shelf price most grocers adhere to it

I had no idea that was a rule. You have Vancouver Sun here put this out B.C. Human Rights chief declares that it's colonialist to stigmatian list to stigmatize drug use that's in the vancouver sun opinion yeah no no no no now now here if you click on the link where does it take you i didn't even click on the link 404 missing page they took it down they forgot to delete the tweet talking about this article but they removed the article um saying that stigmatizing drug use is colonialist

is basically being racist against First Nations people. And unlike last week, when we were the only ones noticing that that was racist, apparently other people who are also noticing that saying that stigmatizing drug use is racist is actually pretty racist. You have a new poll in Canada, most important issue, Trump, U.S. relations at 17%, jobs economy at 17%. Yeah, inflation 8%, health care 8%, immigration 7%, environment, environment, environment 4%, environment 4%, debt, debt deficit 4% housing 3% education 2% crime 1% here's the thing job slash economy is the same thing as inflation which is the same thing as debt deficit which is the same thing as housing and arguably in the state of things in this country you could also throw immigration in there

too they're asking this is the same thing this is the same thing we covered like a month ago they're asking the same thing seven different ways so that it gets parsed into different things when it's the same fucking problem. BC wolves figure out how to pull up crab traps to get food. There's a clever video. I'm not a clever video. I mean, a clever wolf. So here's the wolf.

He's pulling the buoy out. And then if you fast forward a little bit, he's literally pulling the crab trap out. And then if you fast forward a little bit more, he goes in there and he opens it up. up and then you see him later on he's got the crabs out and he's or actually that's a fish I guess in in this video and he's eating it the wolves have figured out how to pull the crab traps so what happened was the fishermen were like well someone's stealing our fucking crap like someone's

stealing from our traps and it's a it's a wolf and so they they set up cameras to catch the guy doing it, and then it turns out, nope, it was Caninus Lupus. Academy nudges voters to actually watch all the Oscar contenders this year. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members must confirm that they have watched all movies nominated in each category in order to be allowed to vote. I don't think anything needs to be said to. Yeah. So a new policy with the Academy.

is that the people voting on who should win the awards have to actually watch the movies first. You want to show the real Mr. Bench tweet? Yeah, so, I mean, we make fun of Doug Ford for doing this, and Wob Canoe, maybe not the smartest guy ever. People say he's really good looking and well-spoken, but you look at all the dumb shit that Doug Ford is doing,

and he's like, oh, I'd like to try that too. It's open in Headingley. We decided to pop in with this, a brand new liquor mart pop-up. Meme culture right here, my friend Danielle Smith, my friend Doug Ford, for the refined palate. I think this is the official drink of beer league. Yeah. Cool. So he's taking a page out of Doug Ford's book, and there are no good pages in that book.

the saga that never seems to end, we're clearly over SaaS, says Canada Post CEO as loss is top one billion this year. Canada Post facing deep losses, the Crowns Corporation CEO said Tuesday the company expects to lose up to 30,000 employees to retirement or voluntary departure over the next decade as it tries to get costs under control. 30,000 twos. Did I call it or did I call It did the round of layoffs to management to give themselves a landing pad to absolutely slash. Think about that, 30,000. So if the average labor participation rate in Canada is somewhere around, I don't know, call it 66%. I think that's a little bit high.

That would mean that you're looking at, that is like every single person, that would be like losing every single job in, a city with 45,000 people in it. You want to show the video of Kearney getting booed at the Grey Cup, or maybe he didn't get booed, maybe Winnipeg fans were just singing a song. Do we even need to, do you want to show it? Do we even need to show it? Okay, so here's the video. So that was that.

also um here's somebody saying how come we watch the game and never seen that it's up to you'd prove it i don't believe you um saying that no no no he didn't get booed he definitely got booed and oh yeah he totally got booed here's speaking of a boo here's here's booshart show the bushard video no no no i'm not done with this yet i want to show the coin flip i can't find it though where's the coin flip i don't know you got a you got a ton of tabs open there yeah yeah because we covered a ton of things anyway when carney was carney came out to do the coin flip and got booed hugely hugely and so then you've got these people trying to be apologists for it you know table salt posting more misinformation winnipeg shout fans shout blue he wasn't saying boo they were saying

they say boo earns or burns oh look they're cheering for you they're saying let's go brandon he what they weren't saying boo they were saying blue uh fantastic stuff okay you want to i was saying booer ah I love it I love it okay uh let's go Brandon uh boo shard video you want to show you want to show you want to show us amendment to others yeah sure I mean You know, I got to give it to the Evanton Oilers. They've been in a, like, there's a lot of highlight reels featuring them lately. The puck protection, the leaning in, the strength, and then look at a skill level.

Forehand, backhand. No chance for Stuart Skinner. Show the Buffalo one. The Buffalo one made me chuckle. The Buffalo one is. Yeah, right here, right here. This is great. I'm an Oilers fan.

This is still great. I got a... Here we go. What was the final score of the Buffalo game, by the way? I don't know. Was it 5-1, 6-1? Can't remember. I don't know if I really care.

And then this is froze right up. Oh. Everything's froze. Everything froze. Okay. I'm in... Mashup 185, okay? Happy news. Can you hear me, too?

I can hear you, but I can't see you. Yeah, well, oh, great. Okay, talk about, talk about the, I feel like everything's about to crash here on my side. Talk about the silver and the gold and how the Chinese have found. Happy news, okay, I hear you. All right, three things here. Happy news, 79-year-old vet, Vietnam vet, who was fatally shot naked intruder, speaks from hospital bed. I made sure I was going to kill him.

There's the fishermen searching for worms, find some. 20,000 medieval silver coins. That happened in Sweden. And then a massive gold deposit worth $192 billion has been discovered in China. So that's some of the happy news. Yeah, I don't think that do you think that they actually discovered

$192 billion worth of unmind gold? Tuesday wants to keep talking. Everybody keeps telling me we have problems here, which means this sucks. Let's get on the community notes. The UCPA jam November 28th. They found a horde of Nazi gold and they're trying to cover it up.

Bealt January 17th. Get your tickets, folks. Get your teams. We've got 11 left. And the Cornerstone Forum returns March 28th at the Westing Calgary Airport. That is March 28th. That's going to be a fun time. We've got lots of great things. Mashup 185. It's been great at the start. It seems we've gone off the rails and appreciate everybody hopping on. I'm doing it. Tews as always. I don't know what else. Thanks. Get along for the ride, everybody. We'll catch up to you next week. Mashup here. every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain standard time. Normally we don't have so many issues, but

today it seems like there's issues. Well, it's happening somewhere after this, and I saw somewhere in the comments, they were saying that a lot of people who use Dream Yard have been having issues in the past couple weeks. Interesting. Well, yeah, folks, thanks again. Tews, as always.

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