Shaun Newman Podcast - Mashup 203

Episode Date: April 11, 2026

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Welcome to the mashup. Tell me whether I'm wrong or right. Easter west up or down side to side. I sit to stand and fall to fly. Of all of my impulsive plans, pop and locking salsa dances on demand. I follow leading off the map and stop the chatter, scream happily. Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup.

Welcome to the mashup. Welcome to the mashup. You know how sometimes in life you're just so right. that your wife is mad at you because of how right you are. So the other day, I'm working late, and it's Mrs. 2's mostly day off from Vape Vault, but she's still working her all job and doing stuff around the house. So I don't get home to like 8, 30, 9 o'clock, something like that.

Dinner's there ready waiting for me. And the lady can cook. I'll give her that, absolutely. And so I'm sitting down and I'm digging into it. And then she does like an extra special meal for the dogs too. And so they're all getting fed. And she's telling me about how, you know, she wants to lose a little bit of weight because she thinks that she's getting fat.

The woman, you know, her six pack is becoming a four pack. And she's concerned. And so then she's in this calorie deficit. And she's getting everybody all fed and throwing all this food out in all these different directions. And then after just this long, exhausting day, she's like, oh, okay, I'm done. Everybody's fed. and if you didn't get enough food, you could suck a dick. And I was like, but wait a second, honey,

didn't you just say that you're in a calorie deficit? She's like what? And I'm like, well, you just now said that if anybody didn't get enough to eat, they could suck a dick. And you also said that you're in a calorie deficit. So does that mean what I think it means? And then she got mad and threw something at me. You know, people wonder if twos is at,

ever off. Tews is never off in his personal life. I could just, I'd love to have been just at the table. Well, you know that look you get. That look you get for being absolutely right. Yeah, I assume that didn't go the way you'd hoped it went. It went exactly how I was expecting it to go. Yeah. After, because like I had a long day, but then she also, because she was basically going nonstop for probably about 14 hours and sure my day was a little bit longer. But 14 hours is nothing to sniff at. Yep, that's, that's fun. All right.

Welcome to Matchup 203 folks. Happy Friday. Happy Friday everybody. If you're enjoying the show, now is your time to, if you're watching on X, hit the retweet button. If you're watching anywhere else, chime in in the comments, share with a friend, all those lovely things. I want to share this real fast, okay?

If I can and I should have brought up. No, no, you can't. We're on a hard stop at 1130, so quit filibustering. But here, okay? I see him. This is Chris Van Dam from on Terrible, as he points out. He got one, his significant other, got him a mashup shirt as a surprise. And so I've been hearing from everybody that they're good quality.

They're not pieces of crap, which is what I wanted to hear, or I wanted all the feedback. And so here's another mashup listener with the gunslinger on them. We got a lot of good looking fans out there. Yeah. It's a very pretty community. Anyways. So that's pretty cool.

Show it to you, Chris. And there you go. Yeah, there we go. Okay. All right. We've got a full lineup here today. We got lots to get to. Happy.

I didn't click anything. What? I didn't click anything. Why are you looking at me like that? Don't give me that look. I'm giving you that look. Okay. I didn't even click anything.

Sure, you didn't. That means that you did. Uh-huh. All right. All right. Well, okay, let's start with Happy Airborne Friday. Jamie wanted me to point out that today, well, April 9th, 1917, the assault began.

We're talking about Vimy Ridge and approximately 10,6002. Canadians went on that day. 3,598 were killed, and another 7,000, or sorry, 3,500 were killed, not 10,000 went. 3,500 were killed, 7,000 more were injured, but they did capture Vimy Ridge. So there you go. Battle of Vimy Ridge was April 9th to 12th. So happy Airborne Friday to all the military men out there. Yes, and a key date in Canadian military history.

and so shut out to all the military boys who tune in to the mashup. All right. Now, I think what Toos was trying to bring in was Cout's Six and a Half. Yeah. Yeah. So the justice system in this country is a bit of a joke. Syrian refugee found not criminally responsible for failing to stop after deadly Ontario crash gets absolute discharge. Muhammad al-Jamud was released on.

on bail last fall while he appeals dangerous driving conviction and sentence. So these are the two people he killed. There was also another person, the driver of the vehicle that these guys were in was also severely injured. He didn't have a license. It was his first time driving in this country, despite having been here for several years and not getting a license. And when he killed these people, he fled the scene.

And he got an absolute discharge because. he does not at this time meet the threshold of significant threat to the safety of the public. Obviously, these two people excluded. Yeah. The jury and the criminal trial heard all the, you know, he come from a war-torn country in Syria, sorry, and he witnessed the effects of these horrors, etc., etc., etc., and that's why he fled the scene because he didn't like cops and you get where this is going. So that's the state of Canada and what's happening in the old coup six and a half folks. I mean, if one of us did that and we fled the scene, we could be like, yeah, the last time I did something you guys didn't like, you froze everybody's bank account.

So of course I fled the scene. It's just as valid as this. A man charged with assaulting and injuring two Durham officers on police property, two on duty Durham, regional police officers, were assaulted and injured by Mustafa Siddette, who approached them in the parking lot of Central East. Central East Division in Oshawa, I leave the voices to you. In Wednesday, police alleged in a release, alleged, yes. The officers called for immediate assistance around 7 p.m. after an unknown man allegedly entered a police area. And both officers sustained significant injuries.

the injured officers with assistance from responding officers quickly restrained the suspect and took him into custody following a conducted energy weapon deployment. Taser. Hmm. Yeah. They, so this guy went into a police station, went into like their parking lot compound and just started throwing haymakers, I guess.

I don't know. I don't know if he had a weapon or what the deal was. And these, he took on two guys. two cops fucked them up enough that they needed to go to the hospital and then when they called for backup

they just tased the fuck out of them what is going like why there's more to this story there's got to be so much more to this story A why would you just go up to a police station and start picking fights with cops because it's not like they're off duty or anything like

that. They're not just regular civilians because they obviously had a radio because they called for backup. So you're, you see two cops in uniform and you decide to take them on. You know those things on the sides of their hips? The long distance hole punchers? Why would you think that was a good idea? And you take on these guys with the long distance hole punchers and the long distance zappy zappers. And you somehow managed to fuck them up enough that they've both got to go to hospital. A, why would you never do that? B, how in the hell were you that successful?

Long distance hole punchers. That's fantastic. Do you want to show any? We'll pay attention to this story and we'll see if more comes out of it. All right? Fair enough. Two's, I don't disagree with what you're saying. Although the best line maybe of the day will be long distance hole punchers.

The breakdown. That's fairly ubiquitous. I didn't make that up by any means. The breakdown. Electoral Boundaries Commission Report and Dwayne Brat. All right. The majority says something happens in January that convinces these two individuals to do something completely different and to defect not just a little bit, but do a complete 180. So what transpired in that period?

I had been hearing rumblings that there was I would just like to point out how crooked is fucking things on the wall are sure being put on these two individuals by the UCP in other words they were going to them not in a public press conference but on the phone saying look at you were appointed to do a job you didn't do your job

your job was not to come up with the best, most balanced map for the good of Alberta. Your job was to come up with a map that benefited the UCP. So here's the thing with Dwayne Brat. He's talking about, he's basically saying that what the UCP recommendation is for the map redistribution that gets done every 10 or so years in this country. is gerrymandering. And it's being set up to favor the UCP at the expense of the NDP by doing a few things like commingling urban and rural in a few places.

And while he's technically right in that it probably will favor the UCP, he's a piece of shit because in 2017, when the NDP did this, it was done in a way. So to be clear, the minority report that he's talking about does follow all conventions. It follows the laws laid out in terms of map redistribution. And there's some kind of a Supreme Court thing from Saskatchewan that it abides by everything they did. Everything recommended in this minority report is on the up and up. But he doesn't like it because it favors the UCP or presumably would favor the UCP.

Here's the thing is in 2017 when the NDP were in charge and the maps got redrawn for the next election, it favored the NDP in a way that wasn't illegal or anything like that. And he didn't say a damn thing. I'm getting really sick of politicians who call out one side for doing something that favors them, even though it's technically illegal, while being totally silent when the other side does it. Holly Dohn, Prime Minister has no comment on Deputy Minister National Defense. Christine, is it Christine? No, it doesn't matter. Christine Fox cited by Ethics Canada for awarding $80,000 a year job to a school friend whose experience consisted of working as a manager at Good Life Gym.

Yeah. And so you go from Good Life Gym to a manager in our national defense. And it just so happens that your childhood friend is the deputy minister. What a job promotion, eh? Yeah. That's a promotion. To go from Good Life Fitness.

Like, oh, oh, you got a new job? Oh, where are you going? Planet Fitness? Oh, you're going to go to Gold's Gym? No, no, no, no, I got a government gig with the Department of Defense. There's still hope maybe two's me and you can get promoted to something in the government

where we could have a lot of fun. or we could just have a lot of fun, a lot of sway. That would be excellent. That would be excellent. Where'd you guys go from? Mashup to Prime Minister. Yeah, we're a prime minister. We're co-prime ministers of the country now.

And we're just going to, we're going to see, you know, a whole bunch of stuff go on with getting rid of some of the bureaucracy. That's what we're going to do. What's your job experience? I ran a show. Talked about it. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

We just shot the shit for a couple hours once a week. If I became prime minister, first thing I was. I would do is I would be like, close the door. And then I would, you know, I'd get, I'd get in like all the military people and I'd be close the door. I'd be like, ladies and gentlemen, aliens, tell me everything. And then immediately after that meeting, it would just be chopping block. I would just be cutting everything.

Our, our federal budget would go down to like $17,000. Can we, can we televise everything in that closed door? our meeting on aliens then? Well, I don't know. Could it just be a live show? You know what? If it was under the condition that I never told a soul, I would still accept those terms. Fair enough.

Before we bring in our guests, one more headline. National Post, majority of Canadians open to joining EU new poll suggests. Yeah, except the poll says 25% think it's a good idea, 58% say worth exploring, and 17% say bad idea. So when they say, oh, they would be open to the idea, it's like saying everybody who doesn't unequivocally hate this, but this is how they do the soft launch things in the media. They'll get a poorly, like intentionally poorly done poll. And then they will dishonestly talk about the results of it.

Okay, we're going to hop to everything else. Alberta Independence, okay? We're going to bring in today's guest. Here, can I get her in? Eva, how are you doing? Well, in yourselves? Oh, it's great to see you. Likewise.

It's a Friday. So I think we're all happy to be back here. I think most of the people are happy to be tuning in. I've gotten lots of texts waiting for the latest mashups. So I think everything's good. Now, court, bring us up to speed, bring everybody up to speed on what's been going. on here in Alberta? Yeah, so it was a busy day for the independence referendum petitioner Mitch Sylvester. Jeff and I were in court starting with Tuesday and I'll just explain it a little bit

because I think there's some confusion about the court case. There's actually three that took place this week. So on Tuesday there was one application on behalf of Surgeon Lake Crenation that was only on Tuesday and Mitch Sylvester was not named as a party. It was a statement of claim that Sturgeon Lake brought against the federal government, the provincial government, and the chief electoral officer of Alberta. They did not name Mitch Sylvester, so we were not participants. And that was a statement of claim. And then on Tuesday, it was an interlocutory injunction requesting the judge to in some way

that stopped the petition process, which there were many remedy. sought, but the one that seemed to be getting the most attention in both cases is to have the chief electoral officer stopped from verifying the count. So nobody suggested that the signatures gathering stops, and I'm going to get back to that and why that's important, not just for us, but the other side, why they agreed and why that's important. But so it just, they're looking to prohibit the chief electoral officer at a minimum from verifiable. fine, but there's more things like they want to say that the CIA is unconstitutional and all these other remedies that they're seeking.

So that one is, yeah, the CIA being the Citizens Initiative Act. Okay. All right. Yes. Somebody mentioned that this morning, so not the American CIA agency. And then Jeff and I were representing Mitch Sylvester on Wednesday and Thursday in two. different First Nation groups that had two different court challenges on a judicial review. So Tuesdays was a statement of claim where they're seeking damages for charter breaches.

On Wednesday and Thursday, a judicial review is when you could go to court and say the government or a government official has done something incorrectly and we want you to review their decision. You only have 30 days to file that. And that's what they did as soon as Mitch Sylvester's petition was approved. There went to the court seeking remedies saying that the chief electoral officer's action was unreasonable and therefore should the court should do something about it. And again, there were a number of remedies that they were seeking, including not having the chief electoral officer verify the signatures.

So that was what we were doing with. How strong of a case did they present? In my view, it was not strong. So they were very much relying on Justice Feasbee's decision, which was a very specific reference case to a particular section in the Citizens Initiative Act, the CIA, that was in before. So before the chief electoral officer of Alberta could say, hey, I have a question here.

I'm not sure if this is constitutional. I'd like the court to make that determination on my behalf. I'm not, you know, a judge. I don't have that legal background. That's for somebody else to do because that was in the Citizens Initiative Act. What happened is when we were really close to the end of that process, the legislature amended the legislation to remove that section. So then Mitch refiled it.

And the applicants in these cases were very heavily relying on Justice Feesby's decision, which we're saying shouldn't be applied or if it shouldn't be really applied, if anything narrowly. And he says in his decision over and over, this doesn't have to do with all these other aspects like whether or not a referendum can happen or anything about Alberta independents has to do with this. The problem is, is he did opine on a lot of other things, which the applicants were using to make their arguments.

So I hope that helps. That does help. And I heard that Jeff was an absolute firecracker in there. Yeah. So we like I said, we weren't able to speak on Tuesday. And so, and Jeff said this in court. You know how hard it is for me not to speak. I know, Sean, you've moderated his discussions before.

So it was two and a half days of Jeff having to be quiet. And then he was able to speak. And he did so in one hour. I think he said more than everybody did in three days. In that one hour, he, I don't think, took a breath and he just let it all out and made great points, which are also in our brief. I just posted some of those today. This is a simple democratic process about communicating the will of citizens to their legislature. Jeff is actually calling me right now, so I don't know if you got your message on.

or if he's looking to get in. But so it's a democratic process. It's meant to get citizens involved and engaged. And I think it's quite unfortunate that there's been so many court challenges that, in my view, and I think Jeff said this in court too, has actually caused a lot of misunderstanding, misinformation and disinformation, which of course came up during this case. But about the process and about what's legal, what's unconstitutional, just people are now so confused, and that's disheartening to me that I think this process

has caused more confusion and unfortunately, even division and, you know, hatred and all this stuff. But I don't think the lawyers on the other side really helped that process because they made it, their arguments were suggesting that all these Aboriginal and treaty rights were being infringed. And our whole argument is, and the government of Alberta said the same thing. They're not infringed because the government has not done anything. So it's only when the government does something, takes action in some way. Could there be an infringement? And I said I would get back to the signature collection for a second, because I think this is an important point. The First Nations didn't, I don't know if consented would be the right way, but they didn't. But they

didn't object to the citizens continuing this signature gathering process. They said that's not what we're here to argue about or change. But if you take that to its logical conclusion is if that isn't a problem and if that's not impacting or infringing treaty rights, then you aren't challenging that, then what's the difference if he verifies those signatures? your treaty rights and Aboriginal rights aren't infringed or impacted at that stage either. So it almost makes our points stronger, in my view. I hope you guys like that.

That totally makes sense to me. Sean, jump in. Well, I was just going to say for the average Albertan, does this change anything? Have we got any, you know, because one of the things, whether it was talking to, I want to say, Keith Wilson, and maybe a couple others, you know, in the weeks leading up to this, everybody's worried about this week of like, is going to get thrown out? Like, what's going to happen? To the everyday average Albertan, has anything changed then?

No, not right now, but I am concerned that the judge may in the interim tell the chief electoral officer to just stay. She asked that repeatedly if parties would consent to that. And the Alberta government said, I don't think we could actually just pause legislation, which I think is appropriate. Obviously, Mitch Sylvester wouldn't consent to it. And the question was never asked to Mitch Sylvester and us. And I just thought it was incredibly dismissive of all of the efforts that canvassers and Mitch

Sylvester and everyone has put into this standing outside in the freezing cold winter. And it's like, okay, we get it. you guys put in a lot of work, but we're just going to pause this. And I opined on this while I was sitting there and I posted this on X and other platforms. To me, it just seems like there's just so much desire to maintain control of citizens. And I think to the average Albertan, the more that those in power want to keep the status quo, and not allow people to have these discussions. It's just going to bring more attention

and people are going to get more interested in the independence movement because honestly, I think nobody wants to be controlled that much. And then you see what's happening in Ottawa. And I think that also opens people's eyes all the time. So I don't know if that answered your question. Well, it does. I guess the only other thing then I would ask

is what are the key dates that, like, are we expecting? something to come out of this in the next week, month, do we know? Yeah, so this was heard on a very expedited basis because the applications were made in January. There were written briefs and things throughout the last couple months, and then we're already in a hearing in April. And the reason was the judge did this on an expedited basis because her goal is to have a decision on or around May 2nd when the signatures are expected to be. delivered to the chief electoral officer. That's the deadline. So the chief electoral officer then has 21 days to verify it. So in and around that time, we expect the judge to make a decision. And there is a chance that she will tell the chief electoral officer that we're going to ask you to

pause that signature verification process. And if she asks for a pause, then the next question, Like, how long do you pause for? And what are we trying to figure out in a pause? Well, and what is the pause? Like, all it is, and that was our main argument, is this is citizens communicating with their elected officials. So what are you pausing? And whose rights are being infringed?

Again, like I already explained, our argument is that no treaty or indigenous rights were impacted or infringed at this stage. And again, because they didn't object to the signature collection, it kind of proves the point. So by verifying it, what does that change? Nothing. And why stop citizens from communicating with their elected officials? And one argument we also made is Mitch Sylvester went through the statutory guidelines in the Citizens Initiative Act.

And there's tons of on, especially financing and all that stuff. plus like, you know, it could be challenged in court, which we're experiencing quite a bit. But a citizen is entitled to do all of this outside of the Citizens Initiative Act. And I hear people in Saskatchewan are saying, we're waiting for a Citizen Initiative Act to be implemented in Saskatchewan. And I'm like, why? It just causes hurdles. You could do all of these things outside of the Citizens Initiative Act.

So when you really think about it, all Mitch Sylvester did was. use the legal process, put himself through this kind of ringer, and is getting just challenged left, right, and center for trying to take the appropriate statutory legal route that was set out for him. And then it's just all been hurdles and obstacles since he started it. So it begs the question, is it, you know, fulfilling its role? Is this the role of courts to be interfering? and, you know, interfering in this process. So we asked the court to take judicial restraint and not get involved at this stage because it would be inappropriate. And it seems really cut and dry.

And granted, I don't know basically anything about the legal system in this country or any other country. I heard you guys talking about it earlier. I know that it's broken. I know that, but I don't really understand the finer workings of it is what I should say. And so it kind of astounds me when I hear stuff like this, that the judges don't, you know, not even wait for you to reply to anything, but they hear the arguments presented by these First Nation Chiefs lawyers. And they, like, the judge doesn't say seriously, like, that's all you have. get the hell out of my room, you're wasting my time.

Well, our argument was that it's premature, vexatious, frivolous, like, you know, we went all the way there. And that is our view is that, you know, we said right from the start, this doesn't have to be expedited. Nothing is happening. But yet we were put through this very expedited process. So it gives you an indication of the conundated. that the court has for this issue and that, you know, they always talk about how busy

they are and how they don't have enough resources, yet they were able to really find time and resources to get this in in April when things were, it started in January. So that gives you a bit of an indication of where the court's mind is at. Eva, we appreciate you coming on and updating us all as confusing and as a head scratcher as it is. Your insight is very much appreciated. Pleasure. I hope it's help. It certainly does. It did a lot. And every time you get into stuff like this, she's just so darn smart.

Thank you. Yeah. So anyway, the point is that you do a hell of a good job of actually breaking this stuff down. Yeah. Thanks for hopping on and doing it. My pleasure. I really, I really just want people to be more informed so we could then have better discussions is really my goal all the time. So anytime. Thanks again. Pleasure. All right. There is the inside look at what's been going on this week in the courtroom in

Alberta, okay? What do you think would happen if some sort of a stop was put to this petition? I don't know, man. Do you think it's going to go away if they put a stop to a pause, a pause on it? Well, yeah, I mean, it's not like it's, it doesn't just pause for no reason. It's not climate change. Well, I tell you what, now we've got, if I see him in the screen, I'll bring them in, but we just had Jeff Rath joined too.

So as soon as we get Jeff Rath on screen, we'll bring him in, too, to hear his thoughts on it. Before we get there, Alberta lawyers former Moutty call for a criminal probe into Eminton Police Chief of retired Mounty and a group of representatives of Alberta defense lawyers are both calling for a third-party investigation in a possible criminal behavior by the Emmington Police Service chief and his top department lawyer. The Criminal Trial Lawyers Association says Chief Warren, Dreichel and EPS legal and regulatory services director Megan Hankowich need to be investigated. Oh, we'll get to that later.

Okay, we'll get to it later. Jeff. Hey, Jeff. Good to see you. Before we get started, I just wanted to congratulate you guys on such an amazing cornerstone event. I sure enjoyed it. That was so well done. Well, thank you.

Thanks. Thanks. It was a lot more, I mean, it was 99% Sean. I saw you there in the crowd for half a second, but I didn't have a chance to come say hi. Well, I couldn't even stay for lunch. I had to run out after lunch and go back to my ranch because there's a TV crew from France that wanted to, they were doing a documentary on Alberta Independence and they wanted to do an interview with me. So I had to run.

But I got to sit down and chat with Martin Armstrong, which was awesome. Got to meet Neil Oliver. And I really thanked him for all of the support that he gave us through the early dark days of COVID. And yeah, just wonderful people, wonderful event. And just wanted to personally thank you guys again for it. It was just awesome. I'm glad to hear that. Now, Jeff, everything going on in Alberta, you were right at the center of it this week.

Walk us through. I mean, Ebba just gave us a whole debrief, but your thoughts. Well, I think that, you know, this was the most remarkable court case ever put forward, right? And remarkable in the sense that, you know, the most misguided and, you know, I'm just, I just had to sit there biting my tongue until, of course, I could let her rip yesterday afternoon. Because they were putting forward stuff that's so bizarre. I mean, there's this idea that these First Nations lawyers were advancing, that First Nations, through consultation law, have a veto over citizens of Alberta communicating with their legislature through a petition process.

And of course, that's what I told the judge yesterday. I said, like, let's be clear about something. Because I personally was involved in developing the law of consultation in Canada, arguing cases at the Supreme Court. I won every major consultation case in Alberta, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, you know, et cetera. So, I mean, I've made this law. I grew up, you know, doing this stuff, right?

So I'm just sitting there listening to these guys going like, oh, my God, are you out to lunch, right? Because, like, they're literally saying that First Nations, you know, treaty rights. And I was telling the court, you can't just wave the word consultation around in the air. Consultation isn't a treaty right. There's no treaty right to consultation or to be consulted. The treaty right arises where a right is infringed, right? And I was telling the court, I said, the most expansive view of treaty rights

in, you know, before the court is the view put forward by treaty eight, which I agreed with. I argued at the Supreme Court of Canada in the Mekisou case and was successful in convincing the Supreme Court that it's not just the written words of the treaty that matter, the oral promises of the treaty commissioners form part of the treaty, right? So the most expansive expression of the treaty commissioners with regard to treaty eight rights is that the Indians were solemnly assured that they wouldn't be confined to reserves and that the rights to carry on their mode and way of life throughout the tracks surrendered

as if they never entered into treaty, you know, shall not be disturbed. Right? So I said let's take the most expansive right that you can take up, which is that. Okay. Now you ask you know, I asked yourself how can somebody's ability to carry on their mode and way of life, right, be impacted by people signing a petition? How can somebody's ability to hunt, trap, or fish be infringed by people communicating, you know, the signed petition to the legislature? How can these rights be infringed by the, uh, Chief Electoral Officer, counting all of these signatures, certifying the signatures, and then communicating that official number to the legislature and the Attorney General. It's ridiculous to suggest, right, that there is any infringement of any right at this stage of the process, and to basically come in and say, we haven't been consulted. I said, let's be clear. They don't want to be consulted with regard to this process.

They want a veto. They want the process to stop, right? And then I went on to say, listen, you know, the road to Alberta independence justice runs through Section 35.1, not sub one, but point one of the Constitution Act 1982. Section 35.1 provides First Nations with rights that no other group in our society has, and that is the right under the Constitution to be at the Constitution. constitutional bargaining table, right, to have their rights recognized and respected in any process of the devolution of federal powers away from Canada to Alberta, right? No other group in society has that ability.

And I said, this time, I said, it's not like the treaty. They can show up with all of the best lawyers that they've got. They can come in with a lengthy list of all of the treaty violations that are outstanding. And I said, the list is legion. And I said, let's start with the fact that they have an actual treaty right to post-secondary education that isn't being fulfilled. You know, it's fulfilled as a policy, not as a right. They have a right to have their annuities indexed under the treaty. Instead of just getting five bucks a year, they should get the actual value of what $5 was in 1899.

I said, I could go on and on and on today, you know, with all of the violations of the treaty that First Nations could bring to the table and have addressed through the context, of constitutional negotiations in and around Alberta independence. And I said their lawyers could then insist on a clause in whatever separation agreement is written between Canada and Alberta, Canada and Alberta, you know, much like the wording of the NRTA. So I took the court actually to a court of appeal decision on the NRTA 1930 that made it clear that when Canada transferred the lands and resources to Alberta, that the lands and resources were transferred to Alberta subject to pre-existing treaty and Aboriginal rights.

And I said, you know, we could have a similar clause in any transfer of power from, you know, Ottawa to Alberta, right? But, you know, they have better lawyers. They're actually at the table. They can come up with better language to ensure that those protections are in place. So I said any suggestion at this early stage that treaty rights are imperiled or are going to be impacted by this process as opposed to. who made better with better protection you know it's purely it's it's a hypothesis on top of a

speculation on top of a hypothesis and on top of a speculation i said that's not when the obligation to consult is triggered and i said listen i actually had some fun with it i said let's go back to the expression of you know the broadest form of treaty right that i can think of which is you know we promise that your existing mode and way of life will not be uh you know interfered with and you can you know, carry on, you know, as before treaty. I said, there weren't any roads or stop signs prior to treaty number eight in treaty eight territory. I said, you know, certainly having to stop at a stop sign, right, is an interference

with your mode and way of life. Somebody's telling you to stop when you don't want to. But I said, nobody in the right mind would come to court suggesting that there's an obligation to consult every time we put up a stop sign. And then I said, you know, on top of it, I said, there's a big discussion going on in the province right now about raising the speed limit on Highway 2, right? And, you know, it's to 120 kilometers an hour. I said there's no shortage of environmental groups or environmentalists in this province that will tell you that every time you raise the speed limit that moose and deer are going to die. It's a fact, right?

So those moose and deer will no longer be available for First Nations hunting. It's an arguably an infringement of their hunting, right? But would anybody suggest that high-level consultation amounting to a veto will apply to changing of a speed limit? I said, this is, you know, I said this is just taking the law and stretching it beyond anything that was ever contemplated, you know, in any of the cases that I was involved in, right? I had a lot of fun with it. I mean, that's just sort of a flavor of what I was doing. When we were talking to Eva, we were asking about for Albertans who are trying to pay attention to this. What do you see coming next, right?

She's talking that, you know, there's possibly a pause coming on all this. Do you see anything different or what concerns you or maybe what do you want Albertans to know about, you know, the coming days and weeks ahead? Well, quite clearly, I'm not going to guess as to what the job. judge is going to do. I learned a long time ago not to do that. People ask me how you think you did. I always say, hey, court's a binary process. It's a yes or no, flip a coin, right? You know, our arguments, I think, went in as well as they could. You know, I think we left the judge of the justice a lot to chew on. I think we disabused her of quite a few notions, including the Justice Feesby's decision, did anything other than say that the previous question,

couldn't go forward because of section 2-4 of the previous legislation, which has now been amended out of existence, right? So I'm really happy with all of that. And then on top of it, you know, I think we forced the First Nations lawyers in open court to say that they're not seeking an injunction or a stay of the signature collection process. So the signature collection process will continue right up to the deadline on May 2nd. So I want to encourage everybody, you know, to please, if you haven't signed yet, you know, please get out there and sign the petition like your life and the lives of your kids depend on it because they do. It does. Everybody that hasn't signed yet, you know, if you want an end to income tax, federal income tax in Alberta, go sign the petition because that's what independence means. We have the opportunity as working people of Alberta to have the same tax shelter that Mark Carney has.

No more income tax, right? I mean, we don't need to have islands in the Caribbean hiding our Brookfield stock options and all these structures and trust that these assholes set up, you know, to avoid paying taxes. All we have to do is vote Alberta out of Canada. It's, you know, it's so easy for us to do. And I encourage everybody to internalize that and think about how much better off their lives are going to be when they no longer have to pay federal income tax, right? So I'm excited. I'm excited about that. And I just want to say one more thing about the court case, just because it's really funny. There's this lawyer, Orla O'Kelly. And keep in mind, the quality of legal counsel we're talking about. She was the lawyer that tried to have all of our children remask after the pandemic because the Alberta teachers didn't want our kids breathing their little germs on our precious teachers after the pandemic was declared over, right? Orla O'Kelly tried to get an injunction to remask our kids.

So take that in mind with, you know, the fact of the fact of a representation of Sturgeon Lake, right? And Orlo Kelly, when she was in court, was making all these bizarre submissions about foreign interference. And this is the irreparable harm. The petition process is opening the door to the foreign interference and U.S. imperialism. And the fact that Donald Trump was elected in 2016 with the help of the Russians is a matter of fact. I mean, all of these crazy submissions that had no, no, no, but I mean, all of these crazy submissions that had no place in a courtroom. So when I finally got up to talk, I literally just let her have it. And I told the court, I said, like, you know, this lawyer is standing up talking about U.S. imperialism and Donald Trump being elected by the Russians in 2016.

I said, these submissions have no place in a courtroom, right? I said, like, you know, these submissions effectively, she's telling you that she thinks that the court is so soft-headed. that the court is going to hear these arguments about Orange Man Bad and is going to rule in her favor on the basis of these bizarre submissions, right? And I said, it reminds me, you watch all these TV legal shows when people end up in TV chambers and the submission is always, oh, the prejudicial effect, oh, you know, is not outweighed by its probative value and blah, blah, blah. I said, that's what's going on here.

They're making these submissions that are highly prejudicial, that have no evidentiary value in these proceedings, in the hope that you're so soft-headed that you're no orange man bad, right? So I actually got to say that in open court too, right? And then there's one other, and then I'll turn it back to you guys, just as it really funny.

They were also going on about racism. Did you have to tell you about this? No. No. They're going on about how they're suffering irreparable harm from racism because, you know, Corey Morgan had published a cartoon of an Indian that was amounted to a racist trope, right?

And because of that, you know, that we shouldn't be allowed to have the petition process go forward. And, you know, I told the judge, I said, like, you know, somebody at lunch, I said in response to all these ridiculous submissions with regard to racism, I said, first of all, they're raising submissions with regard to parties who are not in front of the court, which is entirely impopper, right? I said, at lunch, right, someone showed me a copy of a cartoon that Chief Alan Adam, one of the proponents in this matter, posted on his Facebook page, specifically a white man with his hands tied at his side, with his tongue pulled out of his mouth at a fork stuck in his tongue, and an Indian dressed up in buckskins in a brief cloth with a bare chest and feathers sticking out of his hair, saying white man speak with forked tongue. I said, if anybody on our side of the case has published something like that,

they would have said that was a racist trope. So I said, and then all of a sudden, you know, I said, so here we have Alan Adam publishing, you know, racist cartoons, right? But, and then I'm just about to get to the point. And his lawyer stands up. It couldn't have been better. I did not plan that. And you can't get a lawyer to stand up and object when he shouldn't. But this guy says, I object to that. This is completely irrelevant. Mr. Rass is giving evidence. And I said, my lady, I said, my friend just made the point I was going to make. I said, this is completely irrelevant. I'm not asking you to go

take judicial notice of Alan Adams' Facebook page or go trolling through his Facebook post for other stupid racist cartoons, right? I'm telling you that all of this stuff is completely irrelevant and has nothing to do with irreparable harm, right? Oh my God, it was absolutely hilarious, right? The courtroom didn't know what to do. Nice, nice.

Now, I wanted to ask, did any of Alan Adams' history come in? into play during the hearing? No, I figured that would have been a low blow. I was at one point considering just discussing hypothetically how Alan Adam was so concerned about, you know, being able to go back and forth across the border and just say, you know, imagine a hypothetical situation in the future where a future government of Alberta, independent Alberta decides to recriminalize, you know, marijuana and other drugs. and Chief Adam and other members of his, you know, you know,

counsel decided to go into business smuggling fentanyl and marijuana back and forth from Massachusetts, to Alberta. I said, surely nobody would be suggesting that the opportunity to carry out your mode and way of life throughout the tracks surrendered, you know, as if you never entered into treaty, would, you know, hypothetically include drug smuggling. but I thought that might be a little bit too close to home, so I didn't do it. Fair enough. I thought about it, though.

I'll tell you what, guys. Jeff, we appreciate you coming on and giving us an update on what's been happening in the courtroom. As always, it's always a pleasure to have you on the show and give us an insight to what's happening here in Alberta. My pleasure, guys. Thanks for having me on. Always a pleasure and all the best. Have a great weekend. All right.

Take care. There you go. Jeff Rath, Eva Chippiak. I think we got an inside view of what's been going on here in Alberta this week in the courtroom. He loves what he does, eh? I love it. Jeff, I know you're sitting back there. Eva had said he had to sit, what was it, for like two or three days, listening. And then when he got up for an hour, he just let him have it. I'm like, we just had 20 minutes, Jeff Ratt. Did he take a breath there? Did he take a breath? Maybe, but I didn't hear it. That is a talent. That is a talent. Okay. Alberta lawyers, former Mountie Call for Criminal Probe and Eminton Police Chief,

twos have out of her. Okay. So you guys may remember when we talked about the death in 2023 of Nina Napope, who her father was drunk and high on meth. And she died with blows to the head. and then her body was found in a hockey bag later on. Correct. And then she had, like, a lot of evidence of ongoing abuse leading up to it. And what had happened was was that the prosecutors were going to ask for a light sentence for manslaughter.

And the police wanted to push for first degree murder. And so what the police had done was go to the prosecutors and say, look, we're not telling you what to do. but let's be clear about this. If you guys push for a light sentence for this person, we are going to make the details of the case public. And you can deal with the fallout. It's going to inevitably come from somebody who chronically abuses his daughter and then murders her and tries to get rid of the body.

And what happened now is that the criminal trial lawyers association is trying to get the minister, an investigation, and everybody into an investigation for basically coercion. They're saying that what the Edmonton police chief did by saying what you guys are doing is really fucking bad. And if you go ahead with it, we are going to let the public know what exactly happened,

that that is trying to coerce them into, in the execution of their duties. If you guys do this, we are going to tell the public exactly what happened. And they think that is coercion? And just to be clear, right, going back to Rattlesnake, the guy who killed his daughter,

he asked four people, or four others were charged in this case. She was found dead in a hockey bag in the back of a truck, right? Like, when you go into the details, this gets really horrific. real fast. Oh, it's a dark story.

It's a dark story. How fucked up does your moral compass have to be where you think that if the public who pays your salary and gives you the duty of basically

arbiting and going forward with all of this legal stuff, presumably to protect us from people like that, that you think that somebody from the police saying if you do this bad of a job about it, we are going to tell the public what happened, that that's coercion? You're just going to your boss.

He's effectively saying, look, if you guys screw this up this badly, I'm going to tell your boss, which is us. Yeah, Corblund and a band of volunteers Blitz province to gather signatures for water, not coal, citizens petition initiative. And I guess the quote, there's a bunch quotes from Corb Blund. All it has to do with is keeping irresponsible coal mining out of the headwaters of our rivers, Corb said, and that's a thing for agriculture, for tourism, for hunters and hunters and fishermen. And just for our drinking water, because it affects hundreds of thousands of probably millions of Albertans,

he went on to say that this isn't a left or right issue. Yeah, yeah. He said it doesn't have to do it with any party or anything. anything like that. And it's kind of been painted as a pro-nDP thing. But then I was thinking about, like, there's just so much about this that I don't understand, which is why we haven't really talked about it. So I've heard from proponents of the coal mining that there is no strip mining, that, because basically the reductive version of the argument being that they just want to chop all the tops off the mountains and turn it all into coal and send it away, which,

as somebody who is from Saskatchewan, I think, would be a good idea, regardless of what you do with the rocks. But, you know, he's saying that there's so much inevitable environmental impact that's going to happen because of it. And the people who want the coal mines, Doug, say, no, no, there isn't. And I'm not sure who's right or what's going on. But I was thinking about, remember in one of the blue-collar roundtables, you were talking, I want to say it was with one of the, with the blacksmith guy who was saying that all of the

Coke was The best goal was, was owned by China and was getting shipped back to China. Yeah. And so there's just this whole web of stuff that I don't understand. So you're saying I should get Corb Lund on the podcast. Yeah, absolutely.

He's like, I remember one time he was just getting rid of a bunch of leftover swag from his concerts and tours and stuff. And he just had it in somebody's garage. So I went over into Ramsey in Calgary and me and my buddy found this random garage where Corb Lund was just sitting in the corner drinking a beer and playing guitar

and chatting with people and signing stuff. And, you know, he's right next to his buddy's drill press. Like, he's a pretty regular dude. Challenge accepted, dudes. All right, let's see if we can't get Corb on the podcast. All right, Trudeau enters back into the headlines. uh jeff brown i just sued the toronto star for failing to publicly reveal information shared by the r cmp regarding justin trudeau and underage porn yeah so basically what he alleges is that he was

speaking with somebody at the toronto star about something to do with the trudeau's that wasn't this specifically and then that um that reporter told him uh and he uh and he has the details of their meetings and said that the reporter told him that he had gotten a verifiable leak from the RCMP saying that Justin Trudeau was looking at images of underage children doing sexual things while he was prime minister and that that never got reported on and so he's filing a lawsuit in small claims court against the Toronto Star saying that it was kind of just a Ehrlichion of Duty thing that it never was reported on. We'll continue to follow.

Yeah, it seems, it's weird. Like, on the one hand, would it surprise me at all? No. No. On the other hand, I do have a very dark view of the man, and that has nothing to do with blackface. But on the other, other hand, it just seems so weird. So, I don't know, maybe.

We'll continue to fall. That's what we do here. How about the big news of the week, federally floor crossing Marilyn Gladou, MP for Sarnia, floor carross. Cross the floor. And here's the quote, we need a serious leader who can address the uncertainty that has arrived due to the unjustified American tariffs. We need a global leader with a plan to make a more resilient Canada, a stronger Canada, a more self-reliant Canada for this critical moment. And that man is our prime minister, Mark Carney. So, yeah, Patty Gladdo? Marilyn Gladdo. Marilyn Gladoo. Yes, sorry. She decided to walk across the floor and join the Liberals, which makes her, I think, the fifth one so far. And so this, I mean, this just keeps happening, right? Well, we did predictions, remember, on Festivus?

Yeah. And it's taken longer than I think either of us thought it would take. But here we sit in April. days away from by elections and we go like sitting here full stuff is anyone like are we surprised by this no well i literally laid out exactly this exact thing happening and why i thought this exact thing was going to happen see people are trying to you know speculate well why would she do this and you know is it is it because she is mad at pier paulia yeah because she didn't get named speaker is she you know, just having a sudden change of heart or what's what's going on?

What's the underlying motive? And we actually have a surprise guest. So we are going to bring on my good friend, the calculator, to explain this to us. If she gets named a minister, she starts making $321,300 per year. She will do that for the next 2.7,000. five years, assuming that she's a minister for the entire term and that she'll be 67 at the end of that term, at which point it's probably expected that she's going to retire. So 321,300 is a raise from her current $217,700 of $103,600 per year. She'll be doing it for another 2.75 years.

That means that she makes another $284,900 in the next two and a half years. Now, here's the thing, is that it also calculates into the pension, which she gets eligible for as soon as she retires because she's over 65. It's 1% a year deduction if you're 55 or over, but as soon as you're 65 or over, you can immediately go into it. And it gets paid out at the same rate, except for the fact. that it adjusts for inflation. And if she is going to be 67, assuming she lives to be 87, that would be 20 years. So let's do the math on that. She gets 3% for every year she was a member of parliament.

This is, and it's based on your five biggest earning years. So these will be her five biggest earning years. And over that time of that calculation, she will have made an extra $284,900. So if you divide that by five, that means that she is making an extra $56,980 worth of money in that calculation. Okay. Now, times 3%, oops, 3% per year and she will have served for 14 years, she will be making an extra $23,931 and $60,000. cents per year, probably lived for another 20 years plus memory recall equals $763,532.

For anybody wondering what are, you know, if she had a reason to do this? No, no, she did not have a reason to do this. she had 763,532 reasons to do this. And here's the thing is that she doesn't have to do it because it makes sense or it's a good idea. She specifically said that it was good for her personally. And that's exactly what she's talking about. That's why she did it. And all of the people with principles to stand by who would get into it for the right reasons

and care about making the country better and all of that stuff, They get weeded out in the selection process. You cannot tell me that that's any part of a consideration for the liberals. And we've got multiple examples, Wyatt Claypool and Sabrina Maddo, of why the conservatives aren't interested in those people. So don't be surprised when they all cross the floor to make more money. Because just her alone is $763,532 that Mark Carney doesn't even have to pay her out of his pocket

that we are paying her. the incentives are hard-baked into this system to be an absolute piece of shit. Why are we surprised when it continues to happen? Do you want to go to Nenshi and the NDP launch challenge or Elon Musk or both? Yes. So, what can we talk about here as far as that? Nenshi piped up and he said he got mad because Elon Musk is saying that he replied to David Parker,

David Parker talking about how crazy this country is. And did Sean just leave me? Sean left, but that's fine. He's not really that important anyways. Elon Musk just backed Alberta Independence. Yeah, Alberta Independence is the only way we save what is left of it. And Elon Musk says, yeah. Nenshi says, I'm ready to fight like hell for this country.

and against anyone trying to tear it apart. The richest man in the world wants Canada to become the 51st state and is now amplifying Alberta separatism. So let's ask the question, who's funding this movement? Albertans deserve to know. He literally just commented saying that Canada is fucking crazy and the only way that any part of it's going to be saved is if Alberta separates.

There's no grand conspiracy here. There's nothing crazy about it. But yeah, at the same time, we got a whole bunch of stuff here. They are launching this campaign to challenge separatists. We're not sleepwalking into this. Official opposition leader,

Nehaden, and she said, of a potential independence for referendum in October. So what he's saying is that they, have this new campaign dubbed for Alberta for Canada, advocating against the province's separatist movement ahead of a likely independence referendum in October. What I want to hear from these people,

everyone's told us how big of a douchebag we are, how we're all just entitled assholes, we don't know what we're talking about, and whenever we have anything to say, it's wrong. Nobody ever wants to say, why should we stay in Canada? Like, just make the argument. Just saying that we're dicks for wanting to leave Canada.

All right. Why should we stay? Just throw it out there. Just give me some good reasons. Any good reasons. Any half-assed reasons, but we don't get them. Instead, we get this. From replies on other posts, I have learned the following about Alberta separatists.

They are entitled. They care only for themselves. They are closed-minded. They are ignorant. They are misinformed. They drank way too much Kool-Aid. They hate Canada and Canadians, and they are wrong. See, here's the problem with something like this, is if you're somebody who wants Canada to stick together, write this the fuck down.

I'm giving you a freebie here. You suck. Everything you're doing is helping us. I want you to continue doing it. But I also want everybody to understand exactly how bad of a job they're doing. So this tweet, I can take the exact same tweet and just change the wording. So if I say from replies on other posts, I have learned the following about federalists. They are entitled.

They care only for themselves. They are closed-minded. They are ignorant. They are misinformed. They drank way too much Kool-Aid. They hate Alberta and Albertans. And they are wrong. You see how all I did, all I did was I just changed it from separatists to federalists.

That's it. And it's literally just as true if I do that. Actually, it's more true because they do drink way too much Kool-Aid. But the point is that it's just as strong of an argument just by changing the wording. It's bullshit and they suck. And this is the best they can come up with? Guys, guys, guys, quit handing us a layup. Make me fight for this.

Alberta performs better than other provinces, but half say it is on the wrong track. The survey released by Angus Reed Institute on Wednesday found that UCP leader has 46% approval among Albertans, while Naheed Nenshi, leader of the Nibati. He faces a struggle with voters who only garners 33% support. Anything else interesting in that article? I don't know. Was there anything else interesting to that you liked? I assume there was.

There was. So for anybody interested, anytime you see an article in Canadian media about a poll, the first thing you should read is the last two sentences. This one, for example, the Angus Reed Institute conducted an online search. from March 11th to 17th among a randomized sample of 434 Canadian adults who are residents of Alberta. For comparison purposes only, a probability sample of this size would carry a margin error of plus or minus 5 percentage points 19 times out of 20. Now, for online polls, you can't do standardization of the probability being plus or minus. So they just said, if this was something that we could accurately look at, this is what it would look like.

But this is a survey of 434 people, an online survey of 434 people. This is about as half-assed as anything else you could ever imagine. And this is exactly what we've come to expect from these shit show. Just cheerleaders. Could we? Cheerleaders, man. Can we get to this week's sponsor? Yeah.

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Look how happy this dog is. Now, I just, I assume it's raw. Actually, it doesn't even look raw. I don't even know what the hell, like, what, what possesses you to bring 40 kilograms of beef and chicken? Like, this is, we talked about a couple weeks ago how there's this. That's got to be the dog's easiest day on the job, isn't it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He doesn't even, you don't even need to ask him who's a good boy.

He knows who's a good boy. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I could be like, I would love. It if the story was, detector dog sniffs out 40 kilograms of undeclared beef and chicken in luggage. The police managed to put 36 kilograms of it into evidence. Right? Look how happy that dog is.

Show me the NDP video, Leah Gazan. Budget was released. I was shocked to find out that Prime Minister Carney is cutting $7 billion. between Indigenous Services Canada and Crown Indigenous Relations. They provided zero dollars to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBQQQIA Plus. Is that a mouthful or what? I, MMI WG2 SLLSL,

no, SL, GBTQQIA plus. See, the plus is there. The plus is there just in case they left anything out. They can amend it later because there's a plus. Had a conversation yesterday. And they're like, how long until maps in there? How long until they slide map in there? Map?

Oh. I don't think they're quite that stupid. But every time I say that about the NDFs, they find a way to do it, twos. I'm like, I didn't think MMI. They just go ahead and completely redeem themselves. Correct. I'm like, I'll watch that and I'll go.

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The MMIW part of it it is missing and murdered indigenous women. So, like, presumably, so the whole idea being that the whole back end of it is like a protected class that needs to be given special considerations. And, you know, if you put that on a job application, you're supposed to move to the front of the line. And then the missing and murdered indigenous women is, is now also that. So, like, there's, think about the practical implications of this.

You're not going to have a whole lot of women, murdered women doing parades. You're not going to have a whole lot of murdered women applying for jobs and government grants. It's just, it's two completely different concepts. And the fact that they just throw, this is like, do you remember during the lockdowns when everything, they tried to take men out of everything? And then there was that minister who was praying at like Easter or something like that. and at the end of it he says, you know, in your name we pray,

uh, women. This is that. This is exactly how stupid that is. The NDP are not a serious party. And I am so fed up with that not even being funny or cute or just like it's beyond. It's just the water is wet. I want to walk away again this week. That's how irritated I am with how stupid the NDP are.

Immigration officers don't have latitude to probe refugee claims experts say immigration experts say the front line officials charged with initially questioning refugee claimants do not have enough latitude to probe the details of claimants' stories, even if there is reason to doubt them. To issue the issue of how and when claimants or question came to public attention late last month, that's when figures provided to MPs on the Commons Immigration Committee revealed that Immigration and Refugee Board, which adjudicates asylum claims, has since 2019 processed more than 45,000 refugee cases based on paperwork alone without in-person hearings as it deals with a backlog of claims. A person can show up at the border, give a written story prepared with AI, and the officer is instructed to not ask questions that will verify the credibility of the story, even if officers want a question and ask permission to do so, they can't. So do you remember that text conversation we had a few weeks ago, where, somebody was wondering if they could renounce their Canadian citizenship,

go and then come back as a refugee and just get everything for free? Did you pass along what I said and reply to it? Actually, I don't know if I did. Okay. Well, here's the nuts and bolts of it, is that this is going to keep happening until it gets so ludicrously stupid that it can't continue. Okay? And believe it or not, the NDP aren't at that point yet.

I'm really curious to see what bangers they have next. Okay. But this whole refugee system being completely fucked, the only way it's going to stop it. Same thing like with the self-declared indigenous people and the self-declared this and the self-declared that. The only way it stops being relevant and stops being a thing is if every single resume application says that you're one of those things. If every single person in this country claims refugee status within this country and starts getting $80,000 a year and free room and just whatever random stuff gets taken care of

for them that we don't even really know the finer points of. Like, everybody in this country needs to apply as a refugee because that's the only way this stops. The University of British Columbia, you want to pull that up? I assume you do. Yes. They just posted a job for a tender professor of forestry. There were 61, well, this is the tweet, sorry, 6,125 wildfires across Canada during 2025,

with 21 million plus acres burned salary, 120,000, 150,000 for this position. Applicants must identify is having a disability. Mm-hmm. And this is exactly what we're talking about, where if you, regardless, regardless, you could be like, what's your, my disability? Well G-CBS And then also

When the weather's about to get cold I limp a little bit Because my I've got like The one of my knees You're an old man Well And your old man knee knows when the weather's changing

25 year old injuries But one of them Soccer Ran into the post one time And one of them football Yeah I was provincial bronze medalist soccer provincial champion football.

Somehow I did not see that coming, folks. Okay. Pinocca Pride Society dissolved partially due to a complete lack of government support? Yeah. Yeah, believe it or not, as soon as the money dries up, this idiot stuff goes away. Oh, here, we got people chiming in with their various disabilities. Cheryl McDonald, my disability is I was born and raised in Canada, and, oh, my heart goes out. to you, Glenn.

Glenn says you and ginger. Yeah, there's no cure for that. Oh, just pour one out for our homie Glenn. I feel like, oh, sorry, I feel like you wrote this next headline. Fake maple syrup plot

thickens. They're watching us. I guarantee you the CBC watches us. And I'm like, oh, actually, you know what, this, let's steal this. So if you guys were called, last week, we were talking about how the maple syrup

is all fake and everything is a lie and it's 50% bullshit. It's basically a perfect analogy for this country. And so what do they do to avoid the backlash? Because everybody's mad that this brand of maple syrup is all bullshit. But we've already got all these cans full of fake-ass maple syrup

with our brand on them. What do we do? They put stickers over top of the cans of maple syrup to hide that it was the brand that was lying to everybody the whole time. So this is correct. You put a fake sticker over top of something to just brush it off and pretend nobody notices, which is exactly the kind of thing that the liberal government would do with any sort of any of their programs. Or for example, when they put an apple sticker on top of an HP laptop to try and make Trudeau seem more relatable.

liberal party by-election candidate uh dolly we're we're missing a couple well that's probably because twos the missed headlines of the week two's sliding them in fire away no i thought you had this in the happy news as well i mean i didn't mean to but that's awesome that's why i skipped it yes pentagon removes navy photo no no no no let's call this the happy news

we'll get to later we'll get Do it in a second. Here's the other one. All right. So this is, I don't know very much at all about fucking French. But I can tell you that this guy sucks. For me, a thing that is really important, is to try your passions and seevey these passions,

but also partage them with the other. Because for for doing these great things, like we see, in this capsule, to go to to go to the moon, surveil the moon. It's a problem in grand

team. And it's the same thing for everyone in our life. We have been a

team. This is the first time in history that anybody has ever spoken French in outer space

or en route to the moon, I guess. And it's very momentous. Obviously, he did it

If he'd have done that announcement in English only, he would have been fired as his tradition in Canada. But dude does not speak French. Dude is literally just reading that off. You cannot tell me, I'm a bit of an expert on accents. We do the accents here whenever we're bringing in anybody's fancy names. And it's the difference between saying burrito and burrito. Liberal Party by-election candidate.

Oh, yeah, this is good. Blacklocks. I love Blacklock. got nothing but time for him. Actually, you should have one or more of them back on sometime in the near future to talk about the ongoing password sharing dispute. And maybe also ask them if they want me to share any passwords of, you know, mainstream media stuff. Because I'll totally just post all the login information. Liberal by-election candidate, Dolly Beegham.

well actually sorry let's see here if I can take a guess all right if I had to guess it would be liberal by-election candidate in 2019 urged voters to not forget it's the liberals and their years of failures the party record represented years of liberal deception and carelessness here's what she said it's what gives the ultimate lie

to the promise of strategic voting the politics of the liberals aren't a lesser evil. They are the surest path to greater evil. So she ran for the NDP back in the day and spoke at length about how evil the liberal party is and presumably had a change of heart because she got the shoulder tap for the by-election. Isn't it funny that the one common thread,

this unique little bit of yarn that unites all the politicians in this country is that when push comes to shove, they give a shit about nothing other than getting fucking paid. Canada's services economy shrinks for fifth straight month in March. The headlines business activity index rose to 47.2 last month from pause. Pause. Pause. Pause. Pause. Read the tweet. Read the tweet. I don't have the tweet in front of me.

Here's here's the tweet. This is what's going on here. According to the Globe and Mail, very honest, trustworthy, um, exemplary, uh, bit of publication. Canada's service economy shrinks for the fifth straight month in March as war hamper's new business. The economy shrinks for the fifth straight month because of the war that's been going on for a week. This is like saying that World War II caused the Great Depression. Do you remember, do you remember that time when, when, that plane crashed into the towers

and all the dinosaurs died? Are we a serious country? What the fuck is wrong with these people? Champagne says he recused himself due to personal connections to high-speed rail company. Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne released a letter.

Thank you. Released a letter on Monday that he says he wrote in September bowing not to participate in any decisions about the government-backed. organization behind the proposed high-speed rail link from Toronto to Quebec City. Champagne writes that he is proactively applying a conflict of interest filter about at least two subjects, a biotech company that his father runs,

and Alto, the government-backed project that is in line to cost up to 90 billion. The personal connection. And yeah, the minister wrote that he has a personal connection with somebody who works for Alto. That person is Anne-Marie Goddette. Champagne's And Marie Gadette I don't know See

This is why I don't do the voice too You gotta try You gotta just try anyways I mean you're fine with just pronouncing them Like you're picking letters out of a scrabble bag And yet when it comes to this When it comes to this You don't want to do the voices

So anyways And Marie Godette Is that how it is And Marie Gadet? who was hired as Alto's vice president of the of the environment in August. The VP of this company is the finance minister's wife. Correct. And so naturally he recused himself.

Did you get to the, were you going to talk about the font? Yeah, the font's different on the date. So here's here's where this is, this is the important part of this. the letter however citing his um abstention from this due to conflict of interest is not on the website of the office of conflict of interest and ethics commissioner where such documents are normally posted the letter is marked September 10th 2025 although the date is written in a different font than the rest of the letter do you remember when mark garrison or was it mark a manichino i can't remember which one

had those documents that he randomly produced that absolved him of all the bullshitery, but they were dated April 31st. That was Manichino, wasn't it? I think it was Manichael. It was one of them. It was one of them. Yeah, the documents were dated April 31st, which for those of you who are not fans of Park and Rec,

you'll know that April 31st doesn't exist and March 31st does. So anyway, this is the same thing. So where all these documents are normally posted, it's not there. But he says, oh, well, I just happen to have a copy of it in my back pocket. And the date on it has fucking white out. We need a better class of a politician in this country. We need a better class of politician in this country.

Full stop. This reminds, who is, who is Randy Bosno? Bissanil? Yeah, Screaming Eagle. Or whatever. Like this kind of, we're seeing the same kind of trend here. This was a different Randy.

Yes. The other Randy. It was the other Randy. The other Randy's back. This is a $90 billion project that if anything our government has ever done. And his wife. Anyways. Yeah.

Yeah. I have a letter. I recuse myself. Here. Here. It's like the ink isn't even dry on. He's like, here you go.

Here's the letter that I wrote six months ago. Yeah, yeah, just don't touch it except in the margins for a minute or two for no particular reason. But I wrote this letter six months ago and I recused myself of all decision making on it, even though I voted on this in the House of Commons in fucking November. Gun lobbies imposing their will. So this is great. So Polly Seseyvant did an article, are in an interview with BBC.

So if you're in England, BBC means something different than it does over here. It's their CBC. And so in it, they quoted her as saying that, so the gun lobbyists have big budgets

and their intent on imposing their will on you fight back. And then she actually quoted herself. So she tweeted a quote from BBC saying, among other things, talking about the liberal government's willingness to compensate current owners without banning purchases of all rifle models a nightmare scenario.

She literally said that not banning all rifles. All rifles was a nightmare scenario. And she tweeted this quoting the BBC article. And then when she got called out on it, she tried to say, hey, you know what? they were just, they, they misquoted. They went with the, the gist of it rather than a direct quote and that it isn't fair that you're doing it.

And people are responding, look, this is literally your fucking tweet quoting the article. So yeah, at some point, it becomes your fucking words and your fucking intention. Like we've got Gary agree to disagree the fucking, look, I'm just, I'm going to go out and say this. I'm going to go out and say this. He's choking on his own brains today. I'm going to go out and say this. I'm going to go on him.

I just have trust issues with a guy whose name sounds suspiciously like the capital of Madagascar. Okay? Now, first we've got him openly admitting that it's going to do nothing. And now we have Natalie Provost is Polly Cess Sivant. For those of you who don't know, this is Natalie Provost. She's a member of parliament. She's the one who is shoving Gary agree to disagree out of. of the way when he wasn't answering the questions

the way she wanted them answered despite the fact that he's the fucking minister and she's a rookie. She's a little bit unhinged. She is openly saying in this, openly saying that she wants to ban all rifles. She's trying to walk it back. She's trying to distance herself from it. But the internet

is forever. Okay? Show me some drivers, too. I feel like I don't know, but anybody, else, but I'd like to see some drivers this week. Well, you're going to be a little bit mad because it's not a driver. It's somebody working with drivers, or against them as it is.

Suckwinder Condola is the owner of the Sso gas station near Crosland's Road. He didn't do the voice. He just called him Suckwinder Condola. He didn't say, Suckwinder, Kondola. For those of you listening, What's pictured here is a sample from somebody's gas that looks like it's one-third water and two-thirds gasoline. Not like they left a tank open.

This is one-third water. Controversy after water was detected in his fuel. Tonight he is combating hatred and sharing his story after he says he unknowingly sold the contaminated fuel. On March 23rd evening, a couple of customers came into our gas station, and then they They complained about that something is wrong with the gas and they said they're having problem with their cars and then so we told them that we will figure out. The gas station immediately stopped selling regular fuel and he made contact with 18 people impacted by the contaminated gas.

We are depending on these people so we don't want to lose our customers so we didn't did this on purpose or anything like that. He says he understands how devastating the issue has been but now the tone has changed from looking for answers and helping those impacted to rebuking blatant racism and hate online. They are going on social media and putting, you know, the bad comments about us and the disturbing, it's taking a toll on our mental health. Well, that's just horrible.

I mean, could you imagine just, you know, some regular, honest to goodness, down-to-earth business owner who just accidentally fills a third of the fucking fuel tanks at his gas station, with water, presumably completely by accident, doesn't know how it happened. It's the weirdest thing ever. And then gets mad when everybody's pissed off at him.

Oh, my heart goes out to this guy. Oh, my good. Like, just so sad to hear about Sukwind and the experience he's had with getting caught filling the fucking gas tanks up with water. Let's go to the sports desk. This is a cool one. Yeah.

I mean, it is pretty cool, although I've got to find them on the name. Oh, there's no audio anyway. But this is the Zammoth. This is the new Zamboni for the Utah. The Utah Mammoth. The Utah Mammoth. Yep. And it's way cooler than anybody else's Zamboni.

Correct. Did you go down in the comments and see the Power Rangers? The Power Rangers? I don't know if it's on this one. Maybe it doesn't show up. on yours. Yeah. You don't know what I'm talking about? Someone says go-go Power Rangers. Is that okay? You don't know what you've unleashed. Keep scrolling. Keep scrolling. It shows eventually, I thought. Maybe it's not on this one. Maybe you don't get to see that. Maybe it's, oh, here. Right there. Right there. Yeah.

It's like the Mastodon from Power Rangers. I don't know. I never really watched Power Rangers. You could probably tell me which episode this is from, though. Fill us in. It was just in Power Rangers. As soon as I saw it, I'm like, oh, yeah, that's clever. Okay, so context in the episode of Power Rangers. I don't freaking know. Fill me in.

I can't remember that. Obviously, you're a bit of an expert. Oh, Power, what was, like, what season was it from? Was it from, like, early years? I have no idea. Which version of the Power Rangers? Sean. This is your wheelhouse, dude.

This is my, Power Rangers. is my wheelhouse. Oh, man. Fill us all in. Like, I'm on the edge of my seat. I want to hear all about the mastodon power ranger. Like, was that, did they transform into that? Yeah, they transformed into the mastodon.

Did they not? I think they did. I'm pretty sure they did. Okay. Anyways. Does it have a big mastodon penis? And would that be like, would it be kind of the same physics as dog penis?

I'm so sorry. folks, I think it would have to be the pink Power Ranger at the bottom there? Did the pink Power Ranger become the Master on Penis? This is what we're all here for on a Friday. Two's talking about the Zameth.

The Zameth. Why not the Mamboni? I think it's great. I just, this is, this is, like, imagine that's your job. Imagine your job is to drive this thing around. Also, I imagine, I wonder if you have,

trouble getting around the corners with the tusks sticking out the way they do. I feel like they probably tested it. Okay, happy news. Happy news. The Pentagon removes Navy photo after people notice. Sailor's Arm Patch said, save the big booty Venezuelans. Yeah, so the Pentagon posted this picture and added it to like their archives or something like that and didn't look too closely.

But it turns out that the arm patch being worn by the tech in it said, join the U.S. Army, save the big booty Venezuelans. And then, of course, the Internet does what it does. Sir, this is exactly what they're fighting for, Big Booty Latinas and heavy metal Japanese goth girls. Wait, can someone join to save those? Don't show them pictures of World War II planes might cause them to keel over. What's wrong with saving Big Booty?

Venezuelans. Finally, war goals worth fighting for us Latinos salute you. And then somebody does the Gulf of America, but they changed it to the Gulf of Big Booty Latinos. Sheldon, I just got a text saying some of the clips that Toos is playing are quiet. Yeah, twos figure it out, would you? Yeah. So I don't know. I'm not sure. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Just slacking in 203. No, no, no. I'm actually. not slacking. I double check that the volume is maxed out when they're playing anytime a clip comes on because I know that the clips do come on quieter than our voices do. And so I'm actually going to see if I can get to the bottom of why we get the echo when my screen is shared and why that

comes through a little bit quieter. I got clawed, the Claude, the Anthropic AI. Figuring it out. And it makes, oh, it's a game changer. Like you, you were, you want to talk about, like, I got to call Vance and just tell them about all the cool things I've been doing. Community notes. Yeah, community notes. Build Canada. One country, one team. On May 11th, join us in Calgary for the case for a United Canada featuring Jason Kenny,

Corey Hogan, who is the Liberal member of parliament, and Jen Gerson, who is a co-founder at the line.ca. she has decided that as a journalist, she supports a United Canada, despite the fact that she's written articles from McLean's talking about how fucked up Canada is and how it shits all over Alberta and how Alberta would be right to separate. So this is weird. You've got Jason Kenny, the conservative in name only former premier of Alberta, who is a noted Jason Kenneyist teaming up. with a liberal member of parliament

and a journalist who's had a complete about face on her stance on separation speaking at the Eckhart Grametay Hall. I don't even know where that is in Calgary on May 11th. So I would like to go to that. And then the funny thing is they're going to show pictures of the people there and being like, this is how many people support a United Canada.

And there's going to be me in the back saying, I the fuck do not. I just want to hear what stupid things you. you have to say. April 11th, so tomorrow in Grand, no, Grimsby, Ontario, sorry, your land, a conference on property rights, land use, and constitutional

authority in Canada. That's got Sean Buckley and Bruce Party. So there's that. If you're interested, you have a conference for Dominion of Canada. What day is this? Oh, man. May 16th at the Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel

and Conference Center. It's got, you know, Fateen, Michael Wagner, Brian Peckford, Leight and Gray, a few others. That's happening there. And then the last one I got sent for me was for the good of the city, a Christian perspective on Alberta Independence. That is also tomorrow 7 p.m. Michael Wager, Clint Humphrey, Tim Stevens. And that is, I don't know if it actually says where that is. City, oh, sorry, Red Deer, Red Deer. City Chapel, Red Deer. So that's tomorrow 7 p.m.

July 31st, August, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 2026. Exciting summer event at Regina Beach. And I suppose I have to read this whole thing. Okay. The Patricia's Howl and Task Force Orion 20th anniversary reunion will be held at Regina Beach Campground. This milestone event supports and honors the courage of the Canadian Armed Forces Veterans, their families,

and mission partners during the 20th anniversary of their redeployment from Afghanistan. The event will be held in recognition of Task Force Orion, a unit composed of members of the First Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and Canadian Army Reserve Regiments who deployed to Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2006. Their dedication, courage, and sacrifice earned them numerous commendations, including Commander-in-Chief commendation from the Governor General of Canada. We also take this time to remember and honor the 19 soldiers who lost their lives during this deployment, ensuring their legacy continues to inspire future generations. Their actions help shape Canada's modern legacy in international peace and security.

The venue at Regina Beach Campgrounds will bring together veterans, first responders, RCP members, active and retired, and their families, providing them a welcoming space to reconnect, reflect, and enjoy a weekend of outdoor activities, live music, and other family-friendly events. Side note, you guys better have horseshoes. More than just a gathering. It's a celebration of service, sacrifice, and community. There will be three admission-free evening live performances featuring some of the great artists.

Juneau award-winning Jack Semple, Juno nominee Little Emily, J.J. Voss, Fogdog, Casey Stone, Brenda Lee Cottrell, Dan Silger, garage band, Frogsback, Bush League Band, that will open to the general public, giving them the opportunity to personally meet, and thank these Canadian heroes. April 11th, Gallagher Center in Yorkton is Prairie Rising Independence Meeting,

and then somebody had put up here, let's talk about the Ireland Farmer Blockade. Actually, I'm surprised Tuesday didn't have one of those in there. I didn't know about it. You haven't seen the videos coming out of Ireland right now? No, no. Generally speaking, the only videos I see about coming out of Ireland

or about short midgets on sitting on pots of gold. Well, if you haven't noticed folks, obviously Tews hasn't, there's a huge blockade going on in Ireland right now. It looks similar to the farmers, tractors everywhere, a lot of people out. Potatoes? I don't know. I actually, I haven't poked my head into it today. I don't know if anyone can comment before we hop off here if there's anything new and revealing today, but certainly the video is coming out over the last couple days.

yeah they had a huge blockade going on so it was something to pay attention to first i've heard about it sorry guys i feel like i let everybody down but i mean if you see something like this don't just ask me why i'm not talking about it on the mashup send it to me before it happens uh i i just want to give some special recognition uh long time friend glen gebert uh that picture you have that you're looking at right now. The gentleman who gave you that picture of the convoy. Up on the wall.

Yeah, the one I'm staring at, sorry. Yeah, that's, that's literally what I'm saying. Yes, I know, but to the audience, they have no idea what you're talking about. Carry on, yes. The spring 26 town life photo contest in Stettler, Alberta, he took second and third place. Congrats, Glenn. Yeah. That's cool.

That's going to do it for this week, folks. Oh, here's a couple things. Rebel News has a few good segments on it, and then they're very organized all across the Ireland. Yeah, something to pay attention to, for sure. That's going to do it for us this week. Mashup 203 in the books. We're here every Friday, 10 a.m. Mountain Standard time.

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