Western Standard Shows

THE PIPELINE: Liberals vote against pipeline motion

Cory Morgan, Dave Naylor, and Nigel Hannaford break down the Liberals’ pipeline flip-flop, the surge of Alberta independence anger aimed at Premier Danielle Smith, and the growing backlash to Bill C-9’s limits on religious expression. They also cover the PBO’s sudden budget retreat and Peter Guthrie’s takeover of the Alberta Party.

CORY MORGAN SHOW: Angry white militant separatists armed to the teeth!

Cory talks about how Thomas Lukaszuk’s efforts to spread inflammatory misinformation about the Alberta independence movement is dangerous.

HANNAFORD: Get kids off their phones!

Is technology is turning our kids into addicts?
Short answer, in some cases, ‘yes.’ More than 12 per cent of Canadian
Is technology is turning our kids into addicts?
Short answer, in some cases, ‘yes.’ More than 12 per cent of Canadian teenage girls – almost one in eight – now show addiction-like symptoms in their relationship to their phones and social media. That looks like withdrawal, loss of control, emotional dependency – terms once associated more with substance abuse – but now increasingly used to describe the daily digital reality of young Canadians. Boys too, although they’re likely into more violent fare.
This, according to Robin Sherk, an Ontario-based parent volunteer with Unplugged Canada and tonight’s guest on Hannaford.

THE PIPELINE: ‘Professionally incapacitated’: John Rustad voted out

Derek Fildebrandt, Nigel Hannaford, Cory Morgan, and Jarryd Jaeger break down the collapse of BC Conservative leader John Rustad, the uproar inside the UCP over Danielle Smith’s pipeline deal with Mark Carney, and the federal push behind Bill C-9 that could limit religious expression.

CORY MORGAN SHOW: Quit pretending we need indigenous consent!

Cory talks about how no major projects will ever be competed if we pretend that indigenous consent is required.

HANNAFORD: Ottawa blinks as Smith forces historic energy retreat

Seven of nine anti-energy laws neutralized in a single day as Alberta trades carbon capture for policy concessions – leaving industry to wonder if the cost of victory is a $16-billion anchor.