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Welcome to Inside Policy Talks, where we dive into the ideas and policies shaping Canada's future!In this episode, Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Program at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), sits down with Peter Menzies, MLI Senior Fellow, former publisher of the Calgary Herald, and past Vice Chair of the CRTC.Menzies offers a provocative analysis of the CBC's future, challenging its current funding model and exploring radical solutions for Canadian public broadcasting. With the federal election looming, he examines how government subsidies impact media trust, journalistic objectivity, and the broader news ecosystem.Menzies argues that the CBC's current structure threatens media diversity and public trust, proposing a bold transition to a subscription-based model that could reshape how Canadians consume news and public media.Be sure to share, and subscribe to Inside Policy Talks for more thought-provoking analysis on the key issues facing Canada today!

On March 19, 1960, James Kinne was allegedly shot and killed by his 2-year-old daughter who had been playing with James .22 pistol and accidentally fired the gun, killing her father. Within a month, James' widow, Sharon Kinne, was involved in an affair with Walter Jones, who was married to Patricia Jones. When Sharon asked Walter to leave his wife Patricia, Walter refused. Mysteriously, Walter's wife, Patricia, was murdered days later. Sharon was arrested for Patricia's murder and prosecutors also suspected that Sharon was responsible for her husband, James Kinnes, death as well. Sharon was put on trial but acquitted of Patricia's murder. When it came to the trial for James' murder, there were a series of mistrials. While Sharon was out on bail, awaiting a fourth trial for James' death, Sharon went to Mexico, where she killed Francisco Ordonez. Sharon was arrested in Mexico and found guilty of murdering Francisco and sentenced to sever 13 years in prison. 5 years into her sentence, Sharon escaped prison and was on the run for over 50 years. In December of 2023, an anonymous tip came in claiming that Sharon had been living in the rural Canadian town of Taber, Alberta.   Sources: Graveland, Bill, “American killer and fugitive lived for 50 years under a new name in an Alberta town”, Global News, Jan 31, 2025, https://globalnews.ca/news/10991664/american-killer-fugitive-alberta/, accessed Feb 13, 2025.      Grant, Meghan, “Needlepoint and banana bread: Murderous American fugitive who hid in Alberta for decades remembered by friends”, CBC News, Feb 1, 2025, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/sharon-kinne-dee-glabus-taber-alberta-missouri-kansas-city-mexico-murder-fugitive-1.7447811, accessed Feb 20, 2025.     Graveland, Bill, “'Her traumatic legacy': American killer and fugitive lived 50 years in Alberta town”, Calgary Herald, Jan 31, 2025, https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/her-traumatic-legacy-american-killer-and-fugitive-lived-50-years-in-alberta-town, accessed Feb 20, 2025.    “Sharon Kinne”, Wikipedia,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Kinne, accessed Feb 20, 2025.     “Discover Taber”, Town of Taber, https://www.taber.ca/discover-taber, accessed Feb 21, 2025. 

Canada's response to Trump's trade war threats and the carve-out for Canadian energy has put Alberta's oilpatch in the spotlight. While Alberta's oil faced less impact from tariffs, the threat remains a major concern. Calgary Herald columnist Chris Varcoe joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss the potential impact on Alberta's economy and key industries if Trump moves forward with his plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Kehoe is the Broker of Record at Fairfield Commercial Real Estate Inc. in Calgary, Alberta. Kehoe has a proven track record of success in the commercial real estate field and has 45 years of experience in working as a commercial real estate broker, shopping centre manager, retail real estate leasing representative, and shopping centre marketing director. He has specialized expertise in retail real estate leasing for shopping centres, destination resorts and main street / urban business districts and is the creator of "The Retail Real Estate Leasing Program." Kehoe has an international reputation as an authority on retail, restaurant and mixed-use commercial real estate development and is frequently quoted in the media such as the Globe and Mail, New York Times, the Retail Insider and the Calgary Herald. Keynote and panel speaker engagements have included the Economic Developers of Alberta and the International Council of Shopping Centres. As a contributing writer to the BOMA Calgary book Building on the Bow, Kehoe has extensive knowledge of the history of the built environment in Calgary. He delivers expertise and decision-making assistance to business, government, and investment leaders around the world. Join Our Community of Canadian Entrepreneurs! Entrepreneurs are the driving force behind Canada's economy, and we're here to support them every step of the way. For exclusive insights, tips, and success stories from Canada's top business leaders, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Want to stay ahead with the latest #entrepreneur podcasts, business strategies, and news? Don't miss out—subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter for updates delivered straight to your inbox! Join thousands of Canadian entrepreneurs who rely on us for the resources they need to succeed.

Chaz N Schatz visit with Heath McCoy, best-selling author, award winning journalist, and sports writer from the Great White North. You may know Heath from his spots on And The Podcast Will Rock, where he's forever defending David Lee Roth's version of Van Halen, and we get to know Heath even better, deep diving on his journalism career, having been the entertainment beat reporter for the Calgary Herald.  Not only a Rush fan, Heath has been fortunate enough to interview both Geddy and Alex, and we get to hear some of his best moments speaking to some of his all-time heroes. Join us as Heath shares: What it was like speaking with Ged in 2000 just before the band made their comeback with Vapor Trails. Having fun with Lerxt when the band did come back. The story of a stand-off between Bad News Alan (Schatz's new nickname) and Andre The Giant - and hearing Schatz scold Andre as a result! Getting the run around from James Brown, and being present while he was getting blown backstage, with a big, toothy smile! Pushing David Lee Roth to the point where he drops the “Mr. Showbiz” persona. Getting on stage with Randy Bachman as a drunken fan and being brought back up for an encore! Heath's fandom of Rush goes deep. He name drops some deep cuts and shares that his earliest aspiration was “to be Neil Peart” as a rock star, drummer, and writer of lyrics. The wheel gives us the lighter side of Rush, sharing Different Strings off 1980's Permanent Waves. The guys can't help but make at least two Ozzy Osbourne references from this song, leading them to wonder: was The Ozz-Man a fan of this song and Rush?? We name-drop usual suspects like ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rushvault.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and we thought fondly of Ed from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠rushisaband.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We forget to give a shout-out to our sponsors ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Danforth & Pape⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠podcastle.ai⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ but we meant to (must be the gummie hangover). More games, merriment, and pointing you all to this list of current links, it's... The Scratch List - go see these bands! UK Scotland ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Moving Pictures Scotland⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠RushFest Scotland⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ England ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Leoni Jane Kennedy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ North America USA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YYNOT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Second Contact⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Steel Revenge⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Solar Federation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Accidental Breakdown⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rush Archives⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mood Lifters⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lotus Land⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dumb Love⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Vapor Trail⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Rash⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Discs⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠A Farewell To Kings⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Canada ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠New World Men⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠2112⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YYC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ South America Brazil ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RushFest Brazil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Rush news, general nonsensical disorderly conduct, lack of regard for correctness or truth, and reckless endangerment of your whole-brain. This is the only podcast dedicated to increasing opioid release in your anterior insula, your anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and your posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), in addition to the basal ganglia and the thalamus...and all that that implies.   Some thick North Jersey accents and they give you some royalty-free sound effects and movie clips too - what more do you need to indulge your urge to scratch?!  Join us - you know where to scratch - blah, blah...RushRash.

Danny Austin of the Calgary Herald joined us to preview tonight's game vs the Flames. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In hour two we were joined by Jason Gregor, and Danny Austin from the Calgary Herald ahead of tonight's preseason game vs the Flames. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meet Pete Estabrooks - one of Canada's foremost experts in personal training and fitness. With over 45 years in the fitness industry, Pete's journey is filled with passion, dedication, and an undeniable love for helping others achieve their fitness goals.Pete's journey began in 1979, running conditioning classes for boxers in exchange for a National Fitness Centre boxing membership. From amateur to professional boxing, Pete eventually earned a degree in Physical Education, transitioning from the ring to become a beloved aerobics instructor during the golden age of fitness.Pete's passion for fitness led him to create the TKO Sports Conditioning Program, a revolutionary training system inspired by his boxing career. His experience spans roles as a personal trainer, fitness center owner, and fitness writer. For over 30 years, Pete has contributed to publications like The Calgary Herald and Impact Magazine, where he serves as Fitness Editor. Join us for a conversation with Pete as we dive into his incredible career, the creation of the TKO Sports Conditioning Program, and his unique approach to fitness that has inspired countless individuals to live healthier, more active lives.Follow Pete: Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | WebsiteFollow Explore84:  Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | LinkedIn | Website 

Meet Pete Estabrooks - one of Canada's foremost experts in personal training and fitness. With over 45 years in the fitness industry, Pete's journey is filled with passion, dedication, and an undeniable love for helping others achieve their fitness goals.Pete's journey began in 1979, running conditioning classes for boxers in exchange for a National Fitness Centre boxing membership. From amateur to professional boxing, Pete eventually earned a degree in Physical Education, transitioning from the ring to become a beloved aerobics instructor during the golden age of fitness.Pete's passion for fitness led him to create the TKO Sports Conditioning Program, a revolutionary training system inspired by his boxing career. His experience spans roles as a personal trainer, fitness center owner, and fitness writer. For over 30 years, Pete has contributed to publications like The Calgary Herald and Impact Magazine, where he serves as Fitness Editor. Join us for a conversation with Pete as we dive into his incredible career, the creation of the TKO Sports Conditioning Program, and his unique approach to fitness that has inspired countless individuals to live healthier, more active lives.Follow Pete: Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | WebsiteFollow Explore84:  Instagram | TikTok | Facebook | LinkedIn | Website 

Encampments are back in front of Hamilton City Council as the debate over what to do with them and how to manage homelessness in the city. What changes could be coming to the encampment protocol? Guest: Danielle Blake, Manager of Housing Focused Street Outreach, City of Hamilton - $5.7 million is not a small amount of money but as the City of Hamilton recovers from a ransomware attack, will it and the projected $33 million in future spending make for a sufficient IT system that's resistant to another attack? What needs to be done to ensure another malware attack doesn't impact Hamilton like this last one? Guest: Carmi Levy Technology Analyst & Journalist - The 2024 ALS Canada Walk to End ALS in Hamilton will take place on June 22nd at Confederation Park. Guest: Melissa Van Tuyl, Community Lead for the ALS Society of Canada - Peter Menzies believes that Canadian consumers are going to be paying a hefty price whether they realize it or not thanks to a decision by Google to direct a $100 million fund towards one group of media outlets vs others. What is set to play out and how dire is the situation? Guest: Peter Menzies, Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Former editor-in-chief of the Calgary Herald, former vice-chair of the CRTC

A break in the city's main water pipe has left Calgary under severe restrictions for over two weeks, raising concerns about water usage and the potential impact on the city's premier summer festival, the Stampede. Calgary Herald reporter Scott Strasser joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss the cause of the pipe failure, how the city is handling the situation, and whether there is a risk of the taps running dry. Background reading: 'The show will go on': Stampede to move forward, with water-saving contingencies in effect Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nearly 50 years after two teen girls and two women were killed in the Calgary area, RCMP in Alberta say they've identified the man responsible.  Police say Gary Allen Srery entered Canada after a violent past in the U.S. and committed the killings. He died while serving a sentence for rape in Idaho.   Edmonton Journal courts and crime reporter Jonny Wakefield and Calgary Herald reporter Steven Wilhelm join the podcast to discuss the murders, how police used genetic genealogy to link Srery to the crimes, why police say there could be more victims, and what the break in the case means to families.   Background reading: RCMP link Calgary murders to American suspected serial killer who died in prison; believe there are more victims Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a major Canadian infrastructure project, cleared a significant hurdle despite numerous delays and legal challenges. Now federally owned, the project aims to transport bitumen from Alberta to the west coast. Calgary Herald columnist Chris Varcoe discusses with Dave Breakenridge the economic implications for Canada and Alberta, the project's troubled progress, and its impact on future infrastructure projects. Background reading:Varcoe: 'We landed the plane': Inside the story of turbulence and triumph to complete the Trans Mountain expansion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Independent MPP Sarah Jama refused to remove her Keffiyeh in Ontario's Legislative Assembly, leading to her being banned from participating. Host Alex Pierson is joined by Rahim Mohamed, a political columnist National Post, The Line, and the Calgary Herald on why MPP Jama is clearly making this a political issue, and why we shouldn't even humour it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

https://www.advancedpracticeproviders.com/ https://www.antiherosjourney.com/ Amanda Siebert is an author, podcast host, and personal trainer interested in health, drugs, and altered states, and inspired by martial arts, movement, and music (among many, many other things). She hosts the podcast Ibogaine Uncovered and has written two books about cannabis and psychedelic drugs, The Little Book of Cannabis and Psyched. Amanda also writes a Substack called A to Z of Altered States. Her byline has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, Lucid News, Healing Maps, Daily Om, Vice, Leafly, The Dales Report, Calgary Herald, and The Georgia Straight, among others. https://www.navigatesni.com/free-consultation

Al Roxburgh and Jenny Sinclair talk with John van Sloten about his experience of God's “common grace” after more than twenty-five years as a pastor in Calgary, Canada.  John shares how the dyslexia he was born with has been used by the Spirit to help him recognize and engage God's presence and agency in creation and nature.  He talks about stepping away from a more traditional pastoral ministry and how he is now leaning into a theology of encounter and “church without walls'', discovering God at work in unexpected places, like city hall and a multinational corporation.John Van Sloten is a community theologian and writer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His passion is to know God more. For the past 20 years he's been exploring a worldview that seeks to discern God's voice in all things: the Bible and creation (i.e. the arts, sport, science, film, music, literature, history, mathematics, nature and human nature). His first book, The Day Metallica Came to Church: Seeing the Everywhere God in Everything (2010), listens for God's whispers in pop culture. His second book, Every Job a Parable; What Walmart Greeters, Nurses and Astronauts tell us about God (2017), listens for God's words at work. His latest book is God Speaks Science (2023). John is a regular columnist with the Calgary Herald.For Alan J Roxburgh:http://alanroxburgh.com/abouthttps://www.themissionalnetwork.com/author/alan-roxburgh/https://journalofmissionalpractice.com/alan-roxburghTwitter: https://twitter.com/alanjroxburgh?lang=enFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/alan.roxburgh.127/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecommonsnetworkJoining God in the Great Unraveling https://www.amazon.ca/Joining-God-Great-Unraveling-Learned/dp/1725288508/ref=sr_1_Leadership, God's Agency and Disruptions https://www.amazon.ca/Leadership-Gods-Agency-Disruptions-Confronting/dp/1725271745/refJoining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World: The New Shape of the Church in Our Time https://www.amazon.ca/Joining-Remaking-Church-Changing-World/dp/0819232114/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2NHGW8KB7L0SQ&keywords=Alan+J+Roxburgh&qid=1687098960&s=books&sprefix=alan+j+roxburgh%2Cstripbooks%2C130&sr=1-3For Jenny Sinclair:Website: https://togetherforthecommongood.co.uk/from-jenny-sinclairLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-sinclair-0589783b/Twitter: https://twitter.com/T4CGFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/TogetherForTheCommonGoodUKInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/t4cg_insta/For John van Sloten:https://nationalpost.com/author/john-van-sloten/https://www.johnvansloten.com/blog-1The Day Metallica Came to Church: Seeing the Everywhere God in Everything (2010)Every Job a Parable; What Walmart Greeters, Nurses and Astronauts tell us about God (2017)God Speaks Science: What Neurons, Giant Squid, and Supernovae Reveal About Our Creator (2023) Get full access to Leaving Egypt at leavingegyptpodcast.substack.com/subscribe

In the 1960s, one hopeful British psychiatrist hoped he could prevent disaster—not with science, but with the supernatural. For a number of years. Dr. John Barker's “Premonition Bureaus” collected psychic visions with a single goal: stopping tragedy before it could strike.  Hosted by Laurah Norton  Researched by Anna Luria  Edited by Laurah Norton and Maura Currie  Produced and Engineered by Maura Currie  Works Cited: Bastian, Jonathan. “Predicting the future: The true story of the Premonitions Bureau.” KCRW [Santa Monica, California], 16 Jul. 2022, Accessed May 2023.  Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Nicosia.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Jan. 2023, Accessed May 2023. Cope, Michael. “Premonition: Royal Family to Face Scandal?” The Des Moines Register, 21 Nov. 1972. Accessed May 2023.  Cummins, Anthony. “The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight review - the press, psychiatry and the paranormal.” The Guardian, 03 May 2022. Accessed May 2023.  Freeman, Sue. “A woman's intuition…” Liverpool Echo, 05 Feb. 1973. Accessed May 2023.  Gladstone, Bill. “Future Watch.” The Gazette [Montreal, Canada], 12 Jan. 1980. Accessed May 2023.  Harrison, Dave. “Does Mr. Spock figure in your dreams?” Leicester Chronicle, 01 Jun. 1979. Accessed May 2023.  Irwin, Theodore. “Can Some People See into the FUTURE?” The Pantagraph, 04 May 1969. Accessed May 2023.  Knight, Sam. “The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell The Future.” The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2019. Accessed May 2023.  Mail Reporter, Evening. “The ‘early-warning premonition bureau.'” Birmingham Evening Mail, 06 Feb. 1968. Accessed May 2023.  Post Reporter, Birmingham. “A Bureau to avert disasters?” The Birmingham Post, 28 Feb. 1968. Accessed May 2023.  Spraggett, Allen. “Was the premonition a dream or truth?” The Victorian, 06 May 1974. Accessed May 2023.  “4 Britons among 124 dead in plane crash.” Birmingham Evening Mail and Despatch, 20 Apr. 1967, p. 18. Accessed May 2023.  “Hitching Hopes To the Stars.” Muncie Evening Press, 10 Jun. 1969. Accessed May 2023.  “Miss Future…” Evening Post, 06 Feb. 1973. Accessed May 2023.  “Peering into the future - some just have the knack.” Calgary Herald, 13 Dec. 1972. Accessed May 2023.  “Royal Puppies.” Evening Standard [London, Greater London, England], 23 Sep. 1971. Accessed May 2023.  “Soyuz 1.” NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, NASA Official, 28 Oct. 2022. Accessed May 2023.  “The future is theirs to see.” Evening Post, 07 Jan. 1975. Accessed May 2023.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PART THREE. In Canada there is a stretch of highway between the cities of Prince Rupert and Prince George that covers 725 km (or 450 miles). For over 50 years, this dark, isolated road has swallowed up women and girls in the night from 1969 to present. Because of the despair that has happened along this corridor, it is now known as the Highway of Tears. In this three-part series, we will be exploring this area and the devastating stories found alongside it. If you have any information for any of these cases, please call the E-PANA Tip Line at 1.877.543.4822.Content Warning: Sexual assault Tea of the Day: Rhea.co Strengthen Me Tea Theme Music by Brad FrankTo get involved:https://highwayoftears.org/pillars-hope-strength/https://www.csfs.org/payments/donationshttps://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/Sources:Sabo, Don, “Highway of Tears,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, June 6th, 2016, Updated January 18th, 2019 https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/highway-of-tearsDirected by Matthew Smiley, “Highway Of Tears: The Unsolved Serial Murders Of Aboriginal Women.” Produced by Carly Pope, Narrated by Nathan Fillion, Released March 6th, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3wWjcIc_1MDirected by Tim Wolochatiuk, “We Were Children.” Produced by Kyle Irving, Starring Rene Batson, Taya Ayotte Bourns, Alice Dano, Release by Eagle Vision Inc. 2013. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07FQ3GZKX/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_rMcDiarmid, Jessica, “Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.” Narrated By Emily Nixon, Simon and Schuster, November 12th, 2019“The Highway of Tears: The Road Where Women Disappear” by Bipin Dimri October 4, 2022 https://www.historicmysteries.com/highway-of-tears/“Highway of Tears,” 48 Hours, Season 25, Episode 7 with Peter Van Sant, November 17th, 2012Bains, Camille, “Relatives of dead, missing women meet to seek an end to violence.” The Vancouver Sun, 30 Mar 2006, Thu ·Page 27 https://www.newspapers.com/image/496873937/Speirs, Margaret, “Tears walk numbers climb.” Terrace Standard, 29 Mar 2006, Wed ·Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/330198530/Million, Nicole, “Moricetown woman walking to end Highway of Tears.” The Interior News (Smither, British Columbia, March 1st, 2006, Page A5 https://www.newspapers.com/image/899209888/Dolha, Lloyd, “Highway of Tears Symposium Sparked by Teen Murder.” First Nations Drum, January 3rd, 2006 http://www.firstnationsdrum.com/2006/01/highway-of-tears-symposium-sparked-by-teen-murder/Hamilton, Todd, “Taking back highway of tears.” The Interior News, 21 Sep 2005, Wed ·Page 2https://www.newspapers.com/image/508753084/Carrigg, David, “Mother of slain teen Aeilah struggling to pay for funeral.” The Province 22 Feb 2006, Wed ·Page 16 https://www.newspapers.com/image/505252524/Zielinski, Susan, “City woman missing.” Red Deer Advocate, 05 Jul 2002, Fri ·Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/558928173/Hall, Neal, “Highway of Tears website launched.” The Vancouver Sun 26 Nov 2005, Sat ·Page 4 https://www.newspapers.com/image/497415120/Slade, Daryl, “Olympic skater laces up to find friend.”Calgary Herald 09 Jul 2002, Tue ·Page 23 https://www.newspapers.com/image/486299668/Hunter, Stuart, “‘She's been gone too long.'” The Province, 24 Nov 2005, Thu ·Page 3 https://www.newspapers.com/image/505694271/The Province - 06 Feb 2000, Sun ·Page 16 https://www.newspapers.com/image/504693626/Lori Culbert and Neal Hall, “These are the stories of the victimes.” Vancouver Sun, Published Dec 11, 2009  •  Last updated Jul 13, 2010 https://vancouversun.com/news/these-are-the-stories-of-the-victimshttps://highwayoftears.org/33-reccomendations/Meissner, Dirk, “Hear our cries victims' families say.” The Vancouver Sun, 01 Apr 2006, Sat ·Page 31 https://www.newspapers.com/image/497585165/Duffy, Andrew, “The case that haunts Ottawa's new police chief: The disappearance of Tamara Chipman.” Ottawa Citizen, Published Nov 24, 2022  •  Last updated Nov 24, 2022 https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-case-that-haunts-ottawas-new-police-chief-the-disappearance-of-tamara-chipman“The Murder of Chelsey Quaw.” Hue and Cry https://thehueandcry.com/chelsey-quawhttps://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/Rod Link, Todd Hamilton, and Arthur Williams, “Hitchhiking blamed for Highway of Tears.” The Interior News, 05 Apr 2006, Wed ·Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/508789473/“One year later: Friends and family remember Tamara Chipman.” Terrace Standard, 27 Sep 2006, Wed ·Page 5 https://www.newspapers.com/image/330216529/“Anguish over lost children never ends.” North Bay Nugget, 31 Mar 2006, Fri ·Page 8 https://www.newspapers.com/image/732247169/Pawson, Chad, “Victims' families, women's advocates demand RCMP halt plan to dispose of Robert Pickton evidence.” CBC News · Posted: Dec 11, 2023 11:45 AM EST | Last Updated: December 11, 2023 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/robert-pickton-serial-killer-rcmp-dispose-evidence-1.7055215#:~Cowley, Paul, “Reward offered in search.” Red Deer Advocate 10 Jul 2002, Wed ·Page 1 https://www.newspapers.com/image/558930428/Edgar, Patti, “Hunt for missing woman rekindles old fears in B.C.” Edmonton Journal18 Jul 2002, Thu ·Page 6 https://www.newspapers.com/image/476182560/“Police say highway is only link between missing women.” Terrace Standard 17 Jul 2002, Wed ·Page 8 https://www.newspapers.com/image/329093658/Ketkar, Priyanka, “Nicole Hoar investigation still active, says RCMP.” Jun 30, 2021 1:30 AM https://www.burnslakelakesdistrictnews.com/news/nicole-hoar-investigation-still-active-says-rcmp-6303295Keller, James, “Quest for answers as keen as ever for families.” The Vancouver Sun, 20 May 2014, Tue ·Page 9 https://www.newspapers.com/image/497677971/Crawford, Tiffany, “Another woman found dead near B.C.'s Highway of Tears. 8 things to know about the notorious stretch of road.” Published Nov 07, 2023 https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/what-is-bc-highway-of-tears“The Disappearance of Immaculate Basil.” Hue and Cry https://thehueandcry.com/immaculate-basil“The Highway of Tears.” https://thehueandcry.com/highway-of-tears“Remains of Madison Scott found 12 years after mysterious disappearance from party near Vanderhoof, B.C..” CBC News,  Posted: May 29, 2023 3:07 PM EDT | Last Updated: May 29, 2023 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/madison-scott-found-vanderhoof-1.6858290“The Disappearance of Anita Florence Thorne.” Hue and Cry https://thehueandcry.com/anita-florence-thorne *Please refer to Part One and Part Two for a full list of sources for all the Highway of Tears episodes

I'm excited to bring on my next guest, as we have some history from many years ago. Bruce Garrioch was and still is one of the best writers for the Ottawa Senators. He's been there since day one of the team's modern era, way back in 1990. Our paths crossed during my years with the franchise from 1994 - 1999. When most of us think about a hockey Journey, we think of one through a player's eyes, but not everyone has that opportunity for various reasons. But another group of individuals has had a hockey journey and reached the top of their game, but just in a different sector. Bruce Garrioch, aka "Scoops" has one of those stories. He's been seen, heard, and read via the Ottawa Sun, MSN (US), MSN Canada, MSN Money Canada, MSN South Africa, National Post, Toronto Sun, The Sports Network (TSN), Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen and the list goes on, this guy is a rock star in the journalism world, and this is going to be awesome. So sit back, get comfortable and settle into another round of the Hockey Journey Podcast. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderfully productive day :) To learn more about Bruce Garrioch, check out the links below - https://muckrack.com/bruce-garriochhttps://www.tsn.ca/bruce-garrioch-how-a-small-change-made-a-big-difference-for-my-mental-health-1.1584186https://www.difd.com/  (Supports education, awareness, and research initiatives at the Royal that encourage young people to talk openly about mental illness and to ask for help when needed) For more information regarding Coach Lance Pitlick Online Hockey Training Largest Online Data-Base Off-Ice Stickhandling, Passing and Shooting Drills https://www.onlinehockeytraining.com/ In-person lessons with Coach Lance https://www.sweethockeycoach.com/

Rahim Mohamed is a political columnist based in Calgary. His writing has appeared in a number of major outlets, including National Post, The Line, and the Calgary Herald. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Find Rahim online: https://twitter.com/rmohamed_yycArticles from Rahim: https://thehub.ca/2022-11-21/rahim-mohamed-why-i-couldnt-resist-the-call-of-alberta/https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rahim-mohamed-canada-doesnt-have-an-islamophobia-problem-im-living-proofhttps://nationalpost.com/opinion/rahim-mohamed-tucker-carlson-arrives-just-in-time-to-exploit-a-humiliated-trudeau

Went solo to talk about Calgary Herald article on police in schools, a message from about police undeserving Indigenous Families, the AB School Walkout, the bylaw response to the Conversion Therapy event happening tonight at a Catholic Church, The Valentines Day Women March and more. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Former Alberta premier Rachel Notley announced she is stepping down as the head of Alberta's NDP. The move, expected after last spring's election defeat to Danielle Smith's UCP, sparks a leadership contest that could ultimately shape the progressive movement, not just in Alberta, but in Canada. Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid joins the show to discuss Notley's legacy, where the provincial party goes from here, and whether the former premier has ambitions beyond Alberta. Background reading: Braid: Rachel Notley announces she's leaving Alberta NDP leadership, triggering party contest Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this interview, Peter Menzies, Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, former newspaper executive and past vice chair of the CRTC, discusses the state of the media in Canada. Menzies talks about how the industry is at a point where it needs to adapt or die, how it got to this point, who is to blame, the federal government online legislation, the CBC, and the growth of alternative news publications. Below is a column Menzies wrote for The Hub. By Peter Menzies, November 22, 2023 Twenty years ago, it should have been obvious to all that the jig was up for newspapers and journalism was going to need a new ride. Print had a good run—almost 600 years—but the invention by Tim Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web meant the era of massive presses and the power they bestowed on their owners was coming to an end. The only question, once Craigslist and Kijiji began boring holes in classified advertising, the economic foundation of newspapers, was whether there would even be time to save the furniture. Since the turn of the century, there have only been two alternatives for legacy news organizations: adapt or die. While there has been some evidence of success in terms of the former, public policy support has ignored new ideas in favour of propping up the ones everyone knows won't make it. The results have ranged from inconsequential to catastrophic. In Canada, as author and academic Marc Edge has detailed in his most recent book, The Postmedia Effect, the possibilities for newspapers to adapt have been severely limited by the nation's largest and dominant chain's business and ownership structures. Thousands of jobs have been cut to ensure high-interest debt payments can be made to its U.S. hedge fund owners. Easy to blame management, one supposes, but hedge funds gotta hedge and the primary fault for the mess that is Canada's news industry belongs squarely at the door of the nation's public policymakers. Sadly, outdated foreign ownership regulations restricted the supply of qualified buyers for media organizations, which depressed the cost of acquiring newspapers to a level that facilitated their acquisition en masse by Southam, then Hollinger, then Canwest, then Postmedia. With every step, competition was suppressed through increasingly consolidated ownership only to find the nation's largest newspaper chain owned by Americans. You can't make that up. Piling on, the Competition Bureau in 2015 inexplicably approved Postmedia's acquisition of Quebecor (Sun) Media's newspapers based on the “lack of close rivalry” between newspapers such as the Calgary Herald and the Calgary Sun and “the incentive for the merged entity to retain readership and maintain editorial quality in order to continue to attract advertisers.” All said with a straight face. Anyone who had actually worked in the business—I put in shifts at both the Calgary Sun and the Calgary Herald in their halcyon days—would know that this is sheer nonsense justified only by the extreme narrowness of the analysis the Bureau undertook. Today, the only distinguishable difference in content between the Herald and the Sun is that Don Braid writes a column for the Herald, and Rick Bell writes one for the Sun—a pretense of competition that appears to have allowed both to extend their careers well beyond those of thousands of their colleagues. “No solutions can be found until the issue of the CBC is dealt with.” Thirty years ago, Bell and Braid shared more than 250 newsroom colleagues covering events in a city of fewer than 800,000 people. Today, reflective of their business's demise, a couple of dozen survivors cling to the Herald/Sun lifeboat in a city approaching 1.5 million. Their presses and even their buildings have been sold to feed the hedge fund. Implementation of policies designed to sustain business models that produce results such as these in the hope of “saving journalism” is self-evidently unwise. We live at a time when innovation and entrepreneurship—virtues that are fuelled by competition and suppressed by consolidation—are desperately needed. While those are clearly lacking in the newspaper industry (laudable exceptions apply at the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, and a plethora of digital startups) it's just as unlikely journalism can find salvation in the arms of Canada's heavily regulated broadcasting industry. For it, with exceptions acknowledged, the provision of news has always been primarily a regulatory obligation and not a core business proposition. Broadcasters are in the business of entertaining people with music, drama, chat, and related programming and have long acknowledged there is little or no money in them for news. All too often, it's just regulatory rent. For those who may believe, though, the ponderous regulatory processes in place at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) make the entrepreneurship and innovation needed to adapt in an era of massive technological change almost impossible. But all that is now as may be. Rear view mirrors may help protect from encroaching harms but they are not at all useful in terms of actually going places. And journalism clearly needs a new car and new drivers if it is to thrive as a public good. Any doubt that societies require trustworthy and shared sources of information to maintain a peaceful social compact should have been erased by the events of the past few weeks. It is clear from the protests and virulent antisemitism that erupted in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel that large numbers of Canadians are forming their opinions based not on differing interpretations of the facts but on very incompatible understandings of current reality. In these circumstances, and in this instance at least, the common ground necessary to establish a healthy public square of ideas simply doesn't exist. Without such a venue, societies collapse into warring tribes. But before we can even begin to explore the complexity of THAT problem, there needs to be a sustainable path forward for fair, balanced, and accurate news gathering and delivery. The federal government's best efforts to make that happen have been disastrous. The Online News Act has done more harm than good, with news providers losing access to audiences through Facebook and Instagram while an even more disastrous Google news boycott hovers menacingly over the industry. The five-year-old journalism labour tax credit hasn't stopped newsrooms from continuing to shrink. And while the Local Journalism Initiative has created temporary employment opportunities in news “deserts”, it didn't stop the Alaska Highway News, as just one example, from folding last month. Worse, there is increasing evidence to suggest that the more the public becomes aware of direct government funding to journalism organizations, the less likely it is to trust those organizations and label reporters as toadies with labels such as “#JustinJournos.” Should the government change, they would no doubt be #Pierre'sPravda. None of this ends well. What Canada desperately needs instead is a multi-pronged, coordinated national strategy based on current economic and market realities that will allow journalism to flourish again. A few months ago, Konrad von Finckenstein and I tried to get the ideas rolling with our policy paper for the Macdonald Laurier Institute, “And Now, The News”. Its two flashiest recommendations called for the establishment of a truly independent journalism sustainability fund supported by contributions from web giants such as Meta, Google, and others and, vitally, the de-commercialization of the CBC. The CBC, already government-funded, would not be eligible to draw from this fund, which we proposed should be supported by reasonable levies on tech companies and would only be available to companies whose primary business is the production of news. I have some sympathy for those who would argue that such a fund would best be used to support entrepreneurship as opposed to simply propping up what commentator Jen Gerson has labelled “zombie” newspapers that refuse to either adapt or die. But our proposal would nevertheless eschew such distinctions and make the fund accessible to all industry-verified news organizations solely on a per capita/journalist basis. News providers would still be free to make deals with social media to build readership and make other commercial deals with digital platforms as both parties see fit. But that, on its own, doesn't solve the problem. In fact, no solutions can be found until the issue of the CBC is dealt with. It is one thing to have a public broadcaster. But today's CBC is not that. It has evolved into a publicly funded commercial broadcaster and online content provider. Even its radio content, while broadcast free of advertising over the air, is repurposed to build online audiences and revenue in direct competition with news startups and legacy media attempting to transition into vibrant digital platforms. No industry can survive, let alone prosper, when the government subsidizes one commercial entity—in this case with $1.2 billion annually—to the detriment of all others. There certainly can be an important role for a national, truly public news provider. But CBC must be de-commercialized everywhere it operates, its mandate sharply re-focused, and its content made available at no charge through a Creative Commons license to other domestic news organizations. The removal of the CBC's ability to sell advertising would immediately free up $400 million in revenue for which news organizations could compete. As an added benefit, Canada would get a re-focused public broadcaster, and free access to its news content would allow all journalism providers to benefit from, instead of being punished by, government funding of the CBC. Our other proposals include making subscriptions to news organizations 100 percent tax deductible—a move that would subsidize the consumption of credible news with a market-based incentive for those providing it. We also proposed that: All expenditures by Eligible News Businesses that involve investment in digital transformation technology are eligible to be claimed in their first year as capital cost allowances. Phasing out of the current labour tax credit over a period of five years, declining in value by 20 percent annually in order to wean news organizations from it gradually while they adapt to a more permanent policy framework. Phasing out of the Local Journalism Initiative over a period of five years, declining in value by $4 million per year and with adjustments that would make it available only to news organizations serving market areas of less than 100,000 people and limited to easily defined core coverage beats such as public safety, courts, school boards, and municipal councils. Phasing out of the Canada Periodical Fund, which is no longer relevant in the digital age, over the course of three years. Ensure that the CRTC is engaged in the development of national news policies so that it considers the entire scope of the news industry when contemplating conditions of license for broadcasters. To those, I would add maximizing the value of tax credits for contributions to news organizations structured as not-for-profit businesses. Neither I nor my policy paper co-author, who these days is occupied as interim federal ethics commissioner, pretended to have all the solutions. As we wrote when our paper was published, building a national news industry policy is a tricky business. What we believed was that the pattern of ad hoc subsidies, willful ignorance of the impact of a commercial CBC, fear of failure, and the ill-conceived Online News Act were nothing but trouble and that a thoughtful, multi-pronged national news industry policy was called for. It still is. When it's done—when all the ideas are out there and the best of them are implemented—news organizations will still only survive through the quality of their work. Not all companies will, or should, survive and, frankly, some need to get on with their dying and get out of the way of those building a future for journalism. Fretting over and attempting to preserve the past and its icons is emotionally tempting. But it will not give news organizations the fighting chance they need to transition from unstable business models to those capable of sustaining quality journalism in the years ahead. We are at the end of the end of an era. It's time to embrace a new genesis. Peter Menzies is a Senior Fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a former newspaper executive, and past vice chair of the CRTC. Mario Toneguzzi is Managing Editor of Canada's Podcast. He has more than 40 years of experience as a daily newspaper writer, columnist, and editor. He was named in 2021 as one of the Top 10 Business Journalists in the World by PR News – the only Canadian to make the list About Us Canada's Podcast is the number one podcast in Canada for entrepreneurs and business owners. Established in 2016, the podcast network has interviewed over 600 Canadian entrepreneurs from coast-to-coast. With hosts in each province, entrepreneurs have a local and national format to tell their stories, talk about their journey and provide inspiration for anyone starting their entrepreneurial journey and well- established founders. The commitment to a grass roots approach has built a loyal audience on all our social channels and YouTube – 500,000+ lifetime YouTube views, 200,000 + audio downloads, 35,000 + average monthly social impressions, 10,000 + engaged social followers and 35,000 newsletter subscribers. Canada's Podcast is proud to provide a local, national and international presence for Canadian entrepreneurs to build their brand and tell their story. #business #CanadasNumberOnePodcastforEntrepreneurs   #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #Media #news #Newspapers #smallbusiness

Mount Royal University academic, Al Jazeera columnist and Al Shabaka fellow Muhannad Ayyash joins us to discuss how Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek cancelled Hanukkah. Calgary pundits lost their goddam minds over Gondek's decision to back out of at a totally apolitical menorah lighting ceremony that was billed as an opportunity to demonstrate "SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL." And according to reporting from Aryn Toombs at LiveWire Calgary, it didn't disappoint. Calgary Herald columnist Don Braid, who joined the paper as a filthy scab in 2000, went as far as to say the mayor isn't fit for office because of her disloyalty to Israel. Plugs & Recs (The Rinse)Decolonize Palestine reading listRead some of Muhannad's Al Jazeera columnsEmma Paling - CBC featured more Israelis even as Palestinian casualties rose, data showsVincent Bevins - If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing RevolutionTareq Baconi - Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian ResistanceThe Deprogram - Free Palestine (ft. Decolonize Palestine)James Clear - Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable ResultsIf you enjoyed this episode make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram. For more Big Shiny Takes, sign up to our bonus feed here.If you enjoyed this episode make sure to leave us a five star review on Apple Podcasts, and give us a follow on Twitter and Instagram. For more Big Shiny Takes, sign up to our bonus feed here.

NEW! 2024 JANUARY SPEAKER SERIES LEARN FROM 5 SUPERSTAR ASTROLOGERS THIS JANUARY!  SIGN UP BEFORE DEC 31ST TO CHOOSE YOUR TUITION RATE! Schedule 1. Andy Castro (WiseAss Astrology) Relationships: What's The Point, Anyway? 2. César Love: Basketball's Hidden Stars: Astrology within the Global Game 3. Kari Samuels: Numbers and Planets: Decoding Your Life Path 4. Ana Andrade - The Vertex 5.  Carl Klimuk: The Lunar Gardener - Gardening by the Moon SIGN UP NOW AND PAY AS LOW AS $5 A CLASS FOR A LIMITED TIME! LEARN MORE AND SIGN UP NOW https://www.synchronicityuniversity.com Carl Klimuk: The Lunar Gardener - Gardening by the Moon Date: Saturday February 3, 2024 Time: 2:00 pm Eastern Time (Toronto) ​ Welcome to "The Lunar Gardener: Gardening by the Moon", a unique and enlightening journey into the art of gardening in harmony with lunar cycles. This class is designed for gardeners of all levels who wish to deepen their understanding of how the Moon's phases, along with the Astrological Signs it traverses and their corresponding Elements, influence the world of gardening.   In this class, we'll explore the fascinating interplay between the Moon and your garden. You'll learn how the waxing and waning of the Moon, along with its position in various Astrological Signs, can affect plant growth, soil conditions, and pest control. We'll delve into: Lunar Phases and Planting, Astrological Signs and Gardening, Practical Applications, Moon, Plants, and Pests.   Carl Klimuk is a Master Herbalist and a Holistic Therapist, his focus is Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has studied Astrology most of his life, his mother was an avid Astrologer and he grew up with Astrology being a part of his life. Carl uses his knowledge and experience to help as many people as he can through both Astrological counselling and teaching. He is also a Feng Shui practitioner, Tarot Reader, Numerologist and Iridologist. He has conducted workshops in both the Divine Mine and the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing in Calgary.  Carl has also been publicized in local newspapers such as the Calgary Sun and the Calgary Herald as well as both local and national radio and television such as the CBC and The Weather Network for his work & research in Astrometeorology. Carl also has a diploma in Criminology & is an avid Martial Artist.   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carl.klimuk YouTube: Astro Weatherman https://www.youtube.com/@astroweatherman7688

Harbinger Showcase is a weekly podcast featuring highlights from Canada's #1 coast-to-coast community of politically and socially progressive podcasts.On this week's episode we explore the eight month long Calgary Herald strike and how the 2000 labour action pushed back against right-wing editorial overreach and unfair treatment in the newsroom on ALBERTA ADVANTAGE and present a long listen from the launch day event for new national progressive journalism aggregation website UNRIGGED.CA on the Rob Rousseau Show featuring conversations with THE BREACH MEDIA, MIDNIGHT SUN, THE ROVER and Harbinger!The Harbinger Media Network includes more than 60 podcasts focusing on social, economic and environmental justice and featuring journalists, academics and activists on shows like Alberta Advantage, The Breach Show, Tech Won't Save Us, Press Progress Sources & more.Harbinger Showcase is syndicated for community and campus radio at CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto, CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal, CKUW 95.9FM in Winnipeg and at Vancouver Co-op Radio.Financial support on this episode is courtesy of The Alberta Advantage podcast and Between the Lines Books. Find out more a albertaadvantagepod.comand find this episode's featured new BTL release 'Beryl The Making of a Disability Activist' at btlbooks.comFind out more about the network, subscribe to the weekly newsletter and support our work at harbingermedianetwork.com

Holocaust education will now be mandatory for elementary and high school kids. Polling across North America shows that a huge portion of kids have no clue about the Holocaust. We can educate people but it won't go away. Host Alex Pierson speaks with Rahim Mohamed, political columnist for the National Post, The Line, and the Calgary Herald. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sandra Bueckert-Davison is an industry-recognized, award-winning personal training pioneer in the city of Calgary. In the eighties, unlike now, personal trainers were a luxury for celebrities and movie stars. In 1989, 23-year-old Sandra Bueckert wondered: what if she used her knowledge as an award-winning athlete to show regular, everyday folks how to get better results in the gym—One-On-One? Sandra was no stranger to hard work, and she saw a need. "When I was working out, people would constantly ask me for advice," she says. "Eventually I realized that maybe I could turn my passion for fitness into a business." One of her first clients was a chef who had gained 40 pounds. After helping him to trim down, his wife asked her to help her get her body back post-pregnancy. The referrals kept coming. It didn't hurt that Sandra was funny, finds people fascinating and had a natural way of connecting with them. She also has personal familiarity with her clients' experience. She had had two sons and weighed well over 200 pounds during her pregnancies. Losing the weight allowed her to empathize with her clients. She knows what it's like to run a business, have children and struggle to find time to exercise and eat well. She dropped 70 pounds in 2005 and returned to the competitive arena after a 15-year layoff! Competing also helped her handle her mother's death from breast cancer. She won her class, earned her pro-card and CTV awarded her the Athlete of the Week. Sandra is widely known for her appearances on CTV and for the acclaimed X-weighted television series. "I won't sacrifice someone's health for results," she says. Celebrating 34 years as Calgary's original personal trainer, 57-year-old Sandra and her talented trainers love working with clients who want to fight aging every step of the way. Accolades: Besides being a fitness expert for CTV, Sandra has been interviewed by QR77 Radio, CBC Radio, Breakfast Television, The Globe and Mail, the Calgary Chamber of Commerce magazine, CityScope magazine, Avenue magazine, IMPACT magazine, and the Calgary Sun. One On One Personal Fitness was featured in a twelve-week series by the Calgary Herald. Sandra has also appeared twice on the front page of the Calgary Herald Real Life section. Most people recognize Sandra from the X-weighted television series on the Slice network. She was also featured in the LA Times. In July of 2023 Sandra was the guest on Hit Play Not Pause: Feisty Menopause podcast. Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada's economy. To support Canada's businesses, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to stay up-to-date on the latest #entrepreneur podcasts and news? Subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter

Alberta won a round in one of its many battles with the federal government after a key piece of legislation was struck down. The Supreme Court ruled Bill C-69, or the Impact Assessment Act, which affected the approval process for major projects on federal land, was unconstitutional. Alberta had challenged it on the basis that it infringed on provincial jurisdiction. Calgary Herald columnist Chris Varcoe joins the show to discuss what made the act so controversial in Alberta, the Court's reasoning in its decision, and how this all plays into the back and forth between Alberta and the Trudeau government Background reading: Varcoe: 'Stay in your lane' — After victory against Bill C-69, Alberta emboldened in feud with feds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ride Home with John & Kathy! Buckle in for a Tuesday full! Like… I Hadn't Committed Suicide. But I Was Spiritually Dead. The prison had ID'ed the wrong man. But the mistake was powerfully revealing (from CT) ... GUEST Hector Vega ...author of “Arrested by Grace: The True Story of Death & Resurrection from the Streets of NYC,” which he has sent to hundreds of prisons across the US. God Speaks Science: what neurons, giant squids, & supernovae reveal about our Creator ... GUEST John Van Sloten ... Calgary-based writer, teacher & pastor who is a regular columnist with the Calgary Herald ... his books include “The Day Metallica Came to Church” and “Every Job a Parable” ... Over the past 10 yrs, he's been awarded 3 Templeton Foundation subgrants for preaching science ... www.johnvansloten.com Plus Does This Make Sense? And more! Thanks for riding with us on The Ride Home with John & Kathy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Albertans were given a grim reminder of the dangers that can lurk in the backcountry with the fatal grizzly attack that took the lives of two experienced outdoors people. The attack, in a remote area of Banff National Park, was believed to be predatory in nature and also saw the death of the couple's dog. Calgary Herald reporter Bill Kaufmann joins the show to walk us through the attack, what's believed to have caused the bear's aggression, and what experts say about whether more can be done to prevent bear-human encounters. Background reading: Couple emptied bear spray can in battling grizzly that killed them, relative says Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, October 5th, 2023. Redballoon Not so long ago, the American dream was alive and well. Employees who worked hard were rewarded, and employers looked for people who could do the job, not for people who had the right political views. RedBalloon.work is a job site designed to get us back to what made American businesses successful: free speech, hard work, and having fun. If you are a free speech employer who wants to hire employees who focus on their work and not identity politics, then post a job on RedBalloon. If you are an employee who is being censored at work or is being forced to comply with the current zeitgeist, post your resume on RedBalloon and look for a new job. redballoon.work, the job site where free speech is still alive! www.redballoon.work https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/10/03/the-guardian-climate-change-has-made-rainstorms-20-wetter/ The Guardian: Climate Change Has Made Rainstorms ‘20% Wetter’ The UK-based Guardian newspaper has made the remarkable assertion that rainstorms are now 20 percent “wetter” than they used to be, thanks to climate change. New York City’s recent storm and accompanying flooding show the “unmistakable influence of the climate crisis,” the Guardian contended Monday, warning the city may not be “prepared for severe climate shocks.” The type of storm seen on Friday “is now 10-20% wetter than it would have been in the previous century, because of climate change,” the Guardian alleged, citing a new “rapid attribution study.” The Guardian said that such a pounding rainfall is “a symptom of a warming planet” because a hotter atmosphere is “able to hold more moisture.” Curiously, at this time last year, the Guardian declared that droughts are “at least 20 times more likely” than without “human-caused global heating.” In Monday’s article, the newspaper cited climate expert Tommaso Alberti, who said the rainstorm that hit New York was predictable and “aligns with climate change projections.” Human-driven climate change is the “primary driver” of major storms, which underscores “the urgent need for climate mitigation and adaptation efforts,” Alberti argued. Michael Mann, who invented the thoroughly debunked hockey stick graph and has falsely presented himself as a Nobel Prizewinner, agreed that the New York storm was clearly attributable to global warming. “New York is experiencing a very clear increase in these extreme – more than 2in per hour – rainfall events, and that’s clearly tied to a warming atmosphere,” he said. Rohit Aggarwala, the New York City commissioner of environmental protection, has also blamed the city’s reprehensible response to the storm on climate change, a convenient, if mendacious, dog-ate-my-homework excuse. “The sad reality is our climate is changing faster than our infrastructure can respond,” he said. Daniel Zarrilli, the former chief climate policy adviser to New York City, uttered similar lamentations. “It’s clear that our cities and our aging infrastructure were built for a climate that no longer exists, particularly as a warmed atmosphere holds and releases more water,” he said. Reuters joined in the climate change blame game as well, suggesting that New York City’s flooding is just part of the “new normal” ushered in by global warming. https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeaus-internet-censorship-plan-kicks-off-with-government-operated-streaming-registry?utm_campaign=64487 Trudeau's internet censorship plan kicks off with government-operated streaming registry Friday's announcement from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that online streaming services in Canada must register with the government agency has sent a chill throughout independent media. Critics say it is the beginning of a broad registry of all online news media, even if the CRTC is currently maintaining that a $10 million threshold exists for broadcasters before they must register. Previous CRTC vice-chairman and former editor of the Calgary Herald posted Monday on X: "Essentially and eventually, @crtceng intends to regulate everything on the Internet pretty much the way it regulates TV, radio and cable. Say g'bye to a free and open internet in Canada." Noted journalist Glenn Greenwald posted on X: "The Canadian government, armed with one of the world's most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all "online streaming services that offer podcasts" must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls." In a news release, the CRTC announced that it is setting out which online streaming services need to provide information about their activities in Canada. Online streaming services that operate in Canada, offer broadcasting content, and earn $10 million or more in annual revenues will need to complete a registration form by November 28, 2023." The declaration is part of the Trudeau government's Online Streaming Act, or Bill C-11, which was called a "dangerous first step towards government control of the internet" by Justice Centre for Constitution Freedoms President John Carpay, who wrote that "In the long run, the CRTC could end up regulating much of the content posted on major social media, even where the content is generated or uploaded by religious, political, and charitable non-profits." However, reading further down in the news release, the CRTC uses ambiguous language and apparently contradicts its own guidelines by stating, "online services that offer podcasts must register; however, individuals who use social media to share podcasts do not." The CRTC has previously stated that: "individuals that host podcasts on their own websites or make them available on a subscription service platform other than a social media service are not explicitly excluded from the Broadcasting Act under subsection 2(2.1)" University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist was quick to comprehensively comment on the CRTC announcement in an essay. Geist suggested the government's plans are "not as bad as critics would suggest, but not nearly as benign as the CRTC would have you believe." But Geist says the real danger of the CRTC's announcement is that it is "the thin edge of the wedge with the registration requirement being the first step toward a far broader regulatory framework." "In fact, the rationale for the CRTC to include many of the services is that without such information it is not well positioned to regulate. This creates an obvious contradiction: the Commission claims that the registration requirement is de minimis requiring the disclosure of only limited information but then also argues that such information is important to future decision making on compliance with the Broadcasting Act objectives," he writes. The CRTC hints that a broad registry is in the works: that "exempting online undertakings that provide news services from the requirement to register would prevent the Commission from having an adequate understanding of the players providing such services. Without information about the online broadcasting undertakings involved in the Canadian broadcasting system, it would be much harder for the Commission to develop policies aimed at implementing the above-noted policy objectives of the Broadcasting Act and conform to the proposed direction." The CRTC says "[a] third consultation is ongoing. It considers contributions traditional broadcasters and online streaming services will need to make to support Canadian and Indigenous content. The CRTC will hold a three-week public proceeding starting on November 20, 2023, and will hear from 129 intervenors representing a broad range of interests." https://www.foxnews.com/world/swiss-writer-called-journalist-fat-lesbian-sentenced-60-days-prison-lgbtq-groups-applaud-decision Swiss writer who called journalist 'fat lesbian' sentenced to 60 days in prison, LGBTQ groups applaud decision A court in Switzerland sentenced a writer and commentator to 60 days in jail for calling a journalist a "fat lesbian," and the decision is being lauded by LGBTQ+ groups. On Monday, French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, was sentenced by the Lausanne court for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred after he criticized Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago. "This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland," said Murial Waeger, co-director of a lesbian activist group. "The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society." In addition to the prison time, Soral was subsequently ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thousands of Swiss francs. Soral’s sentencing came after he called Macherel a "fat lesbian," criticized her work as a "queer activist" and said she was "unhinged" in a social media video, according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS. Pascal Junod, a lawyer for Soral, mockingly blasted the conviction for a "crime of opinion" in an email to The Associated Press. He said the case aimed to probe whether a person had "sinned against the dogmas of single thought." Soral will appeal to Swiss federal court and "if necessary" to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer added. In 2020, Swiss voters approved a measure that made it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation. This conviction was not the first time Soral has gotten into trouble over his words as he was previously and repeatedly convicted in France for denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in France. He was sentenced to jail time in 2019 over the denials. https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/03/sports-governing-body-scraps-open-category-trans-athletes-no-one-signs-up/ Sports Governing Body Scraps ‘Open’ Category For Trans Athletes After No One Signs Up World Aquatics (WA), the international water sports governing body, announced in a press release Tuesday that it is getting rid of its transgender “open” category for the 2023 World Cup since no athletes had decided to sign up. WA said in August that it was opening a category for athletes to swim the 50-meter and 100-meter distances regardless of gender. After athletes failed to show, WA decided to scrap the category for the World Cup in Berlin, Germany, from Oct. 6 to Oct. 8 but noted that the “Open Category Working Group” would still consider reopening the division if demand increased in the future, according to the press release. “The World Aquatics Open Category Working Group will continue its work and engagement with the aquatics community on Open Category events,” the announcement reads. “Even if there is no current demand at the elite level, the working group is planning to look at the possibility of including Open Category races at Masters events in the future.” WA originally planned to debut the open category in July in Fukuoka, Japan, during its congressional meeting but later decided against it. The organization announced its new “gender inclusion policy” in 2022, which made it possible to create the “open category” for future competitions and required male athletes looking to compete in the female division to have transitioned and experienced no puberty symptoms before the age of 12, as well maintaining regular testosterone levels below 2.5 nanomoles per liter. “When World Aquatics instituted its Policy on Eligibility for the Men’s and Women’s Competition Categories, we committed to exploring the creation of an open category,” World Aquatics President Husain Al-Musallam said, according to the press release. “True to our word, a team of experts has diligently worked to make this a reality. I would like to thank all those who have helped World Aquatics to deliver this opportunity.” Other sport governing bodies have opted to not allow transgender athletes to compete in divisions outside of their biological sex, such as the International Cycling Union, which announced in July that males who had transitioned after puberty could not compete in the female category. The International Angling Sports Federation made a similar decision on Sept. 29 after England’s team said that it would boycott the world championship if men were allowed to compete with women.

This is Garrison Hardie with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Thursday, October 5th, 2023. Redballoon Not so long ago, the American dream was alive and well. Employees who worked hard were rewarded, and employers looked for people who could do the job, not for people who had the right political views. RedBalloon.work is a job site designed to get us back to what made American businesses successful: free speech, hard work, and having fun. If you are a free speech employer who wants to hire employees who focus on their work and not identity politics, then post a job on RedBalloon. If you are an employee who is being censored at work or is being forced to comply with the current zeitgeist, post your resume on RedBalloon and look for a new job. redballoon.work, the job site where free speech is still alive! www.redballoon.work https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/10/03/the-guardian-climate-change-has-made-rainstorms-20-wetter/ The Guardian: Climate Change Has Made Rainstorms ‘20% Wetter’ The UK-based Guardian newspaper has made the remarkable assertion that rainstorms are now 20 percent “wetter” than they used to be, thanks to climate change. New York City’s recent storm and accompanying flooding show the “unmistakable influence of the climate crisis,” the Guardian contended Monday, warning the city may not be “prepared for severe climate shocks.” The type of storm seen on Friday “is now 10-20% wetter than it would have been in the previous century, because of climate change,” the Guardian alleged, citing a new “rapid attribution study.” The Guardian said that such a pounding rainfall is “a symptom of a warming planet” because a hotter atmosphere is “able to hold more moisture.” Curiously, at this time last year, the Guardian declared that droughts are “at least 20 times more likely” than without “human-caused global heating.” In Monday’s article, the newspaper cited climate expert Tommaso Alberti, who said the rainstorm that hit New York was predictable and “aligns with climate change projections.” Human-driven climate change is the “primary driver” of major storms, which underscores “the urgent need for climate mitigation and adaptation efforts,” Alberti argued. Michael Mann, who invented the thoroughly debunked hockey stick graph and has falsely presented himself as a Nobel Prizewinner, agreed that the New York storm was clearly attributable to global warming. “New York is experiencing a very clear increase in these extreme – more than 2in per hour – rainfall events, and that’s clearly tied to a warming atmosphere,” he said. Rohit Aggarwala, the New York City commissioner of environmental protection, has also blamed the city’s reprehensible response to the storm on climate change, a convenient, if mendacious, dog-ate-my-homework excuse. “The sad reality is our climate is changing faster than our infrastructure can respond,” he said. Daniel Zarrilli, the former chief climate policy adviser to New York City, uttered similar lamentations. “It’s clear that our cities and our aging infrastructure were built for a climate that no longer exists, particularly as a warmed atmosphere holds and releases more water,” he said. Reuters joined in the climate change blame game as well, suggesting that New York City’s flooding is just part of the “new normal” ushered in by global warming. https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeaus-internet-censorship-plan-kicks-off-with-government-operated-streaming-registry?utm_campaign=64487 Trudeau's internet censorship plan kicks off with government-operated streaming registry Friday's announcement from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) that online streaming services in Canada must register with the government agency has sent a chill throughout independent media. Critics say it is the beginning of a broad registry of all online news media, even if the CRTC is currently maintaining that a $10 million threshold exists for broadcasters before they must register. Previous CRTC vice-chairman and former editor of the Calgary Herald posted Monday on X: "Essentially and eventually, @crtceng intends to regulate everything on the Internet pretty much the way it regulates TV, radio and cable. Say g'bye to a free and open internet in Canada." Noted journalist Glenn Greenwald posted on X: "The Canadian government, armed with one of the world's most repressive online censorship schemes, announces that all "online streaming services that offer podcasts" must formally register with the government to permit regulatory controls." In a news release, the CRTC announced that it is setting out which online streaming services need to provide information about their activities in Canada. Online streaming services that operate in Canada, offer broadcasting content, and earn $10 million or more in annual revenues will need to complete a registration form by November 28, 2023." The declaration is part of the Trudeau government's Online Streaming Act, or Bill C-11, which was called a "dangerous first step towards government control of the internet" by Justice Centre for Constitution Freedoms President John Carpay, who wrote that "In the long run, the CRTC could end up regulating much of the content posted on major social media, even where the content is generated or uploaded by religious, political, and charitable non-profits." However, reading further down in the news release, the CRTC uses ambiguous language and apparently contradicts its own guidelines by stating, "online services that offer podcasts must register; however, individuals who use social media to share podcasts do not." The CRTC has previously stated that: "individuals that host podcasts on their own websites or make them available on a subscription service platform other than a social media service are not explicitly excluded from the Broadcasting Act under subsection 2(2.1)" University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist was quick to comprehensively comment on the CRTC announcement in an essay. Geist suggested the government's plans are "not as bad as critics would suggest, but not nearly as benign as the CRTC would have you believe." But Geist says the real danger of the CRTC's announcement is that it is "the thin edge of the wedge with the registration requirement being the first step toward a far broader regulatory framework." "In fact, the rationale for the CRTC to include many of the services is that without such information it is not well positioned to regulate. This creates an obvious contradiction: the Commission claims that the registration requirement is de minimis requiring the disclosure of only limited information but then also argues that such information is important to future decision making on compliance with the Broadcasting Act objectives," he writes. The CRTC hints that a broad registry is in the works: that "exempting online undertakings that provide news services from the requirement to register would prevent the Commission from having an adequate understanding of the players providing such services. Without information about the online broadcasting undertakings involved in the Canadian broadcasting system, it would be much harder for the Commission to develop policies aimed at implementing the above-noted policy objectives of the Broadcasting Act and conform to the proposed direction." The CRTC says "[a] third consultation is ongoing. It considers contributions traditional broadcasters and online streaming services will need to make to support Canadian and Indigenous content. The CRTC will hold a three-week public proceeding starting on November 20, 2023, and will hear from 129 intervenors representing a broad range of interests." https://www.foxnews.com/world/swiss-writer-called-journalist-fat-lesbian-sentenced-60-days-prison-lgbtq-groups-applaud-decision Swiss writer who called journalist 'fat lesbian' sentenced to 60 days in prison, LGBTQ groups applaud decision A court in Switzerland sentenced a writer and commentator to 60 days in jail for calling a journalist a "fat lesbian," and the decision is being lauded by LGBTQ+ groups. On Monday, French-Swiss polemicist Alain Bonnet, who goes by Alain Soral, was sentenced by the Lausanne court for the crimes of defamation, discrimination and incitement to hatred after he criticized Catherine Macherel, a journalist for Swiss newspapers Tribune de Geneve and 24 Heures, in a Facebook video two years ago. "This court decision is an important moment for justice and rights of LGBTQI people in Switzerland," said Murial Waeger, co-director of a lesbian activist group. "The conviction of Alain Soral is a strong signal that homophobic hatred cannot be tolerated in our society." In addition to the prison time, Soral was subsequently ordered to pay legal fees and fines totaling thousands of Swiss francs. Soral’s sentencing came after he called Macherel a "fat lesbian," criticized her work as a "queer activist" and said she was "unhinged" in a social media video, according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS. Pascal Junod, a lawyer for Soral, mockingly blasted the conviction for a "crime of opinion" in an email to The Associated Press. He said the case aimed to probe whether a person had "sinned against the dogmas of single thought." Soral will appeal to Swiss federal court and "if necessary" to the European Court of Human Rights, his lawyer added. In 2020, Swiss voters approved a measure that made it illegal to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation. This conviction was not the first time Soral has gotten into trouble over his words as he was previously and repeatedly convicted in France for denying the Holocaust, which is a crime in France. He was sentenced to jail time in 2019 over the denials. https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/03/sports-governing-body-scraps-open-category-trans-athletes-no-one-signs-up/ Sports Governing Body Scraps ‘Open’ Category For Trans Athletes After No One Signs Up World Aquatics (WA), the international water sports governing body, announced in a press release Tuesday that it is getting rid of its transgender “open” category for the 2023 World Cup since no athletes had decided to sign up. WA said in August that it was opening a category for athletes to swim the 50-meter and 100-meter distances regardless of gender. After athletes failed to show, WA decided to scrap the category for the World Cup in Berlin, Germany, from Oct. 6 to Oct. 8 but noted that the “Open Category Working Group” would still consider reopening the division if demand increased in the future, according to the press release. “The World Aquatics Open Category Working Group will continue its work and engagement with the aquatics community on Open Category events,” the announcement reads. “Even if there is no current demand at the elite level, the working group is planning to look at the possibility of including Open Category races at Masters events in the future.” WA originally planned to debut the open category in July in Fukuoka, Japan, during its congressional meeting but later decided against it. The organization announced its new “gender inclusion policy” in 2022, which made it possible to create the “open category” for future competitions and required male athletes looking to compete in the female division to have transitioned and experienced no puberty symptoms before the age of 12, as well maintaining regular testosterone levels below 2.5 nanomoles per liter. “When World Aquatics instituted its Policy on Eligibility for the Men’s and Women’s Competition Categories, we committed to exploring the creation of an open category,” World Aquatics President Husain Al-Musallam said, according to the press release. “True to our word, a team of experts has diligently worked to make this a reality. I would like to thank all those who have helped World Aquatics to deliver this opportunity.” Other sport governing bodies have opted to not allow transgender athletes to compete in divisions outside of their biological sex, such as the International Cycling Union, which announced in July that males who had transitioned after puberty could not compete in the female category. The International Angling Sports Federation made a similar decision on Sept. 29 after England’s team said that it would boycott the world championship if men were allowed to compete with women.

Doug Ford is now reversing course on the Greenbelt land swap reverse. Guest: Charlie Pinkerton, Deputy Editor of The Trillium - Ontario minor league hockey is on the search for more diversity in its team rosters. Guest: Ian Taylor, Executive Director of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association - As mass layoffs swiftly move through the journalism industry, is more at risk than just jobs? Guest: Peter Menzies, National Newspaper Award-winning journalist, Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, past Editor-in-Chief of the Calgary Herald and former Vice-Chair of the CRTC

Alberta is dealing with what's believed to be its worst-ever E. coli outbreak after kids became sick at a number of Calgary daycares. Now the cases are in the hundreds with two dozen in hospital while health officials investigate the likely source of the outbreak. Calgary Herald reporter Michael Rodriguez joins the show to discuss how it's believed the bacteria spread, what other issues have been revealed through new inspections, and how this has affected parents and their kids.   Background reading: Cockroach infestation among 'critical violations' of kitchen at centre of daycare E. coli outbreak Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Alex Pierson speaks with Peter Menzies, a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a former publisher of the Calgary Herald and a previous vice-chair of the CRTC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to our newest show at Impact Radio USA, "INTERVIEWS and MORE", the show that features past interviews from our guests on "Dr. Paul's Family Talk" radio show. In addition to continuing to promote our guests, this show also gives our listeners another opportunity to hear the great information that our guests have provided. As for the "More", we will cover everything from food, to cars, to Bible verses, to music, and so much "MORE"! NEW SHOWS ARE DROPPED EACH MONDAY AT 10:00 AM ET. On today's segment, we will play the interview with DEBBIE ELICKSEN. DEBBIE ELICKSEN, from Calgary, Alberta, a sports reporter, the first female president of a football conference in Canada, a business owner, the 'go to person' for self publishing books, the PR director for the Triple A farm team of the California Angels, an author of 16 published books, and so much more, will join us to discuss her amazing career! FROM HER WEBSITE: "For 10 years, I was known as the go-to-person to get your book published. It was a job description I invented that didn't exist. As a result, I worked on over 150 books for self-published authors and traditional publishers, including a few bestsellers. I personally wrote and published 17 books, many from behind the scenes of pro and elite sports from the player/staff/media perspective.I conducted numerous workshops, training sessions, and keynotes on how to use digital media to improve literacy, marketing, and create products with.   Over the years, I have interviewed over 3,000 professional athletes during my career as a sports reporter and written thousands of articles for the Calgary Herald and other publications. Using my media, copywriting, publishing, and journalism background, I've also planned and managed several high-profile events and helped create earned media for numerous projects." www.debbieelicksen.com

Amanda Hamilton is the founder and creative director of Amanda Hamilton Interior Design and Palette Archives. An award-winning entrepreneur and Interior Designer based in Calgary, Alberta working across Western Canada, Amanda is celebrated for her tenacious entrepreneurial spirit and vibrant persona. Her bold and unorthodox approach to design and business has made her one of the most sought-after creative minds in Canada. Her debut satirical memoir, Not That Likeable: And Other Stories I told Myself was published in the fall of 2022. Amanda Hamilton unflinchingly chronicles her childhood exploits and coming-of-age story, in all their cringey glory. Riotously funny and spirited, Amanda balances unflinching honesty and side-splitting wit in this offbeat memoir for the proverbial outsider. Amanda has been featured in numerous national publications including House & Home, Style at Home, Western Living, Montecristo, Avenue and FLARE. She has appeared on various broadcast programs, such as The Marilyn Denis Show, CTV, Global and Breakfast Television and was a collaborator for two episodes of The Property Brothers. A gifted and spirited speaker and storyteller, Amanda has delivered keynote presentations, acted as the Master of Ceremony, moderated panels and has sat on various panels covering a broad range of topics ranging from design to business. Notable accolades include the 2020 WXN: Top 100 Most Powerful Women of Canada, 2020 Calgary Influential Women in Business Emerging Leader Award, 2019 Women of Inspiration Trailblazer Award, 2018 AWE Entrepreneurship Upsurge Award, 2017 Avenue Magazine's Top 40 under 40 Award, 2017 Silver Stevie Female Entrepreneur of Canada, 2017 Calgary Herald's Most Compelling Calgarians, 2013 Western Living Magazine's One to Watch and 2012 Mount Royal University Alumni Award. Committed to supporting and elevating the voices of entrepreneurs, Amanda recently launched a number of internal initiatives including Hard Bar Friday, After Hours Podcast and Office Hours: Open Source Learning. Amanda received her Bachelor's Degree in Applied Interior Design from Mount Royal University, received her status as a Licensed Interior Designer through the National Council for Design Qualifications and is also a Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Accredited Professional. She is a mentor for the Harry G. Schaefer Mentorship Program and chairs the Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta World of Choices event. In 2016, Amanda launched a Travel Scholarship through her Alma Matter to promote design exploration. Get the low-cost insurance protection you need from Canada's small business insurance experts! For a free business insurance quote visit https://zensurance.com/save35 Entrepreneurs are the backbone of Canada's economy. To support Canada's businesses, subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. Want to stay up-to-date on the latest #entrepreneur podcasts and news? Subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter

Sandra Bueckert started bodybuilding when she was just 16. Now, 40 years later, she's still in the strength and fitness game, but she's made a few changes. Sure, she still wants to look her best, but that's no longer her driving force. These days she's training to be part of the resistance—specifically to defy what people assume a midlife, menopausal, and eventually “old” woman should be able to do. Sandra doesn't sugarcoat reality. Some stuff is harder now. No doubt. But there are ways to keep on keeping on, and we talk about all of that and more on this week's show.Sandra Bueckert is the owner, founder, and trainer at One on One Fitness in Calgary, Alberta Canada, which has been in operation for 33 years. Sandra has been interviewed by QR77 Radio, CBC Radio, Breakfast Television, The Globe and Mail, the Calgary Herald, Cityscope magazine, Avenue magazine, IMPACT Magazine, LA Times, and the Calgary Sun. One On One was also featured in a 12-week series by the Calgary Herald. Most people recognize Sandra from the X-weighted television series on the Slice Network. You can learn more about her and her work at oneononefitness.caFollow Us on Instagram:Feisty Menopause: @feistymenopause Feisty Media: @feisty_media Selene: @fitchick3 Subscribe to the weekly Feisty Menopause blog: https://www.feistymenopause.com/feistyinbox Hit Play Not Pause Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/807943973376099 Join Level Up - Our Community for Active Women Navigating the Menopause TransitionJoin: https://www.feistymenopause.com/monthly-membership-1 Leave your questions for Selene:https://www.speakpipe.com/hitplay Get the Free Feisty Women's Guide to Lifting Heavy Sh*t:https://www.feistymenopause.com/liftheavy Fueled Course:Fueled: A Comprehensive Nutrition Course for Active Women - fueledcourse.com Support our Partners:The Amino Co: Shop Feisty's Favorite 100% Science-Backed Amino Acid Supplements. Enter code HITPLAY at Aminoco.com/HITPLAY to Save 30% + receive a FREE gift for new purchasers! Previnex: Get 15% off your first order with code HITPLAY at https://www.previnex.com/ Bonafide: 20% off your first purchase when you subscribe to any product with code HITPLAY at hellobonafide.com/hitplay

Dr. Tammy Nemeth is a strategic energy and ESG analyst based in the UK. Her consulting company ESG2 Insight offers bespoke research, analysis, and insights to help organizations understand the overlapping challenges of Energy, Security, Geopolitics and Environmental, Social, Governance -- ESG2. Dr. Nemeth has a PhD in history from the University of British Columbia and was a guest lecturer on the geopolitics of energy and the environment at a private university in Germany. She has published articles and book chapters on Canadian and international energy issues and has been honoured twice by the Petroleum History Society for her research and writing. Dr. Nemeth is the author of the contextual report and its supplement, "A New Global Paradigm," for the Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns or the Allan Inquiry. Last year, Dr. Nemeth wrote the report Counting Carbon Molecules, an analysis of the International Sustainability Standards Board's (ISSB) proposed Sustainability and Climate-Related financial disclosures.  Dr. Nemeth is a frequent contributor to The Financial Post and Calgary Herald. Concerned about the lack of context in narratives surrounding climate change and the hydrocarbon industry, Dr. Nemeth began a website and podcast called "The Nemeth Report" and joins an international weekly discussion of current events on The Energy Transition Podcast. You can reach Dr. Nemeth at thenemethreport@protonmail.com or info@esg2insight.com. https://twitter.com/thenemethreport https://thenemethreport.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@thenemethreport8187 00:00 Introduction 01:39 Larry Fink is out on "ESG" 03:57 Personal liability case against Shell board members 06:32 Bad-weather-preventing tyrannical accountants? 08:25 Oil reserves as a liability, because bad weather? 13:17 Mission creep? 14:44 Potato farmer example 16:58 Scopes 1, 2, and 3 19:33 Multiple counting, but it's all nonsense anyway 19:56 Destroying Western civilization 22:35 Personal carbon tracking 24:21 Oh goody: Lots more litigation 26:11 Eco dictatorship? Climate lockdowns? 27:34 Get used to blackouts? 28:32 Not just swapping one form of energy for another 31:39 Forest fires are nothing new 35:02 Canadian feds are very much into Net Zero 35:57 Telling provinces what they can use to generate electricity 36:53 Snow-covered solar panels in Canada? 39:11 Burying old wind turbines and solar panels 42:26 Coastal GasLink sabotage 45:21 Blowing pension money on "green" nonsense? ========= About Tom Nelson: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89cj_OtPeenLkWMmdwcT8Dt0DGMb8RGR Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomn.substack.com/about

Ten years ago this month, Calgary and many other southern Alberta communities were hit with unprecedented flooding. Five people were killed, more than 100,000 were forced out of their homes, and the damage toll was in the billions of dollars. Calgary Herald Deputy editor Monica Zurowski joins the show to discuss the impacts of the flood, how people are still affected a decade later, and whether officials are prepared for another disaster of that scale.  Check out the Calgary Herald for full flood anniversary coverage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Herle Burly was created by Air Quotes Media with support from our presenting sponsor TELUS, as well as CN Rail and Uber Canada.We're recording this one 2 days post the UCP majority victory in Alberta. And while that result may have been a shock to some, it was not a shock to me, based on what I was observing as the campaigns wound into their last couple of weeks.We're gonna break it all down today, doing a retrospective anatomy of the campaign. Who voted for who and why? What ended up mattering most to the electorate? What didn't matter. And then we'll speculate just a bit on the possible futures for Smith, the UCP, Notley and the NDP.Helping me do that, 2 pair of highly analytical, Alberta boots on the ground: Jason Markusoff, making his debut on The Herle Burly! Jason has been writing about Alberta for nearly 2 decades with Maclean's, the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal. He's currently at the CBC as a producer and writer … and appears regularly on Power and Politics' Power Panel, and various other CBC current affairs shows.And then, it's our most excellent friend of the show, 4-time Herle Burly guest (she's almost a squatter here, godammit!) … Janet Brown. Janet is the Principal of Janet Brown Opinion Research, based in Calgary. She's been examining and tracking public opinion in Alberta for over 25 years. There's simply no voice I trust more on what going on in the province.Thank you for joining us on #TheHerleBurly podcast. Please take a moment to give us a rating and review on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts or your favourite podcast app.Watch episodes of The Herle Burly via Air Quotes Media on YouTube.

Episode #4- Lorri Brewer Near Death Survivor, Author, Real Estate Consultant and Media Guest Speaker on Haunted Real Estate-Stigmatized Properties and Death and Dying. Join Kerrilynn and Lorri for an informative, energy-filled conversation about life after a near-death experience, and the selling and caring for haunted/stigmatized homes and the people connected to those homes. Guest Bio: Lorri Brewer has been in the real estate industry for more than 25 years and is not only a Real Estate Broker, but also a verified near-death survivor. On September 19, 2010, in an Edmonton emergency room filled with numerous doctors and nurses, her body lost life for several minutes. Her near-death experience transformed her life and has forever altered the way she interprets relationships, practices business, and understands a deeper meaning of spiritual vibrational energy. In 2014 and 2015 Brewer's book, Heaven Time-Discovering a New Way of Life After a Near-Death Experience, won two prestigious American Book Awards. It completed its second print run and can only be purchased at her speaking events. Since her near-death experience and the publishing of her book, she has been featured on CBC National News, CBC Radio One with Mark Connolly, The Current with Anna Maria Tremonti, The Calgary Herald, a Seattle WA radio show called The Dr. Pat Show, and numerous others. In June 2016, Lorri opened her second real estate brokerage called Infinite Realty Service. It is a full-service boutique brokerage located in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. To date, Infinite Realty Service, is known to be the only Canadian Real Estate Brokerage that performs Energetic House Cleansings, Crystal Gridding, offers Aromatherapy Healing Spray, and deals with the Paranormal in real estate. Today Brewer remains to be an active Real Estate Broker, Real Estate Consultant, and Media Guest Speaker on Haunted Real Estate-Stigmatized Properties and Death and Dying. She is in the process of writing her second book and creating online seminars to teach people how to validate and increase their intuitive psychic abilities. Her experience, knowledge, and creative teaching methods continue to captivate audiences. Email: lorri@lorribrewer.com Website: www.lorribrewer.com

Alberta's provincial election campaign officially kicked off this week. Matt Galloway discusses what's at stake with Elise Von Scheel, provincial affairs reporter for CBC Calgary; Carrie Tait, the Calgary reporter for the Globe and Mail; and Josh Aldrich, business reporter for the Calgary Herald.

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary Triple Crown Win of the legendary Secretariat and rider Ron Turcotte, writer Curtis Stock has composed a book on the legendary Turcotte family. Here is a link with information on how to get a copy of The Turcottes: The Remarkable Story of a Horse Racing Dynasty—a remarkable rags-to-riches family story filled with horrific tragedies, euphoric accomplishments, and persistence, published and a copy kidly provided to the show by Firefly Books.Curtis Stock Curtis Stock is a Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee and 11-time Sovereign Award-winning writer for best thoroughbred story of the year. A sports writer for over 30 years with the Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald, Stock has loved horse racing since he was in junior high school, where he would tape the Daily Racing Form into his binders. The marketing and publicity director for Northlands Park Race Track for eight years and a horse owner of several thoroughbreds, Stock is a proud father of two wonderful children, Dallas and Maia, with his wife of 30 years, Barb. Stock's new book, "The Turcottes: The Remarkable Story of a Horse Racing Dynasty" (on sale April 15, 2022) chronicles the 5 Turcotte brothers and their unlikely journey from backwoods of New Brunswick to the top of the Thoroughbred Racing world. The triumphant wins to the devastating injuries - a jockey's life takes a toll. Curtis's Website Come join us at the Sports Jersey Dispatch website or the Pigskin Dispatch website to see even more Positive football and Sports History news! Sign up to get daily football history headlines in your email inbox @ Email-subscriber .

Air Force vets Robert Salas and Dr. Bob Jacobs said in interviews recently with the Calgary Herald that officials from the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office have questioned them about their experiences with UAP during the 1960s. Salas was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base in 1967 when a UFO showed up and deactivated 10 nuclear missiles. Jacobs said he was shown a film in 1964 of a UFO shooting down a warhead and then told never to talk about it. Episode features Shannon Scott of YouTube channel Military Witnesses to UAP. Links/Sources: Decades after seminal Montana UFO events, military vets brief Pentagon | Calgary Herald Check out my YouTube channel: Quirk Zone - YouTube Extraterrestrial Reality book recommendations: Link to ROSWELL: THE ULTIMATE COLD CASE: CLOSED: https://amzn.to/3O2loSI Link to COMMUNION by Whitley Strieber: https://amzn.to/3xuPGqi Link to THE THREAT by David M. Jacobs: https://amzn.to/3Lk52nj Link to TOP SECRET/MAJIC by Stanton Friedman: https://amzn.to/3xvidfv Link to NEED TO KNOW by Timothy Good:  https://amzn.to/3BNftfT Link to UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE, VOLUME 1:  https://amzn.to/3xxJvlv Link to UFOS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE, VOLUME 2: https://amzn.to/3UhdQ1l Link to THE ALLAGASH ABDUCTIONS: https://amzn.to/3qNkLSg --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-quirk/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/james-quirk/support

Australian born and Canadian artist, Sunny Drake, stops by Playwright's Spotlight. In this episode, we discuss developing the artist within and how to grow as a playwright without formal training, how much involvement the playwright has at a table reading, the benefits of previews, rehearsing in repertory theatre and how to submit as well as breaking down and submitting to residencies. Within the latter, we talk about "good" vs "bad" retreats, matching your work to appropriate residencies in addition to building a case as to why one's work may be more appropriate that the contrary. We also discuss the genre of the radio play, absurdity in playwriting, teaching yourself growth, and the role of humility when it comes to criticism. Sunny is a charming playwright who brings a lot of new information to the Playwright's Spotlight and provides wonderful resources for playwrights of all levels. Sunny Drake is a playwright, theatre creator, performer, and producer. His works have been translated into four languages and presented in over 60 cities across the world for a wide range of audiences. He was the first general manager of Propel Youth Arts (a youth arts development and advocacy group in Western Australia). Currently he is the Emerging Creators Unit director with, which is the world's largest and longest running queer theater. Sunny was commissioned by the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, Playwrights Guild of Canada and ATFC to write the 2019 World Theatre Day message for Canada. He was awarded the inaugural Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize 2019 for having a significant impact on performing arts in Ontario, and was a finalist for the K. M. Hunter Theatre Award in 2018. He was awarded the Playwrights Guild of Canada national comedy award in 2021 for Every Little Nookie, which had its world premiere at the Stratford Festival in 2022. His comedy Men Express Their Feelings was described by the Calgary Herald as an "instant Canadian classic" in 2020.To view the video format of this episode, visit the link below -https://youtu.be/je2TUS-OyPALinks to sites and resources mentioned in this episode - The Arctic Circle - Artist and Scientist Residency Program -https://thearcticcircle.orgBlue Mountain Center -http://www.bluemountaincenter.org/Yaddo -https://www.yaddo.orgStratford Festival (Canada) -https://www.stratfordfestival.caContact information and socials for Sunny Drake -Website -www.sunnydrake.comIG - @sunny_drakeFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/sunnydrake.creationsWebsites and socials for James Elden, Punk Monkey Productions and Playwright's SpotlightPunk Monkey Productions - www.punkmonkeyproductions.comPLAY Noir -www.playnoir.comPLAY Noir Anthology –www.punkmonkeyproductions.com/contact.htmlJames Elden -Twitter - @jameseldensauerIG - @alakardrakeFB - fb.com/jameseldensauerPunk Monkey Productions and PLAY Noir - Twitter - @punkmonkeyprods                  - @playnoirla IG - @punkmonkeyprods       - @playnoir_la FB - fb.com/playnoir        - fb.com/punkmonkeyproductionsPlaywright's Spotlight -Twitter - @wrightlightpod IG - @playwrights_spotlightPlaywriting services through Los Angeles Collegiate Playwrights Festivalwww.losangelescollegiateplaywrightsfestival.com/services.htmlSupport the show

In this special holiday episode, we're looking back to our seasons on the films of 1977 and 1992, to talk about two Christmas movies featuring Jim Henson's Muppets, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas and The Muppet Christmas Carol. Both written by Jerry Juhl and featuring the Muppets, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas was directed by Jim Henson and The Muppet Christmas Carol was directed by Henson's son Brian.The contemporary reviews for Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas quoted in this episode come from Bill Musselwhite in the Calgary Herald and Tom Shales in the Washington Post. The contemporary reviews for The Muppet Christmas Carol quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-muppet-christmas-carol-1992) and Janet Maslin in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/11/movies/review-film-kermit-etc-do-dickens-up-green.html). Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in as we continue our season on the films of 1953.

In 2023, Canadians will be able to apply for a medically assisted death, also known in the country as medical assistance in dying (MAID), if they are suffering from mental health problems as their sole condition. Years after assisted dying legislation was first approved, it has been expanded to include those who do not have a “reasonably foreseeable” death. The recent changes have caused concerns for rights groups and mental health advocates in Canada, one of just a few countries where euthanasia is legal. The Take asks what is at stake and looks at the taboos that still remain around conversations about death. In this episode:  Bill Kaufmann (@BillKaufmannjrn), Reporter, Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun Lori Weber, Children's book author, “The Ribbon Leaf” Cheryl Romaire (@CherylRomaire), healthcare and MAID advocate Mark Henick (@markhenick), Author, “So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience” Episode credits:  This episode was produced by Ruby Zaman with our host, Halla Mohieddeen. It was fact-checked by Chloe K. Li. Our production team includes Chloe K. Li, Alexandra Locke, Ashish Malhotra, Negin Owliaei, Amy Walters, and Ruby Zaman. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio. Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

Dr. Peterson's extensive catalog is available now on DailyWire+: https://utm.io/ueSXh Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Premier Danielle Smith discuss the election front in Alberta, the danger of intermittent power as winter arrives, the true utility of oil, and why the press needs to hold themselves to a higher standard again. Danielle Smith is a Canadian columnist, talk radio personality, talk show host, and politician, originally from Calgary. There she attended the University of Calgary, earning her bachelor's degree in English and economics. At this time, Smith became active in federal and provincial conservatism, and became the president of the campus PC Club. She also ran successfully for board of trustees, and held the position for a year. After college, Smith became a columnist for the Calgary Herald. She would go on to succeed Charles Adler as host of the national current affair talk show, Global Sunday, as well as hosting two radio shows focused on health policy and property rights. In 2008, Smith left the PC party, to much scrutiny, and joined the Wildrose Alliance. In the course of a year, across multiple elections, she had seen the party support base quadruple. In 2014, Smith once again joined the Provincial Conservative party, citing new leadership had been able to find common ground, with specific attention on economic standpoints. Due to this controversy, she was unable to win her next election, and opted instead to host the radio talk show CHQR, which she would later leave, along with Twitter, in response to egregious internet trolling. In May 2022, it was announced Smith would run for leadership of the United Conservative Party of Alberta, after the resignation of Jason Kenney. On October 6th, with 53 percent of the vote, she was sworn in as Premier. —Links— For Premier Danielle Smith: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanielleSmithAB/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/abdaniellesmithInfo Page: https://www.alberta.ca/premier.aspxDonate: https://daniellesmith.ca/   - Sponsors - Helix Sleep: Get up to $200 OFF + 2 FREE pillows with all mattress orders: https://helixsleep.com/JORDAN Hallow: Try Hallow for 3 months FREE: https://hallow.com/jordan Shopify: Sign up for a free trial: https://shopify.com/jbp CarZing: Get pre-qualified and find the best deals near you: https://carzing.com/jordan   — Chapters — (0:00) Coming Up(1:30) Intro(3:16) Confederation of Canada(7:26) The energy sector in Alberta, canceled futures(11:20) Alberta forced to supplement eastern Canada's economy(16:30) Pushing back federally for regional success(18:39) Simplifying the process, including the First Nations(20:46) Breaking the ice, the coalition of the willing(23:20) Fracking vs utopian moralizing(26:03) Climate extremism is a waste of glue(28:00) Greta Thunberg and the pseudo-green wave(31:40) The worlds' poor are facing a dangerous winter(36:20) The true utility of oil, why we will never “phase it out”(38:54) A more profound narrative(41:24) We will NEVER get to one hundred percent renewable resources(43:11) Fascism running rampant veiled as crony capitalism(45:05) Small grid nuclear power(47:30) On the election front, Alberta(50:45) Energy costs drive everything, Jagmeet Singh(55:00) The NDP, cannibalizing their own support(59:45) The values of conservative Alberta(1:02:09) The problem with identity, cultural battleground or distraction?(1:05:25) LGBTQ+ and conservatism(1:07:16) Central planning, the fundamental flaw(1:11:55) Polls only sample the short term whim(1:14:07) Where the conservative movement has ceded ground(1:17:07) Polarized media results in a polarized country // SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL //Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jordanbpeterson.com/youtubesignupDonations: https://jordanbpeterson.com/donate // COURSES //Discovering Personality: https://jordanbpeterson.com/personalitySelf Authoring Suite: https://selfauthoring.comUnderstand Myself (personality test): https://understandmyself.com // BOOKS //Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life: https://jordanbpeterson.com/Beyond-Order12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos: https://jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-lifeMaps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief: https://jordanbpeterson.com/maps-of-meaning // LINKS //Website: https://jordanbpeterson.comEvents: https://jordanbpeterson.com/eventsBlog: https://jordanbpeterson.com/blogPodcast: https://jordanbpeterson.com/podcast // SOCIAL //Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpetersonInstagram: https://instagram.com/jordan.b.petersonFacebook: https://facebook.com/drjordanpetersonTelegram: https://t.me/DrJordanPetersonAll socials: https://linktr.ee/drjordanbpeterson #JordanPeterson #JordanBPeterson #DrJordanPeterson #DrJordanBPeterson #DailyWirePlus