Many rightfully bemoaned the trampling of charter rights that occurred over that time, but perhaps the most egregious and visceral examples of callous injustice were carried out by doctors, nurses and ‘chief medical officers’, too many of whom were all too happy to follow orders instead of asking questions.

Nurses took time to film choreographed TikTok dances while a room over grandma was dying alone in isolation, people were forced to share a final hug through grotesque shower curtain contraptions, people suffered in isolation and said their farewells through windows instead of face to face, and worst of all, some people were quite literally refused lifesaving transplants based solely, and void of any sound demonstrable rationality, on their vaccination status, in what can only be described as an unconscionable affront against basic human dignity.

There has been an effort to move on, to let bygones be bygones, to just forget about Covid (and to avoid legal accountability for some of the things that happened during Covid) but for families who lost loved ones forgetting isn’t quite so easy, and I for one plan to keep telling their stories until accountability and justice are restored.

To share one such story, Adam was honored to be joined by DeVaughn Harper, whose brother Garnet Harper died after being denied a transplant based on his vaccination status, to keep his memory right where it should be, in the hearts and minds of far more concerned Canadians right across this nation.

Angela joined Adam to discuss all things Alberta, from UCP sovereignty within a united Canada initiatives and premiere Danielle Smith’s Alberta Accord endeavours, to the opening of a new major health center in her constituency and yes even horse racing, among a number of other topics.

Shane is a monthly opinion contributor to Business in Calgary and the Western Standard.

We can’t just blame the politicians however, because countless Canadians, the nation’s courts, the media and just about anyone else who should have opposed the government’s overstepping, instead cheered them on.

Concerned citizens with good questions were called anti-science and anti-vax, people were denied lifesaving medical care, Canadians were refused entry to restaurants based on what should have been private medical information, and some even called for the unvaccinated to be rounded up, jailed, or worse.

Most upsetting of all, there never really was good evidence for the arbitrary charter trampling protocols brought forth (for more on that go watch my interview with Dr. Gary Davidson).

When the truth about Covid and vaccines began to come to light, even in official government documents and the drug manufacturers’ own literature, many Canadians buried their heads in the sand (if you are wondering who they are, most of them will have tweeted #elbowsup a few months back).

Now folks, including politicians, police officers, judges and medical professionals, just want to move on. They want to skip the accountability step. They don’t want to look the people suffering vaccine injuries, or those who were treated as second class citizens in the eye and acknowledge their mistakes.

To discuss the need for truth and justice prior to reconciliation for the errors committed during Covid-19 and the incredibly successful “An Injection of Truth” events, Adam was joined by the president of the Calgary-Lougheed United Conservative Party Constituency Association, Darrell Komick.

The #MeToo movement cast a great deal of light on the problem of sexual abuse in society, particularly drawing attention to the actions of serial abusers like Harvey Weinstein. While some unfortunately attempted to politicize the movement, there is no denying that many women who suffered abuse were empowered, and at least some abusers were held accountable as a result.

While awareness and empowerment for abuse survivors is certainly on the rise, support for male victims of sexual abuse has undeniably lagged. Despite many bravely sharing their stories, like our own Theo Fleury, there are still undeniable stigmas that often leaves male survivors of sexual abuse feeling isolated and left to struggle with mental health issues, substance abuse and even self-harm in silence.

It is critical to confront the trauma of male sexual abuse head-on and let our brothers who have suffered know that they are not alone and that they need not be ashamed.

If you were the victim of abuse and you have not shared your story, do not suffer alone. Help is available, you deserve justice and support. You will learn more about the types of support available in this interview.

Dr. Kelli Palfy, a former RCMP officer who specialized in investigating sex crimes against children, has since obtained her PhD in Counseling Psychology and is now working as a trained trauma therapist. She is also the author of MenToo: The Unspoken Truth About Male Sexual Abuse, and she joined Adam to shed light on this difficult and important subject.

Choice in education is a societal positive. It enables parents to send their kids to schools that best align with the values they want their children immersed in, and to choose schools better able to meet their needs, whether they struggle with a learning disability or excel in a particular field and want to pursue specialized learning.  

Homeschooling, charter, private and religious schools also often cost taxpayers less money while providing better academic outcomes, which is a rare win-win.

Despite all of this, progressive activists, left-wing politicians, and unions often attack Alberta’s rich history of school choice prosperity by suggesting it somehow undermines public education, and many have plainly stated they want to see public funding withheld from the better performing, more efficient schools altogether. They want to end choice in education.

To learn a little more about the history of our education system and to set the facts straight, Adam was joined by the executive director of the Alberta Parent’s Union Jeff Park.

A majority of people, conservatives included, didn’t really care. Most figured that what adults choose to do was their business, so long as they kept it their business and didn’t push it on kids. Society at large was far less concerned with identity and sex politics. People were focused on keeping their own yards clean, not looking into their neighbors.

Unfortunately, what started as an effort to stop the government from infringing on people has morphed into a radical alphabet totalitarianism that demands not only acceptance of gays, but mandates that all must celebrate everything from homosexuality to gender transitioning children, and yes even pedophilia in some circles. The new LGBTQetc social monolith rejected the idea of people being left alone and instead insisted that they all must agree and make a show of it… or else pay a price.

To discuss the new radicalized application of gender theory and to explore why it is critical that people are free to disagree with the alphabet narrative, Adam was joined by Albertan, political commentator and transsexual Blaine Badiuk.

We often think of domestic abuse as something that does not occur in our comfortable neighborhoods, or we falsely assure ourselves by believing such abuse is on the decline. Still, the truth is that incidents of intimate partner violence have increased by over 20% in the past decade.

To learn more about the realities of domestic violence, and about the role we can play in reducing abuse, Adam was joined by the founder of Gems for Gems, Jordan Guildford. Jordan survived abuse herself and has since become a champion of ending the cycle of domestic violence through a series of incredible community-driven initiatives.

If you don’t follow him, you really should. Whether it be Canadian elections or Alberta separatism, few are as up to speed with the latest in politics as he is.

Given our shared storied Canadian family histories, I figured Marty and I should sit down and resolve all of Canada’s problems in just one short conversation. Politicians, listen up.

Johnson also shed light on issues near and dear to her home riding, including the loss of funding for Rising Sun Clubhouse – a living skills program for those facing and recovering mental health and addictions issues, and to discuss what if anything can be done to help stop the drying out of Alberta’s Gull Lake

Calgary’s Jyoti Gondek is arguably one of the worst offenders when it comes to burning through money on woke passion projects while failing to address the actual responsibilities of a municipal government, and accordingly many polls have her listed as one of Canada’s least liked mayors. Many of her like-minded city council colleagues are nearly as unpopular as she is, but unlike Mayor Gondek a good number of them have already decided that seeking re-election would likely not be a good use of their time.

Many of us complain about politics, few do anything about it, and fewer still actually step up to run for office in an effort to be the change they want to see in the world. Sheldon Yakiwchuck is doing exactly and has announced his intention to run for city council in Calgary. Adam was joined by Sheldon to examine why municipal politics has gone so woke and to discuss restoring common sense policies in the city of Calgary.

Covid-19 lockdowns, carbon taxes and collective government ineptitude have hit small businesses especially hard, and many such enterprises that have helped form the culture of their communities for years in Canada have had to shut their doors for good, sometimes after decades in business.

Angel’s Café has avoided the fate of many small businesses and has been serving Calgarians since 1998 in an industry in which very few last more than a few years, but there is no denying that they have faced their share of challenges along the way, especially in recent years.

After surviving forced Covid-19 closures, during which they provided free meals for countless Calgarians, they found themselves once again closed after Calgary’s recent catastrophic water main failure, a failure Angel’s Café owner Cathy Jacobs says would have been avoided if the city had been doing its job.

To discuss the struggles small businesses face, and Angel Café’s participation in a class action lawsuit against the city of Calgary for failing to properly maintain water lines, Adam was joined by Cathy Jacobs.

For Canadians at large, the alleged discovery served as a stark contrast to the historical idea of Canada being the “good guys” and unearthed a darkness within our nations past.

The event triggered a slew of discoveries of similar sites across Canada and set off a vengeful wave of arson and vandalism at churches unprecedented in our nation’s history.

Everything, however, was not as it seemed, and despite opposition, some began to cast doubt upon the veracity of the claims of mass graves. The so called remains they discovered turned out to be ambiguous “disturbances” located by ground penetrating radar, disturbances that happened to coincide with known sewage trench locations.

The fact is that to this day no remains have been found at Kamloops, but what does remain is a legacy of heartbreak, betrayal, hurt and a staggering number of hate crimes committed against churches.

Sadly, as has become the norm among progressive critics, anyone who dares discuss these facts is labeled a residential school denialist, anyone who seeks out the truth portion of “truth and reconciliation” in hopes of working towards authentic healing, is made out to be a monster.

We need to uncover the truth about any abuses that took place and hold people, governments and churches accountable for their actions, but that task is impossible in a world where false mass graves rhetoric stifles any meaningful conversations.

To shed light on this critical issue Adam was joined by an individual uniquely equipped to comment, Fr. Cristino Bouvette, an indigenous Roman Catholic priest.

When nine infants died suddenly in the Ottawa area detective Helene Grus uncovered a possible link between the deaths and the vaccination status of the children’s mothers. For daring to do her job and investigate that link she was subjected to what many believe is a politically motivated campaign to discredit her and ultimately to affirm that vaccine safety is not up for discussion.

She was charged with discreditable conduct… a charge that likely should have instead been brought against the Ottawa police who treated peaceful protestors in our nations capital like terrorist and brought shame to their entire force.

When Detective Grus decided to challenge her charge, the Ottawa Police Association, who she paid mandatory dues to throughout her 20-year sterling career on the force, refused to provide her the representation she was owed, leaving Grus with a massive legal bill and the fight of her life ahead of her.

To learn more about Detective Helen Grus’s continuing legal battle, and to ensure that officers who do their duty despite political pressures know that Canadians have their backs, Adam was joined by Detective Helen Grus’s legal counsel, Bath-Sheba van den Berg.

The unvaccinated were made second class citizens over night. People who suggested that vaccine efficacy and safety might not be quite as high as government officials and big pharma proposed, despite being almost entirely correct in hindsight, were censored and vilified.

People calling themselves Canadians mused about rounding up the unvaccinated and jailing them and people were denied critical surgeries and transplants all because they refused to inject themselves with an experimental drug. If that that wasn’t bad enough… our country, with the support of its state funded and complicit media, invoked the emergencies act to trample on the rights, and in some cases the bodies, of peaceful protesters.

The well thought-out and evidence based pandemic response plans that Canada had in place prior to the pandemic-panic were utterly disregarded in what can only be described as a total systematic failure.

Despite all of this, some Canadians still proudly herald Canada’s response as appropriate and as a success. Thankfully, a recent report on the Alberta governments pandemic response is setting the record straight on just how badly our government stumbled in responding to Covid-19.

Adam was joined by Dr. Gary Davidson one of the authors and the chair of the “Alberta COVID-19 Pandemic Data Review Task Force: final report” to discuss his teams shocking findings.

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