Jessica Swietoniowski and Sheila Gunn Reid join David Menzies to dissect Jonathan/Yaniv’s viral human rights crusade—allegedly targeting female-only spas over genital waxing refusals—while debating whether his claims or providers’ rights prevail under BC’s Human Rights Code. They critique LGBTQ backlash against dissenters like Jen Smith and Megan Murphy, banned from Vancouver Pride despite shared conservative views, and mock "transphobic" labels amid Menzies’ own past alignment with Murphy. The episode pivots to Al Gore’s hypocritical opposition to Canada’s Line 3 pipeline, which supplies 80% of Minnesota’s oil, while he profits from climate activism via carbon credits and private jets, exposing a double standard in environmental and free speech debates. [Automatically generated summary]
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I'm your host, David Menzies.
Is it a he or a she or something in between?
I know that kind of sounds like the promotional tagline for a cheesy 50s horror flick, but Jonathan slash Jessica Yaneve is a real life terror.
And Jessica Swetonowski will drop by to explain why this disturbed individual is garnering international media coverage and making Canada a laughing stock in the process.
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's well actually it's a cuckoo named Al Gore who flew into Minnesota recently to preach that Canadian crude oil via Line 3 is bad for that state.
Even though the state of Minnesota relies heavily on Canadian crude oil.
Sheila Gunread will explain how this climate Cassandra continues to spout nonsense at the corner of chutzpah and hypocrisy.
And finally, letters, we get your letters, we get your letters every minute of every day and I'll share some of your responses regarding how Vancouver Pride last weekend banned the University of BC and the Vancouver Public Library from taking part in its parade.
Their sin, apparently allowing free speech on campus and in the library is tantamount to an act of transphobia if the speakers happen to espouse different views than the politically correct narrative.
Those are your rebels.
Let's round them up.
What he wasn't prepared for was me sticking around after the event was over to ask him some more questions When he was caught by surprise, that's when all hell broke loose.
He dropped his victimhood mask and his mother lost her cool.
Police assistants again, please, at 970 Homer.
I have self-love, please.
I just had a couple other questions for you.
Excuse me, why are you enabling just a little bit of a bad person?
Do you think it's appropriate to have a topplish one party with kids?
Excuse me.
Hey, what the fuck?
Excuse me. Listen, I don't want you to get upset.
I'm just asking you a question.
You will be tough.
You are harassing me.
I'm not harassing you.
I'm just asking you a question.
Okay, we see you on call.
We see you on call.
That's when you get in here.
Go away from my face before I stop you.
Go away.
You're approaching me now, miss.
So just what is one to make of Jonathan slash Jessica Yaniv and his-her ongoing crusade to get his genitalia waxed at female-only spas?
Is this guy all about gaming the system given the numerous human rights complaints he's filed against spas that have declined his patronage?
Or is this some elaborate hoax we're observing here?
Because if this is indeed some sort of practical joke, what pray tell is the punchline?
And joining me now with more on a story that is generating international media attention is our very own Jessica Swenowski who recently visited Mr. Yaneve in Vancouver.
Welcome the Rebel Roundup Jessica.
So Jessica, first of all, outstanding report.
It was fantastic and I urge all our viewers to go watch it in its entirety.
You got up close and personal to this person.
What is your take?
What is the deal with this person?
You know, it's hard to pinpoint because this person obviously has mental issues.
This is not these lawsuits, these complaints, just the way this person has behaved in public.
You've seen there's been viral videos going around of him threatening to pepper spray a journalist.
Like this is not a normal, sane, rational person we're dealing with.
And this story has so many moving parts, which is why when I went to Vancouver, I wanted to really stay there for a few days to try and get all these moving pieces together and trying to get all sides of the story.
I did get to speak to Yaniv himself, but also I got to speak to one of the waxologists that he complained against.
I spoke to some other people.
One of the younger girls that he contacted when she was 14.
So I spoke to her about that, those conversations.
Yeah, this person, it doesn't, the thing that I hate the most about this whole story is that this person obviously likes the attention.
So I hate to give him that attention, but at the same time, this is a predatorial type of person that needs to be, you know, he needs to be, have a light shone on him.
And, you know.
Yeah, I think there's a term for that.
We've seen it in the past, Jessica.
Media who comes to light.
It would all be so amusing if there wasn't a dark side to this.
A couple of things.
Some of these people that he's gone after for this waxing of his genitalia, they've gone out of business.
They've endured quite a lot of stress.
Then there was this very creepy, and I guess right now this is in the stage of allegations, nothing's being proven in court, about reaching out to female minors.
Part of your report showed him doing a Elmo-like voice from Sesame Street.
You could barely make out what the gibberish was saying.
This is downright weird.
And I think the third thing is that he's being aided and abetted by a taxpayer-funded entity, the BC Human Rights Tribunal, that is entertaining all these cases.
And I think, you know, Jessica, that's even worse than somebody who might be mentally ill, you know, sort of glamming it up for media attention.
But the fact that he's being taken seriously and he might get a payday out of this.
Yeah, it's pretty shocking.
First of all, that Elmo voice notes that we've been hearing that allegedly came from him is the creepiest, most disturbing thing.
It was like my first day diving into this whole story and that was the first thing I heard and I just like set the mood for the entire story.
It's creepy and disturbing.
But yeah, the Human Rights Tribunal, is this 2019 modern day human rights?
I'm wondering, and it's almost like a competing hierarchy of human rights.
Does his right to have a female waxing provider overtake her right to decline a client that she's uncomfortable with because perhaps, as with some of the cases, Jessica, she's working out of her own personal home.
There are children around her.
In fact, John Carpe with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, he sees this ultimately as a charter case.
And what he said in a National Post story is Canadians are guaranteed liberty and security of the person, which is incompatible with a legal obligation to handle male genitalia.
So Canada's Constitution trumps BC's Human Rights Code.
I tend to believe that's true.
But again, Jessica, it's one of these deals, I think, where the process is the penalty.
All these salon providers, they don't want this kind of attention.
They don't want these legal bills.
And even if they win, they lose.
Right.
Yeah, that's the big issue.
Jessica Yaneve has put himself into a protected class.
And so it's this victimhood scale.
So originally, like the Human Rights Tribunal, that was put in place to actually protect human rights.
So, you know, long time ago, women didn't have certain rights.
But now, you know, women aren't as high up on the victim scale.
So now we have transgender women that are going after regular women.
And so it's just this victimhood mentality and the scale.
And again, it's the danger of these protected classes.
And Jessica, on that note, these, I call them fake women or faux women claiming that they're entitled to all the rights of real women.
Just where is the feminist movement on this?
Feminist movement, I actually, I don't know where they stand.
I know for some time, Jessica Yaniv did get a lot of support.
She was getting a lot of support from the transgender community, from the LBGT community.
But it seems like they're pushing away now and they're backing off.
But they're backing off silently.
They're They're just trying to distance themselves quietly without bringing too much attention to it because this person gives a really bad name to that community.
And they've realized that.
And so instead of shining more light on it, I think they're just backing away slowly and just trying to make it just go away, hoping it will go away.
Well, they should, I think, be denouncing somebody doing this.
I mean, if you're a feminist, you are standing up for 50% of the population of the planet, as opposed to a percent of a percent of a percent of some men, you know, gaming the system, like I say, maybe for a financial payout with some other cases we've seen to win sporting events where you have males with more muscle mass, more testosterone, just cleaning up when competing against real females.
And I think it's a disgrace that modern feminism isn't standing up for their own constituency.
But, you know, more the thing I find really shocking, Jessica, is that just last weekend we had the Pride Parade in Vancouver.
And they, and the gay, you know, the LGBT community for decades they've always been about acceptance and tolerance and understanding.
And yet they banned from marching in the parade the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Public Library, ostensibly because they rented out space to speakers whose comments they considered to be transphobic.
So I hear all this clamoring for tolerance, yet this community seems, you know, at the drop of the hat, ready to ban, shun, and disgrace you in the media if they don't like what you're saying.
Can you squeer this circle for me?
Well, I don't think I can.
That's what it seems like social justice is here, like in Canada in 2019.
You know, and what's actually shocking, I just heard one of the people I interviewed in the documentary, Jen Smith, he's a transgender male.
Yes.
So he is a male, dresses like a woman, but he still doesn't go against reality.
He knows he's a man.
So he was actually at the Pride Parade in Vancouver.
I can't remember or if I have a picture of the sign that he was holding, but he has been very outspoken about the dangers of the transgender ideology that poses on women and children specifically.
So he is part of that community, but they kind of tried to shun him.
And actually at the Pride Parade last weekend, he was there with his sign, and Pride staffers told him that he can't be there.
And they were carrying around what looked like a large net type of blanket.
And he said that they were literally chasing him out and trying to block him out and eventually wanted to wrap him up and get him out of the Pride Parade.
Wow, unbelievable.
Well, you know, Jessica, we're going to watch this story closely.
Minnesota's Energy Dilemma00:12:00
It was fantastic journalism on the ground by you.
And like I said, I hope all our audience watches that.
So we'll see where this goes.
And there you have it, folks.
You know, next week the Canadian National Exhibition opens up in Toronto.
There used to be something at the X called the Freak Show.
That was gotten rid of decades ago.
But really, who needs a freak show when you have something like the Yanov case ongoing on a daily basis in British Columbia?
Keep it here.
more of Rebel Roundup to come right after this person for Enbridge in a statement of fact that nobody seems to be disagreeing with not even Al Gore Minnesotans consume more than 12.8 million gallons of petroleum products every day and Minnesota relies on imports to meet its energy needs.
Minnesota's two refineries produce more than two-thirds of the state's petroleum products, and 80% of these products are refined from Canadian crude oil.
And yet, here comes some rich Hollywood kook flying into town on his luxury private jet to tell those Minnesotans they don't need those jobs, they don't need that tax base, and they don't need this oil.
This is Hollywood liberal colonialism telling middle America what they can and can't do for work.
Line 3 started operation in 1968.
It runs from Hardesty, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.
But it's aging and corroding as all aging things do.
And so the company wants to replace the old line to prevent a spill, which is something I thought environmentalists on the left tell me they care about.
Time is running out on Line 3 to be replaced.
Do you know who's been notably silent about the high-profile opposition to Line 3?
That would be the government that approved Line 3.
Line 3 was one of the two pipelines approved by Justin Trudeau's government, along with the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion.
Of course, neither one of these projects has been completed or, for that matter, even started yet.
So, did you hear the one about Al Gore flying into Minnesota via private jet, of course, to lecture Minnesotans on the horror of Canadian crude oil that flows into their state via Line 3, even though Minnesotans depend on Canadian oil for more than 80% of their energy needs?
And how about this for an added punchline?
The federal liberals are saying absolutely nothing in terms of defending this already approved, privately owned pipeline project.
But then again, Al Gore and Climate Barbie, well, they're best buds on the lecture circuit.
So maybe telling Al Gore to clamp down on the carbon emissions coming out of his mouth, well, that would be a tad rude, right?
Joining me now with more on this story is the host of The Gun Show, Sheila Gunri.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
Hey, David, thanks for having me back on the show.
It is always, always a pleasure.
And Sheila, maybe I've been misinformed, but I've heard that it can get freezing cold in Minnesota come wintertime.
How would Minnesotans heat their homes if not for Canadian crude?
Well, isn't that the truth, though?
The statistics are that 13 million gallons of oil are used every day by Minnesotans.
They have two refineries producing two-thirds of their oil and gas needs, but they need Canadian oil to put in that refinery.
80% of the oil they use comes from Canada, which means it comes from Alberta.
It actually comes from a tank farm in Hardesty, Alberta, and it goes to Minnesotans via Line 3.
That's a pipeline that terminates in, I think, Superior, Wisconsin.
The thing with Line 3, though, is it's getting old, real old, like to the point where the company itself needs to replace the line.
Otherwise, they're going to have an environmental catastrophe on their hands.
And that's really the irony in all of this: they're protesting something that if it isn't replaced, is going to cause a major environmental disaster.
Well, this is the thing, Sheila.
Logically speaking, if I was an environmentalist, you know, I could say, yeah, I'm anti-oil, but until we get an alternative, you know, I'm beholden to this product.
In the here and now, the clock is ticking on this pipeline and the potential for a leak.
So we've got to do something about that because that will be a here and now environmental disaster if oil starts spilling in onto the ground.
I don't understand the logic process here in trying to, you know, establish the perfect conditions for a disaster.
Well, and then you have guys like Al Gore flying into town on his private jet to tell Minnesotans that they can somehow magically do without 80% of their oil tomorrow.
If they don't have Canadian oil in Minnesota, Al Gore doesn't fly back home.
And he's there to train activists to cause basic carnage on the ground to replicate what we saw during the Dakota Access Pipeline protest while he's safe and comfortable back in his home in Hollywood or wherever the heck he lives.
And Minnesotans are left to deal with the damage that these environmental colonists from all over the country and all over the world will leave in their wake.
But you know, and Sheila, what I found stunning in your video, you mentioned that the Democratic governor, Tim Walsh, he's also on side in terms of being anti-pipeline.
But I'm not trying to be confrontational here with the environmental movement or anything, but what do we do to replace the oil from line three?
Is it a matter of shutting down line three and stop getting Canadian crude?
And at least temporarily bringing in, I don't know, Saudi crude from other access points, maybe by rail.
I mean, we don't have dilithium crystals like they do in the Star Trek universe.
So what heats the Minnesotan home and powers the Minnesotan SUV without this oil?
But that's the problem here.
The governor is also off in la-la-land because he thinks that he can bring his state to carbon neutrality.
I think it was by 2050 is what he said.
So he wants to do that with no infrastructure and with no real solution because renewables, as we know, are unreliable.
And Minnesota might be one of those places that is equally as cold as where I live and receive as much snow as where I live and where winters are as long and summers are as hot.
So how do you do that feasibly without fossil fuels?
And according to the governor, he's opposed to a pipeline that will bring him 80% of his energy needs.
And we shouldn't forget our own elected officials on our side of the border, Sheila.
As you adroitly mentioned, this is already a pre-approved, privately funded pipeline.
And yet, where is Justin Trudeau?
Where is Climate Barbie on this issue?
They don't care.
So as far as I see it, this is the very definition of lose-lose.
It's Minnesotans being deprived more than 80% of their energy needs.
And Canada in the energy sector receiving yet another black eye.
This is madness.
And the madness isn't coming from weirdo environmentalists.
It's coming from elected officials of the most senior levels.
It's staggering to me, Sheila.
Yeah, I mean, Minnesota Governor Wals, it's his job to protect the jobs of Minnesotans.
These are high-paying refinery jobs that will just vanish in two refineries if this pipeline isn't replaced.
And Catherine McKenna and Justin Trudeau, this is a pipeline their government has approved.
It's passed the regulatory process here.
But they're not saying a word because they are friends with Al Gore.
They've held Al Gore up as some sort of technical pipeline expert, some sort of environmental wizard, a scientist, a climatologist.
He's really not any of those things.
He's just a huckster with a broken crystal ball.
But they can't attack his credibility because any credibility that he has, they've given to him by making appearances with him, patting him on the back, giving his movies positive reviews, applauding his activism.
So now how do they attack Al Gore as a know-nothing now when they've held him up as an expert in the past?
They've painted themselves into a corner because they're liberals and they're not very bright.
You know, it's amazing.
I mean, Al Gore makes Bill Nye, the science guy, look like Albert Einstein practically.
But the thing is, the other thing that makes my spidey sense tingle with these kind of stories, Sheila, is that Al Gore at his new pet project is something called the Climate Reality Project.
They always throw in the word nonprofit, but Al Gore, since he left the White House, he's been profiting immensely from all this climate hysteria.
How is it that the cause of environmentalism and all this nonprofit championing of other alternative energies always makes the likes of an Al Gore extremely wealthy?
Well, you know, fear drives movie ticket sales and fear drives speaking circuit sales.
But Al Gore, from what I understand, is making himself very wealthy in trading carbon credits.
And so if you create a nonprofit that scares everybody into this phony money of carbon credits, then, hey, you're creating the conditions to make yourself get rich through the work of the nonprofit that you're at the helm of.
But it's just really frightening the level of credibility that politicians that, you know, place themselves to be our moral and intellectual superiors are lending to Al Gore, who has been repeatedly and repeatedly debunked.
According to Al Gore, we're supposed to not have any ice in the Arctic right now.
And, you know, I just read a story the other day about how we're ordering more icebreakers.
So, I mean, pick a lane, people.
Wow.
And Sheila, just before we wrap one last question, you alluded to it a little earlier.
I was just wondering if you could weigh in a little more.
That Dakota protest, when the protesters were finally cleared out, they really did leave a bit of an environmental catastrophe behind.
Mountains of trash, burnt out cars and construction equipment, even abandoned animals.
I mean, for goodness sakes, where's PETA on this file?
I guess what I'm getting at is that these new age hippies, they really talk a mean game, but when it comes to walking the walk, not really great environmental stewards, are they?
No, they're not.
And it was all allowed to foster infester under President Obama.
The Dakotans didn't want those people polluting their state.
None of them are really from their state.
And it took President Trump to get in there, get everybody out of there and get that pipeline built.
I think it was 120 days after years and years and years of protests and mayhem and arson and abandoned animals and water level contamination.
It was 120 days from President Trump signing Dakota Access Pipeline into life until it was built.
Pride Parades and Political Correctness00:06:39
And, you know, that's the kind of thing that Canada really needs that we, you know, a leader who wants to get things done, criticism be damned.
And it's reflective in the American economy right now.
And, you know, we see the flip side here happening in Canada.
Indeed.
Well Sheila, great report on yet more madness.
And let's face it, that's what this is.
This is madness when it comes to the energy sector.
There's no other way of stating it.
And thank you so much for your time, as always.
Thanks, David.
Have a great weekend.
You got it, you too.
And that was Sheila Gunread from Alberta.
Keep it here, folks.
More O'Brabble Roundup to come right after this.
They say everyone loves a parade, but I wasn't witnessing a whole lot of love at the Vancouver Gay Pride Parade the other day.
Here's the skinny.
According to CTV, the Vancouver Pride Society banned the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver Public Library from participating in this year's event.
Gracious, that sounds serious.
What did those two august institutions do to get them removed from the guest list?
Well, it turns out that both facilities had hosted speakers who have concerns about transgender rights.
Yeah, transgender rights, you know, folks, like the right for a fake female to get his penis and testicles waxed at a female-only spa.
Those kind of precious rights that we should all be fighting for.
Indeed, here's what Andrea Arnaut, the executive director of the Vancouver Pride Society, had to say, quote, as an organization, we do have the right to say who can march with us and who can't.
When there's transphobic or homophobic behavior, obviously we're not going to let those people into our parade, end quote.
You got that?
If you have a differing opinion, it's no longer a matter of let's just agree to disagree, but rather you are labeled as a transphobe or a homophobe and you're deemed persona non grata.
And it's all done in the name of taking a stand against hatred.
After all, that speaker who spoke at UBC last month, Jen Smith, well, she's been known to, brace yourself, refer to transgender women as men.
Yeah, I think if 6'5 little Rebecca is sporting 5 o'clock shadow and an Adam's apple, chances are she's a he.
Meanwhile, back in January, feminist blogger Megan Murphy spoke at the library, her crime against humanity.
Well, she subscribes to the fact that, again, brace yourselves, transgender women are not real women.
You know something?
I buy into Murphy's position too.
Don't!
What am I saying?
I think I just got myself banned from next year's parade.
Well, the irony is stunning for a community that has long clamored for tolerance and acceptance.
It would seem that there are elements in the gay community that can be the most intolerant and unaccepting when it comes to those with contrarian opinions.
And the solution is obvious.
Those with contrary opinions must be vilified and banned.
Yeah, that'll show them.
And of course, just in diversity is our strength.
Trudeau applauds such a stance because embracing diversity, well, that doesn't include diversity of thought.
In any event, here's what you had to say about the Vancouver Pride Parade, taking a measure of pride in banning those institutions that hosted speakers whose only sin was having an opinion that runs contrary to the current politically correct narrative.
Jay Steiner47911 writes, I'm gay and not even I would go to one of these pride events.
They used to be fun, but about eight years ago, they turned into hateful radical left gatherings where everyone who asked questions would be promptly attacked and accused of some kind of ism.
Well, Mr. Steiner, I know many in the gay and lesbian community who share your position, and naturally, to the leftists running these gay pride parades, right-of-center gay folk are shunned too, because well, their sexual orientation might be okay, their politics are not.
All of which is why the police aren't allowed to march in the Toronto Pride Parade because police uniforms are triggering?
Well, at least according to the Brainiacs who comprise Black Lives Matter.
We are asking for the removal of that triggering symbolism in order for all marginalized communities to be safe at Pride.
Joseph McBride writes, yet a Christian baker gets taken to court every time they don't want to make a cake for gays.
Well, that's right, Joseph.
You know, I think that's called having your cake and eating it too.
But of all the rides I've taken, I like festivals.
Free speech advocate writes, I'm proud to be gay, said the gay man.
I'm proud to be trans, said the trans man.
I'm proud to be straight, said the homophobe.
So, tell me what's on your mind.
Gay people bother me.
Is it because they dress better than you?
Mike Joseph writes, hey, God wants his rainbow back since when did they have permission to take God's rainbow?
Hey, I never thought about that, Mike.
The whole cultural appropriation angle, brilliant.
And we all know how horrible cultural appropriation is in 2019, right?
Oops, never mind.
Rainbow Sparkle Jewel writes, this isn't fair.
I want to be banned from the Pride Parade too.
Oh, that's easy peasy, Rainbow Sparkle Jewel.
Just start saying things about the alphabet community that are even remotely offensive or triggering, and you'll get your wish.
Gee, what the heck was that?
Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
Thanks so much for joining us.
See you next week.
And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.