David Menzies and guests Sheila Gunn Reid and Keean Bexte expose Liberal Heritage Minister Stephen Guibot’s push for media licensing, potentially targeting outlets like Rebel News and Breitbart while favoring CBC’s $1.5B annual funding—echoing Soviet-style propaganda. Gunn Reid details confrontations with "deranged con man" Jonathan Yaniv, who exploits spa owners and human rights tribunals to extract funds, with unpaid fines hitting $6,000. Meanwhile, Toronto Catholic teachers strike, allegedly indoctrinating students to write union-backed letters to Premier Doug Ford, despite claims of overcrowding and resource shortages. The episode underscores Canada’s creeping censorship and systemic abuse of free speech protections. [Automatically generated summary]
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I'm your host, David Menzies.
So does Liberal Heritage Minister Stephen Guibot want to regulate and license news media outlets, or doesn't he?
Liberal Minister's Media Controversy00:13:14
Well, sometimes he says yes, other times he says no.
So which is it?
And by the way, what's his definition of a news outlet?
Apparently, it doesn't exist.
Yikes.
Kian Bexty shall offer his insight into this latest affront to free speech.
Hey now, the freak show is back in town.
Yes, I speak of Jonathan, aka Jessica Yaniv, the deranged con man who is gaming the system.
It was back in a BC court the other day and our very own Sheila Gunread was there with security to cover its latest antics.
And finally, letters, we get your letters, we get them every minute of every day.
And I'll share some of your responses regarding my visit to the striking rank and file who comprise the Toronto Catholic District School Board, some of whom are actually engaged in the indoctrination of their pupils, actually getting them to write letters to Ontario Premier Doug Ford reciting union talking points.
I swear.
Those are your rebels.
Now let's round them up.
Do you know who this man is?
This is Stephen Gilbo, Justin Trudeau's criminal who he has running his Ministry of Heritage.
This criminal wants to decide what you see on TV.
He wants to decide what media outlets are allowed to publish.
He even wants to tax Netflix.
Now, he says that he doesn't want to do these things sometimes, and other times he admits it, plain as day.
You can't trust him because this criminal, like most criminals, are liars.
Now, you might recognize Stephen Gilbo from his recent media appearances, and they have all been horrendous.
He's cleaned up a little bit since his time in the back of cop cars, but not by a lot.
Stephen Gilbo was arrested when he was 31 years old for scaling the CN Tower.
Now, I shouldn't say scaling the CN Tower.
He only was able to climb about 300 feet.
Very low energy, if I do say so myself.
But he stopped doing that recently, and the mainstream media can't get enough of them.
Actually, they've forgiven him for what he's done, writing puff pieces every chance that they get.
And now that Stephen Gilbo has shown his true colors, well, now the media is just a little bit concerned that there's a criminal in Justin Trudeau's cabinet.
None of them, though, are more concerned than myself and my colleagues at Rebel News.
You see, we're concerned because Stephen Gilbo says he wants media or news organizations to register with the government.
We're not sure which one.
And frankly, it might not even matter.
The TRIO government has made it clear that they don't consider Rebel News to be news.
They took us to court over it.
Of course, we won, but that was just one court battle about one debate during one election.
Stephen Gilbo is talking about mass censorship, perhaps even ending the ability of some media companies to produce content in Canada if they don't fall in line with the government.
It is a very slippery slope, and nobody can make heads or tails about what this liberal incompetent is saying.
Listen to this.
So, how will this work?
How are you going to regulate websites?
How are you going to register all that?
Do you buy these recommendations?
Well, I mean, one of the recommendations, so you're talking about a couple of different things here, but as far as the licensing is concerned, if you're a distributor of content in Canada, and obviously, you know, if you're if you're a very small media organization, the requirement probably wouldn't be the same as if you're Facebook or Google.
So there would have to be some proportionality embedded into this.
But we would ask that they have a license, yes.
What are you saying is not going to happen?
Well, you said on a Proten Concierge: What exactly will you not do to assure people?
What we are saying is that we will not ask news organizations to have license.
We would ask that they have a license, yes.
Yeah, clear as an azure sky over an unmuddied body of water, wasn't it, folks?
And this is the guy who wants to presumably regulate us, as well as several other media outlets.
No thanks.
And with more on this story about control freakery run amok is our very own Kian Bexi.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
Hi, thanks for having me.
Always a pleasure.
So, Kian, is Mr. Guibot merely confused, or is this a matter of he just can't keep track of his previous statements?
Because when you look at those clips, either he wants to regulate and license media companies, or he does not.
So, which is it?
We're not clear on that because the minister himself isn't being clear.
We have no idea what he means when he says media outlets or news outlets because he seems to be conflating the two very often.
And frankly, it doesn't even matter what he means because licensing media outlets is just as bad as licensing news outlets.
I don't think that in modern-day Canada that there really is a difference between the two.
Whether it's Netflix, Rebel News, CTV, we all play a role in civil discourse to varying degrees, but all have tangible effects on the likability of the prime minister and have tangible effects on election outcomes.
And regulating any of them is not a good precedent to set.
No, 100%, Kian, but as always, my friend, the devil is in the details, right?
Now, some people might be breathing a sigh of relief about that statement.
Here is his direct quote from Guibot: Our government has no intention to impose licensing requirements on news organizations, nor will we try to regulate news content, end quote.
Here's what it comes down to, Kian, when I read into a statement like that.
Who defines news outlets?
And when he says news outlets, does that include outlets such as, well, frankly, us or Breitbart that are news and opinion?
This is what's missing from this statement, in my opinion.
Yeah, that's a great point because, according to Justin Trudeau, according to Rachel Nolly, the former premier of Alberta, and any left-wing politician in this country, they'll likely say that Rebel News is not news.
And that's concerning to me personally, because I won't work for a company that registers with the government to say the things that they do.
And I'm sure that Rebel News will not be registering at all.
And we'll take it to the Supreme Court if we have to do that.
But who decides?
That's a very good question and a question that the minister needs to answer.
Perhaps I'll have to go knock on his door and ask him a few questions.
Yeah, and I think it was made all the worse, Kian, that in another report, the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, said words to the effect of, well, trusted news organizations don't have to worry about this.
Now we've gone from define a news organization to how do you define a trusted news organization?
Does that mean, oh, I don't know, the CBC that gets $1.5 billion a year of government payola?
I mean, that's another quagmire, I think, that this government has got themselves into, Kian.
Yeah, it's straight out of Soviet Russia.
We're going to have provdas here in Canada.
The CBC is going to be first on the list.
Rosemary Barton is going to be the truth speaker of the nation.
And anyone else is going to have to have a label underneath them saying that they're fake news, according to Justin Trudeau.
This isn't going to stand.
This is so clearly wrong that I just, I cannot fathom this moving forward.
If it does, the courts are going to be on our side, hopefully, and shut this down because this flagrantly abuses the Constitution and just the first sections of it guarantees our right to speak and guarantees that we don't need to be approved by the government in order to do our job.
And you know what, Kian?
I want to get your take on this because this is my theory.
I think the reason why we're seeing massive flip-flopping here by the Heritage Minister, Guibot, is that the reaction and the outrage to this really caught them by surprise.
I think that with so many media outlets getting government handouts these days, I mentioned CBC, the $2 million to McLean's, the $595 million bailout of various print organizations.
I think they thought that, you know what, the train seals know their role.
They're not going to mind this.
And instead, the train seals went ballistic.
And it's almost like the lion tamer losing control of his act.
Like, what's going on here?
That's my rationale for why they're doing all this backpedaling right now.
What do you think?
I think I couldn't say it any better.
The mainstream media is not going to be, I mean, they were flipping out a little bit when they said that when he had that stumble of words saying that news organizations would have to register.
But you're not going to see much rejection of the idea that media need to register with the government.
The mainstream media here in Canada and frankly around the world is just so content with the status quo.
They're so content to have everyone else lose their right to speak as long as their rights are protected.
And if they're taking government money all the while, well, all the better for them.
Yeah, and thankfully, there's still a scintilla of feistiness amongst the domesticated SEALs out there in the media that not even they would stand for this kind of government regulation.
One last thing, Kian.
I noticed that the act that Guibot refers to, not the Act, but the panel, it goes by the name the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel.
Only a bureaucracy could come up with a tongue twister name like that, Kian.
But evidently, there are no fewer than 97 recommendations.
You know, Kian, I don't know if we have any extra scratch in the kitty, but I'd love to hire a lawyer and go through all 97 recommendations to find out what really these recommendations could mean if put into a bill and then put into law.
I think it would mean about half a dozen violations of the Constitution, whether or not the government would use the Notwithstanding Act to overrule that, which they could, and really seal the deal to make this Soviet Canada.
I mean, these recommendations, they are from what the minister calls an independent review panel, but they were appointed by the government.
So I mean, whose report is this really?
It's the government's report.
And it was spat out to the government by people who the government put in those chairs.
So I think that we need to watch this one closely and not seed any ground on this one because it could have rippling effects far greater than what this government might think that there, rippling effects far greater than what has been outlined in the media.
100%, Kian.
And, you know, it's kind of perverse, isn't it?
I think last year we saw in terms of the carrot and the stick metaphor, the carrot was all these payoffs to media organizations.
Now, as the Trudeau regime moves forward in 2020, the ones that didn't accept the carrot, well, time to employ the stick.
And I'm thinking of us right here at Rebel, our friends at True North, other websites as well that aren't towing the mainstream media party line.
So we have to keep a close watch on this.
So excellent commentary, and thank you for joining me on this very important issue yet again on freedom of speech, Kian.
No problem, David.
Thanks for having me.
We got it.
And that was Kian Bexte in Calgary.
Keep it here, folks.
Some more O'Brabble round up the top right after this.
Rebel Media.
Courthouse Pushback00:12:27
Hey, keep your hands off me.
Whoa, whoa.
Are you going to plead guilty for assaulting my colleague, Kian Bexty?
Jonathan.
Are you going to plead guilty for assaulting my colleague, Kian Bextie?
Jonathan, are you going to plead guilty to the weapons charges against you?
Now, did you see that?
When Jonathan Yani had an actual woman asking him tough questions, he ran away.
Scared of me, I guess.
I guess he only likes to bully vulnerable immigrant women.
He must, deep down in his heart, still know that it's wrong for a man to hit a woman.
It was his wild-eyed mom and biggest enabler who ran at me.
Thankfully, I had those two great security guards with me to keep her off me.
But here's the crazy part.
Despite the whole interaction being caught on cell phone camera, the GoPro that I had on my body, and an overhead security camera, Yaniv still called the cops and told the cops my professional security team had assaulted him.
Not that his mom had tried to take my face off.
Go on.
You know, when Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus permanently folded their tent back in 2017, there were surely many who mourned the passing of this biosphere of the bazaar.
But then again, these days, one needn't buy a ticket to see the clowns and other oddities when one can go to a courtroom to witness the latest chapter in the baffling saga that is Jonathan/slash Jessica Yaneve, the would-be woman who is bullying real woman running spas in order to get his testicles shaved.
I know.
How gross is that?
And with more on the latest installment of the traveling freak show, that is Jonathan and Mama Yaniv is the host of the gun show, Sheila Gunread.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
Hey, David, thanks for having me on the show.
If you hear noise in the background, that's because I'm standing alongside Alberta's biggest, largest, busiest highway to promote our new billboard, Greta Inc.
So apologies for the background noise.
And if the wind blows my camera over, we'll just figure it out as we go.
No problem.
I'm just looking at Greta's mug.
It's Freka Palooza today on Roundup, isn't it?
But Sheila, first of all, this thug, and that's what Yaniv is, isn't so ready to throw haymakers when there are security guards present, eh?
But incredibly, here's the thing.
He still plays the victim, even when nothing happens to him.
And even more incredibly, Sheila, law enforcement seems so diligent in doing his bidding.
What is going on here?
Are these cops acting as social justice warriors on their own accord, or are they being directed to do so by their superiors?
You know, I think about the phone.
I did run into some really good cops actually yesterday at the courthouse, ones that have become sick of Jonathan Yaneve and his frequent flyer miles down at the courthouse.
They saw right through what he was doing.
When I confronted Jonathan and his mother out front, Jonathan ran away from me.
I guess he's only used to bullying vulnerable immigrant women.
But when, you know, confronted by a woman who's definitely not scared of him nor his very nuts at, he turned and ran away.
I'm a miracle worker, by the way.
The Holy Spirit is acting through me and I'm healing the cripples because there was absolutely no mobility scooter in sight.
It was Jonathan's mother who lunged at me and my incredible security team just moved right in to keep her away from me.
But, you know, there, after that, Jonathan ran into the courthouse and I couldn't film him there, but I could certainly eavesdrop.
And he was calling 911 to report an assault against him and his mother outside.
But it was his mother who was caught on my GoPro that I was wearing on my chest on my cell phone camera.
And we made sure that we confronted Jonathan and his mom underneath the courthouse security camera.
So we had three angles.
And yet, still, Jonathan and his mother ran inside, called 9-1-1 to report an assault against them.
When it was the mom, who had the security team not been there, she would have ripped my face off, or at least tried.
Oh, oh, no, like you said, there were multiple angles.
Once again, proving this guy's a liar.
You know, Sheila, when he was running away from you in the clip we just saw, he's doing this hand signal to presumably somebody inside the court through the window.
What was he doing?
Was he signaling for the cops to come and sick them on you?
Or what was going on there?
Yeah, he treats the cops around there like his home.
He was snapping his fingers and raising his hands, beckoning the cops to come over and act as his private security detail, keeping pesky female journalists away from him.
However, they didn't run outside this time to deal with them.
And I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that I did have a security team who frequently work in British Columbia, so maybe they knew them.
But I also had a lawyer with me.
So we weren't about to get hassled the same way that Ian was when he was there.
There was nobody that was going to prevent me from going into an open courthouse as a journalist.
It's my right.
And it's one of those things that ensures that the public has confidence in our justice system.
In that the courthouse is open, and you can go see for yourself how justice happens.
Well, you know, Sheila, I think for the most part, you know, and I don't, I'm a supporter of law enforcement, but on the Yaneve file, they have disgraced themselves.
When I was out there in August and had that cane, that steel cane smashed over my head and shoulders five times and had it filmed with two different cameras and showed the officer, which, by the way, he called the police.
I said, look, this is garden variety assault.
Actually, it's assault and battery with a weapon.
And the RCMP officer said, well, if we charge him, then we're going to have to charge you.
And I said, charge me with what?
And he goes, harassment.
I go, harassment.
But, you know, so again, it's a mystery who's pulling their strings, if anything, or they're just so terrified to be seen as ganging up on somebody in the trans community.
But, Sheila, in the big picture, I'm, you know, I'm trying to figure out, and I've asked Kian this as well.
And, you know, I'm trying to figure out what the end game is with this individual.
I think, personally, this is a garden variety con man.
He is gaming the human rights system.
He is gaming the wheel trans system to get free rides because he's clearly not handicapped.
And I think, in addition to the scamming for money and free services, he's also mentally ill.
And I think that's a deadly combo.
But what does it say, Sheila, when there are people out there going to bat for this so-called trans activist because he's neither?
Well, you know, I've seen some of that pushback against me online, people saying that we are harassing him.
I'm sorry.
This person is of international public interest.
And my rough estimate, he's probably ruined or at least seriously disrupted 50 innocent people's lives along the way because they won't entertain his BS.
So, yeah, every time he's at a courthouse, one of us, probably me at this point, is going to be there to ask accountability questions.
I had a cop yesterday try to tell me that to avoid escalation, meaning Jonathan Yeniv's mom attacking me, that I should just quit doing journalism against Jonathan Yeneve.
And I was polite, but I said, no, I'm not doing that.
I'm never doing that.
I'm never not going to do journalism because the other side can't behave themselves.
And if it means I have to have bodyguards, then I'll have bodyguards.
If it means I have to have a lawyer with me so that the police in the courthouse allow me to do journalism, then I will.
But I'm not going to stop doing accountability journalism because the other side can't behave themselves.
And you so rightly put up, point out that Jonathan Yaneve is nothing more than a grifter.
And I think because my guesstimate is because you know these bailiffs and sheriffs and police officers, they are public employees.
I think a lot of them are scared to death that they can be in front of the human rights tribunal because Jonathan can evolve money out of the government.
The government has a lot deeper pockets than immigrant esthetician women.
So if we can get one of these guys to violate his human rights, then he will.
And I think they're scared to play that game.
I'm not.
You know, Sheila, it's so shameful because in yesterday, this kind of a person would be put in a rubber room in a mental asylum, and fittingly so.
But here's the other big question.
I still don't have an answer for it.
I want you to weigh in what your opinion is.
With any story, Sheila, especially one like this, you got to follow the money.
And I don't know if this guy has an inheritance, if he has some kind of a job on the side.
We know he's been fined $6,000, which was three awards of $2,000 each to three of those esthetians.
He has not paid that.
He's violated that court order.
So, Sheila, when it comes to following the money, where is it coming from?
Because it seems to be his full-time job is being an agitator.
Yeah, you know, I think on public safety that might be a little bit too generous.
And it seems as though he's trying to run a bit of a human rights tribunal Ponzi scheme because just last week he tried to file another human rights complaint against another esthetician.
However, bizarrely, the human rights tribunal didn't take the case because he hasn't paid that $6,000 before.
I think this is just a money-making scheme.
He's trying now to rob Peter to pay Paul and, you know, to filing complaints to pay off the other complaints.
God only knows what he's got planned in store for us, but I don't, we're not scared.
So I guess bring it.
Well, Sheila, you know, we'll continue to follow the story.
It is, it's got world attention to it.
It gets tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of views every time you put it on.
Hey, listen, like I said at the beginning, this is the freak show of 2020.
You know, this is a human oddity that you can't literally believe what you're seeing.
The only thing is he should do it on his own dime, not the taxpayer dime.
And he should leave people alone, like these immigrant women that just want to run a business, some of whom this monster has put out of business.
So Sheila, we'll keep with this story.
And that was a great report.
Thanks so much.
And I'm glad you didn't get any bruises in the pursuit of this piece of work.
Yes, if people want to support my trip out there and you and Ian's lawsuit against Jonathan Yaniv, you can go to Yenevetrial.com.
It costs thousands of dollars just for me to go out there for one day to have, you know, a few-minute interaction of accountability journalism with Jonathan Yaniv.
It's probably going to cost $50,000 for us to hold Jonathan Yaniv responsible in a court of law for what he did to you and to Ian.
But it's worth it because I think we are the only ones with the ways, means, and will to stop the Jonathan Yaneeve reign of terror.
Teachers' Tan Lines00:05:50
Well said, Sheila.
And folks, you're not going to see this kind of story that Sheila produced on the CBC.
Oh, no way.
Doesn't fit into their narrative.
Thanks again, Sheila.
And folks, keep it here.
more rebel roundup to come right after this just just asking people here on the picket line what do you think about indoctrinating children to write letters to the premier basically reciting union talking points No comment, thank you.
No comment?
You're a teacher.
Can't you articulate your points, ma'am?
No.
No?
Oh, gee.
I would argue that might be not a good thing to have you in class if you can't articulate yourself.
You're filming me, I'm filming you.
What do you think about indoctrinating kids to write to the Premier of Ontario?
No, no comment.
You're just filming me.
You're free to film me, by the way.
You don't have any problem with the indoctrination of elementary school children to be union stooges, basically?
Hey, ma'am, what do you think about the school indoctrinating kids?
Thank you.
You're a teacher.
Can't you articulate yourself, ma'am?
Ma'am, what would Jesus say about you withholding your services from the kids today?
How about yourself, ma'am?
What would Jesus say?
No comment.
What would Jesus say about you?
Very ridiculous.
Well, why is that?
You're a Catholic school board teacher, aren't you?
You've got religion right in the name of your job position.
Ezra, go somewhere else.
Well, I'll pass that on to Ezra.
I'm not Ezra, but anyways.
What do you think about the school board indoctrinating children?
I already answered this question.
Do you know what I remember?
I haven't gotten an answer.
What's your answer to that, ma'am?
You're not worth speaking to.
I'm not worth speaking to?
Geez, that's not nice.
That's not very Christian.
Your personal space, you're on a sidewalk.
Do you have ownership of this sidewalk?
At what point is this harassment?
Not yet.
What point is this harassment?
We haven't reached that point yet, ma'am.
Is this how union thugs operate these days, calling the police?
Wow, job shaming now.
And that, folks, were some of the learned scholars who comprise the rank and file of the Toronto District Catholic School Board, who were yet again out on strike.
It's for the kids, of course.
Not that 2% salary increase.
Even the kids would tell you that after all, they've been indoctrinated with union leftist propaganda.
Just check out their homework assignments.
In any event, here's what some of you had to say.
V. Weko writes, Ford, please stand tough.
Parents do support you.
As an overburdened and overtaxed worker and parent, I had enough.
My neighbors and family feel the same.
Oh, and I too feel your pain.
And if the teachers think they have public support, delusional is spelt D-E-L-S-U-I-O-N-A-L.
Heavy metal writes, what would Jesus say?
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Picket line full of radical feminists and beta males.
Homeschool the kids.
Well, you know, Heavy Metal, I'm not sure homeschooling works for everyone, and private school can be very pricey.
But is it too much to ask that teachers stay content with a good gig that is well compensated and that they keep politics out of the classroom?
Yeah, I think that might be too much to ask for.
Jimmy Kirk writes, if it was for the kids, then why not have the protest on Saturday when it doesn't affect the kids?
Or better yet, Jimmy, stage a two-month strike during the summertime.
What am I saying?
I think the teachers need that time to work on their tan lines.
Brenda Carroll writes, I spent more time in the principal's office when my sons were in school because they tried to make them follow what was being taught without question.
Needless to say, I taught my kids critical thinking, and the more someone tries to sway you, the more research you need to do.
They would order me an adult to sit and be quiet before I had opened my mouth.
Needless to say, that didn't go well for them.
Well, you know, Brenda, sounds like you are a very good mother to me.
I hope that going to bat for your kids didn't adversely affect their marks, though.
But not everyone was a fan of this segment.
Lambrose Capsalis writes, my wife is a teacher.
It's not about the money, trust me.
They are making classes too big, and also kids who used to be in a separate class because they needed extra help are now just kept in a regular class and fall further behind.
This also hurts the rest of the kids in class because the teacher now needs to spend more time with the special needs.
It sets the class behind and snowballs as the year goes on.
And they actually did give them the 2%, but nothing else.
And the union still said, no, it's not about the money, it is about the kids.
David, I love your work, but you're wrong on this one, buddy.
Well, Lambrose, here's the deal.
If the government agreed to all of the demands made by the teachers' unions except the salary increase, would we have a deal on the table today?
Well, my friend, I think the odds of that happening would make even the most reckless gambler cringe.
So yeah, it is about the money.
And finally, Oxford Educated High School Headmaster writes, pointless, boring story.
Well, if that's true, Mr. Headmaster, then why would you even bother to comment on a pointless, boring story?
Got you.
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.