Sheila Gunn Reid and Keean Bexte critique Jonathan Yaniv’s lawsuit, exposing inconsistencies like his claim that Bexte refused to leave while video shows Yaniv attacking him, and his disputed use of derogatory terms. Bexte accuses law enforcement of enabling Yaniv due to transgender identity concerns, calling the system "corrupt." Gunn Reid highlights the Liberal government’s refusal to release mileage logs for ministers’ vehicles, including Jonathan Wilkinson’s limo, despite evidence they exist, suggesting FOI departments may be withholding records due to political alignment. The episode also mocks International Women’s Day marches for detracting from women’s liberation by focusing on unrelated issues like Indigenous justice and climate activism, tying Trudeau’s re-election to perceived left-wing ideologies while dismissing Scheer’s role as a minor factor. [Automatically generated summary]
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Jonathan Yaniv's Unintentionally Funny Defense00:15:04
Well, Jonathan slash Jessica Yaniv has filed his statement of defense in regard to our lawsuit.
And oh, it is so unintentionally funny.
You won't want to miss what Kian Bexty has to say about it.
And well, the Liberals have a new strategy when it comes to freedom of information requests, it seems.
If the data looks too embarrassing, well, just have the FOI department claim that it doesn't exist.
Just wait until you hear what Sheila Gunnread has to say about this scandal.
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 coverage of the International Women's Day march in Toronto, which had everything to do with communism and climate change and so on, but precious little to do with actual women's liberation.
How did that happen?
Those are your rebels.
Now let's round them up.
Now there's a lot to dissect in this document that Jonathan Yaniv filed at the courthouse this week.
The first thing that I want to point out is the name of the person who filed the document in his own handwriting.
Jonathan Yaniv admits his name is Jonathan Yaniv.
In this document filed by Jonathan, it is made clear that he's not taking this civil suit seriously.
He's never been in a position where he's actually had to be held accountable for his actions.
But we're going to make sure that he is held accountable.
You can see this whole document at Yanevetrial.com.
I'm going to go through his claims point by point, but I want to show you a video just for context of what happened to me on January 13th.
Watch this.
Get away from me.
Go away.
Fucking hell.
Go away from me.
Jesus, get away from me.
Go away.
Get away from me.
Get away.
Get the fuck away from me.
Stay away from me.
Get away from me now.
Right now.
You heard me?
I'm calling the police on you.
I don't give a shit.
Get away from me.
You stay away from me.
I'm backing up.
Now, one of the first claims that Jonathan makes in this document is that Kian would not go away from me and started to yell.
Contrary to this, I approached Jonathan, and in the first three seconds of me asking a very level-headed question, Yaniv charged at me.
Watch this.
Yaniv, will you be pleading guilty?
Let me go.
No, don't touch me.
Don't touch me.
Stop!
Get away from me!
Now, perhaps even more hilariously, Yaniv goes on to say, I grabbed him and used force myself.
Now, as you can see in this video, both of my hands were quite clearly full of my camera equipment.
And even though there was a lot to push back against, I didn't touch Yaniv.
Now this one really cracks me up.
Yaneev clearly has no recollection of what happened that day, even though there's video evidence from multiple angles of it happening.
Yaniv says I called him freak and it.
That's not quite how I remember it.
Get away from me, fucking crazy.
Fucking Kian also committed acts of hate by calling me by my birth name.
It's considered offensive to call me this.
Well, it's the Frankensteinian gift that keeps on giving, isn't it?
I speak of Jonathan, or is it Jessica Yaniv?
Johnny's filed his defense, and now more than ever, I can hardly wait for this lawsuit to be argued in a court of law.
And with more on this is our roving reporter and fellow Yaneve victim, Kian Bexti.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
Hi, David.
Always good to have you, Kian.
So, Kian, it's almost sad in a way to see Yaniv incriminate himself.
For example, he is so quick to lay a formal complaint with any organization.
Should anyone have the utter temerity to call him by his given name and I assume legal name of Jonathan, yet in his statement of defense, as you clearly point out, that's how he refers to himself.
Hasn't he already dug a hole for himself here, Kian?
Yeah, he certainly has, and it's something that I'm going to use next time Twitter tries to ban me for using the proper name, Jonathan Yaniv.
It's something that we know he goes by in private.
We know that his mother calls him Jonathan.
We know that his mother says he, him, all that kind of stuff.
I don't like getting caught up in this pronoun stuff.
The only thing that I care about is reporting on Jonathan Yaniv in a way that people so people can be aware of what he's doing because he's such a predator in the community, such a dangerous person.
And I think that it gets, I don't want to be distracted from how awful of a person he is and get sort of into the weeds with these trans issues because at the base of it, the problem here with Jonathan Yaniv is that he's a predator who hurts immigrant women, who hurts young women, young girls, by pulling sexually explicit images from them and sending them vice versa.
He's a terrible person, and I'm glad that we're finally able to take him to court over something.
Indeed, Kian, he is a vile individual.
There's no question about it.
Not just for how he has assaulted people like you and I for just doing our jobs, but like you said, immigrant women working out of their home who are clearly uncomfortable with providing waxing services to someone who is, of course, biologically male.
And, you know, it always comes down to the motivation.
One motivating factor, I assume, was getting compensation from the BC Human Rights Tribunal.
That completely backfired because in a stunning reversal in terms of the human rights racket, at last count, I believe three victims were awarded $2,000 each.
I don't know if that $6,000 has been paid when I last looked.
It hadn't.
And the other thing I can only think of, Kian, like my spidey senses tingle when I read about all his endeavors.
It's like he's trying desperately to become famous or infamous.
Do you think that's a driving factor here with Jonathan Yaneve?
Yeah, I think that's absolutely correct.
I think that he thinks any publicity is good publicity.
You can see it on his Twitter.
If you just scroll through his Twitter very briefly, you'll see that he posts repeatedly, knowing that it's going to cause hatred towards him.
He just thrives off the attention.
He gets ratioed more than any other Twitter account that I know of.
Rarely anything will like what he's saying.
If it is, it's usually a SOC account of his own, of his own making.
And there's usually hundreds of people telling him to stop or it's just, his Twitter's not a pretty site, but he seems to thrive on it.
So I would agree with you.
I think that this is all a show for him.
And he's doing anything that he can to sort of increase his recognizability.
And you know, it's funny too, Kian, I agree.
I think there's the financial aspect.
I think there's this quest for fame.
I can't explain the role of his mother here, who is his sidekick.
That's the Robin to his Batman, if you will, because she seems all in on this.
I can tell you, if I was one of his parents, I'd be flying into Wuhan province right now to take up residence and be around Jonathan Yaniv.
What do you think is the deal there, Kian?
Your guess is as good as mine.
They're both mentally, you know, they have something going on.
The mother has repeatedly caused these outbursts where she either, she's hit me too.
I don't know.
I should have sued her as well.
She hit me outside of my car when I was trying to interview Jonathan.
But he seems to go back and forth between saying, Jonathan, stop it, Jonathan.
Because when Jonathan launched at me inside the courthouse a few weeks before the assault that we're suing him for, she actually pulled Yaniv away and said, stop it.
You're being silly.
You're being dumb.
But then other times it seems like she's egging him on, especially on Twitter.
But lots of people have postulated that maybe Yaniv, Jonathan, actually controls the Twitter of his mother because it seems like sort of the personality on Twitter doesn't really match up with the personality we see in person, which is someone who can't speak English very well, if at all, just doesn't really seem to understand what's going on most of the time.
So I don't understand what her driving factor is outside of maybe love for her lost son, but I don't know.
Wow.
And indeed, I too was assaulted by her back in August, Kian.
She was using her iPad as a weapon to hit me over the head and jam it into my Adam's apple.
It was just absolutely stunning.
Certainly not ladylike behavior by any degree.
But let's get back to the statement of defense, Kian.
What is consistent both with your incident and my incident is he has this narrative that we're running up to him, we're hounding him, but the precise opposite is true.
You just have to see the video.
He's like a rhinoceros charging after us.
I mean, in my encounter, he was already up on the third floor of his mother's condo.
He was home-free, if you will, on private property.
I wasn't going to venture there.
And he decided to come down and take a charge at me.
So, Kian, you know, always with any trial, the judge is the X factor.
But based on the video evidence, you clearly see that he's the aggressor in both cases, not the other way around.
Yeah, here's the thing, David.
If Jonathan Yaniv is correct in his claim that he submitted to the court this week, which he's absolutely not, if he's correct, it means that no reporter would be allowed to stand outside of a courthouse and wait for someone of criminal interest or of civil litigation interest.
Nobody's allowed to stand outside of a court and report on that trial and ask questions of someone leaving the courthouse.
That is what happened.
That is the meat and potatoes of what happened on January 13th with me.
With you, it's a similar situation, just not at a court.
The situation here is the subject was violent and aggressive, and the fault and onus is 100% on them.
You can't blame reporters for doing their job, waiting outside of a courthouse, which is something that reporters do all the time.
Think about the trial of the Huawei executive.
There was reporters lined outside of that courthouse, but Ming Wangzou didn't charge them and assault them, even though I'm sure the stakes are much higher for her.
And I'm sure that she was upset with the reporters who wanted to expose her and cover the story in a critical way.
But just because someone's standing outside of a courthouse doesn't give someone permission to violently assault them.
But, you know, on the flip side, Kian, I can kind of understand why Jonathan Yaniv would think that he's entitled to that kind of censorship on his behalf, because as you discovered, shockingly, a few months ago, when you went to cover the court, the trial, with the prohibited weapon, that is, there were sheriffs at that BC courthouse that were A, barring you from entering, and B,
citing a regulation that doesn't even exist for their, you know, for them to carry out this blocking of you getting into the courthouse.
And so this is something else that I've always been scratching my head about, Kian.
Why is it that whether it's the BC Human Rights Tribunal or these courthouse sheriffs, why are they enabling this very heinous individual to carry on what he's doing?
It's a question I'll be asking for a long time, David.
It seems like it's a recurring thing.
Law enforcement always seems to give Yaniv the benefit of the doubt.
And maybe that's just where we live.
This is Canada and we allow violent people to play the victim just because they're trans.
I guess that's just the country, the corrupt country that we live in, David.
And it's going to, that point is going to irk me until the day that I die.
That this individual has been given such a powerful position with the police and given so much leeway to manipulate the justice system and the pseudo-justice justice system like the human rights tribunal.
Thankfully, the human rights tribunal of all courts in this god-forsaken country is the one that told him no.
But Hopefully the courts follow step with the Human Rights Tribunal.
Well, Kian, we'll have to wrap it there.
All I can say is that if justice is indeed blind, if the judge is completely unbiased, if the video evidence is played and you just look upon that as a third-party individual for the first time, I think that's all we need to make this case almost a slam dunk.
I know lawyers cringe at the word slam dunk, but I can't see this going any other way.
I really can't, my friend.
So anyways, thank you so much for that excellent update.
And I guess one of these days we're going to be in a court of law arguing this nonsense and hopefully justice shall prevail.
Thanks, David.
You got it.
And that is Kian Bexty in Calgary.
Keep it here, folks.
Limo Logs Controversy00:11:46
more of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
His name is Jonathan Wilkinson.
He's been on the job since November 20th, 2019.
And I wanted to know if he is practicing the low-carbon lifestyle and making the hard choices to save the planet from that carbon apocalypse the liberals just absolutely will not shut up about.
So we asked his ministry to provide copies of the logs of the official vehicle used to transport the minister since November 20th, 2019.
What I'm asking for are limo records.
Every cabinet minister has a quote official vehicle.
It's a limo more often than not, but sometimes a town car or an SUV.
And every one of these government vehicles needs a detailed mileage log.
I know they're out there because I've gotten my hands on them in the past through a similar access to information request.
In fact, that's how we found out that Minister Christia Freeland was sending her limo to Montreal and other places completely empty ahead of her plane so that the limo was ready and waiting to drive her around before it came back empty and she hopped on a plane back to Ottawa.
I had her limo records and then I matched them up to her flight records.
It was a lot of work, but I uncovered a huge hypocritical scandal from the liberals.
And now the liberals know I'm looking for these sorts of things.
They know I'm going to match up their flights and their limo logs and I can't wait to do it.
So the liberals have a new trick up their sleeves.
Let me show you.
Here's the response we got back from the new climate change is going to kill us all unless we pay a carbon tax federal minister.
After a thorough search, no records were found concerning this request.
This is absolutely unbelievable.
The mileage logs exist and the maintenance records exist.
They're out there.
Oh, those records are out there, all right.
It's just that obviously the liberals don't want to be hoisted on their own green-hued climate change petard, especially given how Miss Freeland's hypocrisy was exposed for all to see by our very own Sheila Gunread, who joins me now.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
Hey, David, thanks for having me on the show.
Well, it's always a pleasure.
So Sheila, what is more egregious here?
The idea that the newly minted environment minister is most likely not being limoed anywhere in a Toyota Prius, but most likely in a Chevy suburban, or that the people running the Freedom of Information Department are probably lying that these mileage and maintenance records you speak of don't exist because listen, we all know that those records do exist.
What is it for you, Sheila?
Isn't it fascinating how right after I catch Freeland flying a limo ahead of her plane or driving a limo empty ahead of her plane so that she can fly into places like Montreal, get driven around like a rock star, then hop a plane and send a limo home empty while all the while claiming that she's some sort of climate warrior?
Isn't it interesting how we break that story, then all of a sudden there are no available ministerial limo records available since the last election?
It is absolutely crazy.
This is the second ministry in two weeks who's suddenly claiming that the drivers aren't keeping limo records, their mileage records or anything like that, maintenance logs, anything that would produce an odometer reading for me.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
We had the environment minister and infrastructure.
So that's Catherine McKenna's department.
We've busted her driving habits in the past when she was driving around in a Subaru cross track, which is, you know, not an outrageous car to drive, kind of nice.
You know, cheap to drive for an SUV, but it certainly isn't a Prius.
And now the new environment minister, Wilkinson, neither one of these ministries are producing their records.
They're claiming they don't exist, which is absolute garbage.
Well, Sheila, this is the thing.
Here at the Rebel, we incur travel expenses and equipment expenses.
And I know by experience, you do too, that we fill out expense forms and you have to have all the dates, you have to have the receipts, everything has to line up.
We're a private company, right?
These guys are spending this money on the public dime.
That makes it even more incumbent that precise records are being kept so that there is proof that they are not abusing the taxpayer dollar.
Sheila, how can it be in that scenario that there are no records being kept?
Because that is absolutely irresponsible.
How can it be?
It can't be.
There are those records out there.
I mean, how do they know when to do an oil change on the ministerial limo?
How do they know how many kilometers that driver has logged so that he has to switch out and give the car over to another driver?
There has to be these records somewhere.
They do exist.
A lot of these vehicles are leased.
So it's incumbent on the government to keep these mileage logs.
If you are a private enterprise, a private contractor, and you try to claim your vehicle expenses, your mileage on your taxes, and you don't have odometer readings, imagine what the federal government is going to say about your tax return.
You might even get audited.
But for the federal government themselves, they're hiding these records.
It's not that they don't exist.
They absolutely exist.
They're just not turning them over.
But, you know, Sheila, the other thing I find disturbing, many years ago, I was doing several stories for several publications about the sort of monkey business that was going on at the liquor control board of Ontario.
And at one point, I think I was up to about $3,500 in freedom of information requests to the LCBO.
And I can tell you, my friend, that as much as the executives, well, hated me for doing these stories, when it came to the LCBO's FOI department, Freedom of Information Department, the people there were awesome.
They considered it to be an ethical thing to make sure that when a request for information came in, that they delivered that request to the journalists.
I'm wondering, have things changed now?
Is there, I guess, less of a separation of church and state with the FOI department and the bureaucracy and the politicians?
Or is it something else, Sheila?
Because the people I met that were giving me that information, they did everything possible in their power to get me that info, but you seem to be getting stymied.
Well, one of two things is probably happening here.
Either the bureaucrats aren't turning the documents over to the access to information department, which that's a strong possibility.
The access to information department might just say, look, there are no records because some bureaucrat told us there are no records.
But we also know that in Canada, the public sector has become basically interchangeable with the Liberal Party of Canada.
Their union, CPAC, supports the Liberals.
It campaigned against Harper.
They actually ran that Harper Hates Me campaign that actually it alienated quite a few of their frontline workers who didn't want to be in that position of being a political force, or they just were conservative and they didn't want their union using their money to campaign against the political party they supported.
So that could be the case too, where the bureaucracy and the Liberal Party, they've sort of meshed into this one unstoppable bureaucratic force.
And for someone like me trying to break through it to hold the government to account, it's almost impossible once you hit that log jam.
We've actually seen, I'm working on an access to information on another story right now.
And I've got two, I usually ask questions two different ways in two different departments.
And then I can see where they're communicating.
And if you can see where they're communicating, you should have the same email in both piles, right?
In both piles from both departments.
More often than not, I find emails missing in one, meaning they're withholding information or not producing information or not finding the information and turning it over to me.
And that's something that I routinely have to do now.
Instead of just taking one access to information package on face value, we have to file a second one in a different way and match the information up just to make sure that we're getting the whole picture of what's going on.
You know, it's so outrageous, Sheila.
As we all know, in 2015, Justin Trudeau promised this was going to be the most transparent government in Canadian history.
The precise opposite is the case.
My final question, I think the most relevant question to you, at least on this file with the limousine rides, Sheila, is there any kind of appeals process?
I mean, like, can you go to an ombudsman?
Can you appeal the ruling?
Is there, like, who are the cops that you can call to get these people to get you the information that you and the Canadian public are indeed entitled to?
Well, there is the information commissioner, the federal information commissioner, and she seems to be a pretty balanced sort of lady.
We've appealed to her in the past.
She's admonished the liberals for not turning over information that we asked for.
In fact, when the Privy Council office, so Justin Trudeau's office, refused to turn over Gerald Butts' expenses because they claimed they were all personal.
Well, you can't, if they're personal, I don't want to pay for them.
And she admonished Trudeau, wrote Trudeau's office a letter saying, turn over these.
They are in the, you know, they're public information, they're public records.
This is breaching Canadian records keeping laws when you don't turn them over.
And he basically ignored her.
So, I can appeal so far, but there really is no accountability once we make it to the ministerial or privy council level, and they just say, Yeah, whatever, we're going to do what we feel like.
Well, Sheila, I know you're like a dog with a bone on this profile, and you're not going to give up.
I wish you success.
And it is just absolutely egregious that you are, and by extension, the Canadian public are being treated this way.
And I can tell you, folks, Sheila Gunreed is the numeral uno person in Canada going through reams of bureaucraties to find out the stinking fish in the barrel that makes for these incredible stories that Sheila uncovers on a weekly basis.
But as you can see, they're throwing obstacles and hurdles in her way that they have absolutely no legal right to do so.
Women's Day March Parade00:05:21
It's shocking.
Sheila, thank you so much for joining me on this very important issue today.
Thanks, David.
You have a great weekend.
You too, Sheila.
And that was Sheila Gunnreid somewhere in northern Alberta.
Keep it here, folks.
More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
It's International Women's Day, and to paraphrase Helen Reddy, they are women.
Hear them roar.
But why is it that so much of the roaring in 2020 has absolutely nothing to do with women's liberation?
I mean, just look at the theme for this year's parade.
It states: quote, the world is on fire.
We are rising.
Indigenous justice, climate and economic justice, end to violence, end to war, end quote.
Well, how do you make sense of all that, folks?
Let's wade into this parade and see what those in the sisterhood have to say.
We won't What's with the fingers?
That's not very ladylike!
Why would you do that, ma'am?
Hi, sir!
What does the communist movement have to do with women's rights?
Oh, he's not allowed to talk to me.
Oh, you know what?
You're a great emblem of a communist regime, ma'am.
Now, why would you be marching in a woman's parade when your ideology is responsible for tens of millions of deaths since its inception?
Why is that, sir?
Oh, you're not allowed to speak to me?
Oh, wow.
Gee, I guess women's rights have taken root here.
He can't speak without getting permission from the lady.
Please don't.
Please don't take.
Please don't, please, please don't take photos of us.
Please go.
Oh, we're in the public square, ma'am.
We're allowed to.
Please don't take photos of us.
Why?
Please don't.
You're in the public square and you've got placards.
Okay.
Well, feel free to phone the police.
Ah, yes, communists and Marxists and socialist galore with plenty of vulgarity to boot.
My oh my.
Whatever happened to International Women's Day.
How did the women's liberation movement get so utterly co-opted by so many progressive kooks?
In any event, here's what some of you had to say about my visit to the Women's Day march in Toronto last Sunday.
Black Cats Matter writes, ignorance, sad and disturbing as a female who appreciates everything Western civilization has done for us.
Pure ignorance and entitlement, acknowledging I was once ignorant too.
Hey, Black Cats Matter, great email, and I'm so glad to see that you've decided to join the winning team.
Truth and Justice writes, communism, feminism, abortionism, perversion, misandry, racism, Christophobia.
Why would anyone not want to join in the fun?
LOL.
Alas, Truth and Justice, I didn't observe hardly anyone laughing and having fun in this parade.
There was just so much sheer anger.
And what's more, so many people couldn't even convey why they were so angry.
Weird.
Jae Chin writes, funny how Hong Kong is fighting for freedom from communism.
Meanwhile, the circus clowns in Canada and the USA are asking for communism.
Subversion of weak-minded fools.
You know, great point, Jae Chin.
That's the thing about progressives in North America who clamor for socialism or even communism.
They've never actually experienced it, for if they had, they wouldn't be so gung-ho in supporting such toxic ideologies.
Just ask anyone from those Eastern European states that endured Soviet-style communism until the Iron Curtain thankfully fell.
SuperFast30 writes, I don't know of any rational, level-headed woman that buys into this idiotic and foolish agenda.
And thankfully, SuperFast30, neither do I.
And finally, Fuchu B writes, now I see why Trudeau got re-elected.
Well, in fairness, Fuchu B, let's not forget about Andrew Scheer missing an empty net on a breakaway.
But yeah, you're right.
There seems to be a critical mass of left-wing lunacy in Canada these days.
Let's hope most of the people associated with that ideology will become wiser with age and change their voting ways.
Please.
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.