David Benzies celebrates the Fight the Fines campaign’s victory after Walter Matheson’s absurd $20 ticket—dismissed due to an address error—sparked public outrage, with Sheila Gunn Reed crediting his defiant "It's still a free country" statement and viral recording of officer abuse. Meanwhile, Drea Humphrey reports Vancouver’s Freedom Rally protests, where Eastern Bloc immigrants compare Canada’s COVID measures to communist repression, while younger Canadians embrace leftist rhetoric without lived experience. Benzies recounts violent clashes at Toronto’s Trinity Bellwoods Park, where squatters like Dean Edzy and Andre Durant assaulted him, unleashed an unmuzzled mastiff (Grizzly) despite dangerous-dog listings, and Mayor John Tory failed to act, mirroring San Francisco’s Democrat-led chaos. The episode underscores how resistance—whether legal pushback or on-the-ground documentation—exposes systemic overreach and the cost of complacency in defending freedoms. [Automatically generated summary]
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I'm your host, David Benzies.
Victory!
Remember Walter Matheson, the new Brunswick senior, who was ticketed several months ago simply for sitting alone in his car in a Tim Horton's parking lot enjoying his muffin and coffee?
Well, the charge has been dropped.
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Hmm, I wonder why.
Could it be the arresting officer endured a heapin' helpin' of humiliation in the court of public opinion?
Sheila Gunread shall offer her thoughts.
Well, those freedom rallies against governments that would take away our rights in the name of flattening the Wuhan virus, they're spreading.
Drea Humphrey covered one such protest in Vancouver, and she'll weigh in with her take as to why a growing number of Canadians are increasingly concerned that we are going the way of Melbourne, Australia.
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 my visit to Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto, the home of a filthy tent city that houses violent people and vicious animals.
And yes, I have the bite marks to prove it.
Those are your rebels.
Let's round them up victory on our hands here friends The prosecutor in Hampton has thrown out Walter's ticket.
They say on a technicality, even though that technicality is something that could have easily been amended.
I say they turf the ticket because they all know that cop made a huge mistake and embarrassed himself and everyone else now forced to deal with the ticket after the fact.
They're dropping that ticket because Walter fought back and because we told the world about what happened to Walter.
Now, I caught up with Walter earlier this week to talk about the good news.
Take a listen.
Well, I went to the court and I waited outside because there was 30 people ahead of me and they were only allowing a few people in at a time.
A couple, I think.
Anyway, I finally got in after the 30 people were done.
This was three hours later.
And I went in and sat on the bench and waited until they waiting for them to call me up.
When the last person up speaking to the judge finished, it was a woman and she left.
And as she left, I just had to get up and walk out the door.
And I said, what on earth is going on here?
And the sheriff there was standing next to me.
He says, I don't know.
Anyway, this lady comes over to me and she says, Walter, I said, yes.
She said, I found your ticket this morning and it wasn't paid out properly.
So we tore it up.
Well, I don't know whether I believe that or not, but I kind of wonder why they didn't let me know when I was there, not three hours before that.
But anyway, they said it was torn out, thrown out.
What do you think?
Because I think that they tossed your ticket because they didn't think that you were going to fight back.
I think they thought you were going to roll over.
They didn't think you were going to go public.
They didn't think that you would ultimately end up embarrassing the police force with your very public story.
They didn't think you would end up with a lawyer.
And they didn't think you would show up in court to contest the ticket.
So I think that they were just didn't want to deal with Walter Matheson anymore.
That's what I think.
Now, Walter, I'm very happy to hear that your ticket has been dropped.
I know a lot of people were cheering for you and supportive of you fighting back.
And I know a lot of people donated to help cover the cost of your lawyer, Sam Goldstein.
Do you have any message for those people?
Oh, yes.
I'd like to thank everybody that stood behind me for this, especially Rebel News, of course.
And you, Sheila.
You're my hero now.
There was a lot of people that commented on it, and I read most of them.
Yes, I'd like to thank you all that supported me.
And hopefully this ever happens again.
Victory!
As you know, folks, Rebel News launched our fight the fines campaign way back in May, I believe, because heck, nobody else was stepping up to the plate, including the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.
We wanted to stand up for Canadians who were being brutalized by bylaw and even law enforcement for the silliest things like sitting alone on a park bench or such as the case with Walter Matheson simply enjoying a coffee and muffin by himself in a car in a parking lot with the windows rolled up.
What utter madness.
But fast forward to the present and the Matheson case has been dropped.
Gee, I wonder why.
Joining me now with more on this crazy story with a super happy ending is Sheila Gunn Reed.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, my friend.
Hey, David, thanks for having me on the show.
Oh, yeah, and thank you.
And what a great story.
Sheila, here's my take.
I'm thinking that behind the scenes, that RCMP officer was just begging to have this case dropped.
Hey, he might have won in a court of law.
Who knows?
We'll never know now.
But in the court of public opinion, wow, this guy was humiliated.
What are your thoughts?
Yeah, I think that's exactly what happened.
I mean, as far as fight the fines cases go, some are really atrocious, egregious.
For example, Tamara being cuffed for walking along the beach.
I mean, that's insane.
The young mom, um, who was searched under her clothes and stuffed in a cough, a cop car because she took her daughter to an abandoned park during the time of the woo flu.
I mean, some of them are really egregious.
Walter's was probably the most ridiculous, and it had a lot of public interest in it because I think a lot of people saw that it could happen to them too, because it was Walter was just doing a normal thing as safely as possible.
He was eating his muffin and finishing his coffee in a Tim Hortons parking lot with the windows rolled up alone.
And a cop comes over to him and says, You got to move along.
You're going to attract teenagers to this parking lot.
It's hard to even say it out loud because it's so ridiculous.
That, you know, like the teenagers are like, ooh, let's go down to the Tim Hortons to see if there's any old guys eating a muffin down there.
And we'll just mill about because they're there.
I mean, it was crazy.
And then Walter tried to leave.
The cop asked Walter to leave, and Walter said, What am I doing wrong?
The cop really didn't tell him.
And then Walter said, It's still a free country.
And then tried to comply with the officer anyway and leave.
The cop stops Walter and then gives him a ticket for failing to comply.
And the cop gets really vulgar and abusive with Walter.
But Walter, citizen journalist that he is and muffin aficionado, he recorded the phone or the conversation with the cop.
And that's really what spurred everything.
And from there, it got even worse because the cop tried to pull the same bully tactics with me.
But I'm happy to say that Walter's case has been dropped.
There was an address error or an informational error on his ticket.
I mean, they could have amended it easily.
I spoke to Sam Goldstein, our lawyer who's working the case.
He said they could have just easily amended the ticket and proceeded with the ticket.
But I think they wanted to get rid of Walter and us and this whole embarrassing problem the best way possible.
And for them, it was dropping the ticket.
And at least that way, they didn't have to lose it in court.
You know, and Sheila, here's the thing.
We've talked about this before in the past.
That police officer, and to me, this is so inexplicable.
He approaches Walter very jovial and very friendly.
And on a dime, he switches from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde in terms of his attitude.
He even uses some profanity.
And Walter's certainly not giving him lip.
He's just asking honest questions in a calm manner.
I never quite understood that.
You know, why this guy could be so easily triggered.
And that's not really who you want in law enforcement.
But you mentioned something.
You were bullied along the lines, as were, as was our company.
And I imagine, Sheila, you're referring to that ridiculous lawyer's letter.
And I say ridiculous because it was full of spelling and grammatical errors.
And they were basically intensifying the bullying, weren't they, Sheila?
They were saying they wanted us to take the video down.
Hello, you're talking to the wrong media company.
We don't bend the knee to malicious legal letters, do we, Sheila?
No, I mean, the cop clearly never had, or not that he never had, but he doesn't often have people like Walter push back.
And Walter pushed back quite politely.
He tried to comply, but he just said this is still a free country.
And so it made perfect sense after the fact when the cop got what I would suspect is the most inept lawyer in all of Hampton, New Brunswick to send a legal letter to us telling me to turn over the recording of the interaction that Walter took, accusing me of taking the recording.
I'm in Alberta.
Walter's in Hampton, New Brunswick.
We didn't know each other before, so I don't know why I would be sitting in his car halfway across the country surreptitiously recording something.
I don't know, crouched behind the back seat of Walter Scar.
I don't know what these two thought that I was doing.
And they wanted me to turn that over to the cops.
Like they're demanding that a journalist turn over their materials, their investigative materials, to the RCMP.
Who at the RCMP station would ever touch those, by the way?
And it was pretty clear that they didn't even read the website copy that accompanied the video that I published or watched the video before they fired off that legal letter because they said that I repeatedly mentioned the cop's name in there.
I never did, not even once.
I didn't write it.
I didn't say it because at the time, the cop really wasn't the issue for me.
It was the stupid rule that enabled this cop to do those things.
And that's really what I took issue with until the cop took an issue with me and he tried to bully me.
He tried to shut me up.
So naturally, I did a story about it and I lit up the lawyer and I lit up the cop.
And it ended up being one of our most popular Fight the Finds videos.
It wasn't even a Fight the Finds video.
It was like an update to a Fight the Finds video.
And it got nearly half a million views because it exposed the bullies for who they really are.
And it also showed how these COVID regulations are really empowering the bullies who don't normally have a lot of power.
Yeah, I think it's called the Barbara Streisand effect.
Yes, Sheila.
And also, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this dimwit of a lawyer run for the Liberal Party in the election and without any success, surprisingly?
But geez, I guess that's the kind of cloth liberal candidates are cut from these days, eh, Sheila?
She's the perfect liberal candidate.
Just perfect.
She's a bully.
She's not good at the job she already has because she can't spell.
I mean, she didn't even get the address of the company right when she sent the legal letter.
Like, that's just like a cut and paste.
And somehow she screwed that up too.
Yeah, she ran for the liberals in Hampton, New Brunswick, running on her reputation.
And she's, from what I understand, a perennial liberal candidate, and she got absolutely smoked.
Like, she got NDP levels of support.
What you'd see in Alberta, that's what she got out there.
Like, it was, it wasn't good.
I think she got maybe a thousand votes.
I mean, and she was bragging, I noticed online about the number of doors she knocked.
Like, she said she knocked by 10,000 doors or something like that.
And she couldn't even, you know, motivate one in 10 of those people to show up and vote for her at the ballot box.
Geez, maybe she thought that's how an election works.
The number of doors you knock on, whoever knocks on the most, you win the election.
But Sheila, we got to wrap it up.
So a humiliating defeat at the ballots for the liberal lawyer.
A humiliation for the officer who brought it upon himself by acting so unprofessionally, I would say.
A resounding victory for Walter Matheson, no matter how you look at it, there's going to be no fine.
And certainly in the court of public opinion, he's a hero.
One last question.
I'm almost disappointed, Sheila, because we were going to cover that trial all hands on deck.
But I guess that just shows for once that cop made the right decision in waving the white flag of surrender, eh?
Yeah, well, yeah, we had talked about sending the mostly the entire company out there to cover it as though it were the OJ trial or the Menandez brothers or something like that.
I was very excited to be the Nancy Grace of the company every night doing color commentary.
But yes, as you rightly point out, for once they did the right thing.
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And it is simply to save face.
It's not because they are motivated to do the right thing because they realize they did something wrong.
It's that they know that this would never stand up in the court of law and this was just a petty grievance between a cop and a citizen who pushed back just a little bit.
That's what it's about.
I love it.
The OJ trial for fighting the fines.
If you don't have a Timbit, you must acquit.
Sheila, great news.
And thank you so much for this.
Thanks, David.
Have a great weekend.
You too, my friend.
And that was Sheila Gunread, somewhere in the hinterland of northern Alberta.
Keep it here, folks.
Tomorrow, Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
Okay, Michelle, now you obviously are a fan of Canada.
What's your opinion on what we're seeing in Canada lately?
What I'm seeing in Canada is absolute tyranny.
Our government is trying to lock us down and control us and take away our democracy.
I'm just happy to be here to support everyone who knows that this is all a scam with a pandemic.
And I'm just worried about all the kids that are going to school and some of them have to wear masks.
And just all the rules and regulations and all the people that lost their jobs and all these small companies that I'm just glad to be here and I'm hoping that this will stop because I've heard of so many people committing suicide over the sly.
And I'm just wanting, I believe that Canada was a free country, but now I believe in that it's a communist country.
All right, you guys are here.
One of you have a big flag that says, don't tread on me.
Why is it important for you guys to be at this event today?
I think it's important for our democracy and for all Canadians to realize that sometimes you have to band together and say what you're going to stand for and what you won't stand for.
And number one, we can all agree that freedom is number one important.
That's what we all fight for.
That's what our ancestors fought for.
So we just want to make sure that the message is clear that all Canadians want freedom.
We had people bringing in speakers.
And of course, you can hand out all the flyers and promote all you want.
If the people don't come out, you don't got nothing.
So I got to thank everybody for coming out and doing their job and supporting this.
Why was this important?
We saw what was going on in Berlin and Montreal and Dublin and Greece and Poland and Italy, Montreal again, Ottawa.
And I felt, you know, Vancouver's got to get put on the map too.
This whole mask issue, it's coming here.
You know, BC's slowly going downhill with all these restrictions again.
We're getting restaurants, pubs locked down.
It's time for Vancouver to be put on the map now.
It's time because we've just had enough.
Vancouver needed a big rally.
We've got lots of little protests here and there, which is great, but we needed a big one to say to our government, we are enough is enough.
And the time was now.
That's why.
I've never really been more proud to be Canadian than literally right now today.
People standing up for their rights.
That's what I want more than anything in the world.
All right, Dana, you were just saying that you came from a communist country and now you feel like it's happening here in Canada.
Why is that?
It's not a feeling.
It's what I'm seeing is happening.
Lockdowns, when I know in Europe right now, many of the countries have been opening up.
Doctors are speaking out.
What I like to see, when are the doctors from Canada?
Where are they?
One, two, especially BC.
I don't hear anybody talking.
This is very concerning to me too.
We're using basically my grandparents for these Nazis.
Later on, these communists, I grew up in the regime.
What I see right now makes no sense to me.
Well, talk about momentum when it comes to citizens fighting back against our rights and freedoms being body checked in the name of Wuhan virus prevention.
Rallies have sprung up in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and now even Canadians and the relatively laid-back left coast are voicing their displeasure.
And joining me now to discuss the recent Vancouver rally is Drea Humphrey.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Drea.
Hey, everyone.
So, Drea, the clip ended with that Eastern European lady speaking out against government slowly but surely curtailing our rights.
And you know, I got to tell you, I've covered many similar rallies here.
And I have to say, the most passionate people when it comes to speaking out tend to be those from the former Soviet Union or the Eastern Bloc nations.
I think it's because they have experienced totalitarianism firsthand, and it is anything but a socialist utopia.
What are your thoughts on that, Drea?
I completely agree.
You see a lot of people from Poland, even some Iranian people speak out.
And I've seen it before as well.
So I wasn't surprised by what she's saying.
And I think it would be wise to, you know, take it seriously, right?
Not just brush it off.
And I believe her name was Dana.
She was very passionate about getting that message out.
And she definitely wasn't alone.
Yeah.
And, you know, the dichotomy here, Drea, is that on the flip side, I see native-born Canadians who are brought up in the milk and honey of this nation, in wealth, in privilege, and they go to a university campus and they're wearing a Soviet Union hammer and sickle t-shirt or an illustration of Shea Guevara.
And it's incredible because it seems that the only people that are super pro-communist and super pro-having the government curtail our rights are people that have never lived in such a society in the first place.
Exactly.
They're still living with their parents.
It's super strange.
At one Black and Indigenous protest that I went just before coming a rebel, there was these young, I guess they were probably in university maybe, living in their parents' basement, and they were saying, capitalism is dead.
And you people are old and out of touch.
You don't know what you're talking about.
And I'm like, where is this coming from?
Why do they all think the same?
Like, I don't know where they're getting the information from, but you're right.
They haven't lived in any of the societies, not the one we have right now and the one that they're advocating for.
Yeah, and I think, Drea, too, a lot of people might be saying, well, this is a freedom rally.
This is all about the Wuhan virus protocols being put in place.
Why are they talking about socialism and communism?
This is the thing, Drea, I think, and I get this vibe from so many protesters.
It's governments of every political stripe and every level, municipal, provincial, state, federal.
As our boss, Ezra Levant, likes to say, during this pandemic, they got a little taste of totalitarianism.
And you know what?
They kind of like that taste and they're kind of reluctant to stop, you know, dishing into that bowl.
What are your thoughts on that?
Yeah, I think it's actually frightening what can happen when people are in power.
We hear all this talking about police brutality, but what about politicians, you know, that are abusing their power?
So I definitely see, and it's across the globe in many ways, which is also kind of concerning.
And I think a perfect example in Canada of this happening is the closing, how long parliament sittings were closed.
I mean, that's ridiculous.
There's absolutely no reason to defend that.
I mean, when you can go to a movie theater where I live, you can go to the movie theater.
You can go walk around the mall.
You can do all of these things.
But yet, democracy, not important.
And you know, I love the people that come out to these rallies, Dre.
And it seemed to me that you were treated so respectfully there.
That's what I get when I cover similar rallies here.
People were very articulate in expressing what their problems are with these Wuhan virus protocols.
And yet it's so funny, isn't it, my friend, when you contrast it to, well, in your case, I remember you went to some homeless encampment at a park and you had the stereotypical white liberal dude questioning your racial rescue and whether or not you were indigenous and being very rude in the process.
Why is it that when it comes to these kind of leftist protests, A, they're rude and B, they can't even get their point across, Drea.
I don't think they fully understand why they're so passionate about what they're passionate about.
I guess they've taken the time to really sit and be like, okay, this is why I am saying what I'm saying.
This is why I'm standing there.
I think it's more just like follow the leader kind of mentality.
And so they get out there and they get all passionate, rah, rah, rah.
And then when they get faced with, you know, a legitimate question or somebody wants to understand their point of view, they just can't do it.
So they result to insults or loudspeakers or in your case, umbrellas.
I haven't seen the umbrellas.
I've seen people carrying umbrellas that look kind of antifaish, but I haven't seen them really sticking them in anyone's face.
But they just can't articulate themselves.
And it's, yeah, it's a sign of how valid their opinion is when it's like that.
Yeah, I guess as Lennon called them, useful idiots.
Drea, one last question.
We've gone through months of misery, and my personal feeling is that the cure has been worse than the curse when we look at all the other fallouts of what we've had to endure with in terms of the Wuhan virus.
Depression, spousal abuse, suicides, people dying, literally dying on elective surgery lists that have been canceled.
The economy has been pretty much opened up, but there's all kinds of rumors there, especially as there's whispers of the so-called second wave coming, that around Thanksgiving, we might be going back to stage two, stage one even.
What is your vibe out there?
And I guess the question is, after we've endured so much and we're just now getting our liberty back, are Canadians going to put up with the regulations being regressed to the way they were back in March, April, and May?
Well, I've been suspecting that in the fall, we were going to see another lockdown for a while now, specifically because of how many times we've been told about the second wave and how bad it's going to be.
I mean, we have been told that barely before they admitted there was a first wave or whatever.
So in my mind, I saw a little conditioning there.
I'm not being like a conspiracy theorist.
It's just I feel like the government is prepared to lock down regardless of if it's warranted or not.
And then as far as people waking up, I think we are going to see more people sort of resisting this, especially if they do some more research.
And an example of that is I'm in, or I should say I was in, a lot of like COVID awareness groups.
And I literally got kicked out of those groups, not even for really giving like my opinion, but I kid you not, just for sharing any kind of credible information that didn't align with fear.
And so if I posted something that, I can't think of an example, but just something that said, oh, great, the death rate is lower.
And look what happened here in Sweden.
It doesn't matter if it's doctors or scientists.
They would literally tag admin to get me out and the admin would get me out.
And it happened so many times.
And so I think there's about two groups that kept me in.
And now I notice when I do it, it's completely different.
Like you'll get about 50, 50 of who's able to talk about it.
You'll get liked, you'll get hurt, you'll get some angry faces.
And I thought that's a real sign because this used to be just a group all about the fear.
And just backtracking with what you said, like in my area specifically during the lockdown, our domestic violence calls went up to 300% during the lockdown at Stump Falls.
It's insane.
And our child abuse calls drastically plummeted.
And so what's concerning about that is that kids weren't going to their safe place.
Not that they weren't getting abused.
In fact, they were probably getting abused more with all the stress and everything like that.
But the fact that they're not around their teachers, they're not around Sunday school, they're not around community centers, they're not playing sports, they're not going to the library, there's no one reporting these things.
So, I mean, and then BC is also having our biggest ever since we've been having our biggest overdoses, fatal overdoses, and it hasn't been stopping.
So, yeah, I think the cure has been worse than the virus for sure so far.
Yeah, it's so sad to know.
And that is a staggering anecdote about you going on to these groups, getting kicked out, not for voicing an opinion, not for coming up with conspiracy theory, but for quoting medical and scientific statistics and data.
And it doesn't fit with the narrative.
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So out you go.
Unbelievable, Drea.
Well, listen, thank you so much for joining me here on Rebel Roundup.
And I guess we'll, time will tell in the weeks ahead how far we're going to regress because I've got great worries about this too.
So thanks again, Drea.
Thanks, David.
You got it.
And that was Drea Humphrey in Vancouver.
Keep it here.
More Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
So it was that my cameraman Lincoln and I ventured out to Trinity Bellwoods Park the other day to document the growing illegal eyesore.
That is the Tent City encampment, as well as the playground that is apparently being overrun by drug users.
We wanted to contrast this scenario with all those goofy social distancing circles that law-abiding citizens dare not disrespect under penalty of heavy fine.
Alas, we never got to finish our report.
That's because we were violently shut down.
Now, I'm going to throw to a clip.
It is me standing in front of a particularly gruesome looking tent at Trinity Bellwoods.
I was merely filming the stand-up to my report.
Keep in mind, it was never my intention to engage with anyone at the encampment, but an illegal squatter inexplicably took umbrage to my very presence in this public park.
And here's what unfolded.
This is really shocking.
There are people here breaking the trespass act.
Please move up.
Move!
I don't like myself being filmed.
Do you have the right to actually smash that camera?
Hey, you wouldn't do that.
I have the right to smash that camera.
I won't do that.
By law, I have the right to smash that camera.
Do you have the right to smash that camera?
Yeah, by law, you know I have to.
Hey, hey.
What law are you calling her?
Yes, please sir Welcome to John Tory's Toronto, folks.
My beloved hometown is a pretty sad sight these days, wouldn't you say?
Parkland has been surrendered to people who are clearly unhinged, some of whom are violent, some of whom harbor vicious animals.
And while Mayor John Torrey says this is unacceptable, well, Mayor, I have to say actions speak louder than words.
In other words, how about doing something about this odious situation rather than just fretting about it?
In any event, here's what you had to say.
Hey, now writes, I live in the Bay Area, California.
San Francisco is the worst.
Tents in parks and sidewalks and under overpasses.
And the law is that they can't get arrested for peeing or pooing in the streets.
There are places where they're allowing them to use heroin and give them new needles, and there are nurses there to help them.
All taxpayer-funded.
Well, you know, hey, now it's tragic what has happened to the once beautiful city of San Francisco.
I first visited the city in 1986, and I got to tell you, back then, there was just a smattering of homeless people.
Now there are entire homeless communities, much like we see in other Democrat-controlled cities.
How soon will it be before Hogtown resembles the city by the bay thanks to a lack of political leadership?
Brandon Fong writes, this is so incredibly sad.
I used to live in Toronto for a long time.
I loved going to Trinity Bellwoods and shopping on Queen Street West.
I find it absolutely disgusting that residents and journalists are being intimidated by people that should not be living at the park.
It's also sad that the mayor doesn't give a single F about what's going on.
This is just going to get worse.
You are correct, Brandon.
The situation in Trinity Bellwoods is the end result when governments refuse to govern and law enforcement refuses to uphold the law.
And the end result is that law-abiding citizens must now endure the law of the jungle.
Barry Cole writes, I hope David Press charges I would avoid the situation entirely or defend myself fully if this was my stroll through the park.
Yes, Barry, charges were indeed levied against the dog owner and his buddy.
He's the guy who later swatted my cell phone out of my hands.
For the record, Dean Edzy, 40, is charged with assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, and mischief.
Mark, aka Andre Durant, 61, is charged with assault.
Andre has already been released.
He is residing at the park again.
And get this, the female mastiff is walking around the park unleashed and unmuzzled.
So welcome to the Toronto version of Whack-A-Mole.
Lake Nipissing writes, by law, I have the right to smash that camera.
Since you are so worried about the law, by law, you don't have the right to be living in a public park in a tent or have unrestrained, vicious dogs attacking taxpayers in a public park.
Well, you know, you are correct, Lake Nipissing.
So the question arises, why is the law not being upheld?
I can tell you one thing with certainty, if the late, great Rob Ford were still mayor, this violent nonsense would never be tolerated.
Sad to see how much things have changed in Toronto in just six years.
Alas, not everyone was supportive or sympathetic, however, folks.
Obsolete Professor writes, you're in his house.
He has the right to privacy.
No and no, Professor, that's public land and he would have enjoyed his privacy, not that he is entitled to any as he is a squatter, had he simply ignored us.
He engaged us, not the other way around.
Mr. Ozzy Gaming writes, he didn't sick his dog.
The dog thought you were attacking him and they were protecting him as they see him as the pack leader.
No, you're wrong, Mr. Ozzy Gaming.
First, there's some footage of the assailant, Dean Edzy, actually calling his dogs out of the tent.
Secondly, the dogs are unleashed.
Third, the large dog that did most of the damage, Grizzly, was already on, if you can believe this, a dangerous dogs list.
Part of the requirements in owning a dangerous dog is that it must be leashed and muzzled at all times.
This degenerate knew exactly what he was doing, which was to weaponize his dogs against me.
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But thanks for your concern, nevertheless.
In any event, folks, if you feel as angry as I do about the lawlessness in Toronto's parks, please visit our petition, taketorontoback.com, and I shall personally deliver this to the mayor's office in the weeks ahead.
Also, a huge shout out to all of you who sent your get-well-soon sentiments to me.
Your kindness and compassion is greatly appreciated.
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.