Pastor Art Pavlowski and his 12-year-old daughter Maya faced a violent "wild male Karen" assault in Quebec for not wearing masks, despite medical exemptions, amid accusations of political suppression by Jason Kenney and Madhu. Meanwhile, $1,500–$12,000 NHL playoff tickets in Montreal exposed pandemic hypocrisy—wealthy fans allowed while kids barred from hockey. Quebec’s 140-night COVID curfew ended with reports of police overreach, including anti-Semitic remarks and home invasions, damaging trust. Critics like Jessica Butler and Rick Pierce demand boycotts until children’s sports reopen, questioning why $24K seats trump fairness. Premier Doug Ford’s 21-hour reversal on Ontario’s vaccine passport rules further highlights arbitrary pandemic policies, leaving public confidence in shambles. [Automatically generated summary]
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It would seem that on some days it is Pastor Arthur Pavlowski versus the world.
By law, law enforcement, the justice system, the media party, all have targeted Arthur, but recently the pastor was physically assaulted at a store by a random wild Karen.
Adam Seuss has all the disturbing details.
Oh joy, Quebec has finally lifted its laughable COVID curfew.
But why was there a curfew in place in the first place?
Is the Wuhan virus actually able to tell the time?
Our Montreal correspondent, Yankee Pollock, has been covering the curfew circus in La Belle, Provence since day one, and he has plenty to say.
And letters, we get your letters, we get them every minute of every day.
And you had plenty to say about Hockey Hypocrisy Night in Canada.
Namely, last Saturday, the Montreal Canadians were able to host a playoff game, welcoming 2,500 fans into the Bell Center, assuming one was able to afford those exorbitantly priced tickets, that is.
Maya's Grocery Crush00:03:20
Yet the question arises, why are multi-millionaire NHL players allowed to play hockey, but hundreds of thousands of kids across Canada remain shut out from doing so?
Yet more weird science vis-a-vis the COVID-19 file.
Those are your rebels.
Now let's round them up.
Adam Sus here for Rebel News and I'm with Pastor Arthur Pavlowski once again.
We were going to try and leave you alone for a day or two, but obviously things continue to happen.
You've been the subject of quite a bit of malice.
There was an attempted fire.
I'm sure some less than nice messages have been sent to you.
But everything sort of escalated on Saturday.
You were out with your daughter after a baptism, I think, getting a cake.
And someone confronted you.
Is that right?
Yeah, I took my daughter Maya.
So she's 12.
I took her to buy her a birthday cake.
And we walked inside and, of course, minding our own business.
And this gentleman, well, he's not a gentleman.
He started to attack us.
I mean, right in the store for not me for not wearing a mask.
You know, I have my exemption and I cannot wear a mask and I will not wear a mask.
And we left, we minded our own business, we paid for our groceries and Maya's cake, and we walked outside, and he just came charging F this, F, that, like, I mean, unbelievable outbursts of hate.
And, you know, at that moment, I realized this is on all on politicians and the mainstream media because what they're creating, they're creating hate, they're creating malice, they're creating this situation when people are actually snapping, they're breaking.
They can't take this anymore, like one and a half year almost, and the people are really, really snapping.
So he comes to me so close and boom, he punches me in the head for nothing.
I mean, can you imagine?
Maybe he recognized me from the TV, from newspapers.
Maybe he heard Jason Kenya, our wonderful premier, saying, I'll crush Pavlovsky's.
Maybe he wanted to help our wonderful Minister of Justice, Madhu.
I'll crush Pawlowskis.
And here, I'm going to help you out.
I mean, this is what our society is becoming.
You know, what happened with the nice Canadians?
All around the world, people always thought Canadians are nice.
They're tolerant.
What happened with the tolerance now?
What happened with being nice?
What happened with being human?
We're losing our humanity.
You know, we're losing humanity because of the politicians and because of the mainstream media.
So my glasses flew off the air.
My daughter doesn't know what's going, you know, what's happening right now.
I placed my groceries on the ground and I went to take a picture of the guy.
I mean, no, I'm not going to get, you know, I'm not going to let him get away with this.
This has to be reported.
They cannot just keep, you know, smashing people's heads like this.
And when I went to take a picture, boom, he charges again.
I mean, over and over and over again.
And he's just really trying to punch me.
And he was an older guy.
And I thought to myself, if I'm going to react, you know, I can really hurt this man, especially with my skills.
Just, I don't want to do this.
What happened to those people?
Radicalization Loops00:09:44
Well, the pastor Arthur Pavlowski Saga continues.
Last month he was brutally arrested on an active highway, no less.
And then he was tossed in the slammer.
His crime, well, simply improving the lives of those who are a wee bit down on their luck.
And now a random wild male Karen recently violently assaulted him.
And this comes on the heels of some thugs who tried to burn down his property.
And really, what is the deal with that?
Well, joining me now for the latest chapter regarding the pastor Pavlovsky Saga is the man who's been following this from the beginning.
And that would be Adam Seuss.
Welcome to Rebel Roundup, Adam.
Thank you very much.
Happy to be here.
Great.
Adam, I couldn't help but notice that headline in your report.
It was for a Calgary Herald story about the pastor.
And the headline read as thus, quote, neighbors of street church terrorized by anti-mask preacher and followers, end quote.
Terrorized?
Wait a second, Adam.
Just who is terrorizing whom here?
Yeah, and it's just getting ridiculous at this point.
Like when media outlets do show up, they might interview one person who's attending the event.
Then of the four people who are protesting against it, they'll talk to three of them.
There was no real coverage of the fact that a couple weeks ago, a few hundred people gathered outside the church, sung prayers together, had worship, had this wonderful time outside, and then left the area without incident.
The only article covering it, the only reporting on the event was this article citing terrorism or that they were terrorizing the neighborhood.
It's unbelievable and untrue.
There's no mention of the neighbors.
And I spoke with the neighbors.
You know, they're all human beings.
Everyone's in this.
There's conflicts, I get it, but they're the ones shouting, Hail Satan.
They're the ones swearing at the top of their lungs when children are playing in the playground daycare facilities right there.
And to say that the peaceful worshipers, sure, maybe the music was a little loud and a nuisance at most, but to call them to say they're terrorizing the neighborhood, it's ridiculous.
Wow, how shameful.
But again, not surprising when it comes to the mainstream media.
But you know, Adam, this was very disturbing when the pastor, he's just going about his own business shopping, and this actual physical altercation happens.
Do we know exactly how this erupted?
Or was this simply somebody that recognized him, doesn't agree with his stance or his politics, and thinks he's somehow entitled to shut him down with fisticuffs?
Yeah, and I think it's the latter.
How this started ultimately, I think that when push comes to shove, it's going to show that irresponsible reporting, government policies, and a lot of malice directed towards Pastor Arthur Pavlowski has gotten people riled up.
And because of these lockdown restrictions, people are already at a breaking point.
So you have these incredibly tense people, maybe people dealing with mental illness, and then you have Jason Kenney or other media parties saying, well, it's because of people like this, and they show Arthur Pavlowski that you aren't free, that things aren't back to normal.
So get rid of this guy, get rid of anyone who agrees with him, and make sure you get your vaccines.
Then you can have your normal life back.
It's militarizing the population at large.
What's most concerning about this, though, to be honest, though, is let's say Archer was out with his brother with a couple of guys and there was an altercation, fisticuffs, whatever.
He's from Poland.
He grew up rough.
He's seen that stuff before.
This, though, he was with his 12-year-old daughter shopping for a birthday cake and a baptismal celebration cake.
So he was not out there causing trouble.
He wasn't yelling at anybody.
He's got a medical exemption, so he wasn't wearing a mask, but he's buying a cake with his daughter and someone starts shouting at him.
Yeah, you know, and more than shouting, actually getting handsy with him.
And, you know, this, I'm always shocked.
And certainly myself, other rebel reporters, we've encountered this in the field where we've been physically attacked.
And I'm always shocked at the entitlement.
And I think, you know, we see on the left, there's that phrase that they cling to to justify physicality, which is punch a Nazi.
But what I'm getting at, Adam, is that, well, unless you're hell-bent on world conquest and you're carrying out a genocide, the idea that somebody with a contrary opinion to you is a Nazi, it actually completely demeans what happened 80 years ago in world history.
They have taken it to if somebody has a differing opinion, well, not only can you yell at them, not only can you use profanity, you can actually get physical.
Whatever happened to the loving, tolerant left, Adam?
Yeah, there is a certain hypocrisy.
There's like this strategic front.
They talk to the media.
It's all this.
Love that.
Love this.
And then the second they have the opportunity to get someone alone, they'll shout at them, tear at them.
I think the big problem, though, and it's the irony being they're saying that you're Nazis, and then they're violently enforcing their own policies.
That's more Nazi-like, in my opinion.
But when you talk to these people one-on-one, within about five minutes, they start to become disarmed, and then you start to have a real conversation.
There's a human being in there.
We can't forget that.
The problem is when they get together, whether it be in their online forums or in person, they get together and then one person says something, the next person steps it up a notch and they radicalize each other.
So people who might otherwise disagree with you, but kind of be respectful or maybe at the very most swear at you, they get together in a group and suddenly there's this mentality of we need to act and violence is justifiable, which is just wrong.
Oh, 100%.
I mean, and they seem blind to the perverse irony of it all, Adam.
I mean, I look at anti-Fa.
That's a contraction for anti-fascism.
And yet they employ all the tactics of fascism.
It's not anti-Fa.
It's simply just FA, FA classic, right?
But one other thing I wanted to get to, we saw a screen capture of the individual that was assaulting Arthur.
And I couldn't help but notice that he had his mask on below his nose.
So really he's preaching about COVID-19 safety protocols.
If he went into one of the shops that were in that mall, he'd get yelled at for not wearing his mask properly.
What do you make of that, Adam?
Well, I mean, like, you look at Grace Life Church, there's people counter-protesting Grace Life, and they had a sign and it said something to the effect of what would Jesus do.
And it said gather with a cohort of 12.
Well, that violates the Alberta health restrictions guidelines for the times.
So I don't know.
Same thing.
When you were in the LCBO, they wouldn't give you your liquor bottle.
There's a clear sign on the door that says that part of the whole conflict there was you didn't put a mask on at the start.
And then they're in a room that says no more than two people.
They've got four people.
As you joked, it was a super spreader event.
There's just no, there's no consistency.
It's all just say one thing to another.
And the worst example of all, as these pastors are being arrested, conversely, people are being let into hockey games, whatever.
But Jason Kenney's up on the Sky Palace sitting with his friends drinking and eating while telling us we can't do that.
And then they have the audacity to say, well, no, this is part of phase one.
You're allowed to do this.
No, you're not.
They say you're supposed to target no more than two families.
They had like five, six different households sitting at one table.
It's just ridiculous.
They can't keep their story straight.
Yeah, you know, I never thought of that, Adam.
I guess Premier Kenny is delighted the Oilers were ousted in the first round by the Winnipeg Jets.
That way, he doesn't have to do a hard decision to let some people come into the building, whatever that number is.
It's so arbitrary.
One last question, Adam, as we head into the weekend.
What is the very latest in terms of Arthur Polovsky and his ongoing battles, of which there are many?
Yes.
So last week, because of the restrictions being slackened to some extent, on May 27th, Dina Hencho actually sort of threw an amendment on to our lockdown restrictions.
And it was basically to allow political protests.
This was May 27th.
This took place, I believe.
And it basically said, you can gather in unlimited numbers as long as you have masks on and you aren't feeding people.
So what most people took that to mean is like a pro-Palestinian or a political protest.
How those look is okay.
But the kitchens where they're feeding homeless people who are still hungry, those aren't going to be allowed.
But so last weekend, Pastor Arthur, he stayed distance from people because he really doesn't want to jeopardize his court things.
But with these new measures, he was actually able to baptize his daughter and be around his family and be out for baptism.
There will be worship on Saturday, again, as always, at Pastor Arts Church.
Similarly with Pastor Tim Stevens, they are going ahead with worship.
Pastor Arthur has been staying away from worship.
Now, we don't know for this Saturday for sure, or at least I can't share exactly what may go down.
But with the slackened restrictions, there is always that possibility that we might get an appearance from one of our famous pastors at worship on Saturday.
Again, can't confirm anything.
Unbelievable.
Well, I know I'm just so disturbed by what you said just a moment ago that you can have a pro-Hamas rally where anti-Semitic rhetoric is tossed around like confetti at a victory parade.
But don't you dare feed homeless, hungry people.
That is across the line.
Curfew's Last Night00:07:04
Welcome to Clown World, Adam.
I just wonder when we're ever going to get back to normal.
But in the meantime, thank you for all your hard work in covering the pastor's plight because we certainly know the mainstream media is no friend of his, right?
Right.
Okay, you have a good weekend, my friend.
Thanks so much for having me.
You got it.
And that was Adam Seuss in Calgary.
Keep it here, folks.
More O'Brabble Roundup to come right after this.
Hi, everyone.
Tonight is the last night of curfew.
One thing is sure, it's over by Friday night.
For now, at least.
I might come back.
Who knows?
But it's been a long five months of a lot of police harassment, police giving tickets to people, police running after people for the crime of being out on the street after a certain hour.
Sometimes it was 9.30, sometimes it was 8.
And I went back and forth and forth and back.
But that was Montreal and all of Quebec.
But now it's over.
Streets are still empty.
Well, there were people out earlier.
It's around 11.30 while I'm filming this.
Four people out today.
I got to speak to a few people.
Most people are still shy.
They're like, well, technically, there's still curfew.
I don't want to be on record being out.
And some people were willing to come on camera.
But let's do a little recap of the city of Montreal.
I've been covering it for approximately the last five months.
Tonight is the last night of the curfew.
How do you feel about the curfew and tonight being the last night?
It's very cold tonight in Montreal so it brings back the memories from January when this whole thing started.
I counted it and it's 140 nights so it's just unbelievable that we've been so long locked up and we're finally getting out of jail.
As you can see, we are in the back of Pestiv and 3265, one of the famous Jewish stores here in the quarter.
Basically, we were standing here right now.
It was the action for the last five months.
So basically, we would have had here cops stopping, ticketing people, basically just making miserable the lives of every normal individual for no good damn reason.
Due to the reason of curfew.
How do you feel with a curfew ending?
Well, to be honest, I was out every night either way, it's just that, at this point, it's just that I can drive and I see a cop and I can, I have the peace of mind to drive around in my communist country, so.
So communist, it's the same.
It's state communist, but the curfew, thank God that it's that I'm over it.
I passed it.
I don't know anything.
I'm not a scientist.
I'm not a man.
I'm just a guy, you know, trying to make his world.
And it wasn't easy, to be honest.
I worked two jobs.
I had to pay rent.
I don't have CRB.
I don't have all these funny, fancy things.
And the curfew was actually entirely a detriment to my life.
So, Mr. Lugo, thank you.
You made hell for my life since January.
I'm happy the curfew over.
But to be honest, I anticipate it's going to happen again in three weeks.
Well, let's all pray that this fellow is wrong, but would it surprise anyone if the curfew does get reinstated?
After all, during COVID, one thing has become abundantly clear.
Canada's premiers have proven that nobody is better when it comes to the fine art of flip-flopping.
And joining me now from Montreal is the man who was watching the watchers from day one of the curfew, and that would be none other than Yankee Pollock.
How are you doing there, Yankee?
I'm doing pretty great.
Excellent.
Well, okay, so Yankee, the curfew was rescinded exactly a week ago, and good riddance to it.
But Yankee, why was there a curfew put in place in Quebec in the first place?
I mean, can the Wuhan virus actually tell the time?
I'm convinced they can.
And sometimes it says it's 8 p.m. and sometimes it's 9.30 and it keeps on changing back and forth.
I'm pretty convinced that it could in fact see time.
And when you change the time zones, sorry, the daylight savings time knew that as well.
I think it's a very smart virus.
As a matter of fact, the curfew in part is back starting tonight in downtown Montreal, the old port.
There will be a curfew from, I believe it's midnight to 6 a.m., there's a curfew at the old port of Montreal.
Now, what is the ostensible policy reason for that, Yankee?
I know sometimes in the old port area of Montreal, you have young people celebrating.
The last time it was for the Montreal Canadiens, no surprise there, defeating the Leafs.
But in a sense, I can't blame young people for wanting to get out in beautiful weather, burn off some steam, because they can't go to clubs.
They can't go to restaurants unless it's a patio.
But what's the problem that the authorities have with this?
Well, me and Mocha were out last weekend when it happened.
When all the young people were out there celebrating, having fun, there were a lot of fireworks that went off.
There was a stabbing and a shooting as well.
And I guess the Montreal police or the city of Montreal, I'm not sure exactly who is implementing it, had enough and just are implementing a curfew starting tonight at midnight.
And there's no end date for it, but it will be every day till 6 a.m.
So there's still a curfew going on, you know, young people having fun.
It's probably the only places in Montreal where there's a big, not the only, but it's one of the places where there's a lot of space for people to be out and have fun and, you know, have your social distancing.
And that being shut down, instead of, you know, handling the crime, they're just shutting everything down, putting a blanket on everything.
But you know, Yankee, going back to when the major curfew was in place in Montreal, and I came out a couple of times to meet you on the streets with the rest of our team, what I found disturbing was, you know, Friday, Saturday nights, members of the Jewish community being specifically targeted by the Montreal Police Service.
Police Targeting Jewish Community00:16:07
I was there to see one family get two tickets.
One was for violating the curfew, but like really, where's the danger?
It's a family unit of, I think it was three or four people.
And secondly, another ticket, I believe, for not having their identification papers.
And I thought the optics of this, people with guns going up to Jews and saying, your papers, please.
I mean, I thought, what is this, Montreal in 2021 or Munich in 1933?
Yeah, I was there with you when that happened.
In the end, he only received the one ticket, although he was threatened, I believe, with two, but he only got the one.
And yeah, it's just, you know, going up to people.
And I've videoed them going into people's houses because they needed, because someone was walking in the street and didn't have their ID, so they ran after him to his house and walked after him and then walked into his house to get his ID and papers.
Sheila had a story where they brought one guy home from the synagogue in cuffs in front of his children.
You know, it's ridiculous and outrageous what they have done, you know, running after people for the crime of being out after a certain hour.
Like, it's ridiculous.
I thought it's a free country, but, you know, turns out it isn't.
And there's no way, scientifically or medically speaking, that is a super spreader event by any means.
But Yankee, with the Montreal Police Service, and I have seen a police service like, they blow any bad police force I've encountered right out of the water with the way they behave.
Is it fair to say there might even be an undercurrent of anti-Semitism with this police force in terms of not only how they were targeting the Jewish community, but you yourself, you were accused at one point of being with Jew media.
Whatever that means, what's your take on that, Yankee?
Now, I don't like labeling people anti-Semitic.
I do know that some cops at least are, and some cops made very strange and weird Jew remarks.
I have heard them, well, call me media Jewish.
They asked if Ephron and Mocha and Lincoln are Jews at one point.
And they also, I've heard them telling people, oh, don't, you know, at one point I filmed them saying, oh, don't run over the Jews.
Like, it was very weird how some officers are, you know, making weird Jew remarks.
I'm not saying that's all the officers.
I don't think all of them are.
I think it's a very few.
But they're just there and they continue working, and especially in the Jewish area.
And it's like, you know, it's just a disaster waiting to happen.
They don't like the people they're working with.
You know, I'm pro-police.
I'm pro-community policing.
What I've seen during COVID, and especially during the curfew, community policing thrown out the window.
Kids used to respect the police.
Now kids just don't care what the police have to say.
And what are we doing?
Like, this will take years and years to fix the years of building a community policing, and now it's all thrown out the window because what Francois Lagos said, it's too dangerous to walk after a certain hour.
Yeah, no, it really was damaging, and I think it was a self-inflicted wound by the Montreal Police Service.
But you're kind of making my point, Yankee, if there was police officers, and not all of them, of course, let's be fair, but if they were asking Mocha and Afrin and Lincoln and so on, are you a Jew?
What the hell is the relevance to that?
Who cares if that person with the camera or the microphone is Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, you name it.
I mean, I don't understand where that thought process is coming from.
But I guess more importantly, you're tied into the Jewish community there and the same community, the police were having these patrols.
What is the reaction to people in that community?
How do they feel about how they have been treated these last few months with these, I don't know, curfew quota expeditions the Montreal police were going on?
I could tell you from speaking to people, they are not happy.
People that like police, respect the police, are now like, what's going on?
You know, we work with you.
We respect you.
There's almost no crime in that neighborhood.
There is no issues with the police in that neighborhood.
Police officers have no issue walking down the street over there.
They're not threatened in that area.
But, you know, they came in full force showing like who is boss, showing that they control the city, the biggest mob.
And I think it will have long-term effects on the community.
As I said, the kids in the community do not respect the police anymore.
Growing up, I was taught to respect the police, and I do respect police.
At some point, a police officer asked me why I don't bag the blue.
And my answer was, I do blank.
I do back the blue.
I just don't bag the Montreal Police.
The Montreal Police is not part of the blue, in my view.
And that's how it is.
You know, if you're going to target people, harass people for no reason, I will not back you.
I back policing, good policing.
I will not back garbage policing.
I'm totally with you there, Yankee.
I mean, I think this was a lose-lose situation.
On one hand, it was as though Montreal had no serious crime going on at nighttime in other areas of the city, be it gun crime, human trafficking, burglary, you name it.
And secondly, the sheer amount of the resources being put into this, both in terms of manpower and financially, to write up tickets to families that there was no health issue.
There was no virus spreading issue here.
Your last thoughts on moving forward, if we ever run into yet another wave where things have to get shut down, if you had the ear of the Montreal police chief, what would you tell them, Yankee?
Don't follow the tyrannical orders.
Just don't.
Indeed.
It's that simple.
That's right.
I think you're right.
Don't break your oath.
And hopefully that will be the case going forward.
But like I said, that Montreal Police Service is like none I've ever seen.
I think there's a really rotten culture there.
I'm not saying there aren't good officers.
I'm not painting them all with the same brush.
But wow, their actions are really something to behold.
And Yankee, I want to thank you on behalf of everybody here and our viewers.
You were doing incredible work going out night after night documenting this because the mainstream media, they sat this one out, didn't they, my friend?
Yeah, I was actually surprised how nobody else was out.
And when I say nobody, it's nobody.
There was no other media outlet out there at night filming.
They were only reporting what the police report said.
I don't care what the police report says.
Every Monday, the Montreal Police tweets how many COVID infractions there were, how many tickets were given, and how many phone calls, snitch line, snitches they got.
And it's like, I could report on that.
That is not interesting.
I want to show you what's actually going on.
The real stories.
Half of these tickets that were given were given to people that had the papers you were supposed to have.
And the people still got it because the cops decided not to take the curfew exemption notes, not to accept them.
So a lot of these tickets, and that's why we're fighting these tickets to fight the fiance, because these tickets are outrageous and ridiculous.
Yeah, unbelievable.
Well, Yankee, you are often a one-man gang out there, and we thank you for it.
Have a good weekend, my friend, in Montreal, and don't get any more jaywalking tickets either.
Yeah, thank you.
Have a great weekend, and thanks for coming out, and thanks for the team for having me back in Toronto or even coming out some weekends to help me.
And yeah, I will try not to get any more jaywalking tickets.
I have three jaywalking tickets.
Three jaywalking.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
And that was Yankee Pollock in Montreal.
Keep it here, folks.
More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
Hey, listen, we're just wondering: are you looking forward to the game today?
I am.
We're very excited to have people back.
Why can the professional hockey players play, but the kids in Canada can't play hockey, man?
I'm going to let our authorities answer that question.
Aren't you with the Bell Center?
Hey, I see you guys are NHL officials.
Sir, can you tell me, it's great that there's some fans coming into the building, but why is it that my kids, your kids, everybody else's kids, they can't play hockey, but millionaire NHL players can.
It's a matter of status.
We live in a world that has to do with greed.
Right?
But why can't our kids play hockey right now at the same time?
I mean, the professionals have been playing all winter long in the regular season, right?
Because it adds to the economy.
Oh, okay, so it's about money then.
It's always about money.
So it's not about the science then.
No.
Oh, you got your helmets on.
Are you expecting some wayward pucks?
No, no, we're here to get your attention.
Well, you got it.
We got your attention.
Wow, these are old school.
CCM.
And you know how I know they're old school, folks?
Look at that.
Made in Canada.
When was the last time you saw some hockey equipment with that on?
Well, here's the thing, guys.
We've been told this virus has been dictated by the science, by medicine.
But maybe when it comes to the elites, when it comes to money, there's an exemption.
Millionaires can play hockey.
Millionaires can watch them play hockey, but hockey moms, hockey dads, they're shut out of seeing their kids play hockey.
Yeah, it's tough for everybody.
We came down from Ontario and guess what?
I just had a haircut today.
Hey, two minutes for looking so good, Richard.
David Menzies for Rebel News here in Montreal.
Well, folks, I'm standing outside the Bell Center in two hours.
Game six of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadian series will resume.
And well, what can I tell you?
Does it get any better than this?
Leafs, Canadians on a Saturday night, a playoff game, no less.
But really, who is going to this game?
I don't think it's your typical lunch bucket fan.
Have you seen the tickets that are for sale, folks?
The lowest tickets are 1,500.
The highest are 12,000.
Oh, and by the way, you have to buy and buy the pair.
So imagine that.
$24,000 for a pair of the top tickets to see this game.
I think that's a price of a Honda Civic, if memory serves me.
But really, in the next couple of hours when the puck drops, are we going to see an example of hockey play out?
Or is it hypocrisy?
After all, who has that kind of money during a pandemic to spend on three hours of hockey?
I sure don't.
I don't think the vast majority of our audience does either.
And really, what happened all of a sudden to those COVID-19 protocols, you know, socially distancing and keeping crowds down far lower than what you see right now and what's going to be in the building, 2,500 fans when the puck drops.
Even more disturbing is this, folks, why is it that suddenly the very same elitists and insiders who have been preaching to us for the last 14 months that we're all in this together and to stay home and to socially distance.
Why is it that millionaire NHL players can play hockey here tonight?
And presumably millionaires and multi-millionaires can somewhat fill the stands.
And yet, for more than a year now, your kids, my kids, all our kids, hundreds of thousands of kids have been shut out of playing amateur hockey.
Why is that?
Well, that was the scene last Saturday evening in Montreal prior to the Leafs Canadiens playoff game.
Oh, spoiler alert, just in case you recently got out of a Justin Trudeau quarantine hotel, the Leafs surprised nobody by losing last Saturday's game and later the entire series because, hey, that's how we've been rolling when it comes to Hogtown hockey since 1967.
Anyway, it just seemed odd that suddenly all the COVID-19 rules regarding everything from the curfew to social distancing evaporated just in time for the puck to drop.
Gee, I wonder why.
In any event, you had plenty to say about this most recent example of Wuhan virus rules changing on the fly.
Jessica Butler writes, I am a huge Habs fan, but until our children can play sports again, I'm not having anything to do with professional sports.
And anyone wearing sports apparel, you're part of the problem.
Well, you know, good for you, Jessica.
I think that's called taking a principled stance.
It would be nice if the NHL and the health bureaucrats also had it in them to take a principled stance as well.
Worst Case Ontario writes, so hockey games can be attended, but small businesses stay closed?
Makes sense to me.
Well, you know, I know you're being sarcastic, worst case Ontario, but really nothing, and I mean nothing, has made sense during this pandemic.
Rick Pierce writes, I'd rather watch the peewees play hockey than the useless NHL.
Hey, I'm with you, Rick, but clearly money talks and BS skates.
My heart breaks for the hundreds of thousands of kids who have been shut out of House League hockey across our nation.
Absolutely shameful and with no science to back up such a strategy either.
Jerry Price writes, boycott this until the kids can go out and play hockey.
It's all about money.
Oh, Jerry, when a pair of tickets goes for the price of a new car, I'd rather listen to the game on radio.
I actually scratched that.
I think I've got much better things to do than to watch or listen to the Leafs lose yet again in June.
And locked in with Lovebirds writes, Ontario science magically changed from last night to today.
Fans suddenly okay with the Leaf home game on Monday.
Now that's science.
Indeed, Lovebirds, funny how in the space of 21 hours, Premier Triple F, that would be flip-flop forward, went from stating that no way would any fans be allowed into Toronto Scotiabank Arena to, well, okay, 550 fans.
And hey, where did that 550 number come from?
Oh, and the fans must be healthcare workers, or as it turns out, healthcare bureaucrats in certain instances.
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Oh, and they must also be fully vaccinated or else no dice.
That's right, folks.
Monday was a historic event here in Toronto.
It was Hogtown's first vaccine passport event ever.
How you digging the new normal so far?
Well, that wraps up another edition of Rebel Roundup.
Thanks so much for joining.
See you next week.
And hey, folks, never forget, without risk, there can be no glory.