David Menzies and Sheila Gunn Reid critique YouTube’s $400K demonetization of Rebel News despite policy compliance, calling it a "governing entity" with opaque rules. They highlight Pastor Coates’ 35-day jail for defying Alberta’s pandemic restrictions, his church’s July 6th reopening with 150 attendees, and global backlash comparing Canada to China and Afghanistan. Menzies mocks Trudeau’s "campaign tactics" and unresolved LCBO whiskey denial, while Sheila exposes a PV Mart store’s misleading mask policy, later corrected under pressure. The episode ends questioning Canada’s French language bureaucracy, framing Mary Simon’s appointment as a potential workaround for Western exclusion. [Automatically generated summary]
You have tuned into the Rebel News live stream on this, a Tuesday, July 6th, 2021.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host, oh, my co-host.
You know, folks, in a world of black and white bozos, she is the technicolor treat.
She is the she-devil with a sword.
She is the Khaleesi of Northern Alberta.
She is Sheila Gunread.
How you doing there, Sheila?
I'm great.
And it occurs to me that we need a she-devil with a sword t-shirt in the store.
That might be a trademark term.
I think there was a Marvel character called that or Red Sonya, I think.
Or yeah, we'll have our crack legal team look into it.
Wouldn't that be great?
Instead of doing the really important work, like fighting fines and getting my bottle from the LCBO, we go, can you do a trademark search on She-Devil with a sword?
Oh boy, that would be great.
But I got to tell you, I'm a little perturbed, Sheila, because I found out the hard way on the weekend that you cannot get a refund on a DVD or a Blu-ray.
They consider it like the moment you break that cellophane wrap, you've watched the movie and you're just trying to get a refund to, you know, be a cheapskate, not pay for it.
Yeah, of course.
Well, also, what year is this?
Who's buying DVDs anymore?
I am.
And I thought I bought a DVD about Hong Kong, a documentary on Hong Kong.
And I found out when I watched it, it had, well, there was a scene involving Hong Kong, but that's it.
And I was having an argument with Mr. Producer.
He said it served you right.
But I said, based on the title of the DVD, I thought I was buying a DVD about Hong Kong.
And I want to know if you were that clerk at the store, would you have given me my money back based on the title?
What's the title of this movie you're pretending to not know anything about?
Oh, the title is Godzilla versus Kong.
Now, you see, I thought it meant Hong Kong, not King Kong.
I mean, they don't abbreviate Godzilla's name.
They don't call him God or Zilla.
So what the heck?
What is this?
His name is King Kong.
It's not just Kong.
He's a king.
I want my money back.
Like I said, there was a scene in Hong Kong, which they pretty much destroy because they're ginormous Titans.
But that's my case, Sheila Gunread.
If you're the judge in a small claims court, do I get my refund?
David, I want a refund for the last minute and a half of my life.
Justin and I feel like we've been robbed.
We're going to take you to small claims court and sue you for the minute and a half of our lives back that you just stole from us.
How dare you?
These poor store clerks that have to deal with you, you know?
Well, honestly.
I know, but that, you know, I don't know if we can zoom in, but that is actually a scene of Hong Kong.
These buildings are Hong Kong buildings, but it's not Hong Kong.
It's King Kong.
If they just put his proper title, I wouldn't have made that mistake.
And by the way, Sheila, I actually bet on who was going to win.
Do you think I have a gambling problem if I'm betting on which fictional title?
Who did you bet with?
Was it with Justin?
Was it with Mr. Producer?
Did you have a bet with Justin about who's going to win?
No, it was Lady Menzoid.
She was a reluctant betdor, but that poor woman.
And she also said something along the lines of, I think I just got robbed of two hours of my life sitting through this trash.
Just two hours, Lady Menzoid.
Come on.
Come on.
Anyways, enough about my problems with misrepresented DVDs and Blu-rays.
Sheila, what is the ostensible policy reason of what we're trying to do for the next 56 minutes?
Yeah, who even knows at this point?
It's the Rebel Daily News live stream.
It used to just be on Fridays, just hosted by Ezra Levant, but the pandemic struck and everybody sort of got locked down.
We thought, hey, there's more news than ever.
CBC's not telling people the news.
They actually made like a conscious company-wide decision to do less news during the pandemic.
We said, we're grounded.
People are at home.
The news is changing minute by minute, it seems, especially with regulations and closures and openings and base counts and all those things that, you know, pollute the airwaves every day.
We thought there needs to be a better way for us to talk about this.
So we expanded the Rebel live stream from just Friday to five workdays.
Ezra hosts Monday, Wednesday, Friday, a big accomplishment considering he hosts a daily show.
Plus, he, you know, he like runs Canada's largest independent media company.
David and I host Tuesdays and Thursdays, sometimes a little more, sometimes in my case, a little less if I'm busy.
And it gives us a chance to interact with each other, which I think is great, but also our viewers too.
And it used to be a way for us to make some money for the company and pay the bills and keep the lights turned on.
And, you know, YouTube had other ideas.
YouTube has sort of become a censorship platform.
They completely demonetized us after deciding that we couldn't qualify for ad dollars a little while ago.
Then they said, no, no, no, you don't get super chats now too, left a $400,000 hole in the company.
And also us with the realization that our time really on YouTube is borrowed.
So we have, you know, plan B through Zed, and I say Zed because I'm Canadian.
And you can find us on other platforms.
So if you're watching us on YouTube, hi, we're here for spite.
They don't want us here.
We're going to be here.
And it's a great place for people to find us.
And if you're watching us on YouTube, might I suggest you take a bit of an off-ramp to a couple other platforms.
We are broadcasting on Rumble, good Canadian company.
You can find us on Odyssey.
And if you're on Odyssey, you can do something there too called a hyper chat.
You have to buy Odyssey's library cryptocurrency.
Again, I've not found out about cryptocurrency and I must learn about it.
Apparently, it's the way of the future.
But you have to buy their library cryptocurrency and you can throw some of that our way and we'll read your comment on air.
Or you can go to Super U.
And Super U has something called a Super U shout where you can talk back and forth, leave a comment.
And on Super U, you can also leave us a tip to support the work that we do.
And if you leave us a tip, then Mr. Producer will let us know and we'll read your question and your comment on air.
And I think I have all the bases covered there.
I think you do, Sheila.
And, you know, in case anyone is thinking that we're crying over spilt milk about losing all the revenue from YouTube, it should be pointed out, Sheila, that there was no valid reason for demonetizing us.
They, you know, they gave us some kind of cockamaney rules against the community and we went through those rules with a fine-tooth comb.
Things like, you know, advocating suicide, for example, right?
Yeah.
You know, things like advocating dangerous stunt behavior, none of which we do.
It's not our Bailey wick.
We never do that.
I would almost respect YouTube more if they simply just said, we hate you and your politics and we're pulling away instead of lying about the reason they do it.
But that's how they, that's how they roll in Silicon Valley, isn't it?
Yeah, they're like a country unto themselves there in Silicon Valley.
They're like a country that exists on the internet with their own rules, with their own constitution, with their own allowable way that you engage other people.
It's like its own culture.
And that culture has nothing to do with freedom.
Even though they exploited the First Amendment to become what they are and make all their money, now, you know, now that they've become so powerful, none of that matters because they can just make their own rules.
Pastor Coates' Experience00:14:44
Oh, well said, Sheila.
Well said.
And I guess when we get right down to business, I think there was a media outlet.
Was it CTV, Global?
Maybe it was CBC.
It was about Grace Life Church reopening.
Oh, what am I saying?
No, of course it was none of those media outlets.
It was our very own Sheila Gun Reid who did a fantastic interview with the pastor.
Let's roll the video and you'll get a sampling of what they discussed.
Pastor Coates, first week back in the church since it was returned to you after it was seized by the province for 90 days, your church spent three times as long in jail as you did.
What's the feeling like?
It was pretty joyous for me.
What was it like?
Well, I've got to be honest, coming to church today for the first time in, I believe, seven months when we didn't need to be concerned about the fear of enforcement from the governing authorities was different.
And so even leading up to today, I was wrestling in my heart with just a level of excitement that wasn't there.
And wondering, what is that?
And why am I not more thrilled about this?
And I can't ultimately put my finger on that, except to say that we've just gone through an incredibly difficult season.
And I think it's going to take some time for us to adjust from that.
But today was amazing.
Just a wonderful morning of worship.
And it just was such a blessing to gather today the way that we did.
And so I am grateful to our Lord.
It was, for me, a return to normal.
And I don't know what it was like before, but I didn't realize how abnormal some of the things were.
For example, to see your deacons and your elders who I've come to know worshiping with their families because before they used to have to guard the door for the cops and Alberta Health Services and the media.
But they were with their families.
And I realized how strange this must have been that now they can return to worship the way it's supposed to be.
Yeah, I think this was a huge dose of normality for in a lot of ways.
I mean, even the offering, you know, we haven't taken up an offering since I think prior to the onset of COVID-19.
And so, you know, Pastor Jacob Spence, we said we're going to do the offering on Sunday.
And the offering really is an expression of worship.
I mean, you know, people can still give even without that offering time that we have in our service.
But that is an act of worship where we give to the Lord out of what he's entrusted to us.
So anyway, Jacob, he hadn't even seen how we do that.
So he was just like, how do you guys do that?
And so you got to see that today.
So yeah, today was a wonderful dose of normality.
I mean, we have lived a very normal life, apart from the fact that we've had to anticipate the possibility of legal enforcement, but our gatherings have been really normal for a long time.
So whereas a lot of churches are coming back to normality in a way that they haven't experienced at all for the last year or so, we've been doing this the entire time almost.
But it was wonderful to be here.
And for those guys to be able to be with their families again was a rich blessing.
You know, I'm glad that you mentioned Pastor Jacob because I think he's one of the unsung heroes in all of this.
And I think some of that, and maybe that's my fault, it gets glossed over.
You ended up in jail for 35 days for refusing to obey the government over God and your obligations as a pastor.
Jacob Spence stepped up to that pulpit the very next week, didn't skip a beat knowing he could full well end up right beside you in jail or next cell.
I don't know.
You guys could start a band.
But I think people have sort of missed his bravery in all of this.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, had he and I been in jail together, we could have had some sweet fellowship.
But yeah, the courage he showed in particular that first Sunday, he had no idea what the outcome of that was going to be.
And I remember being in prison and I was thinking about Jacob.
I was thinking about Tim.
And thankfully, Pastor Tim's out now too, praise God.
And just praying for these men.
And I was praying for them at that time and really didn't want them to have to suffer my fate.
I was hoping that by going to prison, I'd keep them out.
That didn't work out in Tim's case.
But in Jacob's case, the courage he showed that first Sunday and each Sunday thereafter was amazing.
And so, yeah, the resolve, the unsung hero, absolutely amen.
Yeah.
Now, you know, Sheila, that was such a great interview.
And I urge our viewers to go and watch the whole enchilada.
It's great.
I'll tell you what strikes me, Sheila, right off the bat, is that Pastor Coates, how diplomatic and gracious and polite he is.
As you mentioned, he spent 35 days in the cooler.
And we're not talking about some townhouse.
We're talking about Edmonton's maximum security prison, a very dire place to spend even one night in.
And I'm telling you, he's a greater man than I, Sheila, because if you had done that to me on no valid grounds, it's not like he committed a real crime.
I think I would just be full of, you know, bile and spite.
And I would still be angry how the state took away my freedom for no valid reason.
Well, that's the thing.
Like, like I pointed out in the video, there are so many people in this that sort of are unsung heroes who, you know, for lack of a better term, did their best to conduct themselves in a Christ-like manner.
Pastor Jacob Spence, I mean, Pastor Coates gets hauled away to jail.
And at the time, nobody knew when he was getting out.
He could have been in there for months.
And Jake Spence said, you know what?
I'm on the pulpit.
What comes comes.
And, you know, if they take me, there'll be another.
And, you know, the deacons who are out there guarding the door every single week, you know, you, when I was there and I was there, I think for about eight or nine weeks.
So while Pastor Coates was in jail a little bit before and a little bit after, you know, for me in that church, that was my experience.
But going back this week, you're like, oh yeah, that was really weird.
And it should not have happened that way.
And you forget because you're living in it all the time.
And it's funny because in talking with Pastor Coates, I sort of realized, I'm like, oh yeah, he wasn't here and I was here.
And so he doesn't really know who I know and the relationships I formed in those two plus months that I was here.
And so it's sort of strange because you feel like you're sort of catching up and comparing notes a little bit.
And you know, Sheila, the way I look at this whole story, I call it political judo because in the current events analysis, yeah, the state jailed Pastor Coates.
Yeah, they fenced off his church.
So they won in terms of putting an anvil down in terms of services happening there.
But in a historical context, people will look back on this as they are right now.
And did Jason Kenney and did Chandro really score a victory given that this got media attention around the world?
This was shameful.
So the judo part, it's kind of like Pastor Coates used the weight of the state against them in flipping them over because he comes out smelling like a rose.
And for Premier Kenny, it is just, I hear the Cersei Game of Thrones shame bell still ringing.
Yeah.
And, you know, it really depends what your motivation is.
So if your motivation is to squash the Christian church, well, then you don't know the history of the Christian church because the Christian church thrives under persecution.
The original persecution of the Christians caused them to flee.
And when they fled, they spread Christianity across the globe.
So, and then with Pastor Coates, his service this past Sunday was the biggest one yet.
They had 150 people outside in tents.
The entire church was full.
The vestibule was full.
Upstairs was full.
People were sitting in their cars listening.
I mean, they had to start parking cars off the property on the farmer next door's land because it was just so full.
So if your plan was to demoralize Christians, didn't work.
And if it was Jason Kenney's intention to show people how he handled the pandemic in a smart way, I don't really know what his motivation would be.
When you've got Ron DeSantis, the rock star of the lockdown, critical of what happened to religious freedom here in Canada, when you've got Scott Walker weighing in, when you've got Josh Hawley writing letters saying, maybe we should put these people on a watch list alongside Iraq and China and Afghanistan, those are the other people on the list that he wants us to join.
You know, you didn't handle the pandemic the way you think you did.
Now, within Alberta's insular media bubble, who are constantly cheering for the lockdown, yeah, you might think under the dome in Edmonton, as they say, under the dome of the legislature, you did a good job.
But out there in the real world, people are like, what in God's name happened to Jason Kenney and what is happening in that country?
Wow.
Why did you have to mention Ron DeSantis?
I look at the face of conservatives in the U.S.
That is the image that immediately springs to mind.
And then I look at who's the leader of the opposition in Canada.
It's Aaron O'Toole.
Oh, my goodness.
Can you tell a difference?
Oh, yeah, I can tell a difference.
Can you, Sheila?
Did you see some of, maybe Justin can bring them up, some of Aaron O'Toole's tweets over the weekend where he's just like taking a picture of himself?
I don't know what he's doing.
He's not door knocking, but he's standing there with an umbrella talking to people.
And that's like his bold, like, look at me.
I'm an energizing conservative campaign move.
Boy, I can really feel the intensity, Aaron.
Like, you know, you look at Ron DeSantis, he's fighting with the media.
He knows exactly.
Yeah, see, this one.
Rain won't stop.
Big grief.
Look at that.
Yeah, the rain won't stop him from visiting, but the Ontario lockdown order probably does, right, Sheila?
Yeah.
Can we just go back there for a second?
Oh, at least he's not wearing a mask.
Sometimes he's wearing a mask, and I'm like, you're fully vaccinated.
I'm pretty sure.
Plus, didn't you already have COVID?
Like, why are you wearing a mask at this point?
Like, how many layers of immunization do you have to get going for you before you take that thing off your face?
But this is, can you feel the fire, David?
Can you feel it?
Just burning.
Gosh.
Anyway, we should get to some of these chats.
Justin says picking my ear.
We've got a rumble chat from Joyful Art from the Heart says she feels sad when people look at me and ask, Do you think we'll be back to normal soon?
Yeah.
You know, and the further we get away from normal, the I think a lot of people aren't going to remember it.
Like they're really, there's a lot of people who are really adjusting to how things are and they really like it.
I was at, and I should maybe talk about this because, you know, sometimes a Facebook post and a complaint can change the world.
But yeah, like I was at Costco the other day and I would say, this is Alberta.
And like 25% of the people were still wearing masks.
And I think, okay, fine.
You want to fine.
You want to wear a mask?
You're a true believer.
That's great.
I'm not.
I'm going to.
And thank goodness that we don't have to wear them anymore.
But I thought, wow, like there are just some people who are just, they're deep in the throes of this madness.
And I don't know how they're ever going to get back out.
I really don't.
No, they really drunk the Kool-Aid.
And I can tell you, you know, and it's funny, depending on the jurisdiction you're in, you're mask-free where you are, Sheila.
And yet, when Mocha and I went to Ottawa, we were in the Ottawa airport, and Mocha pointed out that the public service announcement saying the Du Ragur masks are mandatory in the airport and in the aircraft added in the line, we recommend double masks.
And Mocha said to me, how soon is the recommendation going to be a rule that you got to put two of those face diapers on you?
And it flying was already an atrociously bad experience just by going through the pat down area and the overpriced undercooked food you get in airports.
But this social distancing, masking rubbish, it has just made it like the least thing I want to do right now is get on an airplane, Sheila.
It's a horrible experience.
Those flight attendants look like they're going into brain surgery.
Like they are wearing like the booties, smock, hair thing, mask, goggles.
Sometimes they wear like the shield gloves.
Like they look like they work in the Ebola ward and they're just flying the friendly skies.
Oh, some friendly skies.
I got one of those COVID Karen stewardesses give me a little mild reminder of the policy on Air Canada, which is basically Governor Newsom's policy that, you know, she saw me with my mask off because I was drinking and she says, sir, your mask.
Mask Off, Wine Sip00:02:27
And I said, I'm drinking.
And then she said, yeah, but we like it if you take a sip, put your mask on, and then take the mask off for the next sip.
I'm not making this up, Sheila.
You know, I was too slow on the draw with my cell phone camera to record this rubbish.
And by the way, folks, will you hear our next story from down under about precisely the same thing, drinking a beverage that got one man a whole heap of trouble?
But I think we have some more chats, don't we, Sheila?
Yes.
And David, you should have brought your like nose mask thing on your Air Canada plates, seeing if that was kosher.
And if you don't know what Sheila's referring to, folks, some Mexican researchers back in April, and we thought it was an April Fool's joke, but we couldn't get any confirmation.
They were saying that if you go to a patio now, you got to have your mouth open for eating and drinking.
But there's absolutely no excuse for leaving your nostrils open.
So they recommended a nose mask.
And I said, well, you know, one of the best-selling novelty items of all time, the Groucho Marks nose and fake glasses.
Oh, there's Mr. Producer.
Always Johnny on the spot.
So I went to a patio so much.
Boy, did I get some looks that day?
And so this is how the authorities, some of them want you to eat.
Look at that woman looking out her food truck.
She thinks there's a maniac in the picnic table.
Eyebrows are the best.
Like that's like, what is that?
Carpet?
Paper.
So there you go.
You know, and by the way, that's a fallacy too, Sheila.
Don't you, especially if you go to fine dining, don't you like to smell the food, you know, and the bouquet of the wine?
But no, here's what some Mexican researchers wanted.
This guy was a gem.
He runs one of the food trucks there down at Young Dundas.
And he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
He just wants to serve people food.
I just have a hard time believing that you smell the bouquet of the wine before you do any of that.
I've had a few drinks with you, David, and I don't know if there's any like wine swirling happening at all.
Although you do like your whiskey, which is one of the most asked questions we get out on the street is, did David get his bottle of whiskey?
And to answer that question, no.
PV Mart's Mask Controversy00:09:21
And a young lawyer at our firm that is doing all the fight, the fines cases, I sent him the chronology on the weekend.
And if you can imagine, folks, we are going to send the LCBO a demand letter to give me my bottle that I paid for, but they won't give me for reasons that still remain unexplained other than they're a government-run monopoly.
And as much as I despise monopolies, the worst monopolies are the ones run by the bureaucracy.
So there will be an update when they get the demand letter because Sheila, is this really going to be headed to small claims?
God, I hope so.
I hope so.
I'm going to cover it like I'm Nancy Grace.
I am.
I can't wait.
Now, Justin, I know you really want us to proceed with these chats, but I did send you a picture that I took when I was down at my local farm supply store, the PV Mart, because I'm a devoted, yeah, PV Mart.
I'm a devoted PV Mart customer.
And for those of you outside of the West, I think although you might be getting the PV Marts in the East now, so congratulations.
You're going to love them.
It's like your one-stop short store.
It's like home hardware, but more farm supply involved.
You can get your Wranglers there, your beekeeping supplies, your canning supplies, your plants, your chicken feed, your cattle waterer.
Like it's got everything.
It's everything plus nuts and bolts and hardware and casters and all those things.
Like if I need it, PV Mart has it.
And if PV Mart doesn't have it, I'm pretty sure I don't need it.
So anyway, I strolling into my PV Mart.
It's, you know, like July 2nd or something.
And I'm strutting into PV Mart because that's my happy place, right?
And I see this horrible sign on the door at the Sherwood Park PV Mart.
And I am just beside myself.
I didn't go in.
actually drove to another town.
I drove back to Fort Saskatchewan to go to the UFA to the United Farmers.
So anyways, they said that they decided PV Industries, so that's as a company has decided that mandatory mask regulations for our stores, stores, so not just this store, will apply until August 2nd for the safety of our customers and our staff, blah, So I snapped this picture and I put it on my Facebook and I put it on Twitter.
And all I said was, I didn't say anything mean.
I just said, that's fine.
I'll go to the UFA because they're not the only gig in town.
I just really like them.
So anyways, I get a message from PVMart after, like, I guess PVMart was put on blast.
I get a message from PVMart Corporate, who tracked me down on Twitter.
That's another thing I should add.
I was like, holy moly, I think PVMart's getting like a lot of blowback.
And I felt like it was a little much.
And I like PVMart.
So I thought, you know what?
I'm just going to take a break from PVMart.
I'll be back on August 2nd.
They were getting so much blowback that even though I deleted the tweet and my Facebook post, they tracked me down on Twitter.
PVMart Corporate sent me a message that said, that's not a decision that we made as a company.
That is my words, I'll just summarize.
That's the Sherwood Park store going rogue.
PV Mart Industries did not make this decision.
Wow.
And this is a very misleading sign.
And we're investigating how that sign came to be.
Now, I drove past PV Mart yesterday longingly, lovingly.
However, I didn't need to go in and spend any money because every time I drive past a PV Mart, $200 just jumps out of my wallet.
And that sign had come down.
So anyway, problem solved.
People in Sherwood Park and surrounding areas, go back to your beloved PV Mart.
Sheila, you have to go back to that particular PV mark because I want to know who is responsible for that sign going up and on what basis.
I have no doubt, especially since you shop there for farm equipment, that PV Marts are fantastic places for that.
But what made this manager, assuming it's the manager, I don't know if they're franchisees, if it was a franchisee that made this decision, what makes them think they're infectious disease experts to go against, you know, the grain in terms of even Alberta health services, for goodness sake.
And that's, and if I'm the CEO of PV Industries, I'm having a volcanic eruption out of my head.
How dare not only a franchisee or an owner or a manager goes rogue, but it puts right the opening line is PV Industries when PV Industries had nothing to do with this.
I think that's an incredible story.
And it reminds me, maybe Mr. Producer can find this for a later time.
When we went to Dufferin Street, we were tipped off.
And if I hadn't seen the video, I wouldn't have believed it.
It was a home hardware outlet.
Do you remember this one, Sheila?
Where a guy who had a mask exemption, and this guy sought out the little home hardware because he wanted to give money to the little guy, even though there's a Home Depot less than two kilometers away.
And instead of being rewarded for that, he had the merchandise snapped out of his hands.
He was frog marched out the door by a Karen.
And then when he pointed out, look, the city of Toronto notice in your own door, it says there are exemptions for those who have medical reasons not to wear masks.
An employee came out with a piece of duct tape covered over, which you're not allowed to do, as I found out from the city.
You can't alter a sign that way.
But I mean, holy red green, yet another use for duct tape, you know, to make people wear their masks.
So that's what your little anecdote reminded me when it comes to going rogue and playing fast and loose with the masking rules.
Yeah, like this is the message I got directly from PV Mart.
We're looking to how and why that sign was posted.
We want to make it clear that we follow any regulations in each area that we operate.
So unless a municipality specifically requires us, our stores in Alberta do not require customer mask use and wearing.
The sign posted was quite misleading and not our position.
And they were very grateful that I took the post down because I guess they were getting a lot of heat.
They said, we appreciate you taking the post down on your end and we want to be as clear as we can be.
We've always done our best and what was right.
We will be speaking with the store and ensuring that it's understood and recommunicating if necessary.
Oh, I think it's necessary.
We are 100% not forcing our customers to wear masks and we follow all local restrictions and customers in Alberta do not require masks when shopping with us.
The sign posted from that location has been removed and we're looking into why it was posted in the first place.
And it was removed because I drove past yesterday to make sure it was.
Well, Sheila, good for PV Industries for doing the right thing.
And let's make no mistake, PV Industries is a victim here.
This is a rogue person.
And you, like I said, you have to go back to that store and find out who the Dimwit was that put that sign up in the first place and made it a misleading sign that, oh, well, it's not us.
It's PV Industries, the parent company of PVMart, when that was a lie.
So there's so many things wrong with that sign.
And you have to follow up, Sheila, I should say.
I mean, I can't order you around.
You're the chief journalist here.
But if I had your title, I'm ordering you to follow up.
I also was giving some thought to the fact that this manager obviously victimized his poor staff because his poor staff obviously are thinking they need to make sure that the customers are wearing masks when they walk in the door.
And so a lot of people in Alberta are like, the hell I'm wearing a mask.
And so they're probably being prickly with the girls and the guys who are running the tails and helping everybody out because their manager is making them enforce mask laws that aren't the case.
So this, the staff got victimized by all of this too.
Oh, what a jabroni.
Whoever was responsible for that sign, it's beyond jabroni.
It's super King Kong Godzilla Jabroni.
Okay.
That's what the moral of the story, though, is that this Western-based company that hopefully is moving east and you guys will enjoy the wonders of PV Mart, they did the right thing.
They rectified the problem with me directly.
They found me, even though I deleted the post, and they're straightening out the store.
So, I mean, in a time when corporations are woke and they are, you know, just enforcing laws just because they can, because they can do things inside their stores, this is a company that is respecting the laws in the places that they work.
And I think that's great.
And you know what, Sheila?
When they do move east, I'm going to support this company for them doing the right thing.
You said I can buy a beehive there, right?
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Or something?
Yep.
Okay, then you can order bees there.
You can order chicks there.
Like you can get whatever you need.
It's at the PV Mart.
I promise.
Break cleaner, like everything.
Wow.
be thanking you.
Do we have so much hats?
Hey, Sheila, can't cut your tongue.
Oh, God.
The bee emoji.
Oh, I can't wait till they take that away from you.
Okay, so we've got a hyper chat from History Club World.
It was just announced that Mary Simon will be the next governor general.
What do you think of her?
And do you believe that there should be a governor general?
Do you, did you get my tip yesterday?
Yes, we did.
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So Mary Simon is, I think she's Inuit.
And if she's not, oh, I'm going to get letters.
But I think she's Inuit.
And so she's the first Indigenous governor general, but also she doesn't speak French, which I think is a step in the right direction because I think the French language laws, and they're not really laws, but they're like, if you want to move up in the bureaucracy, if you want to be a Supreme Court justice,
if you want to be in charge of any, if you want to be a deputy minister, if you want to have any sort of role of influence in the federal government, you have to be completely fluent in French, which by and large completely cuts Westerners out of the equation.
It protects the fact that Canada is run by Central and Easterners.
And so for me, I think this is a step in the right direction because, look, if it's good enough for Mary Simon, it's good enough for any other Albertan who wants to be a Supreme Court justice who is not completely fluent in French.
Well, but Sheila, she did issue a statement that she's going to learn French.
Dang it.
Good luck with that.
I've tried to learn French twice.
I wish I could speak French.
I really do.
I don't.
And the only French word I know, folks, is no cadeau, which when I check my lottery tickets means it's yet again another losing ticket.
You know, I want to learn a language that I can use when I am enjoying some time off work, like Spanish.
So if I want to go to Mexico, like I would take time off work to go to Mexico.
But like if I did, I would like to use a language that would be valuable there or learn a base language like Dutch or German, because those are, I guess, from what I understand, make it easier to learn other languages.
So, you know, I don't know.
Well, our Quebec intellect is not going to like to hear this, Sheila.
And there are, you know, I'm resistant to it.
You know, you can go to countries around the world where they still speak French, other than France, like Haiti.
And I'm sure there's some more.
So there you go.
Yeah, there's some failed states in Africa, I think, where they still speak French.