David Menzies and Sheila Gunn Reed contrast Alberta’s July 28, 2021, COVID-19 "endemic" shift—dropping quarantines by August 16 and asymptomatic testing by August 30—with Ontario’s prolonged lockdowns, blaming arbitrary restrictions on political culture. They critique virtue-signaling in sports, like Canada’s Tokyo Olympic rugby team wearing "BIPOC Lives Matter" shirts instead of competing, and mock the Liberal government’s plastic ban over public health, classifying it as a Schedule I toxin alongside lead. Meanwhile, a federal petition by Freedom Honey challenges child harm bail policies, highlighting Alberta’s clash with Canada’s progressive elite. [Automatically generated summary]
You have tuned into the Rebel News live stream on this, a Thursday, July 29th, 2021.
I'm David Menzies, and my co-host, oh, my co-host, she is the Huntress Supreme.
She is the she-devil with a sword.
Elise of Northern Alberta.
She is Sheila Gunn Reed.
How you doing today, Sheila?
David, I'm doing great.
And actually, I'm doing better than I even expected because I don't know if you know, but yesterday the pandemic was officially pronounced over in Alberta.
We've moved into endemic territory.
And I think it's on the list of things that we need to go to, but we're going to be basically restriction-free, including quarantine-free.
And this case demic testing everybody who has a sniffle, that's over too.
So I'm really excited to talk about that.
Well, congratulations.
And Sheila, I love your t-shirt.
Defund AHS.
I suppose you're not saying you're against people going, ah, you know, when they have a nice beer on a hot day.
I think AHS, Alberta Health Services, am I correct?
Yep, gut it.
Got it.
You know what?
There's too many bureaucrats telling us all how to live our lives.
And that, I think, has really been the one eye-opener for people who, you know, are strong advocates of public health care.
I'm not sure that I am.
But even those people have come around to the idea that there are too many middle managers eating up too much money in Alberta Health Services, making decisions that could destroy your business, separate you from your grandparents, and tell you exactly who you can have in your house.
So gut it.
Let's rethink public health care, especially during that we've come through this pandemic.
The idea that the entire public health care system was ill-prepared for basically a bad flu, I think should be an eye-opener to everybody that there's a lot of waste happening in the public health care system.
Yeah, but you know, Sheila, my suspicion is that a lot of those people, a lot of the health bureaucrats, a lot of the folks at Alberta Health Services, they're going to have a hard time going back to the way things were in like 2019.
They've had a taste of totalitarian power, I think.
I think they love the taste.
I don't think they want to give it up.
You know, I think they're probably pining for more variants of the coronavirus.
That's my suspicion.
I also want the entire legal department defunded at Alberta Health Services.
You know, the idea that we have lawyers working for Alberta Health Services as public health prosecutors, as they like to call themselves, and they are going around continuing the ongoing persecution, prosecution of pastors, business owners, asking for 21 days in jail in the case of Pastor Art Peloski and Chris Scott.
Defund those guys too.
I'm not against frontline workers.
I'm not against the janitorial staff.
I'm not against any of those people.
I want the middle manager bureaucrats gone from the system.
We could fire one or we could fire nine out of every 10 and no one would notice.
You know, and you're so right, Sheila.
And you had a really good video recently.
It was an update on a lot of the Alberta cases we're fighting them.
And my feeling is now that, as you said, the pandemic is officially over, why can't these cases be thrown out of work?
So many of these businesses, so many of these pastors, they've already gone through hell.
They've been penalized in terms of lost revenue, in some cases, losing their freedom.
Can't we just drop those cases and move on?
Or is there some kind of a vendetta going on there?
Yeah, this is vindictiveness because that Alberta is now moving into the endemic stage of all of this, leads me to believe that we probably won't be locking down again in the fall.
And I think that's a political decision given that Jason Kenney is running out of runway for his next election campaign and for people to forget what has happened over the last 18 months.
So I don't think we're going to be locking down again, but we do need to make an example of these people who stood up to the government.
I think it is very vindictive, and that's why this continues.
There you go.
And Sheila, it's around this time that you usually tell the folks what we're actually trying to do in the next almost hour.
In the next almost hour, I don't know.
We always go over time.
Five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes.
But this is the Rebel News daily live stream.
It used to just be on Fridays, just hosted by Ezra Levant.
The pandemic struck.
We were all grounded.
So there were places that we couldn't go, things we were unable to report on.
And a lot of our viewers were stuck at home because the government forcibly closed their businesses or gave them, you know, a work from home order.
So we thought, you know what?
The news is changing so fast with regard to the pandemic and things are popping up.
So we thought, let's sit down for an hour every single day and talk about the news of the world and the news of the country with our viewers.
And it was a good chance for us to also make a little revenue because we used to be able to accept super chats on YouTube, but then YouTube completely demonetized us on our main YouTube channel.
We're not completely demonetized on the Clips channel, but on the main YouTube channel, they cut us off.
What that did was cut us off from $400,000 in annual revenue.
But our viewers are incredible, and there are other players in the game other than YouTube.
So we are also streaming over on Rumble, which is developing a monetization, a way for people to give us money while we're chatting and interact with each other.
But you can also find us over on Odyssey.
And Odyssey has a few different ways to support us.
You can leave a hyper chat by purchasing Odyssey's library cryptocurrency, and you can give some of that to us.
You can also leave a hyper chat using regular old currency.
I think it's in US dollars.
Or you could tip us as a creator over on Odyssey.
And also on SuperU, which is a great free speech company.
You can also tip us as a creator over there.
So there's a lot of ways to interact with each other, to interact with us, and continue to support the work that we do completely willingly because we'll never take a penny from Justin Trudeau.
And Sheila, I got to ask you, Ben, do you understand these hyper chats, these library cryptocurrencies?
I mean, when you start talking like that, I devolve back into unfrozen caveman journalists.
I don't know.
Fast-moving cars and tall buildings frighten and confuse me.
And so do cryptocurrencies.
But I'm sure we have viewers that are much smarter than me that can figure this out.
And we really do appreciate the support, don't we, Sheila?
You know what?
I hold cryptocurrency.
I have some.
I don't know what to do with it.
I'm sort of frightened by it.
But I got some because I guess that's what everybody's doing.
So I got a little bit of it.
And I'm scared of it.
I'm scared to touch it.
I'm scared to lose it.
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So it's just there.
And eventually I'll get around to understanding what it is.
And I know it's really important that you don't lose it.
That's all I know.
So I have what you have.
It's on a stick in a safe at home with 20 words in order that I dare not lose.
I got a little more because I got a little more because that was kind of easy.
So I thought, you know what?
I should get a little more.
But yeah, it's in the gun safe and I'm not touching it.
It's just in there.
Well, let's just hope it appreciates and it's not the next Brix.
Okay.
I think it'll be fine.
Okay.
Well, Sheila, we, why don't we, we already covered off the Alberta ending the COVID protocols, but you had, speaking of COVID, you had another.
Wait, no, no, no.
Let's talk.
Let's talk a little bit about the end of the COVID protocols because I think you guys in Ontario need to realize what it could be like.
And I know Jason Kenny was particularly bad when it came to civil liberties, but I suppose not any worse than Ontario.
And Ontario remains bad, and we're getting a little better here.
So let's just tell the rest of the country what it could be like if you, I don't know, if you lived in Alberta.
So we are.
By the way, Sheila, I agree.
If I can just interject, you're so lucky.
Because this upcoming August-long weekend, Simcoe Day, if they haven't canceled Lord John Graves Simcoe yet, this is traditionally in Toronto, the August-long weekend, when you have Carabana and it's in a magnificent Caribbean street festival.
It typically attracts tourists from all over the Northeast United States.
It is a fantastic event and for the second year in a row, canceled.
And I'm betting if Carabana was happening in Alberta, that wouldn't be the case.
Am I correct?
Yeah, we just had the Calgary stampede.
And I think there was like 71 cases of COVID that were traced back to the Calgary Stampede.
I don't know if they even said that they caught it at the stampede.
I mean, how would you know?
But of half a million people that were coming through in close quarters over that week, 71 cases had been in and around the area.
And I don't think there are any hospitalizations related to that, which is, I mean, that's what it is.
I mean, people who are going out and spending all day on their feet at the stampede, they're not the kind of people who get COVID, end up in the hospital, and die with it.
Yeah, and 71 cases, not 71 deaths, right, Sheila?
Yeah, and we know how they count cases.
It's not always positive test results either, right?
Indeed.
So we've, this is from CTV Calgary from yesterday.
It says Alberta is lifting much of its remaining COVID-19 restrictions in the coming weeks.
And then, of course, because this is the mainstream media, even as case counts climb, but they aren't.
They're just, they're not climbing.
And the virus continues to infect unvaccinated Albertans.
Anyway, it says that starting August 16th, people who test positive for COVID-19 will not be mandated to quarantine anymore, but the province will recommend it.
So if you test positive, basically, so what?
Who cares?
And then additionally, Albertans with COVID-19 symptoms will not be asked to get tested, but stay home until they feel better.
So we're not going to get this inflated case counts of people who just have the sniffles.
Two weeks later, COVID-19 tests will only be available to people who need to go to the hospital or see a physician.
So there's no more of this asymptomatic testing, which means literally testing healthy people.
We're not doing that anymore.
And starting Thursday, close contacts of COVID-19 cases will no longer be mandated to quarantine either, but isolation will still be required for positive cases in people with symptoms.
So that'll end two weeks from Thursday.
So I guess today.
Masks are not mandatory in public transit, rideshares, and taxis starting on August 16th.
And the only place masks may still be required is in hospitals or continuing care facilities where people are actually sick.
And Jason Kenney said it's time to start thinking differently about COVID-19 because cases no longer equal high levels of hospitalizations or fatalities.
So that's it.
You know, I'm happy about the progress and the return to the good old days, sort of.
But, you know, Sheila, I find it a little perverse, all these dates.
Like the virus is going to abide by these dates.
Oh, we can't infect you today.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Oh, it's the stroke of midnight, August 16th.
I'm melting.
I'm melting.
I got to go to Ontario if I want to hurt somebody.
Sorry, I'm out of here.
I mean, why don't they just say, hey, let's turn Alberta right.
Let's go full Florida is what I'm trying to say.
You know, instead of all these artificial dates and deadlines, I just find that really weird, Sheila.
Yeah, I mean, like the virus checks the calendar, but I guess they have to set an arbitrary point for this.
And instead of this being good news, if you checked in on social media yesterday, the professional TV doctors were losing their minds.
They are really cheering for a catastrophe here in Alberta.
And the fact that we basically reopened all the businesses and everything on July 1st, and here we are, what's today?
The 28th?
Four weeks later, no catastrophe.
Everybody's fine.
Hospitalization rates are way down, way down.
So nobody even cares about case counts because case counts are just people who get the sniffles, if indeed they even get the sniffles.
So, I mean, it's just funny how these TV doctors are just, I mean, they're cheering for a medical catastrophe to unfold in Alberta.
And it just seems so ghoulish, right?
Oh, yeah.
As I've called it, COVID porn.
And, you know, the way the mainstream media reports on things, Sheila, I had a chuckle today.
It was a news story.
So it wasn't talk radio where someone is supposed to be editorializing.
But in the news story narrative, it was the issue of vaccine passports.
And the newscaster went on to, I don't know if this was part of her script or she decided to do some freelance editorializing saying vaccine passports, which aren't really passports, it's really proof of vaccine.
In other words, a vaccine passport.
I mean, like, suddenly, but you see where they're going with this.
They're going to tone down the negativeness of vaccine passport because to me, that is a negative.
And instead, the style guide will say XNA on vaccine passports, but do say proof of vaccination, which is a little less extreme.
So you see what court, what camp the mainstream media is in when you hear this kind of thing, Sheila.
Well, and I think that is when you see them changing the language because they know the public is against vaccine passports.
I think it's a tacit admission that even they know vaccine passports are a bad idea.
So they can't call them that.
It's proof of vaccination so that you can go places and do things.
So you mean like literally a vaccine passport?
Like, I forget who did some streeters.
I think it was Drea in one of her videos.
She did some streeters and she asked people about on the streets about vaccine passports.
And they were like, oh, no, it's not a vaccine passport.
It's just, you know, like a vaccine record that you have to produce to go places, eat in restaurants, use public facilities.
So, you know, like a vaccine passport.
Like, these word games are ridiculous, but it's exactly the Orwellian place that society has come to right now.
Oh, you're so right.
I mean, where the Ministry of Truth is actually the propaganda arm of Oceania.
And the one place you never want to end up is the Ministry of Love, where they torture people to death.
No greater example of this Orwellian doublespeak than the Reopening Ontario Act, which is the act they used to close the place.
You know, what chutzpah?
We are going to lock you down.
We are going to change your locks.
We are going to send the mounted unit out and haul you away in front of national TV cameras under the reopening Ontario Act.
They have no shame here, Sheila.
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No.
I mean, and all this from a so-called conservative prime minister, right?
It's or a conservative premier.
I mean, it's just ridiculous.
Yeah.
I said conservative prime minister, like that's a thing that's going to happen in the next 20 years.
Unbelievable.
Oh, maybe there was, he had a shot at that, but the last almost two years, I think, has destroyed that.
I think he has totally turned his base against them, Sheila.
And not only a supposedly Ontario conservative premier, but the fact that one of his main slogans in addition to for the people was Ontario open for business.
You know what?
Sheila, that's our fault.
We missed that tiny little asterisk and we looked in the fine print.
And yeah, open for business during a pandemic.
If you're Walmart or Costco or the Loblaw group of companies, those people are open for business.
You're a little mom-pa toy store, shoe store, spa.
Oh, no, this government will come down on you with the force of a papal bull.
So give me a break.
Yeah, reopening Ontario Act.
Now, Sheila, how, since you are in Alberta, and I can't wait to get back there, how are people reacting to the reopening?
Because again, coming down to Rebel News headquarters here in Toronto, I wish you were in the car with me because it was a talk radio segment and it was about a caller sending a text message.
And basically, the family were going to finally go out to a restaurant now that that's allowed, indoor seating.
You don't want to go on a patio today in Toronto.
It's raining cats and dogs.
And at the last second, the father said, I'm sorry.
I'm just not ready for this.
I just can't do this.
And of course, the host interviewed a psychiatrist to get tips on how people should, you know, man up and go to a restaurant.
You'd think they're being drafted for a war overseas, right?
But I don't, I mean, the circle I'm in, I don't sense any anxiety.
People are like, you know, pedal to the metal.
Open up, open up.
We want to get back to normalcy.
Is that what's happening in Alberta?
Or are there people that are, Sheila, just not ready to go to the bistro?
Oh, I'm sure there are some of those people in downtown Edmonton.
I'm sure.
I kind of hold Ralph Klein's opinion on downtown Edmonton and that it's a nice place with too many mosquitoes and socialists.
But I think by and large, like I get a different experience, right?
Because I live in rural Alberta.
And if I ever get sort of close to the city, I'm only going there to work on something and then come back out.
So I stay sort of in the surrounding areas, like very blue-collar community of Fort Saskatchewan.
Sherwood Park is more affluent bedroom community.
So that's as far as I get.
And things are pretty normal there.
Now, you maybe have like 10% true believers who are still masked up in the vegetable section of the grocery store while simultaneously touching everything.
But it's Alberta, and we're, you know, I think we just have like a different mentality here.
Like we're a different kind of people.
We're by and large conservative.
We don't like being told what to do.
It's why we had the restaurant uprising.
It's why we had the church uprising.
We're just the kind of people who don't take kindly to government telling us how to live our lives, who we can talk to, and who we can have in our homes.
So it's a little bit different, I think.
But I think Ontario needs like a cult deprogramming a little bit.
Oh, I agree.
But, you know, Sheila, you saw what they did to Adam Skelly of Adamson's Barbecue.
They made him an example.
That was such an overkill.
And really, it wasn't so much vindictiveness against Adam Skelly, although there was a part of that.
It was a message that Mayor Torrey and Cruella Davila and Doug Ford were sending to any other small business.
You dare have the temerity to do what this guy's doing.
How do you like going to the cooler?
How do you like having your business destroyed in front of the gleeful clapping seals of the mainstream media?
That was really what that was about.
So I think that successfully quashed any kind of Toronto or Ontario rebellion in terms of a critical mass, Sheila.
Yeah, I think though, again, it speaks to a different culture because that's how you get more of us in Alberta.
You know, like when they start cracking down on one pastor, one business owner, that's how they ended up with more of us.
And in Toronto, the opposite happened.
Everyone was like, oh, I don't want that to happen to me.
So I'll just shut up and I'll just wait this out.
Wherein Alberta was completely different.
When Chris Scott opened up his restaurant, everybody else started opening up.
When Natalie Klein opened up her hair salon, everybody else started opening up in solidarity.
When Pastor James Coates stood up to the government, and even after James Coates went to jail for 35 days, other pastors were opening their congregation.
So I think, again, if, and not to, well, you know what?
It does sound like I'm going to say something bad about the people of Toronto.
And don't write me letters because I know there's good people there and a lot of you watch us.
But I think if there were a different response to what happened a lot sooner.
Sheila, could you release that?
You froze for a little bit.
So you were about to say, it was just after you said, people of Toronto don't hate me for saying this, and then we didn't hear what happened.
People are going to think the deep state is censoring.
Justin probably cut my mic.
No, what I said was, you know, like, even though a lot of people in Toronto watch us, and there's a lot of good people there standing up for freedom, but I think if there had been solidarity around Adam Skelly as opposed to fear, you guys would have been out of this a lot sooner.
100%.
And you know, even with those outrageous over-the-top police fear and intimidation tactics that Adam Skelly endured, Sheila, just think of it.
If a thousand businesses in Toronto, the city of Toronto, opened the next day, are you going to do that a thousand times?
There's not enough resources to do that.
You know, there really isn't.
And it was a missed opportunity, I think.
And now, I mean, just as we're getting open, the speculation is what's going to happen in fall.
Typically, you know, there's a lot of chatter about, well, are the schools really, really ready to reopen?
And of course, fall is flu season, which I guess gets conflated with COVID these days.
And I love what Ezra, our boss, had to say the other day when Raw when Doug Ford makes a statement that, let me tell you, by golly, folks, in September, the kids are going back to school, even if I have to drive the school bus, right?
Sure.
And I think of Doug Ford driving this giant mega school bus all over the province picking up kids.
And Ezra's point was that when he hears rhetoric like that, Sheila, the kind of rhetoric that personally makes the dial on my BS detector go deep into the red zone, I'm kind of betting on a lockdown.
Right now, I think it's 50-50, but what are your thoughts on that?
And what do you hear on the streets of Alberta?
Well, yeah, it's that fake populism, right?
That fake populism that everybody bought into with Doug Ford the first time around.
And he thinks that we're going to believe him.
We're going to believe you now and not your actions over the last 18 months.
Sure.
Seems legit.
I don't know.
I'm very worried about Ontario in that I do think you guys have, I think it's more like a 75% potential to lock back down.
And I bet you, I just bet you, your kids are going to be wearing masks to go to school in the fall, if they go to school at all.
And you know, Sheila, I got to tell you, if I was at that presser where he said that, because they don't take our questions, they're too prickly.
I think my first question is, Premier Ford, do you have a license that would allow you to drive a school bus?
Can't just be driving a school.
I don't know what it is in Ontario.
I don't know what it is in Ontario, but do you have a class four?
That's what it is in Alberta.
Because then you're really breaking the law, aren't you?
You know, the Ministry of Transportation might look dimly upon that.
Or is this advice from your imaginary friend Arthur again?
Yeah, driving around in the cheesecake school bus, picking up everybody's kids with his regular driver's license.
I mean, it's just so ridiculous.
Nobody believes him anymore.
I know.
It's just too many, Sheila.
Too many.
And we used to adore this man.
He was a guest speaker at one of our Rebel Live events, I think, 2017, wasn't he?
And, you know, and that's a great juxtaposition of what Doug Ford was and what he became.
If you go back to that video, Sheila, and the things he was saying that was getting a standing O at the Rebel Live and the things he has done now in a position of power, they're absolute night and day.
Yeah, I remember he gave out his personal cell phone number.
Oh, not anymore.
That's disconnected.
Yeah, I believe that.
But you're right.
I believe that one.
You know, someone of that stature giving out his personal cell phone number, folks.
And at a time it did work.
And I'm sure he got inundated with messages, but those days are not long gone.
You dial that number today.
Sorry, the number you have just dialed is out of service, kind of like the province itself, out of service.
Yeah, it too.
It too is experiencing treatment from the open for business law.
I'll never forget.
There was a video, or it was a phone call, and it was a CBC interview on CBC radio, which is absolutely terrible.
That it's just the worst.
But anyways, the hosts had called Rob Ford while he was coaching.
Oh, I remember at the time.
Yeah.
And the hosts were like offended that he wasn't devoting all of his time to them.
And finally, he's like, I'm coaching football.
Like, quit calling me kind of thing.
But naturally, he's one of those guys that gave out his phone number.
So CBC just called him.
You know, Sheila, Rob Ford, who I adore.
And by the way, Rob Ford is not Doug Ford.
We have surely discovered that in the last two years.
But I remember that well.
And he was, A, mocked for taking a call and, like you said, not giving his, you know, total attention to the Khaleesis at the CBC.
And B, also mocked for, well, he's mayor and he's like, you know, coaching this toxic masculinity tackle football.
I can tell you, I mean, at the time, I did a story back in my freelancing days for the National Post in which I, you know, I sort of embedded myself with the team for a bit.
And you had kids from all kinds of diverse backgrounds, Dom Bosco, kind of in a rough neighborhood of town.
And I will never forget a couple of the single mothers that came up to me and spoke about what the football program meant to them.
And it was this, Sheila.
If not for this football program, my son would either be in jail or dead.
That's what they said to me.
Because without something to do, they'd have all this free time on their hands.
They'd hang around at the mall, kind of maybe get, you know, drift into gang culture, perhaps.
But they join the football team.
They endure practice every day.
You know, when they come home, their head hits the pillow.
They're exhausted.
They're out.
So it was keeping these kids in school, building them up mentally, the football program, building them up physically.
And these bastards in the city of Toronto, the social elitists, had the temerity to mock what Rob Ford was doing with that football program.
They have no solutions, Sheila.
They talk a mean game, but, you know, I think out west, what is the saying?
All hat, no cattle.
And that's what that man had to go through.
And it's absolutely shameful.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I think Rob Ford's approach to those kids was, you know, the old saying that idle hands are the devil's workshop, right?
Keep the kids busy, give them something that they can achieve and, you know, keep them off the streets.
And, you know, think about what it was like for those kids to have somebody as important as Rob Ford take time out of his day to work with them, to cheer them on, to coach them, to mentor them.
You know, that's something, you know, when you're a disadvantaged kid, and I think I can speak to this a little bit because I kind of was one.
To have somebody important take an interest in you, that's something you never forget.
That sticks with you forever.
It gives you value as you go forward.
Oh, and Sheila, let me tell you this.
This was not a PR stunt on behalf of Rob Ford to get publicity.
He was totally invested in those kids.
Every kid had his number, 24-7, and he even told me he had calls at 3 or 4 in the morning of a kid in trouble.
He got into his car to get them out of trouble.
He also donated, I believe it was in the neighborhood of 30 or 35,000 to buy the equipment for the football program.
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And this was, like I said, it was not a publicity stunt.
He wasn't looking for glowing articles in Toronto Life.
Oh, the mayor who also coaches.
And when you saw him on the sidelines, it was a passion of his.
It was an absolute passion.
And, you know, I wonder, you know, you've given me an idea.
I'm going to look into whether or not the program even exists anymore at Don Bosco.
If it doesn't, that's a shame.
Well, and if it doesn't, you know exactly why.
Yeah.
Because nobody like Rob stepped up.
We should.
This is actually a pretty good segue into your video about the women's rugby team.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay then.
And Mr. Producer, all right.
Yeah.
If there's anything that these Olympics are about, folks, it has to be wokeness.
I think they should make it a gold medal game.
Who is going to be the most woke at the Japan 2020 Olympics?
And wow, some of the frontrunners are the members of the Canadian Women's Sevens rugby team.
Check it out.
There were many glowing, gushing, and fawning articles published the other day about the Canadian Women's Rugby Sevens team, which is now over in Tokyo, competing at a spectator-free Olympic Games that apparently nobody seems to care about.
But then again, why shouldn't there be full-page newspaper articles about these Canuck ladies winning the gold medal?
Oops, at time of writing, the squad hadn't even played a single rugby game yet.
Their chests weren't adorned with glittery medals, but rather with black and white t-shirts proclaiming BIPOC Lives Matter.
Now, at first blush, I misread BIPOC for biopic, and I thought, gee, how curious that these gals are going to bat for the lives of documentary filmmakers.
Alas, BIPOC actually stands for Black Indigenous People of Color.
Alrighty then.
But missing from all the articles was an explanation vis-a-vis what the rules are when it comes to whose lives matter and whose lives do not.
I must say, I'm completely confused.
You see, Black Lives Matter is the granddaddy phrase.
I agree with the sentiment that Black Lives Indeed Matter, although I loathe the organization Black Lives Matter as it is so jam-packed with Marxists and racists.
Case in point, Usra Kogari, aka Usra Ali.
She's one of the organizers of Black Lives Matter Toronto.
And apparently, Usra tweeted this mirthful message a while back, quote, please, Ala, give me the strength not to cuss kill these men and white folks out here today.
Please, please, please, end quote.
Oh, by the way, Toronto Mayor John Woktori would later give her some sort of civic award for something.
Worst mayor ever.
But here's the thing.
I am of the firm belief that all lives matter, every single one.
Dr. Martin Luther King thought so too back in the day.
And what reasonable person would not be on board with such a sentiment?
Yet stating that all lives matter is supposedly an egregious act of cultural appropriation, or at least an act of t-shirt slogan appropriation, just ask the folks at Pollock's Home Hardware.
Last July, this shop in West End Toronto put up a sign that declared, quote, all lives matter, be safe, be kind, end quote.
Oh, Hogtown's woke mob reacted with absolute fury.
You'd think the Pollocks were displaying a swastika or something.
Indeed, check out some of the comments that were published in a blog TO post.
Gasped one triggered social justice warrior, quote, I actually can't believe I saw this.
How has this not been addressed?
End quote, fumed another spirit unicorn.
Quote, this sign is extremely inappropriate toward black community members that are fighting against their people being killed and brutalized.
Or do you only care about your white customers, end quote?
Naturally, the sign very quickly came down before a mostly peaceful Antifa community outreach group dropped by to introduce the hardware store to an assortment of Molotov summer cocktails.
But that was then, and this is now, because apparently in 2021, you can MacGyver the Black Lives Matter slogan.
The rugby gals are getting applauded for their tinkering, not condemned.
But are they truly being as inclusive as they could be?
Does BIPOC include gay lives and trans lives?
Does it include Latino lives?
But hey, I get it.
There's only so much real estate on a t-shirt.
So maybe the rugby gals should wear shirts stating, all lives matter, except one category.
That should do it.
Or how about this?
Enough with the virtue signaling.
How about just, you know, get out on the pitch and play rugby and try to win a gold medal for our great dominion.
And hey, should they finish second or third?
Perhaps they can climb up upon the podium adorned in t-shirts that state silver and bronze medals matter.
Even though, let's face it, folks, nobody really gives a rodent's rectum.
For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies.
That's where it's Sheila.
Sorry, I didn't, Justin didn't have you in my ear when you came back.
Well, I was just going to ask you to weigh in on it because, and you have some skin in the game, given that I believe your lovely daughter does play rugby.
And let me put this to you, Sheila.
You know, in the course of researching this whole BIPOC thing, it's amazing how the left continues to eat itself.
I understand the phrase people of color is entering politically incorrect territory.
I can't even think of what the politically correct 2021 version descriptor is for people of color.
Much like, remember, for the last few years, we're all about triggering and trigger warnings.
Evidently, trigger is under the ban, Sheila, because a trigger is a piece of a gun and guns are evil, don't you know?
So before our eyes, within months even, politically correct terminology is becoming politically incorrect.
Where does this madness end, Sheila?
I hope it never ends because now they're turning on each other.
And I'm just over here saying, I just get to say whatever I want.
And you guys, you guys can sort out all this like word language garbage.
But yeah, my daughter does play rugby.
And, you know, I look at this and I think, what would have happened to the one person on the team who said, no, I'm not wearing this shirt.
This is stupid and this isn't why we're here.
You know very well what would happen.
And I think that's where I'm going with this is this isn't actually about being united or ecumenical or anything.
This actually serves to alienate and bully the people on your team who maybe have different political views.
It's actually a divisive poison on the team.
Because I look at my daughter's rugby team, girls from all different backgrounds, because rugby is accessible.
There's no equipment.
You pay for, you know, your pitch fees and some insurance to make sure that you don't sue the club when your nose gets broken.
It's pretty accessible.
All you need is cleats, right?
And so because of that, there are, you know, kids from all different backgrounds, kids from, you know, different ethnic backgrounds, because that's another thing about rugby.
You have, it's a sport that is played in other parts of the world.
For example, like in New Zealand, the Indigenous members sort of dominate the team.
They're the better players, right?
Like, so it's in that part of the world.
It's actually an Indigenous sport.
And so you have people from all different backgrounds.
And I don't, I think this serves to divide the team.
This doesn't unite the team.
This bullies certain people.
And it, I mean, I don't, I don't even know how any of this is necessary.
But when you were doing this video and after it was sort of produced and then I saw it and then another story broke and I was like, oh, I wish we could have added this to the story.
But then I didn't know how we could shoehorn it in.
And the video was already done anyway.
Justin, I sent you that link from CTV Edmonton.
Everybody has the opportunity to be educated.
Country Club pulls picture after public backlash.
The Glendale Golf and Country Club has apologized for reposting a picture of a foursome who wore shirts at a golf tournament that read, Drunk Wives Matter.
And so the golf club, like the country club is in trouble because these ladies were wearing the shirts that are widely available, by the way.
If you just put in drunk wives matter into Google search, you'll get like so many companies selling them.
But they found an educator, whatever that means.
I don't think that means somebody with a degree in education.
That means somebody who takes money from a government to brainwash your staff into thinking that they are racist when they say anything.
But Farah Sharif, an educator, told CTV News why they thought this was a good idea is beyond me.
Mocking an entire black activist movement post, George Floyd, is inherently racist, period.
So this person that doesn't know these ladies who are just, you know, ladies in matching outfits on the golf course, having a couple drinks, as people tend to do at the golf course, this person, this educator, not knowing anything about these ladies, called them all racist.
They don't know if these ladies have adopted black children.
They don't know if they're married to Indigenous men.
They don't know anything about anything.
But they feel that it is absolutely their right to come to the conclusion that those ladies are racist.
And I think that's the problem in all of this, too, is if you don't self-flagellate, you're also racist.
And the activists now want these ladies banned from the golf club.
They don't want them there at all.
100%, Sheila.
And I mean, come on, it's gentle parody of a phrase.
It doesn't mean that they're racist.
They're making fun of themselves.
Exactly.
They're making fun of themselves.
It's self-deprecating.
Well, I'm surprised, you know, Mad hasn't weighed in on this, you know, as just some subtle message about drinking and driving being okay.
But Sheila, the example I gave of Paulox hardware store where it said, quote, all lives matter, be safe, be kind.
How is that offensive to any reasonable person?
Of course, all lives matter.
And be safe, be kind.
That's troublesome too.
That's an expression of, I don't know, white privilege, white supremacy.
This is madness, Sheila.
Well, and with regard to this like golf club thing here, now this educator, I don't know how you just educator, you just you're basically a bully.
That's what you do.
You call companies racist apropos of nothing, and then you take money from the company to un-racist them through classes.
It's a neat little scam these people have going.
But anyways, the golf club apologized, but then the educator said the apology was weak and lacks a specific edge because it's not enough, right?
It's not enough.
And says it lacks a specific educational plan for them to move forward with.
So there's the monetization of the outrage for the educator, right?
Your apology isn't good enough, but you need me now to come educate you and pay me for it.
And then because the golf club didn't capitulate fast enough, this person, now this educator, tolerance educator, is whipping up an online mob.
Says, I encourage people that follow me to contact the Glendale and ask, how are they learning?
What are they doing?
I bet if they hired this educator, that would be great.
They've learned all they need to know, right?
Line this person's pocket.
It's pretty neat thing that these people do.
Whip up an outrage mob by calling a golf club or any business racist and then offer the solution.
And the solution is pay me to brainwash your staff.
And then they say, everybody has the opportunity to be educated.
Yeah, I bet they do.
You know what this reminds me of, Sheila?
About 15 years ago, if I got the chronology right, the ex-president of Mexico, Vincente Fox, he had said something that was deemed anti-black.
And part of his Cersei walk of shame, which I found hilarious, was him personally getting on the phone and phoning prominent black celebrities like Oprah Winfrey to personally apologize for his words, which he did, evidently, right?
Wokeness At The Olympics00:04:26
So I think that might have been a little genesis of the madness that is now full-blown right in the here and now.
But I mean, these Olympics are making me ill.
I mean, can't people just line up and run or swim or jump over hurdles or plag rugby for goodness sake and spare us this sanctimonious BS?
Yeah, just go there and do what we sent you to do.
You know, with our money.
With our money, this is not your political platform.
You're there representing the company or the country.
If you want to go there, then just go there.
Do what we have sent you to do.
And don't turn this incredible opportunity into a personal bully pulpit.
Just go do your thing and come home.
And then take the profile that you earned by actually doing something at the Olympics and do whatever you want.
I don't care.
This is a free country.
But while you're there representing all of us, all of us with our diverse political opinions, just zip it till you get home.
It's like 10 days.
Just be quiet while you're there.
100%, Sheila.
And, you know, really, do you know anyone in your circle that's actually watching any of the Olympics?
Because I have zero interest.
And I don't know anyone in my circle, including all my colleagues here at Rebel News, that have actually tuned into one minute of these games.
Mr. Producer says I watch every night.
So that tells you a lot about Mr. Producer, folks.
First of all, I think everybody knows that I don't care so much for professional sports.
However, I like sports entertainment as far as wrestling goes.
I sort of have an eye to the Canadian sports shooters because they have been pretty vocal about the gun ban and how it will affect their sport.
So they're over there representing the country and they're like, the government literally wants to ban our sport, but we're over here doing our best to represent the country anyway.
So I sort of have an eye to what they're doing.
And Canada produces some pretty great sports shooters.
But that's about it.
I just, I just, I don't care.
There's no crowds.
And then with all the wokeism, and then I'm like, oh, so just also, there's also the whole thing that just mediocre men can now join the ladies' sports and beat them and rob them of their life's work.
And so like, I just, I can't care anymore.
The Olympics has killed the Olympics for me.
Yeah, you're absolutely right, Sheila.
And we have that male weightlifter in the Tokyo Games.
Laurel Hubbard.
Yeah.
And this ain't little mother Hubbard, believe me, folks.
And going back to rugby, this is why I found that wokeness so surprising because correct me if I'm wrong, Sheila, I believe the World Rugby Union, the governing body, has done a fantastic thing, which is to take a stance against radical transgenderism.
They're saying, uh-uh, if you're a male pretending to be a female, you are not in this sport because you are literally injuring, you know, seriously, biological female players.
And they're absolutely right.
So that's what strikes me that these women that are playing this sport are part of a federation that is not politically correct.
I can't think of any other sports federation that has come out with the stance that the World Rugby Union has said, Sheila.
Yeah, it's just strange.
But then, you know, that's just, I mean, these, while they're like big rugby union is taking a stance, you know, things happen here in Canada.
And it just seems that, you know, there are a lot of good Canadian athletes that are at the Olympics that we aren't watching because these sorts of things just affect the rest of us.
And, you know, that's kind of sad, too.
It's, you know, there's all these other athletes that I know we probably should be cheering for.
They worked really hard to get to where they are.
And then they do something like this.
And I'm like, I just, I can't care about any of it.
Sorry.
I just can't.
And I don't think that's fair to the other athletes, but here we are.
Olympics Political Worry00:07:26
It's what happens.
Indeed, we are.
And by the way, Sheila, do we have some chats that have come in?
Yes, we do.
And you know what?
We have to get to the other thing that's in the title of the YouTube video because we get emails about that.
Okay.
Oops.
Three news, and we'll talk about that.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, am I back?
You are.
Okay, perfect.
We've got a hyper chat of five libraries from Spiker, 15.
CDC now admits that the COVID test cannot tell the difference between COVID and the yearly flu.
Yeah, that's why the yearly flu disappeared, right?
We've got another super you from Devil's Advocate.
Yes, the virus is in constant negotiations with the politicians.
Yeah, isn't that the truth?
And the public sector unions.
You stole the words out of my mouth.
I'm surprised the virus isn't running up attack ads, Sheila.
Oh, I know.
The teachers' union, the nurses' union, all of them.
But we've got a rumble from Chronic Bud99, almost two years to flatten the curve.
Yeah, we're almost two years into two weeks to flatten the curve, and we are all in this together.
Oh, God.
Words I never want to hear again.
Me, me, baby.
Got a hyper chat from History Club World.
To me, it seems the doctors want to keep COVID-19 as a major issue so they get the respect and extra pay.
I don't think it's just doctors who feel that way.
The media wants to keep COVID for the money.
You know what?
I'll also add something to that.
I don't even think they care about the money.
I think they're generally quite lazy and they don't like attending things in person.
So if they can attend a press conference via live stream without getting out of their jammy jams to do some actual work, they're happy with that.
They like how that is for them.
But Sheila, I think that's an excellent comment from History Club World that the money angle.
I'm still an old dinosaur that buys newspapers.
And I can tell you, during this pandemic, full-page ads, double-page spreads about COVID safety protocols, where the vaccinations are.
This has been a little bit of an advertising bonanza or a blip, but however you want to call it, they'll take money from wherever they can get it these days.
And by the way, we're paying for it.
These are government ads.
So, yeah, the mainstream media, this is kind of good.
Same with radio and TV ads.
I see about COVID all the time, spreading the fear factor out there.
Stay home, stay home, bake a cherry cheesecake.
So really, if you're part of a sunset media organization, do you want this kind of ad revenue gravy train to dry up?
I don't think you do.
Yes, stay home to stay safe on a billboard everywhere.
And they also do it as a way to separate them from us commoners.
That's true, too.
Plus, in Alberta, everybody already has a vaccine record.
I can tell you the exact day I got my grade six vaccination.
Yeah, it's true.
We do.
I know I had to, my daughter was going to cadet camp a couple years ago, and we had to produce vaccine records before she could go.
And it wasn't, it was just because there were kids coming from overseas from places where they have no vaccinations for certain dangerous diseases.
And they wanted to make sure that she would not be exposed.
But those are actual, like, dangerous diseases, not like COVID that is mistaken so frequently for the flu and vice versa.
People versus predators.
Oh, it's Mike from Freedom Honey.
Hi, Mike.
Your federal petition, his federal petition starts this weekend.
We will be at the Alberta Legislature Saturday and Sunday.
Thanks, Rebels.
Well, Mike, I'll have to come see you.
Mike has a federal petition.
I don't know who's sponsoring it yet.
And I guess I'll find that out over the weekend about changes to bail and release for people who hurt kids.
So great work, guys.
I'll see you then.
Give us a tip.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
And Mike also tipped us five bucks.
Well, that's very generous, Mike.
We got a hyper chat from History Club World.
Down in Medicine Hat, it seems like maybe 1% of the people are actually still wearing masks outside of places that require it.
The thing I was talking about in my previous hyper chat is the online medical records that are accessible to everyone through a digital ID.
Yeah, that's true.
We've got a rumble from DJ4634.
Remember when athletes competed for their nation?
Defund the athletes.
Yeah.
What a concept.
Just go there and be quiet and then win something and then come home and use your newfound profile to talk about whatever you want.
I don't care.
Talk about whatever you want.
Just go there and compete, though.
Please.
Just shut up about everything else for 10 days.
We've got a hyperlink.
Yes.
Remember that slogan?
Yeah, Nike, worst company in the world.
Talk about woke.
History Club World.
It seems that the Olympics this year are highly political.
People from, by and large, Muslim companies are refusing to compete against the Israelis and probably other Jews.
Actually, there's an Iranian athlete who spoke up in favor of Israel.
And God only knows what's going to happen to him when he goes home.
I hope he defects while he's in Tokyo.
But we've seen this before where some of the more radical countries refuse to compete against the Israeli athletes when it comes to contact sports like judo or whatever.
But this Iranian athlete, he, you know, thanked Israel, was very supportive of Israel.
And I hope to God he defects while he's there because he's going to go home and be killed and tortured.
You might be right about that, Sheila, with that regime there.
And yeah, I think I know what the viewer is speaking of.
I think it was Judo, where it was an Arab contestant and the coach.
I remember reading the article saying, yeah, we were looking for a good draw.
We got a bad draw, meaning we have to fight an Israeli.
So instead of sucking it up and getting out there and doing the judo thing, they defaulted.
Bye.
Yeah.
And well, I guess, though, what would have been more embarrassing, though, if he lost to the Israeli?
Indeed.
And that is exactly, Sheila, what was going through my mind reading that article.
Is this really all about him being, you know, terrorized, the idea of losing to a Jew from Israel?
And how do I live that down?
So he took the coward's route.
He defaulted.
I really believe that.
Oh, I do too.
That would have been just so sweet to see a bigot lose to an Israeli.
Anyway, a history club world goes on.
Then there is BLM and all the other race groups and political groups.
Just makes me somewhat worry for the Paralympics.
Why Plastic Won?00:08:28
You know what?
The thing about the Paralympics, though, is there's not a lot of this stuff involved in it.
And I actually enjoy the Paralympics because there's none of that.
And I think the Paralympics is such a testament to the value of human life and what people can do.
And I like it probably better than the normal Olympics.
And I think we're all cut up on the chats with two minutes left of the show.
And we didn't talk about the Justin Trudeau plastics thing, but maybe I'll just briefly touch on it really fast, Justin, if that's okay.
So we came across this, it was in what we call a proactive release package.
And that means that somebody else asked for these documents, got them, didn't see anything noteworthy in them, or found what they wanted, and did what they wanted with them.
And anytime that another party asks for documents, there comes a time in which they are proactively released to the public.
So you have exclusive possession of them until such time as they're just basically dumped on a website and you can go pick through them and find them, which is also something we do because I think a lot of the mainstream media outlets, they ask for certain things.
They don't find what they're looking for or something bad about the liberals is in there.
So they don't report it.
They just leave it.
So we go back and poke through these things.
And it's a lot of work, but we do it anyway because frequently we find things.
And in this case, we did.
We found a messaging plan where the liberals were basically encouraging people to use less effective masks because the ones that are more effective in stopping the spread of COVID, if you care about those sorts of things, and I'm not sure that I do, but the liberals sure do.
And the progressives sure do because they're the locker downers.
The liberals were, in the name of fighting plastic pollution, telling people to use reusable masks that, as we know, are ineffective.
Like put your shirt over your face and breathe through it.
You know, like that's how do you think that stops a germ, right?
But they didn't want people using medical PPE, not because it would cause a shortage of medical PPE, but because they didn't want the plastic waste.
And for the liberals, fighting plastic pollution, which is completely inert and the perfect garbage because you can burn it to create energy afterwards, they didn't want people using plastic.
So they were, in their own minds, willing to put people's health at risk.
Again, if you care about COVID and the spread and wearing masks, I don't, but the liberals do, and that's the point.
So, Sheila, whatever happened to the old chestnut that public safety is paramount, that if they really believe that these masks are ensuring the health and safety of the population, I'm sorry, health and safety, public safety, that should come before any pollution issue, I would assume.
But apparently, never a liberal will never miss an opportunity to virtue signal.
Well, yeah, and look how liberals are treating plastic.
Again, I'm a fan of plastic.
I love plastic.
Plastic, we should have stopped the ban on plastic when we realized it's perfectly necessary for a sanitary society, especially during a pandemic.
Restaurant owners, plastic made it possible for them to survive with takeout and delivery in hospitals, intubation, PPE, plastic, plastic, plastic, even grocery stores.
They realized during the pandemic, it's kind of gross for us to be touching your gross, reusable bags that are full of E. coli from leaky meat.
Please use this plastic bag.
So municipalities were even reversing their plastic bans during the pandemic because they realized that plastic is sanitary.
And like I said, it's the perfect garbage.
Recycling is such a scam.
It's a stored fossil fuel.
You just take it, you incinerate it, you power your house with it.
It's beautiful.
It's great.
You use it once, you get to burn it, you got electricity.
But the liberals have listed plastic as a Schedule I toxin like it's lead, asbestos, and mercury.
So in their minds, yeah, it makes perfect sense.
We'd rather people use a completely ineffective fabric mask instead of using something we think is akin to lead.
I mean, it makes perfect sense when you examine the liberal mindset.
It's nonsensical in reality, but perfect in the mind of Justin Trudeau.
And Sheila, also, let's not kid the kidders, as they say down at the midway.
These people pushing for plastic bans, they themselves use these disposable plastics every day.
And if you think I'm, you know, making a thesis I can't prove, folks, I did prove it on a video in Richmond Hill, where I live.
There is a counselor who is obsessed about the city of Richmond Hill having its own single-use plastic ban.
I guess, where will we get our plastics?
Oh, from the bordering areas of Toronto, Markham, Vaughan, Aurora.
Right.
But the fact is, when that was debated, when they broke for lunch, I went into the council offices, and his name is David West.
His nickname is David Waste, which tells you a lot about his political capital.
And guess what?
Guess what?
David Waste was eating, folks, food in single-use plastic containers, which I pointed out, and he immediately slammed the door in my face.
Or as I like to say, just another day at the office.
So please, if you're going to preach this kind of crap, guys, at least, you know, bring your own ceramic mugs and bowls and everything else.
Lead by example.
I know, what a concept.
Well, and I don't even think any of this is really about plastic, right?
Like, I don't think so.
I think plastic is the victim here.
But really, this goes back to the war on oil and gas.
This is just because plastic is made by oil and gas and oil and gas is bad, therefore plastic is bad.
Exactly.
I think plastic is the unwilling victim here because we know it is not Canadian plastic that is ending up up the nose and in the eyeballs of sea turtles somewhere or creating a tidal wave in some Chinese river.
It's not our plastic.
We're pretty good at dealing with garbage in Canada.
We're a pretty clean and tidy place.
And actually, if you travel the world, that's one of the things I noticed.
Like even in advanced Western civilizations, Western countries, Western Europe, I'm like, ah, you guys, it's kind of dirty here, clean the streets.
We're really good at dealing with our garbage here in Canada.
And so I don't think it's about, it's never been about plastic.
It's about oil and gas and plastic is just related and bad by default.
No, you're absolutely right.
And Sheila, way back, I think it was 1995, I was in Egypt.
I was on a little cruise ship going down the Nile.
I was up late at night.
So I don't think I was supposed to see this.
And I looked with shock as crew members were just tossing full garbage bags off the ship into the Nile River.
And it was like, it was disturbing because I'm with you.
Just because we're pro-plastic, that's not saying, oh, toss your empty bottle in the lake or river or ocean or litter.
No.
On the contrary, manage the waste, right?
You can even make, as you said earlier, energy out of waste if you choose to, Sheila.
And I don't think under Cloak of Darkness, throwing full garbage bags into a river is the way to go.
That's not what we are advocating.
No.
You know, I'm one of those people that when I go quadding or go camping or whatever, I bring everybody else's garbage out too.
Like if I'm on the trails and I see garbage, I pick it up, I put it in the back of my rhino, and I bring it back out.
I try to leave the place cleaner than when I got there.
I'm anti-littering, but I'm pro-plastic, and I don't think those two things are incompatible.
However, the liberals seem to think it is for some reason.
Pro-Plastic, Anti-Littering00:01:12
I'm with you 100% on that.
We've got to run those anti-littering ads, those great ads from the early 70s, like give a hoot, don't pollute, that sort of thing.
You'll have me crying.
I'll be the guy that cries and turn and I'll be like, somebody will throw something out the window and a tear will roll down my cheek.
That's right.
Oh, that's that iconic.
It's the Native American who I believe was Italian, actually.
It wasn't me.
But I know what you're saying, you know.
But yeah, I think there is a way to have our plastics and responsibly dispose of them as opposed to canceling the plastics industry, which is apparently what these liberals want to do.
It is absolutely what they want to do.
We are, I think we're seven minutes past the hour, and I think we're all caught up on the chats.
Hey, Justin, I can agree, Justin.
Just got a big thumbs up.
Well, folks, thank you so much, especially for those who made a donation.
We greatly appreciate it.
Thanks to Justin behind the board, of course, the she-devil with a sword in Northern Alberta.
I'm signing off, and we will be back on Tuesday.
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