Alexa and Catherine critique Canada’s $21,000 "Mother Heroine" award for Russian women bearing 10+ children, contrasting it with Western vasectomy trends on TikTok (522M+ videos). They mock Justin Trudeau’s climate hypocrisy—private jets vs. banning single-use cups—while citing 1,200 scientists’ declaration, led by Norway’s Kjetil Løvseth, rejecting "climate emergency" claims. Quebec’s François Legault faces backlash for Glencore’s arsenic pollution (33x legal limits) and partisan Facebook ads, despite Law 21’s oil ban. A Liberal bill targeting gun owners instead of crime or border smuggling highlights misplaced priorities, suggesting populist policies over substance undermine trust in governance. [Automatically generated summary]
So every weekday from noon Eastern Standard Time to 1 p.m., we do a daily live stream where Rebels react to the news of the day.
Today, Alexa and I are hosting, but usually we would have Nat with us today.
She's just off.
But yeah, we're live on YouTube, Rumble, Odyssey, Getter.
And do not forget to send in your chats because we will read them and we'll discuss them if they're interesting and leave out the ones that are not interesting or rude.
Sometimes that's just we just keep it.
Yeah, we'll just read those later.
Yeah, so I think that's all the intro stuff I need to do.
But at a certain point, if we get too spicy, we're going to skid addle off of YouTube because they have certain restrictions.
And Alexa and I like to get spicy.
So it happens.
But let's just jump right into it.
What's our first story is from Blacklocks.
And it's, I'll read the title here.
It's cable and satellite TV customers in Canada should be required to pay for gay programming.
I see our TC commissioner said yesterday.
So this, so this is interesting because I don't think any programming should be mandatory to pay for, personally, right?
Like if I don't want to be from CBC, I shouldn't have to pay for that.
And let's see how they do without all of that mandatory money.
So I definitely don't think that gay programming should be mandatory either.
Although I probably, I've actually thought about subscribing to Out TV because I really love drag race, but that's just me.
But I think it's like they know that they have an increasing movement on LGBTQ and gay waves.
So I think they just say, oh, why not like make it like now you need to subscribe and you need to pay so we will get some money from it because they know that a lot of people will want to subscribe.
Yeah.
Well, isn't that just a funny business model where you can be like, you're paying for this.
It's happening.
You don't like it, but you're paying for it.
And it's like, no one has, no one's forced to pay for Rebel News.
We survive.
We thrive.
And people who like our content can subscribe and they can donate and they can buy merch and they can donate to all of our various campaigns.
But nobody is forced to pay a single cent to Rebel News.
And that's how it should be.
And that's how it should be for all television or network programming.
And it's just so funny that they're like, yeah, like you just said, like there's this push and this wave.
And it's like, that's fine if people want to sign up because they're genuinely interested.
And in the article, it says like 3% of Canadians identify as gay, bi, or lesbian, I guess.
It doesn't.
Yeah, but you have way more people who follow the wave.
I would say like people really want to support the movement and they will be like, oh, I'm going to watch that TV or that program because it opened my mind of maybe my children or I don't know.
Or it's just fun.
Like I love a good gay, like I loved.
Did you ever watch Will and Grace?
Maybe not because you probably, like it was an English show and it was like years and years ago.
So maybe you didn't watch it, but it was about a female, heterosexual female and a gay guy and they were roommates.
And then there was another gay friend.
And it was like one of my favorite shows growing up.
It's a great show.
And like, you don't need to be gay to enjoy gay television.
Like people watch Modern Family.
My favorite show was L Word.
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah.
The lesbian word and trend jar.
And I actually look at all the Siri and I enjoy it.
And I try to re-watch it because it was just so good.
Yeah, exactly.
And like I've said this on our show, Misunderstood a couple times.
Like I love RuPaul's Drag Race.
Like I absolutely love it.
I don't think it's for children.
I stand by the fact that children should not be in gay nightclubs or at drag shows.
And I wouldn't, I knew someone who said that they watched RuPaul's Drag Race with their eight-year-old son.
And I was like, that's messed up.
Like that is super messed up because it's highly sexual content, which is why it's like, it's, it's, you know, that's a lowbrow humor, but there's also other stuff on there that I really enjoy.
Like there's art and there's music and there's comedy.
So I really enjoy the show.
But again, no one forces me to pay for it and no one should have to pay for it if they're not interested in that content.
And that's, I think, it.
Like the people will say, but your children is already exposed to sexuality at the normal TV.
Yeah, maybe it's true, but it's not because it's now normalized, because it's at the main TV that I should expose children to more of that.
Yeah, exactly.
And I think we should walk back how much sexuality, even heterosexual sexuality, children are exposed to.
Like if they want to, like, I love when people say, remember when there's all those pictures of gay kids at drag clubs and stuff?
And then someone posted various instances of like kids with like cheerleaders or like hooters, girls.
And it's like, oh, so you think this is okay?
And I'm like, no, like, really, no.
I don't think anyone with their butts and boobs out should be hanging out with children and like, and like encouraging them to do that.
I think children should do children's stuff.
Monkeypox and Sexuality00:05:43
And that's hetero or not.
I think we should protect children from the sexuality that is eventually going to trickle into their lives.
Like it's, it's going to happen.
So why force it down their throats at a young age?
I sound like an old person.
I agree.
You know how it is.
But on the gay topic, there was a new research, new research came out that suggests that it's not skin contact that causes monkeypox.
It's actually gay sex.
So I was actually wrong about this because everything that I was reading was like, it's not just for, it's not just about being gay or having gay sex.
It's like skin on skin contact.
But apparently that is not true according to this.
This says an expanding cadre of experts has come to believe that sex between men itself, both anal and oral intercourse, is likely the main driver of global monkeypox transmission.
Skin contact that comes with sex, these experts say, is probably much less of a risk factor.
So that's like new to me because, and it's also like very concerning because we've seen a lot of stories come out recently about like kids and dogs getting monkeypox.
So that's upsetting on a whole other level.
Not going to touch that, but no pun intended.
I don't know.
What do you think of this?
I will say something for me.
It's just a point that I obviously see.
So it's been, I think it was in May, the first outbreak.
I don't remember.
And it was about beginning of May, something like that.
But monkeypox, it's existing since, I don't know, like May, I think it's 19, it's been a while.
It wasn't a while.
Republic Democratic of Congo.
It's a known disease, okay?
And we keep finding new stuff about it that we are not sure how the transmission was doing and how people contract it and everything.
But for the coronavirus, it was pretty fast.
Everybody knew what was going on with that.
But with the monkeypox, it's just like, oh, it's been a while, but we still find some new studio, you know?
Yeah, that's a really good idea.
That's a really good point, Alexa, because it's like, all of a sudden, everyone's an expert on COVID.
They're like, oh, you need to stay six feet apart at all times.
Oh, you must wear a mask.
Oh, you must do this.
But it's like, this is a relatively new disease.
It's a novel virus, right?
That's what they're calling it.
And all of a sudden, we have all the answers so quickly.
But yeah, monkeypox has been around, like pox has been around for forever, since forever.
And we are still like learning about it.
That's a really good point.
But it's, I mean, I don't know if I can even comment on that.
No, we can't comment on that.
Yeah.
We're going to have to leave YouTube.
No.
Not yet.
Not yet, not yet, not yet.
We'll give them a couple more minutes.
But yeah, this is interesting.
And it kind of speaks to how we've talked about this, I think, before as well.
But, you know, during COVID, people were saying, you need to stay apart from each other.
You have to disrupt your lives.
It's for the betterment of society and to protect people from this virus.
But then with monkeypox, people are saying, no, no, no, that's homophobic to ask people not to go to gay sex orgies to prevent monkeypox spread.
And I was one of the people that was like, if you're saying one person should disrupt their lives, then you should say the same thing to the other.
However, I was like, I think I said this maybe even last week.
I was like, but I don't think it's a gay thing.
Why don't you just tell people don't go to orgies in general, regardless of your sexuality?
Exactly.
But it seems that I was mistaken and that it is actually targeting, it's not targeting, but it comes, it is transmitted through gay sex.
And I don't know why.
I'm not a doctor.
But it's like, you know, maybe we should have, maybe we should be telling people not to go to gay orgies.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Are you allowed to say that?
Yeah, but yeah, some gay that's drawing normal model orgy.
Yes.
So just don't go there.
You know, yeah.
I don't want to be judgmental.
And it is a Friday, so I don't want to upset your weekend plans, but maybe don't go to orgies for the next little while, people.
I feel like our viewers don't go to a lot of orgies, but...
No, I don't think so.
You never know.
You never know.
There could be people at Rebel who are going to an orgy tonight, and so they should not.
I tell them now.
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So let's talk about pregnancy.
Oh, yeah.
Pregnancy.
This is our producer came up with these two articles, and it's just so nice how they meld together and sort of contrast each other.
So we'll start with Russia, pregnancy in Russia.
Let's talk about it.
Russia to give 1 million rubles to women who birth 10 or more children.
Wow.
Or more.
10 or more children.
But do you know what is 1 million ruble?
It's about $21,000 Canadian.
I did not know that.
So I will cancel my plans because I was like, I'm going to move to Russia because it makes sense financially.
But now you're probably right.
Probably.
I just broke your dreams.
Oh, that's a shame.
I was going to get busy.
So Russia reinstated its Mother Heroin Award, which includes an incentive of 1 million rubles this week to encourage families to have 10 or more children.
Women eligible to receive the distinction must have 10 or more children with an appropriate level of care for health, education, physical, spiritual, and moral development.
So at least they're trying to discourage people from just having children to get money because you can't possibly give that amount of care to each one if you're just doing it for the money.
Like, how could you do it even, even if you were doing it for good reasons?
Like, that's a lot of children.
Well, I'm just wondering, dude, Rochelle is doing that for being more populated and I have like a bigger army.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Concave the word.
Yeah, I was like, it doesn't look good for Ukraine and it doesn't look good for anybody because they're like, because it's not only that they're trying to breed more people, but it's like a long-term investment, you know?
Like, that's if you're having children today, you need 18 years before they can join the army.
So, whoosh, we are in for it, according to this.
Yeah, it doesn't look good, but it's in a stark, stark contrast to what we see in the West, which is a complete like discouragement from people having children.
And with the Roe v. Wade overturning that happened in the States in the spring, there's this new bizarre TikTok trend that is getting men getting vasectomies on camera.
And then this is really crazy.
Seriously, who will do that?
Well, I think it's honestly to get laid, right?
Like, the article says it's like men are taking to TikTok to share their experience, but it's like, you're not trying to share your experience.
You're trying to share an experience, you know?
Like, you're trying to show all those woke ladies that you are a woke man and that you can't get her pregnant.
And it's like, all right, whatever.
And vasectomies are reversible.
So, you know, it's not the end of the world.
It's just not comfortable.
But, like, whatever.
You want to get a vasectomy, whatever.
But it's just such a weird trend.
Like, I, and TikTok is a Chinese company.
So I'm just thinking about all the Chinese moderators like laughing at this, like, the destruction of the West as they're like looking through all these videos.
are like oh men are having vasectomies they're like like while while russia and china are probably pumping up the male population as much as they can for like i don't know why but it's like in the west we're not having children it's like is that something we really want to be advertising to the world No, I don't think so.
No no, it's not, and I was just thinking about that.
You know Russia, it's one of the places where they have the most land, like the country with the most land.
Of course, like a big part is unhabitable because it's so cold and it's a big forest and if you go to that forest you would never come back.
But because of the witches yeah, but if you think that if the planet they say that it's just warming up do they plan to cut that forest and just to put more house and like have more people?
Like China is the most populated country in the world yeah, I mean, definitely Russia has the space for it.
They need to breed like very hairy people with like thick skin so they can survive in.
But yeah, that's a good point like, if the climate is warming, as people um say, then maybe those cold like the north Russia will be inhabitable in 20 years and maybe they can have like a full army of young people doing push-ups and and jump ropes and all the things you do in an army.
I don't, I don't really know, I don't know, but uh, they will probably freeze up.
Yeah, i'm not going there, no.
No, I would love to go.
I mean, before the war, I Russia was one of the places I wanted to go because I have like family ties there, but i'm like not gonna go there now, especially as a journalist.
You can uh get locked up as a spy, so i'm not interested in that.
Um, have to wait another 20 years or so but um, it's interesting.
So here's another quote from this article.
It says there are 522.5 million videos using the hashtag vasectomy.
That is a lot like 500 million videos uh, with many men filming themselves throughout the procedure and some encouraging others to do the same and attempting to dispel any information.
Sorry, misinformation.
This is the new movement me too yeah, but the thing is is you can still be a creep even with a vasectomy, like?
It's like their way of showing that they're an ally to women, but it's like, first of all, it's reversible.
Second of all, you can still be like, you can still sexually assault people, so it doesn't really make you an ally um, but I guess it's just to stand in solidarity with women because of Roe V. Wade, which again, whatever, do you.
It's just like, it's just a weird time that we're living in when if it was the whole world was doing this because the entire world was overpopulated, but it's not.
It's not the whole world that's overpopulated.
Certain parts of the world are overpopulated and certain parts are underpopulated.
And these are the places that are underpopulated.
And we have these young, healthy men snipping their business.
And I don't see how that's good for the future generations.
Like they need people.
Our children need teachers and policemen and mothers and daycare.
Like we need people.
We need people.
We actually have a lack of employee, a lack of like of so many people everywhere.
And now we just like, like, soon it would be robot everywhere because we don't have people.
Yeah.
I actually saw something on Twitter this morning that said, or was Reddit or something?
It was in Shoppers Drug Market.
You know, they have the self-checkouts.
Apparently, at this one in London, Ontario, they were saying you can only pay with cash with the like with the human.
If you want to use your credit or debit card, you had to.
And again, this is unverified, just someone saying it.
But if you wanted to use a card, you had to use self-checkout.
And the person was like, they're literally trying to get rid of any human interaction whatsoever.
And they're getting rid of jobs.
And so it's like, like you just said, like everyone's going to be replaced with a robot because young, healthy men are getting vasectomies.
Women are choosing not to have children.
And fine.
But like, if everyone does that, eventually there'll be no one left.
And we'll be just, we'll just be robots talking to each other.
And I'll also be here, but I'll be alone and old.
Who's like, we need people.
Stop.
But you probably see.
Like, I think it was one of the groceries, but I think Amazon did that as well.
Like, created a shop that you just pass the door and they actually charge you for everything.
They just passing the door, you pass like a scan and they scan all your products in your basket.
And you just like, they charge you right away.
You don't need to bring out nothing.
Oh, wow.
You didn't do that?
You didn't see that?
I didn't know about that.
Yeah, it's like you don't go to a counter at all.
You don't need to scan anything.
They just scan your basket.
That's it.
But Decatlan, Descatlon, I don't know if you know that brand, Decatlan.
No.
It's a sport brand.
But you just put your article in like a big kind of basket or box and they calculate everything for you sell.
And you just pass your card and you leave.
And this is already happening?
Yeah.
In Quebec, we have that.
Yeah.
Wow, you guys are crazy over there.
Oh, yeah.
You're either way ahead or I don't know what you're doing.
But I mean, that's kind of, I see how it makes life more efficient, but it's like, I don't know.
Do when you go to a store and there's self-checkout, do you use it or do you choose to go to the person?
It's depend.
I'm always looking at the lineup because sometimes I'm really inner and like the self-checkout is mostly empty.
But most of the time I try to go to a person because, first of all, it's quicker and I prefer like person-to-person interaction than just myself and having a robot.
Yeah, so I use self-checkout a lot, but I don't like that I do that because I'm sometimes I just want to avoid human interaction because I'm like, I'm just like in my own thoughts and I'm like, I don't really want to talk to a human.
But I realize how wrong that is because if we all did that, then these people, like I've worked in service jobs.
If I used to be a barista at Starbucks, like if I was replaced by a machine, a machine can totally make a latte.
It's not hard.
You just buttons and beans and sauce.
And it's not impossible for a machine to do that.
But it's part of the human interaction and it gives people jobs.
Like I wouldn't have had a job.
And a lot of my jobs, like I would, I was a dog walker.
That can also be done by a robot, right?
Like you just get a robot and you put the dogs on it and then it walks.
Like we don't, it's not a good thing for us to automate everything because A, it's going to completely split the upper class and the lower class.
And then human interaction is completely gone.
And that brings me to Meta, you know, Meta that want like to create like the virtual life where you can like live your own all day at your job, everything, but virtually.
Like people will go and turn on that because they didn't have like interaction with other human and they lost that spirit and they will like have anxiety when they will arrive with other human and they will just prefer to be home.
Lost Human Interaction00:02:50
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that's a great point.
Like, it's going, people already have.
Oh, this is the guy.
This is the guy.
Like, Mark Zuckerberg.
Mark Zuckerberg.
Yeah.
That creates a lot of people.
Oh, they're having a birthday party online.
Yeah.
Like, they genuinely, I mean, this is all part of like the World Economic Forum.
Like, you'll have nothing and be happy.
Yeah.
Like, and it's not, it's not even a conspiracy theory.
It's literally what they say.
But like, you don't have to have any friends.
You don't have to be physically attractive.
You don't have to have your health.
You don't have to have family in real life because you can just log in and look where look at where this person's living.
It's like no one can afford that in real life, living on like an ocean with palm trees and mountains in the background.
It's like, so you don't have you, you kind of give up on your real life.
And again, if everyone did that, imagine like you don't need to take care of your look.
You don't need to take care of your body.
You can be fat and eating whatever you want, but your apartment's looking.
There's garbage everywhere.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you look good.
You look good.
You look LT because you create your avatar yourself.
And that's it.
Everybody's just perfect, perfect word.
Yeah.
Well, I got sucked into that because I used to play.
I don't know if you know this game, but there's an online video game called World of Warcraft.
It's really, really popular.
And I got sucked into it when I was at university.
And I remember thinking, like, my character has more money than I do.
Like, way more.
And there's like more success.
Like, I spend more hours like worrying about her than I do with myself.
And I was like wearing sweatpants all the time.
And I was like, I missed an exam because, well, it turned out it was canceled because of a snowstorm.
But I was playing World of Warcraft and I didn't study and I didn't realize, I didn't even know what day it was.
I was so into the game.
And I went on my computer and was like, oh my God, it's December 10th.
I have an exam today.
I missed it.
Like, I missed the exam.
But then I logged in and it was like, it happened to have been canceled because of a snowstorm.
It looked cool.
This looks cool.
Yeah, yeah.
Like the graphic and everything.
Yeah.
Like it's crazy.
This is like a new world.
When I played, they didn't, it didn't, this is definitely a new area.
But yeah, this is wow.
It's so fun.
You have a, you have like an avatar.
Do you want to leave me and go and I kind of do, Alexa?
It's so fun.
You take on quests.
That's what he just did.
He just picked up a quest and now he's going to go on the map and see where the quest area is.
And then he's going to go to that area.
This is a new race, too, because they didn't have, like, they've, they're updating it all the time.
But, oh, it's so fun.
It's so, so fun.
You could really, you could really lose a year of your life to it.
And it did.
Me what's Zelda on Nintendo 64?
Oh, wow.
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Which one?
Zelda Lulabi?
Like, Okarina Wafa.
Oh, Carina.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That one's.
Which one's the one with the moon?
Yeah, I don't.
But the moon is both of them.
But you have Majora Mask.
Okay.
You have like the mask.
Yeah, yeah.
There's that.
Yeah.
I just remember that one being really, really scary.
It's that game.
Those games are so hard.
I know.
They're very hard.
I've never beaten one personally, but have you?
I think we.
What?
Did you ever beat Zelda?
Yes.
Just the fact that I didn't find all Scottila head, like the kind of like spider with a dead head on it.
I didn't find all of them.
But yeah, I passed the.
That's amazing.
Wow.
That's cool.
We should game sometime.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
So do you want to start it?
Sure.
Okay.
This is from Adam Ottawa.
$1.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah.
Why is it that the mainstream media symbol of LGBT people, the drag?
Sorry, I'm going to read that again.
Why is it that the mainstream media symbol of the LGBT people, the drag scene?
There are so many LGBT people who are doing real good things, like volunteering to feed the poor and don't take center stage.
That's a great point.
The drag is such a small part of what it means to be gay.
Like, I don't know because I'm not gay, but I imagine, like, I've met many gay people in my life, and I most of them don't do drag.
And I, again, I love drag as it's an art form, but it's not what it means to be gay.
And it's just like, like, just like when we talked about motherhood and like having children last week, it's like just like saying what it means to be a woman is like, oh, you have to have five kids and walk around.
And like, no, that's not what it means to be a woman either.
It's like you, that's just putting people in this silly box.
And it's, it's insulting, especially to gay people.
Like, drag might, drag might be offensive to you as a gay person.
Some women I know find drag offensive because they think it fetishizes women.
And it does.
So.
But as I say, like I interviewed Kitty DeMir that is a drag queen.
And what he was explaining is that the heart of drag queen is because in the past, woman was not allowed to perform in scenes.
So men was dressing as a sedictive woman for the pleasure to the audience.
And afterwards, it began to be a heart.
But most of the people who perform, they are not all gay.
Some it's like just normal people who just want to do some show.
And they have like ethereal people that do drag show.
And it's just because it's a kind of heart stuff, you know?
Yeah.
And it's sort of weird because, you know, back in the day, people of color weren't allowed to be in plays either.
And, you know, how they had those like offensive, like white people would paint their face black and act like a black person.
It's like, that's super offensive.
We don't do that anymore.
But drag, for some reason.
I'm sorry.
It's not what Justin Trudeau did.
Yes, Alexa.
Yes, it is.
It's exactly what Justin Trudeau did.
Should we play this ad and then we'll get back to some more chats?
Yes.
Oh, no.
No, that's okay.
I'll read it.
I'll read it.
We're doing it.
I'm going to read it.
Adam Ottawa, thank you again for another dollar.
Instead of exposing children to drag, why not have presentations by LGBT people who are productive in society, use real role models and not make believable figures?
Yes.
I agree.
And I totally like that.
That you're using LG.
Oh, no.
So, actually, I was going to say, I don't like to use LGBT because I don't think you should throw the T in with the LGB.
Like, lesbian, gay, bi, that's sexuality.
That's, that is a totally other thing than your identity, which is trans.
Like, that should be its own thing.
I like to drop the T, LGB.
That's a group of people in its own.
But, anyways, I totally agree with you, Adam Ottawa.
Thank you for your time.
Now let's play an ad.
Yeah.
Is it the Medal News Store today?
Yes.
Now we're going to talk about Quebec.
Oh, yeah.
Is there anyone around here who can take us through the Quebec section, Alexis?
Or anyone who's like an expert on it, maybe?
Like, who?
is it not climate before Oh, did I skip that?
Yeah, NDP.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, NDP.
My page didn't get printed.
Yeah, that's okay.
My bad.
NDP MP wonder if we still need indoor ice ring given climate impact.
But she deleted the tweet, but people were able to see it before deleting it.
But all this statement is so hilarious.
And say, oh, okay, climate change, we stop like to have ice ring.
That doesn't make any sense to me.
What about you?
No, no.
You're speaking, like, she's speaking to Canadians.
Canadians love ice.
Like, sorry.
It's when we do summer Olympics, we don't do so well.
When the winter Olympics come around and there's ice involved, Canadians are among the best in the world.
And it's just so, so out of touch that she would be like, what's with all the ice?
Do we even need this for hockey?
And I read a little bit of the article and she says like there are alternatives.
You can have synthetic ice, yada, yada.
But it's like, what are we doing?
Like the synthetic ice, what is that stuff made out of?
I'm sure it's terrible.
I'm sure it's polylethereines and all sorts of terrible stuff made with horrible plastics that are terrible for the environment.
Like coming, like you're going to contribute to pollution by creating that synthetic stuff and having everyone get rid of their skates and have to buy new equipment.
Like how about little like Tim Bits hockey in a small town in Ontario?
Hockey is already an expensive sport to play.
Now you want low-income families who have scrounged up enough money to buy their kids skates.
I used to get used skates when I was a kid because A, they're less expensive and B, they're more comfortable because they're already broken in.
So you want those people to now go out and buy brand new synthetic ice skates?
Like it's just so stupid.
It's maybe she, and I think she's talking more about like coming from the top down.
So like NHL and like Olympic ice skating and like loot and all that stuff.
But it's like eventually everyone's going to have to replace their equipment.
It's going to, and it's going to take away the heart of what is Canadian.
It's, and you have to, now you have to have two sets of skates because people will skate on outdoor rinks too.
Like it's so stupid.
And after that, they will stop to create some snow.
You remember when you go and to do sky skiing or snowboarding?
They create some snow when you don't have enough.
So what will we stop that as well?
We stop everything.
So what is going on?
No, it's just stupid call.
Yeah.
And for sure, like, we've, again, we talk about this all the time, but it's like, how about like these politicians stop flying on their private planes everywhere?
Like she's probably going from place to place in her jet being like, we need to get rid of the ice rinks.
It's like, we could start.
Yeah.
She probably orders tons of Chinese stuff like made by slave people and that subject North Koreans to more slavery and that's awful.
But we're going to get rid of the ice rinks.
We already got rid of the plastic.
Everyone's ringing plastic straws and now you can't even enjoy your Tim Horton's ice cap with a plastic straw.
But we're also going to get rid of Tim Horton's ice skating and hockey.
And no, I'm not for it, Alexa.
I'm very against it.
Me too.
And especially with like the second topic that come and destroy all the statement.
Yeah.
So 1,200 scientists and professionals declare there is no climate emergency.
Climate emergency.
Well, that's, you know, yes.
Again, I'm not a climate scientist, but I would be like, yes, I would, I am in agreement with this because I don't want to think the world is burning.
That's not fun.
But in the same time, what they are saying in this article is like they want more realistic climate action.
Because what they say is they say that because they are pushing to say that is the human impact.
But no, they say that this is not true.
This is actually not something realistic.
And they say that the leader is from Norway.
Is it Norway?
Yeah, I think it's Norway.
And so it's a group of men of scientists who have signed all the form about it.
And same in Italy, I think there are 40 and something scientists too, 48 or something, that did sign as well for a more realistic vision of what is going on, because it's 48 local science professor who have joined the movement to say like what people and they say,
that is mostly promoted by media and and it's it's really an interesting article.
I would say that I invite people to read it, but it's kind of as well technical because they use a lot of technical words and stuff like that.
So but it's really really interesting to see like another side of the story on the climate change, because I remember me I'm, I study biology, so I had like so many courses about climate change and and other like I I study on that.
Okay, and I would say it start really early when you go to the university that they bring you to really do action for climate change and everything, but they don't show you all the study you know, probably just the studio that they want you to to see.
So it's just now that I realized that maybe I didn't have like the complete, full information when I did my baccalaurea.
But yeah, it's just it, start really young in your process to study and and learn, you know?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean people at universities are, no matter what you study, you're gonna get a very, very like narrow picture of what you're looking at, because there is definitely an ideology that is being taught at university and I enjoyed my time at university, but I would I wonder what it's like now.
Right, like how different it is, because I was in university like 15 years ago or something I don't know a long time ago, but like I, even then they were talking about climate change and like racism and sexism and all that stuff, and sure we should, we need to talk about everything.
It's important for people to learn about the world and the history and and where we're going, but it's like it was always through that same lens and it wasn't even as bad as it is now.
So I can only imagine yeah, it's because now media is pushing so much, and government as well, because we will see in a couple of seconds.
We show you a clip of just just Introduce, talking again about net zero and how we will achieve that and figure out, yeah, but what?
What is the meaning of net zero for them?
That will impact straight the living of everybody, depending on how they define net zero.
Yeah, let's watch it.
Yeah, So the conversations we're going to have with the Chancellor will, yes, be very much about the short-term pressures they're living and how we can help where we can on that, but much more about where we need to be on the path to net zero and the fact that Canada can and will position itself as a significant energy supplier in a net zero world.
For that, investing in hydrogen, investing in critical minerals, investing in different approaches like reinvesting in nuclear.
These are things that are going to get us to where we need to be.
And these are things that we're looking at on a broad scale and working closely with partners like Germany.
I believe so much that coming from a prime minister who fly with his private jet and go to devils where they create the city just for the time of one conference, a forum.
I believe you so much of what you say.
You're just a hypocrite where you will not apply that to yourself.
Sorry, but this is when you say something like that, at least you modify how you live to be at the same level of your own world.
You are leading a country.
You should be careful of what you say and what you do.
Absolutely.
You have to be consistent in your values and your actions.
And he absolutely is not.
But that goes for so many politicians.
And I was interested to see that he mentioned nuclear because so often these lefty types are so against nuclear energy.
And I was like, oh, I wonder if he's going to catch some heat for that because people hate nuclear so much.
But it's like, it is a really, really effective, clean source of energy.
It is, but the only fact is like people remember what happened in the past with Russia.
And yeah, it happened in the States.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it is really clean, effective source of energy.
But the only thing it needs to be well made.
Yes, and safe.
And safe.
And the problem is when people, like, I was just watching the Three Mile Island documentary and what happened.
And I think the same thing happened in Russia, was if something goes wrong, they're so hesitant to be honest with the community about it because they don't want it to look bad.
They don't want to scare people and they don't want their nuclear program to get shut down.
So it's just like in JAWS.
I don't know if you've ever seen JAWS with the sharks, but it's like there's all these shark attacks and they're like, no, no, we can't close down the beach because it's like holiday season and tourist season and more people get killed.
So it's like, as long as we have people in charge who are like, okay, things are running well.
Like we can't have people who are going to hide things and sweep things under the rug and take, like, it's all about cutting corners.
And that's what happened in Three Mile Island.
They cut all these corners and it turns out that what they were doing was super unsafe, but they didn't want to admit to it.
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And this one guy was like, he worked there and he was trying to uncover it.
And they were like threatening him.
And they fired him and they tried to get him arrested.
And it's like, can we just not kill people?
Like we, if we are going to get behind nuclear energy, we have to at least do it properly and not, and when something goes wrong, like act quickly and tell the public about it.
And then don't cut corners in order to save money because you're already saving money because it's such an effective use of like a source of energy.
So like, oh, this is the problem because it's like, we have to be able to trust the people in charge.
And sometimes you can't.
So that's scary.
I agree.
Yeah.
But anyways, Justin Trudeau's hair is growing out.
Oh, that's good.
Woo!
It was real touch and go there for a while.
All our moods go with the air of the Prime Minister.
Seriously, it was real bad, you guys.
Remember?
All right, let's talk about cocoa.
Yes, oh my God.
So, well, first of all, I did like a tweeter recently about the bugs again, because as you know, slowly but surely, they try.
So many companies try to integrate some ingredients made from bugs, as we saw with the Cricket Potter.
We saw it like we saw with Rooter.
Root?
They show all the made butter from dead bugs.
So they just smash it, mush it, and larva butter.
Yeah, this is disgusting.
But doing that is actually a really great process for normalize the eating insect on our diet.
And if you do the changing really slowly, people will accept that way more better than if you are really radical and just say, okay, now, no me, insect.
But now, they do it, I would say sneaky.
Yeah.
And do you see this is a butter from like insect, insect fabric?
Like, for me, I'm sorry, but I love cheese.
This is my passion.
I'm French, so I love cheese.
I know.
I've seen those big bags of cheese curds that you bring around.
Yeah.
So I'm sorry to say to you, but Starbuck was using colorating their produce with insects.
And now they say that they remove it.
Yeah, I saw that article.
It was from like 2012, but it was that they were getting flack.
It was specifically the strawberry frappuccinos, which I've definitely had and I did not know that they were made with bugs.
I guess when you hear strawberry, you think it's strawberry.
My name is.
Yeah, exactly.
So like you see now they say that they are replacing crushed bug to this new ingredient in the frappuccino.
But it's just because a lot of vegan people were like, hey, you say that your produce was like correct or vegan or and that this is not true.
Like in and a lot of people were getting mad to Starbuck.
And so yeah.
So they call it cochinelle coloring.
So it's from cochinella, like the bugs, like with the cur, like it's disgusting.
But and as you know, like insect is one of the biggest industry, like one of the biggest form of insect that is based in France and based in Netherlands.
And I found, and this is very interesting, I found in their channel, YouTube channel, like their main YouTube channel, a video where they say something about Coca-Cola.
I will let you see the video, but I try to contact Coca-Cola for asking if it's true.
In the email, they say, I will get back in 48 hours, never get any answer back.
And if Oliver can put it, look at this.
And you say it, and fuck back in the...
All right, guys, so now it's time to go meet...
We missed...
We're going to insect, and I'm going to be putting insects in the column.
It was the beginning.
Olivia, can you go back a little bit?
Start from the beginning and put the song.
France, why are we here?
It's all about the bugs and the bug life.
And a fun fact for you is that the food coloring and Coca-Cola, yeah, it's made from bugs.
All right, guys, so now it's time to go meet Ana Is we're going to insect and putting insects in a bug.
They state that in their YouTube channel, it's one of the biggest farm insects with so many partnerships with a lot of big corporations and is as well insect.
It's a partner with the World Economic Forum.
The World Economic Forum is promoting Yinsect on their own forum.
So I'm just thinking, like, if they say that in their YouTube channel, it's probably true.
It's why I tried to contact Coca-Cola, but the Coca-Cola never get back to me.
That's shocking.
Should they not be telling people this?
Like, you drink Coca-Cola has been around for a long time, like 80 years or something.
Shouldn't we, shouldn't we be aware of what's in it?
I mean, I guess it's dot, it's all sorts of stuff, but it's like that's something that you know people don't want to hear about because you don't tell them.
And that's that's why you don't tell them because you know they don't want to hear it.
Exactly.
Oh, and and this is the fact that, um, yeah, um, they have like a lot of insect form that's growing a little bit everywhere.
And uh, the one that I ordered the insect from was Next Food.
The namesake Next Food.
Um, most of the place grow their insect in Vietnam or Thailand, where it's really warm, and so it's really easy to breed some insect.
But the same thing is like where is the scientist to do a study to say, is it safe or not?
Because we saw, I read so much article that say that kitten is not good for humans, but I really want to see more study kitten.
Kitten is like in the insect.
Okay.
We shouldn't be eating kittens, that's for sure.
And I just want to see more articles, like to see all the different, all the different in-between, the one that say that is good and the one that say that is not good.
And so we can compare and can do our like own.
Yeah.
So that's the thing.
We all need to be doing our research and making choices for ourselves.
If people want to eat bugs because it's better for the environment, they think and it's better for their health, they think that's totally like I am go for it.
But we should at least, like you're saying, have the knowledge, like informed consent to know what they're trying to put in our food.
If they say like, this is next food, it has bugs in it, that's cool.
Tell me that, and I can choose to eat it or not to eat it.
But when they hide it in your food, and when it's in, what's in this, it's in a strawberry Frappuccino, you would never have in a million.
I'd never, I used to work at Starbucks.
Like I said, I made those all the time.
I should have known at least as an employee, like, oh, by the way, like, the dye is made with insects.
So if someone has an insect allergy, like, what if I'm like, you don't know?
It's just so weird to just slow down.
Because now you don't know what you consume.
You don't know what is in your meal.
And I think it's really important that we know what we put in our body.
And it's why now I'm trying to always buy raw animals, like fresh food, fresh fruit and vegetable.
And I cook myself because I'm always saying, like, would I find something that I don't want to eat in what I'm buying?
Because most of the processed food is, you don't know most of the time what, like, sometimes they have like really complex like words, but what is that?
Yeah, can you explain to me?
Yeah.
If the ingredient list is more than like seven things, I'm like, I'm not interested in it.
First of all, I don't want to read that much.
Who has time for that?
And there's all these like melodextrins and glycol.
I'm not interested in that.
I'm not a science guy, but not interested.
But I did one thing about that video I really liked that you talked to that one girl who you asked people if they would eat bugs.
And most some of them are like, yeah, I would, I would.
But then you're like, okay, here are some bugs.
Would you eat them?
And then that one girl's like, ah, yep.
And she just ate it right there.
And I was like, oh my God.
So, like, we were talking about with Trudeau, being consistent.
Like, here she is.
She literally, at least she's consistent in her values.
Like, she said she would eat a bug and then she ate it without even flinching.
Like, this girl, look at her.
Oh, look at it.
She just pops it right in.
He tried to, but when it came to the fly, the big, big fly, she did it.
Yeah, no, that's gross.
And I swear to God, they were the only two that on maybe 15 people that did talk that day who tried.
Yeah.
And more than two people said they would eat bugs, right?
Like they were like, well, it's better for the environment, yada, yada.
But these two were the only ones who put their money where their mouth is.
So I actually really respect that.
Like, if she wants to eat bugs, she's actually doing it and it's kind of cool.
Oh.
What was that?
It was the big fly I thought she didn't eat the fly Yeah, she ate the fly.
She tried it.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Oh, God.
That's too much.
When it comes with the big water bugs, she didn't.
She was like, this is too big.
Yeah.
It has to be something you can just pop in your mouth and not, you don't want it to be like two pieces.
She's like, no.
But I respect her a lot.
And it was funny to do.
But I really want to try to bring my insect in Toronto and see like the difference of the culture and see like all the people will react.
You should do that.
I'm busy that day.
I can't do that.
Okay.
Oh, you should come with me now.
You're going to make me eat it.
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Let's see.
Let's see.
Oh, yeah, that's good.
Yeah, that was a great t-shirt idea.
Don't put your RG.
That's a good idea.
With like a time stamp on it, too, like from 2022.
That's funny, Adam.
Thank you very much for another dollar, Adam Ottawa.
Let's get to another one.
Or you can say, don't monkey orgy.
Don't monkey around.
Don't go to orgies.
Here's one from King7734.
$1.
Thank you very much.
How come the Rainbow Brigade is not up in arms over sexism?
What about a female drag race?
Is that just a bull dyke?
I am often asked, I've often asked this question: could I go on a drag show?
Because if like there are men, gay men who go on drag who are, well, there's heterosexual men who go on drag race.
And then there's also men who are transitioning to female who have had surgeries to remove certain parts and add in other parts.
And they look very, very female.
So it's not really like the fantasy of being a female, like when you're, when you're surgically changing your body.
So I was like, so what would stop me from being a drag queen?
Yeah.
These are the questions.
It seems a little sexist to me that I can't be a drag queen.
Okay.
Another one.
You want to read it?
Yes.
Times.
$1 is thank you.
Is birth control no longer an option or abstinence?
The word's gone crazy.
Thank you.
Lovely to see you both.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's true.
Like they have birth control.
They have, but abstinence is a bit hard, but I would say, like, maybe for some people, it's an option, but for some, it's something else.
Yeah, that's a tough one.
But yeah, that's a really good.
Like, you can also, and people don't talk about this a lot, but Nat and I talked about it on our show.
Even without birth control and without abstinence, you can avoid getting pregnant.
There are only a couple days of the month when a woman can get pregnant.
If you track your cycle properly and you are in touch with your body, you would know that.
And you can just avoid sexual intercourse on a couple days in the month.
And you're good.
Remember in the past time, they were putting, how you say it, like temperature, like in their vagina, to know like when they were ready to have a baby.
Yeah, well, that's a thing.
Like your temperature, your basal body temperature lowers when you're about to have your period and then it rises when you're ovulating.
So I think that's it.
So if you are, again, like in touch with your body, you can take your temperature, you can track it.
I have an app.
It tells me when I'm ovulating.
Like you can do all these things and you can avoid getting pregnant.
But it's like people are.
Do you have an app for telling you you're ovulating?
Yeah.
You don't track your period on an app, Alexa?
No.
I think I know a little bit my body.
So I can't.
True, true.
I just like to know, but you know how it is.
But there are things that you can do.
If you really, really know your body, like Alexa, she's very in tune.
You just avoid it.
You just avoid it.
Yeah.
No app from me for that.
No app.
She's organic on that.
Let's read another.
Asbo.
$5.
Thank you.
You want to read it?
You want to read it?
Okay.
It's Friday again.
If you're live in Hamilton, come join us at 6 p.m. 1 Wilson Street for our rally.
It's fun.
Bring a sign.
If you cannot make it, then join us at our Sunday rally at Gage Park, 12 noon across from McDonald.
We will have fun frazza.
Oh, that's nice.
But again, I'm a little bit far away.
And I have a wedding tomorrow.
Oh, that's nice.
Here's another one.
Discussions of importance to Albertans.
Five libraries.
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The parts of the world that are overpopulated are warm climates.
The parts of the world that are underpopulated are too hot or too cold.
Example: most of Canada, most of Russia, most of Australia, Antarctic, Iceland, Greenland, climate change is a scam.
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Artificial ice is made of plastic.
Could have guessed.
A single-use plastics, which are which requires ONG.
I don't know what that is.
Apologies.
Of course, is the solution that NDP people want.
And this is the stupidity of NDP liberals and socialists.
Yes.
Totally.
You're going to create so much pollution re-putting in plastic where there was ice.
I get water and stuff.
But like, come on, give me a break.
Oh, these people.
Do you want to read the last one?
Well, yeah, Frasbo.
And I like your comment.
$1, thank you.
That's why I only drink club soda.
Yeah.
No correlation.
They're just safe.
Yeah, it's clear.
And if you're going to go to the Hamilton rally across from the McDonald's on Sunday and you're going to go to McDonald's, just know that there's bugs.
There's bug coloring in the what do they color the beef with with bugs?
I've been craving a Big Mac until right now.
I think I'm over it.
That's disgusting.
Anyways, thank you for the chats, you guys.
Those were good.
Yeah.
I think we have time for one more story.
Which one do you want to do?
But I will just explain really quickly what is happening in Quebec.
So as you know, Quebec have started, but I've announced that we will have a massive vaccination campaign.
And this is for protecting the citizen.
And Mr. Legault really wants to shine and say, I'm there for the people.
But for some of the elderly, that would be their fifth dose.
And they say that it's for their protection.
Okay, it's fine.
But in the other hand, we learned by TBA that more than 89, about 89 companies with Glencore are allowed to pollute Quebec to release in the atmosphere more than a norm of chemical produce.
So Glencore is one of the big company multinational that is not even from Quebec that release now 33 times the level of arsenic in the air.
And Mr. Legault did an agreement with the big company to decrease the amount of arsenic in five years to five times the level permitted.
So during five years, they would be above the limit.
Above or abillion?
Above or over the limit.
And some after five years, it would be over five times the limit that is permitted in Quebec.
And it would take how many years?
And they have people there that create cancer and that cause respiratory disease and decrease their aspirance of life.
Okay?
So what do we do, Mr. Legault?
Are you going to sign a check of like dollars for them, like to actually destroy their life?
And this is another thing, okay?
Mr. Legault is more mostly like, oh yeah, we do good.
We are there for the climate and everything.
And another hand, what he did, we learned recently by the Conservative Party of Quebec that Mr. Legault is using taxpayer money to do partner partisanship on the Facebook page that when we look at the federal level, this is illegal to do.
Okay?
And he used 100,000 about that money from the taxpayer for just promoting the CAC on their Facebook.
But you need to know that during the COVID, Mr. Legaud was using his Facebook to promote the press conference to know what would be the next measure, what is coming next and everything.
So a lot of people did subscribe to the Facebook page because of that, because they were capable to be up to date with the measure and what is going on with the COVID and everything.
So a lot of people have subscribed, but now he's using it as a tool for the campaign, the next election campaign.
So this is the formal letter that the Conservative Party of Quebec wrote to say like, Mr. Legault, you need to reimburse the money that you spend in your Facebook page for doing partisanship for your party, or you just stop to do it.
You need to stop promoting anything.
You stop to put some advertising of the CAC on it and you use it as just a page as your prime minister of Quebec premiere.
And I think why it's illegal at the federal level, but we will let that being allowed in provincial.
It should have consequences.
But nobody is saying anything and nobody is doing anything for that.
That's, I mean, Quebec has a lot of its own.
Um, like, don't they have their own constitution?
So, they have a lot of wiggle room in terms of legality where, like, federally, Canada cannot do certain things, like privatize health care.
But Quebec is allowed, so maybe it's something to do with that.
But, or maybe there's they're working outside the law, I don't really know, but it's awful to think that it's going to take five years just to reduce the amount of arsenic being emitted to five times more than is like acceptable.
Like, that's that's crazy.
And people are, like you said, are going to be breathing that in for the rest of their lives, and it's going to affect them.
And terrible arsenic is bad.
Like, you don't have to be a really bad science man to know that our breathing in arsenic is bad and pumping that into the air is bad.
And he's like you said, he's he's all about the climate and all about the people.
And it's like you're putting poison into the climate, which is poisoning your people, but that's fine.
Like, who did like a warning sheet about it?
It's saying, like, arsenic is almost like one of the biggest threat for the health of the population.
And our premier saying if, like, like a lot of people say that you should not do that, but he's doing whatever he wants.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
He's doing whatever he wants.
It's all about politics and probably money with the contract with the big multinational because now we cannot extract our own oil and edible carbon because he did pass the law.
I think it's the law 21 that banned any extraction in Quebec.
So now we cannot be self-sufficient.
We need to depend on big multinational.
It's terrible.
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But I'm glad that you're on top of this story and you have been for some time now.
And you will continue to bring us all the news from Quebec because your premier is a little bit different.
It just takes some decision that you say, but that what you say doesn't follow what you do.
Yeah.
So for me, it's the theme of the week or the day and also the theme of every politician who's ever lived.
So yeah, that's great.
Well, we can end it there on a high note.
Yeah.
But we'll say goodbye.
But thank you guys so much for tuning in on this beautiful Friday.
We will be joined on Monday again with Sheila Gunread and Adam Sos.
I like to call them Adam Extra Sos.
Extra Sos.
Yeah, and then every Monday to Friday, you can join all the rebels for their takes on the news.
And I won't be here next Friday, so it'll be you and Nat because I'm getting married.
Oh, yeah.
Yes, that's right.
Sorry, everybody.
She's not there.
Sorry.
I'm so sorry.
So I will, but I'll be back the week after.
And yeah, have a great weekend, everyone.
And Alexa, it was always a pleasure talking to you.
Always.
Well, I'm a little bit mad you didn't invite me to your wedding.
Honestly, I didn't invite anybody.
It's just family because I wanted to get it over and done with.
Not even my best friends are coming.
I was just like, it's just, we're just doing family in a church and then some lamb and fish and Cornish gamehen.
Oh, that's good.
No insects.
No insects that I know of.
I will speak to the caterer.
All right, guys.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for watching the video.
Yeah, thanks, guys.
A fundamentally flawed bill.
It gets targets law-abiding firearms owners.
And that's precisely the wrong group of people to go after.
We need to go after gangs with guns.
We need to address the situation at the border.
We need to address gun smuggling.
And we need stiffer penalties for those who go out and commit crimes with guns.
But this government actually has introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory jail times for those who go out and commit crimes with guns.
So typical of Liberals, soft on criminals, hard on law-abiding firearms owners.
Is there any area of agreement that you think you could find with the Liberal Party?