DAILY Roundup dissects Toronto’s chaotic mayoral race—102 candidates, including Olivia Chow (23%) pushing bike lanes and Gardner Expressway demolition—while exposing John Torrey’s pandemic hypocrisy: enforcing restrictions yet allegedly flouting them with affairs like Emily Hillstrom. Alberta’s Rachel Notley faces backlash for frog-marching reporter Kiam Becksty, despite no charges, amid claims her NDP policies harmed the province. Federal bail reform (Bill C-48) draws skepticism after Calgary’s repeat offender stabbing, while Liberal gun control ironically shields politicians like Bill Blair with RCMP escorts. The episode questions progressive failures in justice, education, and society ahead of Alberta’s May 29 election. [Automatically generated summary]
Welcome to the daily roundup on this, a Tuesday, May 16th, 2023.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little bit about my co-host, okay?
Do you know what, folks?
Today is National Check Your Wipers Day.
And my friend will not be doing so because since the pandemic is over, there is plenty of toilet paper on store shelves these days.
She is the she-devil with a special ass.
She is the Khalecy of the greater Colberg area.
She is Tamara Ugolini.
How you doing, Tamara?
Oh, David, it's never a dull moment, is it?
I'm well.
How are you today?
You've already been out in the field gallivanting around.
Yes, we were interviewing police officers.
They were having, it was an event called Coffee with Cops, but evidently you have to be LGBT to have a coffee with the cops.
They wouldn't talk to me.
In fact, they were offended by my presence.
And there were at least probably a dozen cops there.
Because you know what?
There's no real crime in the city anymore.
Stabbing, shootings, assault, rape.
No, that's okay.
We got plenty of time to have coffee and cake in the gay village of Toronto.
Because after all, Tamara Ugolini, it is a gay day in May, wouldn't you say?
There's a tongue twister if you ever needed one.
Were there any rainbow sprinkle donuts?
This is what I'm really curious about.
Unfortunately, the second cup that they chose had a power failure.
So it looked like all the baked goods were on the fritz.
The irony.
By the way, I just realized I might have misspoken.
When they say National Check Your Wipers Day, I think they mean windshield wipers.
And you, Tamara Ugalini.
I didn't even pick up on it.
I am going to shame Tamara Ugolini because the last time I saw you at the wheel of the Ugalini Mobile, the rear wiper was just dangling by a Ugo Mobile.
Yes.
Have you checked your wipers?
It's been fully removed.
It just doesn't exist anymore.
Jeez, I don't think that's what they mean by checking your wipers.
Dog in the Mayoral Race00:02:18
How are you going to see all the best?
You know what?
That's actually my husband's commuter car.
So it's his problem.
Yeah, blame it on the man.
Why don't you?
Anyways, enough wiper talk.
What is it we're trying to do here today?
All right.
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And I guess we're kicking off the segment with the Toronto mayoral race.
So last night there was the second debate happened between the leaders.
And David, you're more up on this than I am.
I think there's like 70 plus.
Oh, Tamara, that was so last week.
It's 102.
And there's a dog too, isn't there?
Oh, is there a dog?
I think there's a dog.
I think a dog is officially running for candidacy in the absolute debacle circus clown show that is the Toronto mayoral race.
It is unbelievable.
And what does it say, Tamara, about this race?
John Torrey's Candidacy Window00:04:33
That, first of all, the hardcore leftist, Olivia Chow, is the last poll I saw, she was trending at a whopping 23%.
That might not sound like much, but the other two candidates in second place are around 10 and 11, which I think is Josh Matlaw and Mark Saunders.
She is hard left.
She will turn Toronto into Portland or San Francisco.
Believe me, folks.
I interviewed one candidate, a good guy, Rob Davis.
He's been elected before as a trustee and as a city councilor for the old city of York.
And he's adamant, if you own a car, if you own a house, Olivia Chow is your enemy.
And by that, he means it's tax and spend.
All those bike lanes that are causing gridlock in Toronto traffic right now, that's just going to, they're going to go on to steroids.
And yeah, this is very unfortunate.
And in addition to what does it say about the hardcore leftists leading the polls, if the polls can be believed, that is, what does it also say, Tamara, that if John Torrey were to throw his hat into the race today, well, he can't because the cutoff was Friday for candidates, he would win by a landslide.
This is the guy that shut down the city.
This is the guy one law for thee, one law for me.
This was the moral authority putting Adamson BBQ out of business because it's for our safety.
Meanwhile, he's chasing Emily Hillstrom, his subordinate around the cottage for Hanky Panky.
You know, more than the affair, Tamara, that's what really bothers me.
The likes of a John Torrey saying, I am the moral authority.
I know what's best for you.
And meanwhile, he was getting as close as humanly possible to a subordinate, no less, when he pursued his pastime of, how shall we call it, horizontal jogging?
Well, and he was also jet-setting off to Florida while telling everyone else to stay home and save lives and decimating small businesses all across the city for the same.
So the hypocrisy of the bureaucracy is on full display with Mayor John Torrey and among many others.
But he especially was this huge moral authority sitting up in his ivory tower while he was simultaneously evading his own restrictions, the restrictions that he was clapping on further and wanting more of and cheering on because he was in the back room doing his own thing.
I wonder too, they were also at that time recommending public health was recommending you wear masks with during intercourse and BC's health authority, Bonnie Henry, she even recommended glory holes to avoid direct contact.
So I wonder if John Torrey was following any of those pandemic restrictions while he was having an affair on his wife of what, 40 years.
Oh, I think longer.
I think their marriage goes back to the 70s.
And with all that terminology, you said, well, to quote Andrew Robinson, Dirty Harry, please, I scary easy.
Yeah, but you're quite right.
But to my question, with all that tangential, with all that immorality exposed, and also workplace etiquette, that is the worst thing you can do.
There's an imbalance of power.
He's the boss.
Emily is a subordinate.
Again, Tamara, how do you figure it out that if this race was 103 people, i.e., John Torrey threw his hat back into the ring, he wins in a landslide.
Does that speak of the caliber of the other 102 candidates?
Or I guess in Toronto, people don't care about morality.
People don't care about hypocrisy.
The caliber of the voter, the voting base in Toronto.
And also, I think it's also the caliber of the media because the media really didn't, the mainstream media is what I'm referring to specifically, really didn't hold any of these officials to account when they were caught red-handed, evading their own cheerleaded restrictions.
And so, unless you're a supporter or a viewer of independent media like Rebel News, you would be none the wiser that any of this stuff happened and that an ability to point out the hypocrisy there.
So, I think Toronto is still very much enthralled with and under the hypnosis of the mainstream media, unfortunately.
That's an excellent point.
They are detached to the shenanigans that are really going on.
Olivia Chow and Chinese Interference00:14:07
But we have a video clip featuring Olivia Chow.
You know, I got to admit, Tamara, I did a double take.
I was looking at the opening line: Let's Build a City.
And I almost thought, is she going to break into the Starship song?
We built this city on rock and roll.
That's what it sounded like to me.
Where's Ben Bankis when you need help?
Yeah, exactly.
But I interviewed him yesterday.
We'll talk about him a little later on.
So let's see Olivia Chow's rendition of We Built This City.
My friend Ying volunteered at the Fort York Food Bank on College Street.
And I walked by College Street because I live very close to it.
And I watched the line grow weekly, monthly.
And then I thought of my mother.
It could be my mom.
It could be my dad lining up there.
Why?
My mom and dad and I immigrated to Canada when I was 13.
Like a lot of you, life was tough when you first immigrate to Canada.
My dad wasn't able to find a job, even though he spoke fluent English and taught in Hong Kong.
Couldn't find a job teaching in Canada in the 70s.
He had a nervous breakdown.
He couldn't get a job.
Couldn't hold down a job.
My mom, with one income as a maid in a hotel, was able to get the food to feed the family and still pay the rent in St. Jamestown.
We were able to survive.
We didn't have food banks back then.
But life is so different now.
Life is so unaffordable.
Why?
Because we have a decade of people not building housing.
And that is unacceptable.
And that is the root cause of the problem.
So we have a choice to make today.
We have to choose to come together and say that we need to build housing.
We need together build a city that is more affordable, more caring, safer, where everyone belongs, where no one have to go to food bank in order to feed their kids and pay the rent.
Sounds more like a federal criticism than anything to do specifically with Toronto.
Yeah, and when it comes to unaffordability, Tamara, oh, that's not going to affect Olivia Chow anytime soon.
Maybe the media might want to dredge this embarrassing statistic up from yesterday, and it was Olivia Chow and Jack Layton who would go on to become the leader of the federal New Democrat Party, were actually gaming the system.
They were living in subsidized housing, even though the two of them had a six-figure income.
And I'm talking six-figures going back to the 80s and 90s.
This, once again, socialism isn't for the socialists.
The other disturbing thing, there was a report that's come out, Tamara, from the National Post linking the Olivia Chow campaign to the Chinese interference groups, which is very surprising because Olivia Chow, once upon a time, took a stance, a righteous stance, I will admit, for Hong Kong democracy.
But now, now that she can see the brass ring within her grasp of becoming mayor, well, you know, ethics, morals, all that sort of stuff.
Let's put that on the back burner.
I might need the support of certain members of the Chinese community, i.e., the ones loyal to Beijing, to give me that boost over into the mayor's seat.
That is shocking that I think that she would throw the people of Hong Kong under the bus for political expediency.
Yeah, here in this National Post article, the byline says a Chow supporter says such meetings are a necessary evil to reach Chinese immigrants.
Well, another cautions not to jump into any conclusion.
A necessary evil?
So that she can enrich herself as the mayor of Toronto, that she can get that big six-figure salary and all the perks that go with it.
Wait, do you understand what that means, a necessary evil?
Other than, Tamara, the obvious, which is to just win the election.
To completely undermine our democracy, which is what the Justin Trudeau liberals have been facing intense scrutiny over for the last several weeks.
And it's funny, this article came out yesterday, but I believe it was last week that you featured that same allegation with the other Toronto mayoral candidates.
Rob Davis.
Yes.
Yes.
And it was actually his concern was that there was an Olivia Chow charity that has seen their donations exponentially rise.
And Rob Davis was wondering: is she going to use the proceeds, the staffers, to get around donation laws that apply to corporations, big unions, as a way to cheat?
Now, these are allegations or unproven allegations.
I have welcomed members of the charity on for an interview, and I haven't heard back.
They did make a statement that everything's above board, but they haven't agreed to an interview.
So that was a different issue.
This, I think, is even more serious, Tamara.
It kind of plays into being potentially the same, but yes.
100%.
And this is the same candidate, of course, who said, you own a house, you own a car.
You are, Olivia Chow is your enemy.
And by the way, she's on about affordable housing.
I was shocked when she first threw her hat into the ring.
This is almost a month ago.
And the first thing she said, Tamara, and this is BS politics.
She was saying, I don't have a very good command of the English language.
I hope my enemies aren't going to use it against me.
And I'm thinking, this is a career politician.
She's being elected and re-elected at the municipal, provincial, and federal level over and over again.
When was the language ever an issue?
You're already playing the victim card, the race card.
Give me a break.
And the second thing, if you're stuck in traffic right now in Toronto, as I was coming up from the downtown core, as per usual, just a few hours ago, think of Olivia Chow's master plan for more affordable housing, i.e., knocking down the Gardner Expressway.
Two things are wrong with that.
One is if you think gridlock is bad in Toronto right now without the Gardner, it's never going to move.
Secondly, I heard an urban planner calling to talk radio and saying, even if you took away that raised expressway in the downtown core, the footprint to put up towers, it's really not there.
You know, there's no there there in terms of replacing the gardener with affordable housing.
She's clueless, Tamara.
I'm sorry.
It very much seems like it, especially just even that comment about the food bank, which is an issue that we have been discussing for months now on the live stream and in our various reports and this unfortunate unfolding of inflation.
I mean, many economists called that at the onset of the pandemic.
You know, shutting down global supply chains will come with repercussions.
And so a lot of people saw the writing on the wall, but then to kind of be ignorant in the sense that thinking this is a Toronto-specific issue when it's not happening all across Canada kind of speaks for itself in that regard.
No.
And you know, it reminds me, I think if Olivia Chow does become mayor, once upon a time, there was a really good Chinese food chain called Holy Chow.
And they had a great radio campaign with their slogan.
And it was what their competitors were saying about them because their food was great, their prices were wonderful, their delivery was timely.
And the ads would always end with the competitors going, Holy Chow, we in big trouble now.
And that's going to be the citizens of Toronto.
You mark my words under just four years of Olivia Chow.
Anyways.
Holy Chow.
Yeah, we're in big trouble now.
Well, having some comedic relief is always a good time.
So I think let's just throw to a video here of Ben Bankus, Toronto comedian, with some Olivia Chow parody.
Oh, no.
Happy to announce we just got off the phone with the Chinese embassy in Handong, and I will be crowned the next mayor of Toronto.
As Mayor of Toronto, we are going to be granting asylum to any members of the Chinese Communist Party who are collaborating with the Canadian government because we are an open and free city.
In addition, we are going to be expanding the boundaries of Chinatown from Mississauga to Scarborough.
One of the biggest bonuses of working directly with the Chinese Communist Party is that we have negotiated to have no Chinese police stations in the downtown core, but we will have them in Margarita.
We're simply following suit in a regular phenomenon that is happening in Canada where mayors are being instilled by the Chinese government.
One of my heroes, Calgary Mayor Judy Gonda, is already following in the footsteps of the Chinese Communist Party by banning the protest of Drag Queen Story Hour.
I want to go a step further, Jody.
I want to ban the protests of anything that Conservatives disagree with.
Oh, Ben Bank is for mayor of Toronto.
All the other candidates are racist.
You know, this is the worst thing I can possibly say about the vast majority of candidates in this 102-person race.
And that is this: if Ben Bankus won, and if he never even showed up a day to City Hall, we would be much better off than the likes of Olivia Chow, Josh Matlow, and dozens and dozens of other candidates.
And I mentioned I interviewed Ben Bankus yesterday.
I don't know if we have a clip ready from our super producers, but one of the platforms, it's amazing.
He's stealing ideas from the left and the right.
And he did the interview in a rainbow-colored suit with a transgender handkerchief in the pocket.
So he's down with diversity, as you can see.
And one of his most profound things was: you know, the city is still somewhat in mourning after the mighty Maple Leafs once again blew it and got ousted from the playoffs.
The 56-year drought continues for the Stanley Cup.
And one of Ben Bankus's planks is he is going to outlaw male professional sports in Toronto.
So no Leafs, no Raptors, no Argos, no TFC.
They're going to be replaced with female pro teams.
But male athletes, so you know, an Austin Matthews or a Mitch Martiner, who would be out of the job in the Leafs because it's now a female team, the Lady Leafs, they will be allowed to identify as females and join the Lady Leafs.
So, in other words, the status quo.
Yeah, it's the most inclusive.
Really?
I think we should just banish gender in general.
There's a single.
Oh, look at him.
Very fitting.
That's so great to have some comedic relief in these times.
It sure is.
It reminds me of the old days when there used to be the Rhino Party in federal politics, and they've since become extinct.
And, you know, it's kind of funny.
I was born in Toronto.
I love Toronto, still love Toronto, although the love is diminishing, folks, let me tell you.
And I have to say, though, it is such a cold, humorless city.
And you can see that, especially in the media.
You know, everything is so serious.
Even the Morning Zoo radio shows are so lame and terrible.
And, you know, it's just so wonderful to have a stand-up comedian like Ben Bankus.
And I got to tell you, if there was such a thing as magic and I could have a wish, it would make him win.
Make a true mockery of Toronto.
You know, I'll tell you something, Tamara.
A couple of decades ago, Jesse the Body Ventura, the ex-professional wrestler, he ran for governor as an independent in Minnesota.
And written off, and I'll never forget it.
It was either in GQ or Vanity Fair.
It was a fantastic feature.
They sent a reporter to the Jesse Ventura so-called victory campaign office on election night.
And basically, the thrust of it was nobody expected Ventura to win.
It was either going to be the Republican or the Democrat.
And the crowd that was there, I mean, you had professional wrestling fans, you had bikers, you had hippies.
It was basically, as the writer said, people that have lost for so long in their lives, always picking the wrong decision.
And the results come in, and Jesse the Body Ventura is proclaimed governor.
And there's silence because these people have never experienced victory and they don't know how to react.
It's absolute shock.
So wouldn't that be wonderful if that happened to Ben Bankus?
It would be pretty funny.
Drag Story Time00:12:23
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What's going to be your shtick?
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Faye from the Faye and Fluffy Storytime.
Faye said he had children, daycare.
He had a children's daycare business for a short time.
I was wondering why it was shut down.
You know what?
This Faye and Fluffy thing.
So if you haven't seen my previous report, it just came out yesterday.
And so it features this dynamic drag artist duo called Faye and Fluffy.
And they basically tour around engaging in drag queen story time at library schools.
The one is a Toronto District School Board teacher.
So these are, before I go on, these are two burly bearded men.
I've since received word that one actually may be a biological woman.
So I'll save that for my full report, my follow-up report.
This is important.
Would that be like, I don't know, akin to stolen valor?
You know, I mean, because you're supposed to be a dude pretending to be a woman, but if you're a woman pretending to be a woman, what's the point?
Yeah, it's really bizarre.
It's just pure gender confusion, clearly on display in front of children.
And let's just pull up like a quick photo just to show our viewers how grotesque this is.
Like there's Faye.
I get them both confused.
So this is Faye.
And this is the Toronto District School Board teacher.
He's been a teacher, worked with kindergartners for the better part of two decades.
I don't think he dresses up like that for work, but regardless, this is kind of an ongoing story because I received a huge tip last night going into delving into some of the more nuances involved with this dynamic pair.
And yes, I would wonder why and if.
I'm not even sure that the other individual, Faye, I believe is Faye, is the one that had the daycare.
Don't think that it was shut down.
I could be wrong.
I'm not really sure if that daycare business runs on.
But yeah, these two individuals work with children.
They also gallivant around, dressed up as these clowns.
Fluffy calls himself a clown.
They read to children and then they also teach to children.
And then they also run this show on the Disney.
Well, it used to be a Disney subsidiary, but it's the family channel now, Family Junior.
And late in the evening, this dynamic duo will come on the screen and they have their Faye and Fluffy show.
So it's really unsettling, really bizarre.
But they are going, I believe it is in June to the Muskoka, no, sorry, not Muskoka, the Wasaga Beach Public Library.
And they are going to be featured there for a drag story time segment.
So that was the basis of my first report.
But I've since received a very lengthy tip involving further details about these two characters.
So please stay tuned because I will be doing a follow-up report featuring some of those tips, including some of the appropriateness of the way the Faye or Fluffy, one of the bearded men, or women identifying as men, act with children while off duty as a registered Ontario school teacher.
So that story is developing.
Tamara, what I don't understand, look at the photo of, I don't know if it's Faye or Fluffy.
It's kind of like I'd always be confused with Laverne and Shirley, except thank God for that L on the lapel of Laverne.
But what I'm saying is that, first of all, I really don't get this idea of men portraying themselves as a grotesque caricature of females.
But if that's what you want to do, and it's at the gay bar or any bar at age of majority, that's fine.
But the idea that this is somehow age-appropriate for elementary age students is crazy.
But this is for toddlers.
Their show is geared toward toddlers.
But here's the thing: here's a man trying to pass himself off as a woman, but he's got a beard, he's got a hairy back, he's got hairy arms.
What I'm getting at, Tamara, is that if that, a real biological woman, I think, if she had a problem with body hair, facial hair, she would go out of her way to suppress it, right?
Well, it's a thyroid issue.
There are women who struggle 100%.
But you wouldn't exaggerate it, which is so I don't understand what the point is that he's passing himself off with the props of woman, high-heel shoes, a dress, what have you, and yet all the other characteristics are, you know, you know, the cliched accompaniments of a male, you know, hair on the face, on the arms, the underarms, et cetera.
So, like, I'm very confused.
Oh, you and me.
So I can imagine the level of confusion when you bring a child to this.
And obviously, I guess, you know, the blonde one, that must obviously.
From what I am hearing, and this has not been confirmed, that is a woman who identifies as a man and is undergoing chemical transition to be a man, but then comes to dress as his natural biological gender.
If I do I get, yeah, very confusing.
You know, you know, it reminds me of, there's an episode, you know, the Munsters, you know, from the 60s, that series with that monster family.
And Herman Munster, who was a clone of the Frankenstein monster, they go to a Halloween costume party, and he dresses up as a knight in shining armor with the full face mask and everything.
And there's judges walking around the party, and then Herman Munster decides he needs to have a drink of something.
So he lifts the visor and he's sipping away on some beverage.
And one of the judges says to the other, he goes, Wow, look at this.
This guy is wearing a costume of a knight in shining armor.
And then under that costume, he's wearing an additional costume of the Frankenstein monster, but that's his real body, you see.
It's just bizarro world, upside down, gender-bending weirdness.
And these people are in charge of teaching children.
That's the concerning part here: save your weird deviances and your sexuality for adult-only entertainment.
I have no problem with drag events.
I've been to, you know, plenty, not plenty, but I've been to them and I've been to gay bars.
And I have friends who, you know, are that way.
And this just gets so strange and weird and gross when it involves children.
So I don't know.
I don't, I don't know if this phenomenon is going to continue much longer, to be honest, as the parents who consensually bring their children to these events.
I think more and more parents are saying, like, you know, this is kind of weird.
I think we can teach, you know, like tolerance, inclusivity, that it's okay to embrace differences without this like grotesque caricature of women appropriating them and having these clown characters.
I mean, I would want my children to look up to and idolize people who have merit, who took principled stances, who are comfortable in their own skin, not trying to pretend to be someone who they're not.
So, Tamara, I'm going to go out on a limb here.
I'm going to predict, because I know you're a great mother.
You would never bring your children to a drag queen story time, would you?
No.
And imagine if you didn't bring your child to a drag story time and you're going to the library thinking that you're engaging in some wholesome, you know, book reading or you're going to get a few new reads to go home and enjoy, and then you walk in on that.
Well, and this is, but what I'm getting at here, Tamara, is that a five or six year old, they're not hopping into an Uber or taking public transit and getting to a library to take in a drag queen performance.
So obviously there's parental or guardian support for this.
What is in the heads of those parents?
Is it like, oh, I'm going to show everyone how woke and uber cool and down with the transgender revolution I am?
Is that what's driving it?
Because here's my point.
If there was no market for this, right?
If it was an empty space, this ends, right?
Exactly.
And yet, there is audience for this.
What do you think is in the heads of those parents?
Oh, gosh, yeah.
They've been captured by this ideology.
And they're obviously not seeing it for what it is, which is directed to capturing the hearts and minds of these children and instilling this idea of confusion.
It's really confusion.
These people don't even know who they are.
And they're supposed to be in charge and responsible for teaching your child about how to embrace differences and inclusion and tolerance.
Again, I would prefer to see somebody who's principled, who's moraled, who has a good sense of themselves, their identity, teaching children morals, ethics, principles.
This is just really bizarre.
I think there was someone in the comments on the Wasaga Pub or yeah, the Wasaga Beach Public Library's Facebook post that I featured in that report.
And they're like, why aren't seniors reading to kids?
And those four seniors have been so isolated, deprived of interaction.
I remember when the school used to plan trips to the seniors' home and you would interact and they would teach you, you know, like actual life skills, knitting, or they would do reading or songs.
And it was kind of fulfilling for both parties involved.
Seniors needed and longed to have that interaction with children and that relationship and get that rapport.
And then children could have wholesome interactions with adults.
So I, I mean, obviously, we've gone quite awry as a society at this point when we've replaced that with bearded men dressed up as ladies.
That is a profound statement, Tamara.
I agree.
Wouldn't it be beautiful to have seniors and honor our seniors as the storytellers?
Protester Presser Confusion00:13:17
Yes.
And, you know, and our last, I think my last point on this before we move on to our justice minister is simply this.
You know, the other day I had somebody reach out, and this is the saddest thing I think I can say about Drag Queen Story Hour down at the library.
And it was, hey, here's a tip for you.
Such and such a town is having their library is having Drag Queen Story Hour.
And I responded, I'm so sorry, but the saddest thing I can say about this issue is that you're kind of an outlier as a library if you're not having a drag queen story hour.
It's almost as, ooh, what are you?
Some kind of a weirdo?
You don't have some 300-pound bearded male dressing as stinker bell to read to the kids.
What's wrong with you?
Right.
You know, so it's amazing how accepted this has become.
Yes.
And although I think more and more now are starting to say, wait a minute, this is weird.
It doesn't make sense.
Yeah, I guess time will tell if the culture war continues.
We have one super chat before we move on from Funis.
It gives $5.
Thank you very much, Funis.
The same police Notze, I think that's just a code word, wants to defund.
She called to remove a journalist so she could save face, not answering about how well the police defunding policy was working.
Can't make this stuff up.
Is she referring to not, or is it, are they referring to not Lee as Nazi?
Oh, you know, I think I get it now.
The play on words.
And this is referring, I think it's to our former colleague Kiam Becksty at the council.
Which we'll get into.
Well, you know what?
Let's should we talk about the bail reform before we get there?
You know what?
Yeah, because you know what?
Because it was brought up in the super chat.
We may as well kill two birds in one song.
We'll do a brief segment on Alberta.
But yeah, Kiam Bexty somehow got arrested for attending a Rachel Notley presser in which she was standing quietly in the background observing.
Okay, he gets a first of all, he got frog marched out.
Secondly, now I think he's got his hands behind his back.
I don't think he was handcuffed.
I think Key and his point of the camera there to make it look like he was cuffed.
But more to the point, folks, in the one law for thee, one law for me, as you know, last week, Daniel Smith had a presser ambushed.
It was by disruptive protesters, typically union flunkies.
And did you hear of any criminal charges about that?
Right, a former or an NDP staffer as well.
They completely crashed her presser.
I think we have some very disruptive fully impeding on the stage in front of the camera.
And this is, and none of them were arrested.
No charges, to my knowledge, were laid.
Yeah.
And look, and she's just calmly standing there.
Where's the cops?
What is going on here?
Yeah.
And you know what?
That's a win for Daniel Smith, you know, not lowering herself to that level and screaming back at them and being hysterical.
They look so bad on that, but that's besides the point.
How in blue hell can you arrest Kiam Bexty for doing nothing and at the same time turn a blind eye to people that are completely disrupting a press conference?
I don't get it.
Well, and this comes also as NDP leader, this is the Alberta NDP leader, Rachel Notley, has condemned Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta, for only allowing one media question and no follow-up.
And so they condemned her for not upholding freedom of the press and how could this be and how dare she and she better revoke this policy.
And meanwhile, that same individual who condemned her political opponent for that policy of only allowing one question from media now doesn't allow questions, any questions from certain media.
So if you don't toe the political line, if you're seen as an opponent or someone opposite on the political spectrum of Rachel Notley, then she won't allow you to ask any questions at all, not even just one.
At the same point that she's condemning Danielle Smith for only allowing one from any media.
You know, Tamara, it is amazing.
Whatever happened to classical liberalism, I mean, just myself and Lincoln Jay, we were out at the Durham District School Board yesterday, another completely leftist woke out of control school board.
Minister of Education, Steve Lecce, hello.
Can you put down your Pokemon Go monitor and actually start governing?
But we went out there and guess what?
Here's something new.
No cameras allowed inside.
And I said, excuse me, we're a visual medium.
How do we practice journalism without recording?
They go, well, you know, there is a live stream.
And I said to the security guard, I wasn't giving him a hard time, folks.
He's just following orders, as they say.
But what Durham District School Board does is when there is a prickly question or they don't like the tone of the audience, guess what?
They end the live stream.
They are complete censorious thugs.
And what was up for voting yesterday was a motion.
It's being kicked down the road.
So we'll see where it goes.
That they were going to ban, ban any parents from asking anything to do with sexuality questions, transgenderism.
So if you're concerned about pornography in the elementary school library, oh, no, no, human rights provisions, you can ask that.
If you're concerned about certain flags going up 18 times a year to commemorate one community, no, can't ask those questions.
It is complete and utter censorship, as Lincoln and I found out yesterday.
It's about them controlling the narrative.
And to bring it back to Rachel Notley, it's the same deal here.
When you are arresting a reporter just for his mere presence at a press conference, you know, and we have this clip here where she actually refers to Becksty as a protester.
This is right from her mouth.
Let's have a look.
Well, thank you very much.
And thank you, everybody, for your patience.
As many of you here know, we had to remove a protester, but I'm very pleased that we were able to have folks stick around.
Thank you, Joe.
Yeah.
Oh, wait a minute.
You mean like those bona fide protesters that stormed the Daniel Smith event, right?
This is outrageous hypocrisy.
On full display.
And the masses seem to be none the wiser, which is how they get away with this, is that there's no scrutiny.
There's no, no one from the media is speaking truth to power.
And those who want to, like Kian Becky, are frog marched out of the presser and then referred to as a protester.
So this is just changing the definition of something to fit your narrative so that you can justify the action that you just take to squash freedom of the press.
And then we have another video clip here from the same presser where Notley, in response to a mainstream media reporter who asks if this delay could have been handled better.
Well, I don't want to give it away.
see how she responds in terms of the questions that they they ask There is one media outlet that fits that description that I've been very clear.
We will not take questions from until they retract the hate speech that they published with respect to one of our province things.
The protester today does not fit that description.
The protester today is a protester, has a record of acting like a protester, regardless of what the name of the public said, and has a clear association with white supremacist moves.
And so the answer is no.
No.
Can we have an example of that clear association with white supremacy views?
You know, it's funny, they never give that example, do they, Tamara?
No, and that's she talking about.
You know, you'll be labeled, oh, you're far right, oh, you're this, you're that.
And I say back, well, what does that mean?
Can you describe that?
What do you mean?
What does being far right mean?
And, you know, the irony is so perverse, and it looks like only Rachel Notley is unaware of it when she calls a reporter as someone having a pointed perspective.
A pointed perspective from this woman that, I mean, our beloved colleague Sheila Gunreed wrote a book about her and her party while they were in power in Alberta, and it was adroitly entitled The Destroyers.
She declared war on her own province in the name of wokeism and virtue signaling.
And the last thing, well, let's leave it at that.
It's less than two weeks away, May 29th, Tamara.
That's the election day in Alberta.
And the way it's being described to me by analysts, and gee, I hope it's more of a, you know, it's not so much a photo finish as so many people are saying, but basically, all the rural writings are going UCP.
Edmonton is a write-off, as Sheila likes to say, let's get a front-end loader and just shove it into the Saskatchewan River.
That's going to go NDP.
And the last battleground, what's going to decide the whole province's fate, is Calgary.
Is it going to go majority NDP or majority UCP?
I'll tell you, I lived in Alberta for two years, 85, 86.
That was in the midst of, I think it was a 70-year-long dynasty of the old progressive Conservative Party.
It was unthinkable that there'd be anyone but a right-of-center government there.
What makes me just shiver is the fact that this isn't Rachel Notley saying it's time for change because we saw your change.
And it gave the name for Sheila's book, The Destroyers.
We know what you're about.
How could the average Albertan, even if you lean left, Tamara, how could you vote this destroyer back in again?
Yeah, the writing's on the wall, just how much devastation was caused by the reign of terror of the NDP in the province of Alberta the last time that they were elected for four gruesome years.
So, you know, without sounding xenophobic, I think that there's been a clear drive to funnel new Canadians into certain ridings of the province to sway that political landscape in favor of more radical left-leaning politicians.
There you go.
And we should get to the little many, but let's have an ad break for a second.
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I used to think that meant people that hated the TV series Xena Warrior Princess, but then I found out the real definition.
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Funny fact.
Oh my gosh, she would hate me.
We used to have so much fun playing Xena.
I'd pay a dollar to see that video, folks, let me tell you.
She was like seven.
Oh my goodness.
Great memory.
Solid memory there.
Let's roll the ad.
We'll see on the other side.
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Dr. Byron Breidel's Insights00:03:28
Here we are.
Tamara Tuesday.
LOL.
Laugh out loud.
Just wanted to say you did an amazing interview with Dr. Byron Breidel last week.
His running analogy was spot on.
And hi to David with a happy face.
Oh.
Well, thank you very much for your support.
And what was the big takeaway from that interview for those viewers that didn't see it?
Well, they should tune in and watch.
It was my segment last week where I was co-hosting the Ezra Levant Show.
And so that is exclusive content for our Rebel News Plus subscribers.
And I believe there is a rumble clip out with both just my monologue, but also with the interview with Dr. Byron Breidel.
And we are speaking a lot about the current landscape around misinformation and how he has been proven really in real time to have been correct with some of his concerns around some of the things that we can't discuss here on YouTube, but some of those novel products that were massively pushed on the population.
And he expressed his concerns back on the Alex Pearson show in May of 2021 around biodistribution and some breaking studies that he had actually atipped.
So through access to information requests, he had A-tip these studies and documents out of Japan.
And so he had to go to great lengths to have them translated and to actually get his hands on the tangible science that was evolving and up to date at that time.
And as time has continued on and we've seen the real world data being collected with some of these novel products, it's showing that the concerns of Dr. Breidel, which wasn't really saying anything either way, just, hey, this is groundbreaking science at that time, you know, three, sorry, two years ago now.
And his concerns have all been validated ever since through other scientific ventures that have come out in the last two years.
And so instead of validating him and saying, you know what, we should have listened to you two long years ago and we could have prevented a lot of the damage and the follow to some of this stuff that has happened.
And again, I have to be careful.
It's unfortunate that we have to sort of self-censor on this platform.
But he still faces complete slandering, smearing of his career.
He's still ousted from his institution to be able to do the lab work that he was conducting prior to the pandemonium that saw the mandates in place and things like this.
So we really delved into that rabbit.
Then the rabbit hole of misinformation.
I have done a few reports the last two weeks on that being publicly funded, by the way.
Canadians, your taxpayer dollars are hard at work to fund workshops through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research on misinformation, combating it, identifying it, how to dispel it through social media influencers.
Like these aren't scientists.
These aren't people who are debunking the actual science.
They're basically parrots for the consensus.
And so I'm going to be continuing kind of following the beat of misinformation and who determines what is and what is not misinformation and how science, which is always evolving.
Like, you know, when they said the science is settled, well, that is in itself anti-science.
Science is a series of questions.
It's hypothesis.
It's never concise.
It's never settled.
And so, yeah, follow me for more on that misinformation stuff.
And you can check out some of those clips on Rumble.
I don't think they were YouTube safe, so you'll have to scroll back a little bit, but from last Tuesday.
No, it was a great, albeit infuriating, interview.
Repeat Offenders Legislation00:11:48
And by the way, you just had to like twist the knife there.
Mention that you were the guest host on the Ezra Levant show.
See, that, folks, that used to be my due regur duty.
I was kind of always the backup goalie.
Think of the Montreal Canadians in the 70s.
You had Ken Dryden as a starter.
That would be Ezra Levant, the all-star.
And I'm kind of like your bunny LaRoc backup goalie.
But then here comes another backup.
Watch out.
Oh, my gosh.
Because this is, you know, and I know what's going on.
Every time I get a gig, super producer Efren, he's got to put the menzoid out to pasture for some reason.
I guess I'm getting a little too old or something.
But anyways.
You thrive in the field, David.
We have to get you out in the field.
David in the wild.
That's where David shows off his best.
Yeah, that's right.
Mutual of Omaha, Wild Kingdom.
My goodness.
So let's get to the justice minister in this unjust world, David Lametti.
Oh, my goodness.
He tables legislation to reform bail system.
Folks, do you think that was organic by the Blackface liberals?
Or do you think that just maybe, just maybe, all 10 premiers and all three leaders of the territories demanded that bail reform get amended?
Now, Tamara, can you think of another issue in Canadian politics when you have 13 out of 13 leaders 100% on one side?
I can't.
Even Quebec, the distinct society, they're all in on this.
The other country within Canada.
And little wonder.
You have, I mean, the morale of the police force, not only do they have to take that transgender training and pass the module or else forever retake it, but they're arresting real bad guys, real trash.
And it's like a revolving door.
They get bail or sometimes there's not even bail asked for.
They're back out on the streets.
These are violent criminals, folks.
Sometimes with firearms.
You know how Blackface is going after the Saskatchewan duck hunters because that's the real source of the problem in a high crime corridor such as Jane and Finch in Toronto.
And meanwhile, the worst of the worst, we turn a blind eye to, first of all, even if you are a liberal supporter, Tamara, can you explain this to me?
Well, it's all under this idea of having a progressive justice system.
So the Justin Trudeau liberals have made changes to the criminal code.
They've instituted this progressive judicial system, which prioritizes feelings over actual public safety.
So here we have, and this is an article that we pulled up from CTV News.
Where the justice minister is set to unveil bail, a bail bill targeting repeat violent offenders with reverse onus reforms, and they are actually announcing that currently.
So that is currently taking place, where justice minister David LeMetti will table this new legislation targeted at the criminal code reforms, and he's doing it with Marco Mendocino the, the MP who basically said that they wanted to bring in a.
How many they?
He asked how many tanks they could bring in to squash the freedom convoy that took to the nation's capital back in January and February of.
Oh well, if Pinocchio is down with this yeah, then you know what?
What could go wrong?
And I see there oh, and associate minister of health, Carolyn Bennett yes right yeah, that would be Dr. Bennett.
That would be that doctor who, back in the 90s folks under the correction regime, even though she's a medical doctor, she voted against compensation for Hep C victims.
Yeah, way to go, dr. Death.
Your credibility is ironclad in my book too.
What, what a crew I mean they are.
There's no ethics, there's no morals.
And you know what is making my spidey sense tingle right now to Mary Ugalini is the fact that this is only seven pages of a.
So, really and, by the way, I do want to read the seven pages it won't take long, but I'm wondering if they're covering all the bases.
That is incredibly a short piece of legislation seven pages.
So I just wonder if LeMedi and company are talking this up, as this is a utopia to the bail condition debacle that's in Canada, or if this is really a paper tiger and, for that matter, a toothless tiger.
Well, and it's being called bill C-48.
So I'm always nervous or or cautiously optimistic when certain things like this are introduced, because what else is buried in this legislation that you know really has nothing to do with the bail reforms but will affect all Canadians and make kind of these broad, ambiguous changes to our criminal code and the criminal justice system.
So we have the the the, the bill itself, pulled up here on the screen.
I don't know if you can see.
If you can see it David, you said you wanted to read the points.
Yeah, of course, because I'm Clark Kent and I can.
You know, I'm the mild metal that can read microscopic, three-point type on a screen.
Are you crazy?
The um well, the CTV article gives a kind of a broad overview of some of the changes, but it there is a lot here.
So maybe, as this.
You know, as this story unfolds and we hear more about what is actually being proposed, how they're going to achieve these things.
I mean, this comes at a time when these repeat offenders are now causing, you know, there are innocent victims in their midst.
I mean, just most recently, a story that really resonated me was a stabbing in Calgary where a mother was picking up her two children from school and she and her 11 year old were both, you know, stabbed and succumbed to their injuries and the eight year old was able to run and flee the scene but saw it all and this was like out front of a school.
And This was a repeat offender, known to be kind of off the charts, known to have a criminal history.
I think was even out on bail.
And lo and behold, moves ahead and actually moves forward with such a heinous crime at no one, such innocent victims that are just these random attacks seem to be occurring more frequently.
And again, because there is no repercussions for those actions.
It's grotesque.
And I got to tell you, Tamara, I'm getting a sense of deja vu.
And what I mean by that is, remember the shite storm of criticism about the Young Offenders Act, people a day short of their 18th birthday getting away with less than two years at a juvenile delinquency place for first-degree murder, you know.
And that was replaced, remember, with the Criminal Youth Justice Act.
And, oh, hooray, there's going to be a new sheriff in town.
Well, as the WHO once saying, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
It was probably just as bad or even worse.
And, you know, it's not about me being a hard ass when it comes to kids when we're younger and dumber, as the saying goes.
But you know what, Tamara?
I think there's a difference between giving a kid a break who was a shoplifter at a department store or went on a joint ride with a stolen car and nobody got hurt or anything like that, compared to first-degree murder.
I think if you're 17, I think if you're even seven, you realize not to pick up a cinder block and drop it on your baby brother's head and kill him.
This is the fatal flaw of these acts for the youth.
It doesn't differentiate the very worst heinous crimes as opposed to, well, what the Americans would call misdemeanors.
And just like this bail reform, the devil is always in the details.
So I want to actually see the legislation word for word.
And I'm sorry if I'm a little skeptical of CTV.
I mean what?
Healthy skepticism, as we all know.
I wonder why that would be.
Well, and it seems, you know, on the surface to be a fairly balanced article because I just want to go back before we wrap things up quickly to that CTV report where it says what led up to this bail bill.
And it says, calls for reforms ramped up in the fall following the news that one of the suspects in a deadly September 2022 stabbing spree in Saskatchewan had been wanted for months for allegedly breaching release conditions.
In October, former BC Attorney General Murray Rankin pointed to reforms in Bill C-75, a federal bill passed in 2019 that was designed in part to modernize and streamline bail procedures, saying that the liberal law changes were inadvertently causing more repeat offenders to end up on the streets.
Unbelievable.
There you have it.
Well, and you know what?
Even if there are good tangible changes here, I go back to my original point, Tamara.
It was 10 premiers and three territorial leaders demanding it.
It was 13 out of 13 saying, do something.
This is not an organic come to Jesus moment for the blackface liberals.
And, you know, and really, because when you look at the lower levels of government, they're the ones dealing with the crime.
A lot of these.
And not only that, but the people, these innocent victims in all of these stories are who it ends up affecting permanently lifelong damaging effects of these liberal-led progressive policies.
And how long is it going to take us to say these policies are not working?
Time and time again now.
We're starting to see the culmination, the fallout of these liberal policies, whether it be our school system, our judicial system, these LGBTQ radicals infiltrating every sect of our society.
When are we finally going to say none of this is working the way that it's intended to?
It sounds flowery and good on the surface, but as we see the repercussions of it now years later, what's it going to take to say, finally, once and for all, this isn't working?
And one more point, Tamara, and it goes back to one of our points that we discussed earlier.
It's the hypocrisy.
As much as Blackface hates guns and wants to grab them all from law-abiding Canadian gun owners and hunters and sport shooters, when Blackface goes to a public event, do you think he's going driving up in Daddy's vintage Mercedes?
No, he's in a motorcade with heavily armed RCMP bodyguards who sometimes self-identify as henchmen and thugs when it comes to certain members of the Fifth Estate, but I digress.
And even, you know, if you ever, you know, Bill Blair, ex-Toronto police chief, who knows, by the way, the gun grab will have 0.0 effect on violent crime in Canada.
Folks, if you ever see Bill Blair, if you really want to bust his balls, ask him this.
Why do you represent a riding that you don't live in?
He represents a riding of Toronto in Scarborough that has its issues with violent crime.
Oh, but it's not going to affect Bill Blair because he's living in Forest Hill, perhaps one of the top three neighborhoods in Toronto.
Why He Represents a Rich Riding00:00:57
That really grinds his gears.
So just in case you run into the ex-chief, remind him that.
Why don't you live in your crime-infested riding as opposed to one of the top three neighborhoods in Toronto, you coward?
Anyways.
Well, with that, we're seven minutes over, David.
How do you like that?
Time flies.
The clock says 8.20.
What's with these trained broadcast professionals?
I thought we were doing a reset.
I know.
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Can I call you lovely?
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