Danielle Smith unveils Alberta’s new cabinet, sidelining UCP holdovers like Tyler Chandra and Jason Copping while naming Brian Jean (energy) and Rebecca Schultz (environment) to counter federal policies, despite her progressive past. Critics mock NDP claims that climate change drives wildfires, citing Smith’s arson investigation pledge and Kyle Bertan’s storm-chasing data, while dismissing Greta Thunberg’s "forests are not renewable" messaging. The episode also scrutinizes NDP-backed trans sports policies, citing testosterone advantages and locker room incidents like Leah Thomas’s alleged exposure, arguing biological fairness over progressive rhetoric. Alberta’s job growth defies national trends, framed as a rejection of "woke" federal interference. [Automatically generated summary]
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Wonderful start today, obviously.
So much good news to get to today.
Happy to have you here, Sheila.
I guess just right off the bat, I do want to let folks know that Danielle Smith, the newly minted and now with a clear mandate, the first time she was actually elected as the leader herself, not solely by the party, but by the province, both in terms of seats and the popular vote, set today to announce a cabinet.
So this will be a massive sort of determining factor in how this party is going to move forward and what her leadership will look like.
A great deal of the leadership core in cabinet positions that were left with her, they were basically Kenny holdovers.
I'm not to say that they were loyal to Kenny and opposed to Daniel Smith, but some of that legacy definitely carried on a number of those sort of key figures, whether it be Tyler Chandra, Jason Copping, Casey Maddie, all people in critical ministerial positions.
Those people are now no longer part of government.
They were unsuccessful in their bid for re-election by the narrowest of margins.
We're now learning.
It remains to be seen if a couple of those in the case of Tyler Chandra are going to be judicially reviewed.
But it seems like on recount, the margins extended a bit.
So it's looking like Danielle Smith will have a largely new crop of people to pull from.
Some interesting key figures who've been at the sort of forefront of her campaigning, whether they be former leadership candidates or just people who've been intimately involved.
We're going to bring you the results.
We won't cut to it.
It can be a bit tedious.
They do a sort of formal swearing in for everybody.
But if that announcement does become available, we'll let you know.
But is there anything you're watching closely, Sheila?
Yeah, I'm watching health, finance, and justice, which are always like the big three in Alberta, but I think generally speaking in other provinces.
So who will be the health minister?
Who will be at finance and who will be at justice?
And in our meeting that we were where I forgot what I was supposed to be doing when the show kicked off, you know, I had sort of given my choice, not my choices, but whom I think might be on Daniel Smith's radar and given their high profile during the campaign.
So, you know, if the campaign announcement was not being made by Daniel Smith, it was really being made by Brian Gene or Rebecca Schultz.
And so I suspect that Brian Gene might end up at finance.
He's, you know, he had been Wild Rose leader.
He had been a challenger for the UCP leadership twice, but he's very likable.
He's well liked.
People trust him.
He's sort of a fixture within the party.
And I can see him at finance, but you had him at health.
Yeah, you know, he's a very successful businessman.
So I think finance makes perfect sense.
But I know with the history, with what happened with his son, with the fact that he is a very likable guy and he's very passionate on that issue, I could see that being a clear fit.
But I mean, he'd be equally as capable in either position.
I just think for a province that the healthcare system is reeling, I think the NDP was a bit closer than they'd like.
And lots of people, that was concerns on NDP promises on healthcare.
Not that I think they would have delivered them, but someone like someone very likable like Brian Gene tackling that, I think that would be good.
And then one of the other high-profile people we talked about, Rebecca Schultz.
Well, she's currently on municipal affairs.
She's been talking about arena deals a lot.
She's very sort of invested in sort of the financials that seem to resonate within a city like Calgary.
So having her on an important portfolio like finance or healthcare for that matter, but finance, I think there's a fit there.
But those two, it could almost be switched.
I could see that going either way.
The one thing we did agree upon in our meeting, and I think we'll both be kind of surprised if it isn't the case, is that Mike Ellis, who is public emergencies and safety, did some really sort of powerful stuff.
We had the opportunity to speak to him during our Rebecca Schultz as well, but during our live stream coverage and as well as after that addictions announcement.
But Mike Ellis, a minister already, former cop, he seems just sort of earmarked for this justice position.
So it'll be interesting.
Now, we could be wrong about all of this and it could completely flip the script on us.
But I think those three are probably reasonably good bets for some high-profile ones.
But it could be interesting.
Another name that is out there, someone like Todd Lowen, who would be sort of a significant, and I'm not necessarily sure where he would go, but to bring him into a significant position after he was ejected by Kenny would be sort of a repudiation of that and an affirmation of like, this is a big tent party.
All voices will be tolerated, included and considered.
So that would be an interesting play as well, I think.
Yeah, you know, I see Todd Lowen at environment.
I think they probably want to shuffle the remaining Nixon out of that file just because of the stigma attached to him being such a Kenny loyalist, being Sky Palace.
I see Todd Lowen at environment.
And because of just where he is, you know, he lives in a forestry-based riding.
So I mean, I think he's probably the right fit for the job.
I also think we might see some cabinet ministers come from in and around the Edmonton area, but not, of course, in the Edmonton area because it's a sea of orange in Edmonton.
But I think you might see maybe Jackie Armstrong, Homenyak, or one of the other sort of somebody from the suburbs given uh, like municipal affairs, where they're dealing directly with the cities.
I I see something like that sort of to let the voters of Edmonton know that we have not forgotten about you, that you're not going to be excluded from consideration in cabinet, and I think it would be interesting if one of maybe some one of the young new faces uh, or one of the people who maybe been on the back bench is some of the young people who've been working incredibly hard, are very well liked um, get some surprise positions, but again, in 20, 30 minutes, for all we know, they could start announcing this stuff.
We don't have an exact timeline for when, so let's move on to some other.
Yeah, let's one more story I want to talk about on the Alberta front before we move on.
I, just in the 10 minutes between we had that meeting and then I forgot what I was doing, um I, one of the reasons I was looking at this is because it was announced this morning, according to Stats CAN, that Canada as a nation lost 17 000 jobs a little over 17 000 jobs in nine, like in the first decline.
This is the first time the jobs numbers have fallen in nine months.
But wouldn't you know it?
Alberta, our jobless rate, shrank in may.
So while the rest of the country is dropping jobs and the unemployment rate is going up, things continue to get better and better here in Alberta, and so if you were on the fence about casting that ballot for the UCP voters at home, know that you did the right thing, because you can see that Alberta is completely divergent from the rest of the country on so many issues, on issues of economy, on issues of job creation, on public safety, addiction.
We're doing things different here and it's manifesting in good things every single day.
You know, when you have a common sense approach and you reject the sort of woke politics and everything uh, and keep in mind this.
This all considering the fact that Danielle Smith is very much a progressive personally, but she doesn't need that to be at the forefront of every political decision.
She wants to make political decisions.
It would seem that'll benefit everybody.
More jobs are good for you.
It doesn't matter if you're Gay straight Sikh Muslim, Christian.
A better economy, better jobs, better opportunities well, that helps just about everybody.
Um, I did want to get into another Alberta story here as well, and it's on the fire, it's on the wildfire front.
This is a story that's obviously affected you personally, but you know, it's absolutely wild to see.
I was hoping this would end during the campaign.
I figured the NDP would sort of launch their attacks, lose their minds and then well, that strategy didn't work.
Let's, let's move on and try and be a little more constructive and practical.
No, that's not the case.
Um Smith pledges arson investigation into 175 wildfires with no known cause.
Um yeah, this is pretty much I could read here, but it basically boils down to them hiring an arson investigator from outside the province.
Um, following an unseasonably and early destructive wildfire season.
This is the most non-contentious self-evident, reasonable thing that anyone could ever do there.
If, if you have a problem with this, you're an unhinged lunatic uh, cue the NDP.
Um they've.
They've numerous outlets actually.
CTV went off about how Alberta premieres is downplaying the links between wildfires and climate change.
And then Nagwan El-Ghanid, the newly barely elected, I think she, what's the recount at now?
It's like still less than 100 or 100 something.
Yeah, she defeated Whitney Issak.
And so she says on Twitter here, step one is step one in problem solving is defining the problem.
Climate change is the challenge we need to solve here, but circulating arson social media conspiracy isn't going to address climate or wildfires.
The world is in the climate mitigation and building resilience phase.
Let's get to work.
So she's like, they ask her, is this from climate change?
She doesn't say no.
She's like, well, it was an unseasonably high situation.
There are a bunch of reports of arson out there.
Let's get to the bottom of this and figure out what's actually happening here.
And they're accusing her of peddling conspiracy theories.
Saying that this is climate change is a conspiracy theory.
Saying we're going to hire investigators to figure it out is rational sensibility.
I just imagine being the arsonist and getting charged and going to court and then telling the judge, oh, no, no, Your Honor, Justin Chrot and literally every progressive in the country said it could not have been me and my matches and my gasoline.
It was actually climate change.
It was the climate gods.
Sheila's SUV made them angry.
And so fires started.
Yeah, you're right.
To say that this is climate change and not arson is the real conspiracy theory here.
To say that my SUV somehow did so much damage to the weather, it told the climate gods not to have it rain in April and May and to even go back further.
We didn't have a big snowpack.
My SUV did that, not the guy with the matches or not the guy, you know, throwing his cigarette butt out the window.
It wasn't that guy.
It was all those other things that had to happen for these fires to burn.
Are these people insane?
And you know what?
I really like yesterday I did American media hits all day long because they're looking for someone who's not crazy to talk about the fires.
And being from Alberta and northern Alberta and then this year so close to where the fires were, I can speak to this with a level of experience, maybe not expertise, but it's fascinating to see people now rediscovering the cycles of nature, right?
Like you're from Alberta, I'm from Alberta.
We get smoke plumes every single year almost, especially where I am, because I live like right where the grasslands crashes into the boreal, which is another point.
We're one third forested by the boreal, which is like the world's largest continuous forest.
So of course we're going to have, we're going to have forest fires, but we have smoke plumes in that like orange apocalyptic sky every year, maybe every other year, couple of times a year.
We get it from BC, we get it from northern Alberta, we can get it from grass fires from the south.
It's not unusual for us.
The only reason the environmentalists seem to care right now is because the smoke plume now is coming from the east and it's ending up over one of the most populous regions in North America.
So it's frightening to the people who are so out of touch with nature because they haven't been off concrete in 10 years.
So they forget that nature exists.
And those of us who live within it, this is just, this is just spring, right?
Like this is just spring.
Sometimes you get floods, sometimes you get fires, but that's what it's like when you live within nature.
People who live outside of nature are just experiencing it for the first time in a very, very long time.
And it's very scary for them.
Nature's Cycles00:05:39
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's definitely a disconnect for folks who, I mean, I live in the city, but I get out enough.
I experience it.
We're just on the outskirts of town here.
So like they don't really get that.
And within within nature, there's cycles of destruction, rebirth.
It's normal.
When those cycles clash with your square concrete buildings within the city, we're getting a little bit into romantic poetry here, but it can be jarring, but this is normal life.
And I think there's also a bit of sort of selective memory.
People are like, I don't remember there being fires before.
It's like, well, there was.
Now, in people's defense.
This year has been bad.
And that's why the premier, sanely enough, is saying, well, we should look into this.
Even in Calgary, in the last couple of days, there's been fires.
And one of them, they caught an arsonist almost immediately.
So there are cases of arson taking place.
This is also factual.
So is there more than usual?
Very, very probable.
It's been hot.
It's been dry.
Maybe.
Maybe, maybe.
But statistics show that, and this, like, this is Natural Resources Canada data shows that there are actually fewer forest fires burning fewer hectares of forest over the course of the last 10 or so years.
So the fires are not getting worse.
You people are just noticing them down east.
That's the problem.
We always have them.
They're not as bad as they have been in the past.
You're just noticing them now because the smoke is bothering you.
Well, and there's also the fact very often if there's fires during an election cycle, it becomes a point of contention and they draw more attention to it, especially with the NDP's negative style attack ad, the fact that they defunded a bunch of stuff, but didn't want to talk about that and then talked about the one sort of elite repelling crew.
They really wanted to make this seem like a negative failure, which is not great.
I mean, you saw quite the opposite with Brian Jane during the fires up north, how everyone came together and they were collaborating.
So not great to see.
One thing I did want to touch on, and this is actually someone I've known for a long time.
He does a lot of storm chasing, Kyle Bertan, but he's a weather guy, storm chaser, bit of an expert.
Whenever there's one of these stories, I kind of send him a message to get a bit of perspective on it.
And there's been a video on social media sort of circulating of a bunch of fires erupting at once.
And everyone's like, oh, clearly these are set by people.
I believe it's the Quebec fires.
One, people probably couldn't set those fires in that sort of unison quite as fast.
So very, very clearly what's happening here is a storm front goes over, lightning strikes in the ground, just because like hundreds of people have asked me what is actually happening here.
And it can start deep root fires or small fires that don't show up on satellite.
That storm then passes through.
You can see it moving down to the right.
He's even provided a link so you can watch like the storm move through on satellite.
And then after those high lightning strikes hit within that community and clear out, you see smoke start to emerge.
So just for folks out there, I know there's there might be like a rush to sort of some confirmation bias and you want to see, oh, look, this is a unified setting thing.
This is very, very normal.
This is what you would expect to see.
And I've known this guy for probably 15, 20 years.
So we had an off the record sort of chat about this.
And then he went public and sort of put out this statement.
So yeah, do look, do check out these resources.
They are available.
You can check out fire sources, causes of fires, which ones are known, which ones are unknown, current status on fires, potential causes, storm patterns that have gone through the area.
So the information is very much out there.
And most of what we're seeing now, pretty standardized, except the Alberta fires were a little bit bizarre in how early they are and where they were.
So I think that, once again, very rational to suggest hiring an investigator to take a look.
Let's touch really quickly.
We're on the sort of climate fire front on this Greta Thunberg thing.
And then we will, well, I think we were a little bit overdue for an ad break.
Unless you had something else on the fire front.
No, it didn't really.
Just think that it's like to suggest that the environmentalists are that organized.
The environmentalists remember, are largely urbanites.
They're not people with survival skills.
They're not going to go out in the middle of the bush, set their alarm clocks or their watches to the exact same time or within how a storm rolls through and then start lighting fires.
I just don't think they're that smart, organized or have that many survivalist skills like starting a fire to stay alive.
I just don't think that they can do that.
Yeah it, when you see like a fire set not too far from a town uh, with within relatively close proximity to a church, and the church is damaged, probably be suspicious, complete middle of nowhere, in a forest, right after a lightning storm, probably from the lightning storm, but who knows, maybe we could be wrong.
Um so Greta, we'll do this last note and then we'll jump to a commercial break here.
Um, school strike week 251.
Everything has changed, Greta has changed the climate.
There's no more fires, no more catastrophes.
Today I graduate from school, which means i'll no longer be able to school strike for the climate.
Uh, this is the the last school strike for me, so I guess I have to write something on this day.
Yada yada yada, what.
What do you make of this?
Uh this uh, school striking Greta Thunberg?
Uh, what was the joke from uh, from Ricky Gervai, about uh missing more school than Greta Thunberg?
But uh it's uh, it's, it's I, I. What does it accomplish?
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Well, and how is she graduating when she literally hasn't attended in?
Well, what is it?
250, some odd weeks, like there's 52 weeks in the year?
Like, what has she been doing like five years?
Is that five years?
She's been at his school?
Yeah, by the way, she's 20.
She's 20.
You know how old I was when I graduated from high school, 17.
You want to know why?
Because I went every day and she is 20.
She should be halfway through university.
I had a child I had like a one-year-old at that point and she's out there holding a sign, thinking she's a productive human being.
She hasn't gone to school in five years.
How?
I just want to know how she graduated at all.
And what's this?
Let's see here the picture.
There's a Trans flag.
Um, every time, every time.
I don't know what that has to do with the, the climate, but anyways, more Greta being Greta.
I still love that clip of Ezra tracking her down and asking her question, did that sign say forests are not renewable?
Well, that's a shocker to me.
Oh yeah, it does.
It does say that, oh my gosh, stop investing in our deaths.
Expect resistance?
A little mushroom under me feel like I should invest in their debts.
Like the guy on the left looks like the guy from the UCP protest with the fedora.
From that clip Ezra played, oh, guy kneeling on the left, Pat King, Friday's future.
Okay, all right.
Well, there's some characters there.
Have fun looking through that.
Um, really quickly, before we jump to this ad break, I do want To mention an incredible event that's coming up from Canadians FOR Truth.
I think you've had the opportunity probably to come out to one of their events, but it's Thurin Fleury, a Canadian Icon Olympian, Jamie Sele, another Canadian Olympian, incredible champions.
But it's really great to see they sit down with very interesting guests.
They've had Tamara Leach, a number of other people all come down and they have conversations you're just not likely to see in the mainstream media.
Well, coming up soon, Sunday, June 18th, at the Great Eagle Event Center in Calgary, Alberta, they will be having Sarah Palin for their fire and ice show presented by Canadians for Truth.
This is going to be an absolutely incredible event, some great conversations touching on a number of issues.
It's really interesting.
Whenever I go to one of these events and I'm going to cover it, I'll sort of come up with like a topic or a theme that I want to explore.
And it's always like my questions line up perfectly with where they are.
So if you're watching this, if you enjoy these streams, if you're sort of a critical outside-the-box thinker, this is probably a perfect event for you.
So I do encourage you to go to Canadians4Truth.ca, find this event again, Sunday, June 18th, an evening with Sarah Palin, Fire and Ice presented by Canadians for Truth.
We're going to have a large contingency of rebels there.
So grab your tickets, come on down, come say hey to us as well.
I'll be doing a report on location as well as an interview with Sarah Palin.
So you'll have an opportunity to maybe come on camera, be in a rebel video.
So that's always fun.
So yeah, we're looking forward to seeing you down there.
I'm hoping this thing can really sell out because they're bringing some more big guests.
I can't share all the details, but more big guests coming over the coming months, really doing something big.
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Great to have some alternative sources out there sharing different perspectives on some critical issues.
So yeah.
Yeah.
And Sarah Palin was really one of the first modern victims of cancel culture, and she really came out the other side.
And the ferocity by which the feminist movement attacked her for being a traditional wife and mother, but also an accomplished woman as a governor.
Just, you know, if she were on the left, she would have been a darling, a darling of the left, but her crime was being a woman of the right.
Yeah.
Wow.
So on that, let's jump to an overdue ad break and then we'll carry on right from there when we get back.
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Well, back to the streets of Calgary, a safe metropolis, one of the best places to live in the world.
That is until Joti Gandeck took over and the streets became overrun with violent crime.
It was really interesting talking recently to Jerry Forbes, like the icon from CJ92, on just how much over 25 years the city's changed.
It wasn't until a couple of years ago that it really was borderline not safe to go to these train stations.
There were cops everywhere, but they weren't situated at these critical areas because, frankly, they didn't want to deal with this catch and release judicial system that we have, but it's gotten worse and worse and worse.
I know Daniel Smith has made efforts in the UCP government to bring more authorities in to have marshals working to secure these areas.
Again, pretty wild though.
Now, this is a little bit back.
So, hopefully, things are starting to get better.
But a retired bull rider suffered a fractured skull in an attack on a C-Train platform.
I just want to put into context how tough bull riders are.
Like, cowboys are like bull riders are nuts.
Like, most cowboys will not get on a bull.
These people are so incredibly courageous.
So, for on the city streets hopping on the C-Train to have a bull rider's skull cracked, it is absolutely unbelievable.
Is it the same way in Edmonton?
Is it just as bad?
Like, are things just going downhill with progressive governments in these cities that are voting increasingly NDP?
Shockingly, I think it might even be worse in Edmonton.
Viewers, if you're watching, might I suggest if you really want a snippet of what's happening in downtown Edmonton, I avoid downtown Edmonton like the plague.
I avoid Edmonton, generally speaking, but for sure, downtown Edmonton, because I kind of like my car, I don't want it stolen.
I kind of like myself, I don't need to be stabbed or harassed on the street.
But Edmonton, the downtown core of Edmonton, is a place of just extreme human misery.
And the city has made it worse because the city for a time was basically turning a blind eye to the fact that the LRT stations were turned into just drug use centers.
In fact, the city government was making it worse because what they were doing was they were handing out needles and I don't know.
I was going to say street and doing it like municipal street ministry, but that's the wrong word when you're encouraging people to languish in their misery.
They were doing street outreach, which involved giving away needles in the LRT stations, which is, you know, to use a phrase from the movies: if you build it, they will come.
And so, the drug addicts knew where you could get needles, so that's where the drug addicts went, which made it even more difficult for people to just use the LRT station to go to work.
And a lot of if you live and work downtown, you need to use the LRT station to live and go to work because you also have a municipal government that is waging a war on cars.
So, they don't build apartment buildings with enough parking stalls, and you know, they don't build workplaces with enough parking stalls because they want you to get onto the public transit system, which is dangerous and dirty and disgusting.
And this is what it is.
So, I think Calgary, you might be playing catch up.
Now, as Adam pointed out, Daniel Smith has deployed additional policing resources to the downtown cores of both cities, deploying sheriffs down there to try to make it a little bit safer for the law-abiding to just use the facilities that they're paying for.
And I think it's starting to help.
I know that the Chinatown Association, the business association that's right near the downtown core, they were sort of outraged by the lack of resources being spent to keep their communities safe.
They work really hard to clean up their neighborhoods.
And the municipal government was sort of shoehorning everybody down there, not in their backyards.
We'll put it in the backyards of the Chinese community.
So, I'm happy to see Danielle Smith not only take a strong stance against public safety in our downtown cores, but to address the root cause.
And I hate to use that word since Justin Trudeau did, but the root cause of the addictions and gang problem down there, which is really fueling just the fact that it's increasingly dangerous just to go to work if you work in the downtown.
So we just have some breaking news here.
The cabinet has been set and surprising results, to be honest.
We were pretty much off the mark across the board.
Yeah, some incredibly interesting and potentially surprising positions for folks here.
The cabinet is 25 members, a decrease from 27.
I don't mind seeing that whatsoever.
And they did lose a couple spots.
So that kind of lines up.
Danielle Smith will carry on, obviously, as Premier and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Mike Ellis will remain in the same position, but he has also acquired the deputy premier add-on.
So that's a bit of a promotion.
That's good.
That's awesome.
He's been great.
And then he'll carry on with Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services.
I think that makes sense.
You know, he's so passionate about this particular project that it would have been a bit of a shame to lose him on the addiction sort of recovery and emergency response front.
So perhaps that relates to that.
Minister of Advanced Education, Rajan Sani.
That makes sense given the area that she's in close to the university.
Not quite the varsity district, but I believe one of the closest regions to the varsity district.
So that very much makes sense.
I don't know if we want to go through every single one of these.
I suppose we may as well for folks out there who are interested.
Minister of Affordability and Utilities, Vice Chair of Treasury Board, Nathan Neudorf.
Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, R.J. Sigertson.
That makes sense.
Just south of the city, Minister of Arts, Culture, and Status of Women, Tanya Fur, no problem there.
Minister of Children and Family Services, Searle Turton.
Minister of Education, Dimitrios Nicolaitis.
You know, that one actually makes sense.
That's one I was wondering.
He was in Advanced Ed before.
Yeah, and he's very passionate about education.
We're trying to set up an interview just during the election time, but he very much just talked about education.
He's a big proponent, very intimately connected in the community here.
His family is a Greek family restaurant.
Mr. Free Speech on Campus, too.
He's pretty firm on free speech on campus.
So I'm happy that when he was at Advanced Ed, you know, he it took him a while to get there to speak out against some of the cancel culture things that were happening against professors, but he did eventually.
So I'm not mad to see him stay at education or be moved to education.
Energy and minerals, Brian makes perfect sense.
It does.
Yeah, I'm surprised to not see him in sort of a high, high profile one, but to have someone like, yeah, to have someone like Brian Gene going all out on pushing this, it is in a way, I think, a commitment from this government to saying we're going to have one of our top people focused on pushing this critical resource in this province.
I think it's a very poor oil.
Yeah.
He's from Fort Mac.
He's the right guy for the job for sure.
For sure.
Yeah.
Minister of Environment and Protected Areas, Rebecca Schultz.
Very interesting.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would have envisioned her somewhere higher.
But again, she does do very well, I think, in the municipal regions.
Perhaps voters who are concerned about this, perhaps Edmonton voters or people who are in the 20 margin areas to see someone with a high profile on environment.
Maybe that was the intention with this.
You can't help, it doesn't, you can't help but feel a little bit like both with Brian Gene and Rebecca Schultz being very much at the forefront, being former leadership candidates.
They aren't being thrust into a, they're going to be the next lead.
Yeah.
I'll add something to that just on the flip side.
Those are two portfolios wherein Danielle Smith has absolutely promised to take Justin Trudeau to task on issues of environment and energy.
So she put her two, you know, her two closest allies.
Now they were leadership contenders, but it looks like they're very close allies to her and they're very competent.
They were very high profiled during the campaign.
I think they were some of Danielle Smith's strongest campaigners.
So to put them in portfolios where they are going to be challenging the feds every single day, looking at it now, like looking at it, it makes perfect sense.
These are not demotions.
These are battleground ministries.
Well, and unlike putting someone into a like clear-cut promotional, like you're the minister of health, education, one of those really big ones, justice, finance, whatever it may be.
I think this is elevating these positions and saying where Alberta is going to be moving forward.
And I think it is also putting people on these contingencies, having both of these people acting as the advocates on these fronts.
They're very much in line with what Danielle Smith has said.
And she's received some pushback on some of her environmental talk, but she has talked about it very much in the sense of selling carbon capture, bringing in green technologies, unlike the feds who talk about that stuff and do it at the sort of penalty or the reduction of oil.
I think Danielle Smith wants Brian Jean going all out selling Alberta oil around the world.
And then she also wants Rebecca Schultz promoting our environmental opportunities and alternatives, bringing in new business investment in that way.
So very interesting.
Along the lines of what we said before, not necessarily environment, but forestry and parks, Todd Lowen.
I think that makes sense.
This one is one I want to get your opinion on.
Adriana LaGrange, long time health moving or longtime education minister, rather.
Yeah, education, moving over to health.
What do you make of that move?
I think she's about to fight with the unions in the health, like the health sector, because she took on the unions in education and brought forward the government's agenda and basically told the unions to stuff it.
We'll work with you if you want to work with us, but if you're not going to work with us, then we're just going to do what we're going to do.
And I think this signals a strong revamp of the health sector.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I think that that probably makes sense.
I didn't even consider that.
You're being the optimist today saying this is great.
And I'm like, I don't know about this.
You know, that makes sense.
She had, she was tackling unions.
She was tackling an institution, standing up against constant pushback.
And say what you will, she did so somewhat competently, certainly.
So to have her in this new position where they're going to be cleaning up, making some changes, I think that's good.
Having someone with some gravitas and some experience, that makes perfect sense.
Mohamed Yassin on Minister of Immigration and Multiculturalism.
Rick Wilson carries on Minister of Indigenous Relations.
I think he's been doing a really good job.
Yeah, lots of the local communities and chiefs seem extremely happy attending a number of UCP events during the campaigns.
Minister of Infrastructure, Pete Guthrie, Minister of Jobs, Economy, and Trade, Matt Jones, that's a bit of an interesting one.
I believe he was on affordability before.
So that would definitely be a promotion for him, I would imagine.
This is an interesting one.
Minister of Justice, Mickey Amory.
Well, what do you make of that one?
I've had the opportunity to talk to him a few times, but that one I did not see coming.
No, I don't know much about Mickey Amory, actually, to my great shame.
But, you know, he's Calgary Cross.
He's young.
That's all I know.
And he's a former lawyer.
So I mean, most politicians are former lawyers or at least have a law degree.
I don't know much about him.
He was children's services before, if I recall correctly.
Yeah, that's right.
And so, one thing, you know what?
One thing that is one thing that is encouraging.
One thing that is encouraging there is when I did have the opportunity to interview him, I've spoken to him a couple times, but on the children's sort of bureau within that ministry, one of his big sort of advocacies was for sort of individual rights and daycares not to be sort of brought into this envelope of like the Trudeau vision of a like sort of monolithic state-funded thing.
He wanted to advocate for individual rights, responsibilities.
And now that doesn't directly carry over to the justice position.
I think it is promising to see that while given the opportunity to address things on a different front, he was advocating for individual freedoms and a little bit of subsidiarity, something that I espouse for break it down to the sort of lower levels of authority so that they can deal with things more locally.
But this would be, I think, go ahead, Suri.
No, I was just going to say he's another second generation MLA too.
There's another second generation MLA on the list here.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's funny.
This is a smaller.
I think this is the biggest promotion.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is the biggest promotion by far.
I think this catapults him onto the spotlight.
I mean, winning in Calgary was big.
This may be, we need one of these strong voices within Calgary.
Also, with all the talk of concern and criminality within this area, having him within Calgary tackling justice, that's big.
I'm sure I'll have the opportunity to speak with him soon about this because he's been very open and willing to have conversations.
So that's an interesting one.
That's one that we're going to have to follow closely and react to.
Great to see Dan Williams on that portfolio of mental health and addiction.
I did have the opportunity.
He's one of those incredible advocates.
He spoke out in defense of students, unvaccinated students who weren't being allowed to return to school.
He recently also issued a letter in defense of Catholic education and the merits thereof.
I interviewed him on that as well.
Dan Williams is just a solid egg.
He's a good guy and he's compassionate.
I don't want to go too much in his personal story because I don't know how much of it is shared publicly, but he has some sort of personal testimony on this thing.
So I think he's going to be a passionate advocate.
Rick McIver, I believe, carries on on municipal affairs.
He and Schultz were both on that before as well.
So no change there.
He is one of the sort of instrumental people whenever something can't quite get done, especially like the ring road around Calgary.
Rick McIver was the guy to kind of put the pedal to the metal.
Jason Nixon, seniors, community and social services.
I believe that was Rajan Sani's position before.
So a little bit of a downshift, reduced profile.
I think I think some people might have expected him not to be in a seat in one of these cabinet or ministerial positions at all, but a bit of a reduction there.
That should get some people off his back.
Minister of Service for Alberta and Red Tape Reduction, Dale Nally, Naley Nally.
I think it's Nally.
Minister of Technology and Innovation, Nate Glubish.
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That's a good fit.
Minister of Tourism and Sport, Joseph Scow, he can easily dunk.
So that's a perfect fit.
Yeah, I was going to say, he's like the biggest man in all of politics in Canada.
Yeah.
Well, and you can hop on his shoulders and get a good view.
So that's a perfect fit.
I'm joking.
He's the best.
He's always willing to join us.
But almost every interview I do, both Dan Williams and Joseph Scow are like so tall.
I'm a tall guy.
I'm six, two.
They're the only people I have to like angle the camera like upwards and kind of get the interview from underneath.
You know how far I'd have to back the camera up just to get all of us in the frame because I'm down here and they're like way up there.
I interviewed Schultz right before him and it was like down to completely up.
It was a complete flip.
Devin Drasheen on economic corridors and transportation.
And then here's an interesting one.
President of Treasury Board and Minister of Finance Nature.
Yeah.
Do you know what though?
He's following in his dad's footsteps.
His dad, Doug, who was also the finance minister here in Alberta back in the old PC days.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Another couple key positions.
Shane Getson, Chief Whip.
Joseph Scow, House Leader.
That's awesome.
Treasury Board members.
I don't know if we need to go through all these people.
Probably don't care very much, but Treasury Board members, cabinet policy committees, all that good stuff.
So there will be an Alberta First Policy Committee, Building Communities Policy Committee, Economic Diversification Policy Committee, and a Public Safety and Wellness Policy Committee.
So tackling those critical issues there head on.
So there's nothing there that upsets me.
There's some definitely that Amory one is going to be interesting.
He's a very competent guy, as you mentioned, a lawyer.
And he seems to be right on some issues.
So that'll be interesting to see.
Is anything else?
I think too with Amory, he doesn't have any baggage.
I think you need a justice minister who doesn't bring with him any baggage.
Not particularly a Kenny loyalist, not particularly a Smith loyalist.
Not a lot of lockdown baggage tied to him.
So I think that's maybe who exactly you need.
Well, LaGrange kind of is the is the one really Nixon kind of, but not quite so.
I think LaGrange is the only really, really big, canny holdover massive name who's in a massively critical position still.
Yeah, but I think she's poised to fight with the unions, which I can't wait to see what happens next.
Yeah.
Well, it's, it's good to see.
I think you don't want complete turnover because that sort of sows some seeds of disruption to have some of the people still involved, but still new voices coming in.
I think that's good for the party.
So that's healthy.
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To get into some of the Pride Month antics that we are seeing, we'll start with the Higgs government faces caucus revolt over changes to LGBTQ school policy in New Brunswick.
You know, this story for me, the core of the sort of change here that's receiving some backlash is that students under 16 who identify as trans or non-barrier, non-binary rather, won't be able to officially change their names or pronouns in school without parental consult.
Yeah, good.
This is the norm for all of society and all of culture forever until the last six minutes.
The outrage over this, of course, your children can't change their genders or do anything.
They can't go on a field trip.
They can't watch a PG-rated movie without getting permission.
This is insane to think that this one thing is exempt.
Everything else you need permission form, but this one thing is absolutely exempt and unquestioning.
And people are acting as though this is a change to the law.
This is a rebuttal to a newfangled thought process whereby kids under 16 can have private relationships with their teachers at schools and not keep their parents informed on something as critical as changing their gender identity.
This is so sick that this has become normalized, this sort of grooming behavior where teachers, this is literally, because I used to work in a church, we do a whole bunch of training about what to watch for as grooming behavior.
And the number one indicator is people like teachers or whether it be church workers, teachers, camp workers, your local drag library story hour performer.
One of the key things you look for is targeting children and setting up sort of special agreements of communications away from the parents.
Because the second you establish that we've got our own little secret, I'm the one, not your parent, that is basically the inroad.
That's how people groom.
I'm not calling anyone here groomers specifically, but I'm saying 100%, 100%, this is your textbook grooming behavior.
Now, all of a sudden, in the course of a couple of years, we've gotten to the point where we're like, yeah, no, I'm outraged that they want the parents to know what's going on with their kids in the school.
This is completely backwards.
I think that this outrage is manufactured, or at least, or if not, it's completely diluted.
No, you're an absolute weirdo if you think you're going to have a secret with my child without me knowing.
I know everything.
And if I don't know everything, I'm damn sure going to find out because that's my job as a parent.
No unrelated adult.
I don't care if you have access to my kids seven hours a day.
Actually, I care extra if you have access to my kids seven hours a day without me being there.
I want to know what's happening and you're not going to have secrets with my kid.
And if you think you're going to have secrets with my kid, then now we've got a problem.
But this is simply, as Adam, you rightly point out, a reaffirmation of normalcy, of normal, appropriate behavior of adults who are in positions of authority and power over other people's children.
You don't get to change my child's gender without me knowing.
Well, you don't get to change my child's gender, whether I know it or not.
That's not something that can happen.
That's biologically not real.
But to think that I don't have any input in any of this, besides just the stomping all over parents' rights and the incompatibility with biological reality.
We know that kids who are struggling with gender identity, whether because they just struggle with gender identity or they've been infected with some sort of social contagion by an activist teacher or TikTok or whatever, we know that those kids are at an increased probability of suicidality.
So either they will try to take their own lives, they will have suicidal ideations, self-harm, or they may actually succeed in taking their own lives because those things go hand in hand.
So it is a great irresponsibility for these teachers to not inform.
Oh my God, am I frozen?
Okay.
It's a great irresponsibility for these teachers to not inform the parents that the kids are struggling with their gender identity because parents need to look out. for suicidality.
And if you're keeping this secret, this is a secret that could cost a child their life.
So if you care about the health and safety of children, you must inform parents every step of the way, besides the fact that it is completely normal for parents to know what their kids are doing.
If it like, let's let's concede their argument.
This is about safety.
Okay, perfect.
Then you must inform the parents.
There's also the fact that the like breakdown of a natural and healthy relationship with your parents contributes to that.
If the concern here is about safety, well, if the concern is, say, the child is going to be hurt when they get home or they're going to be abused when they get home, well, that would be a matter for social services.
And there are metrics in place to tackle those sorts of problems.
So that is not what this is addressing whatsoever.
But I had a conversation actually with a principal and the school had a child who was identifying as trans.
Now they actually would come to youth group and they'd sort of feel included and loved and all that stuff was all good.
But the principal is like, oh, well, we don't want to challenge and we don't want to share any information with the parents or anything like that.
And the fact is for children who are being encouraged, pushed, or sort of at least facilitated towards this outlet before they're in a mental capacity, before they've developed enough to make an informed decision.
As you said, the suicidal ideation is something like 50%.
Now, you didn't see 50% suicidal ideation during African-American slavery.
You don't see suicidal ideation during that level during sex slavery right now in the world.
You didn't see suicidal ideation like that during the Holocaust.
There's basically no time of horrific persecution in human history where you see suicidal ideation appreciate sort of reaching anywhere near that level.
The only community that experiences that is communities that have are dealing with identity disorders.
That's the only place that you see this.
So excluding children from their families, alienating them, dividing them, and then encouraging them down this route that is from the evidence, from what we're seeing clinically, not age appropriate.
You're encouraging them towards that path.
And these people say that it's in the name of love.
It's in the name of inclusivity.
It's not.
It's in the name of cowardice.
If you love these children, you know what?
If some kid wants to be called Sally and wants to wear a dress, have a conversation with their parents about it.
Deal with it in whatever way you have to deal with it.
Be loving, supportive.
Don't necessarily encourage it, but do what you have to do.
But covering it up, masking it, concealing it from the parents is categorically wrong and it is a recipe for disaster.
This lies in the sort of underlying progressive mindset that the government knows better for your children than parents do.
Parents will love their children a million times more than the state ever will.
And in the odd cases, whether it's because of substance abuse or mental illness or whatever, where they are not loving their children, then the state can step in and stop those abuses.
We need to stop treating parents being like, well, I don't agree with your gender dysphoria because this is what we believe.
That is not abuse, plain and simple.
A couple more stories on the same wave.
I just want to, before we button that up, there's a bigotry of low expectations here that, but it's apparently an acceptable bigotry.
The presumption here is that Christian parents or parents who object to gender theory are going to be abusive, harmful, or uncaring to their child who is struggling with these things.
So these things must be kept from the parents.
That's bigotry.
That presumes that those parents are inherently bad parents.
Instead, they're probably really great parents who just want to be involved in every aspect of their child's lives and are being purposefully excluded by activist teachers.
So there is an inherent sort of underlying anti-Christian bigotry here that nobody wants to talk about.
Absolutely.
And we can, this is actually perfect.
We'll jump one story ahead here.
It's very interesting to see that it is always the sentiment that it's anti-Christian and that Christians are the ones doing this.
If we can pull up on Twitter these protests at some of these pride events, we've got these young kids and they're not Christian.
They're Muslim.
Yeah, they're stomping on pride flags.
Now, is stomping on flags maybe the nicest or most appropriate way?
But when we're looking at the extremes that we're facing in the society by juxtaposition, it is certainly not just white Christians who are opposed to this.
We saw with Kathleen when we see right across so many of these things when they go overboard.
It is very often, whether it's the Armenian dads fighting Antifa or this, it's these groups who take a stand.
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You know what?
Social conservatives are uniting all over the place.
And I like to see that.
Now, stomping on flags, I don't know.
I can understand how that's objectionable.
But is it any more objectionable than the sisters of perpetual indulgence, those men who dress as female nuns to mock the people amongst us who are least deserving of mockery, nuns, women who devote themselves to a life of service and chastity and devotion and charity and community?
They're being mocked by these men in makeup.
So is that any more offensive than stomping on some rainbow paper?
I'm not sure.
Yeah, no, I don't.
But one is fine.
The other, the government will call it hate crime.
Except they're Muslims, so they'll probably get a free pass.
We're going to ignore it.
We're going to imagine if that was a redneck.
If that was a redneck in a truck doing burnouts on those, jail immediately.
This way they're going to pretend they didn't see it.
Okay, let's talk now.
Let's jump to this video changing topics entirely here.
Former President Donald Trump has released a video responding to being indicted.
So some of the massive news of the day, not yesterday, really, but some shocking news here, certainly.
And then we'll sort of go through some of the tweets and provide some feedback.
But if you have that video ready, we can jump to that.
Very sadly, we're a nation in decline.
And yet they go after a popular president, a president that got more votes than any sitting president in the history of our country by far, and did much better the second time in the election than the first.
And they go after him on a boxes hoax, just like the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax and all of the others.
This has been going on for seven years.
They can't stop because it's election interference at the highest level.
There's never been anything like what's happened.
I'm an innocent man.
I'm an innocent person.
They had the Mueller hoax, the Mueller report, and that came out.
No collusion after two and a half years that was set up by Hillary Clinton and Democrats.
But this is what they do.
This is what they do so well.
If they would devote their energies to honesty and integrity, it would be a lot better for our country.
They could do a lot better.
They could do a lot of great things.
But when you look at what's happened to our country in the last three years, we were energy independent.
We had a strong basic campaign stump speech.
But what happened here is Donald Trump has been indicted because he had boxes of documents.
Even though Joe Biden also has boxes of documents in his garage, apparently next door to his, what was it?
Corvette?
Camaro?
I don't know what he drives.
I don't care.
I don't think he should have a license, quite frankly.
I hope that car's collecting dust.
But he had it just in his garage.
He's got these boxes of documents.
This is something that presidents do because they have the ability to declassify anything that is in their possession, any government document.
So this is clearly a witch hunt because Donald Trump is up double digits on the closest Republican challenger.
And the Democrats in the deep state, as they say, are going to do everything they can to protect their guy from not only challenges from without, so like Trump, but also challengers from within, as in opening up him to a challenge from the young Kennedy politician who would like to become president.
So I don't know.
This is just madness.
Yeah.
Well, you know, it's interesting.
And I mean, I think the progressives, you see, it's the same thing here in Canada.
It's the just Trudeau can have all these violations.
Any conservative politician would have been done by now, but it seems there's a free pass.
I like DeSantis's comments on this, actually, about how this is clearly a targeted persecution, prosecution as well.
It'll be interesting to see, though, if this opens a can of worms, if this does proceed, if then they manage to flip the script and the Bidens have some come up and throw what they do.
Frankly, I mean, politics is not clean.
There's a pretty decent probability that most people have been in the American office of president, have done enough to probably get themselves into trouble.
Certainly a lot of them have.
They seem to be able to skate through.
If all of a sudden they set this precedence, maybe Donald Trump did do enough and there is grounds for him to be targeted.
Maybe I'm sure he isn't perfectly crystal clear, but compared to some of the past actions that we've seen, compared to the actions of this government presently, I don't know.
It certainly opens a can of worms here.
So yeah, you're electing the next president.
You're not canonizing the next saint.
So you just, to get to that point in your political career, I'm just going to assume you've done some shady stuff or like waltzed all over the boundaries of what's legal and what's not.
But this kind of stuff blows up in the Democrats' face because what this does is it takes your like your civilized Nikki Haley voter and they say, oh, hell no.
And they move over to Trump or the Chris Christie voter who's, I don't know, campaigning against Trump for some reason.
I don't know if you saw his announcement.
I'm like, are you, are you campaigning for Joe Biden?
I'm unclear.
But those people who are like, oh, I like Chris Christie kind of, you know, he's what, I'm not sure why.
But anyway, those people end up in the Trump camp because they see this as an attack on them and on Republicans and all those people, the normals of the world, that they can use all the political machinery to shut you up to.
If they can do it to Trump, they can do it to you.
It scares people over into the Trump camp and that's going to blow up in the Democrats' faces.
And I cannot wait.
Yeah, it's going to be something else.
We're just going to pull up one quick other video here before we get to our chats and wrap up.
The NDP.
Is it the NDP thing?
I love it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, let's run that clip and we'll react to that and then we'll wrap up with some chats.
Mr. Speaker, exclusionary policies that ban trans women and girls from sports are cruel human rights violations.
There is no credible scientific evidence to support these bans.
The real threat to women's sports is not trans women.
It's systemic and discriminatory underfunding of women's sports.
Human rights protections are only meaningful when the government takes a stand in defense of rights and against discrimination.
My question is, what is the Minister of Sport doing to bring an end to trans exclusionary policies at organizations like Swim Canada?
The Honorable Minister for Sports.
I'd like to thank my colleague for his question.
It's fine.
She's just going to say, yep, we agree that boys should be allowed to tackle Sheila's daughter on the rugby field.
That's what they're going to say.
Like, especially they're talking about Swim Canada.
Like, read the room, people.
That is the flashpoint of all of this stuff is swimming.
It's Leah Thomas, Liar Thomas, pretending to be a woman because he was a mediocre male swimmer.
So then he tucked his wiener into a lady's swimsuit and cleaned the clocks of all the female athletes who had worked their lives to be in the place that they were.
And so then they stand up and say there's no scientific evidence.
There's no scientific evidence that things happen to male bodies that don't happen to female bodies during puberty, that you don't have a larger heart, larger lung capacity, stronger cardiovascular system, bone density, muscle mass, that testosterone has an effect on muscle mass.
Like I'm old enough to remember last week when testosterone was a performance enhancing drug, and now you can just have it coursing through your body and compete against my daughter.
What is wrong with these people?
And it's just like it's there's no scientific evidence.
This is the funny thing.
The same people say trust the science.
There's no difference.
Sheila, you could work out as long as you want for your entire life.
I could stop working out immediately right now and I will always be able to lift twice what you can lift, no matter what you do.
Literally, you can look at, I can almost lift like in every category, the women's like records, and I don't work out all that much.
It's in this cognitive dissonance between reality and this sort of need to adhere principally to these insane, this is empty, vapid rhetoric.
Nobody believes this whatsoever.
And the human rights violation that's occurring is young girls, women being exposed not only to athletes who can clearly outperform them and make their sort of career seem meaningless in a way.
It's so brutal what is happening here, but it's also the literal exposure to male genitalia.
I believe Leah Thomas was seen several times erect in the women's locker room.
Like this is insane that we're acting like that person is the victim of what is happening here.
The other thing that I want to touch on here, and it's because I'm so sick of hearing about this, it's been debunked so many times.
Women tend to get more funding as athletes.
The other thing too is they also get a greater share of, and you can look at these numbers for yourself.
You can take basically any professional sporting event.
Like I think they did it for soccer.
Men make 10 times as much as the women, but they're getting something like 6% of the pool of money that's being made.
Women get like 25% of the money being made, but there's so much less money going into women's sports because people don't watch it as much.
They get more funding.
They did a breakdown, I think it was of the WNBA and saying they wanted more profit sharing.
Well, the NBA is basically paying to keep those leagues afloat.
And if they got a profit share, they'd actually each owe something like $80,000 a year because it's all in the hole.
They're losing money.
So you can, I like attending women's sports games.
Women's hockeys come a long way.
Some of the girls can even skate almost as fast as the boys.
It's pretty incredible to see.
So to encourage women to compete with each other, to have sports, all that stuff is absolutely incredible.
But we don't have to lie about it.
We don't have to pretend they're the same as men.
And we certainly don't and shouldn't allow men to compete with them when there's clear distinctions there.
Create some sort of alternative league.
Sabine Hoffen Hossenfelder, who's an astrophysicist, did a breakdown of this and said there should be a league where steroids are allowed.
There's no rules whatsoever.
You can compete in whatever sort of category you want.
Everyone will hit balls 800 yards and throw a thousand touchdowns.
Yeah, sure.
Let's completely open it up, but you can't have it.
Let's put robots in it too.
Let's add robots into the mix, dude.
I'm just making it.
No one identifies as a woman.
Whatever.
I don't care.
This is wild.
This is crazy.
Anyways, I think just on that note, there are sports that are women's sports that are interesting to watch.
Like women's rugby, they are as big a draw as the men.
Like their World Cup, they filled their stadium.
It's an exciting sport.
The league does a great job at promoting it.
It's fun.
It's engaging for the fan.
It's not too expensive to attend.
And a whole generation of young girls are getting interested in the sport.
Their professional league is exploding in the United States.
The Premier Sevens is because it's fast, exciting, and it's fun.
But women's soccer is really boring.
Like really, really boring.
There's like the 12-nothing win by a bunch of old retired guys.
There's a video online.
It's a one-legged, a team of one-legged men versus a local women's team.
So they're dudes on crutches with one legs and they clean up.
Like they dominate.
It's so boring.
Yeah.
And then, but you look at this, you look at sports like volleyball has higher viewership internationally than hockey, for example.
That's women.
No one's watching the men play volleyball.
So yeah, it's wild.
There's, there's, I don't know, there's ample opportunity for sports.
Lots of Canadian athletes without being forced.
You look at Penny Alexiak.
She's one of the biggest athletes in Olympics.
Can she swim faster than the men?
No, but it doesn't matter.
She's a hero.
She's an icon.
We're talking about Swim Canada.
You can look at somebody like that, and they didn't need this sort of nonsense.
But what they did have was an opportunity to compete against people with biological similarities, not people who were going to quite literally blow them out of the water.
Wild to see.
And again, this goes back to what we were talking about at the start of the stream: that this thing that seemed crazy six minutes ago, now if you're opposed to it, these progressives are like, how dare you, how dare you take this position?
And we need to change this back to the way it used to be.
Like, that's not the way it used to be.
They're referring to a time when this didn't exist as this being the norm, which isn't the case whatsoever.
I think people are waking up to this, though.
The second you go after people's kids, children, sports, you saw the Muslim families.
When you go after schools, that's when everyone is like, okay, okay, that's enough.
People are rejecting this en masse.
The budget of the ad budgets backfiring for Bud Light and some of these other organizations.
Yeah, people are waking up.
We've come a long way from being skeptical of the Soviet athletes because we're like, is that a dude?
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Is that lady?
Is that Renner and dude?
To like, oh, that is a dude.
And isn't it beautiful?
Like, we've come like full circle.
Now they're the only Russians anybody likes.
It's completely flipped.
If you're Russian, bad.
If you're a Russian trans athlete, though, that's good.
So those people are, yeah, it's wild.
Sheila, anything else before we get these chats?
No, let's get to the chats.
We're over time.
All right.
Abelist SL, regressives taking over open source software community are pushing licenses that ban everyone that doesn't cater to them from using forking their software.
Can governments ban those licenses?
No idea.
That's a really good question.
That seems like a whole report for someone very tech-oriented.
Yes, and I'm always like, when this question is, can the government do anything?
I'm like, I hope they don't.
I hope they don't get involved.
You're heard it here first.
Government, you're not allowed.
Uh, Fraser McBurney, great to see you again.
All caps lock, five dollars.
Usually on Sundays, I'm at Hamilton City Hall, but this Sunday, we're at Bayfront Park having our potluck picnic.
If you're a part of a group, come or group, come join us.
We'll have fun 12 to 3 Sunday.
Fraser McBurney.
And another one from Fraser McBurney.
Again, all caps lock, $5.
While shopping this week, I met three women, one from Cuba, could not speak English.
The other two women were from Zimbabwe.
What is their skill lead that Canada needs?
Very nice people.
I don't know.
I didn't meet them.
So maybe they're very high-skilled expertise.
Maybe they're business owners.
Maybe they're opening a restaurant.
Hard to say.
But if she's from Cuba, I want her.
If she's from Cuba, I want her.
She's, yeah, she's a refugee from an authoritarian regime in search of freedom.
So welcome.
If she's from Cuba, let's out.
Exactly.
Awesome.
Well, thanks so much.
It's been great.
Thanks for everyone who joined us, whatever platform you joined us on.
A bit over, but we did have that whole big cabinet announcement right in the middle.
We're happy to be able to bring that information to you.
We'll continue to bring you the other side of the story when it comes to this newly formed government and some of the action they take.
Sheila, any final words for our viewers?
No, I just want to thank everybody for tuning in.
I want to thank everybody in the studio who works behind the scenes.
I want to apologize for the hard start of the show where I forgot that I work for this company and what I'm supposed to do.
And I want to thank everybody who pitched in a little bit of money to keep the lights on.