David Menzies and Drea Humphrey critique Meta’s Canada-wide news block on Facebook/Instagram under Bill C-18, calling it a backfire against Trudeau’s "censorious" government while mocking its push for media subsidies. They contrast this with NHL’s Pride jersey cancellation, citing player backlash like James Reimer’s Christian objections, and argue sports should stay apolitical. The episode also scrutinizes Toronto’s mayoral race—endorsing Mark Saunders over Anthony Fury amid ballot-harvesting allegations—and warns Olivia Chow’s potential 25–30% tax hikes could destabilize the city. By-elections’ unreliability and Trudeau’s divisive policies fuel skepticism about Canada’s future, with hosts urging donations to Rebel News instead of taxpayer-funded media. [Automatically generated summary]
You have tuned into the daily roundup on this, a Friday, June 23rd, 2023.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host.
Well, folks, let me tell you a little bit about my co-host.
Do you know that today is International Woman in Engineering Day?
And my co-host will not be celebrating that because A, she's not an engineer.
And seriously, in 2023, what's a woman?
She is the she-devil with us, Bachelor.
She is the Khaleesi of BC.
She is Drea Humphrey.
How you doing there, Drea?
Good.
Is it bad that I never get tired of your grandiose introduction of me?
I don't know what that says about me, but I'm doing good.
Happy to be here and chat up the daily news with you today.
And you know what?
There is so much news to get to.
If only I had my sheet with me, which I forgot, but I kind of know what we are talking about.
There's especially some very good news on the transanity front in terms of little victories here and there and maybe a big victory on the NHL front if you're a hockey fan.
But in the meantime, Drea, what is it that we are trying to do for the next one hour?
Yes, it's going to be a jam-packed show.
So tune in for the whole thing.
It's so jam-packed, we had to omit news on Rachel Gilmore, which I'm so excited about.
I said her name anyways.
But yeah, if you're joining us and you don't know what this is, this is the daily roundup where Rebel News reporters get together and talk over the latest current events.
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So please join in.
It's really fun to get to know you guys better.
And yeah, what's the first item on the menu?
NHL's Pride Jersey Controversy00:06:11
Well, you know what?
By the way, in terms of Rachel Gilmore, can we make her going forward like that Harry Potter character, Voldemort?
She whose name we dare not say.
I mean, she's nobody's nothing.
She's not even gainfully employed as a journalist, but the left keep propping her up as a victim, folks.
You know the drill.
If someone like a Gilmore gets a mean tweet, it's a cause celeb.
If staffers on Rebel News actually get physically beaten, whether it's Blackface's Royal Canadian Mounted Henchman or Antifa or some trans activist self-identifying as a violent thug.
Oh, nothing to see here.
It's just bruises and cuts and what have you.
What a disgrace.
So speaking of trans sanity, why don't we, I was so happy to wake up to this news, being somewhat of a hockey fan, not as much as I used to be, Drea, thanks to the wokeism.
But here is something I think as a step in the right direction.
The NHL is doing away with those awful pride jerseys, other specialty cause uniforms in terms of the warm-ups, because basically all this so-called inclusion rebounded as bad publicity for the NHL.
You had some hockey players, I'm thinking of James Reimer, the goalie at the San Jose Sharks, a devout Christian saying this is not in line with my beliefs.
So instead of something to celebrate, this became a bone of contention.
This became a lightning rod of controversy.
And Drea, here's where I weigh in.
And I don't care if you're on pro rainbow jerseys or anti-rainbow jerseys.
At the end of the day, whether it's hockey, football, basketball, baseball, I, and I would suggest 99.9% of the people tuning in to these broadcasts are going in person to watch them as spectators.
We are seeking escapism.
You know, sports is the toy department of life, like movies.
We don't want any agenda shoved down our throats.
And we don't want any innuendo that unless you get up and give a standing ovation for that fat drag queen performing during the second period intermission, you are a bigot, a hater, a transphobe.
I think the NHL has got the message.
Ratings for all the major sports, as I understand it, Drea, they're down.
And these sports leagues, I mean, that's their bread and butter.
That's their livelihood.
As always, fall to money.
So if we can take this activism crap out of sports and return it to what it once was, a place where I go to escape for three hours, I say bravo, Drea.
That's exactly.
You hit it on the nail there.
The problem is the politicization of pride.
It's not the communities that pride is about.
It's the fact that it's been hijacked to push a political agenda.
And people don't want to see that when they go to a hockey game.
The article says that, you know, some, like you mentioned, some players were not wearing the jersey.
So now there's a division amongst the team.
It's just awkward.
It's not inclusive.
It's exclusive of many.
It's contradicting with some people's beliefs because it's going on beyond, hey, we should all have equal rights.
We should all treat others the way we want to be treated, to basically proselytizing to people when you're there to have a beer and a hot dog and watch a game.
It says there were also instances of specific players like choosing to skip warm-ups on the nights their teams wore the themed jersey.
So now they're not even preparing properly to win the game.
So who wants that for the team they're rooting for?
Well, 100%.
And it's not just the trans sanity agenda, Drea.
I'm speaking of any kind of political causes.
I mean, again, I don't know where you weigh in on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but I don't want to see like, you know, Ukraine flags or as the case may be, Russian flags sewn on to NHL jerseys.
Just, you know, know your role, as The Rock used to say, and stay in your lane and let your audience, when they want to, read the op-ed pages of newspapers to form their opinions or come to Rebel Noobs, what have you.
When you're playing hockey, football, baseball, basketball, whatever, I don't want a sermon on the field or on the ice or on the gridiron.
I'm done with that.
This is a great step in the right direction.
And, you know, here's the other thing.
You mentioned Pride.
The perversely ironic thing about this NHL initiative, Drea, is it didn't even happen during Pride Week.
What am I saying?
Pride month.
Pride.
What am I saying?
Pride season.
It'll be pride year soon enough.
It already is.
It's already non-stop.
I believe it was back in April all these shenanigans were so two months before the month of June.
Now, I can hear a skeptic saying, Well, by the time June comes around, there's probably only four teams at most involved in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Yeah, but that is the season.
You know, are we going to have a Christmas-themed NHL game in July, or I mean, uh, September?
Um, who knows?
So, again, uh, like we call them as we see him, don't we, Drea?
So, good on the NHL for swallowing its pride, if you will.
And uh, that was good and moving on.
And, you know, the H and NHL stands for hacky.
And maybe if the Maple Leafs, if they can get back to basics instead of putting on a drag show and selling pride-themed merchandise and having a pride warm-up, how about this?
Sexual Stuff in Curriculum00:15:40
I know I'm asking a lot here.
Could you look at winning a Stanley Cup?
It's only been 57 years.
You know, I have a bet, Drea.
What's going to happen first?
The Leafs win the cup or I die.
And I'm telling you, the smart money is on the Grim Reaper.
You know, bet on that, folks.
That's safe.
That's money in the bank.
It's, I mean, the last time they won, Drea, Lester Pearson was prime minister.
It's unbelievable.
So, good on the NHL.
Um, now, here's something you wanted to talk to in the same file: the Saskatchewan Education Minister is calling for a review into ministry sexual education materials.
Oh, my God, folks, and what materials they are.
Take it, Drea, because I scare easy.
Everybody should be scared about this.
That's right.
If you have not seen, I don't know if we can pull up a picture.
I don't know if we're allowed to pull up a picture.
It's these were tween.
Yeah, tweens, I think, grade nine and in a high school.
And they only found out about these materials because one of the child told their parents that first.
So that's the other thing.
They're not getting a notice.
The parents are not being told.
But they, from a planned parenthood event, red flag right there that happened in the school.
They were given access to this deck of cards, A to Z.
It's a raunchy deck of sex cards with terms, many of which almost all, I had never heard of.
I don't know if we're going to dare to show anything.
Like some of the stuff is disgusting.
You would see me blush through my black skin if I actually had to read it out loud.
But I encourage you guys.
I know we are having an article come up today, and I think Western Standard might have already got it up.
But it's horrific.
I actually asked my team.
Okay.
I asked her.
I said, I read one and just the name of it.
And Hatchie heard of it.
And she's like, no, I've never heard of it.
And then I said what it was, and she was shocked.
She could not believe.
And she's in grade 12.
So she could not believe that's happening.
And it didn't, it doesn't stop there.
It also happened in BC.
So it had, I think, we have the article about.
Oh my God, look at that graphic.
Okay, yeah.
So you guys read.
I'm not going to read that.
You know what?
I'm not going to read it either, Drea.
I said graphic.
That was a misstep.
I meant pornographic because that's what this is.
And you know what, Drea?
More to the point.
I came across terms I had never heard of.
And of course, our haters will say, oh, well, look at that old square.
He's so out of the loop.
But once I read about what these sex acts involved, some of them are basically unhealthy to engage in.
I'm not going to get into details.
It's too disgusting and pornographic for me.
And if you want to call me a transphobe or a homophobe, you know, fill your boots.
I don't care.
Go to a doctor that will speak honestly to you.
There are such disgusting sex acts graphically described and even providing illustrations as well, Drea, that it is completely age inappropriate.
I mean, I remember, I think back in high school, somebody scored a deck of playing cards that had topless women on it.
This is infinite times worse.
This is about various pornographic exercises that, oh, I don't know, planned parent, for God knows what reason, what agenda, Drea, is encouraging minors to be aware of and maybe even partake in.
It is absolutely gross and it goes to show you.
It's criminal.
Yeah, it is criminal.
It is criminal because you know what, folks?
If a minor went to a corner variety store and bought an issue of Playboy, which I'll tell you is tame given this deck of cards here, that shopkeeper, if it was a fine, if there was a complaint lodged, he would be severely fined.
Now, why sneak smut into the school?
School's going to provide it for you.
The gatekeepers, and by that I mean the teachers' unions who are marching lockstep with the school boards, the school board trustees, all those Educrats, these are radical left-wing Marxists.
This is, I think, in the big unspoken strategy, Drea, tearing down society.
This is Marxism 101 and building it up as that Marxist utopia, which never happens.
Go to Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, anywhere that has adopted communism.
That's what I think is behind it.
Because if you told me even five years ago, Drea, we'd be having a conversation of this kind of grotesque pornographic content in our schools, I would have said you were a crazy woman.
But here we are.
It's so bad.
And I'm thankful that the Minister of Education in Saskatchewan, I believe his name is Dustin Duncan, is in fact doing the right thing.
He's calling for the review.
It's through their health.
It's always under something that sounds so good, their health and wellness curriculum.
And he's also banned Planned Parenthood, any type of Planned Parenthood event from any Saskatchewan schools.
And so this is very similar to what we're seeing happening out of New Brunswick.
They are also reviewing their curriculum that has this sexual stuff happening.
And one of the first things they did, which we've reported on, is make a rule that teachers are not able to call children by their preferred gender if it doesn't match, you know, the gender that was put on, I guess, their birth certificate until the child is 16.
They need parental consent.
Now, I mentioned that these same cards, and I'm guessing they went through more than just two provinces, happened in, were given to 13-year-olds in a Fort Nelson school.
So Fort Nelson School is now apologizing for the sexual materials.
Well, you can't make the kids unlearn this.
Let's be honest here.
They're learning in school something they would only learn on the dark web or something like that.
I'm hoping that we're going to see the same thing.
Oh boy, would I be happy if we see a review on the SOGI 123 curriculum that we've done many reports on at stopclassroomgrooming.com.
And that's one more thing.
We're calling this for what it is, child grooming.
And people are calling that bigotry, saying we're offensive and all of these things.
But that exactly, that's exactly what you're seeing here.
And you know, Drea, the hypocrisy that is afoot here, several weeks ago at a Durham District School Board meeting before that is they banned parents.
Can you imagine that?
And essentially, and I'm banned as well, indefinitely, because I asked a trustee an impolite question in the parking lot.
A parent got up and started reading verbatim the text, I can't remember the name of the book, from a non-that is available in the elementary school libraries of Durham District.
And the educrats were howling with outrage because it was vulgar.
It was pornographic.
It was gross.
You know what they did, Drea?
They called the cops.
They had him removed by police.
And what is this crime?
He's reading stuff you idiots are providing for children.
I mean, you can't make this up, but you know, I have to say, when you applauded New Brunswick for, you know, requiring parental consent for students under 16 in terms of what their gender identity or sexual orientation might be.
And reviewing the curriculum, yeah.
And revealing the curriculum.
You are, Drea.
It pains me to say this.
You're a transphobe.
Who says that?
Rosemary Barton of the CBC says that.
This, again, the people on the left, and to think our tax dollars are paying for this humorless harpy to weigh in on issues like what's happening to our children.
For them to go right off the bat to the transphobe card, bigot, racist, homophobe, you name it, to use slurs against people.
And I will bet my life on this.
I've already bet my life against the Leafs winning the Stanley Cup before I die, but I'm going to read it.
The vast majority of people are on board.
It comes to that Pink Floyd lyric from another brick in the wall, Drea.
Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone.
Yeah.
Hands down.
If they knew the truth, they would totally be on board with getting this stuff out.
And how sick is the state-backed media in this state for running a narrative that this is bigotry?
They never explain to the public what people are actually upset about.
They never spell it out.
And this is why they continue to drive division over this.
And in fact, they continue to hurt the LGBTQ community, who I keep saying has been hijacked by this agenda by making it look as though they're all in support of this as well.
They always ignore those that are part of the community speaking out about this.
It's sick and it's twisted.
And that's why all of our reports on this issue are at stopclassroomgrooming.com.
So you can share and spread awareness so more people are seeing right through the poor journalism coming out of state preferred media.
Oh, 100%.
And speaking of stopclassroomgrooming.com, I delivered that petition to a Windsor-Essex school board trustee while I was on my Windsor mission, Drea.
Her name is Linda Kin.
She is an Asian trustee.
I only bring up her race because when it comes to the Love Trumps hate community for taking a stand against this sort of stuff, for being a advocate for the parents, this woman, who I consider to be a lioness, has been demonized and vilified by her own colleagues.
She was brave enough to sit down with me two days ago and have a long form interview, which we will broadcast later, folks.
And she showed me some of the emails she has received from the spirit unicorn community in which it is utter misogyny.
Think of the worst word begins with a C that you can call a woman.
Oh, no.
Racism.
Think of the worst slur you can call an Asian.
And one of those emails, this person went on to say to this lovely lady, I hope you die of breast cancer.
Think about that, Drea.
And we are the haters.
We're the ones that are the bigots.
Are you kidding me?
That kind of wickedness is the spirit behind pushing this stuff, if you ask me.
But I think we can go to an ad break.
Yes, I need to calm down.
We need to calm down.
I need a drink of water.
I need baptism water on my head or something.
So let's go to an ad break and we'll be back with more Hot Off The Press.
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You know,
with our Canada collection, Drea, super producer Efren mentioned a new item, which is one that celebrates Dominion Day.
I have never referred to July 1st as Canada Day.
I won't go into detail, but if you look at the origin of how more than a hundred years of history, Dominion Day was changed overnight.
Oh, and guess who did it?
Yes, it was Blackface's daddy back in 1982 on the last day of parliament with less than a quorum is 20 MPs, at least it was at the time.
They only had 13 in the house.
I thought, geez, maybe there's a technicality here.
This is an illegal holiday because they didn't have a quorum.
Well, guess what, Drea?
I checked with the Ottawa Parliamentary Rules Committee.
And essentially, you don't need a quorum if everyone's on side.
Now, you might argue, well, the name of a holiday, who cares?
Call it whatever you want.
But could you imagine if these guys ramrodded through, you know, something that, oh, I don't know, like the gun grab, like the censorious bills that they're so gung-ho on.
That, you know, scares the bejesus out of me that there's that, you know, fine print technicality that if everyone's on side, it goes through quorum rules be damned.
So I continue to call it Dominion Day.
I will not acquiesce to the Trudeau version where he's continually rewriting Canada or was and is as far as his son goes.
We think it's his son.
Anyway, happy Dominion Day for everybody next Saturday.
By the way, that raises a very important question, more important than anything.
We'll talk about, do we take Friday off or Monday off?
Because Dominion Day falls on a Saturday.
It's a good question.
It's an A tan question for us here at Rebel News.
That's right.
Yeah, I like that history.
There's the hidden history that people don't really talk about.
I grew up, of course, on Canada Day.
It feels like the right day to say, but you're right.
It's not fair that it was changed like that.
And I wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened again with his son.
It wouldn't shock me at all, much like our passport situations.
Drea, I am sure in our lifetime, for example, in Ontario, third week in May, Victoria Day.
That's a little colonialist, isn't it?
That's a little imperialist.
That's a little white supremacy, isn't it?
I am certain that I'm sure there's already a move afoot to change Victoria Day to either Trans Pride Day.
I wouldn't put it past the, you know, you wait.
Meta's Dystopian Grip00:15:03
Look at what's happening in our nation's capital.
They are erasing the name of Sir John A. McDonald everywhere.
They've changed the name of a highway.
Victoria, they removed the statue.
Exactly.
This is 1984 stuff.
And if you haven't read that book, or even if you have read that book, you know what, folks?
We've got a new version coming out.
It is Paul Ravosch, the artist.
Oh my God, the illustrations are just drop dead beautiful in a sinister way, given the content of the book.
And I'll tell you, Drea, you know, Ezra said this about a couple of years ago.
Even if you've read 1984, go back and reread it, which I did a couple of years ago because the last, I think I read it originally in 1979, five years before the actual date of 1984.
I was in high school.
And two things shocked me, Drea.
I've forgotten how absolute chilling it was.
And I was stunned and shocked to see how much of it has come true, especially in our country, unfortunately, especially how governments and banks and employers acted during the coronavirus lockdown.
It's pure 1984 themes.
And this, like I said, if you have to reread it, buy this one because we've done something very special, which we have dozens of beautiful illustrations by Paul in it.
It is something I'd put on the coffee table and get your kids to read it.
If they're of reading age, that's what I'm going to say.
Yeah.
We made it cool for the kids again.
You know what I mean?
It was something that you had to read when you were younger, but I don't, I highly doubt they're reading it now.
So I'm going to grab one for my kid as well.
And we don't get a lot of orders from Commander Ezra here, but that was one he said everybody needs to reread that again if you haven't recently.
And he's absolutely right because I'm long overdue to do that.
So I'm excited to get that.
I think the URL, it's available on Amazon.
And also the URL, I think, is by1984.com if you want to go to our website and read more about it.
But it's just beautiful.
Let's raise awareness about that because it is very dystopian what we're living to or Orwellian, I guess I should say.
I'm just before we jump to the next thing, I'm going to read two of our live chats if you're just tuning in.
Fantastic.
Yeah, that's a way to be a part of the show.
You can go on Rumble or Odyssey and comment about what we're saying, what we're sharing, or something else you think people should be aware of.
The first is a donation of five, oh, sorry, $6 from Georgie Georgie.
Thank you very much.
And Georgie says, hi, guys.
Today marks the 38th anniversary of the Air India 182 bombing.
Let's reflect on that today.
So, yeah, thank you for sharing that.
And that's why it's so important for you guys to be a part of the show because I didn't even know it was the anniversary.
I'm ashamed to say.
My God, how time flies.
And of course, that was, if memory serves me, these were Khalistani Sikhs that were behind that.
It remains Canada's worst act of terrorism.
And, you know, it's kind of funny.
That movement in India is pretty much over and done with, as I understand it, Drea.
But you have members of that movement that are very much in Canada, full force.
And by that, folks, I don't mean Sikhs.
I mean those who are committed to an independent Sikh homeland within India.
And that was an absolute despicable act.
All these people, imagine that you get on a flight and somebody stuck a bomb in a suitcase and all those lives, over 300 people snuffed out like that.
You know what, Georgie Georgie, thank you for reminding us.
We should make note of these kind of anniversaries, Drea.
Yeah, absolutely.
And that article had it right that most people don't even know about it.
So yeah, thank you so much.
Actually, Georgie Georgie also donated $5.
Thanks again.
Says, David, you're 85.
You're 85.
You'll never see the Leafs win the cup.
Let me do the math.
I don't think you're that.
No, I'm not 85.
You know what?
I should embrace that.
I'm 85.
Don't I look good for my age, folks?
I'm five years away from 90 and I've still got all my marbles.
Well, arguably.
But you know what?
If what Georgie Georgie is insinuating, that it's going to be a couple more decades until the Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
What do you think, Drea?
Can I hang on till 85 or is that pushing things, especially given the line of work we're in?
I'll tell you this much.
Canada needs you to hang on until 85 or more.
Boy, do we ever need that?
There you go.
I'll get my Captain Canuck costume out of cold storage.
But speaking of 1984, here's a theme when it comes to controlling the narrative and controlling information.
Meta to ban news content on Facebook and Instagram with Bill C-18 set to become law.
I don't think the blackface liberals, including Pablo there, anticipated this, did they, Drea?
No, they wanted to, you know, strong-arm them into bending.
I guess they're tired of funding the news.
They think they need more.
So they wanted to kind of make Meta.
Also, of course, that's Instagram.
And I guess this applies to all basically social media, pay to feature the news, which is something that any news organization wants.
Most people are getting their news off of social media.
You know, granted, they're just reading the headlines, 70% of them.
But so news outlets want to be featured.
And so what the Trudeau government is saying, oh, no, you have to pay for that.
You're capitalizing and you should be paying.
So Meta has said, I'll just read.
We have repeatedly shared that to comply with Bill C-18, we have repeatedly shared that to comply with Bill C-18 passed today in Parliament, content from news outlets, including news publishers and broadcasters, will no longer be available to people accessing our platforms in Canada.
So it basically backfired there.
Yeah.
And here's why people should care, Drea, even if they don't go onto Facebook or Instagram, what have you.
Plan B for these media outlets, since they anticipated goodness knows how much revenue from the Silicon Valley tech giants, they're simply going to go again, cap in hand to the federal and in some cases, such as Ontario, the provincial governments, and ask for more taxpayer money because their business plan, let's face it, so much of the mainstream media, this is now a sunset industry, Drea.
People ain't buying what they're selling.
You know, advertisers, I can tell you, 20 years ago, National Post, for example, a full-page color ad, an advertiser would pay around $15,000 today, maybe $2,000, right?
It's completely devalued.
And the reason is, is that the newspaper does not capture the same amount of eyeballs it did once upon a time.
So instead of reinventing themselves, instead of what we do, keep it lean and mean, crowdfund, they are addicted to welfare.
Well, speaking of us and what we do, do we know yet what this means for rebel news on Facebook?
Because I know the Trudeau government, Trudeau himself has deemed us not a real news organization.
I don't know if you guys have seen that video.
Are we aware of if we're being censored or not?
That's a good question.
Our friend Yankee down in the free state of Florida is looking into that.
So I don't have a clear answer.
That's what came up in the morning meeting today.
But we will soldier on.
Pardon me?
I was probably half asleep.
The meeting is very early for British Columbia, okay?
Oh, I know.
It's the old line.
By the time we're eating lunch in Toronto, you guys are just getting out of bed, right?
I know you work harder than that, Drea, but we hope to get clarity of that.
And speaking of us not being a real news agency, as Blackface claims, it's kind of funny how in 2019 and in 2021, the federal court of Canada deemed otherwise to get us into the parliamentary debates during those election years.
Isn't it amazing how Blackface thinks he's above the law in terms of who he determines what is real media and what is not real media?
And really it comes down to Drea who's on the government payroll, the media outlets that know their role.
They won't ask too many insensitive questions.
And I can tell you folks, with all the bills being passed by this censorious government, this year is the fight of our lives.
Really?
Yeah, Blackface has used the carrot for 99% plus of the media in terms of corporate welfare.
And for the outliers, the independent media outlets such as Rebel News, now comes the stick because just to have even a tiny form of dissent is too ego-shattering for this dictator.
That's right.
I called him a dictator because that's what he is.
He is shutting down the free press.
So I'll watch with great amusement how the feds wrangle with the Silicon Valley tech giants because typically, Drea, they march in lockstep when it comes to censorship, right?
When it comes to don't give a contrary opinion to, say, the coronavirus.
Don't give any fuel to the fire that the election was stolen.
By that, I mean the 2020 U.S. election.
If it's a 2016 U.S. election, oh, yeah, yeah, go chapter and verse on that one.
That's okay, right?
You know, that, you know, Hillary Clinton was screwed as opposed to Donald Trump.
The hypocrisy is astounding.
It is.
Now, you mentioned not being afraid to call, you know, our dear, fearless leader a dictator.
I was actually really surprised.
CTV put out an article a few days ago, and it was an opinion piece, but still the title referred to the Trudeau government as the Trudeau regime.
And I thought, oh my goodness, it's taken them a while to accurately describe his writing.
But anyways, that's just a bit of a side note, but I just wanted to go to the leader of the opposition, Pierre Polyev's tweet about what Meta is doing now.
He says, there you have it.
Step by step, the Trudeau government is deliberately getting in the way of what people can see and share online.
And you better bet, my friends, I believe it would ramp up much more than what we're seeing now just before the election around campaign time.
There'll be such a grip on what people will be able to see in access.
So make sure if you haven't already, make sure you give us your email because if we're unfindable, that's going to be the only way we're going to be able to get a hold of you.
I think if you go to rebelnews.com and you haven't given us your email before, you'll be prompted to do so.
So it's very important.
Yeah.
And that is a very good point, Drea.
And also, in terms of referring to this as a regime, what we need is regime change.
I have to tell you, Drea, I'm disheartened with what happened on Monday.
Liberal MPs got re-elected.
And I know people are going to say, don't read too much into that.
These are so-called safe writings.
It was a status quo across the board.
But still, Drea, even in a so-called safe writing, with the eight years of vandalism that's being done to our country, even safe writings are vulnerable.
They can flip.
I mean, hey, just ask the Brian Mulroney, or sorry, the Kim Campbell Conservatives of 1993, just asked the Michael Ignitev liberals of some 10 years ago.
Nova Scotia, the provincial election there was kind of a surprise too, recently.
Yeah, but that's what I was hoping for.
More surprises federally that those liberal writings would go conservative.
It didn't happen.
And again, it's folly to say that a by-election is a barometer for what's going to happen in the federal election, but it would have sure been nice.
It would have been very reassuring for us all.
Those of us who want regime change to have seen those writings flip.
But I don't know.
I don't know how to, I don't know how somebody goes into a ballot box and looks at this liberal party and says, yep, they're doing a great job.
They've got my support.
Unbelievable, Drea.
I don't know.
It's definitely a nail biter about what's going to happen.
I think, I mean, I've probably said this the last time too, but I think it's like the most important election we've had because Canada is unrecognizable at this point under Trudeau Jr.
So I agree.
Even if it's another blackface minority, I think it's pretty much over for Canada.
The polls indicate it'd be a Pierre Polyev minority, if you believe the polls.
Let's hope at least that.
Can't believe it's not a supermajority given what we've seen these last eight years, Drea.
But I know when I talked to Lady Mensloyd, I saw her she was Googling Costa Rica just in case.
That seems to be a very popular parachute drop-off for Canadians that can't bear Canada anymore.
You know, and, you know, I think here's, I've been to Costa Rica, beautiful country.
You know, Drea, believe it or not, they don't have an army, an air force, or a navy.
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I think even Canada, we could take them.
Why can't we just invade, make that the 11th province?
And so we wouldn't have to worry about passports and whatnot.
But anyways, I'm dreaming on.
Shall we get to another ad break and come back to, well, we're in the stretch run of the Toronto election, and there's all kinds of endorsements coming out.
Some are appalling, I think.
So why don't we check out this ad, folks, and we'll see on the other side.
We are a secular society.
We respect deeply people's rights and freedoms, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of religion.
And it is unthinkable to me that in a free society, we would legitimize discrimination against citizens based on their religion.
My name is Sheila Gunn-Reed.
I'm a wife.
I'm a mother.
I'm a farmer.
I'm a journalist.
I'm an advocate for religious freedom.
And I'm a Catholic.
And the war on Christianity came for me too.
We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.
So here's the situation.
More and more Canadians are getting vaccinated.
But like we know, cases in far too many places are far too high.
Get vaccinated.
And you know what?
If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice.
but don't think you can get on a plane or a train besides vaccinated people and put them at risk.
The police came straight to me and he targeted me and he took his gun of tear gas and he actually shoot me directly in my legs.
These measures include operating at 50% capacity, the continuous use of masks, maintaining two meters of physical distance between attendees from different households, no congregational singing.
No matter what, God will bring us through.
And I said, we will not bow down to your God.
We won't.
It was illegal to sing in church.
We're going to sing.
Ow.
That doesn't like the Canada you thought you knew.
Do you know what his crime was?
He held services on Sunday.
You devils, you evil, wicked people.
Get out.
I don't care what you have to say.
Ouch!
And he took me over 30 times.
We saw our nation drowning.
We couldn't stand by and watch.
These sermon was interrupted when RCMP sent in the tow truck, prompting him to join the front lines.
RCMP moved in, blocked the driveway, prevented anyone from entering the property.
Well, Drea, so rarely have I been moved by a trailer for a documentary or a film, and that is just stunning.
I can't wait to see the finished product, which premieres next month.
What images?
We will never forget this time period that we just went through with this COVID-19.
Just despicable.
Just despicable.
I've seen the trailer a few times, but what was really sticking out to me there is why was there so few who took that stand, you know, of the leaders?
Like, it's so shocking that pastors were arrested in Canada, but why so few?
And why just pastors?
Why not all leaders of faith?
They had to know their communities were hurting and grieving and the division in homes and things.
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So yes, join us.
I believe we're doing us.
Well, we are doing a summer tour right on the screen there.
You can see the locations and I know we're working on adding locations so you can actually watch it alongside rebels.
So what is the URL for that?
Is it church on fire?
I got to remember.
I got to like study URLs, but.
Oh, sorry.
SavetheChristians.com.
Thank you, Olivia, and that you're a piece.
But yeah, it would be great to see you guys there.
And you know, we must point out, Drea, in terms of those politicians that behave badly, shall we say.
That is the reason why today in the Alberta legislature, it is Premier Smith in that seat and not Premier Kenny.
Absolutely.
This is directly tied to Jason Kenney paying a career price.
And I'm sorry.
Moral price.
Yeah.
And if he had chosen to go the Ron DeSantis route, make Alberta the free province, he'd still be premier today.
That's what I argue, Drea.
I think so too.
Yeah, absolutely.
So from the Premier's office in Alberta, why don't we go to the Toronto Merrill T race?
Some news.
It's not 102 candidates anymore.
It's 101.
Rob Davis dropped out.
And Rob Davis is a good man.
And we've interviewed him a couple of times.
For example, he took a stand in terms of going to bat for the Sir John A. McDonald statue that's being put in a coffin by Premier Ford at the Ontario legislature.
Of course, I'm sure he's denounced as a white supremacist.
That's kind of funny given that Rob Davis is black.
But anyway, that's how the lap rolls, folks.
So he's endorsing Anthony Fury.
And I woke up to this, and this set me off into a fury, no pun intended.
It's the front page of the Toronto Sun.
Hail to the chiefs.
They are endorsing Mark Saunders, the former police chief for the city of Toronto as mayor.
Two things, Drea.
Anthony Fury, until very recently, for several, several years, was the national columnist for the Toronto Sun, and he was an excellent one.
This, to me, is a knife in the back.
Secondly, we exposed incredible allegations about the Mark Saunders campaign just two days ago that guess what, folks?
Sneaky Patrick Brown and his henchmen, they are involved.
Our Brampton source who has been 100% accurate, whether it's Sneaky Patrick playing hockey during lockdown, whether it's Sneaky Patrick having a secret Conservative Party of Canada campaign headquarters in Vaughan.
He's not 99.99% accurate.
He's 100% accurate.
The story goes, Drea, Brown's henchmen, including Babu, his chief of staff, has been actively involved in Toronto's Tamil community.
The allegations state that they are going to Tamils, some of whom don't even speak English, filling out the mail-in ballot in advance, and just saying, here, sign.
Oh, what am I signing?
Shut up and sign.
You know, yours is not to ask questions.
I want to make it clear, this is not illegal, but when it comes to ethics, when it comes to morals, this kind of ballot harvesting, this just makes me cringe.
I mean, it is because of morality, Drea, that we are in a Meryl by-election in the first place, i.e., John Torrey telling everybody to get vaccines, wear masks, stay in their social distancing circles, all for public health.
Meanwhile, he's engaged in horizontal jogging with an office subordinate.
Unbelievable.
How despicable is that?
And yeah, so I think for the son to backstab Anthony Fury and go with, I guess it's politics.
Mark Saunders is the premier's choice.
Mark Saunders is apparently Patrick Brown's choice.
I don't know exactly what the connection is.
I have theories that I won't go into.
And I want to say this.
For four years, I believe Mark Saunders was police chief.
You were chief of police.
You could have cracked down on crime, but you didn't.
In fact, we have video from the summer of 2020, Mark Saunders taking a knee when it was Black Lives Matter Matters protesters, which I never understood, Drea, because basically as chief of police, Mark Saunders is taking a knee against himself.
And by the same token, in the same time period, having Toronto police officers often violently arrest freedom protesters.
So there you go.
There's the video evidence, you know, taking the name, the Black Power Salute.
And I guess, you know, folks, we're supposed to follow the science.
I guess the coronavirus would never be so insensitive to infect Black Lives Matter protesters.
But when it comes to the freedom protesters, yeah, that's a bunch of typhoid Marys.
Drea, what's your analysis of this endorsement?
Yeah, the hypocrisy is so bad.
They say that Mark Saunders is their choice for the next election because they believe the city's former police chief means what he says about keeping people safe.
And you're right.
How has he done so far?
And that's the primary obligation of any government to its citizens.
Now, there's something interesting.
Now, because I'm out in BC, I haven't followed the race as closely as you probably have, but I believe, correct me if I'm wrong.
Yeah, here it says front runner Olivia Chow.
What it's kind of interesting.
Is it what Ford said about her?
Oh, see, I had it all ready to go and I missed that place.
I think it's Olivia Chow would be an unmitigated disaster.
Yeah, something like that.
Thank you.
But I thought that was an interesting comment that they're saying.
But yet it's not surprising to see this happen.
And I do think it is a bit distasteful of the sun to do that.
But we'll see.
I probably would think that Chow's going to win.
Don't you think so?
You know what?
I have my doubts, Drea.
I think three times we've been told here that Chow was the prohibitive favorite and it never came to fruition.
Secondly, these polls are very questionable.
And let me give you a personal anecdote.
I don't even live in Toronto.
I'm in Richmond Hill.
So far, Drea, I've had one of those robocall polls.
Okay.
So first of all, the very first statement it should say, I think, is that if you are not a voter registered with the city of Toronto, please hang up.
Because, you know, I have no bearing on this.
If I can't even vote in Toronto, I'm in Richmond Hill, for goodness sakes.
So then it goes three out of three times this happened, Drea.
I don't care if the field is 102 candidates.
The only way to make it fair is random selection.
So they should, you know, kind of like a wheel of fortune, spin all the names out and start listing them.
But Drea, three out of three times, press one if you're voting for Olivia Chow.
How is that possible?
Think about this, Drea.
If your choice was, say, number 89, are you going to wait 25 minutes to press 89, you know, to vote for such and such?
No, of course not.
So I think it has been stacked disproportionately by Olivia Chow, in my experience, always being the number one answer.
And B, robocalls coming out to people that don't even have a vote.
So I'm taking those results with a shovel full of salt, my friend.
Well, that's interesting.
And marketing, they say if you see something seven times, that's how you remember it.
That's how you want it.
So interesting theory.
And you remind me of something.
And comment below.
Let us know if this is the case for you.
And David, let me know if it's happening to you.
I seem to be getting surveys like this all the time, not even linked to a race that's happening.
Just, well, some are asking who would we vote for if there was a federal election.
I don't know if you've received that, but other ones are asking, like I just got one and I said yes to them texting it to me.
It was actually a research thing, but they want to know if there should be the age of being able to drive and drink alcohol and vote should be lowered.
And I thought that was interesting.
So anyways, just a little side note.
Let me know if you guys seem to be getting those types of calls and texts more often.
And Drea, I do.
And what I always do is make time to listen to the questionnaire and the poll because I want to see how the people behind it are trying to, you know, meld public opinion.
So that's why I will always make time to see what the methodology is and what the type of questions are.
And sometimes this really frustrates me.
It has to be, because it's a robocall, a yes or no answer.
And sometimes the answer is, well, it depends.
Right.
There is nuance to what they're saying.
But that opportunity to have nuance is eradicated.
One last thing on the topic of unsolicited phone calls.
If anyone in the duck clean industry is watching this, please don't phone me anymore.
You know, I know my ducks probably need to be cleaned.
And I know you're trying really hard and you're on a commission.
But please, it's no.
It always has been no.
It always will be no.
Stop it.
I haven't gotten that one yet.
We have a couple of, I think we have a couple of more comments.
One here, this is kind of a funny one from Zilly Holiday.
They say they walked past Ezra when he was in Windsor the other day and yelled out, Brian Lilly.
Sorry, sorry about that, Ezra.
You know what?
This is a mistake within a mistake because I think what she meant to say, it was me who was in Windsor the last few days.
Yeah.
And yeah, so somebody was mistaking me for Brian Lilly.
I can assure you I'm not Brian Lilly.
I can assure you I am not having that my mistress is not the spokeswoman for Premier Ford, Ivana Yilich, to, you know, quote the famous Bill Clinton line from the 1990s.
I did not have sex with that woman.
Okay.
So that's, I'm sorry, but if you're going to mistake me for Brian Lilly, I got to clear the record here, Drea.
So you know that yell.
You heard that yell?
Is that what you're saying?
You know what?
There was so much going on.
I wish I had heard it, but it has happened before.
I guess there's some kind of physical resemblance.
We both once upon a time worked at the Sun News Network, and maybe that's the connection.
But we are, we're two different people here.
It's not a Clark Kant Superman thing we got going.
Well, on the same note, and this is there, I can't even figure out the connection.
It's the strangest thing.
A lot of people call me Tamara.
And I, yeah, and I asked Tamara, and she says it doesn't happen to her, but it happens to me all the time.
Anybody who's been like my camera person, they've seen it happen many times.
They're like, hi, Tamara.
And I'm like, I'm Drea.
We don't look nothing alike.
And I think our reports are similar, though.
Like, I think we kind of cover the same journalistic feat.
That's like the only thing, especially we did so many COVID reports.
But you won't believe this.
My six-year-old said to me, what does your boss look like?
And so I went to the website and I showed him, I showed him the picture.
It's like all of us, the one about all of us standing together.
And I said, oh, that's Ezra.
That's my boss.
And then he points at Tamara and he goes, that woman looks like you, mommy.
What?
Come on.
Son, my own son said it.
It's the most bizarre.
She's white.
She's got blue eyes.
Like, I just don't get it.
Yeah.
I hate to state the obvious, but you're different races.
I mean, anyone, I'm sorry, Drea.
Anyone confusing you for Tamara Ugolini and vice versa?
I'd be worried about getting in a car with them.
Can they tell it's a red light or a green light or does it all look the same?
I don't know.
See, they know my face, but it's like they call me her name.
And it's happened so much that now I start like when people will email me and they think I'm Tamara, or sometimes Tamara will email me an email she knows is meant for me.
Like it's, it's funny.
Yeah.
Maybe I think you might be onto something in terms of your reporting styles being similar.
But how is it that your own child made that mistake?
I don't know.
And I've asked people email, I'm like, just out of curiosity, it's just fun.
Why do you think you called me Tamara?
And they're like, I don't know.
Like, I can't even think of why I did that.
It's so funny.
So, anyways, just a little fun note there.
Unbelievable.
I guess I better check since we're running at a racetrack here.
I was about to call you Tamara.
See what you've done to me, Drea?
Do we have any more super chats before we sign up?
Right.
Yes.
Sorry, my bad.
I got distracted.
Totally there.
So Snowy Roof donates $5.
Thank you very much.
And says, David, you might have to move to Newfoundland.
On my computer calendar, it says Canada Day Dominion Day.
What?
You know what?
Snowy Roof, let me tell you something.
Moving Back to Newfoundland00:04:38
I might have to move back to Newfoundland.
I was there in 1975 to 77.
True story, folks.
I was in grade eight and grade nine, especially grade eight.
It was single-handedly the most miserable year of my life.
The entire student body at, lo and behold, Sir John A. McDonald Junior High School was against me because what would happen is, first of all, they would say, you talk funny, which is to say, I pronounce boy as boy and not buy.
And then they would say, where are you from?
And I would say Toronto.
And that would result in a word I've never heard before until I went to Newfoundland, mainlander, as a slur.
And then what would follow would be a punch in the stomach or a gum in my hair.
Oh, Drea, you have no idea.
When that bell rang, I mean, I should have tried out for the Olympic team.
I would run home like, oh, and a couple of times over a frozen pond.
And sometimes the ice gave way and I went right in and my cordroys froze up.
I felt like the tin man in the Wizard of Oz, you know.
And I always dreamed, you know, one day I'm going to go back.
One day I'm going to give all these bullies a piece of my mind.
And that day came, I think it was 2003.
I was on a junket.
They had the Targa Newfoundland there.
I was with an American writer in a Porsche Targa 911.
And I was going there with trouble on my shirt, Drea.
I was ready to pick a fight.
And you know what?
Now that we're all adults, you couldn't meet nicer, more down-to-earth, more salt of the land people than ever.
And it just goes to show you that universe we're in as children at schools, how vicious it can be.
You know, your hair is different.
Your accent is different.
You know, your race is different in some cases, unfortunately.
That can basically send you down the wrong path and give you the wrong attitude of what the people are like once they're adults.
So I would say Newfoundland, in my experience, as an adult going there since junior high, it's probably the friendliest province I have ever had the pleasure of visiting.
Oh, but in 1975 to 77, you people were so brutal to me.
I feel so bad for laughing, but the mental picture of you like waiting for the bell and then like racing across ice, it was just too funny in my head.
But I am, I'm sad that you went through that.
But I bet that that contributed to who you are today, the menzoid menzies, you know, being able to be brave and go out and do the reports that you're doing and not be bullied.
There's no one can bully you, right?
You know what?
I think that's an incredible observation.
You know, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, as the saying goes.
And I know by having conversations with our beloved colleague Alexis, she told me terrible stories of her being bullied in school, which I can't understand because she's just so nice and so cool, unlike myself back in grade eight.
And yeah, so maybe you're on to something in terms of what, you know, helped my character.
But I will tell you, in those two years, Drea, there's a brilliant South Park episode about social media, which is so bang on.
And the title of that episode is the same as my two years in Newfoundland from 1975 to 1977, which is You Have Zero Friends.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, man.
Well, it's just bad that when I was imagining you had the hat that you always wear on too.
And that's part of why I got so much.
Well, back then I needed a helmet, Drea.
Yeah.
You got plenty friends now.
I think if anybody's still with us, comment LOL or something because I think we're having a little bit too much fun here.
Indeed, yeah.
But anyways, true story.
There's one more comment.
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This is from World's Worst Gamer.
Oh, I'm sorry about that.
Donates a dollar.
Thank you very much.
Thanks, Rebel News, for sharing the real news, the truth.
Well, thank you.
Well, thank you.
I wonder what makes him the world's worst gamer.
I'm sure that's got to be me.
I can't do any of these newfangled games.
But I'll tell you, I'm pretty good at Pac-Man and Miss Pac-Man.
And when we're off the air one day, Drea, I'll tell you my joke about Mr. Pac-Man and Miss Pac-Man.
Hey, sharp!
HR!
Keila!
Keila, where are you?
Yep.
Oh, my goodness.
Have I got something in my inbox already?
Jeez, that will not be uttered that joke on air.
Well, Drea, thank you so much for your co-hosting.
It was a delight.
I think this is the most fun I've had co-hosting this show with you, my friend.
And of course, our super producers, Olivia and Efron, and all our viewers.
Thank you for tuning in, especially those of you who made a donation.
We really depend on that because we're not taking it out of your bank accounts in direct withdrawal, a la Rogers, a la the mainstream media.
So I want everybody to have a nice weekend.
We'll see you back again on Monday.
And as always, stay safe and stay sane.
I'll tell you, if you want my opinion, if Olivia Chow gets in, it'll be an unmitigated disaster.
Taxes are going to go up 25 to 30 percent when people can't afford the rent, can't afford mortgages now.
You know, businesses are going to be fleeing Toronto as far as I'm concerned.
I'll tell you, I've talked to business communities, both myself and the previous mayor, John Torrey.
People are terrified.
Businesses are terrified.
Therefore, the workers should be terrified because we've seen what happens when that mayor, she makes David Miller look like a fiscal conservative.
And companies will start fleeing.
They'll start going.
Maybe it's good news for the mayor of Burlington because all the companies will be coming out here to the GTA.
But folks, remember this.
God forbid, Olivia Chow gets elected, your taxes are going up at an unprecedented rate.
Companies will leave.
And I'll tell you, I hear rumors, even the staff at City Hall is worried.
So get out there and vote.
I always say that's going to be your choice.
I'm voting for Mark Saunders.
I don't dictate to people who to vote for, but I think he'd be the best person to keep the taxes low, keep economic development going.