David Menzies and Tamara Ugolini critique Trudeau’s Bill C-18 clash with Meta, exposing hypocrisy—government ads remain while tech giants resist revenue-sharing, framing it as a global censorship battle. They highlight CBC’s belated corrections on UCP misinformation, Freeland’s $100K taxpayer-funded grocery budget amid food inflation, and Peterborough Police’s power-hungry COVID enforcement. The episode ties these issues to a broader trend of pandemic-era control addiction, comparing it to totalitarianism, and ends by linking current policies to dystopian themes in Rebel Media’s 1984 illustrated edition. [Automatically generated summary]
Thank you for tuning in to the daily roundup on this, a Thursday, July 6th, 2023.
I'm David Menzies and my co-host, well, let me tell you a little bit about my co-host, shall I?
Do you know what, folks?
Today is International Kissing Day.
And now I realize why my co-host didn't drive into the studio to do the show.
Unbelievable.
She is the she-devil with a spatula.
Oh, I completely screwed it up.
And she is the Khaleesi of the greater Coburg area.
You see where I am, Tamara?
I cannot get, you know, in the right frame of mind because I was so looking forward to receiving a kiss on this International Kissing Day.
But I guess, Tamara Ugolini, it is amazing, though, that International Kissing Day has survived two seismic events in recent years.
A, the Me Too movement, and B, COVID.
What are your thoughts on this International Kissing Day, Tamara?
Well, first and foremost, David, I'm so sorry that you seem so lost without me there in studio this morning, this afternoon, depending on which time zone you're joining us from.
I'm kind of glad now, knowing what I was potentially in store for if I were to have joined in person.
So I may have been part of the Me Too movement if I had of joining David in studio today.
We have to rein him in a little bit, don't we?
I will blow you a kiss virtually then.
Thanks for watching.
Here's TV, Tamara Ugolini.
You are one of my favorite reporters here at Rebel News.
I'm sure your fangirls also appreciate that little schmuck to the camera.
Smooch to the camera, I should say.
Maybe I'm pulling a Freudian slip here.
Anyway, all right.
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Government Strikes Back00:15:50
We're hoping to end right at 2 p.m. Eastern and I know sometimes we go over, but I think David, both David and myself have some meetings to get to right after.
So we'll try to keep things concise.
But goodness, we have a lot on the day here, David, this Thursday.
There is.
And topping the card is, oh my goodness, the Trudeau Liberals are in a big fight with Meta and Google over Bill C-18.
It's amazing.
I am enjoying this, Tamara Ugalini, because one of the ways in which the Canadian government is getting back at Meta and Google is that they're pulling their advertising from those platforms.
And I'm thinking, wait a minute, their advertising?
That would be my tax dollars going to the federal government advertising.
And by the way, why is it that the federal government, which has the biggest Uber monopoly in our great dominion, why do they feel the need to advertise in the first place?
You're the government.
You're going to do whatever the hell you want.
And we've sure seen that these last eight years.
But, you know, what I'm enjoying, Tamara Ugalini, is that Blackface, he looks like a guy that just smoked one of those cigars and it exploded in his mouth.
Same with Pablo Rodriguez.
It's that they can't believe there's dissension in the media ranks, in this case, social media, because for years now, they've had all their trained seals in the mainstream media basically respond to any government edict, such as jump and they go, how high, Mr. Trudeau.
And suddenly you have these Silicon Valley tech giants.
And I'm sure Trudeau thought that, you know, the government and those Silicon Valley companies, they had a groovy kind of love.
You know, we both love censorship.
We both love suppressing the truth.
We're, you know, we're all, you know, part of a team here.
What's the problem?
Why the mutiny?
So, Tamara, if this goes on forever, I'm a happy camper because one, you know, as I said, if my tax dollars aren't going to needless advertising, that's a plus.
And one last thing, I notice while the government is saying Meta and Google are social media non-grata, well, the Liberal Party of Canada will still advertise.
We're not ready to be divorced yet.
Let's just call it a separation, right?
And they're playing it up that the Liberal Party and the government are two separate things.
I'll tell you one thing, Tamara Ugalini, whenever I try to drop off a petition in Ottawa, either to the government or the Liberal Party of Canada.
Funny, isn't it?
They're simpatico.
They always refuse to accept it.
Anyways, your thoughts, my friend.
I think this is the only instance where the government, by way of the censorious minister, Pablo Rodriguez, has differentiated between the government of Canada and the Liberal Party of Canada, who is currently a fringe minority and developed this unofficial coalition with the NDP to be a majority government.
But for anyone who doesn't know, Bill C-18 is the one that they're going back and forth with here.
And if we can pull up the article that our writer Alex Dollywall posted, he says the Online News Act mandates that tech giants, so like Meta, enter revenue sharing agreements with news publishers.
This is probably about halfway down the article.
I think it's just above the, yeah, down a little bit further.
There's another, there it is.
The Online News Act mandates that tech giants enter revenue sharing agreements with news publishers.
News Media Canada, which advocates for the domestic news industry, urged all stakeholders to act in good faith and engage in the regulatory process.
And of course, when Meta was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we don't want to share revenue and basically squash the little guys here or the guys that we don't agree with or that the government doesn't agree with, because I think part of this is that you have to be a government recognized media outlet, which Rebel continually fights for and continually gets disregarded on.
And so that will automatically bring the algorithm down, quash anything, all of the content we're trying to put out.
And so when Meta said, hold on a minute, we're not into this revenue sharing.
Now the Trudeau Liberals are basically pulling what I would equate to like toddler temper tantrums here.
Well, then I'm going to take my ball and go home.
And we're going to pull our advertising, but we'll only pull the advertising that's through the government of Canada, not through the Liberal Party of Canada.
And actually, it's funny that Rodriguez was pressed about this by a reporter, and we have this clip here to share with you in case you don't believe us, that he's actually saying that there's some separation here between the government of Canada and the Liberal Party.
Let's say this.
So you mentioned the government won't be spending advertising money, but I'm looking at Facebook's ad library.
The Liberal Party is running many, many, many ads right now and has run like thousands of dollars just in the last month or so.
Is this going to extend to your party as well?
I'm speaking, we have the government.
You get to talk to our different parties, I guess, to the block, to the NDP, to the Liberals, and anyone else who's in the House.
But this is a government decision, then the party have to make their own decisions.
Is it not ironic that the government cuts it, but the people who you represent as a party wouldn't?
Well, the government is one thing.
The party is another one.
They are.
I can tell you.
I've been a volunteer like 25 years.
It's very different.
Even the reporters laughing.
You know what, Tamara, two things.
One is it just shows the hypocrisy of the blackface liberals because the fact that the Liberal Party of Canada is still advertising on Facebook, that can only mean one thing.
And that is they think this is an effective way to advertise.
Otherwise, why would you throw your money?
Well, correction.
Why would you throw our money, taxpayer money, on a platform that isn't capturing any significant number of eyeballs?
But my personal feeling, and I could be wrong, but I don't think I am, they are in for the fight of their lives, the Liberals on this one, because it's not just about, you know, a revenue sharing agreement for the Dominion of Canada population just under 40 million people.
Not, you know, when you compare us to the more populous countries in the world, China, India, the United States, so on and so forth.
What the Silicon Valley tech giants don't want to have happen here, I think, Tamara, is a precedent.
They don't want to see some kind of deal where they're paying X number of millions to the media outlets in Canada because if they bend the knee on that, how many other countries in the globe, the 200 or so countries on our planet, are going to say, wow, look what they did in Canada.
We want the same deal.
So I think this is going to be a scorched earth policy for the tech giants, not because they can't afford to pay Canadian media outlets.
Just that they don't want this huge precedent set for all the nations of the world and all the media organizations of the world.
Because don't forget that this is under the veil of somehow upholding democracy, right?
This whole censorship plans, this war in Ukraine that we are endlessly funding billions of dollars to is all under the guise of somehow protecting democracy, even though the cornerstone of democracy is robust discussion, robust debate, and freedom of the press.
And yet, everything that the Justin Trudeau liberals are doing are a direct hit and infringement on those cornerstones of functioning, healthy democracy.
And we have a clip here to share with you of Trudeau basically saying what I just stated, but the opposite, right?
He flips the script, gaslights anybody who questions it, and touts this absolutely damaging rhetoric.
Let's have a listen.
Facebook decided that Canada was a small country, small enough in that they could reject our asks.
They made the wrong choice by deciding to attack Canada.
We want to defend democracy.
This is what we're doing across the world, such as supporting Ukraine.
This is what we've done during the Second World War.
This is what we're doing every single day in the United Nations.
And I know that Canadians will not be bullied by billionaires in the U.S., billionaires that are impacting negatively our democracy.
We will have a strong stance with that.
We're not alone.
Other countries are looking closely at what we're doing.
We will not accept this type of threats.
The threats by Meta.
Our democracies are threatened everywhere around the world.
And if we're letting go, we will lose.
Yeah, well, I think Tamara Ugalini, Blackface just made my point.
Other countries around the world are looking at this.
This is precisely why I don't think Meta and Google are going to bend the knee anytime soon.
Again, it goes back to what I said about a precedent, but did he just play like the Second World War card?
Is that what he is giving moral equivalence to in this battle?
And by the way, Blackface, how about your daddy, Pierre Elliott Trudeau?
How come if you were so dead set against defending democracy back in the Second World War, why didn't he enlist?
Yeah, no, I forgot he would rather just drive around Montreal in a motorcycle and bugger off in terms of actually putting his life on the line.
Give me a break.
But these comparisons he's making to Mary Ugalini are outrageous.
And by the way, I'm looking with some amusement at how the mainstream media is covering this, including those media outlets that I still subscribe to, such as the Toronto Sun.
This was the front page story on the Sun today.
Ugly fight.
But here's the deck is outrageous.
And it's written by the disgraced Brian Lilly, so maybe that's why it is.
As Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez goes to war with tech giants Google and Meta over fate of Canadian news, poll finds most want a settlement.
Here it is right there.
Front page news entitled Ugly Fight.
You know what?
Are you going to bed at night, Tamara Ugolini, going, oh, please, God, please let's have peace on the federal government meta-Google front?
It's just consuming me.
I mean, it's so important.
I don't think most Canadians are probably even aware of this.
I bet you, Tamari Ugolini, if I went down to Young Dundas Square and did a streeter, 99 out of 100 people would have no idea what this issue is about.
So the idea that the sun is ginning up that most Canadians want this solved sooner rather than later.
Oh, give me a break.
I'd love to see the methodology of that poll.
You know, I think that's a great idea, David.
Maybe that's your next mission as our mission specialist is to head down and just see how many Canadians actually know that this is taking place.
Because I think unless you follow alternative media like Rebel News and others, you would be none the wiser that this is happening because it's a direct hit on that alternative media on independent journalism.
And again, that is a cornerstone of a healthy democratic nation is being able to provide that unbiased reporting.
And so when you're funding the mainstream media, as we talk about endlessly on this platform, why would they ever bite the hand that feeds?
These people get endless subsidies, bailouts from the government, which is essentially just our tax dollars.
And so, of course, they're not going to speak truth to power or criticize their policies because, hey, maybe they're next on the line to be cut off of the trough, so to speak.
But for Trudeau to say that Canadians won't be bullied by billionaires, well, Canadians also don't want to be bullied by Trudeau and his censorious attempts to establish a ministry of truth.
I mean, he is acting a la Pravda-style news speak brought to you by the likes of Stalin.
He's acting like an iron fist dictator who's going to manage everything and anything that Canadians can access online.
Because we saw throughout the last three years that the government narrative was upheld and amplified endlessly.
And anybody who acted contrary to that or provided an alternative opinion was slandered, smeared, censored.
And they want more of a tight grip on all of that moving forward with their agendas.
You know, like I imagine will be the climate alarmism, the carbon credits, carbon taxes, as we just had our Canada Day, another carbon tax instituted onto us.
And the food industry with the eat the bugs alternative to getting away from meat and actually being healthy, robust people.
So we see these agendas coming forward and they're studying our behaviors, how to manipulate them, what the most effective ways to do that are.
I'll have a report on that out, I hope, later today.
It was a big dig, so bear with us as we get those edits done.
But we know that this is coming and they're just trying to finesse the strategy to make sure that you comply unquestionably moving forward.
Well, you know, Tamara, just getting back to the issue at hand, press censorship, at least that's the way it's being portrayed by the Blackface liberals.
Isn't this perversely ironic?
I mean, the proof is in the political pudding, I would say, when it comes to this topic.
I remember back in 2019, our one lawyer went up against five federal government lawyers and successfully got a federal court order to get us into the parliamentary debate for the election that year.
And then you think that would have been a precedent.
Five Versus One Again00:14:50
Oh, no, folks.
Once again, five versus one in 2021.
We won again.
The only difference between 2019 and 2021 is that Blackface and his new best boyfriend, Jugmeet Singh, actually answered questions.
But by 2021, you had Blackface and Singh say, we don't recognize you as a media outlet.
We're not going to answer you.
Even though the federal court of Canada said, yes.
Rebel News is legitimate media.
They put their finger up, not just at us, Tamara, and our organization, but every registered voter in Canada.
They were saying to the people, we're not going to give you an answer, even though the federal court allowed these journalists into the venue.
What a disgrace.
Where was his fight for democracy then?
Where was his coming to the aid of press freedom then?
I guess it depends on who the journalists are, i.e. the trained seals in the media party versus independent media voices that, oh, you know, ask impolite questions, make insensitive statements.
Is that what it all boils down to, Tamara Ugalini?
Yeah, the media lapdogs, of course.
And on that note, too, we have a super chat that I'll just get to quickly here from Adamot gives $5.
Thank you very much.
He says the government, or maybe I shouldn't assume the gender there, the government not advertising on social media sounds like a win-win to me.
Yeah, not going to lie, likewise.
Less propaganda and less tax spending.
I bet the government advertising revenue is a drop in the bucket for Meta.
I mean, yeah, that's probably why they're taking a stand against it is they're saying, you know, this isn't worth it for us financially and from a business standpoint.
You know what?
I think Adam Ott makes an incredible point there because this would kind of explain the unspoken strategy here of why the likes of Blackface and Rodriguez are so mad and so annoyed.
Because I think in their minds, and whether it's true or not, that's another story, Tamara Ugalini.
But Meta and Google are effective advertising platforms to push their propaganda message to whoever's consuming it.
So now that they're doing this boycott, they kind of realize, if I'm correct, that they're, you know, biting off their noses despite their faces.
I think that really explains why there is such animation with these two, because otherwise, if it was a nothing burger, they wouldn't be so vested in this issue, would they?
That's right.
Yeah, they lose a huge segment of their ability to propagandize you if they're kicked off of or they lose that these social media platforms.
That was a massive component utilized in the behavioral change campaign that was deployed on citizens funded by citizens to mold and shape and modify and manipulate their behavior over the last few years.
And we're only going to see more and more of that.
And I will detail all of that based on government memos themselves in a report that I have coming out, as I mentioned, I hope later today.
So if you don't sign up for our content, please do so.
And you will be sure that you will not miss that report when it comes out, rebelnews.com, or you can sign up specifically for, I think, a specific journalist or specific content that you're interested in seeing.
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I think just to amplify and reinforce your point there, David, about freedom of the press and upholding democracy, we have this clip here of when Trudeau responded to me during the 2021 leadership debates, and he essentially dehumanized me as a person, but also Rebel News as an organization.
And I think it's important to reshare this clip so that people get a better understanding of where we're coming from and what we're talking about when Trudeau responded to us in this very hasty manner.
The only reason that I'm allowed to ask you this question is because today the federal court ruled that the government doesn't have the right to determine who is or is not a journalist.
This is the second election in a row that the court has been overturning your government.
Do you still insist on being able to make that decision and won?
First of all, questions around accreditation were handled by the press gallery and the consortium of networks who have strong perspectives on quality journalism and the importance of information that is shared with Canadians.
The reality is, organizations, organizations like yours that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation on the science around vaccines,
around how we're going to actually get through this pandemic and be there for each other and keep our kids safe, is part of why we're seeing such unfortunate anger and lack of understanding of basic science.
And quite frankly, your, I won't call it a media organization, your group of individuals need to take accountability for some of the polarization that we're seeing in this country.
And I think Canadians are cluing into the fact that there is a really important decision we take about the kind of country we want to see.
And I salute all extraordinary, hardworking journalists that put science and facts at the heart of what they do and ask me tough questions every day, but make sure that they are educating and informing Canadians from a broad range of perspectives, which is the last thing that you guys do.
Now, actually, it's the first thing us guys do.
And Tamara Ugalini, I want to go out on a limb here and give you a tip of the hat, because when it comes to, I would say, every journalist in Canada on the file, Blackface was talking about the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccines and the restrictions and so on.
I can think of no one else other than you who has done unbelievable amounts of research going through literally thousands of pages, finding the misinformation as Blackface talks about.
Oh, would that be like Health Canada talking about analyzing a report seven months before that report was sent to them?
You mean like that kind of misinformation, Blackface?
Tamara, you are a one-woman gang.
You have put the entire mainstream media trained seals to shame for following along to Blackface's orders.
What he said there, folks, every single line, the opposite is true.
I mean, tough questions from journalists.
Would that be like, oh, Tom Clark saying, hey, Mr. Prime Minister, here's the one question all Canadians want to know the answer to during the pandemic.
What shampoo do you use?
Are you kidding me?
Are you freaking out of your mind?
And again, when it comes to misinformation and disinformation and polarization, Tamara Ugalini, much as I called you a one-woman gang, Justin Trudeau is a one-man earthquake, tornado, and hurricane combined in terms of polarizing this country.
In all my life in this great dominion, I have never seen this country more divided than it has been in the last eight years.
Look what he did in terms of the trucker conboy, the fringe minority.
Look how he demonized them, vilified them, wouldn't spend two minutes to actually go down and meet them and see what their concerns were.
That is a disgraceful clip.
If there was, you know, a journalism hall of fame in terms of, oh, I don't know, dubious achievers, that would be the centerpiece.
Yeah, well, thank you first and foremost, David, for your kind words.
I really appreciate that.
And I understand you hosted, guest hosted the Ezra Levant show and threw to some of those reports that I had worked on previously.
So thank you for that.
And again, anyone who is not subscribed to us, please do so that you can stay up to date with all of those actual, real investigative journalistic reports.
The thing too with that particular question is I didn't know that we weren't going to get a follow-up question.
So as soon as I was sitting there laughing throughout his response, just going, oh my goodness, is he really saying all of this stuff and projecting this onto me when it's his own government that has been the leader of myths and disinformation throughout the COVID hysteria.
And so when he ended there, I said, with all due respect, Mr. Prime Minister, and I started to ask my follow-up question, then I realized that we were cut off.
So we didn't get that follow-up question.
But man, it would have been a good one to be able to push back on all of that rhetoric because I think Canadians actually are coming to the realization that his government, as I mentioned, has been the purveyor of myths and disinformation over the last few years.
And they're just simply tired of his rhetoric.
And that's why he has a fringe minority government.
And he's developed this unofficial coalition with the NDP so that they can ram policy and programs through the House of Commons basically unabated.
And so these two fringe parties have come together, really, really an assault on democracy, the way that they've done this, and disregard any of the opposition, which is, again, a part of a robust democracy.
But we have we're both halfway through the show.
If I can just cut in here, did we ever get an explanation of why you were not entitled to the follow-up question?
Because that is the etiquette.
It's one question and a follow-up question.
T'was ever thus.
So there's that.
And I can tell you this, if I were in your moccasins in that venue querying Blackface, my follow-up question to turn him into basically a blank, staring bozo, would be, Mr. Prime Minister, you said we're guilty of misinformation and disinformation.
Can you please provide an example or two?
And he would not be able to answer that question.
He would again go back to an ad hominem attack.
I don't consider your organization a real media news organization.
And again, he wouldn't answer the question, I guarantee you, because where's the beef, as Clara Peller, the Wendy spokeswoman in the 80s, used to say, you do all these drive-by smears?
Give us an example.
And if we were spreading misinformation, disinformation, I mean, we'd probably be sued out of existence by now, Tamara Ugalini.
I mean, there's libel, defamation, slander laws.
We've never been the victim of any such thing.
So he is just demonizing for the sake of demonizing.
There is no there.
Right.
Yeah.
And we have a couple of super chats on this topic.
We have $5 from Bowdoin Nilsen.
I hope I pronounced that correctly.
Thank you.
Some blackface and People's Republic of China flags together.
So very fitting there.
And again, I mean, I feel like we're beating a dead horse, but that's Trudeau, who adores the Chinese basic dictatorship.
And was the middle one, was that that classic shot from the Vancouver private school?
It was the Arabian Knights thing, and he's in the turban.
Yeah, that was him in the turban.
I thought, you know, the likes of the NDP and guys like Jugmeet Singh, I thought they hated cultural appropriation.
Why hasn't Jugmeet Singh said anything about Justin Trudeau culturally appropriating his turban?
Why is he so silent on that?
Golly, I wonder.
It would go against that unofficial coalition.
You can't criticize your comrades.
Frasier McBurney gives us $5 as a student of history, just like the Gestapo police did in the last war.
Our police relished the chance to brutalize us peaceful protesters.
Never forget.
Yeah.
Again, more rhetoric from Trudeau that is just projection of what he himself is doing and responsible for and trying to gaslight Canadians to think that it's actually on them.
That's the end of it.
To Fraser's point, I want to be as fair as possible because I really believe, and actually, I bumped into the wife of a police officer who recognized us as a fan of the show.
And it was at an Adam Skelly event, I believe, Tamara Ugolini.
He's the one folks who had a mom paul restaurant that the disgraced mayor, John Torrey, literally sent in all the king's horses and all the king's men to shut down.
Yeah, he employed the mounted unit to shut down a little barbecue restaurant.
Meanwhile, 400 meters down the block, Costco has their food service facility operating like nothing ever happened in the world during those pandemic years.
Anyway, what she said to me, because I said, the rank and file at the division where your husband works, ma'am, what are the feelings about what's going on?
And Tamara, what she said to me is that it's 50-50.
There are police that are disgusted.
There are police that are not going to follow orders to arrest and tackle a peaceful protester, somebody standing by himself waving a Canadian flag on a corner.
Authority vs. Questioning Authority00:04:54
And the other half, unfortunately, they're all in.
They're indoctrinated.
They can't wait to, as the saying goes in law enforcement, whack them and stack them.
And that is the dichotomy.
And I believe her.
I mean, she has no reason to lie.
But I have come across police officers, even amongst the RCMP.
I remember one I met in Ottawa, totally off the record.
I'm not going to say his name because his career is over.
But he said when he saw what happened, for example, to me back in December 2021, when his fellow Mounties, you know, beat me up just for standing on a corner, he said he was never so ashamed to have been a member of the RCMP.
So there are good guys out there.
I really believe that.
And maybe the numbers 50-50, maybe it's a different equation.
But how do you feel about this, Tamara?
I've heard similar that the demoralization that's played a really big role in the state of policing across our great nation and the politicization of the police.
But also, there are a lot of, and from what I gather, it's a lot of the younger generation of police who, you know, as we know that famous quote, just following orders and they're not going to go against the rank and file.
They have been, as you already mentioned, indoctrinated.
And also there's a segment of people who just love power.
You give them an inch of power and they're going to take a mile and they feel empowered by this.
They feel like they are the great authority and they are going to impose that onto the people because they feel this sense of righteousness.
And I think that's a really sad state of affairs with all levels of authority now, whether it be from a doctor to a teacher to a police officer.
You know, there's this respect factor.
Yes, you can respect authority, but you can also question authority.
And I think that so often we are kind of trained to just automatically respect people who are in these authoritative or authority figures.
And we can still respect them, but we can also question them respectfully.
And oftentimes you'll be able to point out who is that power-hungry nerd, I guess, for lack of a better word, because they won't like being questioned and they won't have the answers for you.
And this actually reminds me of a Peterborough police officer who I was in communication with over the mask mandate when I was covering a protest there, Officer Donnelly of the Peterborough Police.
And they were threatening to arrest me and they trespassed me from this property over the mask mandate.
And I was like seven months pregnant in this report and they're marching me to my car, which I actually, so many people said, you know, oh, well, you don't have to show them ID and you don't do this.
But it was a great opportunity for me actually to take the police away from this situation and walk and talk with them.
So that's kind of why I said, oh, well, my ID is back in my vehicle, which it was.
And if you want to walk with me there, then I'm happy to show it to you because it gave me, you know, seven minutes to really walk and talk and ask some questions of them because there was so much discrepancies in the regulations and the police were upholding one part of the regulation, which was the mandate, but not respecting the exemptions clause.
And so when they were pressed on those questions, the one guy, he was, I think he legitimately was like one of these good guys where he was saying, you know, I could see his wheels were turning.
You know, this doesn't make sense.
And what she's saying sounds reasonable and accurate.
And then this other guy, Officer Donnelly, just power hungry.
No, no logical or rational thought process there.
Just this is what I'm following, this order, and there's no questioning it.
And if you don't comply, I'm going to arrest you.
So there's that really like, as you mentioned, that those two clashing mentalities with the police.
Well, that was indeed an amazing video.
And before we get to the first ad break, Tamara, back to your assessment about how many politicians, it was all about control these last past three years.
And I think that was the real virus.
What we saw at every level of government, municipal, provincial, and federal, and it didn't matter the political stripe, liberal, NDP, conservative.
A lot of those politicians and bureaucrats and public health agency officials, Tamara, they got a little taste of absolute power.
And you know what?
They really loved that taste.
It was addictive.
It was like crack to them.
Church and Control00:02:30
And they, I'm sure, when they started putting out these orders, close down your businesses.
And they go, wow, people are.
Wear a face diaper.
Gee, people are.
Socially distance.
Don't get together with your family and neighbors.
Get that experimental vaccine.
Oh my God, people are following our orders.
They got high on that, Tamara Ugalini.
That was the real virus.
You know, the totalitarian powers embraced by too many politicians that should have known better.
Hey, just ask Jason Kenney, yesterday's man in Alberta.
You know what, folks, we got to take a quick ad break.
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And I said, we will not bow down to your God.
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Now, from censorship to groceries, you know, this is a staggering story to Mary Ugalini.
Trista Freeland dropped by the local rabba in Toronto to speak about the grocery rebate.
I don't think you or I qualify.
I could sure use it.
I mean, if you check out my line of credit these days, I'm not, you know, the kind of guy that can afford, oh, I don't know, a $6,000 a night hotel room in London, much like Blackface does.
But what I find remarkable about this, her, you know, Christia Freeland at a Rabba, I mean, for those who don't know Rabba, I mean, and by the way, I'm nothing against Rabba.
It's a good store.
I shop at Raba, but it's the kind of store I would imagine the lion's share of their clientele go into to pick up some items, you know, a couple of items on their way home, as opposed to shopping for a week's worth of groceries.
Because the fact that it is typically a 24-7 grocery store, you're going to pay a premium.
No offense against Rabba.
I mean, you know, they've got to pay for their added, you know, operating and staff costs.
But this is what gets me, Tamara, why in blue hell would Christia Freeland do a grocery rebate presser at a RABBA, basically a glorified convenience store, as opposed to, you know, a cut rate level grocery store like food basics, no frills, that sort of thing.
I think she's sending out a mixed message there because I really don't know what the message is.
Get your grocery rebate so that you can now afford to shop at RABBA.
Well, and people aren't even sure if they can afford to shop at Raba because she had Rabba take down.
If you notice in the photos that we had there on the screen, she had Rabba take down all of the price tags of the food as she's announcing this benefit to 11 million Canadians.
And to me, this is like, no, that means that there are 11 million Canadians out there that can't afford to put food on their table.
This isn't a good thing, Christia Freeland, that you're giving 11 million Canadians this like benefit, one time, right?
One time benefit of however much, depending on your income bracket and if you have children and if you're married and how many children.
So this, this to me doesn't scream like, hooray, the government is here to save you.
This screams to me that the government is failing at pretty much everything these days, it seems.
But there was Canada Proud.
Yeah, here we have this clip.
They went to the grocery store after Finance Minister Freeland spoke and they inquired about the price tags and where they were.
um let's share this clip with you because i think it's pretty funny and it's just a few minutes and i am so glad to be here today at rabba fine foods
And I am so glad to be here today at Raba Fine Foods.
So I am here at Rabba and there are no price tags on these shelves.
Now you may be wondering why are there no price tags on these shelves?
Well, Christia Freeland was just visiting here for a press conference and her staff, according to the staff who work here, had them removed before she spoke and they have not yet put them back up.
Of course.
Okay, so Tamara, once upon a time, I used to write a column in Marketing Magazine and a government presser.
That is a form of marketing.
And basically, what the intended message was for consumers and to get out into the media was about the grocery rebate.
And aren't we just so grand here at the federal liberals that we're putting pocket in the money of Canadians?
But first of all, I mentioned before, it's very confusing that she'd choose to go to a fine food store to do such a message.
But ultimately, what is the takeaway?
What are people talking about?
Not the grocery rebate to Mary Ugalini, but the fact that her staffers got the Rabba staffers to take down the price tags.
So the first thing you say is why?
Well, maybe when you look at whatever the fruit or vegetable was being priced by the pound or kilo, maybe it's like an excessive amount.
That's what I think.
But still, it speaks of a cover-up.
It speaks of, you know, trying to tinker with reality.
I mean, why did she even bother going to a Raba food store, a real one?
Why didn't they just hire a soundstage and make a phony baloney grocery shelf, no prices included?
They would have gotten away better with the message that way.
This is baffling.
Once again, you know, this deputy prime minister, this minister of finance, I really question the qualifications of this woman to marry Ugalini.
Well, you're you, myself, and hundreds, millions of Canadians also questioning.
And I guess for Christia Freeland, it wasn't enough for Canadians to just simply cancel their Disney Plus.
Remember a few months ago, she told us that in order to combat inflation, we could just cancel our Disney Plus memberships and then be able to purchase some food.
Well, I think based on that Canada Proud video, Flat of Strawberries or a Pint of Strawberries was $6.99.
I mean, that's pretty affordable from what I've seen these days.
They go up to eight, you know, I think because they're in season right now, but I've definitely seen strawberries pricier than that.
And my kids will eat that, a flat, a pint of strawberries in one sitting.
So I'm like, if I cancel Disney Plus and then I can buy my kids fruit for like a day and a half, I guess that's supposed to be a good thing.
But this just speaks to how out of touch the liberals are and their inability to see that Canadians are going to see through their play, their twisting on reality, as you've mentioned it.
Yeah, here we have this article where she made the Disney Plus comment.
That was in, oh, that was in April.
So just a few months ago.
But I also did this write-up last week where I found that Trudeau, not only does he have lavish grocery bills, which we can get to in a moment, but Canadians are actually struggling to meet the basic bare minimum requirements of our food guide because the food guide was last released in 2019.
So prior to the COVID pandemic, which involved worldwide sweeping economic sanctions and lockdowns, which caused the inflationary period that we're seeing today, I would argue.
And so food affordability is off the charts now in comparison to what it was in 2019.
So Canadians actually can't afford like the bare minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables every day because the cost is so enormous.
But as Sheila has reported previously, Trudeau's own personal grocery budget is on track to surpass $100,000 this year alone.
That's his personal budget.
That doesn't include his jet setting across the globe, his lavish meals when he's out at these World Economic Forum events or preaching about climate alarmism in Europe.
These are just his personal groceries for the year, over $100,000 on track to be roughly $100,000.
This is absolute insanity.
And that is all funded by us as we struggle to put the bare necessities of our own food guide on the table for ourselves and our children.
This is horrendous.
Holy let them eat cake, Batman.
That is incredible.
And you know what, Tamario Galini, I'm so glad you brought up the Disney Plus thing because this just shows you again how out of touch this freeland is.
She was talking about the, I think she said, and correct me if I'm wrong, that in her own household, they had to bite the bullet and cancel their Disney Plus subscription.
I'm not sure.
Oh, gosh.
By the way, do you know how much that is?
Is it what?
$16.
Does anyone have to do it?
I thought it was $12 a month.
I don't do the Disney thing, so I'm not really sure, but I thought it was comparable to Netflix, you know, $12, $15 a month.
So in other words, it's not even 10 liters of gasoline that you're paying for that subscription.
But that's not my main point.
My main point is this.
And again, I might be wrong, but I would bet my life on it.
And I know there's thunder in the forecast, so I'll just keep my eyes peeled for a bolt of lightning coming down.
I bet you she didn't cancel her Disney Plus subscription.
Oh, no.
I bet you if I could dredge through her garbage of bills and went through her cable bill, I bet you Disney Plus was never even postponed for a moment.
And I see super producer Olivia is getting the Disney Plus pricing.
Oh, there we go.
Oh, here we go.
$11.99 Canadian a month.
Yeah, that's going to make a real big difference to what Canadian is.
Well, as I mentioned, that's two flats of strawberries.
My kids will eat that in a day and a half.
Gone.
Like this is not helpful at all for Canadians.
Wow.
And like you said, and that reminds me of a great Three Stooges line.
You're saying the lower price that we saw at RABA, most likely because strawberries, given that it is summer in Ontario, they are in season.
And there's that great line where Curly Larry and Mo are on death row.
They're about to be hanged.
And the warden says, do you have any last requests?
And they say, yes, we'd like a bowl of strawberries.
And the warden gets really mad.
Strawberries, strawberries won't be in season for six months.
And they go, we'll wait.
And he walked off the platform.
Anyway, well, we better get to.
Let's just go to a quick super chat here from Snowy Roof, who gives us $5.
Crown's Financial Fiascos00:06:28
Thank you very much.
Christia, I don't think can balance her own checkbook, let alone the finances of the country.
Hear ye, hear ye.
Yeah, I guess this is what we get when we have a government who thinks that budgets balance themselves.
Yeah.
And you know what?
Alex, if she does come into a little extra cash and what Blackface Liberal isn't these days, can she spend some of that on a personal shopper, you know, to buy her a dress that fits, you know, so that if she's in a centered position, we don't have to get the blue dot to cover up the private parts, you know?
I don't even want to, I don't, I don't want to go there.
Yeah, I can only think of that a Sharon Stone movie.
Everyone knows what I'm talking about.
It burned out the pause button on so many VCRs back in the day.
Anyway.
Anyway.
Let's go to an ad and we'll come back to our last story here.
Ladies' choice, what would you like to talk about?
Well, since we have it in the headline, let's do the CBC where they're finally admitting that they are the spreaders of some misinformation.
Yep.
Talk about the Christmas miracle.
We are, of course, talking about Daniel Smith saying that journalism is an integral part of our society, and all I've ever asked for is fair, accurate, and balanced coverage.
After months of the CBC reporting interference between my office and Crown prosecutors, today CBC News removed references to direct contact between my office and the Crown Cross prosecutors.
This is even worse than it looks like, of course, to Mary Ugolini, because when we look at the timeline, all this misinformation and disinformation, you know, the kind of stuff Blackface really hates, but his top trained seal, the CBC, does on a daily basis.
This, well, let's call for what it is.
These slanderous lies were being broadcast and written about during the provincial election.
In other words, the CBC was trying to grease the rails to make Daniel Smith and the UCP fail to lose the election rather to the NDP.
That's what's even worse about this terrible story.
Look at that.
Finally, clarifications and corrections coming from the CBC.
My God, it's the Christmas miracle in July.
Well, look at this.
They have an entire website and you can scroll, scroll, scroll.
And this was only developed in 2021.
So it's, I guess, just over two years old where the CBC now has this entire website, their corrections and clarifications, where they issue just that about their news stories.
And so this came at a time when the CBC was under fire for spreading myths and disinformation throughout the COVID hysteria that was further amplified by the on-the-ground reports at the Trucker Convoy that took to the parliament, took to Canada's parliament in January and February of 2021.
Sorry, of 2022.
See, the years are just a mess here, the last three years.
But when they were reporting certain instances happening on the ground there, and then you could contrast that with live streams.
So like no tampering of footage.
This is live on the ground footage.
And Canadians were going, wait a minute, there's no cohesivity here.
This doesn't make sense.
What the mainstream media is telling us is actually the direct opposite of what we're seeing happening on the ground.
So the CBC has taken it upon themselves now to dedicate an entire page to corrections and clarifications.
But if you click on the actual link of the article, which Danielle Smith includes in her tweet there, there is a whole editor's note from yesterday.
And it's three large paragraphs long.
But the last paragraph here says, after the ethics commissioner's report was released, so the ethics commissioner did a full report on this, right?
Danielle Smith was investigated about this ethically.
CBC News reviewed its journalism.
So basically, like it didn't do any real journalism because that's fact-checking where you're getting your sourcing from.
So the CBC, I guess, reviewed its own journalism and re-interviewed a number of sources and parties to the matter.
Confronted with the commissioner's report, our sources have insisted that Crown prosecutors felt political pressure regarding the Coots cases.
And that's in regards to the Cootes blockade that happened in conjunction with the Trucker Convoy in Ottawa.
That was the Coots border in Alberta.
Our sources have insisted that crown prosecutors felt political pressure regarding the Coots cases, but they are not able to confirm that the emails they originally described were sent directly from the premier's office to the Crown.
Unbelievable.
They couldn't have discovered this in January when they first published this piece that was right during active campaigning between Danielle Smith and NDP leader Rachel Notley, who were going head to head for premiership.
Instead, they published this smear piece in hopes of obviously swaying the voters and meddling in that election.
It didn't work.
And now that the ethics commissioner has concluded their investigation, the CBC has been forced to put out a correction and issue this clarification.
It is absolutely absurd that they got away with this for so long.
And two months after the election results are in, Tommy's foreign interference talk about election meddling and it's coming from the state broadcaster.
Unbelievable.
But you know what, Tamara?
Here's a silver lining for me.
I think we now know what the two C's in CBC stand for.
It's corrections and clarifications.
Silver Linings Found00:04:26
As for the B, well, bullshite works for me.
How about you, Tamara?
Yeah, I think we could come up with something a little bit more robust than that.
But I like where you're going with this.
Yeah.
Well, I like that.
I think we have told Truth in Advertising.
Well, you know what?
I see we have a hard out.
It's just a little after two o'clock Eastern Time.
And we have one more super chat.
All right.
So we'll just get to that before we go to the next one.
Thank you, Abelist SL, who gives $5 to create a publicly accessible propaganda archive.
And as part of a boycott campaign, do you think we should create a piracy site specifically dedicated to mass pirating crap from woke companies?
Well, this is a loaded question, if I do say so myself.
Hey, if you create something, let me know.
Happy to see what you come up with.
Well, you know, what's amazing, I think, Tamara, when it comes to woke companies, two of the wokests that we saw in recent months, one Anheuser-Busch with the Dylan Mulvaney disaster for Bud Light.
Their share value has now surpassed more than $16.5 billion.
Can you imagine?
And it shows no signs of ebbing.
And then we have Target, and Target's lost $10 billion off their share value.
Turns out that the Middle America mom paul consumer doesn't really like the idea that they're selling radical trends bikinis with little pockets to hide your private parts in, including those who are children.
Yeah.
And, you know, I wonder, Tamara, did they ever learn?
Because a couple of weeks ago at the Pride Parade in Toronto, guess who had a float sponsoring the LGBT community?
Yep, Bud Light.
So so much from distancing themselves.
And that got international media attention, by the way.
If they thought it was just happening in sleepy little Canada and nobody would notice, oh no, you just threw some more gasoline on the fire, Anheuser-Busch.
You idiots, you don't even know what you're doing.
And as far as Target is concerned, I just heard yesterday the great Mark Levine, host of his Patriot show on SiriusXM from 7, sorry, rather, 6 to 9 p.m. on Channel 125, and author of so many books, Men in Black, American Marxism, all must-reads.
Guess what?
He's coming out with a book critical of the Democratic Party.
And Target has announced that it is not going to stop Mark Levin's book targeting the Democrats because they don't want to, you know, sow division and they don't want to create divides.
This is the company that went all in on radical trans merchandise in their stores.
You know what?
Target, I just want to say this to you.
Thank you for making Mark Levin's point.
You know, thank you for showing that freedoms in America are so under attack, especially from stupid, woke companies that are more concerned with ESG than they are with turning a profit.
So, you know, I guess in the department, Tamara, of being hoisted on your own petard looks good on you, Target, because once again, you're so far removed from hitting the bullseye.
No wonder you went bankrupt within a couple of years in Canada.
That's all I got to say about that.
So folks, that is today's show.
We have the Alberta team, I believe, taking over tomorrow, Friday.
So I want to thank you all, especially those who gave us super chats.
I want to thank our super producers, Olivia and Efren.
And of course, the best COVID-19 journalists in the entire Great Dominion, not a purveyor of misinformation and disinformation, quite the opposite.
And that would be the lovely Tamara Ugolini.
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