Sheila Gunn-Reid, editor-in-chief of The Gunn Show and Rebel News, mocks Australian breakdancer Ray Gunn’s PhD in "cultural movement" as irrelevant to her Olympic performance, calling it jargon-filled nonsense. Gunn-Reid highlights her own investigative work exposing Justin Trudeau’s $250K meal expenses, Omar Cotter’s $10.5M ties, and alleged Wuhan lab funding amid COVID origins debates. Viewers’ letters criticize her for dismissing degrees, the $60M ArriveCan app fiasco (flagging 10K travelers with $5.5K fines), and Rebel News’ coverage of Alberta Health Services scandals. Gunn-Reid defends her stance while questioning government waste—like Parks Canada’s $12M deer cull—contrasting it with local, cost-effective solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
This week I received such excellent hate mail that I thought I would turn the entire show into a letters show.
So you're the guest today.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
For those of you who don't know, not only do I do normally a daily video or write articles here at Rebel News, I'm also the editor-in-chief.
I do this show, so thanks for watching, but I also host a twice weekly live stream called Rebel Roundup.
It's usually with me and a co-host, normally David Menzies.
We talk about the news of the day completely unscripted, and we give sometimes our spicy hot takes.
And I think David and I have such great chemistry and the show is really fun.
And you sort of see us in our natural element talking about news and culture wars.
And as I said, this show is unscripted, so you might actually get us as we really are sometimes.
And my hate mail, which prompted an entire show today, came on this segment.
Will you indulge me?
If you are a regular watcher of Rebel News, you've probably already seen this, but it's a four-minute clip of me reacting to Australian breakdancer Ray Gunn on her stunt at the Olympics.
And if you haven't seen it, I don't know how you've avoided it.
I need some advice about unplugging in my life if you are a person who has not seen this yet.
But here is me and David talking about Ray Gunn.
Take a listen.
But you can also be a break dancer at the Olympics, as was the case with this break dancing lady in her late 30s named Ray Gunn.
Why Degrees Matter00:13:53
No relation, thank God.
I just want to stress that.
No relation.
This is what she comes out and does.
Now, we can have arguments about whether or not break dancing should be at the Olympics.
But at least some of them have some athletic skills.
This is if I was trying to embarrass my kids and I was like, look at me, kids, I'm break dancing when all of their kids are at the house or their friends are at the house.
This is what I would do.
But this lady went to the Olympics.
I think she scammed the Australians into sending her to the Olympics.
I think that's what happened.
She had, I forget what her background is.
She's got some sort of a useless doctorate in cultural movement.
And so that's why she went, but she doesn't actually train.
Unbelievable.
Well, Sheila, unless you can spin on your head, I saw her stand on her head, but you got to be able to spin on your head before you're going to get into metal contention.
It was a half rotation.
It was a half rotation.
I just don't understand.
It's like.
Well, I will say this, it's far better than anything I could do, but I'm not an Olympic athlete and, uh, certainly not anywhere in the class of the, she hops like a kangaroo.
Cause she's from Australia.
Wow.
So, what is the complaint that she's getting shamed for an awful performance?
Yeah, she got that's what happens.
You lay an egg, you get booed.
Live audience.
I think the real villains here, like this is a just a progressive busybody who thought that her degree in a useless genre would be enough to, I don't know, magically transform her body into that of an athlete or something.
Um, the real villains here are the Australians who sent her to allow her to embarrass their country on an international stage.
Yeah, so what is the unspoken story there, Sheila?
Because obviously, if this was an unbiased panel approving the breakdancers going to Paris, they would never have approved her, right?
So, is there some kind of uh family connection?
I mean, I mean, come on.
Uh, that where did she finish, by the way, in terms?
I guess this is something they score, like, you know, figure skating around zero-zero.
She didn't get a single point.
No, I think you deserve a medal for that.
Like, that's the equivalent of a shutout, isn't it?
I just like it's she admitted, I think, in an interview, she doesn't really train, she didn't take it all that seriously.
And her only qualification, I think, is that she, as I said, she has a master's or doc, a doctorate in cultural movement.
So, this 30, late 30s white lady, smokes, white lady with no skills whatsoever, thought that her busybody, useless degree, like in another world, she would just be serving you coffee at a woke coffee shop.
Um, instead, she went to the Olympics, and now people making fun of this nonsense.
This, like, at least Michael Jackson did that in a thriller video, and it looked cool.
Uh, she's saying that people are mocking me because they are misogynistic, and it's like, no, there were other, you know, who doesn't like lady breakdancers?
The lady who stole a spot from a lady who could break dance, which is what she did.
All right, so somebody saw that clip on YouTube of David and I chattering back and forth, and they didn't like what I had to say.
They didn't like what I had to say so much that they took the time to go to the Rebel News website and find my email address.
And I know they are not a regular watcher of me or Rebel News, and that's indicative in their email to me.
But I'll read you the email and then I'll sort of respond to the email as I go.
And then I will read to you from Ray Gunn, Rachel Gunn, No Relations dissertation for her masters.
And you can tell me if I'm wrong in my opinions of Rachel Gunn and her absolutely useless degree.
Some people become doctors, some people become lawyers.
Rachel Gunn became an international laughingstock, and somehow, somehow, she is a university professor teaching on cultural movement, I guess.
Anyways, here's the email that I got from Meredith Valentine.
Hi, Sheila.
I recently watched your report on the Australian female breakdancers performance.
Wasn't a report.
It was a clip from the live stream where we were having a little bit of jokiness with it.
Anyway, I'm not arguing your assessment of Ray Gunn's breakdancing, if you can call it that, but your repeated use of the term useless degree in reference to Ms. Gunn's PhD in cultural studies.
I counted three iterations in just the short time.
I could stomach of your diatribe.
Oh, I hope you're okay.
Anyone?
No, so this is the part that really gets me.
Because I'm supposed to be part of the sisterhood of the traveling pants or some baloney because she's a woman and I'm a woman.
And so I'm supposed to support women in all the things they do, even if they're stupid.
Okay.
Great argument.
Then why are you writing to me?
Because if I'm a woman that you disagree with, aren't you just supposed to shut up?
That's what you'd like me to do, Meredith Valentine.
But let's keep going.
I'm having fun with this.
Any woman who holds a PhD, regardless of the discipline, is someone to be celebrated as a person to look up to and a woman to hold in esteem, given the amount of work required to obtain a PhD and the fact that women have only been allowed to study for doctorates for less than 100 years.
This is how I know she didn't read Ray Gunn's dissertation, but I did.
And it's more of an indictment on the university system that she was able to obtain a PhD based on what I read.
It's not something to be celebrated to get a degree, to waste your money or your parents' money on a useless degree that basically makes you unemployable, except teaching other people about the useless thing you learned, which, as we find out, is what Rachel Gunn does for a living.
Because I can't imagine she's getting paid to break dance.
Anyway.
Denigrating other women does nothing to empower women as a whole.
Oh, I should just shut up.
Well, then why don't you shut up?
You're denigrating me.
Why don't you shut up?
Why doesn't everybody just shut up?
Or do women that you agree with?
They get to talk, but I get to shut up.
She may be ineffectual as an Olympic competitor, and how she got there is a mystery.
But her degree is far from useless since she is a lecturer at a university and thus gainfully employed using her useless degree.
Again, indictment of the university system.
And that's literally the only thing that she could do with her university degree is teach other people the useless stuff she learned.
What are they going to do?
What are they going to do with that?
Like I said, probably work at Starbucks.
Let's keep going.
All your information on her was clearly derived from other media sources, likely Wikipedia.
I read her dissertation, Meredith.
Judging by the quality of your reporting, as you put reporting in scare quotes, which came across more like a speech by Donald Trump in which he attempts to deflect attention from his personal shortcomings by pointing out another failures.
This is how I know you're not a regular Rebel News viewer if you just showed up to attack Donald Trump.
You're in the wrong place, Meredith.
Let's keep going.
I couldn't find any information about your education.
So I am unsure if lack of your own degree is the source of your disgust for hers.
I went to trade school.
And I'm not embarrassed by that.
In fact, we joke at Rebel News, it's one of Ezra's dad jokes, which has made it into my repertoire through osmosis, that the only classically trained journalist at the company is David Menzies, and we don't hold it against him because J schools are a breeding ground for far-left-wing activists who masquerade as journalists and not actually journalists, people who are intellectually curious.
If so, instead of your chosen method of unfounded public derision for holding a degree in a field you deem useless, by what criteria, I don't know.
Okay.
May I suggest you do the work and get your own?
Oh, I should waste a bunch of money to get a degree in what?
What?
What should I get a degree in?
Perhaps the intersection of tampons in the men's room and the rights of migrant itinerant workers in the cotton industry.
Should I write a dissertation on that?
Would that make me a smart lady then?
Anyway, let's keep going.
This may mitigate any feelings of inequality or inferiority on your part.
Do I seem inferior?
Do I have an inferiority complex?
You clearly have the time since you aren't spending it researching, despite calling yourself a journalist.
Again, by what criteria, I don't know.
Okay, I'd love to tell you.
So I am the editor-in-chief at Rebel News Network, Meredith.
I am a woman in journalism, and I am the published author of three best-selling books, one of which was only bumped off the top charts when there was a new Harry Potter book that came out.
I routinely do stories that are stolen by the mainstream media.
For example, I uncovered Trudeau's high-flying meal expenses on his flights that were like in excess of a quarter of a million dollars.
Notably, I found how convicted terrorist Omar Cotter hid his $10.5 million that were given to him by Justin Trudeau.
He hid it in a strip mall.
I also uncovered stories that are routinely stolen by the mainstream media, like Justin Trudeau funding the Wuhan Virology Institute.
That's a story that I broke that was covered as an exclusive by the Globe and Mail.
And maybe you don't know Meredith because Donald Trump may have said it once, and I know how you hate him, that that is the likely source of the COVID pandemic.
So anyway.
Oh, and currently I'm researching 2,200 pages on the systemic application of medical assistance and dying advice to Canada's veterans.
Those are documents exclusive to me.
I'm in the process of going through them and I can see the government doing their best to hide their tracks in those documents.
So while you say I have so much time, while doing all of those things, I barely have time to do my real job, and that's mother and farmer.
You see, I have three well-adjusted, productive children, and I'm a farmer, which means that I am, I guess, part meteorologist, probably more meteorologist and weather expert than any environmentalist you'll ever meet.
I'm part agronomist.
I'm also part accountant and business manager.
And I'm definitely a mechanics helper with a very thick skin.
So I guess, you know, I'll try to find some more time to do some actual researching to make Meredith happy.
And I should tell Meredith that journalism is not a guild you join, but a thing you do.
It's a thing you practice every day.
And I do that.
So.
Sorry, Meredith.
Meredith goes on, though, because she's not quite done deriding me as a woman and not holding me up as a woman, the way she says we should do for all women.
At any rate, perhaps reporting on the actual news, for example, her Olympic performance and not her education, which has no bearing on the issue that made her supposedly newsworthy, it's something that she brought up, Ray Gunn brought up in multiple interviews about why she was going to the Olympics.
Impact of Olympic Break Dancing00:03:47
And in fact, we've got an academic research paper that I plan to read from that she talks about the induction of break dancing into the Olympics.
She wrote a research paper on it, so seems highly relevant.
You'd know that, Meredith, if you did some research before firing off a terse email at me.
And citing your sources rather than opinions may serve you better in the future.
I wish you well in your journey.
Sincerely, Meredith Valentine.
Oh, Meredith.
Meredith, I doubt you're going to watch this because clearly you're not a regular watcher of Rebel News, but I thought that I would read to us all, so you can understand that I come by my opinions of Ray Gunn honestly from a research paper she wrote.
It's called The Australian Breaking Scene and the Olympic Games.
The possibilities and politics of sportification.
My dear friends, you're about to hear a lot of nonsense that, I mean, just jargon.
You're not even going to know what I'm talking about because it's just all useless, academic, left-wing words that actually don't mean anything in real life.
But let's go.
Let's read from the abstract because I think that's all we can probably take.
In this article, we analyze the impact of Breaking's inclusion in the Olympics on the Australian breaking scene.
We draw on our experiences as Australian breaking practitioners, as well as the ethnographic field research conducted between 2018 and 2021 to show how Australian breakers have responded to and made sense of breaking becoming an Olympic sport.
While some breakers see the Olympics as an opportunity and space for rider recognition, many have expressed concerns with the growing influence and embrace of transnational commercial organizations and institutional governing bodies in shaping and managing Breaking's future.
Alongside concerns of an increasing sportification of breaking, this trajectory points toward an increasing loss of self-determination and agency and spontaneity for local Australian breakers and will have profound consequences for the way in which hip-hop personhood is constantly remade and renegotiated in Australia.
Isolated from the major breaking hubs, Australia's breaking scene is marked by distinct self-determined localized scenes separated from each other by the geographic expansiveness of this island continent.
Here, breaking is a space for those othered by Australian institutions to express themselves and engage in new hierarchies of respect.
We argue that breaking's institutionalization via the Olympics will place breaking more firmly within this sporting nation's hegemonic settler colonial structures that rely upon racialized and gender hierarchies.
In such, in this article, we discuss and examine how the Olympic impacts ongoing local social and cultural productions and expressions of hip-hop and the distinct possibilities of breaking that enable its participants to show and prove outside standardized institutionalized rubrics.
I think we're all just a little sillier for having listened to me read that, but as you can see, Meredith, there is no worth in Ray Gunn's academic pursuits.
And I refuse to prop her up simply because she's a woman.
And I will continue to mock her at every opportunity possible.
Now, enough with the haters.
Let's get into some regular Rebel News viewers' comments and questions.
Struggles In Alberta Health Services00:11:51
They were sent to me about three months ago when I was on the documentary tour.
Oh, I should point that out.
Meredith, if you're still watching, I've made two documentaries.
Yes, they're on Amazon Prime in the United States for free in Canada on Tupe.
The first one is called Church Under Fire: Canada's War on Christianity, and the next one is Made: The Dark Side of Canadian Compassion, which talks about Justin Trudeau's institutionalized euthanasia program and how it is killing the vulnerable.
Okay, anyway, getting back to what I was saying, the letters that I'm about to read from come to me when I put a call out for letters from you.
I was touring the documentary, I didn't have time to book a guest, but I know that you're here for the gun show, so I'm here for you.
And you sent, inundated me with letters and questions.
I plunked myself down in the RV that we were touring the country in with the documentary, and I just opened up my laptop in a red.
And I've got a few of those left.
Actually, I have a bunch of those left.
But I pulled up three more today, and I'll get to those right away.
So here it goes.
Yuda writes to me and says, Hello, Sheila.
The most criminal of all the hideous thefts of taxpayers' money by this government must be the Arrive Can.
What came of it?
Who was sent to prison?
Who is refunding us?
When?
Well, I'm glad you asked because we're still in the process of finding out what the heck went down.
For those of you who don't know, Arrive Can or Arrive Scam, as it is rightly known, was the flawed travel surveillance app, a $60 million enterprise that was created by GC Strategies, a two-man shop in a basement somewhere in Ontario.
And returning travelers to Canada had to put their vaccine and quarantine information into this app.
And if you didn't, you could get stung with a $5,500 fine.
The thing is, ArriveCan didn't even work because it sent 10,000 people erroneously to quarantine under threat of a $5,500 fine.
If you didn't have a phone, well, then you didn't download the app, and then you got a fine.
And as I said, the app mostly didn't work, and it was recreated for about $50,000 or $60,000 over a weekend in the private sector.
It's now come out that the contracts in and around ArriveScam were inflated.
They were increased with no reason for the increase.
There was no accountability, as in contracts were paid with no work shown.
The senior managers at the CBSA, the Canadian Border Services Agency, were being whined and dined by GC strategies who didn't even try to hide the fact that they were milking the taxpayer.
GC stands for Government of Canada Strategies.
Christian Firth, one of the members of the two-man shop, he was forced to testify in the House of Commons after he refused to give evidence at a House of Commons committee, which is like the first time in decades that that has happened.
And now police are investigating.
So, $60 million scam.
They're doing their best to get to the bottom of it.
They, meaning the conservative members of parliamentary committees, are trying their best to get to the bottom of it, especially at the Operations Committee.
Larry Brock is doing a great job.
Michael Barrett's doing a great job.
Garnet Jennis doing a great job trying to find out what exactly went on and who is accountable.
Just last week, a middle manager at the CBSA, who was named by Christian Firth as somebody that he had been communicating with on these files, testified at the OGO committee.
That's the operations committee.
And she said, I didn't really have any communications with him at all.
They needed to name somebody, so they just named me because she was prickly and she refused to give false testimony when pressured by her senior managers, the very senior managers that were being wined and dined by Christian Firth.
So they wanted someone's head on a platter, so they served up hers because she was a bit of a buy-the-book prickly lady and sounds like not all that many people liked her.
And so they just named her as their fall guy.
And she testified now.
And she said, I will likely lose my job for this testimony, but I have to tell the truth.
So it's all still ongoing, but people should be in jail.
I mean, woe to be Jean Cretchen right now and his sponsorship scandal wasn't even close to this constant scandalous mess coming from the liberals.
Let's keep going.
The next one comes from Kim Myers says, Good day.
I recently listened to a podcast that highlighted the fact that Rebel News never covers the scandals within Alberta Health Services.
Can you explain why that is the case?
My conclusion, dream, is that AHS holds power over Rebel?
Kind of fevered dream podcast were you listening to, Tim?
Because that's absolutely not true.
Nobody has helped more people fight Alberta Health Services than Rebel News and by extension, the charitable arm, the Democracy Fund, thanks to crowdfunded donations, paying for lawyers to help people get a fair shake in the legal system when their businesses were closed by Alberta Health Services, when their churches were closed by Alberta Health Services, when they were ticketed by Alberta Health Services.
Chad Williamson from Williamson Law, I don't think they lost a single case.
And they took hundreds of cases of COVID-era tickets.
So the insinuation that Rebel News somehow is in the pocket of AHS is absolute madness.
Just ask Chris Scott.
Just ask Pastor Art Peloski, you know, or any number of people whose names you may never know because they were helped without fanfare.
We reported on them.
We reported on their struggles.
We, in our Holding Alberta Health Service to Alberta Health Services to account.
I think we were instrumental in doing the work that so damaged Jason Kenney's reputation, as in reporting on the things he did that damaged his own reputation and credentials as a conservative.
Well, that's one of the reasons he's no longer here.
So, this idea that we're in the pocket, we're in the pocket of Alberta Health Services, madness, absolute madness.
What madness conspiracy theory is that?
I mean, it's just crazy.
We can't report on every single thing that Alberta Health Services does or whatever hobby horse somebody on the internet has against Alberta Health Services.
We're just a little network.
We're Canada's largest independent news network, but we can't report on everything.
We help the people that we can.
And I would seriously, I would love to speak to the person who says that we're on the take from Alberta Health Services.
We weren't their single largest critics for four years.
I have one more from Sue Ferguson who says, The government recently announced that they had increased Parks Canada's budget from $6 to $12 million for the eradication of the Sydney Island fallow deer.
You know, I should tell you, I was one of the first people to report on that contract many years ago.
And at the time, people were very critical of me because I said, There's no reason why local hunters can't do this.
Why do you have to bring in the New Zealanders with the helicopters?
Yes, a helicopter hunt.
So it's super fun.
Would love to do it.
I don't want you to pay for it, though, right?
Back then, I was told that, Sheila, these guys have expertise that the locals don't have.
Guys from halfway around the world have expertise that the locals don't have, they told me.
And how dare I?
How dare I question this government contract?
Well, here we are years later.
They stated there was an overpopulation and they were overgrazing the land.
First Nations, who do not live there, supported this by saying they used some of the plants for ceremonies.
Consultants were hired and brought in sharpshooters and dogs from New Zealand.
Sounds like the ArriveCam scam.
You better believe it, sister.
Special permits were granted for the use of assault rifles, dogs, shooting from helicopters, and night hunting.
You know, this is what I love.
And I say love it in the most sarcastic of ways.
I can't hunt at night.
I can't use an AR-15 to hunt.
In fact, I can't even sell an AR-15 in this country anymore.
Justin Trudeau says it's an assault rifle.
It's really not.
But it was never legal for me to hunt with.
And yet, these foreign contract hunters, it was an effective rifle for them to hunt with and at night.
Isn't that something?
This was extremely traumatic for the thousands of people here during this time.
The entire kill was completely unnecessary because there was no overpopulation.
I don't know if that's true.
I don't know if it's not true.
But again, why couldn't local hunters have done this?
Give special permits.
Actually, put bounties on the deer.
You know, put 50 bucks bounty on the deer.
Anyway, Parks Canada had only guessed that 200 to 700 deer were there.
They admitted no counts were done.
Independent research based on observable evidence suggests there were between 100 and 200, but more likely around 100 deer.
The locals have been managing the herd quite nicely over the past 10 years through an organized hunt, which recently killed 54 deer.
These hunts cost the taxpayers nothing and manages the herd.
Yeah, local stewardship.
I love it.
There was an overpopulation years ago, but that has not been the case for at least 10 years.
It's been shown the plant life has since been regenerating nicely between December 1st and 11th, when people were starting to think about Christmas.
The feds, their team from New Zealand, and First Nations slaughtered 84 deer, 12 of which were native species.
The cost to the taxpayer, $884,000, $10,000 per deer to kill.
The spokesperson stated that every single deer had been killed in that hunt.
Recently, the federal government has announced that they are contributing another $6 million to this project, totaling $12 million.
Why?
There was no problem to begin with, and now no deer left.
Access Filings Revealed00:02:23
What is on the news is not the truth.
We need to know why this project was even approved to begin with.
That's your story.
Thank you.
Sue Ferguson, North Sandich, Vancouver Island.
I will look, I will dig, I will file access to information.
This story has been on my radar long before it was ever on anybody else's radar.
As I said, this is going back years.
I watched the contracts websites with the federal government, and that's how I knew that this was coming.
And I just knew at the time that there would be associated costs that were ridiculous.
I didn't realize that they would be this high, and I knew this was something that the local hunters would deal with.
And now it's far worse and far more expensive, as is the case with everything the government touches.
So thanks for writing in, and I will do my best to follow up on that story, trying to track down the paper trail, as I love to do.
If you want to support my independent research into this and any other number of stories through access filings, you can make a donation at rebelinvestigates.com.
I've got a researcher who helps me in the cursory research and helps with some of the filing, but it is a big job.
We will file tens, dozens of access filings on any given week.
And then sometimes they come back and then we have to read through them or sometimes they are redacted and we have to appeal or sometimes they're delayed.
Like I'm getting ones that I filed in my first and second year with the company just back now.
So what's that?
Eight years, right?
So it's a big job, but I think it's important to hold the government to account for the things they do and say behind closed doors to Canadians with our money.
Well, everybody.
Oh, by the way, I should do what I always do.
I should give you my email address.
If you want to write a letter to me, even a hate letter, because sometimes those are fun.
You want to take a run-up at me like Meredith did?
Give it a whirl.
Let's rumble.
My email address is Sheila at RebelNews.com.
Put gun show letters in the subject line.
Let me know what you think because without you, there is no Rebel News.
That's the show for today.
Thank you for bearing with me as I made you guys and my hater the show guest tonight.
I'll see you guys back here same time, same place next week.