David Menzies, representing Ezra Levant, details a September 24, 2024, peace bond hearing for alleged threats against Ash Davis (Tommy), a transgender rugby player accused of violating World Rugby rules and injuring women. He denies criminal intent, citing journalistic inquiry, while criticizing OPP’s politically motivated arrest in Fergus despite public park access. The episode also exposes Toronto’s TDSB’s September 18 anti-Israel protest masquerading as an Indigenous land rights rally, with radical unionists like Nigel Barif pushing divisive rhetoric. Levy demands accountability from Minister Jill Dunlop, contrasting Virginia’s parental activism success with Canada’s perceived inaction, warning that systemic bias and frivolous charges undermine justice. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, why are so many police forces taking their marching orders from the radical transgender community?
And yes, we have the proof.
It's Tuesday, September 24th, 2024.
I'm David Menzies and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Why is law enforcement increasingly signaling to people that they are on team trans and that transgenders are effectively a protected class these days and that it is actually a crime to offend transgenders?
No, I do not exaggerate.
Case in point, the other day I got up bright and early to give my beloved pooch, Sir Gregor, a walk around the block.
As I approached my dead end court in Richmond Hill, I noticed that two York Region police cruisers were parked outside a neighbor's home.
Now, nothing truly criminal happens in this sleepy little neighborhood, but I reached for my cell phone and started video recording just in case something went down.
Oh, something went down all right, but alas, the cops were not staking out some nefarious neighbor, but rather they were there for little old me here.
Check out the video evidence.
David Menzies?
That's right.
Yeah, I just want to make sure I've got a representative.
Oh, there's a summons to appear for an 810 peace bond hearing.
It's from Guelph.
We're just serving on behalf of them.
810 peace?
Yeah, peace bond hearing.
Instructions are on the bottom.
You need to attend on the 8th day of October, 2.30 p.m., 36 Wyndham Street, South Guelph, Ontario.
And officer, what's this in regard to?
So I don't know the details because not an incident that we've been involved with.
It looks like information laid against you by Ash Davis regarding unwanted contact and broadcasting information.
Incredibly, I was served with a summons to appear next month in a Guelph courtroom.
Woke Joke Summons00:15:45
And this was due to none other than Ash Davis, a man who, well, sometimes thinks he's a woman so that he can play rugby against real women and frequently injure real women.
This is all against the rules of the sports international governing body, World Rugby.
But in Justin Trudeau's Trans-Friendly Canada, this dangerous rule breaker is being apparently tolerated all in the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
And what's more, the likes of Ash Davis, well, they are now using law enforcement Enforcement and now the courts to get their way and even try to shut down our practice of journalism.
Here's what the summons states verbatim.
Ash Davis says he she has reasonable grounds to fear and does fear that you will cause personal injury or will damage the property of Ash Davis or will commit an offense under section 162.1 of the criminal code on account of a threat made on or about the 22nd day of July 2023 and the 26th day
day of August 2023 at the town of Fergus.
In the words or to the effect following, that is to say, unwanted contact and broadcasting information, end quote.
Yes, a bit garbled, I grant you that, but in any event, what Praytel is section 162.1, well, again, verbatim, here it is, folks.
Quote: Everyone who knowingly publishes, distributes, transmits, sells, makes available, or advertises an intimate image of a person knowing that the person depicted in the image did not give their consent to that conduct or being reckless as to whether or not that person gave their consent to that conduct is guilty A,
of an indictable offense and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years or B, of an offense punishable on summary conviction.
End quote.
I know what you're thinking, folks.
Did Rebel News capture and publish a nude image of Ash Davis?
God forbid.
No, we definitely did not.
Rather, for more than a year now, we have covered the Ash Davis story because, well, somebody had to.
And when it comes to mainstream media, radical transgenderism is too much of a third rail issue.
Either that or the Trudeau-funded sluggos are actually totally on board with radical transgenderism.
But if a picture is worth a thousand words, methinks video footage is worth a million.
So let's check out the video from On or About the 22nd of July 2023, in which I allegedly caused personal injury and or property damage to this gender bender.
Hey, Mr. Davis.
Ash, why are you doing this?
I'm David Menzies of Rebel News.
No, you're not really a part of this.
We're having a team chat now.
Okay, I'm just trying to ask some questions, ma'am.
But this is not the appropriate time for you.
Why are you allowing a biological male to compete against female players?
I'm not going to have a conversation with you.
Well, I'll talk to Ash then.
Ash, do you take joy in injuring female rugby players?
Are you lacking the skills to play with male players where you should be?
You're a biological male, aren't you?
I got you.
I got you.
No, this is not here.
Thank you, sir.
Mr. Ash, are you a misogynist?
Hey, watch it.
You'll be charged with assault.
Would you mind leaving?
Mr. Ash, the governing body for rugby, World Rugby, says men should not compete.
Wow, really?
All lives matter!
Human rights matter!
Human rights matter!
You don't have a problem legally down.
Yeah, thank you, sir.
Thank you.
This is a human rights issue.
Okay, then.
We live in Canada.
All right, human rights for everybody!
Transgender!
What about the trans that you are traumatizing my family?
I'm traumatizing them.
Why?
What happened?
Because my kids get to see people like you cry because of things.
I'm surprised as a mother, why would you expose your kids to a motherfucker?
That isn't my partner.
That is not my wife.
There you are, B. Sorry, he's a lesbian.
Now, as far as I'm concerned, folks, the only person who was assaulted that day was yours truly.
And where was this threat that I made?
Well, it does not exist.
In fact, if there is any crime being committed here, it is Ash, real name Tommy, by the way, filing a false police report.
Unless, of course, we now live in a dominion in which asking someone an impolite query is deemed to be akin to physical assault.
Wow, and to think Bill C-63 isn't even law yet, but never mind.
And why is the York Region Police acting on the behalf of the Guelph Police to be their errand boys, to be their process servers for Ash Davis in the first place?
I mean, the town of Fergus is far, far removed from York Region.
Oh, I almost forgot.
The brass at York Police are totally down with radical transgenderism.
I kid you not, check out this footage from the month of June in which York Regional Police hosted a drag queen breakfast at police headquarters in Aurora, Ontario.
Now, that's what I call a 21-gun fruit salute.
Oh, those poor rank-and-file cops who are no doubt appalled by the gross wokeness that is being forced upon them as the DEI department forces the constables to subscribe to the philosophy of if it's trans, it's good, and if it's good, it's trans.
But really, two York Region police cruisers were utilized to stake out my neighborhood to serve me court papers from another jurisdiction?
I guess there's no real crime being committed these days in York Region.
Well, of course there's real crime being committed in York Region.
Car theft, assault, murder, you name it.
But those criminal acts, I suppose, pale in significance to thought crimes such as, you know, asking a transgender rugby player an impolite query.
And it's not just the York police that believe transgenders don't have equal rights, but rather special rights.
Consider the Toronto Police Service, which recently unveiled a transgender police cruiser, which, if you ask me, sports a paint scheme that makes the SUV look more like an ice cream truck rather than a law enforcement vehicle.
And what is one of the roles of Toronto's transgender police cruiser, you ask?
Well, surely, much to the chagrin of taxi and Uber drivers, this vehicle offers free rides to transgenders.
No, I'm serious.
Check out this video.
So they asked me to reach out to the victim and make sure she's safe and take her home.
He drove me home in the fabulous Pride SUV.
And as he was driving me home, we reached the stoplight and then an individual in a pickup truck came up to us.
Transgender cop car.
Look at that.
Are you guys cops or do you just identify as cops?
That's none of your business and I'm hands-free.
So there's nothing you can do.
I'm just asking you a question, Sergeant.
You cops or you identify as cops?
Now, isn't that special?
Oh, by the way, the driver of the Toronto transgender cop car is none other than Officer Robert Chevalier.
No surprise there, really.
We're fully aware of this particular spirit unicorn with a gun because he's prominently featured in the Toronto Police Service transgender training modules.
You see, last year we exposed this indoctrination process that was forced upon the Toronto cops by the human rights racketeers.
It was leaked to us by a cop who was appalled by the content.
And I truly believe he speaks for the vast majority of the rank and file in terms of their displeasure.
Anyway, to show you how ludicrous this transgender training is, let's throw to a snippet of Officer Chevalier opining on nephews and nieces and nibblings?
One of the reasons why the GDTI, the Gender Diversity Trans Inclusion Project, is so important to me and I feel so attached to it is not only because I'm a gay male, but just in the past few months, my previous niece has come out as non-binary.
So I call her my previous niece because niece is no longer appropriate.
So the two of us sort of put our heads together, did some research, and we came up with the word nibbling, which if you Google it, you may or may not find that it's a non-binary way to call your niece or nephew.
Yeah, nibbling.
Isn't a nibbling a brand of licorice?
Or maybe I'm thinking about a type of creamed corn made by the jolly green giant.
What a kook.
By the way, the brass at the Toronto Police Service flipped their collective lids when we exposed this training module.
Indeed, Inspector Jack Gerr even reached out to YouTube, demanding they take down our video.
That's right.
Hogtown is enduring the worst crime wave in its history, and the TPS brass are more concerned with censorship because transgenders might have their feelings hurt.
But I'm happy to report that YouTube told the Toronto Police Service to buzz off.
So now I guess the Toronto Police brass will focus on trying to take our Jumbotron equipped truck off the road instead.
Unbelievable.
But I'll tell you, it is the Windsor Police Service that truly takes the transgender cake, much to the disgust of the rank and file police officers.
The brass in Windsor are now employing a male police officer, Jonathan Roller, who now cosplays as a fake female.
His new name is Jane.
Check out the photos.
Alas, the woefully woke Windsor Police brass look upon Lady Jane as the ultimate example of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
But Jonathan routinely changes in the female change room.
That's a problem.
There are devout Christian and Muslim female police officers on the force.
They don't like this one bit, but they have allegedly been told to shut up or face retaliation ranging from termination to actual criminal charges.
Golly, I had no idea it was a crime to offend a transgender in Canada these days, did you?
By the way, John Jane, who allegedly still has sex with real females, making him a lesbian, I suppose, like Ash Davis.
He's always quick to volunteer to strip search female suspects.
Say, where oh, where is the Elizabeth Fry Society when you really need it, eh?
The point is, law enforcement personnel are being indoctrinated and coerced into giving special treatment for a subset of people who might very well be mentally ill.
And really, how sick is that?
By the way, folks, we paused our coverage of Ash Davis in May when I was first warned by the Ontario Provincial Police that I was allegedly being rude to Ash.
Check out this woke joke OPP officer.
Oh, hello.
Wow.
Four police officers.
How are you doing, sir?
We're going to ask you now.
Leave where, sir?
Sorry.
Premises.
It's rented by the rugby club.
Oh, we're not on the field.
They've rent this entire field area.
Including this.
Oh, so if we go to the tree line, we're okay.
You've been asked to leave already.
Okay, with all due respect, officer.
Trespassing if you do not leave.
You've been told to leave by the rugby people.
Okay.
And you're saying, just to be clear, if we go to the tree line, that's not good enough.
Including the trees.
He's head to the tree line, I thought.
The tree line, if you want to go up in the bushes, you go up in the bushes.
Okay, so can I tell you right now, though, if you talk to me?
If you talk to anybody here, make comments, rude comments, you will be charged as well.
Make rude comments?
Is that a law, sir?
I'm telling you what the process is, sir.
Could you please tell me what the law is for rude comments?
You've got five seconds to leave or you'll be arrested for trespassing.
Let's walk.
So rude comments is against the law.
Okay, then.
Well, folks, I almost feel like Tarzan of the Apes.
I'm in the bush right now.
Did you see what that police officer said?
If we make rude comments, I think he meant asking rude questions, but never mind.
He's going to arrest us.
And I asked him what the law is, and he didn't have an answer.
You know, you got to ask, what the heck was behind this?
Four OPP officers don't simply show up to an amateur rugby game to shut down the practice of journalism unless ordered to do so by someone with considerable political power.
Public Protest, Behind Closed Doors00:14:55
Uncanny.
But even though I stayed off the field, I was arrested nevertheless because, well, the cops came out that day to arrest me, no matter what.
I think this is downright corruption.
Check it out.
He's got a penis.
Excuse me.
You're under arrest for trespassing.
Why?
You're in the hands behind your back, please.
Are you kidding me?
Nope.
Hands behind your back.
I'm not on the field.
Yes, you are.
Hands behind your back.
Hands behind your back, please.
Are you getting this, guys?
I'm not on the field.
I'm not on the field.
David, hands behind your back.
No.
Well, folks, this is my equipment.
I'm going to give it to my cameraman, okay?
Let it go and your cameraman can grab it for you.
Okay.
This is Doug Ford's Pretorian Guard.
They are arrested me on a trumped-up charge.
I never trespass on the field.
And they are, meanwhile, they are not tolerating, they are tolerating this man injuring female players.
Can I go now?
No, you're going to get a ticket.
Do you have anything in your pockets?
I do.
I do.
Okay, thank you.
I'm just going to jump in so I can actually explain something.
Sure, I don't like doing any problems.
So as you just saw, the OPP falsely accused me of trespassing, except that I wasn't trespassing.
We were in a public park and I was standing in the park where the spectators had converged to watch the rugby game.
So if I was trespassing, so too were they.
But alas, I was the only one charged and handcuffed and thrown in the back of a police cruiser.
You know, folks, thank God I wasn't packing a squirt gun that day because perhaps then I would have been charged with assault with a weapon.
You know, when exactly did the OPP become such a woke joke law enforcement disgrace?
So it is that I will be in a Guelph courtroom on October the 8th to hear Ash Davis make the case against me and Rebel News.
I think this is beyond fascinating.
I mean, what exactly is his goal?
Is this all about seeking a peace bond against me, prohibiting me from coming within 100 meters of the she-mail?
Why?
Everyone knows that I'm not a threat to Ash Davis.
Even Ash Davis knows I am not a threat to he, her.
So this is clearly a vendetta.
As well, as noted previously, Ash seems to have an issue with broadcasting information about him.
So is he, she going to ask a judge to demand that we take down all of our Ash Davis rugby videos?
It kind of looks that way to me, even though we were practicing public interest journalism in public places.
But if scrubbing the internet of his illicit shenanigans is the goal here, then this specimen is proving yet again that my boss, Ezra Levant, was clairvoyant when he predicted that 2024 would emerge as the year of censorship.
In the final analysis, Rebel News committed no crimes whatsoever vis-a-vis our coverage of Ash Davis.
This is a story that remains very much in the public interest, namely a biological man being allowed to violate world rugby rules and physically injure real females in the process.
And hello, where are the feminists?
Ah, all I hear is crickets.
As well, we never trespassed upon private property, not once.
There never was an assault committed against Ash Davis, nor was there ever even a threat of assault uttered against Ash Davis.
To me, his claims are not only bold-faced lies, but outright defamation.
But again, we live in a bizarre biosphere in which being transgender means you're special.
So much so that you don't have to actually follow the rules nor the law.
How did we get here?
Whenever I come across radical transgenders at protests, they come across as so unhinged.
And I would argue that many of them are actually mentally ill.
Bottom line, the brass at too many law enforcement agencies, well, they are now completely compromised in their insatiable pursuit of the unholy trinity of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
And next month, I'm going to find out if the judicial system is marching in lockstep.
Are the courtrooms in Canada, like so many cob shops, also beholden to the demands of radical transgender activism?
And if so, well, God help us all.
Well, folks, when it comes to the tragically woke Toronto District School Board, how low can it go?
Well, how about this low?
On September 18th, Grange Park School scheduled a field trip.
It was sold to parents as being a rally for, quote, mercury justice for the grassy narrows community, end quote.
And of course, Indigenous rights.
But talk about Bate and Switch.
Outrageously, what was supposed to be a protest in solidarity with Native people turned into an anti-Israel hate fest.
Grade three students were encouraged to chant, quote, from Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime, end quote.
Oh, and it gets worse.
Students were also encouraged to wear blue shirts to identify themselves as colonizers.
And those Jewish students who said they were a little uncomfortable with the event, well, they were reportedly told to, quote, get over it, end quote.
It was equal parts outrageous and egregious.
And yet another example of how indoctrination is eclipsing education in the public school system.
And joining me now for more on this despicable display of wokeism on steroids is Sue Ann Levy of True North and the author of Underdog, Confessions of a Right Wing Gay Jewish Muckracker.
Sue Ann, thank you so much for joining me.
Oh, you're very welcome.
Well, you wrote a great article in True North and there are so many angles here to explore.
But first of all, Sue Ann, who in blue hell was responsible for this fiasco?
I don't think we'll ever find that out, Dave, because the school board is absolutely rudderless.
And I predicted this actually at the beginning of the year because you have an education director, get this, who is supposed to retire as of the beginning of November, but walked out the door last week, the same day that this protest slash hate fest slash whatever happened and take to take vacation days, tell her retirement date.
So she's gone.
And then they've got rotating directors.
And then the chairman took off in the summer to run for the open seat on city council.
God help me if she gets, she wins that, that race.
But, you know, there just absolutely no direction.
Unbelievable.
And but we do have a teacher, Anne-Marie Longprey, who you spoke of in your column.
And she's not apologizing.
She's doubling down.
Here's one of her ex-tweets.
But there was absolutely no deception.
This was a march for indigenous land rights.
Do you really believe it's harmful to kids to hear the chant from Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime?
Yeah, I think it is harmful.
Sue Anne, what do you make of this complete lack of contrition on her part?
Well, I think it permeates the board with the more radical left teachers and the unionists who have been marching for Palestine, including the head of the Elementary Teachers Federation, who is a self-loathing Jew and still, you know, marches with her compatriots.
But I think it permeates the board.
And they had a willing ally in Colleen Russell Rollins, who was the director of the board.
And it's all about the oppressed versus the oppressor.
You know, you've heard that language before.
So we as Jews are allegedly the oppressors and the Palestinians are the oppressed.
And there's no distinction made for what actually happened or no caring about Hamas.
But I'm not the least bit surprised that this happened.
I'm actually glad that it did because maybe it woke parents up finally about these radical lefties who, as I said, permeate the board.
I mean, I saw it years ago.
They came after me when I tried to expose their anti-Semitism.
So now it's out in the open.
The question is, Dave, what is the board going to do about it?
What is the minister going to do about it?
What is the premier going to do about it?
Oh, Suanne, I think that the board only issued an apology because they're not fundamentally sorry.
They're sorry they got caught.
You know, they're sorry they are getting called out.
They truly believe this.
And, you know, I got to tell you, Suan, what we've seen in the streets of our great dominion and other countries in the Western world since last October 7th, even before the bodies of almost 1,200 people in Israel were cold, we saw the pro-Hamas people come out and chant the most filthy coded anti-Semitic messages from the river to the sea, intifada, go back to Europe.
Can you imagine?
And I remember several weeks ago covering a protest at the TDSB headquarters.
Predominantly, it was Jewish parents, because what the kids were learning was how bad it is to espouse anti-Palestinian racism.
Are you kidding me?
I had parents telling me that visibly Jewish students were getting beaten up and bullied and the board, the teachers, the principal were doing nothing.
How do we have, how did we get here, Suanne?
Well, we got here because you've got a bunch of woke trustees who are not right, I might add, don't understand the MIDI situation.
Again, follow the oppressor-oppressed dogma.
And they're quite happy to let this happen.
Other than two or three, Wedong Pai, for example, has tried.
I mean, he even tried to move a motion to stop this geopolitical grandstanding over the last six months and was turned down twice.
He's trying again.
But I mean, this is the way these people think.
They are, they think it's free speech.
It's not free speech.
It's hate speech.
They don't understand that there's a fine line.
So you've got the trustees who don't oversee the board properly, are very selective about what issues they actually tackle.
You had an education director who is all about anti-Black racism and the oppressed.
And I believe that anti-Semitism pervaded the board under her watch.
I'm not going to blame her directly, but it was allowed to fester.
And then you've got these radical unions.
You've got every single one.
Like, let's think about it.
QP, the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, the high school union, they're all engaged and immersed in this anti-Israel pro-Palestinian dogma.
And they've been moving motions for years, but nobody really paid attention.
And now it's all out in the open.
You know what?
You make a good point, Sue Anne.
The unions and the school boards, they basically march in lockstep these days.
And, you know, my heart pines for those teachers, good teachers, just teachers, who can't bear to see what happens, but they sit on their hands, they keep their mouth shut because they know the repercussions they will face from their own unions.
I mean, as they say in Vegas, the fix is in.
But you know, Sue Ann, this is getting a lot of attention, including from the Premier of Ontario himself, Doug Ford.
Why don't we just run a clip and see what Premier Ford had to say about this outrageous so-called field trip?
I just wanted to ask you about a field trip that was taken by some middle school students at the Toronto District School Board.
They were supposed to be going to a rally.
It ended up being a political protest, and there are some concerns that they were taking part in this protest.
Just wondering what you think hearing those reports, and should the province send in an investigator?
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No, I think it's disgraceful.
You're trying to indoctrinate our kids.
They should be in the classroom learning about reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, the whole shebang.
But instead, the TDSB and these teachers want to bring them down to a rally, a Palestinian rally.
And it's ridiculous.
I've said this, indoctrination for years.
And I don't want to paint a broad brush for all the teachers because it's not all the teachers.
It's a small minority of teachers.
And it's no different in our universities as well.
Bad actors that are teaching our kids.
Number one, you shouldn't be teaching our kids.
But number two, stick with your knitting.
Stick with teaching the kids the geography, history, math, spelling.
That's what they need.
They don't need to be indoctrinated in some protest.
It's unacceptable.
There needs to be an investigation.
And we'll be all over this and make sure people are held accountable.
They think twice about bringing young little kids without the parents' permission on these school trips.
It's disgusting.
Okay, Sue Ann, I'm very happy the Premier is condemning this farce.
But here's, but as Clara Peller, the old spokeswoman once upon a time, used to say at Wendy's, where's the beef?
In other words, Sue Ann, the only thing that would satisfy a lot of people who are also disgusted by what happened is that heads should roll.
And the Ministry of Education has the power to dissolve school boards that have completely gone off the rails.
And that would include the Toronto District School Board.
Now, Jill Dunlop, the current minister, she's brand new, but we've seen over the years, Stephen Lecce, I think, Sue Ann, I want to get your opinion.
I think this guy was an absolute cowardly disgrace.
He couldn't even get that outrageous shop teacher, Busty Lemieux, to leave his fake Zed Cup boobs at home.
He would literally run away from journalists or parents when it came to asking questions.
And this is a party that back in 2018, they ran against the radicalized education.
I would say now in 2024, Sue Ann, education in Ontario is more radicalized than it was six years ago.
But Zwan, can we expect to see the current minister of education, Jill Dunlop, come in and have heads roll?
Well, if we keep the pressure up, I mean, the media has to keep the pressure up.
Parents, parents, and I can't emphasize how much parents have to keep the pressure up.
They're disgusted.
They're absolutely disgusted.
I think there's been a point of no return at this point.
But you're right about Stephen Lecce.
He let a lot of things slide over the years.
I remember when the Tories first came in, and I said, you've got to clean out that ministry.
You have all these radical, woke, anti-black racism types in the ministry from the Kathleen Wynne era, and you've got to clean them out.
But they didn't.
And they were responsible, actually, those ministry people for putting Colleen Russell Rollins into that board.
And she absolutely ruined that board, I have to say, unequivocally.
So, you know, that was a time.
She's out.
She's on vacation.
She's technically left the building.
Jill Dunlop can make a big, big impact if she comes down very solidly and says, we're taking over that board.
Bring in a supervisor and not a woke supervisor.
Somebody who can bring that board back to a board that embraces learning and academics, not social justice, and, you know, set a strong example.
And I think those teachers who were involved in the protest could be put on leave or fired or put before the Ontario College of Teachers.
I mean, it's heartbreaking to see what has happened to the school system.
And, Sue Anne, in your estimation, if Premier Ford, if Minister Dunlop took a strong stance, is that a political win?
Because I think most parents, most Ontarians, they're on side.
They're sick and tired of schools being used as indoctrination mills as opposed to places of education.
So what say you?
Is that a political win for them?
Well, you and I believe that.
I certainly believe that.
That's the conservative way.
But I guess, you know, Doug Ford is known to govern by what the pollsters say.
And unfortunately, the radical left is very loud.
They are a minority, but they're very loud.
And I think it would be a tremendous win.
I think people who are on the fence right now who are disgusted by, you know, some of the things he's done as a premier, he's governed from the middle/slash left instead of being true conservative, myself included, would be very, very proud and respect him more if he did something like this and took hold of the school system.
Because, you know, what is it, six years have gone by and that school system has just gotten worse and worse.
And believe me, Dave, the Toronto School Board sets the tone for the rest of the province.
So if other boards see that Toronto is being taken over, that there's some strong measures being taken, you might see some changes in the other boards.
Yeah, that would be nice, Sue Anne, because I'm almost at the point where I'd like to do a contest.
Worst school board in Ontario, worst school board in Canada.
I think in horse racing terms, it would be a photo finish.
There are so many awful school boards.
But in terms of a political win, you know, we always have to look at the silver lining and things and hope abounds as always.
And Sue Ann, in my district of Richmond Hill this summer, there was a by-election for a school board trustee for the York District school board.
And here's the good thing.
There was one candidate who ran on an unapologetically non-woke campaign, you know, completely against wokeism.
Guess what, Sue Ann?
He won in a landslide.
He received more votes than the other eight candidates combined.
It wasn't even close.
So if I'm an observer, if I'm Doug Ford, if I'm Jill Dunlop, I go, hey, look what happened in Richmond Hill.
This guy didn't, you know, pussyfoot around in terms of the wokeism, wants to go back to basics, wants to get indoctrination out of the class.
Well, there's your canary in the coal mine.
So why not go for it?
Yeah, unfortunately, the unions are very, very strong in the election race, and they put forward a slate of candidates.
You only have to look at what has happened at Toronto City Hall with Olivia Chow and Progress Toronto, which is a lefty organization.
And they work overtime.
The conservatives are not that well organized.
So I saw the beginnings of that in the last election race where some moms groups and conservative groups and back to basics groups were starting to coalesce.
But they have to do far, far more to overcome the domination of the unions because they have the resources and they put in these crazy people who have no idea what they're doing, are just woke.
They respond to the unions.
I mean, I could name every single school board trustee on that Toronto school board as being affiliated with the unions, except for two, two of them.
Well, three of them, actually.
Well, Sue Anne, I would say this.
I think it's high time in Canada that Mama and Papa Bear wake up.
And I go back to a couple of years ago, what happened in Virginia.
As you know, Suann, being a school board trustee, that is the lowest level in our democracy, right?
There's school board trustee, then city councilor, then provincial MPP, then MP.
And what we saw in Virginia was so many parents packing school board meetings.
They were sick and tired of critical race theory, of radical transgenderism.
And it eventually led to regime change in that state.
The governor went from Democrat to Republican.
So I guess what I'm saying, if you get engaged at even the lowest level, it can lead to profound changes.
Your thoughts.
You know, I wrote about this in the States.
Moms for Liberty.
They're, you know, they're described as this really right-wing, crazy, but they're not.
They're moms who care about their kids and about what's happening at the school boards.
I went to one of their meetings when I was down in Florida.
They're just ordinary people.
And we need that sort of thing.
I keep preaching this.
We need this sort of thing in Ontario.
And I saw it in the last elections, the start of it, but it wasn't as well organized as it could be.
And I've actually given people advice about how to go about forming these organizations because it is sorely needed.
Well, at the end of the day, Sue Ann, let's leave it at this.
I don't think an apology is enough.
I think the people behind this, their heads should roll.
I am not hopeful of this.
The ball is in Jill Dunlop's court.
Let's see if she has the fortitude that her predecessor, Stephen Lecce, did not have.
Last word goes to you, Sue Ann.
Yes, and you know, they got to tackle that Toronto Elementary Teachers Union.
They're toxic.
They're absolutely toxic, except for a couple people.
But there's a VP named Nigel Barif.
I'm going to put that out there.
That guy has been tweeting such anti-Israel rhetoric.
He's an anti-black racism type.
He's on the board of the anti-hate, anti-hate hate network.
You know, Bernie Farber's little pet project.
And they just, this is what is the, he was involved in this.
And this is what's driving this.
These crazy radical Jew haters.
I'm going to say it, Jew haters.
100%, Sue Ann.
This is allegedly a conservative government we have in Ontario with a super majority.
There is no excuse whatsoever to let this go by the wayside.
Thank you so much.
How do we get a hold of your excellent journalism, Sue Ann?
TNC.news.
Just go.
Unfortunately, I did another story the other day about Trump derangement syndrome, and I had to move and block it out to put it on social media because, of course, our censorship rules don't allow us to post this stuff, as you well know.
Unbelievable.
Well, anyway, Sue Ann, you keep fighting the fight.
You're welcome back here anytime.
Thank you so much.
Well, folks, our recent report regarding a 50-year-old educational assistant, Wendy Washek, who was charged with assault with a weapon for accidentally squirt-gunning a neighbor.
Well, as you can imagine, it got a ton of feedback, most of it incredulous.
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Larry Dugan writes: 11 shootings in Toronto on the preceding weekend, and they bagged the water gun lady.
Oh, I'm with you, Larry.
Listen, whatever happened to officers' discretion, it was clearly an accident.
A man cutting his lawn on a hot summer day got a bit of H2O on him, and that's worthy of an assault with a weapon charge.
Give me a break.
BPM Chen writes: that neighbor should be fined and billed for all his dumb non-emergency nuisance calls that are needlessly hogging police resources and costing taxpayers lots of money.
He should also be sentenced to community service for an entire year.
You know, I could not agree with you more.
Folks, the backstory here, we spoke to several neighbors on and off camera.
And this individual who called the cops on Wendy, not a week goes by in which he doesn't call the cops on the most trivial matters, i.e., a kid's ball landing on his front lawn.
When you abuse the 911 service like that, it falls into the realm of mischief.
He should be charged.
The question is, why isn't he being charged?
We're going to try to find out in the days and weeks ahead.
Kevin White writes, here in the UK, you can run around waving a machete if you are of a certain ethnicity, but don't get caught waving a Union Jack flag if you're an Indigenous Brit.
You know, isn't that so profoundly sad?
The road the UK is going down.
And, you know, it speaks to the icon of Lady Justice, you know, holding the scales with the sword, with the blindfold on.
It's supposed to be one law for all of us.
Clearly, today in 2024, Lady Justice isn't wearing a blindfold.
She's wearing x-ray glasses.
And certain people, it would seem, get preference, whereas others have the book thrown at them.
Just such a sad, sad situation indeed.
Well, folks, that wraps up tonight's edition of the Ezra Event Show.
Ezra was in New York earlier today for an important assignment.