Ezra Levant critiques CBC’s climate coverage push by five former broadcasters—David Suzuki, Peter Mansbridge, Adrian Clarkson, Paul Kennedy, and Lyndon McIntyre—demanding daily reports and standardized language, despite Suzuki’s foreign-funded lobbying ties. On October 7th’s anniversary, Ofra Sixto describes Hamas’ atrocities (1,200 dead, 101 hostages still held) and Jewish community outrage over anti-Israel protests, including "from the river to the sea" chants. Meanwhile, Rebel News faces a frivolous Section 7 complaint from convicted litigant Jonathan Yaniv, exposing Canada’s weaponized censorship laws—Trudeau’s Bill C63 could worsen this by rewarding complainants up to $20,000. Levant ties media bias and legal threats to broader erosion of free speech ahead of BC’s election. [Automatically generated summary]
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David Suzuki, Peter Mansbridge, and other leftist fossils are mad at the CBC for not being left-wing enough.
It's October 8th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you you censorious bug this story the other day in the red star excuse me the toronto star Headline is, David Suzuki, Peter Mansbridge, and other prominent ex-broadcasters are calling out CBC.
Here's why.
And their sub-headline is, here's what David Suzuki says needs to be done to address an escalating crisis that affects us all.
Now, just stop for a moment.
Is David Suzuki a prominent ex-broadcaster?
Well, yes, I think he is, but he's much more than that, too, isn't he?
He runs a lobby group that bears his name, the David Suzuki Foundation, that lobbies for extremist environmentalist and socialist policies.
They proudly take donations from foreign donors to attack Canadian jobs.
Isn't that odd?
I've never seen Suzuki attack an OPEC country or China or Russia, by far the biggest polluters in the world, by far the biggest sources of oil in the world.
They just hate Canadian oil.
So yeah, he is a prominent ex-broadcaster, it's true, but he's also a foreign-funded political activist.
Weirdly, when he retired as a broadcaster on the CBC, they gave his show, The Nature of Things, to his utterly undistinguished daughter, Sarika Cullis Suzuki.
They just sort of gifted it to her.
Does anyone think for a second that if she didn't have his last name, that they wouldn't have given her his show as if it was some personal heirloom, personal property to grant to his children as he sees fit?
I mean, the CBC is rife with that kind of nepotism, but this is just sad.
Anyways, let's read a bit from the Toronto Star story.
Five eminent CBC alumni are urging the public broadcaster to deepen its coverage of the climate crisis in the face of an escalating civilizational threat.
Hang on, more coverage more than they already do?
As journalists, members of the CBC family, and as Canadians concerned about our future, we ask that the CBC treat the climate breakdown as an existential crisis and civilizational threat that it is, reads a copy of the letter obtained by the star.
Oh, they must have done a lot of digging for this.
Drafted by former broadcasters David Suzuki, Peter Mesridge, Adrian Clarkson, she's the former governor general too, Paul Kennedy, and Lyndon McIntyre, the call to action was delivered to Brody Fenlin, head of CBC News, on May 1st, 2023.
Attached were a raft of recommendations, including a daily climate emergency report for the broadcasters' flagship news and current affairs shows.
It's weird that they sent the letter a year and a half ago, and this is considered big news today.
Again, that's not really journalism, though.
That's lobbying.
Even the Toronto Star, by running this, is lobbying, aren't they?
And the five ex-journalists here are just lobbying the government broadcaster.
Why should their opinion count any more than the rest of us?
And by the way, Suzuki actually is a lobbyist.
Did he register to lobby the CBC?
I'm just kidding.
He never has in all his years at the CBC.
He really milked that.
He set up an outside organization to ring out donors, the David Suzuki Foundation, including foreign donors, and he tailored his CBC shows to serve the interests of his lobby group.
Highly unethical.
And this is really no different.
Who exactly is paying for this?
Because someone is.
David Suzuki does not work for free.
By the way, the timing here is impeccable.
Did I show you this the other day by pollster David Coletto of Abacus?
Those who say they are very concerned are concerned by age.
He's talking about climate change.
18 to 29 year olds, 44%.
30 to 44 years olds?
31%.
45 to 59 year olds?
38%.
60 plus years old?
50%.
He's showing how much people concern about global warming by age.
And he says, millennials are the least concerned about climate change.
Boomers are the most.
I think that's obvious.
Here's what I wrote in reply.
Worrying about global warming is a luxury good.
It's what you do when the rest of your life is going great.
So you need something fashionable to worry about.
When you can't afford a house, a car, or groceries, you have real concerns.
And a carbon tax makes them all worse.
By the way, here's the chart that Coleto published on this subject.
Just fascinating.
People say they care about global warming if you ask them because they know that's the official approved polite thing to say, fashionable thing to say, but they don't really mean it, of course.
I mean, what does it even mean to say you care about global warming?
If you say, if you ask someone, would you pay a carbon tax to change the weather?
How many would agree?
How many would think that's even a thing?
How many would think that's possible to change the weather with a tax other than Trudeau himself?
I mean, would you use a paper straw instead of a plastic straw to save the world?
Yeah, is that really all it takes to save the world?
People aren't that stupid.
The question itself is a junk question.
And conservatives, by the way, would be well advised to just ignore that question.
I know they're always asked it, especially by neutral moderators in debates.
Just ignore it.
I mean, I know the media are obsessed by it.
And as you can see, they want the CBC to go even harder on it, but don't.
I mean, no one means it.
No one means it if they're not being paid to believe that.
All right, back to the story in the star.
While the authors say they received a respectful response at the time, their request to meet was declined.
Good for the CBC.
Now, two scorching summers of extreme weather events later, the CBC's climate coverage remains inadequate, they say.
Things are getting more and more urgent, Suzuki, longtime host of The Nature of Things, said in an interview with The Star.
The ex-broadcaster's full letter has been made public and is available on this website.
Wow, that's amazing.
Good investigative journalism, Star.
In a statement to The Star, a spokesman for CBC noted the broadcaster recently, quote, redoubled our focus on climate journalism, citing a blog post by Fenlin in 2021.
In an update earlier this year, Fenlin provided an update on the broadcaster's climate initiatives, including a new special project called Overheated, establishing a national climate unit, launching the CBC News' climate dashboard, and creating a dedicated space on its website and news app for climate coverage.
Quote, while CBC is ramping up more climate programs, it's just not enough.
It's not proportional to the degree of the threat we now confront with climate, Suzuki said.
Really?
I mean, how many more years can you keep saying that the end of the world is nigh?
And how do you do it with a straight face after literally decades of falsely crying wolf?
I mean, how many times have these charlatans said there would be no more snow?
That LA and New York would be drowned in water as the sea levels rise, that Canada would become a desert, or whatever they said.
I mean, people are tuning out, especially now that we have real crises to care about, and the carbon tax makes them all worse.
I'm not going to read the whole story.
It is so long and so boring.
But then again, the Toronto Star has its own conflict of interest.
They took money from the U.S.-based lobby group, the Tides Foundation, to pay for extremist alarmist climate journalism.
They took money to promote climate alarmism from a foreign charity, if you want to call that what Tides is.
But get a load of this, just for example, talk about misinformation.
I'm quoting the story again.
It cites a 2022 study that found just 55% of more than 4,000 Canadians correctly answered that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the primary cause of climate change.
Yeah, but that's actually not true.
Water vapor is by far the greatest greenhouse gas.
And of course, the sun's activities are the most direct determinant.
But you can't really call for a carbon tax on the ocean or on the sun now, can you?
I'll read some more.
Canadians need to understand the severity of the crisis, but also hear about credible solutions to confront it to stave off climate fatalism, as well as an interrogation of unproven solutions that could delay climate mitigation, the later reads.
Like I say, their doomsday predictions have failed.
Their science is junk.
I think they're causing a lot of anxiety in young people, but I think most young people just tune them out, as Coletto's poll shows.
But look, even if these skies falling types were right, what exactly are the credible solutions that they have?
There's not a single study or projection ever that suggests that even if we do all the things proposed by Suzuki or the United Nations or whomever, that global warming will be stopped, let alone reversed.
Global warming is an extremely slow, steady phenomenon that has been happening almost imperceptibly since we emerged from the last ice age.
I mean, you've heard of the ice age, ice age.
You know, we're not really in one now.
We're emerging from it.
It's natural.
It happened far before we could blame cars.
It's got nothing to do with us as people.
I know vanity suggests it does.
There's nothing we can do to stop it.
Show me a study to the contrary.
That's why you hear politicians like Trudeau talk about climate action or combating climate change.
They love the process, the action, the taxes, the rules, the schemes, the government grants, the lobbyists.
They are wise never to say they'll actually stop climate change or make a difference.
They'd have as much luck combating sunshine or combating the oceans.
That's why they talk about climate action, not climate results.
Anyways, let me show you what these ex-journalists want, or rather, what their funders and secret clients want.
Quote, develop a daily climate emergency report to be embedded in CBC's flagship local, national, and current affairs shows, including all local morning radio programs and national shows.
You know what?
I've been thinking about this for about a day.
And every time I get to this part, I think I actually support this.
I know that sounds crazy, but I don't know if you read the CBC's annual reports I do.
Every year, the CBC's audience falls, which is incredible given that Canada's population grows and the CBC's budget is at an all-time high.
Imagine if they had this climate craziness.
Like, imagine in every local broadcast, in every regional broadcast, on every—I just read it to you.
Imagine if every single news show, they had climate emergency.
You know, it would be so crazy, so batty, that whatever viewership they had would just say, yeah, you guys are a little cuckoo.
So yeah, actually, can I sign this?
Can I be the sixth name signing on this letter too?
I'll just read one more of their proposed solutions.
Develop and implement climate and environment-specific standards and language to be enshrined within CBC's journalistic standards and practices, similar to recent actions taken by The Guardian.
That's a left-wing newspaper in the UK.
But sorry, that's not journalism.
Saying you're not allowed to say certain words or have people with different opinions, that's a political party, you know, with party discipline.
That's not journalism.
To tell people the exact words they have to say and the exact thoughts they have to think, that is Maoist propaganda.
It's not journalism.
I'll read one more.
Provide training on basic climate science, policy, and best practices for climate communication to every journalist across beats.
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Really?
So maybe work a climate angle into the Hamas terrorist report or something.
Like I say, these are crazy people, and I support everything they say.
Look, I'm not going to read the rest of it.
Other than the last line in the star story.
We know the CBC is under attack.
We know that public broadcasting is significantly underfunded in Canada to fulfill this critical purpose.
But we also know that Canadians who depend on the CBC, including ourselves, will defend it, especially if you give people what they need and continue to adapt to our changing planet.
You know, again, I can't disagree with them.
They're right.
The CBC is indeed under attack by people who don't watch it, who don't like it, who are disparaged and disrespected by it, but who are still forced to fund it.
I'm not forced to fund Netflix or Disney.
If they disparage me too much, I'll cancel.
But I am forced to fund the CBC.
Of course, most Canadians just ignore it.
When I say that 99% of Canadians don't watch CBC news, I am not exaggerating.
The audience for their flagship news program is less than 300,000 people on any given day in a country of 42 million souls.
15 years ago, they had a million people on a regular basis watch that show.
So most people ignore the CBC.
People who care about paying the bills and meeting their budgets, they hate it.
They resent it.
But look, let me end on a positive note here.
The five people who signed this letter, let's be honest, they have a lot of sway with the establishment.
I mean, they're all multi-millionaires.
Suzuki has a big connection with foreign funders, probably foreign governments who want to hobble our oil industry to promote theirs.
Adrian Clarkson used to be the governor general.
I mean, she could get her phone call answered by just about anybody.
So why don't these five super people who are better than us, why don't they buy the CBC?
There's nothing crazy about that idea.
Pierre Polyev says he's going to defund it.
These five busybodies say they have big plans for it.
Isn't this a case of one plus one equals three?
Like, can't everyone be a winner here?
Sell the CBC to these five at a cheap price, frankly.
Basically, what's the value of the CBC?
They've got great real estate in Canada.
They've got some good equipment.
And that's about all I can think of.
So give them the gift of all the intellectual property, like all the old shows and stuff.
Just let them run the thing.
Just give it to them for the price of the real estate.
I mean, they'd instantly have a $1.5 billion a year shortfall.
But look, they're good business people.
David Suzuki could probably whip them into shape.
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I mean, he's a socialist for us, but he knows how to make money.
Let these five create the environmentalist monster they propose with their own money, and they'd probably get donations from OPEC and others.
Just get us off the hook as taxpayers.
Let these five busybodies preach to the deep green wackos out there while the rest of us watch something else more interesting and more honest.
Stay with us.
Moorhead.
We're here with Rebel News on October 7th.
Of course, that means that's the one-year anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israeli people.
An attack that claimed 1,200 lives.
It took hundreds of hostages.
Over 100 are still taken to this day.
And there is a vigil taking place right behind me at the Shard Edict Synagogue on Oak Street.
I'm going to give you more in just a moment.
October 7th now represents the most atrocious attack against Jews since the Holocaust.
But it depends on who you ask that is.
Right now, in fact, in Vancouver, just not too far away, there was a demonstration at the Vancouver Art Gallery, an anti-Israel demonstration put up for the one-year anniversary of what they're calling a year of genocide.
But anybody who can follow a timeline knows that this time, last year, Israel wasn't even on the defensive yet.
It was a horrific massacre that took place.
And look at this poster you see here representing, in my opinion, that massacre.
You see hang glider terrorists on here for a so-called teach-in on October 7th.
How horrific is that?
That is being hosted by a group called Samadone, a group that, by the way, is listed as a terrorist organization in other countries, but not in Canada.
In Canada, they are free to do demonstrations, protests, and teach people on the anniversary of all things of the Hamas attack.
And actually, let's look at a key player there.
Her name is Charlotte Keat.
Now she's one of the main protest organizers for that group and she's done many demonstrations.
This is actually her here talking about the anniversary from Madrid.
So we see the fascist newspaper saying we are here to celebrate the 7th of October.
Well yes, we are here to celebrate the 7th of October.
Absolutely horrific.
Now I'm here today.
What's standing out to me is the amount of security that are here.
We've been asked as media to respectfully give people their space.
So I'm not really showing the lineup, but there's been lineups of people.
They have to go through metal detectors on both sides.
There are heavily armed police.
There are lots of security.
And there is right behind me a Vancouver Police Department public safety trailer that has this crazy camera set up to make sure anything that could go wrong is captured.
We are the Black Panthers.
We are the Double Tigers.
We are Ellen Farr.
We are the Zapatistas.
We are the FLN.
We are Hezbollah!
Israel, burn, burn.
Palestinians in return.
Palestinia will return.
It's an innate data state.
It's an data state.
By the way, this synagogue is no stranger to acts of hate against it since the Hamas terrorist attack.
You can see here they had sort of a fire bomb or whatever thrown at them.
So I've spoken to some people today, including some of a representative from the organizers.
This vigil is being organized by the Vancouver Jewish Federation.
It's the Jewish Federation, but the Vancouver sector of it, and also by the Rabbinical Association.
So I speak to one of those leaders and a few other people here about while they're here.
But some of the people who weren't comfortable going on camera told me they're frightened.
They're here, they're standing strong, but they are concerned that at any moment someone could drive and do God knows what to them.
So there is that aspect of fear.
I also saw some politicians have entered.
I saw a group of conservative MLA candidates.
I saw the MLA.
Well, the election's been called.
So the former MLA, who is not rerunning, he's with the BC United.
Michael Klock is here.
I saw the Vancouver mayor, Ken Sim, is here.
I hear that the Conservative Party leader, John Rustad, is also inside.
And I'm not sure if David Eby is here or not, but the election is one of the things I want to ask people here today.
What are their thoughts?
Both leaders, John Rusted and David Eby, said a statement, of course, on the anniversary.
But Mr. Rusted took it a little further.
He said if he forms government, he will basically be calling for more action to be taken against people who are doing calls of genocide for the Jews, you know, from the river to the sea or in Tifada, especially if they're not even Canadians.
He thinks that legal action should be taken there.
So he took it a little farther.
Are they noticing?
I don't know.
Here's what they had to say.
Again, I'm not going in, but we have been giving permission to show you little clips throughout the rest of this report about what took place from their live stream.
Hi, John Rustad here.
I'm out in front of the art gallery where last night a mob came and burnt a Canadian flag, threatened Canadians, threatened the United States, threatened Jewish people.
I find this sort of violence completely unacceptable.
This sort of hate should have no place in British Columbia.
And we've had a premier who is silent on this.
He refuses to crack down on this in British Columbia.
This is unacceptable to us.
A Conservative government will make sure we crack down on this type of hate.
There is no place for that in British Columbia.
All right, beside me is Ezra Shankin.
He's the CEO of the Jewish Federation for the Vancouver branch.
Why was it important to go ahead and prepare all of this for today, aside from obvious reasons?
You know, I think that we're dealing with a community that's under enormous trauma.
This is a continuing thing for our Jewish community.
We're not in post-trauma.
We're in active trauma.
And so when we're in these situations, we want to be able to come together, want to be able to support each other, show each other love, and that's what we're doing.
Now, there is the atrocities that occurred on October 7th, but in many ways we were affected in Canada directly.
We lost eight Canadians to the terror attack.
There are still some hostages that haven't been returned.
But there's also this fight right on Canadian soil, a belief that it is wrong to continue on with this war.
What are your thoughts on that?
What would you want to say to people about that?
You know, look, I think that we mourn every innocent life that's lost.
And, you know, I actually have a point of pride that I represent a community that I cannot tell you anybody in our community that has celebrated the loss of innocent lives, collateral damage in a very challenging war for the state of Israel.
You know, I can't speak to when this ends.
I don't have control over that, but I'll tell you who does.
Hamas has control over it.
They could end the war right this very second by letting the Palestinian people go free and letting our hostages go free.
It is time for them to be done in Gaza.
And unfortunately, it took this entire time and all these lost lives to prove that to them.
And I feel, I just feel heartbroken that we're a year later and Sinwar is just continuing to hold on.
And, you know, he won't let these innocent people leave and he won't give up.
And, you know, but I have to give high praise to the Israeli military for doing the best that they can in a really terrible situation.
And at the same time, I continue to hope for a better future for Palestinians.
One free from Hamas and Hezbollah and all of these death cults that have continued to plague them for generations.
Now, is there anything you feel about this conflict that is maybe misreported or underreported by the media?
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Is there anything the media is getting wrong?
You know, I'm always saying like there's the individual stories of those who have been impacted that I always would love to see more of.
These are, you know, within our community, these are real human lives that have been changed.
I also think that we have people being touched by this every single day and finding ways to create a deeper connection to them and how it is that they're going through this.
I think that that's something that I always hope that we're doing the best.
I do the best that I can to try to tell those stories in a way that's meaningful for those who are viewing, those who are engaging online or on television or on radio, whatever we can do.
British Columbians are heading to the polls in less than two weeks.
And of course, this has been a topic both.
We have the incumbent premier who came out, David E. V, and said something about today as well.
We had John Rustad, the contender from the Conservative, come out and say that he would even sort of push for there to be a crackdown on anybody who is celebrating October 7th and doesn't live here.
What's your thoughts on how this has been covered by the political government?
Is there a preference between the two parties?
Yeah, you know, one, we're completely nonpartisan.
I would say that it is deeply important that there is leadership on this subject.
What we have learned over the last 12 months is that if we don't set clear lines, then people walk all over us.
And I know that for so many Canadians, you know, when we look at the polling, there is a deep amount of concern around the incredible increase in anti-Semitism and in the workplace no less, you know, and we're seeing that over two-thirds of British Columbians, you know, polled are saying this is a real serious thing that needs to stop.
I think that, unfortunately, we're living in a time where, you know, we really, really need clear, defined lines of behavior.
Right now, at the same time as we're meeting here, embracing each other in love, we have a group of people down at the art gallery that are getting together to celebrate the rape and burning and killing of innocent people.
I've never seen that in our community.
I can't imagine being that.
And these are our fellow Canadians.
This is what we want our Canadian society to be.
Our political leadership have to continue to be really clear, but they also have to give our law enforcement tools.
They have to work on plans, and we need to be cracking down on people who step out of line.
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And last question.
What can you tell us about the spirit of the community on this day?
I mean, the vigil, that's planned hasn't happened yet, but what are the words?
There's lots of security here.
Is there fear or are they holding together strong?
I think we're stronger than we've ever been.
I think we're stronger than we've ever been.
I've seen today, I have seen friends of Ben Mizrahi stand up and tell their lived experience that I lost my best friend on October 7th.
I've sun them with strength.
I've seen students at the University of British Columbia who have faced off against some of the most virulent, anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic activities on that campus, standing up and speaking their truth.
I've seen young kids getting together and singing together and a fountain inaugurated that's being called the Mayim Hatikva Fountain, the Waters of Hope Fountain.
You know, I think that we are stronger than we've ever been.
And I say this all the time.
If their object is to make us weak, they are failing.
If their object is to make us globally weak, they are failing.
We are stronger than we've ever been.
And we are prouder than we've ever been for who we are and the good things that we bring to this world.
Well, there you have that.
That was Ezra Shankin with the Jewish Federation, the Vancouver branch in particular, sharing his words today.
There is going to be a live stream for the vigil.
They've asked out of respect for the people who are grieving that media, no media, go inside today.
And of course, we're going to respect that.
They want the people to be able to grieve without it being twisted in any way, which of course we wouldn't have done.
Now, I just saw Daphna walking by here.
You're one of the organizers of the Bring Them Home rallies that take place in Vancouver because there are still over 100 hostages.
101 hostages.
We've been rallying the streets of Vancouver for the past 52 weeks, every Sunday, 2 p.m.
It's kind of a ritual already.
So until they're all back, we're still there at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
And so how does it feel then?
I know I've been and I've covered some of those rallies.
It's focused on that, bringing them home.
But there are other rallies where you hear people chanting, almost celebrating October 7th and the war in some aspects.
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What do you make of that?
It's just devastating.
I think a lot of people don't really know the details.
It's not just a Jewish-Israeli issue.
It's really a humanitarian issue because people were abused, people were hurt, people were raped, kids were, I can't even describe in words.
I think now more and more is showing up.
We're seeing more and more videos from them that they didn't want to expose.
But horrific things.
I mean, every human being with a bit of a compassion and soul realizes that horrific things happened.
And I cannot see a reason for a human being to support any kind of cruelty.
It was cruel.
And not even on the anniversary is their separation right at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
There's still an anti-Israel demonstration planned.
Did you want to add?
I'm saying, don't get me wrong, I understand that it's not only us on our side suffering, the other side is suffering, but the humanitarian is on both sides.
They have to see both sides.
And actually, the point is to reach a hand, to reach for peace, and not just think who's going to win.
Because there's no win in wars.
No one wins when we're in war.
Now, speaking of sides, we're heading into an election here in less than two weeks.
You have the incumbent NDP party and the contenders, the Conservative Party of BC.
What's it like in the community?
Is there any favoritism on how this issue is being handled by either of them?
I'm not so much involved within the community.
I guess everyone is to his own, and even if they did choose on something, it may be not something that they would share.
I think time would speak.
I mean, we'll see how things happen.
What about yourself?
Any personal opinions?
Just as long as we're talking of humanity and we're talking about caring and we're talking about fighting anti-Semitism and education and everywhere, and then I'll go for that candidate.
Now, I want to ask about perhaps what you feel are some of the misconceptions about this conflict, whether you see it in media or social media, anything that people are not understanding or getting wrong about the issue.
I think they're connecting a lot of issues together, like anti-Semitism and fighting in Gaza.
And they're not looking at the central factories that there was a terror attack on the 7th of October.
That's where it started.
And once they realized what it started, just think if it happened in Canada, let's say on the border between, let's say, USA, Mexico, through the Mexican border, would they expect, let's say we were American, not to go through, not to try and free those hostages, or just sit around and not do anything?
The thing is, when it's ongoing, everyone wants to be right and you forget where it started.
It started on the 7th of October.
From that attack, but I know there's been issues all along.
So the only way to solve this is through the diplomacy, in my opinion, and not through fighting.
Now, I asked you this question off-camera, but I'm sure the viewers want to know: how are you doing on this one-year anniversary?
What is the mood?
What is the spirit of the people?
It's not great at all.
There's a big, big cry.
I mean, it's so painful.
There's so many orphans, there's so many on both sides.
It's such a great, huge devastation.
You cannot overcome that.
And you see it both sides.
I mean, nobody wants orphanage.
I cannot describe it in words.
It's just very, very, very painful.
Very painful.
All right.
Well, I hope you get, I don't even know what the word is, to grieve well tonight and come out stronger together as a community.
Thanks, Staffna.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
All right, this is Ofra Sixto.
Now, we've interviewed you before.
You've sold your restaurant now, but many attacks.
If you look up her name in Rebel News, you'll see the acts of hate or attacks of hate you were getting.
But let's talk about this anniversary.
How does it feel?
What's the mood now that you're going in there and just remembering what's happened in a year?
Drea, let me tell you this.
I was just talking with my friends and I said, we can never comprehend what these people are going through.
The hostages and the families.
Unless we have a hostage, unless we are a hostage, unless we lost somebody, we could never understand and know and feel what these people are feeling.
And it breaks my heart the whole day.
I had to work today, but I was in such a somber mood.
I couldn't smile.
I couldn't, my job needed me to smile.
And I couldn't do it.
My heart is breaking for these people.
And it has been like that from day one.
And this is why I fight so hard for Israel.
And there was some silver lining that happened to me personally.
If you remember the people who came and took the flag down, they are going to court, Drea.
They're charging them with hate crime and theft.
Okay, well, today is December 17th.
Okay, well, I'll be there for sure to see how that's going.
Let's talk about how things are being handled.
So that's a silver lining.
We have the election coming up.
We have two sides.
Can you give us any insight on what the Jewish community is thinking there?
Are they picking sides or is it up in the air?
So I think the majority is going with conservative.
I think we've had it with the liberals and their empty promises and their two-faced notions of feeling about Israel.
One day they say we support Israel on the other side, and another day they would say, stop the war.
You cannot.
You cannot take two sides.
You're either here or there.
Well, let's talk about that.
There are many people who believe, okay, enough is enough.
It's been a year.
The war should be stopped.
And they often point to Israel when they say that.
What do you make of that?
So let me tell you something that I have heard.
When they fight, it's a war.
When we fight back, it's a war crime.
Can you explain this to me?
Neither can I.
We have to fight.
And in the Middle East, there is only one way to win the game.
And it's not a game, it's a war.
There's only one way to win that war.
And it is to fight with their own weapon.
Now, even as we stand here, there's a demonstration that was set up not too far away at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
On the anniversary, they're calling it one year of genocide.
I mean, Israel was still on the offense at this time.
What do you make of the people who in some ways seem to be celebrating October 7th or doing chants that are anti-Israel in remembrance of this anniversary?
It's shameful.
They should forever be shameful for how they treat this war, for how quick they forgot that Israel did not start this war, that we lost babies, women, men, old people, young people.
In one day, 1,200 people were murdered, butchered, raped.
Babies were put in oven, Drea.
Jonathan Yaniv's Nuisance Suit00:15:33
Can you even understand it?
So I say, I think it's the civilized world who fights barbarism.
And this is something that you cannot fight because on one hand, we have civilized people who think we can make peace, we can live in harmony, everything is good.
On the other side, who say, let's kill them, let's genocide them, let's finish them from the river to the sea, et cetera, et cetera.
Everything that comes out of their mouth is about killing Jews and the Western world.
And just now there was a protest on Robson Street.
And you know what they were shouting?
There is only one solution in Tefi.
The resolution.
Do you know what it means?
It means a lot of dead Jews.
It means a lot of dead Jews.
We cannot accept it.
We've been here 5,000 years and we will be here 5,000 more and more.
Right?
because I think good always wins.
You're not gonna believe this, but Rebel News was just hit with a new hate speech complaint by one of Canada's out of control human rights tribunals.
Please watch this video till the end and share it far and wide because I'll show you how you can help us fight back.
So what you're doing is you are putting Rebel News on trial because Jonathan Yaniv says our editorials violate the law.
Nigger, fuck you.
Will you be pleading guilty?
Let go.
No, don't touch me.
Don't touch me.
Hey, you're in the kill.
Stop.
Get away from me.
Go away.
Are you away?
What the fuck?
Go away.
That's a song.
Go away.
You just smashed your cane over my head.
Rebel media.
What about your thing?
Rebel media.
Hey!
Okay, keep your hands off me.
Do you have any weapons on you?
Go away.
Don't touch me.
Don't back touch me.
Get out.
Stay away from me.
Get out.
Go away.
Go.
Back off.
Go.
Go.
Do you have anything to say to Mr. Punk's family?
Go.
Back off.
Go.
Back off.
You know what f ⁇ ed off means?
Control your dog.
Don't threaten me.
But why are you allowing him to use the Human Rights Tribunal, which is meant to protect people from being kicked out of an apartment or protect people from being fired for racism?
Why are you letting him use that to silence journalists?
The bar to be having that complaint accepted and moving forward to screen it in.
It merely needs to allege a violation of the Human Rights Code.
This Human Rights Tribunal is targeting our news reports about a transgender bully named Jonathan Yaniv, calling our news reports hate speech and threatening us with huge fines and a publication ban.
I'll show you the full complaint.
I also phoned up the Human Rights Tribunal investigator who sent me the complaint, and I recorded that conversation.
He told me some astonishing things.
I'll play some of that recording for you in a moment because I want you to see just how bad it is.
You can see the full complaint against us and listen to my full conversation with that investigator at a special website I've set up called repealsection7.com.
That's because section 7 is the part of the human rights code that gives them the power to censor journalists.
I hope you agree we've got to repeal section 7.
This has happened to me before, by the way.
In a famous case almost 20 years ago, I was prosecuted by another Human Rights Commission for republishing the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in a magazine I ran back then.
I was investigated and prosecuted for 900 days by more than a dozen government bureaucrats and lawyers just for showing our readers the cartoons that it were the center of the international news story.
Back then, I brought a video camera into my interrogation because I knew no one would believe me if I told them the government was interrogating me about our journalism.
Here, take a quick look at what it was like.
Now, I was in my 30s back then and much more handsome.
I'm here at this interrogation under protest.
It is my position that the government has no legal or moral authority to interrogate me or anyone else for publishing these words and pictures.
That is a violation of my ancient and inalienable freedoms.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and in this case, religious freedom and the separation of mosque and state.
It is especially perverted that a bureaucracy calling itself the Alberta Human Rights Commission would be the government agency violating my human rights.
So I will now call those bureaucrats the Commission or the HRC, since to call the Commission a Human Rights Commission is to destroy the meaning of those words.
Well, I'm in my 50s now, and it's happening to me all over again.
Back then, it was for publishing cartoons.
Now it's for publishing news reports about Jonathan Yaniv, Canada's worst transgender activist, a predator, a convicted criminal who targets children.
Yaneve claims to be a woman and goes by the name Jessica Simpson now.
You probably have seen the guy before.
He's out of control and he wants to stop us from reporting on what he's doing.
He first came to public attention when he would book appointments with female aestheticians to get a bikini wax.
He pretended to be a woman when he booked those appointments, but then he'd show up and demand that those women wax his balls.
He still had his male genitalia.
And if any of those women refused, Yaniv took them to the BC Human Rights Tribunal, the same agency coming for me now.
He targeted those women.
He extorted them.
He demanded they touch his junk or he'd sue them in front of the kangaroo court.
He's disgusting.
But actually, it's the Human Rights Tribunal that's worse.
They agreed to go after those women for him and to do so under a veil of secrecy.
They're awful.
Those are some of the things we reported about him doing.
We also showed that he was a total fraud.
For example, he pretended to be disabled so he could get free stuff, including free taxis around Vancouver.
That's one of the things he's trying to force us to stop reporting about him.
So that's the guy who's now taking me to the Human Rights Tribunal.
By the way, this sort of shakedown is going to happen a lot more in Canada when Justin Trudeau passes the national censorship bill called Bill C63.
It's before Parliament right now, by the way.
Right now, the censorship provision is only in a few provinces in Canada, BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, but Trudeau wants to make it national.
And his Bill C63 will launch a flood of these complaints because it pays up to $20,000 to any crank, any bully, any left-wing activist for making complaints like this.
It's going to target anyone who dares to criticize things like out-of-control immigration or transgender madness or really anything.
It's a giant canceled culture machine that rewards nuisance complaints.
So to be precise, I'm being prosecuted under Section 7 of the BC Human Rights Code, which says it's illegal to publish anything that's, quote, likely to expose a person to hatred or contempt.
It's hard to believe that law is even on the books.
It's not even a thought crime.
It's a feelings crime.
If anything you say might cause someone to feel the emotion of hate or contempt, you lose the case.
Truth is not a defense, of course.
A lot of true things cause hard feelings.
That's life.
And just showing Jonathan Yaniv's vicious conduct is going to make a lot of people feel contempt for him.
Here he is just a few weeks ago using the most atrocious racist epithets to attack our reporter Drea in Vancouver, who happens to be black.
Get a load of this guy.
Fuck you.
I have a picture of your kid on here, by the way.
You want to see it?
Like that, Drea?
Yeah, can you believe that racist, bigoted bully actually complained to the Human Rights Commission about us?
But the truly incredible part is that the Human Rights Tribunal took his complaint, a kooky, nutty complaint written in all capital letters and said, yes, this really is something we should spend public resources on.
Let's go censor a news company.
Check out his complaint.
It's absolutely nuts.
I've posted the whole thing at that website, repealsection7.com.
And look at this.
Yanieve filed this complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal back in March of 2021, three and a half years ago, and yet they just sent it to us now.
That's how efficiently they work at the Human Rights Tribunal.
They're so stupid.
I phoned up the Human Rights Bureaucrat who sent this complaint to me, Daniel Varnals is his name.
And I asked him about the delay and I asked him if they knew that Yaniv was a nuisance litigant who just abused the legal system to harass people.
I mentioned that he had filed a nuisance lawsuit against us in a real court, and that court threw it out as a junk lawsuit that it was.
Here's a few snippets from that phone call.
We're very familiar with this complainant because he's a serial, vexatious litigant.
He sued us in court last year, and we applied for an anti-slap application.
Do you know what SLAP stands for?
Strategic litigation against public participation.
So he filed this nuisance suit against us.
We went to the court and the court threw out the case saying that the complainant was just doing it to be abusive and vexatious.
Are you aware of that?
I'm aware of some of the background of this individual, but I'm not, no, I'm not aware of that specific.
Okay, because it's pretty clear to me that this is just another nuisance suit.
And since this was filed three and a half years ago, when I was a young man still, several courts have weighed in on the complainant, not just the anti-slap litigation that we won, but just a few weeks ago, we went to court to remove a false publication ban that this plaintiff had managed to convince a judge to put over some,
he was harassing some guy and managed to convince a court to put a publication ban on it.
We went to court and had the judge lift the publication ban, and the court thanked us for it because this complainant is such a serial nuisance litigant.
So the reason I'm calling you is not just to say your complaint is very stale, but it's to point out that you are dealing with British Columbia's worst vexatious litigant.
He's abusive of legal processes.
He's using the BC Human Rights Tribunal as a weapon in a vendetta.
It's not a legitimate claim.
Various courts have slapped him down for abusing the system.
And I want to make sure you are aware of that because he's doing the same here.
What do you think about all that?
The tribunal is aware of some of what you're referencing.
Nonetheless, the complaint was reviewed and accepted for processing.
And it was served, and you received that service.
Can I ask who made the decision to go ahead with it?
Do you know?
Whoever screened the complaint is one of the tribunal has a screening process.
They review it and they determine, okay, is this set forth enough that the complaint can move forward?
And it's done by the tribunal.
There's a screening process that takes place.
I can't give you the name of that individual, but it was screened and determined that it should move forward.
We are a news organization.
We're not so.
And if you read the complaints, what Jonathan Yaniv is complaining about are news reports and editorial opinions expressed by our journalists.
We're not like a landlord who kicks him out or a restaurant who refused to serve him.
Like we didn't have any interaction with him that he would have a right to like rent a room or something.
He's using this system to complain against our freedom of speech.
You realize that, right?
You realize that, like, I have it in front of me here.
He claims we insulted him, and perhaps we did.
I'm not conceding anything.
I think we were just giving our genuine opinion.
But why are you allowing him to use the Human Rights Tribunal, which is meant to protect people from being kicked out of an apartment or protect people from being fired for racism?
Why are you letting him use that to silence journalists?
The bar to having that complaint accepted and moving forward to screen it in, it merely means to allege a violation of the human rights code.
This person has alleged a violation of the human rights code.
The file has been reviewed and determined that at least it alleges that.
And so it's going forward.
Obviously, we have to hire lawyers, which is part of the abuse here.
Yaniv doesn't have to hire a lawyer.
He just typed out his crazy manifesto in all capital letters, gave it to the government, and three and a half years later, they've decided to prosecute us with government lawyers.
We, on the other hand, have to hire lawyers by ourselves.
And even if we win, we don't get our legal fees back.
This is the template that Trudeau is going to roll out nationally.
And he's going to make it worse by actually paying people up to $20,000 per complaint.
We've got to fight back.
Can I please ask for your help?
I'm afraid I need it.
Yaniv is a kook, a total nut, a criminal, a predator, a racist, all of that.
But he somehow managed to convince the BC government's human rights tribunal to go after his enemies again and again.
Those poor estheticians, mainly immigrant women, were crushed by Yaniv.
Censorship Threat Exposed00:03:21
I refuse to be crushed by him.
We've got to stand up to this bully.
Please do three things.
Please go to repealsection7.com and read the complaint for yourself.
See how bizarre it is.
And listen to the recording of my conversation with the human rights officer who casually says, oh, yeah, he knows the complainant is a nut, but he doesn't care.
Listen to him say he could fine us or even ban us from publishing things he doesn't like.
So what you're doing is you are putting rebel news on trial because Jonathan Yaniv says our editorials violate the law.
So you're not claiming that we denied him a service or accommodation or anything.
You're just full out saying we're not allowed to say what we said.
I'm not saying anything.
I'm telling you, you can read that paragraph.
It says it is accepted to process it under the area of publication.
What should happen to me if I'm convicted here?
What are the penalties?
Do you know?
Well, there can be monetary compensation could conceivably be awarded to a complainant, some kind of order not to continue to cease the discriminatory actions.
What you mean, Jonathan, our story.
So you could order us not to talk about him anymore?
Well, not to discriminate, to cease the discrimination.
And share those shocking facts with your friends and family.
Secondly, while you're at that website, please sign our petition to repeal Section 7 of the law.
That's the censorship provision.
There's a provincial election on right now in BC, you know, and I think we could make this an election issue.
I bet the NDP premier loves censorship, but the Conservative Party challenger named John Rustad, he seems like a freedom-oriented guy.
And I think most Canadians are getting a little bit tired of all this censorship and political correctness.
And this could be a real winning issue for Rustad.
Point three, and this is a personal favorite of me.
Look, the last time I was prosecuted by a Human Rights Commission over the cartoons, it was a three-year battle that cost me around $100,000 in legal fees to fight back.
I hope this one won't be as costly, but there's no way it'll be less than $30,000.
And Yaniv has to pay nothing.
The government does all the prosecutions for him for free with government lawyers.
If you want to help, you can chip in right there at repealsection7.com.
This complaint is bad news.
But if it's a wake-up call to Canadians, if we listen to this alarm, then maybe there's a silver lining to it.
This is happening to me today at the hands of the BC Human Rights Tribunal.
But if we don't fight back now, this could soon happen to everyone as Trudeau expands this censorship across the country.
Please visit repealsection7.com now.
Our freedom depends on it.
A transgender extremist is taking rebel news to a human rights tribunal to ban us from reporting about how he bullies women.