Ezra Levant examines Harvard’s visa revocation by Trump over antisemitism and ties to CCP/Iranian-funded research, contrasting it with Canada’s lenient stance on hate speech—deporting only those convicted. He highlights elite U.S. universities’ pro-Hamas encampments, where DEI bureaucracies allegedly enable disruption, while Mark Carney’s anti-Israel letter, praised by Hamas, exposes political pandering. Meanwhile, Drea Humphrey reports on Canada’s ostrich culling controversy: 400 healthy birds marked for execution amid protests, drone sightings, and suspicious shootings, threatening farming, food sovereignty, and scientific freedom. [Automatically generated summary]
Very interesting move by Donald Trump to go after Harvard University by taking away its ability to accept international students.
He's banned them from issuing visas.
So a whole chunk of Harvard students are going to have to leave.
This is Trump's way of fighting anti-Semitism and other interference from China and Iran.
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Tonight, it's amazing watching Donald Trump take on anti-Semitism at Harvard University.
Why can't we do that in Canada?
It's May 23rd, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious thug.
I want to show you the latest in what Donald Trump has been doing to Harvard.
It's glorious.
It's amazing.
I'm so jealous.
I'll tell you about what he's doing in a moment.
First, let me remind you how opposite it is here in Canada.
I asked Pierre Polyev a question about a year ago.
If a foreign citizen, not a Canadian, but someone here as a guest, like a temporary foreign worker or an international student, and they're attending and participating in these anti-Semitic hate marches, would he deport them?
Honestly, I didn't like his answer.
He said only if they were convicted of a hate crime.
Here's the tape.
Hi, Mr. Polyev Ezra Levant from Rebel News.
You mentioned certain things that rise to the level of a crime, but there are many things that aren't quite at that level.
For example, people marching, calling for an intifada or using language that may not rise to the level of a criminal prosecution.
And you've said before that you respect freedom of speech even for odious views.
But what about people who are not Canadian citizens, who are foreign nationals, perhaps here on a student visa to go to our schools, and instead of studying at university, they're participating in these hate marches, intimidating people, Jewish restaurants, calling for the death of Jews.
Again, not criminal level, but these are foreign nationals.
Would you support canceling the visas and deporting foreign nationals who instead of doing what they came here to do, are spreading hate at these pro-Hamas rallies?
Thank you for your question.
You raise a number of different issues.
One, if someone comes here on a student visa and they're not actually a student, then on that basis alone, they should go home.
We don't want to have, one of the problems we have with the student visa program is that it has been used as a fraudulent point of entry, particularly for corrupt employers trying to get labor from abroad.
So in general, we believe that we should shut down all the fraud in the student visa program.
And anyone who claims to come here to study that is not actually studying should not be here.
With regards to protests, I do believe in freedom of speech.
I believe people should be allowed to say things I disagree with, even things that I find appalling.
That is the price of living in a free country.
The alternative is to have state censors who then decide what kind of speech is acceptable and what is not.
And who chooses those state censors?
And then those censors will pick and choose based on their own political views which speech is allowed and which speech is not.
That's why I believe in freedom of expression.
You mentioned, for example, if someone stands up and calls for violence against a particular group, they can, under the current criminal code, be charged with incitement.
Those provisions already exist.
And I would encourage law enforcement to make sure those provisions are upheld for any and all people who incite, deliberately incite violence against an identifiable group because that has been criminalized for many years.
And anyone who is convicted of that, who is not a citizen, should obviously not be in Canada.
See, the trouble is, not a single foreign student or temporary foreign worker has been charged that I know of, plus prosecuted, plus convicted of a hate crime, even though hundreds, perhaps thousands of them have participated in these hate marches over the last 18 months or so.
For one thing, hate crime prosecutions are very rare to begin with in Canada.
They need the consent of the Attorney General himself.
They're very specific.
It's a difficult law, and it's hard to make them stick, which is probably the way it should be.
In fact, despite the Niagara falls of hate we've seen from the Hamas protesters in our streets, I still believe in scrapping our hate speech laws.
And I certainly don't believe in adding any more like the Online Harms Act for a few reasons, including that hate speech is so subjective and so close to editorial censorship.
I put it to you that the first hate speech prosecutions for street marches would probably be some Jew who condemns Hamas too vigorously and is charged with Islamophobia.
If you think that's impossible, you must have missed the official Toronto Police Service podcast on this subject.
Everyone's well aware, and that is something that we celebrate in Canada, the freedom of speech.
However, when we have somebody labeling a certain group as something they're not, all of a sudden now it becomes when there's an Islamophobic undertone, if someone is calling a Palestinian rally a Hamas rally, then all of a sudden people start getting afraid.
And they think, oh, wow, these are people that support an entity that's been labeled as a terrorist organization.
However, the people that are there protesting, they're there for a different cause altogether.
So then that becomes active discrimination when you classify an entire group with a group that they don't even identify with.
So that's the challenge.
And it creates fear, right?
It creates fear within different communities.
Confusion, fear.
Confusion, fear.
And it's not divide.
Yeah, all I'd like my country to do is to enforce the real laws against real crimes.
If someone is threatening me or assaulting me, arrest them for that.
If they're vandalizing a Jewish restaurant or a Muslim restaurant, arrest them for that.
If they're opening up smoke grenades on Jewish restaurant patios, arrest them for that.
You don't need a special hate speech arrest.
Oh, and arrest them and actually prosecute them and jail them.
I don't think that's happened once in the past 18 months.
That's why Pierre Polyev's answer was wrong.
The bar shouldn't be that high.
Because I'm talking about non-citizens who are here as a special privilege to work or to go to school.
They are not citizens.
Fake Beggars Scheme00:03:10
They're here at our pleasure.
And if they're participating in hate marches, we don't need to wait for them to do something that rises to the level of a hate crime or, frankly, any crime at all.
If you're saying globalize the intifada, which means to bring anti-Semitic violence to Canada, we can just kick you out.
Get out.
You're a guest here and you're acting atrociously.
It's a terrible lack of self-respect as a country that we would allow that.
I can assure you that if Canadians were in Pakistan or Syria or Iran or Qatar as guests and we started outrageous marches demonizing those countries, calling for violence and hating their religion, we'd be jailed or deported within a day.
I think Pierre Polyev found a bit of backbone since I asked him that a year ago.
I think he's a bit stricter on immigration as he sensed the public's anger rising on that issue.
But by the way, and it's related, we did a video the other day.
I don't know if you saw it, Lincoln J did it, about fake beggars, foreigners who come here, pretend to be poor, beg in public, and then go home in SUVs.
It had more than a million views in just a few days.
Here's a clip from it.
You're from Bosnia?
When she noticed I was filming the interaction, she flipped me off and even hit my car with her sign.
I proceeded to observe them from a distance.
They spent hours panhandling, often taking breaks together, including a quick refreshment stop at a gas station where they left their garbage on the ground.
I watched them walk to the back of a nearby plaza where a van was waiting for them.
A young girl ran up to one of the women and they walked hand in hand toward the vehicle while the second woman followed behind.
A man, the apparent getaway driver, was also waiting.
They all got into the van and drove off.
Well, this story just got even crazier.
As I was wrapping up, filming my stand-up, I decided I'm going to fly the drone, get some shots of the area, shots of the intersection.
And then I decided I was going to fly the drone to where they got picked up yesterday.
And I couldn't believe my eyes.
The exact same van was dropping off the exact same people in the exact same spot.
I followed the van as far as I could because the drone can only go a certain distance.
I then turned my attention back to the panhandlers who walked inside a Tim Hortons.
And unfortunately, as I was hovering over the Tim Hortons, my drone ran out of battery, so I had to bring it back.
I then, on foot, proceeded to the intersection, and I think you know the rest.
They went to the exact same spots to beg for money.
More than a million views and probably 200 tips on our tip line from viewers of other cases of this across Canada.
And yeah, it's 100% an immigration problem.
Immigration's Campus Conundrum00:14:54
We're letting people into our country who do not share our values, who hate us, who hate our rules, who take advantage of our high trust society.
It's why food banks in some cities now have rules that international students cannot use food banks.
These foreigners cannot believe how stupid Canadians are, just giving away free food to anyone who asks.
And so they go there instead of shopping for groceries.
And they share how ridiculous Canadians are on social media.
Hey, here's how to get free food.
So that's part of the immigration issue too, isn't it?
People coming from low-trust societies taking advantage of us.
Well, I had high hopes for Pierre Polyev, and I haven't counted him out.
I think he has a chance.
He certainly would be an improvement over Trudeau, even if he wasn't perfect, but fate intervened and he didn't win.
And Mark Carney, with the help of the liberal partisans at Elections Canada, have done their best to get him as close to a majority as possible.
I think he might well be prime minister for years.
Even worse, Mark Carney and his new foreign minister, Anita Anand, have gone even harder for Hamas and against Israel.
So much so that Hamas issued its second thank you letter to Canada's government.
And Benjamin Netanyahu responded too.
I could never understand how this simple truth invades the leaders of France, Britain, Canada, and others.
They're now proposing to establish a Palestinian state and reward these murderers with the ultimate prize.
Well, for 18 years, we had a de facto Palestinian state.
It's called Gaza.
And what did we get?
Peace?
No.
We got the most savage slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
You won't be surprised to learn that Hamas thanked President Macron and Prime Ministers Starmer and Kearney for demanding that Israel end its war in Gaza immediately.
Hamas was right to thank them, because by issuing their demand replete with a threat of sanctions against Israel, against Israel, not Hamas, these three leaders effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power.
I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney, and Prime Minister Starmer, when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers, and kidnappers, thank you, you're on the wrong side of justice.
You're on the wrong side of humanity.
And you're on the wrong side of history.
Mark Carney, along with the UK's Kier Starmer and Francis Emmanuel Macron, they recently signed a letter condemning Israel.
And that's what Hamas and Netanyahu were responding to.
Of course, Canada, the UK, and France aren't really diplomatic or military players in the region these days.
It's all Donald Trump and the Saudis and the Emiratis.
It was Trump in his first turn who ended ISIS in a matter of weeks.
And he got the Abraham Accords, a peace deal in the region.
Canada, the UK, France really had nothing to do with any of that.
None of them are significant in terms of providing weapons to Israel.
So it's not like that could be a pressure point.
They can all pay money to Hamas through the UN, which is what Trudeau has been doing for years.
But it's also obviously just a domestic political message, not a foreign relations message.
Starmer, Macron, and Kearney are just making sure they get the Muslim and anti-Semitic vote.
I don't think anyone in the world, including Starmer, Macron, and Kearney, actually think that Israel will change its views based on what they say.
They're pundits, really.
But that's the thing.
By demonizing Israel and supporting Hamas, Carney not only woos Islamists, but he emboldens them.
So it's not actually a foreign affairs speech.
It's a speech about Canada, because he's telegraphing what Canadians think or what the Canadian government thinks.
And then you see what happened in Washington, D.C. this week with the assassination of two young Jews outside a Jewish museum by a Hamas supporter who wasn't even Muslim.
No, no, no.
So yeah, expect things to get worse for Canadian Jews as Mark Carney continues to praise terrorists.
That will have no impact whatsoever on the region, but it'll have an impact on our region.
But let me show you the news I really wanted to show you.
It's what Donald Trump is doing to universities that allow anti-Semitism.
I covered some of those stories.
I went to some of the encampments.
I went to the one at Columbia, a fancy school in New York City.
Another school in New York I went to called the Fashion Institute of Technology had another Hamas encampment.
Of course, we've seen them across Canada too.
What's so amazing about the U.S. ones is how they were so prevalent in the elite universities, the ones taking big money from Qatar, by the way.
But it's astonishing to me that kids whose parents pay close to $100,000 a year for tuition at fine institutions, these are great schools, that they prefer to fight the power by basically hating everything about American Israel and going full anti-Semitic to boot.
I mean, it's just crazy to me.
That was the temper of the times under Joe Biden, but not so under Donald Trump.
I think Trump is ideologically adverse to these elite universities to begin with.
But more than that, he's not intimidated by them.
So very early in his term, really within the first few hours, I don't know if you remember, but he signed executive orders, including those that the U.S. government would end anti-Semitism on these campuses using the power of the purse, like power of money and grants, and civil rights laws were applicable.
I think they might have thought he was bluffing, but he wasn't.
These universities basically refuse to change their policies towards anti-Semitic hate on campus, calling it academic freedom.
They continue to abide anti-Semitic violence.
So Trump has been freezing grants to those schools, which are in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
I don't know if you know that.
Harvard has a huge endowment.
They have huge tuition, but they get hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from Trump, really.
And the message he's sending is really no different than the case of Bob Jones University in South Carolina.
Have you ever heard of that?
It's a small university, but it discriminated against black students.
They had all sorts of rules.
You weren't allowed to have interracial dating, for example.
It's not a crime to be racist.
Bob Jones University did not commit a crime, but the federal government simply ended its tax exempt status and other financial favors to it.
They didn't shut it down.
They said, you want to do that?
You want to be the racist university?
Fine.
No money for you.
Well, that's the precedent for Harvard, isn't it?
Harvard can be an anti-Semitic university.
It's really, really weird, but it's not against law.
In fact, it is their First Amendment right.
But that's the precedent.
Bob Jones, if they want to be the Bob Jones of Boston, yeah, you don't get to collect hundreds of millions of dollars a year from the federal government if you're that racist.
So it's just really weird how adamant these schools are at protecting their pro-Hamas extremism.
But I think I know why.
Again, when I was at the Columbia encampment, I saw that the key leaders of the protests were actually professors, not students.
And of course, it's 2025, so a large number of professors are woke activists to begin with.
And the DEI bureaucracies at these schools are huge.
And of course, 100% of them are pro-Hamas.
So these aren't really rogue kids.
These kids are more the foot soldiers, the pawns, the visible part of the iceberg.
The rest of it really is the whole university system.
Professors, bureaucrats, all the way up to the board of directors.
There are some real professors who do want to do real teaching and real research.
And there are some real students who want to learn in peace and study.
Remember, I just bumped into these twin brothers at Columbia, and they gave me a bit of hope.
Remember these guys?
I'm Ezra Levant.
I'm here from Rebel News, and I'm mad about this.
Are you guys students here?
Oh, yeah.
Would you talk on camera?
No?
About what?
About what's going on here, but whatever you want to talk about.
You guys look like brothers.
What's your name?
I'm Keelan Cornegay.
Nice to meet you.
What's your name?
Bailey Cornegay.
You guys are twins, you say?
I can tell you look pretty sporty.
What's your opinion?
I'm from Canada.
I've come down here.
I got some opinions as an outsider.
You guys are students here?
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Where are you from?
Where are you from originally?
Georgia, Georgia.
I'm guessing.
If Eastern Georgia, you're from Georgia.
Well, give me it straight up.
You guys seem like regular guys.
Yeah, I mean, if you ask me, it's not my favorite thing in the world.
You know, I'm not going to say you can't protest, but I think that it's honestly like they're just disrupting so much, to be quite honest.
It's just like finals are all messed up.
Classes are messed up.
We're going virtual, stuff like that.
These things have just like, it just kind of stresses the regular student out, like, especially with like the football on top of it.
We're like going, doing this and that.
And this is all going on.
We have to worry about whether we can get in through this gate, that gate.
We're all closed off.
It's like, it kind of feels like we don't have our own.
It's not our school anymore, in a way.
Let me ask you this.
I know that there's protests, but then there's some mean some what I would call anti-Semitic actions.
Are you aware of any Jewish kids or other kids who think, I don't want to even go to school anymore because I feel like it's not my place.
That's what all the professors, like, that's why we're all doing a bunch of virtual stuff now because these Jewish children, these Jewish kids are scared.
You know, that's the problem.
That's what I think the big, I think it's all great when people, you know, express their, you know, their rights and stuff like that.
But like, I feel like this is just taking a step forward, just a step a little too far.
You know, the anti-Semitic stuff is like just not, it's not cool.
You know, I didn't go to a gorgeous school like this.
I went to a good school.
I'm not putting down my school in any way.
But seeing this beautiful place and just I'm sort of homesick for what I didn't have, you know?
And what's on my mind is these guys getting an amazing opportunity and using it for this instead.
That's what, and I'm not even from here, but I feel that way.
Yeah, I feel like our dad, our dad also, he's from Africa, immigrated here when he's 17.
And he went to college here and he thinks the same thing.
He thinks it's sort of like it's just a bunch of, I'd say, probably privileged kids that don't really know a whole lot about the situation.
They're just there to fight and be in something, I guess.
And so these kids are just using this money from the school, from banks and from their parents and stuff like that, and kind of just wasting it away and just kind of just using it towards something that just they could do in another way.
So there are good guys and gals, but you know, Harvard, Columbia, other elite schools, they are largely captured by woke anti-American, anti-Semitic mobs.
That's just what's happened.
Trump wants to stop what they're doing, wants to stop their anti-Semitic crimes.
It would be as if, I feel like we've taken a step backwards in terms of race harmony in America.
It's just, and if you swap in another race, if this was Ku Klux Klan racism against blacks, we would all be shocked, but it's happening every day against Jews.
Trump wants to stop that.
And he wants the universities to stop allowing foreign students to engage in these hate marches, disruptions, riots, like the ones at Columbia, where they actually trapped, you know, effectively kidnapped janitorial staff from Columbia in an illegal occupation and trashing in the school.
I mean, do you remember these images?
But the Ivy League is rotten.
So here's Trump's new move.
And I think it's incredible.
Trump is removing the legal right of these universities to bring in foreign students.
Now, that's a shame because foreign students who actually want to go to study at Harvard, I bet there are some great kids caught in the crossfire, but there's a lot of activists who, like in Canada, come to the U.S. under the pretense of learning, but are really just activists for Iran or Qatar or Palestine or whatever.
And by the way, the admissions offices probably bring those people in with emphasis.
And if the universities won't crack down on the actual criminal conduct of these foreigners, Trump has said he will just nuke the whole foreign student program by removing the power, by taking away the right of Harvard University to grant visas to their applicants.
You can't just go to Harvard because they let you in.
You need a visa.
Harvard has the power to give you one.
Trump is saying no more.
Here's the announcement to that effect today by Christy Noam.
That's the Department of Homeland Security Secretary.
I'm going to read every word here because it's just too good to leave anything out.
This is a press release from the DHS website today.
Harvard University loses student and exchange visitor program certification for pro-terrorist conduct.
Harvard is being held accountable for collaboration with the CCP, fostering violence, anti-Semitism, and pro-terrorist conduct from students on its campus.
You know, it is such a convincing fact-packed letter.
I'm going to read the whole thing.
And will you, along with me, quietly daydream about the day when we have a Canadian government that cares about peace and freedom this much to keep foreign agitators out?
Let me read to you.
Today, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam ordered DHS, Department of Homeland Security, to terminate the Harvard University Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification.
This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status.
Harvard's leadership has created an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once venerable learning environment.
Many of these agitators are foreign students.
Harvard's leadership further facilitated and engaged in coordinated activity with the CCP, that's the Chinese Communist Party, including hosting and training members of a CCP paramilitary group complicit in the Uyghur genocide.
I didn't know that, did you?
Secretary Noam Demands Compliance00:06:57
This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, anti-Semitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus, said Secretary Noam.
It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multi-billion dollar endowments.
Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing.
It refused.
They have lost their student and exchange visitor program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law.
Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.
And then they refer to a lawyer that Christy Noam's letter, excuse me, that Kirsty Noam sent last month.
I'll read it.
On April 16, 2025, Secretary Noam demanded Harvard provide information about the criminality and misconduct of foreign students on its campus.
Secretary Noam warned refusal to comply with this lawful order would result in that SEVP, that's the immigration program termination.
This action comes after DHS terminated $2.7 million in DHS grants for Harvard last month.
Harvard University brazenly refused to provide the required information requested and ignored a follow-up request from the department's Office of General Counsel.
Secretary Noam is following through on her promise to protect students and prohibit terrorist sympathizers from receiving benefits from the U.S. government.
And then here's my favorite part of the letter.
It's a press release.
Facts about Harvard's toxic campus climate.
A joint government task force found that Harvard has failed to confront persuasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus.
Jewish students on campus were subject to pervasive insults, physical assault, and intimidation with no meaningful response from Harvard's leadership.
A protester charged for his role in the assault of a Jewish student on campus was chosen by the Harvard Divinity School to be the class marshal for commencement.
Harvard's own 2025 internal study on anti-Semitism revealed that almost 60% of Jewish students reported experiencing discrimination, stereotyping, or negative bias on campus due to their views on current events.
In one instance, a Jewish student speaker at a conference had planned to tell the story of his Holocaust survivor grandfather finding refuge in Israel.
Organizers told the student the story was not tasteful and laughed at him when he expressed his confusion.
They said the story would have justified oppression.
Meanwhile, pro-Hamas student groups that promoted anti-Semitism after the October 7 attacks remained recognized and funded.
Instead of protecting its students, Harvard has let crime rates skyrocket, enacted racist DEI practices, and accepted boatloads of cash from foreign governments and donors.
Crime rates at Harvard have increased by 55% from 2022 to 2023.
From 2022 to 2023, aggravated assaults increased 295%, and robberies increased 560%.
Harvard has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.
Harvard received $151 million from foreign governments since January 2020, making up more than 13% of the total $1.1 billion received from foreign donors over the same period.
This is weird to me.
Harvard hosted and trained members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a CCP paramilitary group complicit in the Uyghur genocide, even after its 2020 designation on the U.S. Treasury's specially designated nationals list, with engagements continuing as recently as 2024.
Why is Harvard doing that?
Harvard researchers collaborated with China-based academics on projects funded by the Iranian government agent and partnered with Chinese universities tied to military advancements, including aerospace and optics research using U.S. Department of Defense funds.
This is crazy.
Harvard partnered with individuals linked to Chinese defense industrial base, including conducting robotics research with military applications.
So it's not just anti-Semitism.
It's selling themselves to China.
It's a spike in crime, including violence against Jews.
And Trump's just turning it off.
He's just had it with these folks.
Here's Christy Noam talking about it on CNN.
As you mentioned, 18% of Harvard's freshman class this year are foreign.
They're foreigners here on student visas.
What happens?
Where do they go now?
What do they do?
Yeah, we have given Harvard multiple opportunities to give us the documentation that we've requested to conduct oversight.
We've asked them for the backgrounds on students that attend their university, their criminal activity on campus, off of campus, any video or audio footage they have of this violent activity, and they have just simply not complied.
This is something that they need to do in order to comply with this program as it was established.
And so unfortunately, all of their foreign students will face the consequences of Harvard's lack of protecting the individuals that go there.
So 27% of their students are foreign students and they will have to find some other university to go to.
And hopefully they find one that cares about them and provides a safe environment.
Now, I think I should tell you, within hours of this, Harvard Rand found themselves a communist, a hard left-wing judge who suspended the imposition of this order until next week.
So of course the courts are trying to stop this.
Of course the courts are going to bat for Iran and China and anti-Semitism.
But it's not the final word on that.
It just shows you how quickly the courts move when they're trying to stop Trump.
It's really out of control.
Look, I think it's good for Harvard and good for America to have the absolute cream of the crop from around the world go there to study.
Of course it is.
And many of those students are great kids from around the world.
We don't want them to crowd out Americans.
I mean, 27% might be too high, but still.
But Harvard today is not the Harvard of a generation ago.
It's been colonized by China, by Iran, by DEI.
It's not about studying now, it's about extreme activism and violence.
And we know that, and we've seen that, and they refuse to change because they refuse to give an inch to Trump, even when he's right.
I don't know how that battle will end, but even the battle itself is instructive.
Harvard's many alumni are learning, but what their alma mater is really up to these days.
And maybe the shine of saying you're a Harvard grad isn't quite so bright anymore.
Is this still a great school?
I'm sure it is, but it ain't what it was.
Trump, in his own way, is trying to make Harvard great again.
Dramatic Evening At Ostrich Farm00:15:08
Hey, we were going to talk to Drea Humphrey from live at the ostrich farm in the interior of BC today.
But then there were some very dramatic events, and she was called away from our Zoom conversation and had to go and do some reporting.
So instead of talking to her live, we're letting her do the work.
And now I'm going to play for you some clips of what's happening out there.
I don't know if you've been following this crazy story, but there's hundreds of ostriches marked for death.
And then there's dozens of Canadians who are saying, Not if I have anything to say about it.
It's really a fascinating battle.
Let me close by showing you a clip of Drea in the field fighting for the ostriches.
Take a look.
Drea Humphrey here.
Thanks to everybody tuning into the show.
I think this is one of the important issues of today, an immediate threat to our freedom to farm, our freedom to have the food we want from the farm on our table, even freedom in science and our property rights as the lives of these 400, well, it was 400, I'll get to that in a second.
400 ostriches located on a farm in Edgewood, D.C. hang by a thread.
As the Canadian Food Inspection Agency can come at any moment, the birds are not for food.
They are being used in partnership with Japan with their robust antibodies to actually, so they say, neutralize COVID-19 and the avian flu.
Yet that's all being shut down without further testing of what the farmers and what everybody can see who's here is clearly healthy animals.
Now, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency didn't show up, but still one of these birds was executed.
You're going to learn more about that on the show.
Again, thanks for tuning in to this important issue, which we're documenting at save theostriches.com.
We have had another bird shot last night.
We've had drone, a drone, a large drone flying over our property.
And this is all wonderful investigation.
It's scary, but it doesn't change my resolve to being here.
If anything, it strengthens it and it confirms.
You know, like if there's a drone that's coming in at night and killing these birds, like this isn't just a chicken cull.
There's so much more to this.
It's terrible.
It's a tragedy.
Who would want to kill a healthy animal?
Down the road of the ostrich farm here.
It turns out that some gentleman, I don't know if I'm going to call him a gentleman, but some guy came by the cars, almost side-swiped one, almost T-boned one, tore off down the street.
And now this is the morning after one of these ostriches was shot.
Out of this biggest challenge, I just keep reiterating that I think we just want to create make the best opportunity.
And we just want a chance to test the birds independently and prove to the world that they don't deserve to die.
Dre Amphrey here with Rebel News at the Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, BC.
Horrible news today and it's not that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has come in for the cull of these animals but instead a second ostrich has been executed this time through the night as campers who are here to protest and the farmers are or were sleeping.
Like I said, this is the second time we've reported on the first time.
The RCMP are on site with Katie Pissitney, one of the farmers, one who grew up here with the ostriches.
I'm actually going to shoot to her message that she put to do a statement about what happened.
But first, if you are not following this story at all, make sure you check out our special website called save theostriches.com.
We have had another bird shot last night.
We've had drone, a drone, a large drone flying over our property.
And this is all wonderful investigation.
So please stay with me.
Please keep praying.
Sorry.
It was one of our biggest, beautiful.
Okay, sorry.
Anyways, just reconnecting.
I'm out right now.
This is an official statement from the farm.
So just please keep following us for the accurate information.
Do not listen to anybody else.
You follow me, Katie Pissitney.
Jim Kerr is here.
He will be doing some information, letting information as well on this out as it unfolds.
But we've had a drone flying over at about one to two in the morning last night.
And we have a big, one of our biggest, beautiful roosters that has been shot.
We're going to be working with RCMP right now.
We're doing all of the appropriate things.
Just keep send prayers and love to the farm right now.
And the most loving, healing white light over all of our ostriches that are beautiful and healthy and absolutely stunning.
See, so absolutely horrific to think that possibly a drone has flown over everyone here and aimed and took sight at a rooster and shot him in the head.
This is a photo of the first ostrich who was killed execution style.
Her name was Sarah.
I'm not sure the name of the ostrich who was shot last night, but this is absolutely sickening.
So evil.
What more do these farmers have to deal with than the state, you know, threatening their livelihoods as they are with other if the Canadian Food Inspection Agency does come in and kill these healthy birds?
They're Katie's father, which means Karen, co-owner of the farm Karen Esperson, her husband is a paraplegic.
They are caring for him inside.
I've witnessed how hard they're working.
And to know that not once but twice, somebody has come in and targeted these healthy, healthy birds and just ended their lives is so sickening.
This is a developing story.
Please keep following our coverage at savetheostriches.com.
That's where you can go to take action immediately to go ahead and ask for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to back down on their plans to call these animals.
That's where you can find all of the background.
That's where you can find how to help the farmers if you would like to do that.
And that's also where you can help cover our expenses to be here 24-7 as things like this are occurring.
Of course, I'm going to interview the farmers about what happened.
Stay tuned for that at savetheostriches.com.
Drea Humphrey for Rebel News.
All right, we just heard the news.
Possibly it was from a drone, but somebody has shot one of these ostriches.
What do you make of that?
I was just standing around and I just heard the news as well.
I heard it was shot through the head and down its neck.
Like, how does that even happen?
I mean, what kind of a drone would be flying at night can have that much precision to shoot down a small head down their neck?
Like, that makes no sense.
I just saw the RCMP.
I was wondering why they came and found out that's what it was.
There was a dead bird found this morning.
And I have no idea.
Makes no sense, really.
Yeah, it makes no sense.
It's completely baffling.
I was right there.
I didn't hear anything last night.
And I had my dog with me, and she's super sensitive to the sound of guns.
And she didn't wake me up.
And yeah, I have no idea how this could have happened.
And, you know, the guys who radioed it in, they said it was a big drone.
Like, I mean, who has a big drone like that?
This is Pharrell.
He's been instrumental in helping all of this come together.
Sort of one of the behind the scenes people.
That's what I hear.
That's what everybody tells me.
You've been a key player.
I used to run a site called Fix It with Farrell.
So, you know, I've got my steam truck here.
I've got a lot of tools and equipment and things.
So I've been handy in helping set up the radio network which people can communicate for security, etc.
Right.
And so, yeah, general dog's body handyman.
So what can you tell us with helping with security about what took place last night?
We're hearing a drone came and shot one of the ostriches.
Yeah, well, an ostrich has been shot.
Exactly how the ostriches were shot, the only thing we know, a connection with a drone, that a drone was heard around here and also down in Edgewood, the local village.
OCMP are out here to interview and get witness statements.
That's about it.
I was around the campfire last night with a few people, including security, and we heard security start talking about seeing a drone on radio.
And this is not the first time we see them quite often.
So we just listened to the security about it.
We saw the drone floating around.
It did have blue and red lights on it.
We saw it move quickly.
We did see a little bit of a light.
We're not sure what that all meant, but we definitely saw it.
And it's been something that we've been seeing quite often in the evenings.
And it's really unfortunate.
So this is now under investigation right now.
And we'll just see where that goes from there.
Did you already give your statement to the police or are you still waiting?
I'm waiting right now.
We've got head of security talking to him.
So I'm actually the volunteer coordinator and one of the logistics leaders here.
And yeah, we've been seeing these drones every night here.
So RCMP has come up to the farmhouse now.
They are taking statements from some of the volunteers and of course they've already had their statements from the farmers.
Now that I have a minute to talk to you again, this story, the farmers are taking on a lot.
They're taking on big pharma in many ways because the research that the birds were involved in is not mRNA research, but according to them, it was on the brink of finding a way to neutralize COVID-19 and the avian flu, those viruses that we are told to be so afraid of, that the whole reason why millions of birds are being culled in the first place across the country.
That's what they said they were on the brink of fixing in a different way than, let's say, Moderna, who wants to use mRNA and get $600 million to do so.
Katie, do you have two minutes?
All right.
I am so sorry to hear the news.
So what the heck happened?
So it's undergoing investigation right now.
All we do know is there was a drone flying over between one and two that was quite large.
It got everybody obviously alarmed.
We're under no-fly zone.
There should be no drones, especially that size.
It looked not someone's personal drone.
And then that resulted in a death of an ostrich.
And there's a clear entry wound and an exit wound.
And so, again, it's speculation, right?
It's under investigation, but it very much appears that it would have came from the top down.
What are the RCMP saying?
We're going to do a full investigation.
And they're all on board just to figure out the truth.
So we're just going to do some statements right now.
And we're under a clear no-fly zone.
So, we're just going to, there should be no drones.
Any update on the first bird, Sarah, that was executed?
No update on that pending investigation, but again, clear entry wound, exit wound from a gun.
So this is unfortunate, but we do know that this is, I would speculate that this is a higher and above us.
This is above, this is not a small person who's doing this.
This seems quite large.
But the RCMP had contacted Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which Canadian Food Inspection Agency relied that they did not have a drone flying.
But again, this is all under investigation.
So I guess we'll just update you as the next couple hours go on.
Well, we don't know who it is, but how do you hold up?
How do you keep fighting with all of the things that you're juggling?
The CFIA, someone shooting the birds.
How are you doing this fight and why?
It's for the world.
We have something here that could benefit animal and human health.
These animals don't deserve to die.
They deserve to be tested in the appropriate manner to prove by independent testing, accurate testing, not the controversial PCR tests of two dead birds that were done in December.
And that's all we're asking for instead of being met with the resistance to work with us and save what we have here that could benefit the world.
Work with us.
Let us test the animals.
Let us show to the public health and safety that we're okay.
There's nothing wrong here.
These animals are healthy.
They've been so since January 14th.
And the world's watching.
We see.
The world sees.
This doesn't make sense.
This, yeah.
Thank you.
Thanks.
It doesn't make sense at all what is happening here on the farm, but we are here with our boots on the ground to make sure you are seeing whatever goes down as it happens.
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What do you make of this being the second time that this has happened?
What does that mean?
Somebody's trying to send a message.
Looks like.
Are they going to do kill all four, you know, 400 of them one at a time?
It's crazy.
Yeah, I have no idea.
Like, I don't know enough about the details of when Sarah the ostrich was killed before.
Like, if there was, if there's a possibility that that came from a drone as well.
I don't know enough about drones.
Like, I don't know what they're capable of.
And yeah, so, I mean, I think it would be speculation to say that they're related.
Like, I don't know enough details about the first one, but if it was a similar sort of way that they died both times, like, I mean, one could draw conclusions.
Why is it important, even with risks like drones possibly flying over, why is it important to do the fight?
Well, for number one, I must point out there's a no-fly zone over this farm.
So Anybody flying any sort of sophisticated drone across here is already contravening some sort of regulation with civil aviation.
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And that's a problem.
The birds could be spooked by this or run, tear off, trample things, push over fences, all sorts of things if they get spooked.
So if that is the case, we're not even sure that it was a drone that actually shot the bird.
It appears the bird was shot.
I haven't seen the bird.
I've heard this as much as everybody else via the grapevine.
And so it's terrible.
It's a tragedy.
Who would want to kill a healthy animal?
So does this incident scare you off from continuing to be here and help with the protest?
No, no, not at all.
We're standing our ground here.
We feel safe.
We're okay.
We know that things are under control.
And no, I don't feel unsafe right now.
It's okay.
You guys won't believe this.
After I went into the van to connect with the Starlink to get the footage up, something else crazy has happened.
I'm hearing.
Actually, Elena, can I borrow you for a sec for an update on what's going down?
Right after I interviewed you, what do you know about what just occurred up the road?
And remember, as I've reported before, they have people on the lookout up the road there.
They do.
As far as all I know is a neighbor that we know that's been unhappy with us being here and the whole situation with ostriches.
He was driving up and down the road really aggressively.
And then he was threatening to hit some of the vehicles, including one of our team members' vehicles.
They're on their way out to do a supply run.
That's about as all as I know.
I was with everybody over at the house when it all happened, and they just all took off to go and investigate.
And that's what's happening right now.
Now, advocate for the farm, Jim Kerr, is up on the road, and I see he's posted on his Facebook.
I'm going to cut to what he's saying.
And now the RCMP are investigating whatever the heck is going on there.
This is ridiculous.
How much more do these farmers have to put up with with this fight for farming, food sovereignty, this fight against overreach, this fight for freedom in science?
It is insane.
All odds are against them, except for the people.
The people are showing up.
And let's see what Jim Kerr is saying.
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, we're out here in Edgewood, B.C. We're just down the road of the ostrich farm here.
Turns out that some gentleman, I don't know if I'm going to call him a gentleman, but some guy came by the cars, almost side-swiped one, almost T-boned one, tore off down the street.
And now this is the morning after one of these ostriches was shot.
Now, we've followed him.
We're at his place.
The police that were here to investigate the shooting incident are now investigating this guy.
This is getting crazy, folks.
This is not a good thing, okay?
It is not good when people think that they're going to just like scream in and put other people's lives in danger.
It's not cool.
This is where the guy lives.
The farm's just over there.
And it's a freaking weird thing, man.
Did you want to say anything, brother?
I'm live.
Okay, I'm just going to figure out what happened and Okay.
That's it?
He's not putting together well.
So I'm going to ask him.
I asked him not to.
I'm going to talk to everybody and see what happened.
Maybe get the chart.
But I mean, even if he's worse than that, it has to be a goddamn lunatic because we're running friendly windows.
Okay, so ladies.
Yeah, I'll be there.
I'll come to.
Yeah, I'll be right over there.
Thank you.
So make sure your gun's off safety.
If this guy is putting the battery over.
I'll talk.
Let me talk to him.
That's what we do for him.
That's fine, absolutely.
It's just that when it shit happens, like this, we have to protect ourselves.
Yeah, yeah, but what I'm going to ask you guys, don't follow anybody anymore.
Call us and we'll come back.
We're set up a tent here.
These people are still coming.
And there's lots of them things, but we're right off the bottom.
I know, but I don't want you guys to put in a situation where you guys can get in trouble, okay?
So to please go.
All right, so the officer is advising us to not chase the guy who's coming in and trying to and hitting cars basically.
Now he did not make contact with cars, but he came within inches of T-bowing one car.
And yeah.
Cops going in to deal with them right now.
Folks, this situation gets out of hand.
Drones in the sky.
Ostrich is shot in the head with an exit wound out the base of the neck.
This is freaking nuts, folks.
This is nuts.
Hang on tight.
We're going to get you all the stories as it develops.
Share it out.
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Unbelievable.
As we're getting the other breaking with the ostrich and I finished interviewing, I find out the police are now investigating something else that happened up the road.
Katie is here to fill us in.
Katie.
Hi, Celebs.
Yeah, I want to just be really accurate here with all of the most again, I just keep saying we keep giving the truth and the most honest facts from here.
So the gentleman, we had an incident that he came down with some aggression down our road.
Everybody here, we have a really great team that looks out for any violence and any negativity because this is not what we stand for here.
We nip it in the butt right away.
We're here to be peaceful, calm.
That's how we've been here almost for five months doing this.
And they just went, we had a police officer here from the morning's events and it happened.
It ended up really well because he went and he was able to go to this gentleman's house and he's taking care of that.
But it was a local person and that's okay.
I can't really express much more on that.
But again, we just have a great group of people here that don't stand for violence, don't stand for any hostility, any aggression.
And we just try to take care of that right away by saying, I'm sorry, you're not welcome.
So we got handled really well.
But again, it's, yeah, in lights of this morning's events, I think everybody's just, it's a lot to take in because we're all just standing to try and make the best change for all Canadians and people around the world and still work with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and hope we can create the change possible that everybody deserves.
So, out of this biggest challenge, I just keep reiterating that I think we just want to create, make the best opportunity and we just want, we just want a chance chance to test the birds independently and prove to the world that they're they don't deserve to die.
As you can see, Katie is standing strong, but it isn't easy with all the opposition they have and they're just such sweet people.
Honestly guys, if you came to the farm, you would know that it's amazing what they're going through.
They are still working on appeal.
If you want to help them out, I always link in the articles of my reports which are also linked In the description box of what you're looking at on how you can help with that funding.
And it's just moving fast as we're here.
That's why we're camped out here on the property.
And that's why if you're supportive of that journalism, savetheostriches.com is where you can go to keep us here for as long as we need to to report on what is happening with this immediate threat to farming and food sovereignty in Canada.
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It's scary, but it doesn't change my resolve to being here.
If anything, it strengthens it and it confirms, you know, like if there's a drone that's coming in at night and killing these birds, like this isn't just, this isn't just a chicken cull.
There's so much more to this.
There's so much more that's going on here.
I just would beg people to start looking into the details, start doing some research and learning about what's going on here.
And this is just another situation.
This is another child pointing and saying that emperor is wearing no clothes.
What is going on here?
Hey, welcome back.
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It's about my chat with Joel Pollock about South Africa.
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Let Freedom Reign Honk says President Trump is holding every single country and leader accountable.
Next, I hope that he tears down Kearney for supporting Hamas.
Well, I thought he was going to give Carney a run for his money, but he sort of did the opposite.
In fact, he sort of tried to take credit for Carney winning, and I think in his own way, he does take credit for it.
I just wish it hadn't been that way because I think it, I don't know how it benefits America to have a weak Canadian leader and a weak Canadian economy and Canada be on the wrong side of so many issues, but I think Trump thinks it benefits America.
Letter also from Brian F., who says, white South Africans are the kind of refugees I want coming to Canada.
Well, there was only about 50 or 60 that were brought to the U.S.
But they were families, not just military-aged migrant men.
They were moms, dads, kids.
They were waving American flags.
They were happy to be there.
And you bet they're going to be great farmers.
That's all they want to do, farm without being murdered.
And it's so interesting to see the reaction to white refugees.
You know, Ukrainian refugees were sort of a mixed bag.
I think the left normally would be opposed to that because they're white folks.
And I don't know.
I think there's just something about race and DEI hardwired into our concept of a refugee.
Forever, refugees were in imminent danger.
In fact, that's the legal test.
When someone goes hopping from one country to another, shopping around for the best welfare deal, that's not refugees.
Refugees have to make the claim in the first country they get to that's safe.
So if you make your way to, say, Ireland, you're not a refugee by definition.
If you're in France and you sail across the channel in a dinghy, by definition, you're not a refugee.
France is not a dangerous place.
So I think that we've been desensitized to the sham and the fraud that 99% of refugees these days are.
And I think those Boer farmers are actually what refugees should look like.
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