Sheila Gunn-Reid and Dre Humphrey expose the CFIA’s plan to cull 400 healthy, naturally immune ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms in British Columbia—despite no active avian flu threat—while questioning federal inaction, ties to "big pharma," and RCMP’s chaotic enforcement. Alberta’s Smith and Ford oppose the move, citing U.S. research interest and potential immunity breakthroughs, but Gunn-Reid warns of government overreach, comparing it to Soviet-era policies or "state terrorism." With live updates, arrests, and a suspicious farm fire, she urges public pressure via SaveTheOstriches.com and high-profile allies like Trump, Musk, and Rogan, framing the cull as a failure of institutions amid broader tensions over farming civil disobedience. The episode underscores how bureaucratic decisions can silence dissent while ignoring scientific alternatives. [Automatically generated summary]
I'm on my way home from Edgewood, BC at the Battle of the Birds.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching The Gunn Show.
For those of you who have been following Rebel News for the last few days, you will know that myself and my Rebel News colleague, Dre Humphrey, have been in Edgewood, British Columbia.
where we are covering the attempts by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to euthanize, exterminate, murder, I guess, 400 otherwise healthy ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms.
Now, the crime that these birds have committed, well, they were exposed to avian flu some 254 days ago, but they appear to be healthy and they are potentially the victims of a stamping out policy of the CFIA.
If a bird has been exposed to avian flu, they just kill it.
They don't care about natural immunity and they don't care that these birds are used in research for diseases like COVID-19 and potentially avian flu.
Now, some 9 million birds have already been culled because of exposure to avian flu.
The antibodies these birds carry could potentially put an end to mass culling if they can develop a therapy or a cure for avian flu.
But the CFIA is hell-bent on exterminating these birds.
Now, today, it's Wednesday, the birds were granted a stay of execution while lawyers seek leave to have the Supreme Court hear arguments.
And I have to tell you something else.
In almost 10 years of hosting the gun show, I have never missed an episode, no matter what.
No matter if I've been sick, no matter if I've been traveling, no matter if I did the rare thing of taking some time off from Rebel News, which happens almost never.
But I have always either recorded a show or pre-recorded a show because you subscribers, you are near and dear to me because you have invested in me.
And so I owe you something.
But I was unable to record a show today specifically for you.
So I hate the fact that those CFIA bird murderers might be the reason that I don't produce a gun show this week.
So I am going to show you a live stream from earlier today with my friend Lise Merle and Viva Fry, wherein we discussed what exactly was happening at Universal Ostrich Farms.
You can actually catch yourself up at save theostriches.com and share that with your friends so they know exactly what's going on there.
And I want to show you that in lieu of a recorded gun show and then I'll give you an extra show.
Let's make a deal.
I'll give you an extra show.
You watch this live stream, catch yourself up while I wait for the next ferry, my second today at Galena Bay just south of Revelstoke.
I think I have another nine-hour drive ahead of me, but I am scheduling a guest to record a show tomorrow is Thursday, Thursday morning, so that you'll have extra content from me on Friday.
I must meet my obligations to you and I'll be damned if those bird murderers at the CFIA are the reason that I don't.
Take a listen to our live stream from earlier today at Universal Ostrich Farms.
Good morning, everybody, or afternoon, depending on which part of, well, the continent that you're in.
I'm Sheila Gunnery.
I'm live at Universal Ostrich Farms, and I'm joined by my regular Wednesday co-host on the live stream here today, Lise Myrtle, and also a special guest.
And I just thank him so much for filling in for me, but also bringing his legal expertise into the mix here, our friend Viva Fry.
Viva, thanks so much for doing this.
My pleasure.
And yeah, this needs to be put on at the biggest blast humanly possible.
And remember the names of those who didn't said nothing when they had the power to say and do something.
Absolutely.
I'll quickly recap what we're doing here right now.
I am the regular co-host of the live stream on Wednesdays.
We are streaming right now from, well, across the continent.
Viva, I think you're in Florida.
Lise is in Regina, Saskatchewan.
I am in Edgewood, British Columbia, because I am covering the battle for the birds at Universal Ostrich Farms.
400 otherwise healthy birds exposed to avian flu 254 days ago.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has a mandatory cull order for the entire flock, and they're doing that without testing.
And today there was a stay of execution granted for these birds.
It's just been a wild 24 hours.
We'll get into that.
I'll tell everybody how they can get involved in the show, though.
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Same rules apply.
But with that, I guess I'll defer to you two because I haven't really even seen the show, the run of the show.
I literally, we got the news.
I ran back, got my tripod, and here I am.
I can, I can, Sheila, I presume you've seen the order.
It's a very short order.
Yeah, go through it, please.
Stay of execution, the pun intended.
So my understanding is that they're petitioning for leave to the Supreme Court, and they're asking for a stay before the Supreme Court can determine whether or not they take the case up to the Supreme Court.
And not to be moot, if they kill the ostriches before the Supreme Court even decides on whether or not to take it up, the damage is done.
And then it's going to be a question of compensation as opposed to preventing irreparable harm.
So it's a very short, but my understanding is a very short stay pending determination as to whether or not leave to the Supreme Court will be granted.
And that's in the interim in which everybody has to put the absolute most political pressure on everybody who can say something, can do something, and as of yet, has not yet done anything.
And I'm thinking of a few names in particular.
One.
So, and Viva, this is a very, very temporary reprieve for the ostrich farmers in BC.
Are we hearing this right?
My understanding is like a matter of days until they determine whether or not the Supreme Court takes up the case, which itself is, they take up like a fraction of the requests that they get in any given year.
So we'll see.
I mean, it's a stay until they decide whether or not they take it up.
And then, if they decide to take it up, I presume they're going to have to logically grant an extended stay.
Because again, determining the issue as to whether or not the kill is scientifically, rationally justified and whether or not the CFIA's order, which is now damn near a year old, makes sense.
It makes no sense adjudicating that after the final kill has been carried out.
So it's a couple of days.
I don't know the exact timeframe.
And I'm going to try to get the attorney, Katie's attorney, Umar Sheikh on at some point sooner than later, but very short couple of days.
And it's not a time to rejoice and go home.
It's a time to now put the pressure on everybody, exploit every venue.
I might get into it, but like, you know, Indigenous tribes now are making the claim that this is unseated.
You can't kill the ostriches.
Work that angle because it's a very logical one, hold them to their own standards.
But it's not a time to celebrate.
It's just maybe a time to put more pressure.
Yeah.
And it's, I guess I'll get into the crazy 24 hours that it has been at the farm.
But I hear there's at any given moment, news can happen here and you might have to see me run away.
But you are right that the conservatives have been a little too quiet on this issue.
Viva, I don't know how much you know about Western Canadian farming, but I know a fair bit as the farmer.
And I'm old enough to remember when the Conservative Party of Canada under Stephen Harper and the, it was at the time the Progressive Conservative Party here in Alberta.
It's now something much better as the United Conservatives.
They stood with four Western Canadian farmers who were jailed in an act of civil disobedience for selling their wheat, something that as Western Canadian farmers, we couldn't do without an export license.
It was an act of civil disobedience, selling a bushel of grain to a 4-H club in Montana across the border.
And again, if you lived in Quebec or Ontario, you could sell your wheat to whomever we wanted, but we had to sell it to a marketing board who knew better than us farmers.
Those farmers went to jail.
They were carried away in handcuffs.
And the conservatives were there.
They were there the day those farmers were taken away.
Stephen Harper pardoned those farmers.
They stood with the group called Farmers for Justice who brought down the entire wheat board.
Where are those conservatives now?
I just want to know where they're at.
We saw John Rustad, conservative leader in British Columbia, finally say something this morning.
But we were concerned that those ostriches would start being called yesterday.
So, I mean, I guess better late than never, but would be, would be nice to hear somebody raise this in the House of Commons.
It's obscene.
There's no other word for it.
It's obscene.
You could say at some point, maybe they didn't know how big of a story it was.
But when literally every post from Pierre Polyev yesterday, the day before, is getting ratioed in the comments sections with why aren't you saying anything about the ostriches?
You don't get to plead ignorance anymore.
Some people say, well, it's a social media team.
If he is that detached from the people he's supposed to represent, the problem.
And the biggest problem is took a lot of flack during the election for saying Pierre Polyev is a political fairweather politician.
He's got no core principles.
He goes with the tide, which you can use to your advantage in terms of like he'll bend to the pressure of the people.
He learned nothing from his crushing defeat in this election.
That sitting on your hands, biting your tongue, playing the rules of the opponent's game, does nothing but cost you the election to the point where he needs to be gifted a seat in the House so that he can return to being the so-called leader of the so-called opposition of the so-called conservative party.
So he can sit on his thumbs and do nothing while this is going down and just pretend it's not existing, tweeting about government tyranny under the gun ban confiscation thing, and then not tweeting about government tyranny, about the government coming in, killing your, it makes no sense.
And it's, it's, my bottom line is it's they need a new leader because he's, he's, he's burnt the goodwill, any remaining goodwill that he had.
But what do I know?
I'm just a former PPC guy.
Well, I think that what this situation is showing is the distinct break in the feedback loop on all levels of government.
Okay.
All levels of government are not hearing the people.
All, you know, all of the politicians who are ignoring all of their mentions, Viva, because you're right, they're getting ratioed over this issue.
And every minute that they stay silent shows us just what a disconnect there is between the people and the people that we elect to govern us.
Okay.
And this is this is across the board.
Where was our useless prime minister yesterday as this was going down?
Well, he was entertaining the up of the ups at the UN General Council.
We could have used Mark Carney on this file yesterday.
And as a matter of fact, we could have used the liberal government of Canada on this file for the last eight months.
Where have they been?
Unresponsive to the farmers that they're supposed to be serving.
That's where.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The ag minister and the health minister should both both be relentlessly hammered in the House of Commons.
And it is frustrating because Pierre Polyev is now in a largely conservative, a largely rural, deep blue conservative riding in Alberta.
If you're tweeting about the gun issue, you've got to be tweeting about this because this is a huge issue for Western Canadian farmers like myself.
It is first the birds.
And then, you know, it's just, you know, it's a quirky little ostrich farm in the middle of nowheresville.
But it's a hop, skip, and a jump from that to my neighbor's turkey barn and then to beef, you know?
Like, there's Mark Carney.
People are saying, Viva, you know, give as much flack to Mark Carney as you do to Piet Polyev.
I was like, no, because this is his plan.
This is his whole strategy here.
He gave passport-carrying globalist prostitute, politician, prostitute that, you know, that Piet Polyev should have been calling out and calling that during the election.
So I don't expect the liberals to do anything because this is their plan.
Right.
They're doing what they want to do.
Sure.
And to, you know, there's people out there, and I talk to a lot of people, and someone's saying, what's the big deal?
It's just a bunch of birds.
I was like, first of all, it could be a raccoon and a squirrel like we saw in New York.
It could be Fred and Peanut.
This is about absolute government tyranny, the illogical application of unscientific rules, the misappropriation or disappropriation of property rights of the citizens, because some administrative body comes in, the CFIA, which has their tweets protected on Twitter, a government body.
We got to kill your animals because they were infected.
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We don't want to do any more tests.
And then they want to still kill the animals five months later, even though they're all healthy.
And they want to kill them a year later, even though they're all healthy.
And they have the backing of the federal court and the court of appeal to say, yep, your decision at the time was rational.
So let's not look at the evolution of science and facts.
Let's just go kill your animals and shut your mouths, lowly plebs.
You are subjects and not God-given right-free citizens.
This is a problem of government.
It's a problem of Canadian government.
And the conservatives seem to be not just silent, but complicit in it.
And it's a big, big problem.
It is a big deal.
And it also, there are historical ties that go along with livestock and pet killing initiatives by communist governments that advance the erosion of private property, that normalize this behavior.
When the government comes in and takes your stuff, there's nothing you can do about it.
It's the government's not yours, you see.
And so this is a real warning for the people of Canada that something terrible is happening, unfolding right now in our neighbor's yard.
Okay.
And we need all of the eyes of the world on this because if it can happen here, it can happen anywhere.
Well, and I think the solution here is political pressure.
The ag minister and the health minister, they need to be relentlessly hammered on this issue.
I might get stung by a wasp live on air, but they need to be relentlessly hammered on this issue because right now it's before the activist courts because the CFIA dragged it there.
They need the minister to say, get this out of the courts.
Stop this cull order.
Who's the CFIA but a rogue agency right now?
Who's in charge of them?
It's before the activist courts.
We saw what the activist courts think about public health over the last five years.
I have to tell you, I'm not building out a lot of hope for the Supreme Court to do the right thing here.
I am grateful that the birds have a stay of execution.
And as Viva says, put pressure.
This is not the time to take the foot off the gas pedal.
But to think that the courts are going to do the right thing for once, I am skeptical.
It's some just who's in charge of the CFIA.
Well, it's Paul McKinnon, the president, who also had this is not, it's not like a rogue agency.
It's a Soviet administrative agency.
Hyperbolic.
It's a terrorist organization.
It's not because it's coming from the government that it's not terrorist organizations that are coming in inflicting violence and force for the purposes of promoting their political agenda.
It's the definition of state terrorism.
And the problem is the courts come in and ratify it because it's all one big club.
And it's the idea that Sheila, to your point also, but this skipping to pets, to other livestock.
The ostriches are non-migratory birds.
They're not for human beings.
So why the Canadian Food Inspection Agency even has jurisdiction is an issue.
But set that aside.
They're non-migratory.
The argument is that birds come in contact with them.
So the birds might reinfect them and then spread it somewhere else.
Who knows?
So we got to kill the animals that don't move anywhere.
Well, that's going to be true of dogs.
It's going to be true of cats.
It's going to be true of goats, everything that's on a farm, and that they can come in and say, sorry, we kill it now.
Even though they're healthy, even though they may have been infected but survived and might have stronger antibodies, we own your property because that's what communism is.
Yeah, and that is true.
We saw Global News musing that the other day.
Don't you know your cat might be asymptomatic of the avian flu because they go outside and they munch on some birds and then they bring it in their house.
And then we go back to this whole asymptomatic spreader theory that we heard during COVID.
And for me, that just means they're not sick and you're speculating because you don't know anything about what's going on here.
Or you tested with a PCR test that has a cycle rate of four like bits of whatever that are no longer even live.
It is, I don't think it drives me nuts when people say they're just birds or other people say, well, they were doing experiments.
They were doing scientific research on these birds in any event.
So dot dot dot.
So dot dot dot does not mean the government comes so nothing.
Nothing.
If you don't like what they're doing, go contest what they're doing.
If you think they're just birds and we eat ostriches anyhow, well, that's fine.
But the rules of the game are you have an ostrich farm for food and there's one outside of Montreal.
Everybody should be paying attention to this.
But it's the absolute abusiveness, arbitrariness, and lack of scientific value and lack of any scientific backing of this decision.
And right now, like in all Soviet regimes, they never arrested an innocent person because if they arrested someone by definition, they would be guilty.
If the communists admitted they arrested an innocent person, they would admit fallibility.
So they came out with this idiotic edict in December 2024, and now they've got to carry it out.
Otherwise, people might realize, oh, they made a mistake and they almost got away with that mistake.
Right.
And it's also part of this ongoing war, memory holing of the conf now.
She's freezing up.
She froze a little bit.
Well, we'll continue on, Viva.
Something you just said piques my attention because not only is this completely devoid of scientific backing, but would you be surprised to know if the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has spent the last five years developing?
Sorry.
Oh, no, Sheila, you froze out for the last 30 seconds.
Sorry, babe.
Sorry.
Sorry, babe.
That's okay.
I knew I would at some point.
Do you want to repeat what you just said?
Sure.
I was just saying that this is really part of this broader war on the concept of natural immunity that started during COVID.
So these birds are naturally immune to the avian flu.
They have the antibodies.
Their antibodies are present in the eggs.
And during COVID, remember, there was no such thing as natural immunity.
If you got COVID and recovered, you still needed to get two doses of the first vaccines that you could get your hands on, mix and match.
It didn't matter.
That was the advice, right?
And so these birds would be used in research, done with natural immunity, those natural antibodies.
And right now, big pharma is real excited about different biotechnologies in vaccines.
And so these birds, even though they were going to remember these birds, even though they have natural immunity, she's going to say.
Sheila, until she until she unfreezes.
You know, my underlying now, call it a conspiracy theory, and it might prove to be true is that the only thing that can explain the complicity or silence of the Conservative Party is that they too are bought and paid for and owned by big pharma.
There's no other, nothing else can explain this.
And that there is a pharmaceutical interest in stamping out whatever natural immunity these birds have.
And even if I'm wrong on that, and they're just totally incompetent and detached and living in their Ottawa ivory towers, even if I'm wrong on the theory, it doesn't change the underlying problem here.
The problem is government abuse, the arbitrary application of unscientific measures to deny people of property.
And I say that, you know, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It's an American concept.
That is what's at issue here.
Sheila Yig froze after, now I forgot to.
Even though they're naturally immune, is what I think you were saying, Sheila.
So as I'm, as I repeatedly have tried to say, although the internet is not cooperating with me, they have to kill these birds because they are naturally immune.
And we don't have that concept in our life anymore since COVID, right?
We were all supposed to take a biotechnology vaccine instead of just developing natural immunities.
And so the natural immunities that these birds have are being used in research.
And that research will die with these birds.
And the facts are 9 million birds have been culled in British Columbia because of the avian flu.
9 million.
These 400 ostriches may hold the key to stopping that.
And so not only could they potentially save the lives of humans exposed to the avian flu, but also protect the entire poultry industry.
And yet the CFIA is hell-bent on killing them because they need to stamp out this idea of natural immunity.
I was even just trying to steel man the argument for which the CFIA claims they need to be killed.
They are not infected right now.
As far as anybody, they refuse to do more tests and they refuse to allow the farm to do tests to see if they even have live.
I mean, I guess the argument that, as far as I can understand it, is that they might have live strains on them that they're not susceptible to, that they might spread to migratory birds.
So that's why you need to kill them.
But they literally, by court order, prevented the farm from doing any additional tests to see if any of the birds are even asymptomatically infected.
And there's no innocent explanation for that.
There's no innocent explanation for the refusal to do more tests to determine what they might have by way of live virus.
And if they do, in fact, have antibodies and they did, in fact, live through a more severe strain, which was the latest retesting of the two tests they did in December 2024, that they were allowed to adduce as new evidence into this case while the farm was not allowed to put in new evidence.
Even if they did suffer from the more lethal strain and they survived.
That's even more of a reason not to kill them, to adhere to RFK JR'S request to keep these animals for scientific research, and an angle that i've been exploiting is like to kill these birds.
It's not just unscientific, it's not just abusive, it's not just inhumane, it's an overt act of disrespect to the Trump administration, which offered and you know and, and Trump should threaten to and or impose tariffs if Canada goes through on this, and I know it's a punishment on the people.
It's the only way.
Somehow that you know, maybe the conservatives will wake up more tariffs, that would be it.
That would be a fast way to get the attention of the government of Canada, the people of Canada and the opposition all at the same time.
Okay, if Trump starts talking about this and he should, and he absolutely should uh, this this would kick into real high gear real fast, because not only has the Canadian FOOD Inspection Agency completely abandoned scientific research in all of this, but they've spent the last five years on developing and implementing an extensive Dei program within within the Canada FOOD Inspection Agency.
So they're not interested.
They're not interested in being responsive to the farmers, to the egg producers, to the poultry producers.
They're not interested in that.
All you want to know what they're interested in, their diversity, hiring quotas.
You won't, you won't guess what diversity group the CFIA is interested in, people with disabilities.
So they've spent five years, the last five years, not fine-tuning their policies, not becoming more accountable to the people that they serve, but instead spending millions of dollars uh, figuring out how to make the CFIA the most accessible workplace for disabled people.
Make it make sense?
Well, what doesn't make sense is that these birds are so deadly that they need to be executed, that they need to drag this farm to court over and over again.
They need to arrest the owners of the birds psychologically, torture them sheila, they're torturing these poor farmers.
After we hit that break, i'll go through the chaos of the last 24 hours and i'm just a bystander to it.
Um, but the cops like, see the police tape here.
I can walk through this police tape and go lean on the fence.
The birds can peck me if I wanted them.
To the cops over there.
They're leaning on the fence talking To each other, does it seem like this thing is full of deadly pathogens?
Nobody believes that.
Not the CFIA, certainly not the cops, whom I really believe do not want to be here.
They've taken a very hands-off approach.
But nobody believes that these birds are dangerous.
Not the CFIA, not the cops, not anybody, because this is not being treated like a biosecure facility.
And I have been on poultry facilities and pork facilities that are actually biosecure.
This ain't it.
And not just that, the Soviet show trial that they have to go through once they make the decision to bring in the bales of hay, then they decide to like that.
That was when the wind changed directions.
But I want to highlight this because I did tweet out yesterday that Trump should threaten tariffs.
I want to highlight, like, I've been saying for a while that Canada, through its liberal government, has caused itself to be a national security threat to the United States of America.
China recently with the drug, the fentanyl, everything.
If they go ahead and cull these birds, that could provide a solution to the rest of the world and to the United States as well under this new Trump administration.
It's not just an act of disrespect, it's an act of oppression.
And for them to say, Mr. President, you're looking at this.
They thumbed their nose at your administration by saying, We don't need to give you these birds, even though you've asked for them.
Your head of HHS has asked for them for scientific purposes.
A big middle finger to you?
That's not just an act of disrespect.
It's an act that endangers the American population for whatever scientific value these birds might have.
And you should treat it as such.
And maybe that'll put the pressure on the Kearney administration, which seems to be malleable to this type of economic pressure.
And maybe it'll wake up the conservatives to the idea that, whoa, maybe now we can use this as a tax to go after the liberals.
But no, Trump has to pay attention to this.
I don't know how much higher it can get than RFK Jr. in the first place, but I'm putting that message on blast and I implore everyone to share it as well.
Yeah, all I know is that whatever they're doing here is the opposite of protecting the poultry industry.
This is destroying the poultry industry by destroying the potential solution to the avian flu.
Olivia, maybe I can't hear you, but I think it's probably time to hit an ad break.
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I just saw something breaking, and I should tell you that I have been in communication with somebody in Daniel Smith's office.
And they told me that they are watching what's unfolding here at the ostrich farm very closely.
And she and Doug Ford, of all people, were at a joint press conference where they spoke out against the culling of the ostriches.
Maybe Olivia can show that.
I haven't watched it yet.
I just saw that it had happened during the break.
And if Olivia can queue that up, we can all watch and react together.
Hi, Mickey here with Politico.
This question is for Smith and Ford.
I was speaking with John Catsamatides regarding the ostrich situation in BC.
He had a meeting yesterday with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz on this matter.
He essentially wants the PM to intervene in the case and he said that he's spoken to both of you on this issue as well.
Will you be applying pressure to the PM on this?
And do either of you have any issues or any concerns about the federal government's treatment of farmers, particularly in this case?
Well, I have asked my agriculture minister to look into it to see if we had a similar situation in Alberta.
What would we be able to do differently?
And one of the things that I think is worth looking at is when avian flu went through that herd, it did kill 20% of them, but it didn't kill 80% of them.
So maybe there is something to learn from whether there's an immunity or some kind of vaccine that could be developed as a result of having that flock survive.
I think that maybe we have to think about different ways to do animal husbandry and animal safety.
And why not try a different approach?
So I'm open-minded to see if there's any persuasion on that.
I gather that the U.S. government is interested in partnering with BC if they wanted to do that.
I'd be supportive of that because you can see that this case has really taken on a lot of public sentiment behind it.
And if we can find a better way than doing mass coles in any situation like this, I think it's probably worth it to try to find a better way to do it.
I don't know if you've got a thought.
Yeah, no, I've talked to John many times about these ostriches.
I'm an animal lover, full disclosure, and I want to do everything I can to help him.
I think he had a plan to bring him down to Florida as well and to a sanctuary down there.
So anything John needs, I'm always there to support him.
He's a good man.
He cares for animals.
And he puts his money where his mouth is, too, when it comes to making sure that he protects all animals.
So thank you.
Kind of surprised Scott Moe didn't have anything to say there.
Well, specifically, he wasn't asked.
Like the question was poised to, I could, and I kept an eye on him.
And his responses, although not verbal, were still appropriate.
So yes.
It would be nice, though, to hear one of these people to be onside the farmers.
You know what I mean?
Like, I know that the animals are important, but we need somebody speaking up for farmers in this moment.
And where is our agriculture?
Our federal ag minister, well, he's highfalutin in the Ottawa bubble right now.
He's too busy.
They're much, much too busy to deal with little matters like this that have been dragging on for the last eight months.
Yes.
It's the so-called progressive conservative who has said something before the leader of the opposition of the Conservative Party at the federal level.
It's pathetic.
It's pathetic.
I don't think it's possible to come back from this.
My joke is that politics business.
If anybody wanted to vie for the leadership of the Conservative Party, all they have to do now is grab a bullhorn, get out to Edgewood, and stand with the people and demand that they not go through with this call.
That's all they have to do.
Then I don't know how the mechanics work.
You know, they'll have a leadership race.
That will be the actual leader of the actual opposition of a so-called conservative party.
The ostriches are the litmus test for the Conservative Party, is what you're saying, Viva.
Do you know what?
That's a great point because you know what was a litmus test for the Conservative Party leadership before?
The truckers.
Agreed.
Right.
Oh, read Sheila Gunread when you think about it.
Sure.
Because we were suffering under Aaron O'Toole.
What do you call him, Sheila Gunread?
A vanilla?
No.
No, vegetable lasagna.
Vegetable lasagna conservative.
And Pierre Polyev showed up to support the truckers in person.
And guess who became the leader of the Conservative Party?
Pierre Polyev.
We need to see this same Pierre Polyev emerge onside these farmers in Edgewood, BC in this moment, not whatever they're concentrating on in Ottawa or whatever they think is important today there.
My strategy might not be the best to manipulate the behavior that we would want out of Pierre, but I sincerely think it's too late for Pierre.
This is reputationally unsalvageable damage that he's done for no better reason.
What I would love to imagine is that there are other politically savvy and politically ambitious people within the Conservative Party that were saying, I don't want to embarrass Pierre.
I'll give him his window to do the right thing and say the right thing now that he hasn't done it.
And now that everyone in the base is pissed, and I mean everyone.
Well, now, hey, I'm sorry, Pierre, you had your chance to be the hero and you balked.
Now maybe a farm Baber comes up and says, This is what we need to do.
I'm so happy you mentioned it, Viva, because all of the conservative bro friends, like our little, our little cozy group of conservative bro friends, are all screaming at the top of their lungs at Pierre Polyev to say something, to do something, to get involved in this moment.
And this, this could be a moment where he could see some of that base just peel off to the side, going, well, maybe he's not our guy after all.
Like that's a real, that's a real danger for him right now.
I don't know if you guys know who Pleb the reporter is.
Yeah, yeah.
Yep.
Inadvertently, or I would say just maybe accidentally ratioed Pierre so hard yesterday on one of Pierre's posts where he Pierre puts up a rant.
I think it was about the gun confiscation, Ben.
And Pleb replies, read the room.
This is not what conservatives are concerned with on this particular day.
He doubled, he ratioed him by a factor of two to one.
And that's Pleb.
That's the man who people were accusing of being on Pierre's payroll during the election.
I'm not making that accusation.
He was a true believer during the election and was truly disappointed.
We had fights during the election because he said, Viva, you're not helping.
I'm like, first of all, if they follow my advice during the election, it would help, but they didn't and they suffered the consequences.
He got ratioed by Pleb and it was humiliating.
So I think it's too late.
Well, and here's the thing.
You're allowed to tweet out two things on a day, right?
Like you can send out a strong messaging on the gun grab.
I care deeply about that.
But I'm also a farmer.
I care about this.
I care about property rights.
I care about government overreach.
I care about a return to science and reality.
And the liberals have been anti-science, anti-property rights, and anti-reality for five long years with very little opposition.
Ostrich Pen Fire Crisis00:10:52
And so, you know, he could have come out real strong on the gun grab and then real strong on the ostriches.
I mean, this has been a crazy 24 hours at the ostrich farm.
Like crazy.
I don't know if you guys want a recap of just a lot of people.
Yes, we absolutely do.
Like 20 hours.
So Drea and I sleep in our clothes around here because we never know what's going to happen.
Now, the warrant says that the cops in the CFIA aren't really allowed to do anything between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
So we sort of wake the clock out and then we go to sleep and then we sort of get up at, well, I don't know, Madre, but I get up at five.
I'm a farmer.
I get up early anyways.
I get up at five and sort of do everything I need to do before it's go time, right?
Because you never know what's going to happen.
So yesterday on the farm, everybody was really hopeful for a stay.
And then that didn't come.
And then all of a sudden, Katie, Kissy, and her mom are arrested inside the ostrich pen because they wouldn't leave the ostrich pen.
And I understand, Sheila, that they were sort of lured away from you guys and into a private area where they were arrested.
So as it sits right now, I'm literally, there's the fence, like the police take the ostriches are right there.
And right there is the camp.
And so nobody is allowed with the ostriches.
Apparently the CFIA and the RCMP have care and control of the ostriches right now.
Katie and her mom were inside the ostrich pen refusing to leave.
And they arrested them inside the pen and took this, spirited them away to a place up the road where they're staging everything and basically processed them and let them go.
I think under section 35 of the Health of Animals Act, and then release them.
So now they're not allowed back in the ostrich pen, of course.
We didn't know when they would be back, what was happening.
We just knew they had been arrested.
Then somebody donates a helicopter ride to us.
Like the Chopper 5 situation, Sheila Gunri and Drea Humphrey at Chopper 5, live reporting from the ostrich Waco of Canada.
Yes.
Sorry, go ahead.
What were the charges?
Was it obstruction as far as I understood?
Section 351 of the Health of Animals Act.
So I think that is breaking the quarantine that's there.
Get arrested.
Sorry, go ahead.
In contact with the and when they get arrested, they don't put them in hazmat suits.
Nobody's wearing face masks.
They come in contact with them, despite the lethal strain of H5N1 that these birds are alleged to have had nine months ago.
And so they just deal with them like regular people without any risk of any sort of infection.
Right.
Yes.
Yeah.
So there's that.
And then we got a helicopter ride donated to us.
We had to find a place to park the helicopter because we can't go near the ostriches with it.
It freaks them out.
The police drones freak them out.
So we were able to get a donated spot to land the helicopter.
And we used the helicopter to track down the hay bales that were coming in.
And we were able to watch the hay bales being deployed to obscure the view from the highway for what would be the cull down the, you know, we thought the cull might happen yesterday afternoon, but definitely today if a stay didn't come.
And so we were able to watch that happen.
And, you know, you could see there's fence fencing up the road.
That's where Drea is right now, where they were going to use hay bales on one side and then fencing on the other to sort of make a kill pen.
So they would sort of bring them in and then kill them in there away from the road, but also away from the other ostriches.
So they don't have anywhere to go.
And as someone who hunts, we all know like penned hunting is highly, highly unethical.
It's highly inhumane.
But that's what they were going to do to these ostriches.
So we make it through the night, but not entirely because 4 a.m. police cars, fire trucks, a fire breaks out in the hay bales.
And so the hay bales at the CFIA cricked in yesterday to set up this kill pen and to obscure the view from the highway.
Those were on fire this morning.
Started about 4, 5-ish by the time we got to it.
And so we don't really know the state of the bales.
It seems like the fire started on the inside.
But that is a big, embarrassing black mark on the RCMP because they're supposed to have control of this property here.
Like there are cops everywhere.
So as you know, I know a little bit about hay as my local hay oligarch in my community.
And so hay can start on fire if it is bailed up, wet, and it becomes combustible.
But that usually doesn't happen in the cold, damp dead of night.
Like this.
Something happens.
I don't know if it's arson.
I don't know if something happened.
I don't know what the theories are, but it is my experience as someone who knows a little bit about hay moisture, that those decomp fires don't generally start in the middle of a night, when it's like seven degrees and super damp.
So that's and then.
But am I going?
Yesterday video of a guy carrying a can of gas being shrieked at by a woman on a property, or the day before, did you not see that?
I didn't see that.
But there are generators everywhere, so there are reasonable excuses for why someone might be wandering around with a jerry can, but but not by the, not by the cull pen, sheila gunread, certainly not by the cull pen right, and you can't get there.
So I don't know what where the police asleep at the switch.
You know there has been some friction with the neighbors here.
As you know, there were birds that were shot here that have never been explained.
Now these bales start on fire where the ostriches were to be penned.
Is that a supporter?
Is it something that happened?
Naturally, is it the neighbors, the like there's?
There are hate groups dedicated to hating on this farm too, so that it's just been a crazy day, and then all of a sudden we get a stay.
So it was just been an emotional roller coaster for everybody here, but but what a failure of the of the public institutions that are supposed to be keeping a safe bubble around this place.
Like just yesterday, on the live stream, we talked about the incendiary nature of hay bales and, like these are obviously two group groups, both law enforcement and the Canadian FOOD Inspection Agency, that have that have absolutely no idea what they're doing, because anybody that knows anything knows that hay bales can start on fire, they are very flammable and this was a risk and they they um, I I mean they,
they increased the risk with their silly plan here.
I mean, what are these what?
It is a failure on every single level imaginable that there was, that there was a fire last night.
And and you know what the worst parts of me are are saying, you know the conspiracy theorist thoughts of me, thoughts of me are saying, well, you know, this could just be a diversion.
You know what I mean.
Because, because then law enforcement or the Canadian FOOD Inspection Agency can say, this is a danger, this could have caused a wildfire, this could have caused, this could have caused loss of animal or human life, and away you all go, and so I don't trust anything that's happening here right now.
And so, Sheila Gun read that you and Dre are there full time, suspending your lives to bring us every bit of breaking news.
It is so important to keep an eye on this.
So thank you.
Oh, you're welcome.
Uh, i'm.
I might go start my journey home this afternoon because there's a stay, so I don't know.
You know what, what can we do here?
It's just hurry up and wait um, but yeah, the the idea that the police have care and control of this property um, but they obviously didn't secure it because a fire broke out.
Um, I thought, and i'm actually i'm quite amazed that they didn't get a court order to to clear out the camp because, you know, to to get everybody out of here, because obviously they need to secure the place.
Um, and they were unable With the volume of people that are here.
And I think there's probably 100 or so people that are sort of here all the time.
You know, there are vehicles that come and go.
But I thought, oh, darn, this fire is going to be their excuse to get rid of everybody.
The fire and I'm like, you know, history doesn't repeat, but it tends to rhyme.
And then I immediately thought of Waco, where, you know, oh, a fire occurs by the fire, or they start going crazy because ostriches are very nervous and then they have to shoot them because they start stampeding.
And, you know, it wasn't, oh, it was beyond our control.
I will find out.
I presume there's enough surveillance that they'll see how the fire who started it.
I am, you know, it's up in the air as to whether or not it was someone who thought they were doing something good by doing this or someone who thought they were assisting with the police, whether or not it was some sort of RCMP goon who sets the fire and the crisis that ensues.
Oh, they died from smoke inhalation.
So, you know, not even our fault anymore.
Nothing is beyond what they would do.
Sheila, do we have an update on the condition of the birds post-fire?
Like, do we know that they're okay?
Because the owners aren't being allowed into the pen, yes?
So it sounds as though all the birds are fine because they weren't forced into that enclosure yet.
So they were just, there are three, maybe four pens.
You can actually, from our footage in the air, you can actually see the bird enclosures with the barns and you can see where they're making the little fence there.
And they had not been forced into there.
So the birds were, as far as we know, unharmed.
But I know that the farmers are very concerned about the welfare of these birds because they have not been allowed to feed them.
And, you know, now they're, I mean, the whole valley was filled with smoke.
Like when we were driving up there, like you had to slow down.
It was like driving in thick fog because of the just the sheer amount of smoke coming off these hay bales.
She Deserves an Award!00:03:47
Sorry.
That might be me.
How does it go through?
Notifications turned off and it's still going through on my phone.
Sorry about that.
Could be me.
It could be me.
I'm in the middle of nowhere.
Broadcasting.
It is.
It's an attractive, it's insane.
The CFIA, it's a rogue agency, literally unaccountable to the people that they are allegedly supposed to represent.
For the people who are unfamiliar with administrative law under the Canadian system, you're seeing it.
This is an organization.
In America, they overturned the Chevron decision, which was deferenced to these administrative.
In Canada, it's the exact opposite.
You have these administrative bodies, which are supposed to be specialty courts, that basically, you know, create their own rules, interpret their own rules, apply this, and then carry out the executions.
And the federal courts come in and say, well, we've got to defer to the authorité of the CFIA.
The organization should be disbanded, defunded.
And if we had a real opposition in Canada, they would be clamoring for that right now and asking why the Canadian Food Inspection Agency even has jurisdiction over an ostrich farm not been used for food for at least five years, from what I understand.
Yeah.
I think we should get to some of these chats.
And then I think we're pretty close to the top of the hour.
I'm going to check Andrea and maybe start making my way back home.
I've got a 12 or 13 hour drive ahead of me and it's already half the day through.
And I might have to turn right around and come back.
So who knows?
We have a chat from Nancy who gives us $13.99 and says, thank you for Rebel News for your tireless reporting to help the beautiful family and their ostriches.
God bless you all.
Wow, we sure appreciate that.
If you want to see all of our journalism, you can go to save theostriches.com.
But like, I am just a Johnny come lately to this story.
I am a farmer, so I care about these things.
And I knew that there was just too much happening here to expect Drea to be able to do it all by herself.
So I'm just here in assistance mode, helping Drea, who really owns the story.
And she like, when she walks through here, she's like a rock star.
Like people are stopping her high five in her and taking pictures because she's just been, she's so dedicated to being here and telling the story from the inside.
If there were actually justice in these journalist awards, she would get an award for this.
Not to undermine everybody else involved in this because she deserves an award for this.
And CBC deserves shaming and shunning.
And all the other artless that are not there 24-7 bring this to the Canadian attention.
But Drea absolutely deserves an award for this.
Yes.
I'm writing that idea down, Viva Fry, so we can have like the Independent Press Gallery of Canada awards.
We are making them happen right now.
Big bowling trophies.
Okay.
Big ones, humongous, ostentatious trophies coming to Drea Humphrey for her work on this issue.
Look at this.
Yes, this is what we're going to do.
First year lawsuit, make gavels.
Something related to journalism.
Right.
It'll be on my microphone.
The microphone.
That's it.
We're going to make that happen.
Yep.
Yeah.
She's just doing incredible work here.
I'm so proud of her.
And she's sleeping in a teepee.
It's crazy.
I mean, we are roughing it.
And at least you know, I'm a woman who can rough it, but we are, we are very, very roughing it.
Level 10 roughing it in the wilds of British Columbia, Canada.
Yeah.
Yes.
Those are our girls.
Those are our revolution girls.
Roughing It In The Wilds00:07:50
I bet you won't see the CBC doing this.
No, I don't know where they're staying, but it's not here.
Roy Ellsworth gives us $27.99 and he just reiterates they got to stay now, Viva, and the ostriches cannot be harmed until the court date.
Yeah, we went through that at the top of the show.
Pete Gilazi, Gail Ozzie, praying that Trump throws everything with Chinada out the window, no trade period, no military support period, no travel period, and expel all diplomatic staff as well as Pole Embassy.
Okay.
Nana Awake, who's a regular chatter, regular donor, says Canada needs to disband the CFIA.
It should be restructured at the provincial level.
Yes.
Agreed.
We just heard Danielle Smith and Doug Ford say that they could do a better job.
Daniel Smith always, she always thinks the province can do a better job, and she ain't wrong.
She says, and consists of minimum 30% farmers, 30% agrologists or agronomists, 30% animal husbandry science, and at most 10% bureaucracy.
I agree.
0% DEI in there.
0%.
Yes.
And that's the way it should be done.
C700 Angus gives us five bucks.
Where are all the farm organizations who are supposed to represent and support farmers in dealing with governments?
Great question.
They don't really exist.
Nana Awakes gives us 10 bucks and says, Katie and Karen were told they could feed the animals one last time.
Then they were arrested for disobeying the order.
It's all suspect.
I appreciate people saying the RCMP look like they don't want to be there.
They are there to facilitate the CFIA's mission.
So as much as they might be reluctant or just following orders, they're complicit.
They're actual participants.
And you can't trust the police in the best of times, let alone in the worst of times.
And I say that as someone who generally, as a rule, backs the blue.
Don't talk to police.
And it looked like a scam and it looked like a setup.
And it turns out that it probably very well was one.
Right, well, and this is a story of priorities because, right next to well, about a seven-hour drive, which in Canada is really nothing, it's really nothing.
There's a five-year-old with autism that's currently missing in the wilds of Alberta.
And here, seven hours away in Edgewood, British Columbia, we have a whole troop of RCMP concentrating on this ostrich story.
You think that those resources might be better spent looking for the little missing lost autistic child in Alberta, maybe, RCMP?
Maybe that would be a better use of your resources.
Maybe you could pull a little bit of positive PR out of this, but as it stands, and the way that this is all just unfolding, it just looks bad on everybody.
Yeah, uh, the last uh chat here is along the same veins.
Hopefully, my internet connection hangs on for a couple more minutes.
Um, it's from Silverfeet, gives us five bucks, and it's related to something I said on a live stream from the farm here.
I took a little bit of heat from the people here, um, but because I don't like them screaming at the top of their lungs at the cops, and I understand that everybody's angry, and that anger has to go somewhere.
But the real villains are those CFIA ghouls hiding at the back, and their boss is sitting in a cubicle somewhere making decisions to ruin people's lives who don't have to face the people.
That's the those are the real bad guys.
And I have a unique perspective on this because I was uh at the Whistle Stop Cafe for months, really, until the RCMP locked up the diner and the gas station and the campground.
And basically, it was a collective punishment on the entire town.
But that was at the that was at an order issued by Jason Kenney's Alberta Health Services.
And Staff Sergeant Bruce Holiday was the cop, the local cop, he was in Bashaw and then Stettler, Alberta, who had to go back and forth and be the face of Alberta Health Services because that was his job.
And he's a friendly guy.
You could tell he just did not want to be there.
And then we found out that Bruce took his life.
And so we don't know, we don't know the cost to these guys for doing this job.
And I'm trying to channel my inner Erica Kirk and try to have a little bit of Christian charity for them.
And, you know, oh, we don't know what they're struggling with.
And I just try to remember that.
Well, that's another part of this, though, is part of this lands on the shoulders of RCMP brass who are letting their guys put their guys in danger, especially since over 60% of RCMP members have a diagnosable mental health issue, okay, because of the kind of work that they do.
So you're putting these guys in an inherently risky situation that would further perhaps harm them by making them the villains in their own communities by making them be the bad guys.
Like this is a failure of the RCMP, too.
Sure, it is.
She likes, I appreciate, and especially you don't want to be unforgiving with the people who might be in the most immediate position to make the change.
The destruction is not just outwardly directed, it is inwardly directed as well.
I didn't hear that tragic, and there's no, but this is where just saying no, I appreciate they're just following when the armed when the armed branch of the government is just following orders to enforce administrative body, they don't get to wash their hands of it and say, Well, we're just doing if none of the RCMP are there, the CFIA is not emboldened to go in and try to murder.
So they can just, I appreciate it's a job, it's an income.
Yeah, it was also a value to the dignity of one's soul.
And to just say, I agree with you.
I agree with you.
I'll share another quick just story in the same vein.
I was at Grace Life Church, I think I was there for like eight Sundays.
And I'm not Protestant, but I was there because they were holding services and they were doing it in complete disregard for the government's lockdown on churches.
And there was one cop who kept coming and coming, like he would have had to go and just document that they were holding services.
And he would, not from the congregants, don't get me wrong.
The congregants were always very understanding and exhibited the most defining example of Christian.
Oh, it's freezing at the most important part.
Sheila Gunread, where did you go?
Defining part of it.
She doesn't know that we can't hear her right now.
We'll have to get her back.
Let me read one more chat that's come in.
It's Silver.
Oh, there you are, Sheila Gunrid.
I was just going to read where you left off.
Okay, I don't know where I left off, but I was at Grace Life Church over and over and over again.
And okay, so there was a cop.
It was the same cop every Sunday.
And he would come and he would just document, yes, they're having services, blah, blah, blah.
And the protesters would give him a hard time, not the congregants, so they're just the protesters.
And I kind of pulled him aside and I said, like, why are you doing this?
And he said, Sheila, you don't want the guys at the detachment who want to come here to be the ones here.
And so it sort of kind of humanized it because, you know, in every police force, there's some aggressive head crackers.
And the guys who are reluctant to be here, actually, those are the guys I want here.
Manitoba's Truth Revealed00:08:20
That's an interesting take.
It's an interesting take.
Yeah.
And in fairness, the guys that are, the guys that are in uniform having to be there have been very, very accommodating, shall we say?
They've been cool.
They've been cool.
You know, that they honestly, when I pulled in here, I thought, okay, well, they're going to want my ID.
They're going to write down my license plate.
They're going to shine their light in my car to make sure I'm not bringing in anything stupid.
Never did that.
They're just like, oh, yeah, you're going to the camp?
Head on in.
Like they nothing.
Like they're, they're not stopping anybody.
I know there are some reports that they are stopping people, but they're just waving people in and out all day long.
So I think that's it.
And let's last word goes to Viva before we wrap it up.
Again, Viva.
Oh, wait, we've got more.
C. Angus five.
Sheila, we pay into them, but they want government table scraps.
Yeah.
Black Cats Matter, $6.99.
And Silverfeet.
Oh, he corrects me.
He says, Sheila, it wasn't you.
I was paraphrasing a blonde old lady who is sweetly talking to the police, explaining to them that they don't have to do that job because I'm currently in that cop's position exactly.
Oh, okay.
All right.
I think that's the end of the chats.
Thanks to everybody who pitched in on these chats.
That's how we keep the lights on here at Rebel News.
We don't take a penny from the government.
I want to thank Viva so much for joining us for the whole hour as a co-host.
That was fun.
We should do it more often.
And Viva, I just, I know that you've got a lot of fans here at the Ostrich Farm.
They really appreciate you getting the message out here about the horrors that loom over this farm to a broader audience and really breaking down the legal stuff because there are a lot of machinations in the legal system that lay people just don't understand.
And why would they want to?
You've done a really great job of helping us navigate that.
So we just appreciate you so much.
Thank you very much.
And I do have the luxury, the liberty, which also leads to the obligation of telling these politicians to go after themselves when they absolutely deserve it.
And I appreciate people living in Canada might not feel comfortable doing this.
I've lost that part of my inhibition, but no, this one, this story, you get personally invested in stories, and this one is outrageous that I've gotten to know Katie over the month.
I mean, I don't know how long it's been now, six months.
It's indicative outrage of the absolute state of and it's infuriating that more citizens are not up in arms, not physical arms are not outraged as to what's going on.
Yeah, I agree.
I mean, this is this is not about ostriches.
Like you don't have to like ostriches, you don't have to care about ostriches to really care about just the absolute government overreach in all directions happening here.
But you know, it's a happy day.
And I got to tell you, they never once lost hope here.
Despair never set in once here.
Everybody just was praying for their miracle and they got it today.
I'm happy to have more witness to it.
Leith, buddy, thank you so much.
Thanks for holding down the Ford the last two days while I've been horrendously busy with Drea.
Appreciate you.
Oh, well, it's my pleasure.
Love you guys.
Thanks for being here.
Everybody at the team at Rebel News and around the world at Rebel News, I should tell you guys, our Australian team is babysitting the ostrich live stream in the middle of the night while the Canadian crew is trying to get some sleep.
Special shout out to Drea and Efron and all of our web editors.
Everybody who works behind the scenes, we're just the ones on the ground, but there's a lot of moving pieces to get the news out to you.
We couldn't do any of this work without you.
If you care about the ostriches and you want to send a message to your politicians or support Drea's incredible journalism, go to savetheostriches.com.
I think that's it.
Thanks to everybody who pitches in.
Share the show, please.
Share it with your friends.
Engage with the content.
That's how we get around the censorship of the algorithm.
While Sheila's freezing, share the part about Trump.
Get Trump to tweet about this.
Get Trump the truth about this.
And that would be the game changer.
And hopefully get Rogan to talk about it, get Elon Musk to talk about it.
But that section with Trump, it's a challenge.
Make sure Trump understands this is an affront to his presidency and his administration's request, justified as it was for these birds.
Agreed.
Agreed.
It would be great to have the Americans on board.
We're luring them in.
Viva, especially with you, thanks so much for being here.
I think we may have lost Sheila Gunri just at the end of the show.
So it'll be up to me to say goodbye.
Thanks so much for tuning in today, Canada, and to our brand new international viewers, whether you be in Great Britain or Australia, or especially our friends in America.
Thanks so much for being here.
And we will see you back here, same place, same time tomorrow.
I can hear the cars starting to arrive in the ferry lineup.
So I should run back over there.
But it would appear I've got a little bit of time to wait.
But I do want to make this as normal a gun show as usual, even though I'm standing in front of a lake waiting on a ferry in the middle of British Columbia.
And as you know, the last portion of the show is yours.
So if you want to send me letters about the show, you can send it to Sheila at rebelnews.com.
Put gun show letters in the subject line so I know why you're emailing me.
And today's letters, I have it on my other phone.
This one is from Olivia Knutson.
And she says that she's loving our Western Wednesdays.
That's Western Wednesdays on the live stream.
We call it the Buffalo Panel, where myself from Northeastern Alberta and Lise from Regina bring in two Western-focused guests.
we'd spend the first half hour and sometimes the whole show talking about Western issues.
And Olivia says, loving your Western Wednesdays and all the great work you guys do bringing us the truth about what is going on in the world.
My husband is working for a farmer in Manitoba and we are trying to figure out how we could get out of the city and onto a little farm of our own.
I cannot recommend it enough.
And as it would appear, being a farmer is an act of civil disobedience in 2025 Canada.
We are concerned with what is going on around us and would love to see Manitoba show up more often in your reports.
Well, that's a great idea.
Stay tuned.
I'm considering dedicating an episode of the show to Manitoba and Saskatchewan issues, like once a month on The Gun Show.
Manitoba often feels like the middle child that gets forgotten as we don't fit in with the East or the West, and yet those areas decisions affect us deeply.
I completely agree with you.
You're a little bit close to Ontario, but you're also very Saskatchewan in your ways, just depending on which part of the province that you're in.
Well, guys, thanks for being with me.
And also a special thank you to the team back in Toronto and Tamara Ugolini, who has been filling in on other my other non-on-camera duties.
She has been doing all of her work and part of mine is I do my best to help out Drea in British Columbia, but I'm on my way home right now because there's a stay in place.
Drea is still there because, you know, things might pop off there.
I'm going to go home, regroup, check on my family, grab a bigger trailer, deal with our Starlink issue because I'm ready to come back in full force in a moment's notice.