Sheila Gunn-Reid and Lise Merle expose academic mob justice targeting Professor Frances Widdowson, who faced attacks—including equipment sabotage and physical violence—at University of Manitoba and Winnipeg events with no police action. Widdowson, fired from Mount Royal University after criticizing Black Lives Matter and defending residential school narratives, vows retaliation against critics like Carla Marks. MLA Tara Armstrong demands Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew apologize for the assaults, warning of escalating hostility toward conservatives amid treaty debates. Gunn-Reid defends her nuanced views on police and property rights, emphasizing principle over personal preferences, while Merle accuses LGBTQ+ and gender groups of hypocrisy in federal funding demands post-Pride cancellations. The episode reveals systemic suppression of dissent under the guise of progressive values. [Automatically generated summary]
What's going on at university campuses in Manitoba this Truth and Reconciliation Week?
It's wild.
I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, and you're watching The Gunn Show.
I tested out something a little while ago.
It was called the Saskatchewan Soapbox and I brought in my real life best friend, but also co-host on the Rebel News Roundup live stream on Tuesday and Wednesday, Lise Merle.
She's a resident of Regina, Saskatchewan, and another political commentator from Saskatchewan, Michael Koros.
And we discussed issues facing Saskatchewan.
And I asked you guys what you thought about it and if you thought I should continue to do it.
Overwhelmingly, you said yes, but you also said, hey, can you expand it to Manitoba?
You ask, I deliver.
I will tell you, I did get one criticism and you said it's that we were too familiar with Michael Koros.
I'll give you some background why Lise called him Mikey.
One of you was real irritated about it.
But I'm glad you wrote in so that I could explain things to you because maybe you don't know.
Lise and Michael were co-hosts, co-contributors on the John Gormley show in Saskatchewan for a very long time.
They are very close friends.
And so they are, of course, familiar with each other.
And so one of you said that it was unprofessional.
But just so you know, there's that history there.
They're very good friends.
And so out of affection, she called him Mikey.
And hopefully you guys can understand that moving forward.
But the whole you ask, I deliver.
You asked me to cover Manitoba.
And so that's what we're going to talk about today.
Professor Frances Widowson took her discussion show on the road to Manitoba, to the University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, where she was absolutely mobbed thanks to the pitchforks and torches lit by faculty members at those universities.
And so we're discussing that.
We're also discussing the fact that pride parades on the prairies, they're suffering.
They're victims, can't you see?
Because, well, I don't know, corporate sponsors have pulled out and they can't get enough money from the government to hold parades that nobody cares about, especially in places like the Mennonite community of Steinbach, Manitoba.
So Michael Koros is not on the show today.
He's traveling, but he will be back four weeks from now on the next Saskatchewan soapbox.
But I think it's more of a prairie soapbox show.
So joining me now is my friend, Lise Myrtle, to discuss those issues.
We're leaning back into our Saskatchewan Soapbox episode.
I know it's been a while since we convened our Western Prairie panel, and it's just Lise and I today because our third, Michael Koros, is traveling, but I promise we'll have him back on again very soon.
You might even be on the Buffalo panel on the daily live stream.
But I heard good things when we talked about Western-focused issues, not exclusively Alberta, but also Saskatchewan.
And we're going to get a little bit into Manitoba today, actually a lot of it into Manitoba today, because it's Truth and Reconciliation Day as we're recording this, but it is Truth and Reconciliation Week, which means a lot of apologies for things our ancestors may or may not have done to people we don't know.
A lot of public groveling and virtue signaling happening this week.
Probably more virtue signaling this week than any other week of the year.
Yes.
So as you know, joining me is my friend Lise Merle.
She's my co-host on the live stream on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and just about every single election night of any sort across this country.
Lise, I'll let you kick it off.
What is it that you want to talk about first?
Scott Moe and the most recent apology for residential schools?
Or we could talk about Frances Widowson taking on academia in our sister province of Manitoba.
Or we could talk about LGBTQ and women's groups bracing, bracing for their funding to get repealed.
We can talk about any of those things in any order you like.
Whatever you want, Sheila Gunread.
Okay, well.
Welcome to the Saskatchewan soapbox.
Just step on it and start talking.
Step onto it.
Let's talk about this one.
It is, I'm going to scroll up.
The LGBTQ plus and women's groups.
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Of course, we have to separate the two because one is antithetical to the other.
Brace for funding cuts as Ottawa looks to trim spending.
Federal minister overseeing Ottawa's gender policy.
Why do we have such a thing?
Has urged activists to speak out.
And LGBTQ Plus and women's organizations are staging an advocacy push this month on Parliament Hill.
So the minister is enlisting her army of taxpayer-funded activists to push the government to give them more money.
Trans Tifa, if you will.
The federal minister for women, Rechie Valdez, is weaponizing trans Tifa to put pressure on the federal government to keep that gravy train a rolling.
And apparently we're promised an austerity budget.
I doubt we'll see it coming on November 4th.
But Women and Gender Equality Canada says that the potential is that funding will drop from $407 million this year to $76 million the year after and cut a bunch of bureaucrats down to half.
And it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.
I don't even believe that this ministry should exist because my women's issues are taxation, jobs, just like everybody else.
And this has just become a petri dish for trans issues and gender issues, which are, I think, antithetical to civilization, but particularly weaponized against Christians and families.
Yes, without question.
So Faye Johnstone, good old Faye Johnstone, aka Zach Johnstone, head of the advocacy group Queer Momentum, who was PS working with Saskatchewan and Alberta educators in the lead up to the last election, municipal election cycle, told the reception, oh P.S., this is a group of people.
Sheila Gunnread made this point before.
Sheila Gunnreid.
They don't have any money.
They're complaining about not having any money, but what do they still have enough money for?
Parties for themselves.
Parties for themselves.
Told this fancy, schwanky reception that a right-wing backlash against LGBTQ plus rights is hitting transgender people like her himself particularly hard as profits seek to restrict access to medical services and youth outreach.
He says, when you listen to the voices of the trans confused kids in Saskatchewan and Alberta, you know that that shame is being taught once more.
So just for the record, this is a person that literally flew across the country to campaign for the NDP in Saskatchewan.
This was a person that is liaising with the crazy gender activists within Saskatchewan education, specifically the Regina Public School Division, P.S. Visit firetheschoolboard.com to get rid of those lunatics.
But here's a person who is in deep grief because they realize that their multi-million dollar gravy train is going off the tracks.
And good.
As long as women's organizations are prioritizing mentally deluded men who think they're women, well, then they're not women's organizations at all, are they?
So good.
I hope they lose every penny of funding.
I hope these guys all have to go get regular jobs.
You know, I would love to see Zach Johnstone working in a Home Depot.
I'd love it.
Nice little orange, orange apron, although he probably wanted for the kitchen.
Who knows?
Right.
Well, and like, this is a neat little trick that the liberals play here because the feds give them money and then they turn around and ask the feds for more money.
It's crazy.
And then they take that money and then fight against parents because the feds have no jurisdiction in education.
So what they do is they fund these activist groups to take on the provinces who are acting on behalf of the parents.
This is how they get around jurisdictional issues.
John Stone even admits it.
John Stone said his group is ramping up lobbying on the hill to ensure and safeguard that funding and those supports that our community relies upon.
Yeah.
Yes, the funding.
This is because it's not a grassroots thing.
This is a top-down, federally funded, crazy initiative that has gotten so far out of control that it just needs to be burned to the ground and salt the earth around it.
The end.
All of this gender madness has to end.
But no, like Sheila, so you said that the federal government funds these NGOs, these radical gender NGOs, to then do things like write letters to the government.
What are they doing with government money?
The government pays radical gender people to write letters so the government can receive.
Right.
You know what I mean?
The government is paying itself.
It's a neat scam because then the government will say, we've got half a million letters.
We must act.
And it's like you paid someone to send those letters.
It's like buying Twitter followers.
There's a contract.
Like they're bragging about it on the internet.
Look, there's a whole campaign to back it up, to bolster it.
It is crazy to think that this has any support amongst conservative or common sense or traditional people in Canada is just ridiculous.
And I believe when the true cost of all of these initiatives over all of the years comes out, Canadians are going to be rightfully, unjustifiably outraged.
And the next part of this I find extra despicable in the wake of the execution of Charlie Kirk, in the wake of Catholic schools being shot up by trans radicals, they go on to blame.
far-right extremism.
By far-right extremism, they mean, I don't know, the Knights of Columbus, parents.
Bryce Field of Fierte Canada Pride, which advocates for Pride Festivals, said far-right violence and threats are causing Pride organizers to scale back their festivals entirely.
What are you talking about?
You people are shooting our side.
And that's despite the fact that Ottawa has allocated $1.5 million to Pride Festival Security over three years.
Yes.
And not only that, but Pride Festivals are losing their sponsorships in alarming numbers.
Well, thank God.
We had every major banking institution, every major insurance institution, every retail institution, every like Pride was co-opted by these companies who thought it was a great idea and then realized that the pushback or the backlash to their support of these highly contested issues in the communities that they were supporting wasn't paying off in the end.
So instead of acknowledging that this is something that the market doesn't support and that their sponsors are bailing out on, what they're saying is, quickly, government of Canada, give us bags of gold to make up for the shortfall.
We'll spend it on security.
Okay.
Their security is nothing more than their own members in stupid little vests with whistles.
Okay.
That is all their security is.
And yet here they blame us.
Here they blame us.
Far more extremism.
The Manitoba Pride.
Get all the way.
Sorry.
Yeah, I know.
Sorry.
I know.
I know.
Until we realign those chakras, get all the way bent.
The Manitoba Pride Allowance announced this month that Steinback Pride, that's a Mennonite community, by the way, had to cancel its festival due to credible safety threats connected to far-right extremism.
The pacifist Mennonites are coming to get you.
How about nobody cares in Steinbach, in a conservative part of that province?
They go on to say.
There's a significant amount of Pride festivals in this country that are not going to have access to the funds to keep their communities safe.
Why do you need a Pride Festival?
Why do you, you're not entitled to this.
It's not a human right to have a Pride Festival.
That's right.
My co-workers are just trying to make sure that the people in the parade aren't going to be, and let's be honest, are hoping that we don't get shot.
We're not the victims!
Isn't this gross?
This is projection on the absolute greatest scale imaginable.
We're all learning and acknowledging that trans-related left-wing activism comes with a much, much greater risk of severe violence.
Okay, severe violence, whether it's against women and children or whether it's against people like Charlie Kirk.
And here you have, here you have a pride representative saying, we just don't want to happen to us what we've been doing to them.
You see?
Make it make sense, Sheila Gunread.
And they get paid to do this.
They get paid to be delusional.
Like, just imagine.
Imagine saying that after Charlie Kirk gets killed.
Imagine saying that after a Catholic school gets shot up.
Imagine saying that after last year's, or maybe it was earlier this year's deranged trans school shooter.
I mean, it never ends.
Nobody is shooting up the Pride parade.
Nobody.
Like literally, we just stay away.
We just stay away and look at the pictures after and go, who would support this?
Who supported this?
This is real interesting, though, this next part, Sheila Gunnry.
Can I?
Oh, go ahead.
Go ahead first.
No, not at all.
You go.
So this article goes on to say, this year's Pride Caucus events included conservatives.
No Tory senators or MPs attended last year's event.
MPs Scott Acheson and Greg McClain attended this year's Pride Caucus along with various liberal NDP and Bloc Quétoix MPs who have been present in previous years.
The two conservative MPs who publicly identify as LGBTQ plus, and they don't.
They identify as LGBTQ.
GB.
L L G. LG, Melissa Lanceman and Eric Duncan are not part of the Pride Caucus.
Good.
No conservative worth their salt should be supporting Pride in any capacity in Canada publicly ever.
Because the thing about being conservative, it's not just about being economically or fiscally conservative.
It means being socially conservative.
And if you can point to a time when any of your grandparents went to a Pride parade and said, you know what, adopting this was great and it worked for us.
Well, then you can claim that as part of a conservative heritage.
But as long as I have a thing to say about it, conservatism means to conserve.
Right.
To save what we know works and to do that again and again and again.
And this, like, like when conservatives participate in this, they're just showing themselves to me that they should not be in the party.
Thank you.
Like, the last thing I care about is Melissa Lanceman's sexuality.
She's a phenomenal MP.
She's great on the terrorism issue.
Yep.
But that doesn't matter.
But it does concern me.
It does concern me because Melissa Lanceman has also publicly said, today is the trans day of visibility.
Everybody, look at the visible trans people.
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Melissa, we can't avoid them.
They are literally everywhere shoehorning themselves into our visible.
Shoehorning themselves into our women's institutions, our public institutions and schools across Canada.
Does Melissa Lanceman have kids?
Because if she did and they were going to Canadian public school, I think she'd have a different opinion about Trans Day of Visibility.
But until we divorce this as conservatives, 100%, it's not good enough and it won't be good enough for me.
It just has to end.
Yeah.
Okay, let's move ahead to, now that we've discussed that, got that out of our system.
Thank you.
Yes.
Yes.
I saw this post from Dallas Brody.
Oh, she's so good.
She's so good.
She is.
I'm just going to see if I can stop.
Dallas Brody is a 1BC MLA from British Columbia.
She is a truth teller, a fierce, fierce advocate for conservative values, and one of the only people who is publicly taking on the machine in British Columbia.
what did you say well let's she posted this to her ex I'm going to see if I can find it here and play it so that you can hear it.
Okay, here we go.
We begin tonight with the horrific discovery at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia.
They will shave our heads and beat the hell out of you.
These are crime scenes.
The residential schools was a genocide of our people.
215 children were found in unmarked graves.
Because of your white privilege, you can't take our truth.
The federal government is ready to dispense $10 million, $27 million to find unidentified burial sites.
We will follow the evidence.
We will follow the science.
We are here for truth telling.
Neo-tribal elites are pretending that it's been found that there's 215 children.
There's a difference between murders and children dying in the building.
There's no list of names of missing children at any of these schools.
That's been my battle for four years.
There wasn't murder.
There wasn't genocide.
Why do you think they are holding to this mass grave story?
There have been all kinds of political gains as a result of this story.
This week, the Senate passed Bill C-15 aimed at aligning Canadian law with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
That law was a surrender of the province.
They have a right to the land.
They own it.
All of it.
So is that what we're saying?
Could someone be benefiting from land being handed away willy-nilly?
They're worried about property rights and how it could possibly affect them with the Georgia legislation.
You're not getting the truth.
It feels like there is an incredible desire to keep this down.
The reaction from those with various kinds of interests will be fierce.
This member's incoherent and consistently racist posture in this house against Indigenous and First Nations people.
Denialism is hate.
Is there an end?
Are we ever done reconciling?
Why haven't you dug in the ground yet the millions of dollars you receive?
All these millions that are revenue that are going through my dad.
It's not empowering Aboriginal people at all.
Because we have no idea where all this money is going.
The journey of reconciliation is a long one, but it is a journey we are on.
Making a killing, they called it.
Making a killing?
Oh, Dallas, Brody, you go get it, girl.
And saying that there are political gains to be made during this time.
It is the reconciliation racket.
It is happening across the country, mainly in Western Canada, but it is happening across the country.
And a great many people are filling their pockets with a great many pieces of gold because of this racket.
Incredible making a killing.
What a great title.
I can't even imagine the firestorm that's coming Dallas's way, but good for her.
I'm glad she's doing this.
I see that she's included actual scholars on this, like Barry Cooper, Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science.
I saw her in this.
Jim McMurchie is in there.
Drea Humphrey is in there.
She did a documentary on the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
And there's such a key point in the documentary.
And you can find it on our YouTube page if you're looking for it, friends out there.
But when the discovery was first made at the school, which it appears to be actually a septic field, but when the discovery was first made, the band put a 200 plus wooden crosses along the highway.
Drea went there a year later and said hey, what happened to all the crosses?
Who took them down?
And the band said, we took them down because they rotted and they didn't weather.
Well, you don't say you do don't say, you don't say almost like what maybe could have happened in a graveyard.
Yes yes, um.
So uh anyways Dallas, hunker down, you're in for, you're in for the absolute worst of the worst.
And uh, she leads to publish that on today.
You know what, though?
That the, the way that these things are unfolding in Canada, is almost, almost almost always with a woman at the helm.
So we have Dallas Brody in British Columbia.
We have Frances Widdowson, who we're going to talk about in a little bit, in Alberta, amongst many, many other women who just identify some of these questions so problematic and, and in a way that don't make sense to them, they're like, listen, if there is a rational explanation, then please give it to me, but what they are going to face, and what they are facing every single day is this intense backlash?
How dare you ask questions, how dare you challenge the narrative?
Um, you must be eliminated.
And so uh, Dallas Brody, we just love you.
We are just great big, humongous fans of your work, and we need truth tellers in this world.
And so so, just all the best to her.
I can't wait to watch their film.
I can't wait.
And that Wyatt Claypool right is somehow.
Is he involved with one bc?
I believe he is, I think he is, I think he, I think he is too uh, that that he would be sort of involved, maybe in the background of this.
He's a fantastic writer and uh, and I look forward to this project.
Yeah yeah, me too.
And, you know, it's funny to recognize all those faces, like Barry Cooper.
He is a documentarian of Western Canada.
Dr. Barry Cooper.
Dr. Humphrey, who's done so much work on this.
And Michelle Sterling, who's done so much work on the history of residential schools, to see their voices, to add nuance to this discussion that is not.
black and white.
Sure you know we're and, and the truth of the matter is, 321 million Canadian taxpayer dollars right vanished, poof into the air over this issue, and and yet there are still niggling questions.
Did it actually happen the way that they said it happened?
And it increasingly, every day looks like no, it did not.
So what on earth are we doing?
Who are we funding?
Where did the money go to?
Where did the money go?
Where are we?
How are we going to stop this absolute economic hemorrhaging to virtue signaling groups who will gladly lie to take the money?
Okay, that is what they do, they lie, they take the money.
So what are we going to do to stop that?
What are we going to do to stop this rapid and vapid corruption?
Because this is an industry that popped up in the last five years, so right and, and the worst part is, it makes uber skeptics, Because then you have people who will say, like, for me, I take a nuanced approach.
Absolute Economic Hemorrhaging00:04:33
There was good, there was bad.
As is with everything in Canada's past.
Like people were products of the time in which they lived, right?
So I get it.
But you are making people skeptic to a fault when you are telling them you can't have these discussions.
You can't ask these questions.
How dare you wonder where a third of a billion dollars went?
Like, where does it go?
What did it go to?
Yes.
What's the ROI on this?
Where is the return on the investment on this?
That is exactly right.
And the intro, the opening line to that piece that Dallas Brody is going to release was they used to, what did he say?
Shave our heads and beat us.
And I went, well, that's how olden days institutions used to deal with headlights.
And also, in the olden days, we all used to get beat.
Okay, I've been spanked with more things than I can count in my life.
Deserved every last one of those spankings.
Okay.
And I never did those things again.
And I feel like in this day and age, so many belligerent, petulant young people just need a spanking and to be put to bed without dinner.
Okay, that would solve a lot of these issues.
But no.
Well, no, the story has been, the narrative has been so grossly like what's the deformed or like what you know what I mean?
Like it's just been carried away to a point where it's no longer believable to regular people.
And so this is a big problem, especially because there's a third of a billion dollars missing.
Well, honestly, the lies about this and the inability of people to talk about this or, you know, people will talk about this, but people are also worried about social cancellation because of it.
And it is, I think, driving racism against Indigenous people.
I firmly believe that.
I think that people, I do.
Because there's a lot of distrust.
And I don't, it's undoing that social cohesion.
Well, and if the government is working towards Indigenous self-governance, right?
Which I would love to see.
Of course.
If we are working towards Indigenous self-governance, then we must not have hundreds of millions of dollars go missing when it's earmarked for Indigenous initiatives.
We need Indigenous people to step up.
And you saw it there.
You saw it there.
Where they say, we just don't know where any of the money went.
There needs to be a full accounting, full transparency.
And again, Sheila Gunread, in the new country, we're not going to make these mistakes and we're not going to participate in this in this charade.
Sure.
Sure.
You know, and just to like fully form my idea that, you know, like I see this lack of accountability in the Indigenous industry, it does, I think, foment a sense of division.
And from that sense of division grows this us versus them mentality.
And I don't think that that is how a society moves forward when you see somebody without proof get a third of a billion dollars and you don't see anything for it and you're like, oh, you got that just because you were indigenous.
All of a sudden, we've got, you know, enough versus them mentality.
And I think it is a great evil that these governments are perpetrating on kids.
Well, speaking of this, let's use that as a perfect segue into giving Indigenous groups bags of money.
Okay, let's use that.
So, speaking about people who are should have been spanked, the people on the University of Manitoba campus.
What is happening in Manitoba?
France.
Frances Widowson, professor from Mount Royal University, who lost her job for just simply trying to have conversations about such stuff as residential schools and free speech and transgenderism.
She goes to university campuses and she talks about issues that the I think it's the faculty who are really the problem.
Tiny Woman, Spitting Controversy00:05:54
Because I've seen reports where we've sent out rebel news journalists to cover her events on campus.
And the kids, even the ones that disagree with her, are like, yeah, I just completely disagree with her.
The lady is wrong, but she has a right to have these ideas.
It's the faculty who are canceling her and whipping up the crazy people.
And I'll show you this clip of just some of the reaction, and then I'll show you the proof that it's the faculty that's behind all this stuff.
But we've discussed previously, Frances Widdowson is a lady of the left.
Like she is an economic leftist.
Spent her life in academia, right?
So this is her world.
She's one of them.
When Frances Widowson went off narrative and went off script and spoke her truth, well, then they came for her.
And you have never, not in all of your live long days, heard a woman as mad as Frances Widdowson is at these people.
Okay, let's watch to see.
She's got a list of enemies that she will list by name that is like the length of the Battle River Crowfoot ballot, like seven feet long, single spaced, people who wronged her.
And this woman is just going on spite alone.
And I don't know if she smokes, but she looks like she smokes.
And I mean that in the nicest way because she looks cool.
But if I were her, I'd be living on spite and cigarettes.
And she went to the University of Manitoba.
And as she says here in this clip, orange shirt female cry bully pouring water on my sound system.
Orange shirt female crybully spitting on a bystander.
That's assault.
And deranged man punching Daniel Page, who is her videographer.
So let's watch this.
And where are the police?
Where is Wob Canoe, the NDP premier of Manitoba?
Where are you, Nahani Fontaine?
Anyways, let's watch this.
This teeny tiny woman should be allowed to have ideas.
the audio isn't that great.
They just poured water.
That's a well-known tactic.
That's a well-known tactic of Antifa and the radical left.
So all on this, they're just standing around peacefully, water spitting.
The spitting just happened.
And then Daniel, I think, gets punched right away. Trying to intimidate Francis.
Look how small she is.
She is a tiny woman.
She's like 90 pounds.
What happened to respecting your elders?
I thought your culture did that.
All right.
Well, that's that.
So just in that clip, and that's after all the crazy stuff happened, which people can watch on the live stream.
We talked about it on Monday, of just the like intent screaming at Francis, intimidating her, trying to drums in her face, like noise, noise, deafening, noise-making devices in her face.
People screaming at her.
She, and I can't, I cannot state this clearly enough.
She is a tiny, tiny little woman.
Okay, look at her tiny.
She has gray sort of at the sides.
The gray, the tinsel in her hair betrays her wisdom that she comes with, okay?
And for these people to scream at her, I'm sorry, I thought that in First Nations culture, you revered your elders.
I thought that that was a thing.
Was I wrong when I got that?
Because when I saw all of those petulant, belligerent, aggressive, violent young indigenous people screaming at Frances Widowson, it kind of doesn't align with what the culture says, does it?
Right.
Witnessing Frances Widowson's Award Reception00:15:13
And they're just standing around peacefully.
They're not bothering anybody.
They're not even...
Frances isn't even doing her thing where she invites people to have discussions.
They're just recouping and sort of, what do they call that?
Debriefing after the chaos they just lived through.
Right.
And this lady comes over, pours water on their sound system.
Somebody else gets spit on and then somebody gets punched.
That sounds like a regular left-wing activist protest to me.
Like that happens in almost every left-wing protest, where they will show up.
They're going to instigate.
They're going to cause, they call it good trouble.
They call it good trouble on the left, right?
Like, let's go cause some good trouble while damaging equipment, being physically violent, and enraging their more lunatic fringe side of the left.
But Frances Widowson, like what she, she has this great strategy for talking on university campuses in Canada.
She has these little floor mats, right?
She has these little floor mats and she stands in the middle and there's a question that is poised to whoever is in attendance.
And you can either agree and go stand on the agree floor mat or disagree and stand on the disagree floor mat and she's going to engage with you either way.
But they won't even let her have the conversation.
And so I got it.
I just got to talk about witnessing Frances Widowson receiving the George Jonas Freedom Award at the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedom Awards gala last week that we went to in Calgary.
Okay.
And she said she was going to Winnipeg and we're like, oh, oh.
I was like, we got to go to Winnipeg.
We just couldn't make it work.
And we wanted to ostriches.
I was in ostrich universe for when I should have been.
And it was just such a tight turnaround, but we desperately wanted to be in Winnipeg with Frances Widowson.
So basically, I am my, I just want everyone to know, I am an awards ceremony expert.
Okay.
There is no awards ceremony or beauty pageant or dog show that I won't watch.
I love them.
And I have seen literally thousands of acceptance speeches in my day.
Frances Widowson's acceptance speech of the George Jonas Freedom Award for 2025 was unlike any acceptance speech we've ever, ever heard.
It's like nothing I've ever seen.
It was remarkable.
Like it was truly remarkable.
It left me like shivering in my seat.
Not only like on one hand, Frances was very, Frances Widowson was very, very gracious and humble and humbled by the support that she received from the people in that room.
Amongst them, 10 other professors from Mount Royal University who were there to support her.
But on the other side of that, Frances Widowson came with a list like Aria from Game of Thrones about the people that she is going to seek vengeance upon.
She exists out of just vengeance.
It was incredible.
Listen, I got to tell you something.
If you come for Frances Widowson, you best not miss me on the list.
She is coming with fire.
But it wasn't like it.
It wasn't an effusive or celebratory awards acceptance speech.
Frances Widowson sounded more like a witch on trial.
Okay.
This is a woman who is trying to defend herself against the crazed pitchfork small town who are coming for her.
And not only does she see your pitchforks, okay, not only does she see them, but she's staking her claim in the ground.
Okay, she is putting up her own witch's stake and she is daring you to light the match.
But the crazy thing about Frances Widowson and women like Frances Widowson is that they would rather watch it all burn, okay, than put up with one more minute of this insanity.
And so Frances Widowson is a personal, a brand new personal hero of mine and of Sheila Gun Reeds.
And we are here for her all day, every day.
I do a lot of things in my day just for spite.
I really do.
And so I have a great admiration for a woman who shares a love of spite like I do.
But yeah, that witch trial analysis is perfect.
Frances Widowson is tired of being strapped to the chair and dunked in the river to see if she floats.
Like she's over it.
And she has, and she has been.
Like when you, when you hear her story, when you hear Frances Widowson's stories and some very, very powerful people heard Frances Widowson's story at that event.
Okay, very powerful, very well placed.
I'm glad you mentioned that.
Powerful people.
When she talks about what happened to her, the story just gets worse and worse.
You cannot believe that every single element of the public institution that was meant to keep, you know, guardrails on, safeguards to make sure that this didn't happen, failed her.
And I love the, oh, Sheila Gunread, where she pointed out that Carla Marks, remember Carla Marks was the person that screamed at Jennifer Johnson that she must affirm that trans women are women.
Yo, You will not do that to me.
Carla Marx was at the center of getting Frances Widowson fired from Mount Royal University.
And so to hear this and to hear her string it all together in this really alarming story.
I mean, it was incredible.
I just, I just can't say enough about Frances Widowson.
I want to be her when I grow up.
You know what?
I'm in training.
I'm Frances in training.
And we'll get to the proof that we have that this came from the faculty at the University of Manitoba.
But I should tell you, remember at that gala where we noticed that there was a senior chief of staff for a member of the Alberta government there?
Yeah.
Remember?
I just don't want to give it away.
Maybe they don't want to.
We'll just leave it.
We'll just leave it.
But you were there, senior chief of staff, to listen and to see what you could do.
And things happened.
So just this week, Alberta's Advanced Education Minister got a new mandate letter.
And it was to assess the need for new protections for free speech and academic freedom on campus.
You don't say.
You don't.
I mean, I'm delighted to hear this.
And I continue to be, I continue to be blown away by the responsiveness of the government of Alberta.
As soon as they don't let mosques grow on their rolling stone, Sheila Gunread, okay?
The government of Alberta acknowledges that there is an issue and they set out to fix it immediately, which is something the government of Saskatchewan should think about doing now and again.
Once in a while, let's know.
I'm so proof that the attacks against Frances Widowson at the University of Manitoba were fomented within the faculty, her peers in the faculty.
This is from a leaked email from University of Winnipeg.
Sorry, I've been saying University of Manitoba, but I guess it's Winnipeg's history department.
Branded Frances Widowson a denialist and mobilized students against her.
Now she's been physically and verbally assaulted.
So this is the email.
The history department recently developed the following statement to be shared with all current history students.
So they sent this to the history students to send them after Frances.
I hope you all take good care of yourselves and please be aware of the support services available to students.
Nothing happened to the students.
You may contact the Aboriginal Student Services Center, blah, Statement by the Department of History or Department of Rewriting History, the University of Winnipeg on potential UW visit by Frances Widowson.
She's announced plans to stage an event platforming Indian residential school denialism at U Winnipeg.
She was fired in part due to public statements criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement and lauding the benefits of Indian residential schools.
Widowson also planned events at U Manitoba this week, specifically targeting the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation and Indian Residential School Denialism scholars, Nigen Sinclair and Sean Carlton.
Widowson is known for creating public confrontation.
That's actually the opposite of what she does, filming it and sharing it publicly to draw attention to herself.
Sinclair addressed her visit in his Winnipeg Free Press column on Monday where he shares some strategies for engagement or non-engagement specifically.
Well, that is actually what you should do.
If you don't like Frances, keep walking.
But that's not what this faculty intended for her.
Indian residential school denialism is mythology rooted in hate and racism and has zero factual basis.
Denialists cherry-pick evidence to support their arguments and ignore the massive body of academic scholarship, archival documents.
You know, it's one group is ignoring archival documents and survival testimonies that clearly disprove their theories more on Indian residential school, blah, blah, blah.
the history department condemns, uh, denialism and platforming of this rhetoric on campus.
Um, anyways, it goes on to say that.
They also acknowledge the harm that this causes the students and the, you know, the ways that students, yeah.
Yeah.
The history department encourages all you Winnipeg students, staff, and faculty members.
Okay, so this is for today.
But they basically said, you've got a deranged denialist coming to the campus.
What are you people going to do about it?
Right.
And then activating their students, left, their vapid left-wing student activists to act against Frances Widowson.
And that is why she was assaulted and her equipment was ruined and somebody got punched in the face.
Right.
Now, a last, oh, sorry.
Oh, I got to mute that.
Last on our list, because I think we've been going like 45 minutes and my poor editors have to edit this.
And it feels like they would just be subject to a phone conversation with us, which is sort of what this turned into.
We've got Tara Armstrong.
She's the 1BC house leader in the MLA for Kelowna Lake Country Cold Stream.
So British Columbia.
We already know what 1BC thinks about using the phrase residential school denialism to shut up people who just want to know what happened to a third of a billion bucks.
She, I think, is doing the right thing here by wondering why Manitoba is not doing what Alberta is doing, and that is ensuring academic freedom on campus.
So let's listen to this.
Tara Armstrong.
I am calling on Manitoba Premier Wob Cano and the government of Manitoba to issue an official apology to Professor Frances Widowson for the abuse she suffered at the University of Winnipeg from students and activists.
This is Treaty 1 territory.
This land belongs to our First Nation people, not you white people.
You are a visitor!
You are a visitor because I'm here to do my event.
Does it, does, does it look like...
Ryan?
Where?
Where are you having an event?
Frances is a courageous speaker who wanted to hold an event to have discussions with people who both agreed and disagreed with her.
I am speaking out on this issue, even though I am an MLA from British Columbia, because I fear nobody in elected office in Manitoba, provincially or federally, will speak out.
Universities are supposed to be places of open discourse and respect for other points of view.
Governments all over Canada need to enforce the law on these campuses and prevent assault and criminal harassment from taking place against speakers that activists simply disagree with.
Exactly.
I don't even know why that has to be said, but it should have been said by Wab Canoe.
Yeah, it should have.
But Wab Canu, I mean, he has, what's her name?
Nahani Fontaine.
He's got a whole litany of crazy left-wing activists in his crazy left-wing activist party, the NDP.
They are absolutely stuffed with left-wing activists.
And of course, he's not going to say anything in defense of Frances Widowson because Wab Canu, what those petulant, spoiled children were doing when they were screaming in the face of their elder, Frances Widowson, was actually lying to them.
It is not Indigenous land.
Treaties were an agreement between the Indigenous people to permanently cede their claim of the land to the government of Canada.
Okay, they were paid for the land.
Some would say they have been paid far too long and far too much for the land, all things considered.
But of course, Wab Canu is not going to respond.
He loves this.
This is what he wants for Manitoba.
This is what his caucus members think about what should happen to people like Frances Widowson.
I mean, also, I don't know Frances Widowson's heritage.
Like, I don't know.
I don't think anybody knows what Frances Widowson's ethnic background is.
Like, if I had to look at her, I'd be like, yeah, that's a middle-aged Métis lady, right?
Could be.
Absolutely could be.
You know what I mean?
Like, nobody knows.
And I'm glad that I don't know because I don't think Frances Widowson's human rights or her ability to discuss things on campus should hinge on what her ethnic background is.
But these people sure think so.
And yet you saw it right there.
If you are white and if you have an opinion, then you must be eradicated.
And this has devastating consequences.
We've seen it with the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk.
We've seen it in many, many, many hostile and aggressive acts towards Christians and conservatives.
And as long as this is being allowed to happen on post-secondary campuses across the nation of Canada, nothing will change.
Violence against us will keep accelerating.
Hate crimes against us will keep accelerating and there will be more Charlie Kirks.
But here's the thing.
Women like Frances Widowson, they are formidable.
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Okay.
And I got all my money on Frances Widowson.
Me too.
That's the only way through this.
It's the only way through this.
Yep.
You know, that's the thing.
Like, you don't have to even agree with Frances Widowson.
Just let her talk.
Let her talk.
You know, when people tell you to shut up, let's say you get more of me.
There's nothing better than when your enemies tell you to sit down and be quiet.
Okay, I'm not going to, where's my soapbox?
Where is my soapbox and my microphone, my megaphone?
Just my results.
Built up my little spite tank to keep me fighting another day.
Okay, Lise, I got to let you go.
I got to finish up my workday.
Thank you so much for, we're filming this.
If you're watching this, we just did the live stream and then we filmed another hour and a half of this.
So thank you for occupying like a quarter of your workday with me, Lisa.
I appreciate you so much.
I would, I mean, it's just my pleasure.
Sheila Gunread.
See you tomorrow on the live stream.
All right, friends, as you know, the last portion of the show belongs to you.
That's why I give you my email address right now at Sheila at RebelNews.com.
If you reach out to me, put gun show letters in the subject line so I know exactly why you're emailing me.
And don't just email me good stuff.
If you got criticism, send it right to me.
I'd love to address it on air.
Criticism, concerns, story ideas, anecdotes.
I want to hear it all.
So today's email actually went to the info line at Rebel News.
Somebody was trying to tell on me.
But I also get those emails too.
So here I am.
And it's criticism of me.
And I will take it and I will address it.
Because somebody, I don't think, listened to everything that I said, but I would love to readdress it and respond and refer you back to what you were watching so you could see why I said the things that I said.
So, as you know, I am recently back home from Universal Ostrich Farm.
I drove over 12 hours one way with little notice to spend a few days helping Drea Humphrey on the ground there, who's been doing an excellent job.
And there is no hotel there.
I hooked to my personal trailer project in an effort to save money and save time.
It's basically a bed on wheels with a solar panel and a battery in a place where we can charge things.
And I hooked to that.
I drove over 12 hours one way, slept there, helped Drea as much as I could.
And we were going like sometimes from the wee hours of the morning to late at night every single day, far away from our families.
And I was just there in a support capacity for Drea.
But regular viewers of the show might know that I don't actually like birds.
That's okay.
But, anyways, I'll get into this letter to me because it's a criticism of me and I'd like to address it so that you know that I just don't read the love emails.
I also read the criticism ones too.
And I don't say anything that I can't back up.
Like everybody's got their opinions, everybody's got their unique viewpoints, which is why I believe in the free and liberal exchange of ideas.
And I actually don't think that everybody needs to think the same as everybody else.
And I don't think we all have to have the same likes to believe in the same fundamental principles of truth and justice and property rights.
But I'll get to that in a second.
So this comes to me by way of Sandra, who attempts to tell on me, but that's okay.
I'm writing to you with a grave concern.
Oh my goodness, I wonder what this is about.
Sheila Gunread showed up at the Universal Ostrich Farm this morning.
Actually, I didn't show up there this morning.
I got there late the night before after driving an entire day there and making sure that I cost the company very little money by bringing my own accommodations with me because the nearest hotel is hours away.
First thing she said is she doesn't like ostriches.
That was totally unnecessary.
Would you prefer that I lie?
The reason I said that is because I don't have to like all the same things as you to agree with the fundamental principle of agricultural integrity and property rights and due process.
I don't think the ostrich farmer is getting due process.
You know, like you're executing birds for being sickly when you haven't even determined that they're sickly.
I think that's crazy.
I don't like any birds.
I don't like chickens.
And I say all the time that I think chickens are magical because you can give them garbage and they give you nutritious food.
I think one of the greatest things that we could do for the developing world is give these people chickens because two eggs a week is the difference between a severe malnutrition catastrophe for a child in the developing world and not does incredible things for the developing brain.
So, like, why do I have to like these specific creatures to believe that they are entitled to due process?
And I lead with my chin.
I want you to know why I'm there.
I'm not going to lie to you.
And it's a running joke at the company that I don't like birds.
And regular viewers of the show will know that I don't like birds.
But I don't have to like birds to hate, absolutely loathe what is going on at Universal Ostrich Farms enough to make the journey there to help Drea and work around the clock.
And the only reason I mentioned it is because Drea asked me about it.
Do you want me to lie?
I mentioned it on a live stream with Drea.
Drea's like, What do you think about the birds now, Sheila?
And I was like, You know, I didn't like ostriches, but they're kind of growing on me.
Like, you can see my sort of self-deprecating comment about it.
I guess I should lie.
Then she said she sympathized with the RCMP saying they felt bad.
They do.
You can tell.
If you want me to hate the cops, I'm not gonna.
I've seen a lot of bad cops.
Those are not them.
And if you watched further in that live stream or in my live stream that day, I explained why I treat the cops as human beings.
And it's because a police officer who was berated during COVID for weeks and months ultimately, even though he transferred, ended up taking his life.
And so I'm grounded in the humanity of what I saw unfolding there and going forward.
And that changed me.
And so I don't see them all as evil.
I see them all as individual people.
I'm not painting them with a broad stroke.
And let me tell you, I've seen some bad cops this week and I've seen some excellent ones.
For example, the one that my friend Tamari Ugalini encountered in Picton, Ontario, excellent.
The SPVM officers that Alexa Lavois encountered, same day, terrible.
So sorry, I'm not painting everybody with a broad brush.
I'm just not.
If you don't like that, I'm sorry, but I believe that people are individuals.
And they're more than the sum of their career that they do.
Yeah, sure, I'm a journalist, but I'm also, unlike many of my critics, a farmer, a mom, Catholic, not great at it, but I'm doing my best.
I'm a lot of things.
And so I'm just not the sum of the things you see on TV and the short snippets that you see me.
And I try to treat other people the very same way.
I guess they're just doing their job.
Does that sound familiar to you?
They're RCMP officers doing their best to keep the peace at an ostrich farm.
They're not, don't equate them to Nazis.
Just It's not great.
Don't do that.
Other people and companies have stood up and said that they will not be part of this horrific slaughter.
Yeah, those are companies that are able to take a contract or not take a contract.
That's a little different than what these RCMP officers are called to do.
There's some nuance to this.
The RCMP should do the same.
Say no.
Sheila, I have no sympathy for them.
Sandra, Glenborough, Manitoba.
Well, I think I addressed your concerns.
If you want to see what I said that day, you can go watch the live stream.
You can hear why I said the things that I said.
But unlike a lot of my critics who are angry at me for not sufficiently being affectionate to ostriches, I'm actually a farmer.
And so I do have a little bit of a different viewpoint about livestock, but I also understand that people love their animals too.
So I get that, but we don't all have to have the same worldview to care about principles.
Like, why would you shrink the move?
Why would you shrink the support for your thing to just the people who are exactly the same as you?
Don't you want people to care about fundamental principles more than just this creature, right?
I mean, I'm against the canola tariffs.
I also don't eat seed oils.
I know there are a lot of people who watch Rebel News and who watch my shows who are not firearms owners, but believe in the rights of firearms owners and believe in property rights and believe that they should not be scapegoated for the failings of progressive cities.
People can stand on principles without feeling or thinking the exact same thing.
And I'm sorry.
During COVID and post-COVID, during the Hamas protests, I have seen a lot of crappy policing.
And when I see good policing, sorry.
I'll tell you.
I'll give you my honest opinion.
What I saw at the ostrich farm, those guys were doing a good job.
You might not like the job that they are being called to do, but all things considered, they did pretty good.
They didn't stop you from going to the farm.
And if you heard that people were being stopped from going to the farm, that's just not true.
We came and go as we went as we wanted multiple times a day.
They were fine.
They didn't search my vehicle.
They didn't even shine a light into my vehicle as I came in late.
They were just like, oh, you're going to the farm?
Like, yep, I got to meet up with my colleague there.
They're like, okay, see ya.
They were fine.
They took a lot of screaming and never even reacted once.
So, I mean, I do.
I empathize with people who have to do a job that they don't want to do.
And I mean, I don't begrudge people from not destroying their career because they have a family to feed.
You don't know their individual situations, much like I don't know yours.
And as I said, I will not be judging people like that on the two minutes of what I see of them.
Well, that's it.
And if you want to send me any more criticisms, you can, or tell on me.
You can send it to Sheila at RebelNews.com.
You can send it the info line.
I'll get those too.
I mean, they go through somebody else before they get to me, but I will eventually see them.
So, yeah, if you want to toddle on me, that's okay too.
I mean, but like I said it in a live stream that we emailed out to everybody.
You're not catching me in some sort of secret thing that I didn't think anybody would see.
Okay, there's like 200,000 plus people on my X account, plus all of you at home.
It wasn't a secret that I said that.
It's just people who want me to believe the same thing as them.
on every single cause.
And I just don't.
I stand on principles.
Well, everybody, that's your show for today.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I'll see everybody back here in the same time in the same place next week, but maybe not.