Ezra Levant critiques Canada’s fading Remembrance Day traditions, exposing how terms like fascism and democracy are weaponized—Tucker Carlson glorifies Hitler, Candace Owens rejects Allied WWII involvement post-Pearl Harbor. He mocks the military’s 300K recruitment plan (60% female, avg. age 45) and contrasts it with the U.S.’s Pete Hegseth’s warfighting focus. At Toronto’s Cenotaph, a misplaced land acknowledgment tied to the slave trade drew police attention, yet no pro-Hamas protesters appeared despite past disruptions. Karima Saad’s footage reveals performative distractions overshadowing real memorials, while CBC’s bias and Rebel News’ voluntary audience highlight media polarization. Izzy Asper’s Global TV now struggles under Chorus, signaling broader cultural decline. [Automatically generated summary]
It's Remembrance Day, and I think our country is forgetting so many things.
I'll take you through my thoughts on the day.
I'll read to you my favorite poem called Tommy Atkins by Rudyard Kipling, but then I'll take you through a really kooky government idea to have civil servants join the army.
I just think it's madness.
I'll compare it to the U.S. military under Pete Hegseth.
And then we'll talk to Karima Saad, who was in Toronto at the Remembrance Day ceremony this morning, and something very unusual happened.
We'll show you that too.
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Tonight is Remembrance Day in a country that has forgotten almost everything.
It's November 11th, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you sensorious oobug.
We've forgotten so many things in Canada in the last 10 or 15 years, haven't we?
We forgot what we were fighting for once, our national identity, our culture and spirit, our alliances.
We've forgotten all of that.
The past feels like a different country, doesn't it?
I think in some ways we've even forgotten right and wrong.
Words have been stolen, fascism, democracy, they don't mean what they used to mean.
They've been hijacked by people who are fascist but call themselves anti-fascist.
The left has been particularly atrocious, but now what I'm calling the troll right is matching them too.
Here's my former hero, Tucker Carlson, praising Hitler and condemning Churchill, flipping World War II on its head, morally inverting the thing.
Yeah, and I feel like we really missed our chance to exercise genuine American exceptionalism.
You can say, you know, in 1941 and say, we're just not for totalitarian systems.
We're not going to support, well, it would have been in 1939.
We're not going to do Lend-Lease.
We're not going to support your totalitarian system, Joseph Stalin.
Sorry, we're not for Hitler.
We're not for Stalin.
We're America.
We're for us.
Like, that didn't seem to occur to anybody other than Charles Lindbergh and the majority of the American population that supported that plan.
And they've been slandered ever since they did, you know, ever since.
And they kidnapped Lindbergh's baby and all of the TGM.
Candace Owens was on GB News and actually wouldn't say that the Allies should have gone to war even after Pearl Harbor.
Just an astonishing thing.
In the 1930s, there was another America First movement, sort of isolationist movement saying we mustn't go to war in Europe again after the First World War.
Do you think that those America First supporters then were right?
Do you think that America shouldn't have gone into that Second World War?
Yeah, and that is a radical statement.
People don't know how to deal with that because we've all been so brainwashed by the school system to believe that, well, look how great things are.
Let me ask you about your country.
Do you think that your country has become greater since?
Has our country become greater since?
Absolutely not.
You know, this whole idea of international liberalism, now it's not just about your problems, it's about solving the world's problems.
Let's make sure that in Pakistan there's a trans flag waving.
No, I actually, if Pakistan does not want to wave a trans flag, I don't even want to wave a trans flag.
But why is this my business?
And they're constantly trying to pollute you to make you think that it is your business.
No, I actually am comfortable if that's going to be the newest smear that I have to wear that we're isolationists.
International Liberalism's Illusions00:03:06
Good.
Good.
I want to be concerned with just America's problems.
I tell you, I like Rudyard Kipling's poems more every year.
I really should publish a Rebel News poetry book with a selection of my favorites like we did for the book 1984.
I like to read his poems, and I like to read Tommy Atkins every year on Remembrance Day.
And I'm going to do that now, and then I'll tell you about a bizarre new idea from Canada's military.
And we'll end the show with some very interesting news and unique video from the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Toronto Cenotaph this morning.
And I really encourage you to stick around.
It was a very unusual thing that was caught on tape.
Anyways, here's the poem by Kipling, which I really believe in.
And the line at the end always makes me choke up every year.
Even though I've read this poem 20 times, it always gets me.
Let me try.
I went into a public house to get a pint of beer.
The publican he up and says, we serve no red coats here.
The girls behind the bar, they laughed and giggled fit to die.
I outsent through the street again, and to myself, says I, oh, it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy go away.
But it's thank you, Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play.
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play.
Oh, it's thank you, Mr. Atkins, when the band begins to play.
Just FYI, that means when it's time for the men to go to war.
I went into a theater as sober as could be.
They gave a drunk civilian room, but hadn't none for me.
They sent me to the gallery or round the music halls.
But when it comes to fighting, Lord, they'll shove me in the stalls.
For it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy wait outside.
But it's special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide.
The troop ship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide.
Oh, it's special train for Atkins when the trooper's on the tide.
Yes, making mock-a-uniforms that guard you while you sleep is cheaper than them uniforms, and they're starvation cheap.
And hustling drunken soldiers when they're going large a bit is five times better business than parading in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy how's your soul, but it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, oh, it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
We aren't no thin red heroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, but single men in barracks, most remarkable like you.
And if sometimes our conduct isn't all your fancy paints, why single men in barracks don't grow into plaster saints?
Well, it's Tommy this and Tommy that and Tommy fall behind, but it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the line.
There's trouble in the wind, my boys.
There's trouble in the wind.
Oh, it's pleased to walk in front, sir, when there's trouble in the wind.
You talk of better food for us and schools and fires and all.
We'll wait for extra rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cookroom slops, but prove it to our face.
The widow's uniform is not the soldier man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this and Tommy that and chuck about the brute.
Counting On Volunteers00:15:01
But it's savior of his country when the guns begin to shoot.
And it's Tommy this and Tommy that and anything you please.
And Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool.
You bet that Tommy sees.
Very powerful that last line always gets me.
I wish we had poets like Kipling around today.
Maybe we do.
Maybe they just express themselves, I don't know, writing country western songs or something.
I'd like to find one like Kipling.
But look at this news story.
Let me show you something in the news by David Pugliesi, who's really Canada's leading military journalist.
The story in the Ottawa Citizen is, Canadian military will rely on an army of public servants to boost its ranks by 300,000.
Federal public servants would be trained to shoot guns, drive trucks, and fly drones according to a defense department directive.
Yeah, it's an insane story.
Let me read a little bit more of it to you, if I may.
But first, let me show you the picture.
Actually, the photo they chose for it is just classic.
They say it's this is the public sector.
Like that's that's what this photo is, except it's not really accurate because the public sector in Ottawa is still working from home because of COVID.
I kid you not.
In fact, they were going on strike or threatening a strike because they didn't want to stop working from home.
I checked the demographics of the federal civil service.
There's 60% female.
Average age is 45.
Now, I couldn't get stats on fitness.
But to be fair, I don't think even paper pushers in Ottawa could do worse than the current state of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Here's another story by David Pugliesi: almost three-quarters of Canadian troops are overweight or obese.
The Canadian military has higher obesity rates than the general population, according to an internal briefing.
How is that even possible?
Let me read a bit from the story today about this new master plan.
Quote: The Canadian forces are counting on public servants to volunteer for military service as it tries to ramp up an army of 300,000 as part of a mobilization plan, according to a Defense Department directive.
I'm sorry.
Federal and provincial employees will be given a one-week training course in how to handle firearms.
Oh, a whole week, would you?
Drive trucks and fly drones, according to the directive signed by Chief of Defense Staff General Jenny Carignan.
We'll talk more about her in a moment.
And Defense Deputy Minister Stephanie Beck on May 30th, 2025.
Can you imagine these they-them COVID mask-wearing socialist workers handling firearms?
You know what?
Maybe if it got fed's used to firearms, I don't know.
Maybe they wouldn't be so scared of them in May.
I don't know.
It's just a crazy idea.
This is never going to happen.
It's crazy that it's a window into the mind of the leadership of the military.
What does it even mean, though?
Would they do basic training or not?
What's a kooky idea?
They actually addressed that a little bit later.
They say the entry criteria for the supplementary or other reserve should be less restrictive than the reserve force for age limits as well as physical and fitness requirements.
The document said lower standards of fitness.
The military is already fatter than average Canadians.
They want to lower it again.
And I'm not making fun of women, and I'm not making fun of people whose average age is 45.
I'm 53.
I wish I was 45.
But that's your secret weapon.
That's holy smokes.
Do you think that this idea will on balance recruit more people or drive more actually good people away?
I mean, remember this extremist saying that traditional values is a sign that you don't belong in the military?
What they're saying on the subject, like becoming more extremists.
Like, and if someone you know was very believed in equal gender rights, but all of a sudden are leaning towards like traditional values, and that might be a sign that they're becoming more extremists.
But we, yeah, they're doing such crazy things like putting tampon machines in men's washrooms and barracks.
Do you think that drives away more regular guys than it attracts trans soldiers?
If you knew that the Canadian Army would now be stuffed with government bureaucrats as opposed to warriors, what do you think is a military-aged man who wants to serve?
I mean, just to show you what a real country's military is like, or a country with a real military, rather, here's the new ethos in the U.S. Army under Pete Hegseth.
He's their new Secretary of War.
By the way, they renamed the Secretary of Defense as the Secretary of War.
Just take a look at this ad.
A little bit different, isn't it?
No more distractions.
No more electric tanks.
No more gender confusion.
No more climate change worship.
We are laser focused on our mission of warfighting.
We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.
It's called peace through strength.
You look into the eyes of these young Americans who are giving up the best years of their life in a uniform to serve their nation.
They are incredible.
Through our power and might, we will lead the world to peace.
Our friends will respect us.
Our enemies will fear us.
And the whole world will admire the unrivaled greatness of the United States military.
We will replenish the pride of our armed forces, end the recruitment crisis.
We don't fight because we hate what's in front of us.
We fight because we love what's behind us.
God bless you.
God bless our armed forces.
God bless our men and women serving overseas.
And God bless the United States of America.
That's exciting.
That's encouraging.
That's inspiring.
That's patriotic.
I mean, obviously, it's warmongering.
It's from the Department of War, although Trump in it clearly says the best is when you have peace through strength.
In fact, that's the whole name of that video.
You're so strong, no one ever wants to fight with you.
That's the American way.
Here's our answer to that.
Let me quote.
After the initial entry into the ranks, the public servants would be required to do one week's worth of military training each year, but would not be issued uniforms.
Medical coverage would be provided for their annual military service.
But that time would not count towards their pensions, the director pointed out.
I'll just tell you right now, they ain't joining.
But no matter how this works out, I just got to think the Chinese and Russians just have to be absolutely laughing at this.
You know, Pete Hegseth in the United States, he actually goes on workouts with the troops just to show that he's an active leader.
He's not a desk-bound, paper-pushing general.
Just a reminder, here is Canada's absolute tippy-top military officer leading by example and having a good cry.
Today is a significant milestone in the history of the Canadian Armed Forces, and it is also a very difficult day.
A day on which we are confronting a painful truth.
America's military will kill you.
Canada's military will apologize to you.
Why are we doing this?
I think it's a trick, the purpose of which is to lie to Donald Trump about our commitment to the military.
Mark Carney did this same thing a few months ago when Trump wanted a stronger border patrol.
Alberta actually hired new sheriffs with drones and sniffer dogs.
Like Alberta actually hired more, but not Mark Carney.
He said he would, but he actually just renamed existing paper pushers as border guards.
Same thing here.
Carney will just rename these bureaucrats who do a week of camping every year as reserves.
They don't even have a uniform.
So he can count their massive salaries as part of our NATO spending.
We really do take advantage of the Americans when it comes to defense, don't we?
Yeah, I'm not proud of it.
Stay with us for more with Karima Sad.
It's Remembrance Day and across the country at 11 a.m.
There were ceremonies, there were moments of silence, and there was a remembrance of things past.
We stopped thinking about modernity.
We put our cell phones and our emails away just for a moment to think about how things were.
But something new crept into the recognition of Remembrance Day.
And I've heard of this popping up all over the country, the opposite of Remembrance, where instead of thinking about the way things were, we're sort of trying to add or hijack the ceremonies.
Take a look at this video by our friend Joe Warmington of Toronto Sun, and tell me if you can detect the stowaway, the interloper, the new addition to these Remembrance Day ceremonies.
Take a listen.
I now wish to invite Cadets Flight Sergeant Minyalov and Warrant Officer 2nd Class Rainford to share the land and an accessible acknowledgement with us.
We acknowledge the land we are meeting on as a traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat people.
And is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples.
We acknowledge that Toronto is covered by Treaty 13, signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
We also acknowledge the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa banks.
We acknowledge all Treaty peoples, including those who came here as settlers, as migrants, either in this generation or in generations past, and those who came here involuntarily, particularly those brought to these lands as a result of the Centro-Atlantic slave trade and slavery.
Thank you.
You can hear someone shouting, and I am certain it's someone shouting their outrage at a Remembrance Day ceremony for the dead being transformed into a land-back acknowledgement.
And something that I haven't seen before is the accusation that Canada was a participant in the transatlantic slave trade.
This is tantamount to a funeral.
We attend, we're somber, we have a moment of silence.
It's like a funeral because indeed it is a recognition of tens of thousands of Canadians who died.
And someone thought they'd graft on their little woke saying.
Here's another angle of that same Toronto Cenotaph, this one filmed by our friend Karima Saad, who shows the man who was upset.
And it's hard to hear what he said, but the timing of it, I think he was outraged that instead of talking about Remembrance Day, some woke, I'm surprised they didn't talk about Sankofa Square.
As you know, they renamed Young and Dundas Square, Sankofa Square, after some tribe in Ghana.
Here's another angle on the same protest.
I'm calling it a protest because one man protested the land acknowledgement.
Take a look.
Thank you.
Visual sentries today.
The sentries are wearing pairs from the First and Second World Wars and current day.
They are led by Warrant Officer Duff.
Should you wish to follow today's program on your own device, you can find it online at Tronel.ca forward slash must be forgiven.
No.
No, stop fair to him.
Stop fair to him.
Please don't impede my movement.
The silence, the limit.
Interesting.
I had not seen the full clip.
The man leaving.
Someone tried to block Karima's cameraman and said, give him privacy, give the heckler privacy, which was an interesting reaction.
And it looked like about half a dozen cops were following him.
I was wondering if they were going to arrest him.
It looked like they were just seeing that he left the entire vicinity.
Joining us now via Skype is our friend Karima Sad Karima.
Police Presence During Protest00:12:57
That was a very interesting.
I mean, that's, listen, Remembrance Day is about Remembrance Day.
And it was first hijacked by a land back acknowledgement and a slavery declaration.
And then this man heckled, I think, in response, we should focus on the day, but let's talk a little bit about these two interruptions.
What do you think of it all?
So I will say that in years past, at the same ceremony in Toronto at the Old City Hall Cenotaph, there have been even more extensive land acknowledgements, acknowledgments of anti-black racism, things that drew a public reaction.
And so this year, by comparison to previous years I've attended, was short.
But I would agree with you that the timing of this gentleman's outburst, it seems that he was objecting to starting off the ceremony that way.
And it's a pity that we weren't able to catch up with him and sort of get some more insight into what was going through his mind.
I don't have any family members who fell in the war, but if I did, I would be thinking about them and who they were and the memory of them.
And it would tick me off if someone would start the whole remembrance by talking about slavery, which I'm sure.
I mean, just historically speaking, slavery in Canada was a very minor affair.
It was rooted out decades before Canada became an independent country.
There was no significant slave trade in Canada.
To be quite candid, the number one slaveholders in Canada were Indian bands, especially the Haida and the Mohawks.
To have that aspersion dumped on Remembrance Day would be like, it reminds me a tiny bit of the, you know, the fundamental, you know, that church, I forget the name of the, it's a quirky offshoot of a church that protests at funerals with signs that says God hates fags.
That's what they're saying.
The Westboro Baptist Church.
Yeah, Westboro Baptist Church.
And like it just, it feels like not the place to take care of other political business.
What do you think?
I think what's happened with land acknowledgements is that they have become rote and pretty much boilerplate.
And they start off everything from school board meetings, police board meetings, and obviously this Remembrance Day ceremony.
And I think that that diminishes any effect that would otherwise be intended.
Now, as for the intended effect and how or why that became part of part of the rituals that we engage in as a society, I will say I asked people on X what their thoughts were.
Does this enhance or distract?
Enhance in the sense of maybe there is space to hold all types of thoughts and remember beyond just the sort of narrow scope of Remembrance Day.
And then on the flip side, distract because Remembrance Day is a ceremony specifically for this.
And there is the, I think it's on November 8th, the Indigenous Veterans Remembrance, right?
So there is also kind of a separate ceremony that's dedicated for that.
So the general consensus, and mind you, it's obviously not a statistically, there's no methodology to this apart from asking people who were online and saw it.
But the general consensus seems to be that this is a distraction and they would prefer to see less of these performative types of actions and kind of a return to a focus on the core, what this day is about or what it's always been about.
Yeah.
You know, the two major wars, Canada participated a little bit in the Boer War and a little bit in the Korean War, but the two major wars in terms of casualties were the First and Second World Wars.
So that's 1914 and 1918.
No one who participated in World War I had any connection to slavery.
Slavery, what little of it there was in Canada, was outlawed almost 100 years earlier.
It's just, you're right to say those land acknowledgements are so hollow and boilerplate.
And I don't even think people think deeply about them, except for we see in British Columbia now, they sort of mean it.
The courts are saying, oh, maybe we will give the land back.
And there's new swaths of land in British Columbia where Aboriginal title has been discovered by the courts.
I don't know.
I think it's a distraction.
But everyone else there in the crowd looked very sober and very dedicated to it.
Other than the land back acknowledgement and the heckler, it looked like a very sober affair and it looked like very dignified affair.
Yeah, I would agree with that assessment.
Everyone was there and silently paying their respects and following along with kind of the, you know, how the agenda was set by the organizers.
I'll be honest with you, I'm a little bit surprised that there were no pro-Hamas people there or pro-Palestine people or and there's both in Toronto.
I'm sort of surprised that that flag was not unfurled or something.
Maybe those folks know that would have been a massive PR backfire.
I've seen that happen before.
Someone who was a Taliban supporter presented at a Remembrance Day, but it actually looked like either by their own good judgment or police action, they were kept away from the Remembrance Day ceremony.
At least I didn't see any.
No, there was nothing of that nature.
And that's been consistently the case, at least in Toronto, every year since October 7.
There's been no disruptions.
With the exception of in, I think it was 2023, there was a lone individual who took an opportunity to denounce war during the moment of silence, which wasn't very well received by the people around her.
Yeah.
I mean, that's a tough line there because, of course, the horror of war is one of the lessons of Remembrance Day, but to be a pacifist in that moment does feel contrary to the spirit of it.
Hey, let me ask you about one more thing.
First of all, thanks for that footage.
It was very unique footage that you and your team got.
Let me turn back the clock a couple of days to, I think it was on Sunday.
Every Sunday for a couple of years now, there's been dueling protests on Bathurst Street and Shepard, which is actually near where I live.
And I got arrested there once for not leaving when the cops told me to.
Anyways, the Jewish protests, which supported Israel and waved Israeli flags, they called it quits.
I think the ceasefire and the return of the hostages marked the end of their rationale, so they said.
But the pro-Palestine, and I think some of them are pro-Hamas protesters, are still going.
You and your camera team were there.
Let's just take a look at what this protest did.
It looked like there was nothing for them to do at that street corner.
So they started going down a residential street and sort of heckling and haggling with Jewish residents in a Jewish neighborhood.
Here, let's take a look.
We have a population that have no plans of our firm since the creation of this state in 1948.
The population is dwindling by the second.
Genocide no more.
Oh, fuck yourself.
This public, this public.
You don't own it.
This is my fine.
We're going to start doing it.
Just go.
That's fine.
You teach your kids how to kill babies?
Yeah?
Zionists?
Zionists?
You don't own this.
This is not occupied in Palestine, okay?
I actually do need to get my car to the guys like that.
We're over here, over here, over here?
Be a decent UN being?
Be a decent UNB.
How do we be decent humans?
Teach them not how to kill babies like Zionists do, okay?
You're not the one intimidating people.
No one.
You don't want to do that by telling us to move along.
I am.
You have more reason.
Let's pretend.
Kareem, on one hand, I'm a free speech guy.
I really am, and I try really hard to be consistent, even for people I disagree with.
And on the one hand, walking on a public street, not trespassing on private property, not uttering threats, well, that's something that I do, and that's something I want to protect.
On the other hand, when you're walking into a Jewish neighborhood because it's a Jewish neighborhood, and your goal is to antagonize and harass, I don't know, but that seems to be like it's coming up on harassment.
Now, you know, you're out in public.
You can take a heckler or two.
It's not a crime.
But I'm worried that this group of professional protesters that shows up every Sunday chanting their support for, in some cases, Hamas, I think that they're trying to cause a ruckus with moms and dads in the Jewish community, in the neighborhood, who have nothing to do with Israel or politics.
They're just Jewish.
What do you think?
So as you noted at the outset, there have consistently been pro-Israel supporters, and that was an outlet for this group to sort of direct their expression.
This week, that didn't happen.
And so I believe that is why we saw a departure from the norm.
And a group set out into the residential area looking to do what?
Were they hoping to run into someone?
Were they, you know, planning to get a different kind of footage that they can use for their videos?
I can't sort of comment on what the intention was, but what actually happened was they did, in fact, run into this lady and her family, as we saw.
And, you know, it kind of devolved.
It wasn't a productive conversation of any sort.
And what's striking about all of this is that there was a significant police presence.
There usually has been for the past two years.
And this week, with no pro-Israel demonstration to sort of manage, I thought it was an interesting choice for police to just sort of stay in the positions that they were and not follow along to ensure that there's no breach of the peace, whether from protesters or if someone, you know, is antagonized by seeing them and acts out inappropriately.
Regardless, there should have been a police presence, I think, just given the track record of this intersection.
Yeah, I think you're right.
I mean, the police were there.
I don't quite know why they didn't walk into these residential neighborhoods.
Here's James Pastranak, the local city councilor, who was just outraged by that.
Take a look.
I'm standing in the corner of Bathurst and Shepard on a weekday, and things are quiet now.
And that's the way we want it to be.
We want protesters to find somewhere else to gather.
We want the anti-Israel protesters to stay away.
There's no embassy here.
There's no consulates here.
There's no government buildings here.
There's no city squares here.
This is a residential neighborhood.
And we want you to stop coming up here and harassing the Jewish community.
So let's keep things calm.
Let's let police do what they have to do in law enforcement and the other parts of the city.
And let's stay away from Bathurst and Shepard on Sunday.
We Must Choose to Watch00:03:23
Well, Karima, very interesting stuff.
I love the fact that you are on the street where it happens.
Toronto is the biggest city in Canada.
And I think it really has a lot of news.
We have Alexa Lavoie on the ground in Montreal who's showing us similar things.
Very crazy.
You call your series of reports protest mania.
Think that is a good name for it.
It's inspired, of course, by my love of wrestling.
And, you know, as they say, wrestling is life, but it truly is in the context of protests where you have kind of extremes and things are not always what they appear to be.
Well, listen, it's great to have you.
Thanks very much.
And thanks for bringing the excellent footage as you always do.
In fact, I don't think I have a subscription to it anymore.
I haven't in a long time.
But there used to be something called Basic Cable, which every cable company in Canada was required by law to provide to you, and you had to pay for it.
And the CBC and CBC French and CBC News World were all on it.
It was forced into your home, whether you watched it or not.
Obviously, Rebel News is completely different.
And it's just, you know, I just keep thinking that we're bigger than global news.
Isn't that incredible?
You know, a couple of decades ago, I had the honor of meeting the founder of Global TV.
His name was Izzy Asper.
He was from Winnipeg.
And I think he would, I don't think he would be pleased with what's happened to Global.
I mean, they've wrecked the place.
It's owned by Chorus now.
It's a penny stock.
I mean, I was kidding when I said we should buy it, but it's trading for less than $8 million.
If you had $4 million, you could buy Global and all the radio stations with it.
Now it's a money loser, so you'd be buying a money-losing enterprise.
But how the mighty have fallen.
42- says CBC gets mentioned a lot, but not in a positive way.
That's why it's number one.
There's something to it.
I mean, my biggest skepticism about this Reuters study is that, you know, I looked at that word, how many Canadians mention it?
I don't know exactly what that means.
It's not the same as how many Canadians watch it.
It's who knows about it, who knows the word, who mention it.
I really don't believe that, you know, the BBC is in the top five broadcasters or news sources in Canada.
I just don't believe it.
Maybe I should, but I just don't.
I think that people have heard of the BBC, so they say it.
Everyone's heard of the CBC, but if you say Rebel, odds are you've watched it because we've only been around 10 years.
It's not like, you know, everyone's heard of the Globe and Mail.
Everyone's heard of things that have been around for decades.
Anyway, I was sort of excited to see that study, even though they're a pretty left-wing group.
I was still happy to see it.
Well, this is our show for today.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.