Ezra Levant examines the Tumbler Ridge shooting, where police misgendered transgender shooter Jesse Van Ruetzler (formerly Jesse Strang) to avoid controversy, while CBC and Toronto Star allegedly downplayed facts. He critiques ETFO’s hiring of fringe anti-Zionist groups and warns of a potential "Islamo-leftist" alliance via Avi Lewis’s NDP bid, citing historical precedents. Parallels drawn to UK debates on immigration and public services—like Jim Ratcliffe’s "colonization" claims—highlight broader tensions between media bias, political representation, and societal safety, questioning whether Canada’s institutions suppress uncomfortable truths while enabling divisive narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
That's normally the accusation that the government makes of independent journalists they don't like, but holy smokes has there been disinformation over the last two days by official sources about the murderer at Tumblr Ridge.
Just incredible.
I'll take you through some of the craziest moments.
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Tonight, what's the real problem in Tumblr Ridge, BC?
It's February 12th, and this is the Essex Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious thug.
Hey, we're talking about something really dark, but permit me to show you two quick jokes from the late comedian, Norm Macdonald.
It's a very dry sense of humor.
Not everyone gets it, but I think he was sort of a subversive conservative in his own way.
Here are two jokes, and they're actually in a way structured the identical way.
In a way, they're the same joke, and they're making the same point.
Here's the first one: Norm delivered it so deadpan that neither of his guests even realized he was joking.
It's a 9-11 kind of joke.
Well, I can't say my friend's name, but he said his biggest fear is that ISIS or some terrorist group like that would get a hold of a dirty bomb and explode it over a major city within the United States and kill tens of millions of people,
because then the blowback against innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible.
Now, here's the same sort of joke, but on a smaller scale, talking about the terrible revelations that fellow comedian Bill Cosby had drugged and raped women.
Again, not the sort of thing most comedians would joke about, but he's making the same point, isn't he?
Cosby's legacy will be hurt.
Yeah, you do, huh?
I mean, there was a comedian Patton Oswald who told me, I think the worst part of the Cosby thing was the hypocrisy.
And I disagree.
You disagree with that?
Yeah.
I thought it was the raping.
Speculation and Confirmation00:16:06
That's my feeling.
Most rapists are hypocrites.
You don't meet many go, I like raping, and I know it's not politically correct, but by God, people go, well, is that being a hypocrite?
And that's the worst part.
If you missed it, the real problem with ISIS dropping a dirty bomb over New York isn't the political blowback on Muslims.
It's that ISIS dropped a dirty bomb over New York.
And the real problem with Bill Cosby raping women isn't the hypocrisy, it's the raping.
Now, maybe you see a theme here, so let me ask you, and by you, I mean the bulk of the regime media, I don't actually mean you.
What do you think is the most important part of the story out of Tumblr Ridge BC?
Is it the mass murder committed by a drugged-up psychopath?
Or is it some people call that drugged-up psychopath he instead of his chosen pronoun she?
What's the real problem here?
Watch this extraordinary clip from Sky News.
It's a couple minutes long, but you've just got to watch it.
I just kept watching and watching and watching.
I kept waiting for the punchline to drop.
It never comes.
Take a look.
A deadly shooting at a secondary school in a remote part of Canada.
It's not what you would expect.
The attacker was described as a female in a dress with brown hair.
So here's what we know about a tragic day in a place called Tumblr Ridge.
It took police two minutes to respond to calls from the local high school, but they weren't able to prevent the shooting.
Students were barricading themselves in the classrooms using desks and chairs to block the doors.
Parents were waiting at the town hall to hear about the fate of their children.
There was another shooting in a nearby home with two fatalities there, and the police believe this shooting was connected to the school attack.
Tumblr Ridge is a small, isolated community in the province of British Columbia, a 13-hour drive northeast of Vancouver.
It's close-knit with a population of just over 2,000 people.
And I know what it's like.
I grew up in small town Canada.
You greet and chat to everybody you see.
Car doors and front doors, they all remain unlocked.
And your business tends to be the community's business as well.
And that's why I think this will come as such a shock to Canadians.
You can see the Premier of British Columbia struggling to find the right words here in front of the cameras.
It's hard to know what to say on a night like tonight.
This is the kind of thing that feels like it happens in other places and not close to home in a way that this feels for so many British Columbians and Canadians.
School shootings are something that happened south of the border in the United States, not in Canada.
The last time something like this happened, it was in Montreal.
And the gun laws in Canada are tight.
You have to do a training course to get a license.
And if you own a gun, you have to register it with the police.
You can't just walk into Walmart and buy yourself an assault rifle.
It doesn't work like that in Canada.
The police say the attacker was dead when they found her.
She had a self-inflicted wound.
And she matched the description given in an earlier police alert.
Female wearing a dress with brown hair.
That is extremely unusual.
It's rare to have a female attacker.
I think we will struggle to determine the why, but we're going to try and do our best to determine what transpired that day and what led up to this tragic event.
That is a candid assessment from a member of a deeply shocked community.
He literally said it's super rare for women to do a mass shooting.
I thought that's exactly where he was going to say, well, this was a man.
No, he just said that with a straight face.
I guess he's right.
It is super rare for a woman to engage in a mass shooting, and it did not happen in Tumblr Ridge, even though he just said it did with a liar.
Is that actually a reporter?
Someone who reports to you what happened?
Is that the media, the Latin word for the middle, as in they'll connect you to the information?
Are they really giving you the information or are they doing the complete opposite of reporting of being the media?
Are they trying, in fact, deliberately to obscure information, to hide the truth from you, trying to lie to you?
That's what it's called when you spread a falsehood on purpose.
It's called a lie or disinformation.
All the people who tell you about disinformation and fake news and that you can only trust them, they are deliberate liars, aren't they?
When it's something they are trying to sell you.
We saw this endlessly during COVID, didn't they?
And then again during the Israel-Hamas war.
And here it is now.
You cannot trust institutional journalism.
It's just incredible to me.
You know it's bad like COVID times when the regime media spends more time trying to criticize and fact check independent journalists who dare to dissent rather than doing their own journalism.
They're spending more effort on anti-journalism than on journalism, trying to undermine alternative sources.
Let's go through a gross one.
I just saw this in the Toronto Star.
I mean, these people are raging that they don't control all information.
They're for censorship because they hate when a dissenting point of view is allowed.
So let me show you this Toronto Star article.
Inflammatory claims about Tumblr Ridge shooter identity surge as elected official claims trans violence.
Far-right U.S. commentators, oh, they're the worst, the U.S. far-right U.S. commentators, have argued that transgender people commit a disproportionate share of crimes, a claim not borne out by statistics.
Well, I tell you, those inflammatory claims, you don't say, as Norm McDonald might joke if he were around, I thought the mass murdering part was the worst part.
So this is by Alex Boyd, a staff reporter for the Toronto Star.
The initial alert sent from police to local Tumblr Ridge, B.C. residents described the suspect as a, quote, female in a dress with brown hair, according to media reports.
The unusual wording seemed to trigger speculation about the shooter's gender identity online.
I think some people chose to interpret that as a trans person, says Blaine Batiak, a trans woman and conservative political commentator who grew up in Grand Prairie, just across the border in Alberta.
Okay, why did they call Blaine Batiak a trans woman, but they didn't use that same descriptor for the shooter?
I mean, why did they pretty much disclose that Blaine isn't a real woman, but why did they hide it or abide the hiding of it for the murderer?
Police would later say that the shooter was known to them and had previously been apprehended under the Provincial Mental Health Act and hospitalized, quote, in some circumstances.
That's incredible.
In fact, I saw a report today that police interacted with him and his family, either in person or by phone, 60 times.
If that's true, that is shocking.
And like I say, police are so afraid of even misgendering him.
Were they also afraid politically to arrest him?
Given all his bizarre outbursts and danger, if you're afraid to call a guy he instead of she, you're probably afraid to arrest him.
Back to the star.
That should be the focus, said Batiak, who remembers well the scarcity of mental health resources in remote northern resource towns.
That we have a mental health crisis on our hands for youth.
Okay, are you saying that transgenderism is a mental health crisis or being pumped with drugs or hormones?
I'm not sure, but he said it.
Back to the story.
But online, the shooters suspected transgender identity was frequently emphasized even before it was officially confirmed.
What does that mean?
Something's officially confirmed.
Is there an office of confirming things?
What independent journalists learned something by researching?
I mean, that's how the facts came out.
Juno News, our friends over there, they didn't wait until some government office told them they could publish it.
They called around and found out, what does it mean officially confirmed?
Do we have to wait for someone official to tell us now it's okay to publish the truth?
Is that what the Toronto Star does?
Does any other murderer get that kind of treatment from the media?
I mean, look at this from the CBC.
They're literally using the killer's first name like he's a friend or something.
Maybe they're doing that to avoid saying he or she.
They're calling him Jesse.
The RCMP say that there had been several mental health-related calls to Jesse's home in recent years.
The most recent was last May.
Police say Jesse had been apprehended for assessment and follow-up related to mental health.
The Globe and Mail is reporting Jesse had recently returned from receiving psychiatric care in Prince George and had previously set a fire in the family home.
We know Jesse dropped out of school about four years ago.
Police also told us Jesse began transitioning from male to female about two years before that.
Jesse this, Jesse that.
It would be like saying Adolph instead of Hitler.
Or on a smaller scale, it would be like talking about Paul Bernardo and saying Paul and Paul said this and Paul said that or Clifford Olson and Cliff said this.
It's so gross.
Why are they doing that?
You know why they're doing that.
Back to the star.
Right-wing outlet Juno News ran an interview with the alleged shooter's family member who said the shooter was transgender.
The name Juno used was different than the one eventually given by police.
Speculation took off from there.
Now, I think it's probably fair to call Juno News right-wing, but I think they're pretty mainstream.
Like, I think they're sort of Pierre Polyev right-wing, like 40% of the population right-wing.
They're not, I wouldn't call them radical.
I just wouldn't.
I like them.
Right-wing, but they're not crazy.
They're pretty accurate.
They're certainly no further out there on the right than the star is on the left.
So Juno News confirmed the facts with the murderer's family.
That's called journalisming.
But the star said they were supposed to wait until officials gave the green light to reporters to say that.
Why would they wait?
Because the star was waiting for instructions.
By the way, Juneau confirmed the facts.
The murderer, who is legally called Jesse Van Ruetzler, actually went by the family name, there were multiple last names in the family, went by Jesse Strang.
So why would the police say no, no, no, it's Jesse Rutzler when he went by Jesse Strang?
I think it's obvious because Jesse Strang is the name the murderer used with his endless online rants about being transgender.
I think the police didn't want people to Google the name he used online, and the star agrees with that, I guess.
They're really mad that Juneau News is using the killer's name that he used online.
Back to the story.
That same evening, Tara Armstrong, the MLA for a central British Columbia riding, who was elected as a conservative but is now independent, tweeted to almost 15,000 followers that there is, quote, an epidemic of transgender violence spreading across the West, citing Tumblr Ridge as the latest example.
Yeah, how dare she have an opinion?
As Norm McDonald would say, maybe the murderer is the worst part here.
Back to the story.
This epidemic of violence will continue until we change our society's response to transgender ideology, she wrote.
Armstrong did not respond to requests for an interview.
As transgender rights in general have come under fire in the United States, far-right commentators there have argued in recent years that transgender people commit a disproportionate share of crimes, a claim not borne out by statistics.
GLAAD, a non-profit U.S.-based organization that advocates for the LGBTQ community, says there's no evidence of escalating violence committed by LGBTQ people, but points to a trend of social media accounts blaming transgender people before facts are known.
But we know the facts here.
There's no blaming falsely here.
He was transgender.
He did do the murders.
Back to the story.
As of last fall, factcheck.org calculated that less than 0.1% of shootings in the U.S. had been committed by trans people since 2013.
But by going back to 2013 and just all shootings, I think, I mean, and transgenderism was really just getting started back then.
I think you're cherry-picking early data when transgenderism was, before transgenderism was weaponized both politically and enabled medically by pumping confused teams full of drugs and hormones.
Now, of course, fewer than 1% of Americans are transgender.
So, of course, the absolute number of shootings will be small.
But even if these stats are right, even if the lobby groups they quote, are convincing that it's not a disproportionate number of murders.
So what?
Is that the focus here?
Like Norm McDonald said, is that really the terrible thing here?
That a politician said there's too much of this kind of violence, and a transgender lobby group said, no, there's not too much.
There's just the normal amount of violence here.
Does that make it better?
Is that the star's point here?
Back to the star.
Nevertheless, other posts spread a different message.
In a post to Twitter Thursday night, the pleb reporter, an influencer who recently attended the Federal Conservative Convention on a Content Creator Pass, what a weird attempt at Guilt by Association, apologized to his 172,000 followers for posting pictures of a person he claimed was the shooter, but who was not.
My point is that that's an error.
Obviously not on purpose.
Identifying the wrong person isn't great, but it's not a malicious political decision.
It's not a commentary on transgenderism.
But boy, they're working hard to discredit independent voices and to link it to the conservatives.
He said he took down the tweet within minutes and had asked that other accounts do the same, adding that speed is never an excuse for inaccuracy.
However, a screenshot at least appears to live on, having been shared by actor James Woods, who sent it out to his 5 million followers.
In it, the pleb referred to the person in the photos as a trans lunatic and said the RCMP was hiding the truth.
The pleb declined an interview, but in a statement said that it was now known that the shooter was transgender.
In fact, he argued both police and media had obscured.
I do not assert that all transgender people are inherently violent, and I have never said so, he wrote.
Yet from my observation, media reporting has persistently and selectively downplayed cases involving trans-identified individuals in mass shootings, as they have in this case.
But doesn't he know he's not allowed to have that opinion?
The only political opinion you're allowed to graft onto a horrific tragedy like this is the need to ban more guns.
Mark Carney is headed to Tumblr Ridge.
I'll bet you a dollar he talks about gun control, because that's the good kind of politicizing a murder, isn't it?
On Wednesday afternoon, police said that the person behind one of Canada's worst mass shootings was transgender.
Speaking to media, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald identified the shooter who killed family members at home before turning a gun on random students at a local school in northern BC as 18-year-old Jesse Van Ruetzler, saying she was born male but had transitioned six years ago.
We're not hiding it, he said when pressed about the online speculation that had bubbled up in the day between the shooting and Wednesday's press conference.
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Hang on, they're not hiding it by calling the person a female in a dress.
They weren't hiding it.
That's what they said in their emergency cell phone message, too.
They weren't hiding it.
Why are they lying?
Why is the star enabling the lying?
I will say this.
Identify the suspect as they chose to be identified in public and in social media.
He added, before stressing that it was too early to say whether Van Ruzzler's gender identity had any correlation to the investigation.
So you're respecting the political wishes of a mass murderer.
That's what Jesse would want.
I'm not going to keep reading.
It's just more of the same.
Running defense not only for the murderer, but for transgenderism and the right kind of politicization.
No time to talk about the victims, though.
Really, no time for them.
Who cares about them?
They're the problem here because they embarrass transgenderism, including the young children who were shot.
No time to talk about vicious crime.
You see, the real issue here is about the misgendering and about being anti-trans.
Don't you know?
Well, Juno News is having a good week.
Cosmo and Jurger, one of their contributors, was the first to confirm that the murderer in northern BC was a transgender extremist.
The rest of the media were following the RCMP line of using weird language like gunperson or a female in a dress.
But Juneau News actually made phone calls late at night into the town and connected with neighbors and friends and family members.
So good for Juneau News for getting that scoop.
Juneau News also is the publication in which our friend Melanie Bennett writes.
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We're delighted to join her now to talk about some disturbing news in the province of Ontario.
Melanie, great to see you.
Congratulations to Juneau News on such a big week.
I want to talk about two things that you've brought to our attention.
The first is an essay you've written entitled Ontario Students to Learn About Anti-Semitism from Anti-Israel Group.
Tell me a little bit about that.
I shouldn't be smiling or laughing.
It's completely unfunny, but it's ridiculous.
Tell me who will be teaching Ontario students about Jews.
Yeah, so Independent Jewish Voices is an organization that says it represents Jews, but they're anti-Zionists essentially.
And the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario have hired independent Jewish voices to write training materials, which will down the line end up training teachers, I imagine, through the union.
And ETFO has been an interesting union when it comes to anti-Zionism and some of the downstream effects of that in the province.
So that was called out by Sija, who were, you know, upset that they weren't maybe some larger organizations that represent Jewish people in Canada were not consulted.
I also spoke to B'nai Brith, who also made a statement along the lines of they would have been happy to provide some training for them, but they were not contacted.
So it's interesting that the EDFO, I believe the largest teachers' union, I think it's the largest teachers union in the province, chose a fringe group of radicals to provide resources.
Yeah, I've encountered these independent Jewish voices, and the only thing Jewish about them is the name.
That's why it's in the name.
They're designed to confuse.
If you see these Jews denouncing Israel, denouncing Zionism, it's immediately confusing.
You sometimes see some ultra-Orthodox Jews who wear the traditional garb, and they're marching with Hamas also.
It's designed to confuse and muddy the waters.
There are some anti-Semitic Jews.
I know that's hard to believe.
It would be as if there was a movement called Blacks for the KKK.
I mean, it would be so confusing and startling, and that's the whole point.
So, to choose this self-loathing group to teach Ontario children about anti-Semitism is pure malice.
It would be better not to teach them anything at all than to allow these saboteurs in.
That's my view.
Well, listen, I'm not Jewish, but if I wanted someone representing my views, I'd want groups that represent at least the majority view of that particular community.
And as far as I understand, Independent Jewish Voices certainly does not do that.
They have quite fringe opinions.
I don't think it's a surprise that Edfo would go do that because the unions just seem to be increasingly radicalized on so many different topics, not even just, you know, this anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, but across the board.
And that's obviously something I cover a lot.
So a very disappointed decision that they would do that.
You know, I think the better analogy, I just tried an analogy of a black Klansman.
That's just too absurd.
I think a better one would be all these women's groups, women's magazines, women's awards, who in recent years have been, you know, woman of the year is actually a man, like a male-to-female transgender.
I think that's the better analogy is who would you send into school to teach about women's rights and being a woman, a trans person.
It's cuckoo, but it's happening.
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We all see it.
I mean, it's so audacious, it's hard to fathom, but that's exactly what this independent Jewish voices is.
It's like the transgenders of the Jewish faith.
Crazy story.
I don't want to spend too much more time on it because just a moment ago, you told me what you're doing in the city of Ottawa.
And I'd like to invite you to tell our viewers, what are you doing there?
Who invited you there?
And what did you see here and learn?
I was invited a little while ago by Tafseq.
TAFSIEC is a Jewish advocacy group.
And they noticed some of the coverage that I was putting out about some of the incidences within the schools.
They put together an event to advocate to designate the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada.
And I was invited to speak about the things that I found in schools, some of the reporting that I published about schools.
And the meeting was in parliament yesterday.
We had a whole day of delegations from different experts, researchers.
There was some politicians there.
So it's an interesting meeting.
And yeah, that's why I'm here in Altawa.
Now, one of the focuses, I think, is on the Muslim Brotherhood, which is not a formal organization.
I mean, it does manifest itself in corporations and groups and mosques, but it's sort of like, in a way, antifat.
It's more an idea or a loose affiliation or an identity.
It would be like someone saying, I'm a hipster.
You don't have a membership card.
You just, it's who you think you are.
It's who you affiliate with.
Some countries have banned the Muslim Brotherhood.
For example, the United Arab Emirates in particular.
Tell me about the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada.
First of all, maybe give a moment to our viewers.
What exactly is the Muslim Brotherhood?
What do they believe?
Who do they follow?
And what does the Muslim Brotherhood do around the world?
Well, you're right.
It's more of an ideology.
It's a set of ideas.
It's a group of people.
who ascribed to the teaching, teachings of a person called Hassan al-Bana, who in the late 1920s wanted to create a global caliphate, if you will.
He wanted to expand Islam.
He wanted, yeah, and so it's a sort of supremacist Islamic ideology that has spread across many different countries.
You're correct that the, I don't know how you designate an ideology, but it has been treated as extremist and banned in several Middle Eastern countries, including the UAE, I believe Saudi Arabia and Egypt, its original home.
So in the Middle East, they understand that it is a dangerous ideology and it does interfere with the regular functioning of society.
But in the West, we haven't been as forthcoming with that.
The UK did put out a report, I believe, in 2015, warning about the dangers of this particular ideology and the presence of its followers within the UK.
It is also present within Canada.
Just as a side note, if people didn't know, Hamas is the Palestinian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, and many of the terrorist organizations that are famous are linked in one way or another to this ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood.
And so this is, for me, a growing concern.
And to see organizations affiliated by and named by other organizations as in Canada being affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, to find presence of that within the K-12 education system, I find very concerning.
I'll say, in Canada, there's an organization called the National Council of Canadian Muslims, or NCCM.
Before that, they were called CARE-CAN, Council of Islamic, American Islamic Relations.
It was the Canadian branch of a U.S. group that was an unindicted co-conspirator in terrorism prosecutions.
That NCCM is the leading Islamic advocacy group in Canada.
That's where, for example, a lot of the former anti-Islamophobia activist position that Justin Trudeau appointed came from.
Tell me a little bit about the activities, if you can, of the NCCM or some of their officials or even some MPs in Ottawa.
Now, people don't say I'm Muslim Brotherhood.
They don't say that.
It's almost, I don't know, I'm trying to think of an Anglo equivalent.
I suppose it might be like being amazing.
Antifa is a pretty good, I think it's a pretty good comparison, this set of ideas, right?
So a lot of extremists aren't going to say I'm Antifa.
But what was the question?
So some of the activities here in Ottawa currently are.
Well, I mean, tell me a little bit more what's going on with the Muslim Brotherhood in Ottawa, in parliament.
Okay.
Tell me some of the Islamic advocacy that's going on.
Okay, well, I found it curious that I was invited to a delegation yesterday to designate the Muslim Brotherhood.
And it's interesting you bring up NCCM because they put out a post denouncing this meeting, calling it a conspiracy theory.
And isn't it terrible that these people are having a meeting to designate this thing that doesn't exist, but we're very upset that the meeting's happening.
And then today, I just right before talking with you, I noticed on Twitter that one of our MPs, Salma Zaid, posted about a meeting between herself and the Prime Minister and other MPs with some, the CEO of NCCM, also some people associated with other groups, including the Muslim Association of Canada and CMPAC, and also the Canadian Muslim Vote.
We can get into that, but certainly leaders that I found curious given some of the things that we've discovered.
I'll just, I'll mention this quickly.
So in the CRA, the Canada Revenue Agency, put out an audit or did an audit over a period of several years about the financial dealings of the Muslim Association of Canada.
And it identified in this rather large audit.
I read over 300 pages of different documents.
And they very plainly said that there was connections and affiliations.
And this is a CRA, that there were connections and affiliations with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim Association of Canada.
Now, they were trying to have remove the charitable status, but MAC had appealed and they've retained their charitable status.
And there are some financial penalties for that, but they've retained it.
And so a lot of these groups are being linked and identified and then continue to advocate at the highest levels of our government.
Like I said, today meeting with the prime minister, a day after we had a meeting to designate them.
You know, it's funny because it was, you know, the name that was on the tip of my tongue was Amira El-Ghawabi.
She came from the NCCM.
She was Trudeau's anti-Islamophobia captain or ambassador.
She's still very much being deployed, as is the NCCM.
It sounds like the meeting that you documented, where all these activists were meeting with the prime minister, it sounds like Mark Carney is saying, all right, we're going to remove that one official position, but I am at the disposal of any advocates or activists in the country.
It sounds like it was sort of an apology tour by Mark Carney for shutting down this anti-Islamophobia position.
Is that right?
Well, it's funny you mentioned that because, sorry, I don't have, I'd have to double check this, but I believe that the meeting today happening that was posted is in fact to talk about this new equity department after the elimination of both the Islamophobia and the anti-Semitism czars.
So it looks like it has to do with this.
I can't remember the exact title of the office, but the new equity office, the anti-hate office.
Yeah.
You know, it's funny.
I don't deny that there are some anti-Semitic Jews, going back to our earlier conversation, because I look at who is generally considered the frontrunner in the NDP's leadership race.
And it's a guy about my age named Avi Lewis, son of Stephen Lewis, longtime political leftist.
And he and his wife, Naomi Klein, have been basically communists.
I don't think they would deny that, for their whole lives.
And he is running his chief campaign platform is an anti-Israel platform.
So this is a secular Jew.
He and his wife are about as Jewish as a ham sandwich, but they are Jewish.
And they are the kind of Jews who would be in this independent voices, Jewish voices group.
What's interesting to me is Jagmeed Singh was, you know, created in a laboratory to be the worst NDP leader possible.
So all the left-wing votes would coalesce behind Justin Trudeau.
That's my observation.
In fact, in the last election, I think the NDP got, what, 9%?
A shockingly no number.
I think Avi Lewis, as strange as it sounds, a nominally Jewish politician, if he wins, could attract some of the Muslim vote to the NDP.
You see that in the UK, where the Green Party, the deputy leader of the Green Party, is an Islamic extremist.
Like, it's a very strange combination of self-loathing Jews, environmental extremists, and Islamic extremists.
It's quite something.
I think the Green Party in the UK is really on the move.
I think you're going to see that in Canada.
And perhaps this move with Mark Carney meeting with all the Islamist activists is his way to shore things up.
Because if Avi Lewis actually becomes the leader of the NDP and attracts the anti-Semites and the anti-Israel activists, the Liberal Party of Canada is going to have some competition on the left.
Yeah, at the end of the day, it seems to me that this so-called Islamo-leftist alliance has less to do with Israel or being Jewish and more to do with hating the West and having a common goal in eliminating the West, right?
It seems to me like that's been the case in places like Iran during the Iranian Revolution.
That's been the case.
We're seeing it in the UK right now, as you say, whether it's the Green Party or the new party, Korbanista Party, was it your party, I believe they called it, who then they extracted themselves from the Labour, which was not far left enough, created their own party.
And you see, obviously, the Islamist MPs joining the Green Party as well.
So we see this all over the world.
And ultimately, what do they have in common?
They don't like Western liberal democracy.
They wish to eliminate Western liberal democracy, whether you call it anti-capitalism or whatever you want to call it.
But ultimately, there's a danger to that because, again, in Iran, once the revolution is over, this alliance cannot stand.
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And so somebody is going to be eliminated.
And that somebody is going to be the leftists.
And it's unfortunate that we haven't learned our lessons.
And I would like to avoid seeing that in Canada.
I don't think we have to go down that road.
And I think we can learn from history.
Well, sure, I hope you're right.
Sometimes I fear we've gone past the point of no return.
I'm encouraged by Nigel Farage becoming bolder every day, but I also worry that it's just too far.
I mean, his latest comments refer to one million Brits who don't even speak English.
I mean, here's a little videotape of Nigel Farage addressing this.
It was actually a football club owner who first said we are being colonized by foreigners.
That got a shocking tut-tut, including from the prime minister.
But Nigel Farage, I think, is slowly finding his courage.
So Jim Ratcliffe, one of the richest Britons in the world, of course, the boss of INEOS and now a major shareholder in most of the United Football Club, has caused outrage by his comments.
So what's he actually said?
What he said, that our population has gone up from 58 million to 70 million, and that with 9 million people of working age on benefits, we don't need mass migration.
He said much of the country had been colonized by immigrants.
Now, that word was a controversial word.
And he said, okay, if you don't like the word, we'll tone it down.
But just think about this.
You ask yourself why public services have diminished.
You ask yourself why rents have gone through the roof.
The population explosion has done that.
And then you look at parts of London, for example, where the road names, the underground signs, aren't just in English, they're in a foreign language as well.
One million people living in this country don't speak any English at all.
Four million people living in this country barely speak passable English.
And that's the point that he was making, that big areas of our towns and cities have been changed into something completely different to what they were, and that it's all making us poorer.
And I don't really care if number 10 is in uproar or if much of mainstream media find his comments too difficult.
I believe firmly that Jim Ratcliffe is right.
Keen to know what you think.
I don't know, Melanie.
I just, I fear that, you know, demographics is destiny and we've just gone too far.
Are you hopeful or do you think we're past the tipping point?
Of course I'm hopeful.
I think we must always be hopeful.
It's not over until it's over.
Just because something isn't necessarily in the headlights right now doesn't mean that people will not realize.
Listen, you were talking about Cosmen Gerja, my boss, who cracked open the story about the trans shooter.
Now, trans was not so much in, or the issues around that were not as prevalent in the media several years ago, right?
The media didn't want to talk about it.
And certainly True North and Juno News and yourselves helped bring some of these issues into the forefront.
And now many, many people are aware of a lot of the issues associated with that.
And so sometimes it just takes a little bit of persistence and repeating the message over and over for people to start hearing about it.
But you talked about the UK and one of the differences I find with the media environment in the UK compared to Canada is that we don't have a lot of so-called conservative or right-wing media in a more mainstream way in Canada, whereas the UK does have that.
They might be panned by people because obviously, you know, on the right equals evil still in the UK, but it exists.
And we struggle to bring that.
We struggle to bring alternative opinions in Canada because of this media environment.
But certainly, we do our best and I think that we've done a really great job.
And so, of course, I'm hopeful.
I think it just takes a little bit of time and effort.
Yeah.
I think you may be referring to GB News, which is just a great conservative Islamic skeptic broadcaster.
Naja Fraj, in fact, has a show there.
We had that in Canada for about 10 minutes called the Sun News Network until Prime Minister Stephen Harper allowed the CRTC to destroy it, which is, I think, one of his gravest long-term errors he made as a prime minister.
But that's a conversation for another day.
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Melanie Bennett, it is so great to see you again.
You're always doing such interesting stuff and you're always so well informed about your subjects.
And I really learn a lot from you.
Thank you for taking the time with us today.
And congratulations on your work.
Always a pleasure.
Thank you, Ezra.
Right on.
There she is.
Melanie Bennett from Juneau News.
Stay with us.
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Your letters to me.
Jamie Heather says, just like poisoning is known as a woman's crime, a mass shooting, especially at a school with the inclusion of the perp committing suicide, is a man's crime.
Well, for whatever reason, crime is disproportionately male.
I've never heard poisoning called a women's crime, but I suppose I could see why it is.
It is, I can't even think of a mass murder committed by a woman other than some recent cases in the States of a transgender female to male who is so pumped full of rage-inducing testosterone that I really think it was a psychoactive moment that you can only pump so many hormones into someone without having them go nuts.
Sun 8488 says, RCMP mobilizes dozens of officers to murder innocent ostriches, but gives guns back to a deranged, mentally unstable creep.
You know, the RCMP is not fit for purpose.
That press conference was so atrocious.
There's a gun person afoot.
It's a female in a dress.
Stop lying.
And I just learned today, I mentioned this in my monologue, that the police interacted with this guy 60 times, but obviously they were too afraid to do anything for political reasons.
Cojan man says the only reason the mainstream media reported on it was because of the body count.
I'm sure the transgender part they would have loved to bury, but they couldn't because of independent news organization like yours brought it to the public.
The liberal government will use this and twist it to follow their own agenda, whatever it is.
We'll see, because remember, Mark Carney's own daughter has trans to be a man, and she's an activist about it.
We'll see what Carney himself says.
360 North Northeast says, this is an RCMP issue.
They confiscated the firearms, then gave them back at the owner's request.
Do not lay blame on the responsible legal gun owners.
You know, it's so crazy that I think that the police are so afraid of doing or saying anything that could be taken as anti-trans in some way.
I think that's why they let this guy stay in the community despite his crazy outbursts, keep his guns.