Rebel News Podcast

The Ezra Levant Show (February 19, 2019) — Everything with the Liberal Party is a lie. They’ve changed their story a half dozen times. Meanwhile, the media’s attention span is almost out. They have zero curiosity. Unless the RCMP do something... GUEST: Keean Bexte

The Ezra Levant Show (February 18, 2019) — This is fake news with a purpose — to justify the massive government intervention in social media. Mark my words: this is a pretext. We’re the only media they can’t control. So they'll just get Twitter to do it... GUEST: Joel Pollak

Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen – and the rest of you – in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favourite Rebels. I’m your host, David Menzies. The SNC-Lavalin scandal continues to take myriad twists and turns. In the meantime, the Justin Trudeau Liberals are clearly in panic-mode. Rebel Commander Ezra Levant, brings us the latest… The Yellow Vest Convoy is rolling east and it will be hitting Ottawa early Tuesday. Keean Bexte is embedded in that convoy, and brings us the latest on this massive protest. Pity Mr. Assman, whose name is spelled A-S-S-M-A-N. He wants a vanity plate displaying his surname. But the bureaucrats in Saskatchewan are saying “nein!” because apparently this would prove too offensive to other motorists. Sheila Gunn Reid has all the comical details… And finally letters. I’ll share some of the letters we received regarding my report on how the Academy Awards has thrown in the towel regarding having a host this year. Apparently, there is a dearth of celebrities who can combine comedy with being inoffensive. End-result: Get ready for a snooze-fest this year – assuming you’re still watching this thing, that is…

The Ezra Levant Show (February 15, 2019) — Maybe one in ten times, a story like the attack on Jussie Smollett is true. But the other nine times, it’s a scammer. And like the boy who cried wolf, when we really need to care, or pay attention, no-one will believe it anymore... GUEST: Janice Atkinson

The Ezra Levant Show: February 14, 2019 : As we mark our fourth anniversary — and enter our fifth year — we do so stronger than we ever have been. And, if I may say so, more needed than ever. With Trudeau paying off the mainstream media with his slush fund, and social media companies censoring conservatives, our Rebel voice is needed, in Canada, and even around the world.

The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid (February 13, 2019) - Did you know that Oil & Gas and Mining are the largest employers of First Nations people in the country? These high paying jobs are giving Canada's indigenous peoples an opportunity to pull themselves, and their communities, out of the generational poverty that has plagued so many of them. There’s also a burgeoning business class amongst Canada's First Nations, particularly in Western Canada — especially in places like Fort McMurray thanks in no small part to oil and gas development and partnerships with major oil companies. But you wouldn't know that if you got all your news from the mainstream media. These indigenous success stories are seldom told. Instead, the mainstream media favours the handful of radicals and kooks, like those at Camp Cloud and at the Wetsuwetsin blockade, who inhibit prosperity not only for indigenous communities but for the whole country. Over the weekend, a pro-oil and gas rally and truck convoy in Lac La Biche, Alberta was led by Aboriginal groups. The media is reporting this event as the first of it’s kind, but that’s because the media has been asleep at the wheel for a long time. Aboriginal people have been speaking up for years about what resource development means to their communities. But the media have given their coverage to the cranks and whackos. For the better part of a decade, Metis pro-oil activist, Robbie Picard, of Oil Sands Strong, has been spreading the good news of the oilsands to anyone who will listen. Tonight Robbie joins me to talk about the truck convoy to Ottawa and what he has planned next to support the industry.

The Ezra Levant Show (February 13, 2019) Yesterday, Trudeau started to fight back, essentially calling her a liar. The media are convinced, and the official Ottawa Liberals are circling the wagons. GUEST: Keean Bexte.

The Ezra Levant Show (February 12, 2019) — What delicious irony that she’s the only one in Trudeau’s cabinet who actually acted with integrity and loyalty to the country... GUEST: Manny Montenegrino

The Ezra Levant Show (February 11, 2019): "The Libranos" are back, people. I miss Stephen Harper... GUEST: Barbara Kay

Every Friday evening on Rebel Roundup, we get together with other Rebel contributors to review the week's headlines, from the serious to the absurd. Settle in and enjoy! Guess what? Canada is in a trade war with the U.S. But why haven’t you heard anything about this war in the mainstream media? Rebel Commander Ezra Levant shall explain all … Attention pickup truck owners: If you drive such a rig, then you’re obviously a caveman. Says who? Says Calgary’s Mayor Naheed Nenshi, that’s who. Sheila Gunn Reid stops in with all the unbelievable details. Is nothing sacred? Victoria’s Secret is all about catering to women – as in real women – who love wearing fancy lingerie. But now the transgender community wants to strut their stuff as Victoria’s Secret models. Martina Markota will weigh in on this 2019 version of The Crying Game... And finally letters. I’ll share some of the letters we received regarding my report on how Toronto’s domestic homeless are left out in the cold while Justin Trudeau’s refugees enjoy central heating and three squares a day at several Toronto-area hotels.

The Ezra Levant Show (February 8, 2019) — They’re using a really dumb complaint to ask for a really powerful remedy — government regulation of the Internet. In fact, Trudeau’s Liberal candidate in Burnaby, at a candidates' debate for the by-election there (where Jagmeet Singh is running too) called for the United Nations to regulate the Internet. GUEST Andrew Lawton

The Ezra Levant Show (February 7, 2019) —There's a lot more, but I want to note that the amount SNC-Lavalin paid in bribes wasn’t just a hundred grand (which is what Trudeau’s illegal vacation on Billionaire’s Island cost.) They paid $48 million in bribes. For some reason, despite SNC-Lavalin really looking like a criminal organization, cabinet just won’t stop giving them contracts. I wonder why. GUEST: Joel Pollak

Calgary's ultra-progressive Mayor Naheed Nenshi has had a rough couple of months. Nenshi’s desperate attempt to cement his legacy in the form of a multi-billion dollar Olympics in the middle of an economic downturn fizzled out after taxpayers rejected the idea at the ballot box. Then, through freedom of information requests, our friends at taxpayer advocacy group Save Calgary, uncovered collusion between a mole in the Calgary Sun newsroom and the Calgary City administration. An article by Rick Bell that was critical of council, was leaked to the city by someone in the newsroom before it was ever published. Now, new reports are out showing a startling increase in crime in neighbourhoods where Nenshi’s city council has plunked a supervised drug injection site. And of course, Nenshi stuck both legs up to his knees right into his mouth when he said that Calgarians aren’t all just a bunch of “F-350 driving cavemen” in one of the most bizarre and pretentious attempts to defend the ethical nature of Alberta’s oil patch I have ever heard. There isn’t much accountability down at Calgary city hall. The conservatives on council are outnumbered and out-gunned. And that’s where Save Calgary comes in. They fight for transparency and honesty in municipal government. Joining me tonight from Save Calgary is a good friend of the show, William McBeath, to talk about Nenshi’s terrible end to 2018, followed by an even worse start in 2019.

The Ezra Levant Show — February 6, 2019: I think it means that all of the existing political entities have failed the west. Obviously the Liberals, but the NDP doesn’t much like it either. And the Conservative Party? Well, the stats speak for themselves: People prefer another party to it; they prefer separatism to it. That’s sad. GUEST: Manny Montenegrino

The Ezra Levant Show — February 5, 2019: Three news stories, three new disasters with Justin Trudeau’s mass migration policy. Justin Trudeau’s obsession with Muslim immigration is a security threat. It’s overwhelming our police and security. And it’s pushing loyal, honest citizens out of the way for social services, as thousands of illegals jump the queue. GUEST Dr. Daniel Pipes.

The Ezra Levant Show (February 4, 2019) Tonight I'll show you excerpts from Trump's announcement, because no-one else in Canadian media has told you that we’re in a trade war now. GUEST Pardes Seleh on the governor of Virginia's abortion comments and yearbook photo.

Every Friday evening on Rebel Roundup, we get together with other Rebel contributors to review the week's headlines, from the serious to the absurd. Settle in and enjoy! Omar Khadr is many things; a terrorist, a murderer, and even a multimillionaire thanks to the Trudeau Liberals. But how in the world did Google somehow hail Khadr as a Canadian soldier? And why was Gerald Butts yet again going to bat for Omar? Rebel Commander Ezra Levant will try to make sense of it all. There’s an odious double-standard in Canada when it comes to oil. Namely, the stuff coming out of the ground in Alberta is subjected to a gender-based analysis while crude from that enlightened realm called Saudi Arabia, gets a pass. Sheila Gunn Reid joins us to explain. The Brexit saga continues in the United Kingdom! Jack Buckby drops by to give us the very latest on Brexit, aka, the never-ending story. And finally letters. I’ll share some of the letters we received regarding my commentary about the City of Toronto banning tobogganing on one of the city’s best hills because the hill in question is... um, too hilly?

The Ezra Levant Show — February 1, 2019: TONIGHT I'll take you through this story, and talk about the weirdo named Andrea Huncar, who wrote it. GUEST: Yasmine Mohammed, author of Confessions of an Ex-Muslim.

TONIGHT I'll walk you through the astounding document released by Trudeau yesterday, called “Enhancing Citizen Preparedness.” But there's more: The Media Party has been having secret meetings, to talk about how to divide up the $595 million bail-out. Is that how we make laws and policy in Canada? In secret, elite, invitation-only meetings? GUEST Janice Atkinson

Is free speech dead on campus, and is the radical left holding a bloody knife over the corpse? Not as long as there are young people like my guest, agitating against censorship and advancing free expression on campus against a post secondary culture of safe spaces and the tyranny of feelings. Last time I checked in with Angelo Isidorou, he was in the middle of a tempest of his own making as his free speech club at the University of British Columbia attempted to host an event with conservative commentator and author, Ben Shapiro. And the campus cry babies were losing their minds - likening the uncomfortable experience of having Shapiro speak somewhere near them to the horrors of Charlottesville and the murder that took place there. But in the face of that heavy and hyperbolic opposition, the show went on and everyone lived to cry and complain another day. And Isidorou went on to plan a new event with his next controversial speaker, comedian Owen Benjamin. Tonight, Isidorou joins me to tell us what it was like to bring Shapiro and Benjamin to speak at UBC, give us an update on the the state of free speech on campus and to discuss his foray into party politics.

Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau’s principal secretary, took time away from everything else he was doing that was less important (like Canadian hostages in China, an industrial crisis in Alberta) to weigh in on this matter on Twitter, not once, but four times, as I'll show you TONIGHT. GUEST Candice Malcolm

Believe it or not, the battle over "CanCon" is back. This will really be about censoring, blocking and deplatforming any competition. Whether it’s music, comedy shows — or news and opinion, like ours. GUEST Allum Bokhari

Chrystia Freeland’s job before becoming an MP was as a star journalist. She worked for Thomson Reuters, one of the largest news companies in the world. And they were starting a new venture, called Reuters Next. Reuters spend $20 million on it. It was a major project but not as major as running a government department. So how did that all work out? Well, tonight we'll look back at that fiasco. It should have been a red flag. GUEST Lorne Gunter

Every Friday evening on Rebel Roundup, we get together with other Rebel contributors to review the week's headlines, from the serious to the absurd. Settle in and enjoy! While the year is young, did we just collectively witness the worst example of fake news in 2019 – namely, that story depicting a teenager with a Kentucky Catholic School being vilified for supposedly disrespecting a native elder? Ezra Levant is loaded for bear regarding the fakery and the fallout. Once upon a time, former Edmonton Journal reporter, Paula Simons, was a free press champion. So what happened? Well, she received a senate appointment from Justin Trudeau and now it seems she's taken a vow of silence when it comes to the provincial government in Alberta interfering in press freedom. Sheila Gunn Reid will explain all. In the department of “what were they thinking”, is Gillette’s new and not-so-improved ad campaign that suggests too many men embrace so-called “toxic masculinity” supposed to make guys want to buy Gillette razors and shaving cream? Martina Markota joins us to explore the question. And finally letters. I’ll share some of your feedback on my commentary on the infamous “Tiffany” Moore, that freaky femme who freaked out in a GameStop store over being mis-gendered?

One of the fascinating details was that it took 300 personnel to catch these two men today. If it takes 300 police and others to monitor one jihadi — how do you monitor 100? Or 1,000? Well, you can’t of course. Maybe the thing is to let in fewer of them in the first place. GUEST: Joel Pollak

It took the full day before Canada said a word about Venezuela. Trump responded quickly. Not our Chrystia Freeland. While 100,000 people took to the street of Caracas, Freeland was too busy on a media panel discussion at the fancy jet-set conference in Davos, Switzerland to make a statement. GUEST: Joseph Humire, the Executive Director of Secure Free Society

I am a critic of Alberta Education Minister David Eggen. I think he is anti-Christian, anti-parent, and is failing the children of Alberta. I think he should be fired for these reasons and more. But when we asked Premier Rachel Notley to fire her terrible Education Minister using a billboard on highway 2, we were fined $5,500 by Alberta’s mercenary — a powerful new bureaucrat called the Elections Commissioner. We’re now under the threat of escalating fines and even an injunction if we don’t stop being critical of the NDP. We’re fighting back against this censorship and bullying. You can see the full story and learn how you can help at www.StandWithTheRebel.com. If the NDP think their threats and fines will stop us from talking about how they’re attacks on parental rights in education are harming Alberta’s children, they’re dead wrong. Joining me tonight is journalist Alex Newman of the New American Magazine. A fellow global warming skeptic, we met at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poland but Alex is also an educator and co-author of a book that details how progressives are using schools to transform the culture. Watch as we discuss parents rights, common core, his upcoming Calgary speaking engagement at Freedom Talk, and his book - Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children.

Compare that to what Canada's ambassador to China, John McCallum, said today (at a press conference to which no mainstream media were invited — just Chinese media...) He actually says, twice in thirty seconds, that Meng Wanzhou has a good case! And any judge who want to be elevated, say, to the Supreme Court, or the court of appeal, had better please Trudeau’s man on this one. GUEST: Cassandra Fairbanks

So much of downtown Victoria has become like the infamous East Hastings Street in Vancouver — just a perpetual shantytown — homeless people; drug users; mentally ill; criminals. But suing fossil fuel companies and declaring states of emergency about global warming and the rising tide is so much easier than actually have to solve any problem. GUEST: Pardes Seleh

This is what they did to Brett Kavanaugh; this is what they did to an anonymous kid from Kentucky. This is what they will do to you. And by “they”, I don’t just mean the lying thugs on the street. I mean the lying thugs in the media. Including the lying thugs in our own Canadian media, especially the CBC. GUEST: Count Dankula

Every Friday evening on Rebel Roundup, we get together with other Rebel contributors to review the week's headlines, from the serious to the absurd. Settle in and enjoy! A Canadian now sits on death row in China, but it seems that Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is too busy going to bat for assorted foreign nationals as opposed to taking an interest in a Canadian citizen who might pay the ultimate price. Ezra Levant joins us to try to make sense of it all. Remember back in 2015 the Trudeau Liberals promised to be the most transparent federal government in Canadian history? Well, that was then and this is now. Sheila Gunn Reid will explain how the Trudeau Liberals are all about suppressing information that should be made public. Talk about a Mexican standoff! President Trump is insistent upon receiving funding for a wall on the southern border, while Democrats are refusing to compromise or negotiate. Kurt Schlicter will offer his take on how things are likely to play out in the days ahead. And finally letters. I’ll share some of your feedback on my commentary on a cop who inexplicably concluded that a senior citizen who was returning about $9 worth of empties to a beer store, was surely a drunk driver and threatened the man with a $2,000 fine unless he submitted to a breathalyzer test.

Tommy Robinson got a 13-month sentence for doing journalism — and he served 10 weeks of it in solitary confinement. Turgut Adakan participates in an acid attack and brutal beating outside a gay night club — and he’s told to be on good behaviour. GUEST Sheila Gunn Reid

It’s not really about controlling the weather. It’s about controlling people. Or “climate equity”. Which means changing how we live — changing the law, changing spending — using the climate emergency as the excuse. GUEST David Menzies

Canada Action has officially canceled their convoy to Ottawa but the mission to bring Alberta's concerns to Justin Trudeau's doorstep, is far from over. According to a Canada Action press release “unfortunately, we have come to the decision that it is no longer viable to proceed with our planned convoy. We cannot confidently mitigate the unexpected challenges associated with this event. As such, we will be issuing full refunds to all of our donors.” But, the Yellow Vest convoy is still going ahead. They have truckers willing to participate, they’re raising cash to get them there, and a lot of people are involved. These two convoys - both scheduled to leave the same day - were often painted as duelling convoys from competing movements. Canada Action and Rally for Resources have both been explicitly anti-Yellow Vest convoy from the beginning, disassociating themselves from the other movement. According to the Calgary Herald, Cody Battershill from Canada Action said “if they are yellow vest, we will not be doing anything with them and I’ve made that clear to them” and “For us, yellow vest is from France — we are Canadian, we are focused on Canadian families… In France, they were rioting and that’s not Canadian, either.” The Yellow Vest movement is portrayed as controversial, but that’s what happens with an organic movement that doesn't have a manifesto defining the motives and goals of the people behind it. The lack of defined goals and motives leaves a vacuum where one’s enemies can fill in the blanks. I’ve been one of the few people to wade into the Yellow Vest protests and convoys to directly ask attendees for their opinions at events across the province, and have found them to be diverse, colourful and frustrated and while there maybe be fringe elements attaching themselves to the movement, that shouldn’t taint the whole group. Last week Bernard Hancock joined me on the show to talk about oil and gas issues. He doesn’t like the Yellow Vests and told me why. Fair enough. So this week, I’m joined by the main organizer of the Yellow Vest convoy to Ottawa. Glen Carritt is a small businessman from central Alberta who’s just trying to make it in a bad economy, and he’s here to answer some tough questions about the allegations of racism, xenophobia and hatred levelled against him.

TONIGHT I'll show you Kim Gehrig's commercials for other products. These videos reveal what she thinks of masculinity, and traditional ideas of feminine beauty, too. Frankly, some of her previous work is very upsetting. GUEST Michael Knowles

TONIGHT I'll take you through Trudeau's cabinet shuffle in detail. No matter who he moves to which post, Justin Trudeau's cabinet is still based on cronyism, on unwavering and uncritical loyalty, on extreme sycophancy over merit, and on meeting an arbitrary gender quota. GUEST: Andrew Lawton

Now that she's here, why can’t we hear even one word from Rahaf Al-Qunun herself? She has been quite loquacious on Twitter. We know her name, her father’s name, her details, everything. Everything except what Chrystia Freeland said and did, and what promises were exchanged. GUEST John Carpay.

Tonight I'll show you what the CRTC is proposing. Some is quite Orwellian. Some is contradictory. Some is just laughable. But the meaning is still crystal clear: They intend to regulate voices on the Internet they don’t like. GUEST: Marc Morano

In September 2016, the Trudeau government partnered with Soros' Open Society Foundations to increase the number of "refugees" entering Canada. What exactly is the agreement? To find out, we sent a simple letter to the immigration department, under the Access to Information Law... GUEST: Barbara Kay

The pro-pipeline trucker’s convoys and protests that began in December are still rolling on. On Tuesday, another took place in Regina at the Legislature, where activists, politicians and even unionized steelworkers, came together and braved the cold to send a message to Ottawa - “Build that pipe!” While watching the online chatter about the rally, I noticed a familiar face was on his way to Saskatchewan to stand up for Canadian jobs. It was Rebel fan favourite and viral video sensation Bernard Hancock! Affectionately known as Bernard the Roughneck, he famously went to Ottawa in his hard hat and coveralls to deliver a petition signed by nearly 35K Canadians in favour of pipelines. After the rally at the legislature, I caught up with Bernard via Skype from the road between Kindersley and Regina. Today, Bernard shares his opinions on everything, from the rally in Regina, to the Yellow Vest movement (he is not a fan), to his new plans to fight for issues that matter to the people he calls “Ruffneck Nation.”

It took Chrystia Freeland eleven days to issue a little tweet objecting to the first Canadians being taken hostage. What took so long? Where is our self-respect? (By contrast, Freeland, and Trudeau himself, tweeted ten times about Jamal Khashoggi, a Muslim brotherhood spin doctor, paid by Qatar, to undermine Saudi Arabia...) GUEST: Joel Pollak

Canada's environment minister Catherine McKenna? By the UN’s own measure, she’s been a failure. But how does she get treated in the media? Like some sort of Messianic character who's going to save us all from our oil addicted selves. GUEST: Alex Newman

Why is it when a comedy troupe parodies Indian culture, that’s cultural appropriation, but when Prime Minister Zoolander himself does the Bollywood dancing thing, that’s OK?

Every Friday evening on Rebel Roundup, we get together with other Rebel contributors to review the week's headlines, from the serious to the absurd. Settle in and enjoy! It looks like Justin Trudeau is building himself quite the swank summer house, including a treehouse with its own zip line, and maybe even a helicopter landing pad! And guess what, folks? YOU are funding this extravagance. Sheila Gunn Reid joins us to explain. A new Abacus poll indicates that only 25 per cent of Albertans approve of the Justin Trudeau Liberals whereas a whopping 57 per cent disapprove. Yet some media outlets are claiming those who disapprove of Justin are motivated by racism, misogyny and homophobia. What the hell? Keean Bexte drops by to make sense if it all. Network TV coverage of New Year’s Eve devolved into a truly vulgar affair rife with talking heads still afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome. Oh, Dick Clark, how we miss you! Ben Davies drops by to explain how bad it was! And finally letters. I’ll share some of your feedback on my commentary about a progressive Toronto neighbourhood that is aghast at the prospect of a daycare operation setting up. Yep, suddenly the same people who condemn NIBYY-ism, are subscribing to it.

An LGBT activist tweeted the address of a young Progressive Conservative MP's parents out and encouraged leftists to harass them, over Christmas no less. How did the Media Party react? How about Twitter? Watch and find out. GUEST: Former police officer Leo Knight on crime and policing in Toronto.

David's guest is Candice Malcolm

Alberta should see a provincial election called for Spring 2019. Next fall, Canada will be plunged into the depths of a Federal election campaign. That means we have a big job ahead of us - especially for me and my Alberta Rebel colleague, Keean Bexte. The mainstream media in Alberta, with the exception of a select few, has completely abdicated their duty to hold the government to account on behalf of the people. Instead, the media holds the people to account on behalf of the government, often naming and shaming private citizens who are guilty of “wrong-think” - scolding normal people for not protesting the government in an MSM approved manner, and for not taking the destruction of the Alberta economy (and often their own lives) in stride. Keean has been making waves since the day he started with us. He punches up, and he is not afraid of a fight, taking on the Alberta Education Minister, David Eggen, for failing Alberta students, and confronting convicted terrorist Omar Khadr outside of the Edmonton courthouse. Today on the show, in an interview we recorded New Year’s Day, Keean and I discuss some of his favourite stories since he came on board, who takes top spot for worst NDP cabinet minister and to share his plans for 2019.

I review the top 3 most disturbing Silicon Valley news stories from 2018, with Breitbart's Senior Tech editor — and speculate about what this year has in store for independent media.

Rob Shimshock heads up our special website CampusUnmasked.com, which brings you daily updates on the latest political insanity at universities in Canada and the United States. We laugh at some of these ridiculous stories of political correctness, but remember: Today's students are tomorrow's elite leaders, who'll be deciding public policy that will impact your daily life very soon.

This is my last show of 2018, so I'm joined by our own David Menzies, who had some of the best stories of the year.