Rebel News Podcast

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.

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. Tonight, we’ll bring you a special year-end episode with some of your favourite Rebels. Settle in and enjoy! So much leftwing lunacy, so little time. Kurt Schlicter drops by to give us a Top 10 List of liberal nitwits for 2018. Thanks to ongoing protests in Paris, the city of light has turned into the city of fright as the common folk tell the ruling elites, enough is enough. Martina Markota will give us an idea of where the yellow vest movement is headed in 2019. Speaking of 2019, Rebel Commander Ezra Levant will give us his state of the union address as Rebel Media heads into our fifth action-packed year. And finally: instead of reading your letters, I'll end the year with some final thoughts.

Tonight we look back at her exclusive investigations into the Trudeau and Notley governments, using Access to Information documents that reveal the inner workings of these administration and how they are wasting your money and undermining your rights and freedoms.

Tonight he joins me for the full show, to talk about some of his other Rebel stories of this year, such as his JailAnjem.com campaign. We swap stories about terror sympathizer Anjem Choudary, who I interviewed years ago. I was so proud to see Jack deliver our JailAnjem.com petition to 10 Downing Street itself.

From the beginning, we’ve been covering the story of how the Notley NDP started tinkering with liquor prices in Alberta. Almost immediately after taking office, they enacted protectionist policies against beer imports and simultaneously started subsidizing Alberta microbrewers every single month with grants. It was a poorly thought-out plan to bolster Alberta's small brewing industry that picked winners and losers and brought unintended consequences as importers were then burdened with trying to sell a much more expensive product into a market proliferated with government subsidized beers. The protectionist policies and beer tax hikes spawned trade disputes between provinces and legal challenges pitting Alberta small businesses against the government. Trade tribunal after trade tribunal ruled against the government but they persisted with frivolous appeals that kept importers embroiled in expensive legal battles in order to exhaust their resources. But now, those small businesses have utterly defeated the government, forcing them to repeal their taxes and tariffs, bringing them back to 2015 levels before the government tried to “fix” what was never broken. And a six pack of beer is about to get a whole lot cheaper in Alberta in 2019. Joining me tonight to tell her side of the story about how she fought the government behemoth and won, is Bo Vitanov from Artisan Ales.

Tonight I'm joined by Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com, a long time "global warming" skeptic and activist.

Tonight, I'm joined by Candice Malcolm, journalist and founder of the True North Institute. We look back at the year in politics, especially the rise in populism and patriotism.

Enjoy the first of my series of interviews with special guests over the Christmas season... Tonight, Pamela Geller joins me to look back at her history as an outspoken anti-Islamification activist, a journey that began on 9/11.

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! With a simple tweet, President Trump says the US is done with the war in Syria. Cue the outrage. Ezra Levant has all the details. The little Alberta town of Nisku was ground zero earlier this week for a pro-pipeline protest that saw more than 2,000 trucks roll in. Sheila Gunn Reid was there to capture the anger that’s now reaching boiling point. And some good news regarding the ongoing war on Christmas as at least some radio stations have lifted their ludicrous ban on Baby its Cold Outside. Amanda Head will explain all. And finally, letters. Tonight, I’ll share some of your responses on my attempt to get Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen to come clean about the UN Global Compact on Migration. His response? He locked himself in a room. I’m not making this up.

So how are we going to cover Alberta separatism? With respect, I think. And with an understanding that it comes from a genuine grievance, not an ethnic nationalism like Quebec, not an attempt to extort more cash. A desire to be allowed to live freely and fairly, under the rules of Canada as they were written. GUESTS Sheila Gunn Reid and Keean Bexte

Ezra Levant looks back on the top 2018 stories at TheRebel.media: Tommy Robinson’s trials, Justin Trudeau’s scandals, Trump’s triumphs and more. PLUS he takes your comments and questions LIVE via YouTube Super Chat.

So what do they say about Trump bringing the troops home? TONIGHT I'll show you the story they ran on CBC’s failing flagship show, called The National (and tell you more about the expert they brought on to discuss it.) GUEST: Kurt Schlichter

Calgary held yet another massive lunch time pro-pipeline rally this past Monday. Over 2,000 people showed up at Calgary's Municipal Plaza to show their support for Canada's battered, beleaguered oil and gas industry. The speakers at the rally included Calgary municipal politicians which shouldn’t have been unusual or controversial, except those speakers ended up making themselves both! Mayor Nenshi tried to speak French to the rally-goers, which earned him loud boos. Then he lectured the attendees on the merits of fighting climate change. Councillor Peter Dejong was also booed after telling the crowd to support Quebec cheese and to avoid trade embargoes and boycotts. In response to the criticism from the crowd, he whined, “and you call yourselves Canadian? Wow.” How could these two be so tone deaf and out of touch with the concerns of the people in their own city that they turned a pro-pipeline rally against themselves? Tonight William McBeath from Save Calgary joins me to discuss how the rally went sideways for Calgary's purple prince, Mayor Nenshi, and we also examine city hall’s latest attempts to get a handle on renegade rookie councillor Jeromy Farkas. It’s been a horrible week for Nenshi and it’s only Wednesday!

Of the 35 per cent who support Trudeau, only 8 per cent strongly support him. So, that 8 per cent would be the staff of the CBC, and anti-pipeline activists and immigration consultants probably. But look at those who dislikes him: Fifty-eight per cent — but 39 per cent say they strongly dislike him. As in, they’re not just tired of him or bored. They actively, deeply loathe the guy. GUEST Joel Pollak.

I don't like these people. But every minute and every dollar the UK spends going after them is a minute and a dollar they’e not spending going after the real Nazis of the day... GUEST: Lorne Gunter

Did you know that under Trudeau, Canada has become more hostile to immigration than America under Donald Trump! According to Pew, 80 per cent of Canadians want the same or less immigration — that’s exactly what Angus Reid found too, by the way. In America it’s 73 per cent. GUEST: Professor Pierre Desrochers