Rebel News Podcast

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! Yesterday, Omar Khadr, our homegrown Islamist terrorist, was back in a courtroom in Edmonton -- this time arguing for some of his bail conditions to be dropped. Keean Bexte was there and joins us to explain how, when it comes to sheer unmitigated gall, Omar Khadr has no equal. Speaking of scumbags, Abdullahi Hashi Farah is many things: he’s a drug dealer, a gun smuggler and has even trafficked for pedophiles. So naturally, he’s just the sort of person we’d want as a future Canadian citizen, right? Ezra Levant has all the unbelievable details... And Sheila Gunn Reid has just returned from the UN’s climate change conference in Poland. Sheila will explain why the UN’s slogan when it comes to climate change should really be: “Do as we say, not as we do.” And finally, letters. Tonight, I’ll share feedback on my journey to Marrakesh to cover the UN’s conference on migration. First of all, while the UN doesn’t care for developed nations erecting walls and fences to protect their borders, they do love walls and fences when it comes to protecting their venue! Double standard much?

Omar Khadr is morally equivalent to Paul Bernardo. Except it’s actually worse in some ways — Bernardo is a sick, depraved man. So is Khadr; but Khadr is motivated not by the cruelty itself, but by the cruelty in service of his form of Islam. So he willfully, thoughtfully commits terrorism. GUEST Allum Bokhari

He’s a drug dealer. He’s a gun smuggler. He trafficked for pedophiles, effectively kidnapping girls as young as 12 years old. Home robberies. Stolen property. Credit card fraud. But because he was so "honest"! OK, so that was last year. What did this outstanding, honest crook do when he got in? GUESTS Marc Morano and Sheila Gunn Reid

I'm in Poland all this week, at a conference I’m not allowed to attend. The Canadian government asked the United Nations to ban me from their 24th annual global warming conference ironically held in the heart of Poland's coal country, the city of Katowice. Of course, the authoritarians at the United Nations complied. No skeptics allowed! But I went anyway to show you the hypocrisy of the United Nations and the frivolous use of hydrocarbons by those who attend these conferences in an attempt to curb everyone else’s use of fossil fuels. Before I left I pre-recorded a show with another person who keeps a watchful eye on climate change policies that come out of the United Nations, Michelle Stirling from Friends of Science. Watch as we discuss Stirling’s dire predictions for the UN climate change conference being held in Katowice, Poland. I predict I'm going to be left out in the cold!

This is devastating to the RCAF. It’s devastating for morale; to its capacity to do its job; devastating to our role within allied air forces. And devastating to Alberta, home of Cold Lake, where these exercises have been important for the community. (If this event was held in Quebec, they’d back up the truck with money.)

My only hope is that if Khadr blows something up, he does so over there, and not over here. But if he were to murder a Jew or a soldier, as he was paid a bounty to do by Al Qaida, you just know that the Toronto Star would say it was “mental illness,” and Justin Trudeau would call anyone who was upset about it “an Islamophobe.”

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 Christian landlord goes up against Muslim tenants who claimed he dissed their faith by not removing his shoes – in his own house! Can you possibly guess who came out on top in this squabble? Ezra Levant brings us all the depressing details. When Justin Trudeau made bizarre comments about male construction workers being predators, his usual garden-variety idiocy triggered our own Sheila Gunn Reid. Sheila joins us to talk about why this time is was personal! And Bruce Springsteen is no fan of President Trump – but even The Boss is a realist, predicting Trump will win another term. Amanda Head weighs-in on who might head-up the Democratic Party in 2020 – and it ain’t pretty. And finally, letters. Tonight, I’ll share some of the letters we received regarding our year-long quest to donate $15,000 to a military charity, something that continues to be stymied by... the Trudeau Liberals?!

And more good news — a whole fleet of regulations are being repealed. TONIGHT I'll review this newly passed act, and show you why it's great for Ontario companies and ordinary taxpayers. GUEST Paige MacPherson

Unlikes the Globe, the Post, and Justin Trudeau, we actually read the deal — and we’re with the 80 per cent of Canadians who are sick of Trudeau’s immigration policies... GUEST Marc Morano

We are experiencing the worst times in the Alberta oil patch in a generation, or maybe ever. It’s a homegrown recession caused by two levels of government who have no will or desire to build pipelines to export markets. Despite all the positive things they’re saying right now about Alberta’s oil and gas, these politicians, Notley and Trudeau, have surrounded themselves with the leading voices of the “No to oil” movement, putting people like Brian Topp, Tzeporah Berman, and Gerald Butts in positions of influence and power over Alberta’s resource sector. We’ve been fully colonized by the radical environmental movement and now regular families are paying the price. Job losses, foreclosures, and bankruptcies are all too commonplace. Trudeau, while in Argentina, even insinuated that Canadian men who work on pipeline construction would cause adverse “social impacts” in rural communities. However, now the people who orchestrated this catastrophe are saying they are the ones best able to repair it. Trudeau bought a pipeline that wasn’t for sale and stopped the expansion of it, and Notley is cutting oil production by nearly 9 per cent. It’s exactly what Greenpeace would do if they were in charge. No drilling. No pipelines. But the people have had enough. Rolling rallies, protests against the Prime Minister and his cabinet are becoming the norm in Alberta and largely apolitical people, folks normally interested in just going to work and paying their bills, are getting politically motivated to change their governments. Will the momentum for change carry through 2019? Or are people worn out, dejected and beaten down by the economy and two governments that refuse to listen? Joining me tonight is Robbie Picard of Oil Sands Strong to discuss the Prime Minister’s insult to Canadian men in front of the international press, Rachel Notley’s cap on oil production and what the future holds for Alberta’s oil and gas workforce.

Tonight I'll show you some of the official Canadian delegation going along with Catherine McKenna. There's a chief negotiator, a deputy chief negotiator, a negotiations manager, and just plain old "negotiators" who specialize in stuff like "Climate Finance" and "Indigenous Engagement." The total number of negotiators is 16. That's more than we had for NAFTA. GUEST Andrew Lawton

Tonight I'll take you through a speech given by Tim Cook yesterday, at an "anti-hate" rally in New York City. GUEST: Jack Buckby

That’s Canada in 2018 — leftists nationalizing the oil patch; conservatives refusing to fight them; and a man-child prime minister jet-setting around the world, throwing millions of dollars at celebrities. 2019 isn’t going to be any better...

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’s official: GM’s Oshawa assembly plant is shutting down. And worse yet, you can expect more misery for the Canadian auto sector if Justin Trudeau gets his way with a carbon tax. Rebel Commander Ezra Levant will serve up all the gruesome details. The migrant caravan has made it to the U.S. border, and now the street theatre for the media begins. But are these Central American refugees fleeing oppression... or are they opportunists hoping to game the system? Kurt Schlichter joins us to offer his take. It may have been foolhardy of late-missionary John Allan Chau to try to spread the gospel in a very dangerous place. Still, it’s disturbing to see how his death is being covered by the media in certain quarters. Ben Davies shall explain all. And finally, letters. Tonight, I’ll share some of the letters we received regarding my Q&A session with attendees at the Toronto event featuring Bill and Hillary Clinton. Let’s just say this: most didn’t appreciate my so-called “inappropriate” questions..

Do journalists care about getting the facts right? The journalists rated themselves 4.8 out of 5. But the general public? They give journalists just 2.9 out of five stars. GUEST Anthony Furey

On November 13th, 2018, Calgary's residents wisely voted against a two-week-long legacy party for Mayor Naheed Nenshi. In a municipal plebiscite where over three-hundred thousand ballots were cast, over 56 per cent voted “No” to Calgary hosting the 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Thank God. It was a rebuke of the wasteful priorities at Calgary city council, a rejection of the corruption of the International Olympic Committee and a rare win for common sense and accountability in Alberta politics. Will this whole expensive and secretive debacle be a gut check for City Hall? Or will Mayor Nenshi simply move on to the next expensive pet project to be laid at the feet of Calgary taxpayers? Joining me tonight to discuss how Calgary dodged the Olympic bullet, and what's on the horizon for Calgary taxpayers suffering through the worst economic recession in a generation, is taxpayer advocate, William McBeath, from municipal accountability group, Save Calgary.

This wasn’t staying neutral in the face of evil — which is execrable, which surely we have learned from in history. No; this was positively siding with evil.

It’s a sign of how broken Canada is, that not just union bosses, but the media, and the courts, and political leaders, and “civil society” including charities, take it for granted that it’s OK to attack oil and gas jobs, and to campaign and sue and protest them into submission. But God forbid a car company wants to move away from Trudeau’s uncompetitive tax regime — well, it’s a national crisis, and Trudeau had better come with a bail-out... GUEST: "Green Swastika" author William Kay

GM isn't the only company in the news. And do you think that’s going to get better or worse when Justin Trudeau’s national carbon tax kicks in fully? GUEST Manny Montenegrino

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! Hey, guess which party has the biggest war chest for next year’s federal election? Well, it’s the Media Party, of course, thanks to more than half a billion dollars in Liberal welfare. Rebel Commander Ezra Levant serves up all the gruesome details. When it comes to crossing the Canada/U.S. border, there’s apparently an unofficial new rule in 2018: Makers are inconvenienced, while Takers – i.e., irregulars – receive 24/7 concierge service! Sheila Gunn Reid drops in to explain all. The latest Fantastic Beasts movie is a progressive panacea. So why are the progressives panning this flick? Well, it’s not progressive enough! Ben Davies weighs in on this latest unintentional comedy. And finally, letters. Tonight, I’ll share some of the letters we received regarding my report on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty that was protesting... um, something... last weekend.

TONIGHT I'll show you the Media Party's reaction to that one sweatshirt, from reporters at the National Post and the Globe and Mail. So the real news is that 2,000 Calgarians had a peaceful but noisy protest against unemployment being foisted upon them. And the media reports were that Nenshi and Trudeau hugged it out, and that someone wearing a novelty shirt wanted to kill Trudeau obviously and he’s really, really scary!

This is bad news for us in some ways — we’re going to be attacked even worse than before. And for you, as a viewer, and for your fellow citizens, isn’t it proof that The Rebel is needed more than ever?

Big Labour has started campaigning for left-wing politicians early, a year out from the next federal election. Canada’s mega union, Unifor, has declared itself the “resistance” to Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer in a comical photo showcasing a handful of sour union faces posed around a stern looking union boss named Jerry Diaz. The image has spawned dozens of bad jokes and memes. Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union representing auto workers, oil sands workers, and journalists alike, has the money, the means, and the media, on their side. However, suddenly the CBC is interested in conservative third-party spending in elections. CBC’s resident conspiracy theorist, Wendy Mesley, spoke to the founder of Ontario Proud, Jeff Ballingal, about how his small conservative social media meme-based political action group is shaping the way people view conservative politics, now that he’s got his sights set on Justin Trudeau. You see, CBC didn't care much when American environmental groups were dumping millions of dollars into the arms of Canadian activists to block Canadian pipelines and cripple the Alberta economy. They don’t bat an eye as Unifor declares war on Conservatives, using union dues from members to wage political battles with little to no spending transparency required. But now that conservatives are fighting back, the CBC is worried about big money influencing politics. Give me a break! Joining me tonight in an interview recorded earlier this week to talk about how Big Labour sways Canadian elections, the mainstream media and influences geopolitical outcomes, is author, researcher and activist, Bill Tufts.

I’m for peace and freedom, and civil rights, and I hate the Saudis. But I hate the Iran and ISIS alternatives more. And this Jamal Khashoggi? Yeah, it’s sad, but he’s not high up on my list of the world’s victims...

What's weird is that Celine Dion's clothing for kids is gender-neutral. These clothes are as ugly as you’d think. GUEST: Lorne Gunter

I learned a lot; frankly, my esteem for Harper went up — I think he’s clearly warmed to Donald Trump, not necessarily his personality, but his achievements. It’s tough not to, especially if you're an economic expert like Harper. GUEST Joe Warmington

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 hate crime against four Jewish teens was committed in Toronto earlier this week. But why are the police being tight-lipped about who the assailants are? Rebel Commander Ezra Levant will offer his analysis. Pakistan is a hotbed of terrorism and hatred directed at the West... so it makes perfect sense that the U.K. gives this state millions of pounds in aid every year, right? Well, Jack Buckby says enough is enough and drops by to tell us about his latest campaign. And is Victoria’s Secret trans and fat-phobic because it doesn’t have any trans or obese modes? Apparently, the answer is yes, according to the SJW set. Martina Markota will try to make sense of it all... And finally, letters. Tonight, I’ll share some of the letters we received regarding my commentary about two journalists who were recently disciplined - one deserved what he got, and the other, not so much.

Canada’s largest journalism union announces it will campaign against the Conservative Party

I met an interesting character over the weekend at our Rebel Live event in Calgary and she was such a hit, such a rising star, that I think we should all get to know her a bit better. She’s a hidden gem right now, but I don’t think she’s going to stay that way. Kelly Day is a new political YouTuber and an incredibly talented musician. She performed such a stirring and haunting rendition of Owen Benjamin’s ode to Tommy Robinson “How They Rule ‘Ya,” that the Rebel Live audience of 600 spontaneously sang along. Kelly has a story to tell about her journey to the political right and her quest for dialogue with political opposites in a time when politics have never been more polarized. She reminds us that in order top pop the bubble that our political adversaries are living in, we might actually need to talk to them. It’s a controversial idea when political discourse has been reduced to radical tribalism and guilt by association. Joining me tonight from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to discuss how she found her way back to conservatism, and to share what it’s like to be a libertarian-leaning musician when pop culture is a liberal waste-land, is Kelly Day.

Doug Ford will not object to any pipeline, and in fact he’s talking with other premiers about getting things going again. I think it might be all for naught. Trudeau and Notley and their crews will not let a pipeline live. But Trudeau won’t be prime minister forever. GUEST Allum Bokhari

The media is already losing interest in the story; and as I write this, Justin Trudeau has not yet written a tweet about it; so every moment that passes confirms for me that my two sources are correct; for if it had been a white supremacist group or right wingers who attacked these Jews, Trudeau would weaponize this moment into a political denunciation of his enemies. GUEST Yishai Fleisher

So where is Canada? We took 50,000 unvetted Muslim migrants from Syria. Will we take one Christian refugee, out of solitary confinement in Pakistan, where she’s literally at risk because of blasphemy laws and rioters? If Canada does take her, many Canadians will welcome her. But not all of them... GUEST Joe Warmington

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! So, post-U.S. mid-term elections, why exactly did that anticipated big blue wave turn into a little blue trickle? Rebel Commander Ezra Levant joins us to offer his analysis. Speaking of a failure to launch, one of the most bizarre sidebar stories to emerge from the US midterm elections was CNN running an opinion piece that advocated for a... sex strike? Martina Markota will try to make sense of it all for us. And nothing compares to... Sinead O’Connor and her newfound contempt for white people now that the Irish singer converted to Islam. UK Rebel Jack Buckby joins us to give us his take on this strange story. And finally, letters. As you may know, I was recently on assignment in Mexico, following the 5,000-strong migrant caravan. Tonight, I’ll share some of your responses to my report on the garbage problem inherent in the march of these U.S.-bound migrants...

Ezra Levant reads Kipling's poem "Tommy," and plays a song he recently discovered about the plight of the soldier. GUEST Sheila Gunn Reid

I’m concerned about anti-Semitism, because I’m a Canadian, and because I’m a Jew. Donald Trump isn’t the cause of it. And I won’t say Justin Trudeau is. But too many of his decisions are... GUEST: Count Dankula

Have you heard about the UN Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration? Canada is about to sign onto this agreement but many Canadians are in the dark about what the agreement is and what it will do to Canadian sovereignty. This global compact for migration isn't about refugees, or people fleeing violence, persecution, war, disease or even famine. It’s about economic migration and even more broadly — migration for any reason whatsoever. Signatories to the agreement will agree to make migration from one country to another a human right and not something determined exclusively by a sovereign state based upon merit and needs. But with imaginary human rights, come some very real costs. Much of the pact is focused on ensuring that benefits, supports, training, and healthcare are not denied to economic migrants due to their migration status. The mainstream media in Canada hasn’t really been talking about the global compact on migration nor have they been discussing what unrestrained migration will do to Canada, and the reason for that is written into the pact itself. One objective of the pact is to “promote independent, objective and quality reporting of media outlets including by sensitizing media professionals on migration-related issues and terminology.” The non-Orwellian translation? One objective of the pact is to train reporters to use UN approved words in order to favourably cover mass migration. So, what happens to media outlets who refuse to comply with the UN whitewashing of migration-related news? The pact has an answer for that, too. Section 17 calls for “investing in ethical advertising, restricting public funding and material support to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants.” In other words, if a reporter in a country that has signed the pact tells the truth about mass migration, they could cause their media outlet to lose a bailout, advertising money, grant, or in the CBC’s case, a subsidy. Joining me tonight is someone who noticed the problem with the global compact on migration and decided to do something about it by starting a House of Commons e-petition with her friend George Brown calling on the government to walk away from the pact. That petition is now sponsored by People's Party of Canada MP, Maxine Bernier My guest via Skype from Sault Saint Marie is citizen activist, Catherine Bayne.

So Trump held his own against the Democrats. But the real enemy of course is the U.S. media. But what about our state broadcaster, the CBC, created specifically to promote Canadian culture? They actually sent down their Ottawa political reporters to the U.S., to stir up anti-Trump sentiment. CTV and the Toronto Star got in on this too, as I'll show you tonight. GUEST Joel Pollak

A human rights oriented NGO called UPR, which stands for Universal Periodic Review. They try to press certain governments to be more humane, by getting other countries to ask them about their human rights records. Most countries asked China about Tibet, and their Muslim minority and so on. Guess what Canada asked... GUEST: Gordon Chang

McKenna hates Canadians who oppose carbon taxes. She hates Canadians who work in oil and gas. But she loves China for doing the same things — times a thousand... GUEST David Lasdon on his new movie about the Tea Party and "the birth of the angry voter" who helped elect Trump.

Welcome to Rebel Roundup ladies and gentlemen -- from Oaxaca, Mexico! Normally, I love spending a Friday interviewing your favourite Rebels discussing their very best commentaries of the week, but Ezra has sent me South to Mexico to meet up with the caravan that’s heading north. It's a very important story and you can catch all of my reports at CaravanReports.com. In the meantime, check out these letters some of you sent in about a different kind of Mexican caravan we encountered on the eve of Halloween in downtown Toronto. See you next Friday.

If we shut down the University of Manitoba — everything except, say, their useful departments, like the school of agriculture — do you think anyone would notice? And don’t say, “Kids these days!” Because these are the baby politicians and baby journalists and baby activists who in a few years will be infecting the grown-up Parliament and courts and human rights commissions and newspapers. GUEST: David Menzies' reports from Mexico on migrant "caravan."

I like immigration — if it’s lawful, orderly, and the best for Canada — and frankly, the best for the migrants. Learn English or French. Come with a skill. Love Canada — and prove it. Learn our customs and values. Who could be against that? Well, actually, Trudeau is. GUEST: Lorne Gunter

The Calgary Olympic bid has been a dishonest mess from the very beginning. It’s become a Frankenstein monster, roughly sewn together in order to realize Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s dreams of a global scale legacy party for himself, paid for by the taxpayers of Canada. News of leaked conversations, secret meetings, behind the scenes deals, and duelling taxpayer federation associations cross-endorsing each other's cities, have solidified opposition to the bid and turned patriotic fans of the olympics into cynics. Over the course of 24 hours, the bid has been dead, resurrected, and then maybe dead again. It’s changing by the minute and costing money every step of the way. Join me tonight as I speak with William McBeath from Save Calgary, in an interview that we recorded Tuesday morning, way back when the Olympic bid was still dead in its grave. Watch as William explains how Calgary taxpayers got so far into this mess in the first place, and what we can do next to stop the bleeding at Calgary city hall.

I don’t trust Trudeau or his wrecking crew. But I wouldn’t trust a conservative, either. I wouldn’t trust any politician, and as the thousands of security breaches already show, you just can’t trust people in government, bureaucrats, clerks, whomever. They snoop, like Revenue Canada did, and Statistics Canada did. GUEST: John Carpay

I don’t yet know what Bolsonaro will be like in power. No-one does, maybe not even himself, yet. But I do know one thing: If you get your information from the New York Times and the CBC, you won’t learn much, other than he’s “divisive” and “far right,” and Trudeau doesn’t like him. GUEST: Alessandra Bocchi

Other liberal Jews, more liberal than Jewish, piled on, including here in Canada. Expect a lot more of this in the next week or so... GUEST T. Lee Humphrey

It’s a junk lawsuit. But even if it wasn’t — where is our side? Where’s Rachel Notley? Where is Trudeau? The answer is so obvious. They don’t have a problem with this anti-oilsands lawsuit by their U.S Democrat friends. I’m just wondering why Jason Kenney and Andrew Scheer are silent, too... GUEST: Yasmine Mohammed

The Handmaid’s Tale demonizes Christianity. This work of fiction has also been weaponized against Trump, to imply we’re just moments away from the novel's dystopian future here in North America, if Trump gets his way. Meanwhile, evidence of real life theocracy isn't hard to come by... GUEST Joel Pollak

While the federal government welcomes back terrorists – and in some cases, gives them multimillion-dollar payouts for hurt feelings — Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Dave Smith has tabled a private member’s bill to permanently remove those convicted of a terrorist offence from obtaining provincial services, such as free healthcare, an Ontario driver’s licence, or subsidized housing. GUEST: Catherine Swift

GUEST HOST: Sheila Gunn Reid says, compare that with a proposal by Ontario's Progressive Conservative, to strip returning ISIS fighters of benefits and privileges like driver's licenses and health care... GUEST Tom Quiggin