How activist-driven human rights tribunals are weaponized against free speech in Canada
Infamous vexatious litigant Jonathan Yaniv has filed a spate of complaints with the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against any media that criticize him or his views on transgenderism. Among the targets are Rebel News, as well as the National Post's Barbara Kay, who joins the show.
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Article by Rebel News staff
Tonight, a feature conversation with Barbara Kay, columnist for the National Post, discussing the malicious lawsuits that have just hit half a dozen journalists, including herself and Rebel News.
It’s unfortunate but true: it doesn’t take many people to upend countless lives. In many cases, a single person abusing the system is enough to cause serious injustice.
Take Jonathan Yaniv, for instance, who identifies as a transgender woman and is infamous for taking multiple — typically immigrant — women to the Human Rights tribunal for refusing to wax his privates, which he argued constituted discrimination based on gender expression or gender identity.
Unfortunately, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is just as crazy as Yaniv, because they took those cases. For a while, Yaniv's name was kept secret, but eventually his identity was revealed, and the embarrassment to the Tribunal was immense. Yaniv might be a malicious, vexatious litigant, but they were the ones who gave him a platform.
That was nearly a decade ago now. Since then, Rebel News has had countless run-ins with Yaniv, which have involved his assault of close to half a dozen Rebel News reporters — most recently Drea Humphrey.
A few years back, Yaniv even attempted to sue Rebel News in civil court. That case was dismissed as a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation), and Yaniv has since been wise enough to stay out of the real courts.
However, more recently, he's returned to his roots: the activists of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, perhaps the stupidest — or most cunning — quasi-judicial tribunal in Canada.
Recently, Yaniv has filed a spate of vexatious complaints with the Tribunal against any media that criticize him or his views on transgenderism. Who knows — maybe Yaniv has been emboldened by the fact that the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has been on a roll lately, including its decision to fine former Chilliwack school trustee Barry Neufeld $750,000 for his criticism of gender ideology in schools.
Targets of Yaniv's complaints include outlets such as the Western Standard, Juno News, Rebel News, and our friend Barbara Kay from the National Post, who joins the show tonight.
GUEST: Barbara Kay, columnist for the National Post.
COMMENTS
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Barb Morrison commented 2026-05-03 19:27:20 -0400I can’t wait for Canada to change the government to clean this mess up. My god this crazy man should be locked up & away from society. -
Angela Watt commented 2026-05-02 17:24:38 -0400Who is paying this moron? He has expensive tastes: his car looks relatively new. He is capable of walking but uses a scooter to get some sympathy & I’ve never seen him use his dog’s attachments. I’m sure it’s his “emotional support” dog except it is him that is the reason for his dysphoria. He is in desperate need of help & the Human Resources are encouraging his dysphoria! Why? -
Angela Watt commented 2026-05-02 17:15:07 -0400Perhaps he needs to spend some time behind bars. Maybe he’ll calm down!
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Angela Watt commented 2026-05-02 17:10:28 -0400If we all called him out there is no way this moron cud sue all of us. Everyone knows he’s a man watt ting attention & wants to exhort money for his pleasure! He’s a terrible man who should be institutionalized.
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Paul Mccullough commented 2026-05-02 12:49:29 -0400Saul Alinsky was a big fan of Marx, and a bigger fan of Lucifer. Rules for Radicals was largely dedicated to the original radical, Lucifer. Marxists like to downplay this, of course. The West began to fail when enough people rejected God. God was removed from our institutions and Satan took his place. Our institutions were designed by Christians, for Christians. They seem to be falling apart as we move to being a people who are anti-Christian (through imports being added to those being domestically produced – see the far-left as an example).
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Tony Salotti commented 2026-05-02 07:54:32 -0400Wow , Canada is turning into a failed country .
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Michael Guillery commented 2026-05-02 03:04:43 -0400Do you think the Canadian ‘Judicial’ Process needs somewhat of a ‘rewrite’? -
Michael Guillery commented 2026-05-02 02:53:43 -0400So. The question arises. Who (paid by the public) in government allows this ‘human rights’ commission to have any power, let alone exist?
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Terri Carter commented 2026-05-01 22:22:50 -0400Great interview!
Canadians really need, to decide what way they want our country to go… l -
Paul Scofield commented 2026-05-01 21:13:09 -0400What in God’s name is wrong with BC, having a “Human Rights Tribunal,” so called? Do they see themselves in 1945-46 Franconia, as in Nuremberg? Given their Stalinist tactics, one should remind the Human Rights Tribunal, when they issue another of their idiotic judgements, an update of what Stalin is purported to have said to the Pope, regarding Soviet activities in eastern Europe ’How many divisions does the Human Rights Tribunal have?"
Such a group is despicable and beneath contempt. To hell with them. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2026-05-01 20:42:23 -0400We conservatives need to infiltrate and dominate the system. We who believe in freedom and rule of law need to get our young folks into politics, law, and teaching positions to overrule the wacko left who let Yaniv and others hose the public. It’s why I love Rebel News’ young journalist program so much.
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James F Mc Cann commented 2026-05-01 20:41:21 -0400The only thing that history teaches is that people do not learn from history. Action begets reaction & Govts. keep pushing ordinary people until they react so they subdue them. Sometimes that system does not work too well!
