Reuters just admitted something about Rebel News they REALLY didn’t want to
A new Reuters–Oxford study accidentally proves more about Canada’s media landscape than its authors intended.
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Tonight on The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra highlights how Reuters, an organisation that so often positions itself as the sober priesthood of journalism, has a funny habit of stepping on its own sermons.
Their latest joint study with Oxford University attempts to map Canada’s most influential news sources and commentators — and, unintentionally, exposes the very hypocrisy and blind spots that have come to define the legacy press.
Let me start with a reminder about who we’re dealing with. Reuters is not some plucky newsroom of rogue foreign correspondents. It’s a 150-year-old corporate behemoth with more than 2,500 reporters feeding content to thousands of newspapers and broadcasters who dutifully regurgitate their copy, often word-for-word.
That’s efficient, sure, but it also produces an eerie ideological sameness. We all saw that during the pandemic, when Reuters didn’t just echo government talking points; it functioned as an enforcement arm for them, complete with “fact-checking” operations that suppressed dissenting journalism.
It makes more sense when you learn that Jim Smith, a Pfizer board member, simultaneously chaired the Thomson Reuters Foundation — meaning a vaccine executive had influence over the fact-checkers adjudicating criticism of vaccine policy. If that’s not a conflict of interest, the phrase has no meaning left.
One of their opening gripes is that Canadians apparently consume too much content from male creators. This wasn’t a hiring chart or corporate roster. It was literally a popularity list based on who the public voluntarily follows. Yet Reuters felt compelled to inject DEI scolding into the mix, despite the fact that Reuters itself was founded by a man, is owned by men and critiques political parties led by … men. The self-awareness deficit is staggering.
Their summary of Canada’s top personalities accurately highlights Jordan Peterson’s global influence, but the accuracy doesn’t last long. When they mention Rebel News, they claim we have 1.1 million YouTube subscribers. In reality, we crossed that mark around 2017. Today we’re sitting near two million despite years of algorithmic throttling. For supposed “experts,” they couldn’t be bothered to check our channel.
Then comes the predictable swipe: “Rebel News was accused of spreading misinformation around the Covid-19 pandemic.” The accusation rings hollow now that nearly every “misinformation” topic from 2020 has turned into mainstream consensus: the harms of lockdowns, the failures of mandates, the catastrophic loss of public trust. That’s on governments, public-health bureaucracies, Pfizer — yes, Pfizer — and on legacy outlets like Reuters that attacked anyone who questioned them.
But here’s the part they really didn’t want to say out loud: according to their own data, Rebel News is Canada’s fifth-most-recognized news brand. Ahead of Radio-Canada. Ahead of TVA. And ahead of Global News — the flailing broadcaster trading at roughly a penny a share, with a total company valuation around $7 million.
Still, the larger point is this: despite the smears, despite the platform throttling, despite legacy media’s wishful thinking, Canadians know who we are, and they’re choosing us anyway. That fact came straight from Reuters and you can practically hear their teeth grinding as they admit it.
GUEST: Rebel News' Drea Humphrey, Syd Fizzard & The Universal Ostrich Farm family from Ezra's visit this past weekend.
COMMENTS
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Dalyce McCue commented 2025-11-14 15:26:58 -0500I wonder about the Canadian military’s IQ as well. -
Dalyce McCue commented 2025-11-14 14:44:08 -0500Who buried the birds? Were they buried?
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Dalyce McCue commented 2025-11-14 14:30:42 -0500I was contacted about that survey and my opinions weren’t included because I refused to give my address. Was supposed to be anonymous.
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Fran G commented 2025-11-11 19:21:39 -0500I still believe in Poilievre. He has gotten stronger since the election but needs to toughen up more.
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Shannon Brault commented 2025-11-11 13:55:20 -0500ALL social animals have a higher intelligence than people give them credit for. They form bonds and understand when one of them is hurt or not feeling well. That knowledge affects them emotionally just as it would us. Of course those ostriches suffered emotionally just as much, if not more, than their owners. I am deeply ashamed of my government. I believe it’s gone too far over to the dark side and there’s no saving it. Alberta needs to separate, and I hope Saskatchewan joins us. -
Anthony Salotti commented 2025-11-11 07:15:34 -0500Keep up the good work Rebel News !
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Robyne McBride commented 2025-11-11 07:03:23 -0500They are sentient beings. They live as long as we do. They have loving relationships – probably more so than many humans. Especially those that took their lives.
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Jerry Purvis commented 2025-11-11 00:55:00 -0500It’s my hope the good people of Alberta (along with their neighboring provinces) are ready to declare their independence from the murderous government tyrants in Ottawa.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-11-11 00:02:02 -0500My point is that Corus Class B shares are next to worthless. About 20 years ago, it traded at $40 or more. Now it’s a penny stock and many investors wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole. That is scarcely good advertising for the company.
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Matt Abrahams commented 2025-11-10 23:13:36 -0500Bernhard, the price is not the point. You can’t control a corporation if you can’t vote. Corus Entertainment has a dual-class share structure. Only the subordinate class (class B) trades on the stock market, and they do not confer voting rights. The senior class (class A) shares are the only ones that confer voting rights and not just any Joe Blow can purchase those.
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Gary Blohm commented 2025-11-10 22:20:22 -0500Thanks Rebel.
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Klazina Vanbergeyk commented 2025-11-10 22:14:23 -0500For me its more like #1
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-11-10 21:33:08 -0500Matt: have you checked the price of Corus shares recently?
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-11-10 21:30:35 -0500We can only hope that Pierre Poilievre can get elected and turn this country around. Even then, he’s been too cautious in the past. I won’t support the CPC anymore because of Poilievre’s weakness. He didn’t defend the ostrich farm either. What he ought to have said is that it’s a blow against PRIVATE property. Since the precedent has been established, any real or imagined disease outbreak in livestock or pets can be grounds for absolute extermination of all of those animals.
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Bruce Atchison commented 2025-11-10 21:25:51 -0500I’m seriously wondering if I should immigrate to America. Then again, what if a Democrat gets elected and destroys all the good Trump did? Should I stay here in Alberta and fight for autonomy of the province? The losses of this month are causing me to fear for my future.
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Matt Abrahams commented 2025-11-10 20:59:04 -0500Ezra, you would never control Corus, even if you bought every class B share (which is what trade on the stock market). The Shaw family would still control the corporation, because they own all the class A shares, which have all the voting rights.
