An Ontario justice of the peace accused of sexually harassing and terrifying a female colleague could escape professional consequences by retiring before his disciplinary hearing is completed.
Justice of the Peace James Ziegler must retire when he turns 75 next month. Once he leaves the bench, the disciplinary panel hearing the allegations will lose jurisdiction over him.
Justice of the Peace Gloria Kovach testified Thursday that Ziegler entered her chambers at the Kitchener courthouse uninvited on April 19, 2024, slammed the door and declared: “I love you and I want to have sex with you.”
Kovach said Ziegler’s eyes appeared “really wild” and that he paced between her desk and the door while discussing his sexless marriage, a previous affair and alleged anger problems.
She repeatedly rejected his advances and urged him to leave so they could report to their respective courtrooms.
]]>Ziegler eventually left but allegedly returned later that day. Kovach testified that he came back a final time, banged on her locked door and shook the handle.
“I just remember being so terrified thinking if he gets in here, I am so done for,” she said.
Kovach requested a security escort from the courthouse and was too frightened to return home because Ziegler knew where she lived. She instead drove to a casino, where she knew there would be crowds, cameras and security.
The Justices of the Peace Review Council alleges Ziegler’s conduct amounted to workplace harassment or sexual harassment and undermined public confidence in the judiciary. He denies the allegations and has been removed from judicial duties while the matter remains unresolved.
Ziegler was separately acquitted of forcible confinement and criminal harassment in December. The trial judge nevertheless reportedly described his behaviour as inappropriate and unprofessional.
His lawyer has not yet cross-examined Kovach and indicated she is committed to other cases until after October. No additional hearing dates have been scheduled.
That delay could run out the clock. If Ziegler retires before a ruling, the disciplinary system will no longer have the power to reprimand, suspend or recommend his removal from office.
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]]>Today, we're looking at Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Banff on Thursday, where the two nations signed a 100-year agreement focusing largely on defence and drone technology.
Plus, a year after his horrific assassination, protesters opposing a Charlie Kirk memorial event in Vancouver clashed with those attending the ceremony.
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A recently released violent offender has been charged after two men were stabbed inside an Edmonton Sikh gurdwara just one day after the accused left prison.
Edmonton police charged Austin Sim-Pelletier, 27, with two counts of assault causing bodily harm, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and mischief on September 4.
The attack occurred during morning prayers at the Nanaksar Sikh Gurdwara in northeast Edmonton on August 21.
Police allege Sim-Pelletier entered the gurdwara and attempted to access its prayer area shortly after 5 a.m. When staff confronted him, the encounter escalated and two worshippers, aged 75 and 51, were stabbed.
]]>Sim-Pelletier had reportedly been released from a federal institution the previous day after serving roughly 20 months for aggravated assault and assaulting a peace officer. Court records show he received a 28-month sentence for aggravated assault in December 2024, followed days later by a six-month sentence in a separate case.
Police said Sim-Pelletier failed to report to his designated Edmonton halfway house following his release. A warrant had already been issued by the time he was arrested at the gurdwara.
The Edmonton Police Service Investigative Response Team and Hate Crimes Unit continue to investigate whether hate-related provisions should be applied.
“This investigation is complex and involves numerous investigative steps that we are still diligently working to complete,” Staff Sgt. Eric Stewart said.
Police have not announced any hate-related charges, and none of the allegations against Sim-Pelletier has been proven in court.
He remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in court on September 18.
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Saanich police watched Canada’s most prolific convicted voyeur repeatedly violate his bail conditions and visit locations where he had previously recorded hundreds of women and girls, according to court records obtained by CBC News.
Yin Yeung Derek Chan was released on bail following his April 2024 arrest despite police finding thousands of images and more than 100 hours of recordings of women and children inside his home. One condition prohibited him from using a cellphone outside his residence.
Police nevertheless observed Chan using cellphones in public on at least three occasions over more than a month before arresting him on January 30, 2025.
On December 27, officers reportedly watched Chan use a phone at Victoria’s Uptown Shopping Centre and inside a Fitness World gym. He returned to the gym with a phone on January 7.
Two days later, Chan was seen using two cellphones in a Tim Hortons parking lot before visiting Fitness World and spending approximately 90 minutes inside a Value Village with a phone in his hand.
]]>“That’s exactly where his offending behaviour was, at these gyms and at Value Village,” Crown lawyer Paul Cheeseman told the court, alleging Chan was “out looking for more victims.”
Chan ultimately admitted to recording at least 652 women and girls around Greater Victoria. He received a four-and-a-half-year sentence for voyeurism and making child sexual abuse material.
Ashley Dryburgh of the Victoria Sexual Assault Centre questioned whether potential victims were effectively “being used as bait” while police built their case.
Former Independent Investigations Office director Ron MacDonald said officers arguably should have arrested Chan the moment they witnessed the clear cellphone violation.
Saanich police did not explain why officers waited. Deputy Chief Const. Damian Kowalewich said investigators followed a “trauma-informed” approach intended to minimize further victimization.
The businesses Chan entered while breaching his conditions said police never warned them.
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Juno News reporter and founder Keean Bexte says he was forcibly removed from the Banff Centre during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet retreat shortly before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived to address ministers.
Bexte said he had spent the day reporting from the retreat and interviewing approximately a dozen cabinet ministers, along with Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas, without incident.
Caught Mayor Jeromy Farkas as he attended the Carney cabinet retreat. He was friendly, and talked about the revolving door of criminals that have been allowed to disrupt the city and downtown core for years. Friendly guy! Thanks for the chat @JeromyYYC pic.twitter.com/rwcscwakI8
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) September 11, 2026
“We were polite, and our questions were relatively tame, not that that should matter,” Bexte wrote on X.
Video posted following the confrontation appears to show one of the men involved carrying an identification card marked “RCMP/GRC” for the Cabinet Planning Forum. Bexte later alleged the officers were part of Zelenskyy’s security detail and that Juno News had been singled out.
Unbelievable. After getting home and rewatching this, it is clear. These RCMP officers were part of Zelensky's detail, and they singled Juno News out. After a full day of reporting on location, a foreign leader had me removed. You can see the flag pins they are wearing. WTF? pic.twitter.com/HZfli2pCFi
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) September 11, 2026
“I was allowed to question Liberal ministers all day, but when it came to Zelenskyy, I was forcibly removed from the property,” he wrote.
]]>“Sorry that happened to you,” the mayor wrote. “In our personal interactions you have asked hard questions but you have been fair, publishing my answers in full.”
Calgary's mayor deserves credit - he has never tried to restrict access, despite my prickly questions to him. https://t.co/xIc3fkTQGu
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) September 11, 2026
Carney’s official itinerary said Zelenskyy would address cabinet at the Banff forum after meeting with the prime minister in Calgary. Media access to portions of the Calgary events was advertised, but the cabinet gathering itself was held behind closed doors.
Woah, this is where I was standing before I was removed from the Cabinet retreat. It wasn't clear who was coming, but now it is. I was allowed to question Liberal Ministers all day, but when it came to Zelensky, I was forcibly removed from the property. What the fuck, Mark? https://t.co/jR5GwUbsWS
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) September 11, 2026
The federal government announced $350 million for Ukrainian air-defence interceptors during Zelenskyy’s visit, along with nearly $435 million in loan guarantees supporting Ukrainian energy security.
Neither the RCMP, the Prime Minister’s Office nor the Banff Centre appears to have publicly explained why Bexte was removed or whether the order came from Canadian or Ukrainian security officials.
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Critics of Alberta independence often pretend the province would wake up on Day 1 without railways, regulators or anyone capable of keeping freight moving.
That is false.
Alberta already regulates approximately 345 industrial railways, seven heritage railways and three public railways through its existing provincial railway regime. The Railway (Alberta) Act governs railways operating entirely within the province, while Alberta’s rail-safety office handles operating approvals, inspections, audits and incident reporting.
The Alberta Transition Plan does not propose buying CN and CPKC, replacing their employees or rebuilding thousands of kilometres of track. It proposes expanding Alberta’s existing regulatory capacity to cover the main-line system currently overseen by Ottawa.
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There would still be work to do. Alberta would need authority over main-line rail safety, operating fitness, crossings, inspections and enforcement.
Agreements with Canada would also be required for cross-border transit, port access, regulatory recognition and rail interchange.
The Transition Plan proposes temporarily recognizing existing Canadian certificates, rules and technical standards to prevent needless disruption.
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CBC’s French-language arm is showcasing the enduring popularity of Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong, 50 years after his death.
A Radio-Canada re-published a wire service article under the headline “Long live Mao!” describes how Mao continues to “inspire” admirers in China, where crowds gathered in his hometown of Shaoshan carrying portraits, Communist flags and copies of his Little Red Book.
“I have deep respect for him, and I was marked by his spirit,” one 28-year-old admirer told the outlet.
Another declared that Mao “was a selfless person who opened a new era for China.”
Readers are treated to descriptions of commemorative flowers, revolutionary songs, souvenir shops and emotional admirers. The tens of millions who died under Mao’s rule receive considerably less sentimental treatment.
]]>Mao ruled China from 1949 until his death in 1976. His forced collectivization campaign produced mass famine, while political purges, labour camps and the Cultural Revolution destroyed lives, families, religious institutions and much of China’s cultural heritage.
Asked about the Cultural Revolution, one young admirer called it “controversial” and described it as part of Mao’s difficult search for a better China.
“I think that deep down, his ambition was to give China a more ideal and equitable society,” he said.
The story was supplied by Agence France-Presse and republished by Radio-Canada. Still, CBC’s editors chose to publish this soft-focus tour through nostalgia for one of history’s deadliest communist dictators.
Apparently, the public broadcaster’s rule is simple: when communism kills tens of millions, lead with the gift shop anecdotes.
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Opponents of Alberta independence warn that leaving Canada would mean losing federal deposit insurance and putting Albertans’ savings at risk.
That claim ignores an awkward fact: Alberta already operates deposit-protection systems of its own, and some provide broader coverage than Ottawa’s.
Deposits held at Alberta credit unions are guaranteed through the Credit Union Deposit Guarantee Corporation. The guarantee covers 100% of eligible deposits, including accrued interest, without CDIC’s $100,000 ceiling. Provincial law also requires the Alberta government to ensure the corporation’s obligations are carried out.
ATB Financial deposits are likewise fully guaranteed by the Province of Alberta. That protection covers deposited money and the interest payable on it.
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Alberta would need to establish successor coverage for those institutions, transfer or recognize existing protections during the transition and ensure that the new system had adequate reserves and a credible government backstop.
But that is an expansion of an existing system, not the invention of one from scratch.
Alberta already regulates financial institutions, oversees credit unions and guarantees tens of billions of dollars deposited with ATB. The institutional foundation, legislation and experience already exist.
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Opponents of Alberta’s independence have been pivoting their case from promoting centralized federalism to delegitimizing the referendum process itself. A column by Mark Crawford, an associate professor of political science at Athabasca University, published in the Edmonton Journal follows this tact.
Crawford’s case gets strange when he doesn’t just claim the ten questions don’t belong on a referendum, but he proposes four of his own, which he feels are appropriate for a referendum and are totally unrelated to the current list. Crawford offers four reasons why he feels a referendum may be merited. Then claims the ten questions in Alberta don’t meet any of them.
They are:
- If there is no clear electoral mandate on a fundamental issue
- Breaking political deadlock
- Giving permission to break a prior promise
- Resolving decisions where government has a clear conflict of interest
On his first reason alone, every single question meets the bar he set. None of the proposals in the referenda facing Albertans in October were electoral issues in the last provincial election. If the provincial government wants to work quickly on the proposed policies and actions, a referendum offers them that mandate. Issues regarding immigration and constitutional reform proposals are certainly fundamental.
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]]>The third and fourth categories don’t apply, but it doesn’t matter. The questions meet the standard set by Crawford.
Then Crawford presents a left-wing wish list of questions that he feels should be on the ballot, from entrenching the status quo in healthcare, to pitching a provincial sales tax, to restricting the use of the notwithstanding clause, to restricting the ability of citizens to hold a referendum in the first place. It’s hard to see how his proposals meet his own criteria any more than the current list of questions does. It is a very strange case he is trying to make.
Whether or not the current questions asked in the October 19 referendum are the “wrong” ones or not, the power to decide lands where it belongs: in the hands of citizens. Crawford’s unusual column doesn’t debate the merit of voting one way or another in the referendum. It just appears to be modelled to try to muddy the waters on the entire exercise and delegitimize the process in the eyes of citizens.
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On blogger Markham Hislop’s YouTube channel, Calgarian political scientist Duane Bratt claimed that the referendum questions on issues from immigration reforms to Senate abolition are something of a backdoor path to separation.
Bratt said of the list of referendum questions, “It sets Alberta either up to the pathway of separation, or it would be a country you wouldn’t recognize anymore, and we’d be separate in all but name.”
The first five questions on Alberta’s referendum deal with asserting more provincial control over immigration. Particularly with non-permanent visitors and the services they may or may not be entitled to. Those are policy issues that fall within provincial jurisdiction and are similar in nature to what Quebec already enjoys. It is arguable that if Alberta doesn’t work to get a handle on the influx of temporary workers and migrants, the province would become unrecognizable indeed.
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]]>Bratt states that the questions ask the impossible of Canada and that Albertans should reject them out of hand. In saying that, Bratt is making the case for choosing the path to independence as he implies that pursuing constitutional reform is futile. It may be nearly impossible to change the constitution in Canada, but it likely would be the only way to maintain long-term national unity. Decentralized democracies such as Switzerland offer some of the most stable countries in the world, while large entities that centralize authority, such as the Soviet Union, inevitably shatter over time.
The questions leading up to Question ten, which asks Albertans if they want to pursue the path to independence, offer citizens one last hope of maintaining the federation. They propose changes that may reduce the consistent and damaging strain between the federal and provincial governments. Rejecting the first nine proposals leads a person to embrace the independence option rather than eschewing it.
The first nine questions in the referendum offer a way to head off a growing independence movement. The tenth question offers the “or else”.
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]]>Nous avons parlé à plusieurs sources, dont la propre sœur de Mallet, et découvert ce qui semble être un processus de radicalisation s’étalant sur plusieurs années. Mallet a vécu pendant une longue période dans une communauté autochtone près de Lillooet, en Colombie-Britannique, où des sources allèguent qu’il aurait été exposé à une rhétorique extrémiste anti-chrétienne, qu’il aurait participé à des cérémonies décrites comme véhiculant de la haine envers l’Église et qu’il aurait possiblement consommé des drogues cérémonielles lors de voyages au Mexique et au Pérou. Sa sœur a déclaré à Rebel News que la marijuana avait contribué à de précédents épisodes psychotiques et qu’elle était intervenue à cinq reprises.
Parmi les personnes avec lesquelles Mallet aurait entretenu des liens dans cette communauté figurait Stacy Gallagher — un militant opposé au pipeline en Colombie-Britannique qui a déjà été emprisonné pour avoir entravé le projet d’oléoduc Trans Mountain. Mallet avait publiquement rendu hommage à Gallagher sur les réseaux sociaux. Selon les sources de Rebel News, Gallagher se trouvait à Saint-Simon peu avant l’incendie — et, dans une séquence vidéo, on peut apparemment entendre Mallet dire : « Stacy Gallagher, ton souhait se réalise », alors que l’église brûle.
Rebel News demande aux autorités d’enquêter sur cette communauté de Colombie-Britannique, sur les personnes nommées ainsi que sur les possibles dimensions liées au terrorisme dans cette affaire.
Regardez toute notre couverture et soutenez notre enquête sur SaveOurChurches.ca.
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A 13-year-old boy helping organize a peaceful vigil for Charlie Kirk in Vancouver says he will not back down as activists prepare to protest the memorial while spreading misinformation about my unrelated journalism as an excuse to do so.
The candlelight vigil is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 10, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Vancouver Art Gallery, marking one year since Kirk was assassinated.
Teen organizer Daniel Theile has partnered with True Blue Vancouver municipal candidates, including Naomi Chocyk and Fenton Travers, to provide a space for people who were touched by Kirk's life and work to gather, remember him and grieve.
CHARLIE KIRK:
— Drea Humphrey (@DreaHumphrey) September 6, 2026
13-year-old Daniel Theile is organizing a Vancouver vigil for Kirk on the one-year anniversary of his assassination. pic.twitter.com/mkNkhi7d5t
“I decided to organize this event because I believed in everything Charlie said,” Theile told Rebel News. “I wanted to commemorate him, his family, and supporters by holding a vigil in honour of him.”
While receiving a lot of support, the family-friendly memorial is facing angry and misguided pushback.
Activists associated with promoting the unsubstantiated “215” Kamloops residential school grave discovery claim have called for people to protest the vigil despite that issue having nothing to do with Kirk, Theile or the purpose of tonight's gathering.
“Our vigil is not meant to be political, but to remember a human being who fought for freedom,” Theile said. “The protesters will be protesting about the residential school claims, which have nothing to do with this event.”
Theile says the backlash will not intimidate him into cancelling.
“I am not backing down from this memorial because I believe everyone should have the right to commemorate anyone they believe in,” he said, adding that he “really loved what Charlie stood for” and wants to honour his legacy.
]]>They've also falsely characterized my years of reporting on the Kamloops band's controversial “215” claim and Rebel News' new orange shirt campaign calling for greater transparency from the band government as “residential school denialism.”
They lie. I'm not organizing the vigil. I never said I was, and I've never denied residential schools or the very real harms that took place in them.
Nevertheless, it appears they've rallied around a bogus excuse to target what they're really in denial about: not only the truth surrounding the Kamloops band's “215” claim, but the fact that although Kirk no longer walks among us, his vision lives on through young people like Daniel Theile who freely and boldly choose to carry it forward.
The controversy has nevertheless been dragged into calls to protest tonight's completely unrelated vigil. The rhetoric has also gone far beyond criticism of my reporting or Charlie Kirk's work.
Posts and messages directed at me have included a barrage of racial slurs, threats against me and my children, comments wishing that I would be murdered like Kirk, and others mocking or celebrating Kirk's assassination.
WATCH: See one of the videos targeting me here.
215 UNMARKED GRAVES:
— Drea Humphrey (@DreaHumphrey) September 2, 2026
It’s telling how many “truth and reconciliation” shouters are racists who hate the truth.
ZERO BODIES have been discovered at the former Kamloops residential school.
That’s good news! And attacking a Black and Indigenous reporter doesn’t change that. pic.twitter.com/4WfjBVMnr3
Rebel News and I are taking those threats seriously, so additional security precautions are being put in place as I prepare to report from tonight's gathering.
Whatever someone's opinion of the late Charlie Kirk is, my journalism or the ongoing Kamloops controversy, Canadians have the right to disagree and to mourn peacefully.
A 13-year-old boy should not be bullied out of peacefully commemorating someone who inspired him because activists disagree with that person's beliefs or because they dislike the journalist who happens to be covering it.
If you value independent journalists being able to report safely from contentious public events, please consider helping Rebel News keep our journalists safe at JournalistDefenceFund.com.
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]]>We spoke with multiple sources, including Mallet's own sister, and uncovered what appears to be a years-long pattern of radicalization. Mallet lived for an extended period in an Indigenous community near Lillooet, B.C., where sources allege he was exposed to extremist anti-Christian rhetoric, participated in ceremonies described as involving hatred toward the Church, and may have consumed ceremonial drugs during travels to Mexico and Peru. His sister told Rebel News that marijuana had contributed to previous psychotic breakdowns and that she had intervened on five separate occasions.
Among Mallet's reported associates from that community was Stacy Gallagher — a B.C. pipeline protester previously jailed for obstructing the Trans Mountain pipeline. Mallet had publicly honoured Gallagher on social media. According to Rebel News' sources, Gallagher was present in Saint-Simon shortly before the fire — and in video footage, Mallet can apparently be heard saying "Stacy Gallagher, your wish comes true" as the church burned.
Rebel News is calling on authorities to investigate the B.C. community, the individuals named, and the potential terrorism-related dimensions of this case. Watch all our coverage and support our investigation at SaveOurChurches.ca.
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Nearly 400 Canadian consumers filed for insolvency every day during the latest 12-month reporting period, according to new federal data highlighting the financial strain facing households.
Figures from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy show 140,669 consumer insolvencies were filed during the year ending January 31, 2026. That works out to approximately 385 filings every day and represents a 2.2% increase over the previous 12 months.
Bankruptcies grew even faster, rising 4.6% from 29,068 to 30,417. Consumer proposals increased 1.5% to 110,252 and accounted for more than three-quarters of all consumer insolvency filings.
]]>Alberta bucked the national trend with a 1.1% decline, while Saskatchewan recorded a 10.2% drop.
Separate research from insolvency firm Harris & Partners found Canadians are increasingly struggling to pay for everyday necessities.
Among 1,731 respondents, 36.95% said they had skipped essential purchases because of financial pressure, while 33.1% reported using credit to cover basic necessities. Another 58% said they felt financially burned out, and 76.3% said money problems had affected their mental health.
“Financial difficulty does not usually begin with an insolvency filing,” said Joshua Harris of Harris & Partners. “It can begin with relying on credit for groceries, delaying bills or cutting back on essentials simply to keep up with existing payments.”
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]]>I sat down with Conservative MP Dean Allison at the end of the day, and there was one word for what was just heard: carnage.
"I heard gaslit. I heard abandonment,” said MP Allison, reflecting on the relentless stories shared.
Vienna Demeduk described her 20-kilometre morning run cut short by a stroke that left her blind and unable to walk, alone in her condo, dragging herself across the floor toward help.
Nicole Maurier recounted the final hours of her daughter’s life — holding an oxygen mask against her face by hand, before watching her organs fail one by one after chemotherapy her weakened body couldn't handle.
One wheelchair bound victim, Jasmeet Grewal, now lives with two feeding pumps for twelve hours a day, unable to so much as swallow water.
Then there was James Freeland, standing in a hospital hallway, being told his 60-year-old mother — no medical history beyond type 2 diabetes, dead two days after her shot — had died of a "hard hit to the heart." No further explanation, no autopsy, but a rushed cremation that thwarted further scrutiny.
Biostatistician Dr. Jessica Rose brought the numbers to back up what the testimony was screaming. Her slides showed Canada's vaccine injury reporting rate is a fraction of the U.S. rate under VAERS — not, as officials claim, because Canadians weren't injured, but because Canada's reporting system is far more tightly controlled on both ends.
This lines up with what I reported back in early 2021, when Dr. Patrick Phillips — a rural Ontario emergency room physician — had all five of his vaccine injury reports denied by his local medical officer of health. That denial was only the first step in a maze of bureaucracy: a vaccine injury reporting system that is full of layers and gatekeepers.
Dr. Charles Hoffe shared the same sentiment in British Columbia, where physicians were threatened and intimate by their regulators for daring to speak on, let alone document, vaccine injury for fear of fueling “vaccine hesitancy.” He described filing report after report by registered mail, nine pages each, only to have every single one returned marked "coincidence,” without investigation.
Despite the weight of it all and only a small showing of MPs at the inquiry itself, Allison said the response from the Conservative Party of Canada has been entirely supportive, even as questions swirl online about the absence of Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre.
"I know Pierre has been a big supporter of this," Allison said. "His schedule is a lot busier than mine. I believe he'll find time to meet with people."
What struck him most, he said, wasn't the medical detail — it was the fear in every witness who sat down.
"Every single one that came today was saying, I'm nervous about talking about this publicly. I haven't talked about it in three or four years," Allison said. "We've got to make this part of the discussion. People are getting injured. They're not getting better. If we don't talk about it, there's no way we start getting them help."
Two days down, two to go.
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A group representing more than 130 chief executives from Alberta investment firms, retailers and construction companies has come out against independence ahead of the October 19 referendum, warning separation would create investor uncertainty.
On Wednesday's Buffalo Roundtable, Sheila Gunn Reid, Lise Merle and Cory Morgan looked at the compared the claims from the Business Council of Alberta to what's really happening.
Sheila said the audacity of the argument is staggering. After 11 years of federal Liberal governments wiping out jobs, cancelling pipelines, and stifling resource development, the business community is now warning Albertans about uncertainty?
"Investors are already scared away," Lise added. "They're already gone."
"Ottawa has shown us what the certainty is," said Western Standard columnist Cory Morgan. "It's high taxes, high regulations, becoming an investment pariah, and having the rug pulled out whenever you try a long-term project."
His analogy: you're on a ship heading for an iceberg. You know what happens if you stay the course. The dark water to the left or right is at least uncertain. "I'd rather take my chances turning than knowing for sure I'm going to slam into that."
]]>"There's never been a pipeline talked into the ground in the history of the world," Cory said.
Negotiations with the U.S. were scrapped on a Friday so government officials could "go home on the weekend," Lise said. "They won't even work the weekend for you."
The panel also reacted to Pierre Poilievre deploying federal Conservative MPs, including Dane Lloyd, to campaign against independence among Conservative Albertan voters.
"Lloyd and Poilievre aren't campaigning to Albertan Conservatives," Cory said bluntly. "They're campaigning to Toronto and Montreal. This is virtue signalling to say, 'We're not one of those independent-seeking redneck Albertans.' It's just another example of the Conservatives taking Alberta for granted."
Sheila said the federal party should have stayed out entirely, suggesting it "alienates a lot of people."
"Alberta Conservative MPs are meant to take Alberta's best ideas to Ottawa and advocate for Albertans," added Lise. "What we have is a bunch of them bringing and defending Ottawa's bad ideas back to their Albertan constituents."
The panel also highlighted a social media exchange between Jared Wesley, a federalist Alberta academic, and Keith Wilson's Let Alberta Decide campaign.
Wesley posted that his latest Common Ground study finds support for separatism remains low. Wilson dug into the report and found that Wesley's own data shows Albertans trust their provincial government over Ottawa, feel powerless in Confederation, and broadly support the nine other ballot questions — including Senate abolition and immigration-related questions — across all demographics including NDP voters.
"Your own findings make the case for option two better than your tweet does," Sheila said, quoting Wilson. Wesley, she noted, had already blocked her. "I'm still going to fact check you, Jared," she said.
The Buffalo Roundtable airs Wednesdays at 11 a.m. MT / 1 p.m. ET.
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Mark Carney recently returned to Canada from a getaway to Tuscany for vacation, releasing a video message to Canadians encouraging them to stop vacationing in the United States and buying American goods.
Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle had some thoughts about the hypocritical nature of Carney's remarks on Wednesday's Buffalo Roundtable.
In a video address, Carney told Canadians that every time they choose to buy Canadian or travel in Canada they are sending a message — that "40 million of us are on the ice" and nobody is left in the stands.
Those comments are "easy to say when you're fresh off your Tuscan vacation," Sheila said. "If this country isn't good enough for the prime minister to vacation in, how dare he lecture us that we cannot go to a rodeo or to Bellingham to buy cheese?"
Lise pushed back on Carney's rhetoric.
]]>The pair also dug into comments from B.C. Premier David Eby, who unveiled new welcome signs at the province's border crossing, which read "Welcome to B.C., Canada: Strong, Proud and Never the 51st State."
Sheila said the signage was off-putting to tourists who are looking forward to a trip to B.C., only to be greeted by an "obnoxious sign" trolling them. Lise agreed, encouraging any potential American visitors to "disregard" the NDP premier's remarks.
"The sooner you aren't the premier of British Columbia," Sheila said, "the better it will be for all British Columbians."
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Saddle Lake Cree Nation has announced plans to sidestep Alberta’s restrictions on transgender medical treatments for children by declaring its territory a haven for patients and clinicians seeking to defy the provincial law.
The First Nation, located northeast of Edmonton, says it will develop its own health law regulating medical care on its lands, including treatments prohibited by Alberta’s government.
“As a sovereign Nation and rights holders under Treaty No. 6, our primary responsibility is to protect the health, dignity, and life of every person who comes to our territory,” Chief Dale Steinhauer said.
]]>The First Nation hopes to recruit Canadian-trained doctors to provide transgender treatments, primary care and specialist services to both band members and visitors.
Saddle Lake argues the “medicine chest” clause in Treaty 6 gives the First Nation jurisdiction over modern health-care services, including what activists call “gender-affirming care.”
“Anti-trans laws are a profound violation of Treaty No. 6,” said Dr. James Makokis, a Two-Spirit family physician associated with the initiative.
It also claims its proposed law could shield participating clinicians from sanctions imposed by provincial regulators. Whether a First Nation can legally exempt doctors from provincial legislation or professional discipline has not been established and would likely face a court challenge.
Alberta’s restrictions have already been challenged by Egale Canada, Skipping Stone and five families. Court of King’s Bench Justice Allison Kuntz initially suspended the law after finding it could cause irreparable harm.
The Alberta government subsequently invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause, allowing the legislation to take effect.
Canada’s Ministry of Crown-Indigenous Relations said it remains committed to working respectfully with First Nations on matters involving Treaty rights. Alberta Indigenous Relations Minister Rajan Sawhney had not responded publicly to the announcement.
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]]>In this report from Montreal, Anastasia Zorchinsky examines coverage from Tasnim News Agency, Press TV and IRIB, along with the sanctions and intelligence links surrounding those outlets, and the broader Canadian context involving alleged IRGC members and government contracts.
The report separates documented facts from speculation and asks why sanctioned Iranian media are so eager to amplify Canada’s growing break with its closest trading partner.
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Canada Post has suspended mail delivery to homes surrounding a New Glasgow homeless shelter, citing concerns for the safety of its employees.
According to Saltwire, residents near Northstar Shelter and Support Services on Marsh Street were notified in a Sept. 1 letter that regular delivery had been halted.
“We want to provide our customers with a reliable postal service, and interrupting your service is a last resort,” Canada Post wrote. “However, it was determined that there is a safety concern for our delivery agent.”
The Crown corporation did not disclose the incident or conditions that prompted its decision. It said temporary community mailboxes would be installed for affected residents, although that process could take several weeks.
]]>“It’s dangerous around here,” resident Brett Gray told the Chronicle Herald. Gray, who lives across from Northstar with his wife and two young children, said he understands why Canada Post stopped delivery.
“As a parent, it’s terrifying. I can’t take them out in the yard to play,” he said.
Northstar executive director Lisa Deyoung disputed the suggestion that a shelter resident was responsible. She said the disruption resulted from the behaviour of an individual who sometimes spends time outside the facility but does not live there.
The mail stoppage is the latest flashpoint in a bitter dispute between the shelter and surrounding community.
Neighbours have complained for years about alleged open drug use, thefts, assaults and threatening conduct. Videos circulating online reportedly included an incident in which one man chased another while carrying an axe.
Three weeks before the mail suspension, New Glasgow town council passed a motion calling on Northstar to cease operations “immediately.”
Canada Post said normal delivery will resume when it determines the area is safe for its workers.
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]]>One parent fighting back is Nicki Petrossi, a former social media executive whose front-row seat to how the industry actually works turned her into the founder of Scrolling to Death, a project exposing what tech companies don’t want parents to know.
Petrossi didn't start out as an advocate. Like millions of parents, she began sharing her children’s lives online in 2020. But that quickly changed as she came to understand the growing importance of digital identity, and the lasting digital footprints children aren't consenting to in an increasingly connected world.
At the center of Petrossi's work is a simple, but chilling warning: the algorithms driving these platforms have no concept of right or wrong. They aren't measuring a child's wellbeing. They're measuring one thing only, and that’s time spent on the app.
Most disturbingly, a struggling teenager having the worst day of their life isn't a warning sign to the algorithm, but rather, an opportunity.
Now layer artificial intelligence on top of that and it’s a recipe for disaster.
Chatbots marketed as companions are available to children 24 hours a day, positioning themselves as empathetic confidants despite having, in Petrossi's words, no consciousness and no lived experience. Unlike a recommendation engine that simply serves up content, a chatbot talks back — and it can shape a child's emotional world in ways a static feed never could.
The most devastating example on record involves 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, whose family alleges in a lawsuit that his emotional dependence on an AI chatbot contributed to his death by suicide. It's one of what Petrossi says are roughly 200 cases involving families who believe they lost a child to platforms engineered purely for engagement.
Part of what makes these cases so difficult to fully understand, Petrossi notes, is that the public rarely sees what happens behind closed doors. Unless a lawsuit goes to trial, the internal emails and executive decisions — the moments when someone inside these companies knew there was a problem and didn't act — stay hidden from view.
What is public, and growing, is the number of wrongful-death and negligence suits piling up against these platforms.
Not every company is standing still. Petrossi says some are beginning to redesign their systems with real safeguards, trying to put user wellbeing ahead of pure time-on-app metrics. But when asked directly whether there's a platform she'd actually recommend to parents, her answer was a resounding ‘no.’
It seems every option available is simply the least harmful of the bad choices, with harm treated as an inevitable default.
That leaves parents with an uncomfortable question: if these platforms can put kids at risk, why are schools still handing them a Chromebook, logging them into Google Classroom, and telling them to get online?
That’s where we'll pick up in Part Two of this two-part investigation, taking a closer look at what happens when these same technologies move from the home, and into the classroom.
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A British Columbia family doctor has been ordered to pay $28,100 after the province’s Human Rights Tribunal ruled he discriminated against a transgender teenager by refusing to administer a prescribed puberty blocker.
Tribunal vice-chair Devyn Cousineau found Dr. Henry Ajaero violated Section 8 of the B.C. Human Rights Code when he declined to inject the 14-year-old patient with Lupron in March 2021.
Ajaero, a practising Anglican, told the teen’s mother he could not administer the drug for religious and cultural reasons. He also argued that using Lupron for gender-related treatment fell outside his experience and the scope of his practice.
The tribunal rejected both defences.
Cousineau accepted that Ajaero had never previously administered Lupron, had no experience providing transgender care and made the decision while operating a busy practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also found his refusal was not malicious or intended to harm the teenager.
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The teenager, identified only as Child Q, had been prescribed Lupron by an endocrinologist at the B.C. Gender Clinic. After being turned away by Ajaero, the family obtained the injection at a walk-in clinic later that day.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. had already formally reprimanded Ajaero for refusing the treatment without helping the patient obtain it elsewhere.
Following a four-day hearing, Cousineau ordered Ajaero to pay $20,000 for injury to the teenager’s “dignity, feelings and self-respect,” plus $8,100 to cover the cost of expert evidence. Cousineau rejected a request for $1,535 in lost wages claimed by the teen’s mother and declined to force Ajaero to display the decision publicly in his clinic.
The adjudicator also rejected Ajaero’s request to keep his identity confidential, ruling there was a public interest in naming respondents found to have violated the Human Rights Code.
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The Department of Canadian Heritage is funding a new directory of news outlets considered trustworthy and reliable, according to access-to-information records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.
The federal government has already spent $100,000 on the three-year Local News Directory project. The initiative’s full budget was censored in released documents.
Researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University, Laval University and Concordia University are compiling the directory, which federal officials say will help policymakers determine where government intervention is required.
“The information will help policymakers and others make more data-informed decisions about where interventions are needed and will help people struggling to find local news they can trust,” read an April 26 department memo.
Another memo said the directory would guide Canadian Heritage’s “policy and program decisions.”
]]>The initiative comes after disclosures that federal departments maintained inconsistent accreditation rules and circulated lists of journalists who could be denied routine access to government officials.
“None of us has criteria that reflect the reality of independent journalists,” an Immigration Department employee wrote in a March 11 email.
Canadian Heritage has also described approved media as a tool for promoting “social cohesion” and countering foreign disinformation.
A September 2025 briefing note warned that foreign-owned platforms, divisive social-media content and overseas influence campaigns were threatening Canada’s “information sovereignty.”
The department singled out the publicly funded CBC as “a pillar of our cultural identity and a cornerstone of our sovereignty.”
The government says its directory will help Canadians locate reliable local reporting.
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Conservative MP Dean Allison has organized an inquiry into injuries caused by COVID-19 vaccines through a process that has operated largely outside the formal structures of Parliament, driven instead by volunteer effort and the work of inquiry counsel Shawn Buckley.
The Allison Inquiry came together after years of vaccine-injured Canadians reporting that the medical system refused to acknowledge what had happened to them.
Canada's official vaccine injury support program, launched alongside the vaccine rollout and now called the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program, consumed the majority of its budget on the consultancy firm administering it, took nearly three years to become operational, and left hundreds of applicants waiting years for decisions.
Rebel News reporter Tamara Ugolini's access to information investigation exposed the program's failures in detail, including how consultants were profiting while vaccine-injured Canadians suffered in silence.
]]>Allison has said his central goal is simple: giving vaccine-injured Canadians permission to speak publicly about what happened to them — and cracking open a conversation the political and medical establishment has worked hard to shut down.
Rebel reporter Scarlett Grace is in Ottawa where the hearings are taking place, providing live updates throughout the day. Follow along with all of her coverage directly on X or see below for some of the biggest moments from Thursday's hearing.
Is CBC in the room at the Allison Inquiry? Take a wild guess. pic.twitter.com/QtzLilyrSm
— Scarlett Grace (@ScarlettGrace92) September 10, 2026
“Have you applied to the vaccine injury program?”
— Scarlett Grace (@ScarlettGrace92) September 10, 2026
“That was a scam!
“It was designed just to give you a false hope, so you don't talk. I reached out to the MP at that time, Ya'ara Saks, the federal minister of health. But they cannot do anything. And at some point, even the… pic.twitter.com/vuOt6Z4Vwv
Dr. Crystal Luchkiw says her brother Scott wanted to testify at the Allison Inquiry about the myocarditis he developed following his COVID-19 injection.
— Scarlett Grace (@ScarlettGrace92) September 10, 2026
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A full schedule ahead on Day 3 of the Allison Inquiry in Ottawa. Medical researcher and immunology graduate Deanna McLeod starts the day with a presentation, followed by testimony from those who were injured by the COVID-19 injections and family members speaking about the… pic.twitter.com/ljOesCSfEu
— Scarlett Grace (@ScarlettGrace92) September 10, 2026
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A Parks Canada program intended to teach immigrant families how to camp was forced to cancel some overnight events amid conflicts over Canada’s growing homeless encampments.
According to an internal evaluation obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, the agency had organized low-cost urban camping events in Vancouver, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax.
Many events were planned for national historic sites, heritage canals and other public spaces accessible by transit. However, some locations were also being used, or had recently been used, by homeless people.
“Direct criticism from advocates for hosting recreational camping events in or by spaces where unhoused people had been displaced led some hubs to pause overnight events and shift their focus towards workshops,” Parks Canada managers wrote.
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Federal figures published in July counted 4,763 people living in tent cities. Another 12,857 were sleeping in streets, alleys, parks, vehicles, abandoned buildings, transit stations and other unsheltered locations.
A further 36,716 people were staying in shelters, while 10,747 were housed in transitional facilities.
Parks Canada’s Learn To Camp program was created to introduce new Canadians and urban families to outdoor activities. Events included instruction on pitching tents, lighting campfires, operating camping stoves and staying safe outdoors. Organizers also adapted activities to accommodate participants, including supplying halal marshmallows.
Those who attended generally reported learning at least one new camping skill. Getting them back for round two may be a harder sell.
Nearly half of participants, 48 percent, identified reasons they might not camp again. Bad weather topped the list at 36 percent, followed by insects at 17 percent and physical discomfort at eight percent.
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]]>Today, we're looking back and remembering Charlie Kirk, one year after the American conservative activist was horrifically gunned down in front of a crowd as he hosted one of his signature campus debates.
Plus, host Tamara Ugolini has been closely covering Conservative MP Dean Allison's inquiry into COVID vaccine injuries — we'll discuss some of the tragic stories shared by those harmed by the vaccines and the media's silence over the four-day hearing.
And finally, former Liberal cabinet adviser Amira Elghawaby described 9/11 observances as marking a "difficult 25 years" for Muslims in the West, telling reporters the attacks spawned "dangerous narratives about who we are."
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A 23-year-old man has pleaded guilty to firing bullets at a Montreal Jewish school shortly after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, although police say they found no evidence the attack was motivated by antisemitism.
Abdirazak Mahdi Ahmed entered a guilty plea Wednesday at the Montreal courthouse to intentionally discharging a firearm at Yeshiva Gedola in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood.
Shortly before 5 a.m. on Nov. 12, 2023, several bullets were fired toward the school’s front entrance. It was the second time in just three days the Jewish institution had been targeted by gunfire.
The shooter arrived in an Acura RDX stolen the previous day from a residence in Vaudreuil-Dorion. Montreal police recovered the vehicle hours later in Lachine, finding two projectiles, a balaclava, a surgical mask and latex gloves inside.
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No one was injured in the attack.
Prosecutors and the defence will jointly recommend a 66-month prison sentence when Ahmed returns before Quebec court Judge Pierre Labelle in October. His time already spent in custody will be deducted.
Montreal police recorded approximately 50 hate incidents targeting the city’s Jewish community during the month following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack against Israel.
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]]>Which is to say, last Monday, the last remaining beluga whale —1,500 kg Tofino — was removed from the now-defunct theme park. This means Canada is now completely devoid of incarcerated marine mammals. Good.
In its dying days as a theme park, things at Marineland rapidly changed from bad to worse regarding its animal population. The death toll so far: an estimated 30 belugas, an orca, two dolphins, and a harbour seal.
Rebel News first began filing reports on this horrible situation last summer. Everyone involved seemingly took a vow of silence, including the city, the province, and of course, Marineland itself. We paid a personal visit to Marineland seeking comment and were duly informed by a staffer, “Nobody will talk to you.” A few days later, Marineland fenced off its entire property lest other people drop by with impolite queries. Sad.
But now, more than a year later, the remaining marine mammals at Marineland have been liberated, relocated to other aquariums (although not all the belugas survived the journey, alas.)
We went back to Marineland recently and met up with Phil Demers. Demers is most definitely someone who “knows who’s who in the zoo” given that he used to train orcas at Marineland once upon a decade. These days, Demers is an activist and whistleblower when it comes to marine mammals and other wildlife.
As Marineland continues to sell off its remaining assets, ranging from thrill rides to real estate, check out our interview with Demers, who sets the story straight regarding the misinformation that swirls around the operation these days.
Bottom line: the belugas are now free of their too-small tanks filled with dirty water. Something that should’ve been done years ago. Good riddance to an “amusement park” that eventually became a domain full of dread, despair, and death.
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For months, opponents of Alberta independence have insisted that serious business leaders want nothing to do with Option 2. That claim is becoming harder to maintain.
Business and economic strategist David Knight Legg says he is seeing a “major shift” toward Option 2 among Alberta’s professional class. Knight Legg is no fringe activist. He previously served as CEO of Invest Alberta and has advised governments, energy companies and financial-services firms.
Business and economic strategist David Knight Legg says he’s seeing a major shift toward Option 2 among Alberta’s professional class.
— Rise Of Alberta (@RiseOfAlberta) September 9, 2026
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His observations were backed up by James Finkbeiner, founder of a Canadian communications firm, who said he has witnessed the same change among CEOs, chief operating officers, corporate directors and business owners.
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The business community’s question is changing. Will remaining under Ottawa’s control guarantee more economic damage?
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Vote to Stay Alberta is warning that independence could drive investment, businesses and opportunity out of the province.
Quoting former Alberta finance minister Travis Toews, the federalist campaign pointed to Quebec as a “cautionary tale,” claiming Bay Street grew because of that province’s pursuit of independence.
Former Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews on what Alberta can learn from Quebec's experience with separatism:
— Vote to Stay (@VotetoStayAB) September 9, 2026
“Quebec is a cautionary tale … Bay Street was built based on Quebec’s pursuit of independence.”
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But Alberta businesses do not need a history lesson from Quebec to understand capital flight. They can watch it happening today.
Calgary-based Enbridge has announced a US$2.55-billion deal to acquire Tallgrass Energy’s American crude oil business. The purchase includes a 75% stake in the 1,050-mile Pony Express Pipeline, interests in two other U.S. pipelines and 8.4 million barrels of storage capacity across nine terminals.
Enbridge is also assuming a US$300-million expansion that will increase Pony Express capacity to approximately 515,000 barrels per day. The company says the assets offer significant cash flow and future growth opportunities.
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None of this proves independence would come without uncertainty. Every major political or economic change carries risk.
But voting to stay does not guarantee investment. It offers the certainty of remaining inside a system that has spent a decade obstructing Alberta resource development while Canadian energy companies increasingly find growth opportunities elsewhere.
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An article in the Edmonton Journal entitled “Alberta referendum pitches likely to face constitutional hurdles if enacted” offered analysis from the Alberta branch of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) on the 10 proposals being presented to Albertan voters this fall.
Questions six to nine all expressly call for measures that require constitutional amendments. They don’t ask Alberta to appoint Court of King’s Bench judges tomorrow, abolish the Senate by statute, or declare provincial law supreme over federal law.
Each one begins with the same phrase: whether Albertans support the government “working with the governments of other willing provinces to amend the Canadian Constitution.” The ballot itself tells voters these are campaigns for amendment, not bills waiting for royal assent. Lawyers weren’t required to determine intent for constitutional change.
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Questions one through five are different. They talk about introducing provincial laws on program eligibility, waiting periods, fees, and voter ID. Theoretically, the proposals in those questions could be legislated without dealing with the constitution. The CBA interpretation then breaks those down and lists the other challenges from shared jurisdiction, federal paramountcy, Charter equality, and the Canada Health Act. All of those items would cause potential challenges to enacting the proposed policies, but they aren’t insurmountable. The article’s implication is that legal friction makes the vote pointless.
Lawyers are sure to be involved, and there are sure to be legal challenges to every one of the ten proposals if the Alberta government were to act upon them. That is the nature of the legal industry.
The article follows a pattern increasingly seen from status quo defenders. They imply that change would be too difficult to achieve, so it’s best to just accept things as they are. With the referendum questions expressly calling for constitutional changes, it is assumed that making such changes in Canada is nearly impossible. And that’s probably true.
That then leads people to take a stronger look at Question 10. If the system itself blocks the ability to make any significant changes to it, then perhaps it’s time to break free from the system altogether.
None of the proposals in the referenda will be easy to accomplish even if a supermajority of Alberta citizens vote in support of them. Albertans didn’t need lawyers to tell them that. Citizens are being tasked with choosing policy paths and constitutional changes along with a possible move toward provincial independence. They are under no illusion that these things are going to be simple. But they are considering whether they are worth pursuing nonetheless.
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An opinion piece in the National Observer by Supriya Dwivedi raises the spectre of shady, foreign-based disinformation campaigns bent upon influencing Alberta’s upcoming referenda. Like most of the writings on this subject, it is long on speculation and short on evidence.
The column begins with a quote from CSIS director Dan Rogers, who said in a CBC interview last May that Alberta’s referendum could be a target “for the sort of disinformation or foreign interference that we've seen from players like Russia in the past.” Quite an ominous warning, but since then, there has been no solid evidence that Russia has taken any interest in Alberta’s referendum, much less been actively trying to influence it.
The column treats a real but limited finding that a cluster of low-quality, AI-generated websites as proof that Alberta’s referendum is being hijacked by foreign actors and that governments are ignoring a live threat to the vote. That leap is not supported by the evidence the column itself relies on.
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]]>That is a U.S.-linked private or campaign-adjacent mess, not a demonstrated Russian, Chinese, or even U.S. government operation. The people contacted denied involvement. Some pages disappeared after reporters called. That pattern is consistent with sloppy contractors, SEO operators, or an embarrassed campaign ecosystem. It is not proof of a hostile intelligence service.
The Observer’s own investigation said it was “difficult to know whether the campaign has swayed Albertans” and that only about half the sites had even been indexed by Google. One of the sites incorrectly listed the referendum date as being on October 26. There is little indication that the reach of this lone (now gone) site confused or had any impact on voters. The October 19 date is rather well advertised on official and media sites.
The Alberta independence movement did not arrive from Florida. Hundreds of thousands of Albertans signed petitions on both sides. Smith put a question on the ballot after a court fight and internal pressure. These things all came about from real citizen activity on the ground. Not a foreign-run campaign.
The foreign interference line is a popular one being trotted out by opponents to the referendum process; thus, it is used often to spread fear. The articles are always packed with terms such as “might”, “could”, “perhaps” and “possibly” but rarely offer definitive words because they just can’t find solid evidence when implying foreign interference. The Observer column is typical in finding a small cluster of websites of little significance and trying to inflate their existence into a larger conspiracy of interference from foreign actors. That in itself is a form of misinformation.
There remains no solid evidence that there is any significant foreign interference happening in Alberta's referendum campaign. Much less that it has had any measurable impact on voter intentions.
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]]>Pour des raisons de sécurité et par crainte de représailles, Rebel News protège l’identité de la victime ainsi que celle de sa mère.
Le Service de police de la Ville de Montréal a confirmé qu’un vol impliquant plusieurs suspects s’est produit le 26 août. Selon la police, la victime a été aspergée de poivre de Cayenne, battue et poignardée à l’aide d’un objet tranchant.
La victime a raconté à Rebel News qu’elle se trouvait avec des amis près du métro lorsqu’un groupe d’environ deux douzaines d’individus masqués est apparu à proximité. Il les décrit comme étant vêtus principalement de noir et affirme : « Ils avaient tous des masques de COVID pour cacher leur visage. »
Plus tard dans la soirée, il affirme que le groupe s’est approché de lui par-derrière.
« En fait, ils sont venus vers derrière moi. Ils m'ont dit, viens, on veut dire quelque chose deux secondes. Puis là, après, j'ai dit qu'est-ce qu'il y a? Puis là, après, il y en a un qui m'a mis sa main sur mon épaule. Il m'a tiré pour me tourner. Et directement, j'ai reçu un coup de paper spray dans le visage. »
Selon la victime, ce qui a suivi a été une longue et violente raclée.
« Puis ils ont commencé à me frapper, à me kicker, à me traîner à terre en me tirant par ma sacoche. Et pendant ça, j'ai reçu des coups de couteau au niveau du thorax, dans le dos. Ça m'a touché le poumon et ça a duré à peu près 5 à 10 minutes que je me faisais frapper. »
L’un des coups de couteau lui a perforé un poumon.
« Mais en fait, c'est parce que j'avais un trou dans le dos planté dans mon poumon. Puis ma respiration rentrait et sortait par mon dos. Puis je n'étais même pas au courant. Je m'avais fait... donner des coups de couteau. »
Il affirme que son poumon s’est ensuite affaissé et que les médecins ont dû retirer de l’air et du sang avant de le regonfler. Il rapporte également avoir subi des fractures aux côtes, des fractures au visage ainsi que des problèmes de vision persistants à l’œil gauche.
Son sac Louis Vuitton d’une valeur d’environ 5 000 $, son téléphone, ses cartes et ses clés ont été volés.
Mais ce qui trouble peut-être le plus la famille, c’est ce qui se serait passé autour de lui.
« Bien, moi, ça m'affecte quand même. Parce que moi, personnellement, même si c'est quelqu'un que je ne connaîtrais pas, j'aurais minimum interagi, j'aurais dit, genre, hé, lâchez-le, genre au moins, comme, j'aurais essayé quelque chose. »
Sa mère demeure profondément ébranlée.
« Oh mon Dieu! J'avais la rage, j'avais la peine. Puis l'inquiétude. Je n'ai pas dormi de la nuit. J'avais hâte au lendemain de partir pour l'hôpital pour aller à mon fils. »
Questionnée sur la sécurité à Montréal, sa réponse a été sans équivoque :
« Il n'y en a plus de sécurité à Montréal. Il n'y en a plus de sécurité à Montréal. »
La police a indiqué à Rebel News qu’aucune arrestation n’avait été effectuée jusqu’à présent.
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Alas, the brainiacs at the woefully woke Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are struggling mightily with the “T-word” these days – for reasons that remain baffling.
In just two days, we will be marking the grim 25th anniversary of 9/11. Anyone older than 30 no doubt remembers exactly where they were on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001. That’s when four commercial jets were hijacked. Two flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one targeted the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the fourth nose-dived into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers rose up and tried to regain control of United Airlines flight 93.
Almost 3,000 innocent people died that day. It was disturbing, gross, infuriating, and yes, a disgusting act of terrorism perpetrated by the terrorist group, al-Qaeda.
Oops, did we say “terrorism” and “terrorist”? Certain CBCers don’t like that sort of language.
Via the foggy lens of revisionist history, the CBC would rather that you don’t jump to any conclusions regarding what happened on September 11, 2001. Which is to say, the CBC thinks there’s some, oh, we don’t know, nuance regarding what happened on that tragic Tuesday.
The crux of the matter: a CBC memo was recently uncovered from the broadcaster’s so-called “journalistic standards and practices office.” The memo channels the broadcaster’s “longstanding language guidance.” And it’s nothing short of shocking. Here’s the most offensive paragraph verbatim: “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks. The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Manhattan. The World Trade Center was destroyed.”
Oh, those were “crashes”? Yet, if you purposely pilot a vehicle into a building, is that really a “crash”? Doesn’t the word crash imply that an accident had occurred? 9/11 was no accident. It was a deliberate bloodbath.
So, who is the author of this rubbish? That would be Basem Boshra. He’s the senior director of journalistic standards and public trust at CBC News. We swear, we’re not making this up: “journalistic standards and public trust.” Does it get more Orwellian than that given that Boshra appears to be on a jihad to suppress the truth?
Predictably – and thankfully – there was been an avalanche of outrage regarding Boshra’s whitewashing of 9/11. And the CBC only backtracked once its puppet masters, the Carney Liberals, also expressed outrage.
But a mea culpa is not enough. Boshra has to go. He’s clearly inept.
Recently we brought our big, beautiful billboard truck to CBC HQ in Toronto to deliver that message. As for now, the question arises: will the CBC do the right thing in the days ahead and give Boshra a pink slip?
One more thing: the CBC forever justifies its taxpayer-funded corporate welfare because it sees itself as a watchdog against misinformation and disinformation.
And yet this entity can’t call terrorism “terrorism” and can’t label a terrorist a “terrorist.” If that’s the case, the very definition of misinformation and disinformation is portraying the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as mere “crashes”…
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]]>For security reasons and out of fear of retaliation, Rebel News is protecting the identities of both the victim and his mother.
Montreal police confirmed that a robbery involving multiple suspects occurred on August 26. According to police, the victim was pepper-sprayed, beaten and stabbed with a sharp object.
The victim told Rebel News he had been with friends near the metro when a group of roughly two dozen masked individuals appeared nearby. He described them as dressed mostly in black and said, “They were all wearing COVID masks to hide their faces.”
Later that night, he says the group approached him from behind.
“One of them put his hand on my shoulder. He pulled me around, and immediately I… I got hit in the face with pepper spray.”
What followed, according to the victim, was a prolonged and vicious beating.
“Then they started punching me, kicking me, and dragging me along the ground by my bag,” he said. “During that, I was stabbed several times in the chest area, in the back.”
One stab wound punctured his lung. “Air was going in and out through my back. And I didn’t even know I’d been stabbed.”
He says his lung later collapsed and doctors had to remove both air and blood before reinflating it. He also reported broken ribs, facial fractures and continuing problems with vision in his left eye.
His approximately $5,000 Louis Vuitton bag, phone, cards and keys were stolen. Perhaps most disturbing to the family is what allegedly happened around them.
“It affects me quite a bit,” the victim said after being asked about bystanders and friends who did not intervene. “I would at least have intervened.”
His mother remains shaken. “Oh my God! I was angry, I was devastated, and I was worried,” she said after seeing video of the attack.
Asked about safety in Montreal, her answer was unequivocal: “There is no safety in Montreal anymore.”
Police have told Rebel News that no arrests have been made so far.
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Accused arsonist Gilles Mallet filmed himself inside the Saint-Simon church hours before it burned to the ground. We have obtained that video and are publishing it today.
In the video, Mallet, 68, speaks in French, directly to the camera, and directly to his own parishioners. He tells them this will be the last time he walks into this church before adding the truth has to come out. He tells everyone he loves them, then asks for forgiveness.
Hours later, the church was ashes.
This is the most serious church arson case Rebel News has ever covered.
]]>If a hundred Muslim mosques or Sikh temples had burned, there would be a federal task force and a prime ministerial address by now. Instead, there's silence, and a growing pile of ashes where Christian churches used to stand.
Mallet is back in court on September 14.
BACKGROUND:
On August 24, 2026, the Saint-Simon Catholic Church on New Brunswick's Acadian Peninsula — a historic wooden structure built in 1917 and believed to be the largest of its kind in the province — was burned to the ground in the early hours of the morning.
The RCMP arrested Gilles Mallet, 68, a local parishioner from Saint-Simon itself, and charged him with arson.
Rebel News's subsequent investigation uncovered that Mallet had spent years living in an Indigenous activist community near Lillooet, B.C., where he appears to have been immersed in anti-Christian and anti-pipeline ideology — posting tributes to a jailed Trans Mountain pipeline protester and wearing the activist slogan "Warrior Up" in photographs.
Most disturbingly, a video of the church burning posted to Mallet's Facebook circle includes a voice saying the pipeline protester's name followed by the words "your wish has come true."
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On a Tuesday afternoon, while Parliament was not sitting, Foreign Minister Anita Anand posted on social media that Canada would introduce restrictions on trade in goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
There was no deabte or vote in the House of Commons. No question period for MPs to raise concerns with the government's direction. There wasn't even an effective date or product list No product list — let alone any legal mechanisms for the plan. Just a post on social media.
Ezra Levant broke it down on Tuesday's episode of The Ezra Levant Show.
The announcement from Anand came alongside matching declarations from the United Kingdom, France and nine European nations. The British government went the furthest, with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband stating the government's position that there was ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, declaring the occupation unlawful.
In response, Israel closed the British consulate in Jerusalem within hours and expelled Britain from the Gaza monitoring centre. Israel's foreign minister warned of counter-measures against other countries that act against Israel.
"Other countries," Ezra noted. "That's us."
Ezra's core argument was not about the merits of Israel's settlement policy. It was about what Carney himself had promised — and what he then rewarded regardless.
A year ago, Carney recognized a Palestinian state with five explicit conditions: reform of the Palestinian Authority, hold elections in 2026 with no Hamas participation, a demilitarization of the Palestinian state, Hamas disarming, and Hamas playing no role in future governance. He stated each condition publicly, repeatedly, and on the record.
"Let's check on those one year later," Ezra said.
Elections have not been held, though a tentative date is scheduled for November 2026, though it's hard to say if it will actually occur given no Palestinian has cast a vote since 2005.
On the exclusion of Hamas, the terror group announced its building an electoral bloc and has no intention of disarming. The Palestinian Authority's 'pay-for-slay' program, which sees pensions paid to terrorists scaled by the number of Jews killed, is still functioning but under a different name, a claim backed up by data from the U.S. State Department, which confirmed $156 million is still flowing as of this spring.
And while the hostages held following the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack were released, that was a result brought to fruition by Donald Trump and the Israeli Defense Forces, Ezra noted.
]]>In Ezra's summary: "Palestinians break every promise and they get a state. Israel builds houses in Judea and Samaria and they get sanctions. No Jews allowed. That is not even-handed. That is not a peace process. That's punishment and it only runs one way."
Worse yet is how the process has played out.
"Not one MP got to ask what goods, what date, what's the legal mechanism, how much trade is affected," Ezra said, raising concerns about a pattern that is becoming all too familiar: recognizing Palestine — no vote; sanctioning two Israeli cabinet ministers — no vote.
"If the decision is so obviously right," he said, "why is he so afraid to put it to the House?"
The consequences may not stay in the Middle East. Thirty-seven U.S. states have anti-boycott laws, most modelled on legislation designed to stop the Arab boycott of Israel.
Florida's law — amended last year to include foreign governments — already blacklists Spain for sanctioning Israel, and Canada has now followed the same path Spain has taken. Florida alone buys $6.3 billion in Canadian goods annually.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said that Britain will not be able to do business in Florida.
"Add them up," Ezra said. "About $325 billion of Canadian goods a year go into states with these laws. More than three-quarters of everything we sell to Americans. In the middle of a trade war with Washington, Carney just handed 37 state legislatures a reason — for what? Settlement dates, wine, herbs? The government can't even tell you how much Canada imports."
The timing, Ezra noted, was consistent with a pattern. Last year Carney recognized Palestine on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. This year the settlement sanctions landed on the same night. "It's quite a coincidence," he said. "It's becoming a bit of a habit."
"Hamas keeps its guns and gets to run for office," he closed. "Abbas keeps paying the killers and keeps his state. Israel gets sanctioned seven weeks before its election by a prime minister who hasn't faced his own Parliament since June. And you? A trade war with Florida and Texas and Michigan. But then again, in Carney's defence — he already started that war."
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The B.C. Conservatives are taking the fight over the province’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) directly to British Columbians via a provincewide petition campaign aimed at repealing the controversial legislation.
B.C. Conservative MLA Harman Bhangu launched the initiative amid mounting concerns over the UN-inspired policy's influence on land rights and the future of resource development.
Such concerns have intensified in recent years especially after the landmark Cowichan Tribes Aboriginal title decision, which found Aboriginal title to be a “prior and senior right” to other interests including some privately owned lands.
Though DRIPA wasn’t given as reason for the the B.C. Supreme Court’s decision, it does influence the legal framework surrounding how the court interpreted Indigenous rights and B.C. law.
]]>The B.C. Conservatives are pursuing the initiative after Premier David Eby’s government backed away from its own proposed changes to DRIPA earlier this year.
Eby had indicated that changes were necessary amid growing concerns about the legal uncertainty surrounding the legislation and related provisions. But after strong opposition from Indigenous groups within the First Nations leadership Council, Eby announced his government would not introduce legislation to suspend or amend DRIPA during the last spring session.
“Last session, it was clear, you know, the NDP had a plan to repeal or amend DRIPA, and I didn’t see that legislation,” Bhangu said. “I want to hold this government to account.”
With the clock set to start October 26, the campaign to repeal DRIPA is now in the hands of British Columbians — but success will depend on whether the Conservatives can build enough support to reach the required 10% threshold in every one of B.C.’s 93 provincial ridings.
Bhangu says those who want to sign the petition or help as volunteers can contact his office at [email protected] to find out how to get involved.
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]]>Filmed by her 11-year-old daughter, the brief exchange saw Poilievre respond bluntly when Lise asked, "No men in women's prisons. How come?" He answered that men are men, women are women, and men do not belong in women's prisons, shelters, bathrooms, change rooms, or pools.
“Men are men, women are women,” he told Lise. “No men in women's spaces, period,” Poilievre declared. “Very simple.”
Lise said she raised the question after a federal court case brought by a group of women revealed some female inmates had been sexually assaulted in women's prisons by trans-identified inmates.
Poilievre did not go so far as to say trans women are men when asked directly, but he told Lise he believes he addressed the issue during the federal election campaign, though largely in interviews with what he called a hostile and aggressive mainstream media rather than in public forums.
Lise said she hopes Poilievre brings the concerns he's heard from Saskatchewan residents back to Ottawa, adding that she looks forward to raising the issue with him again.
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The University of Regina Faculty Association has filed a formal policy grievance over the presence of a Just Bins dumpster on campus after reportedly failing to have it removed from university property.
Just Bins, a Regina-based waste disposal company known for its irreverent social media presence and outspoken political commentary, revealed the dispute Monday on X.
“After failing to have a Just Bins dumpster removed from university property, the University of Regina Faculty Association has officially filed a policy grievance over the presence of a Just Bins dumpster on the campus,” the company wrote.
After failing to have a Just Bins dumpster removed from university property, the University of Regina Faculty Association has officially filed a policy grievance over the presence of a Just Bins dumpster on the campus. pic.twitter.com/aH5HNgXjxh
— Just Bins (@JustBins) September 8, 2026
A photograph posted alongside the announcement shows one of the company’s bins positioned outside a university building. The union’s complaint reportedly centres on Just Bins’ public messaging rather than the dumpster’s condition or the service being provided.
]]>Universities routinely present themselves as defenders of academic freedom, ideological diversity and open debate. Attempting to banish a dumpster because its owner expresses unfashionable views would seem to demonstrate precisely the opposite.
For now, the bin remains on campus, stubbornly performing its intended function while committing the apparent offence of belonging to the wrong company.
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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has acknowledged cases of potential scientific misconduct involving improper publication practices and unauthorized animal research, but the department is refusing to identify the employees or studies involved.
The admission was uncovered by Blacklock’s Reporter in the department’s annual report, Addressing Misconduct and Wrongdoing at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
“Concerns were raised regarding non-compliance with the department’s policy on science and technology publications related to the publication of scientific articles and book chapters,” the report said.
]]>The policy applies to federal employees and affiliated researchers involved in conducting, managing, reviewing or communicating scientific work.
Possible breaches include fabricating or misrepresenting data, improper authorship, failing to acknowledge scientific contributions, interfering with the release of findings and violating ethical or legal research requirements.
Despite the admission, no federal agency has attempted to document the full extent of plagiarism across the federal government.
A 2015 case involving an open-book Transport Canada employment examination found that six of 114 applicants had plagiarized material. The Public Service Commission concluded the applicants knowingly presented someone else’s work as their own to improve their chances of being hired.
Records released in 2017 revealed the commission had received 67 allegations involving plagiarism and résumé fraud over two years. At least seven cases were referred to the RCMP.
Agriculture Canada did not disclose whether the latest cases resulted in disciplinary action or whether any compromised publications were withdrawn or corrected.
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A New Brunswick man serving life in prison for murdering his two sons will not be prosecuted for allegedly violating an order barring him from contacting their mother.
Court records show Crown prosecutor Joshua Adams withdrew two breach charges against Roman Kamyshnyy on August 19 before Provincial Court Judge Andrew Palmer. The court documents did not explain the decision.
Kamyshnyy, 46, was convicted in June of two counts of first-degree murder for stabbing his sons, aged 10 and 17, to death in January 2025. Justice Darrell Stephenson sentenced him to two concurrent life sentences with no possibility of parole for 25 years. Stephenson described the murders as an act of vengeance against Kamyshnyy’s ex-wife.
]]>During his murder trial, jurors were shown a handwritten note Kamyshnyy allegedly mailed to his ex-wife from jail. In it, he asked for forgiveness, discussed financial matters and provided instructions for contacting him in custody.
Brian Munn, New Brunswick’s director of public prosecutions, said Adams determined that proceeding with the charges was “no longer in the public interest.” He did not explain what factors led to that conclusion.
Kamyshnyy remains subject to a sentencing order prohibiting him from contacting his ex-wife or any of her relatives.
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]]>The inquiry, led by Conservative MP Dean Allison, was created to do what Ottawa has refused to do since the rollout of the novel modified RNA COVID-19 injections: actually listen to the people who were hurt by them, and dig into why the federal Vaccine Injury Support Program has left so many of them behind.
I sat down with Allison at the end of the day, and his message was that this isn't about politics, but permission.
"We want to give people permission to tell their stories," Allison said. "If they can't tell their stories, then they can't get help. If they can't get help, they continue to feel terrible, they feel isolated."
Special guest U.S. Senator Ron Johnson and Denis Rancourt — a physicist with a PhD in the field who spent 23 years as a professor and lead scientist at the University of Ottawa — set the tone for the day, laying out context that's old news to those of us who've covered this unfolding story for years.
Two sitting MPs, Mike Dawson and Chris Lewis, also shared their own experiences with vaccine injuries publicly, for what may have been the first time.
But one testimony that stopped the room was a Canadian Forces veteran who said he was prepared to die for this country, then discarded by it the moment he was injured.
"Imagine giving your life for your best friend, and in return, they turn their back on you," Allison said, visibly perturbed by what he heard. "That is so disturbing. What a travesty for people who were prepared to give their life to protect our country, only to be turned away and kicked to the curb."
Allison didn't shy away from critics already dismissing the inquiry online as a "conspiracy round table."
"Our own government admits people are injured. They have a program for it, and they keep numbers on it," he said. "Anyone who minimizes these individuals doesn't know what they're talking about. They're either arrogant, or ignorant, or maybe both. These people have real stories. There's been real harm done, and we owe it to them to at least hear what they have to say."
Even Canada's state broadcaster showed up, albeit briefly. Allison said a CBC reporter approached him in the morning to ask what he expected out of the day, then vanished. No panel invite. No follow-up.
"I haven't seen any fair coverage so far," Allison said. "What I'm expecting is that independent media in the room will be fair, because we actually talk to real people. Legacy media talks to people inside the bubble."
That's the difference this inquiry is banking on: real people, telling real stories, in front of the parliamentarians who are supposed to be listening.
Day one is over, but the stories are only getting started.
Day two of the Allison Inquiry will bring roughly a dozen vaccine-injured Canadians to the mic.
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Canada imposed $18 billion in retaliatory tariffs on the United States this week, covering American goods like milk, perfume, golf clubs, steel, aluminum, stoves, and hundreds of others.
The Globe and Mail reported that no trade talks were scheduled for the Labour Day weekend, with a government official confirming there were no negotiations planned and Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc delivering the same message to business leaders on Friday afternoon.
Donald Trump responded in typical Trumpian fashion, threatening to ban Bombardier products from the U.S. and encouraging Americans to "buy American, fly American Airlines, enjoy American liquor, sail on Lake America."
On Tuesday's Rebel Roundup livestream, Sheila Gunn Reid and Lise Merle wondered: "how's that retaliation going, Canada?"
A new poll added another layer to the ongoing trade dispute.
Roughly 75% of Canadians surveyed said they favoured holding firm in the spat with the U.S., even if economic costs lasted longer. Yet approximately 68% said increased household job loss risk was unacceptable as part of Canada's response.
"People aren't computing yet what a trade war is," Sheila said. "It means lost jobs. It means things cost more." She predicted the anti-American sentiment will collapse the moment the steel belt starts losing jobs en masse. The Liberals are "going to go over the event horizon on this," she said, "because people's anti-Americanism is going to run out of steam once half their town loses its job."
]]>In Sheila's assessment, Kenney is suffering from a case of "Trump Derangement Syndrome." She also noted the irony of a man who colluded with Rachel Notley to supply-manage Alberta's oil now positioning himself as a free market conservative opposed to supply management on dairy.
"You phony bologna free market conservative," she said.
The clip of Carney's address drew particular scrutiny from the Rebel Roundup hosts.
Standing in front of plywood walls at a housing factory, Carney invoked Sir John A. Macdonald — arguing that just as Macdonald raced to build the Canadian Pacific Railway to unite the country in the face of American expansionism, Canada must now race to build and deregulate in response to Trump's tariffs.
Sheila was unimpressed with Carney's remarks.
"If the Liberals are saying this is the exact same thing and John A. Macdonald raced to fix it, tell me what you've raced to do," she said. "You didn't even work on the weekend." She noted that Macdonald's "iron spine" was railways — and the modern equivalent is pipelines.
"You know what hasn't been approved?" she said. "A pipeline."
She also pointed out that it is the Liberal side of Canadian politics that has spent years tearing down Macdonald statues and attempting to cancel his legacy.
"It's fascinating to listen to the Liberals talk about John A. Macdonald," she said.
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]]>Panel guest this week: Cory Morgan (Author, Western Standard columnist and Alberta Fact Check contributor)
Today, we're looking at the warning from the Alberta Business Council, which is suggesting that the push for independence is a "risky gamble."
Plus, with counter-tariffs rolled out on American goods, and President Trump firing off more executive orders targeting Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney is cheering on Canadians who are boycotting the U.S.
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Conservative MP Dean Allison has organized an inquiry into injuries caused by COVID-19 vaccines through a process that has operated largely outside the formal structures of Parliament, driven instead by volunteer effort and the work of inquiry counsel Shawn Buckley.
The Allison Inquiry came together after years of vaccine-injured Canadians reporting that the medical system refused to acknowledge what had happened to them.
Canada's official vaccine injury support program, launched alongside the vaccine rollout and now called the Vaccine Impact Assistance Program, consumed the majority of its budget on the consultancy firm administering it, took nearly three years to become operational, and left hundreds of applicants waiting years for decisions.
Rebel News reporter Tamara Ugolini's access to information investigation exposed the program's failures in detail, including how consultants were profiting while vaccine-injured Canadians suffered in silence.
]]>Allison has said his central goal is simple: giving vaccine-injured Canadians permission to speak publicly about what happened to them — and cracking open a conversation the political and medical establishment has worked hard to shut down.
Tamara Ugolini is in Ottawa where the hearings are taking place, providing live updates throughout the day. Follow along with all of her coverage directly on X or see below for some of the biggest moments from Wednesday's hearing.
Another wheelchair bound victim of the ‘safe and effective’ marketing mantra arrives
— Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦 (@TamaraUgo) September 9, 2026
Jasmeet Grewal will be after Michael Oesch pic.twitter.com/qQ1pIs4EpT
Cameron Hitchcock describes severe organ necrosis post vaccination
— Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦 (@TamaraUgo) September 9, 2026
This intense swelling of his feet is just one of his many symptoms. He has since had his kidneys removed and is on dialysis every other day for the rest of his life pic.twitter.com/gy4Hs7K6h6
Vienna Demeduk describes what she calls medical corruption and tampering of health records
— Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦 (@TamaraUgo) September 9, 2026
She details intense medical gaslighting following multiple strokes and a brain hemorrhage after her COVID shot
She used to run 20K every other day, but now she walks with a cane pic.twitter.com/ijMyFqnOJ3
Stats shared by @michelleworton and collected through CANrise19 shows the scope of vaccine injured Canadians who have not applied for nor received compensation from the vaccine injury support program pic.twitter.com/4RnskC19hY
— Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦 (@TamaraUgo) September 9, 2026
"My life has been destroyed by a Health Canada approved vaccine and no one is here to help," Michelle Worton says through tears, describing the absolute devastation she has suffered at the hands of 'safe and effective'
— Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦 (@TamaraUgo) September 9, 2026
Some light reading being handed out at the @AllisonInquiry this morning pic.twitter.com/WiVKQ0jWZx
— Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦 (@TamaraUgo) September 9, 2026
Day 2 of the @AllisonInquiry will hear from ~a dozen vaccine injured Canadians
— Tamara Ugolini 🇨🇦 (@TamaraUgo) September 9, 2026
“They’re not anti vaxxers, they took this vaccine,” says @Shawnbuckleylaw in his opening remarks pic.twitter.com/thilJ9JFnl
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The Public Prosecution Service of Canada is defending an internal hiring process that gave priority to applicants from selected racial, disability, Indigenous and LGBTQ groups.
According to reporting by Blacklock’s Reporter, an internal call letter for an $81,000-a-year recordkeeping position at the Nunavut Regional Office said candidates who self-identified as members of specified groups would be considered “before others.”
The position involved supporting complex and high-priority cases, including homicide prosecutions and dangerous-offender applications within Nunavut’s circuit court system.
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Prosecution Service spokesperson Alessia Bongiovanni denied that the preferential process violated anti-discrimination provisions in federal collective agreements.
Bongiovanni said the Employment Equity Act permits measures intended to address historical disadvantage and under-representation. She argued that workplace equality may require proactive hiring measures in addition to equal treatment.
The policy effectively placed white, heterosexual applicants without disabilities behind candidates belonging to one or more of the preferred groups.
The Treasury Board reported in July that representation of all federally designated employment-equity groups increased between 2010 and 2025.
Women now account for 59 percent of employees in the federal government’s core administration. Visible minorities comprise 24 percent, employees with disabilities nine percent and Indigenous employees 5.5 percent.
Ottawa maintains that preferential employment measures are necessary to create what it calls a “diverse and representative public service.”
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A former Rwandan politician deported from Canada and later convicted of genocide has lost his attempt to make Ottawa intervene over his treatment in a Rwandan prison.
As first reported by the National Post, Federal Court Justice Denis Gascon ruled that Canada has no continuing obligation to monitor the imprisonment of Léon Mugesera, 74, who is serving a life sentence in Rwanda.
“Canada did not and does not have an ongoing obligation to monitor the way the Rwandan authorities have been treating Mr. Mugesera since his removal from Canada,” Gascon wrote.
]]>Before fleeing Rwanda, Mugesera was an influential politician and university professor. A notorious 1992 speech he delivered was found to have incited violence against the country’s Tutsi minority ahead of the 1994 genocide, in which approximately 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered.
The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled in 2005 that there were reasonable grounds to believe Mugesera had committed crimes against humanity. After years of appeals and legal challenges, he was deported in 2012. A Rwandan court convicted him of genocide and crimes against humanity in 2016.
Mugesera claimed prison authorities had threatened and humiliated him while denying him proper medical treatment. He and his wife asked the Federal Court to declare that Rwanda had violated diplomatic assurances made before his deportation and that Canada had a duty to intervene.
Gascon rejected the request, finding that Mugesera is a foreign national who was lawfully removed and is no longer protected by the Canadian Charter.
The judge also found insufficient evidence that Mugesera’s detention conditions violated international standards or that Rwanda had broken its assurances to Canada.
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