Rebels counter narrative on Leaders' debate chaos after media scrum shutdown
The leaders' debate commissioner cancelled the April 17 scrum to avoid our questions, neglecting his duty to the public.
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Rebel News recaps the second leaders' debate in Montreal, tonight on The Ezra Levant Show.
We had to fight to get into the leaders' debate, for the past two days. It's controlled by Liberals, and they don't take too kindly to outsiders.
They repeatedly attempted to block Rebel News, but our lawyers fought back.
Rebel News has filed a formal complaint with @debates_can Commissioner Michel Cormier over the harassment, violence, and smear campaign our journalists faced at the leaders’ debates. The media mob attacked us—the Commissioner not only enabled it, he participated in the smear. pic.twitter.com/04Q727vRTl
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 18, 2025
The establishment twice lost in court to the publication for discrimination, and then tried to shut us down.
The questions were off the government narrative, so the regime media were angry for the ensuing 24 hours.
They were angry that Rebel News had taken over their event by asking four out of seventeen questions on Wednesday.
The commissioner cancelled yesterday's scrum to avoid our questions, neglecting his duty to the public. Some members of the Media Party blamed Rebel News for this, and they caused a bit of a kerfuffle.
Some reporters asked why Rebel News registered our telephone fundraising with Elections Canada.
I’ve been asked by some people why Rebel News Network Ltd. has registered as a third party campaign in the election. The answer might surprise you — it surprised me.
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Crude Sausage commented 2025-04-19 22:28:40 -0400I’m not surprised that they were the aggressors. They’ve just killed what was left of my sympathy for the mainstream news. If they go bankrupt and disappear, all the better.
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Christian T Robinson commented 2025-04-19 21:52:40 -0400I don’t usually follow politics, because nothing we do in the west has any influence with the Power in the East, but way to much at stake this time, so …….
I see this whole thing a little different. The players of this mega distraction, with the Liberal Election Machine (CBC, Hills, etc) were setup and in place well in advance, probably from the start, but for sure after Wednesday poor showing so if things went sideways for the Liberals Thursday, which they did in a big way, it could be put into play fast, which it was. You guys kept your cool, but at the same time, the Big Story was the Scrum being cancelled and the blame being laid, and it was so easy with Rebel, Juno, etc being there to take the heat.
The Big Story that everybody should be talking about, and in everyone’s Face, should be Pierre literally wiping the floor with Carney. That is all that should be talked about till this election is over. Play it over and over, and over. Then dig the dirt up on who all was actually manipulated to make those shenanigans work. The Liberal Machine couldn’t risk anymore embarrassment caused by Carney, and he was pathetic. Some individuals trashed their journalism careers Thursday night, and for what?
Most of the time, Carney looked like he was waiting for someone to come along and slap the handcuffs on him. He didn’t even try Thursday, because there is getting to be to much truth out there to keep denying. Carney will keep playing Trump and the FEAR card till the end, and like the Bloc man said, Trump isn’t going to be in power 4 years from now, so ………… Then what “Crisis” is he going to cause in order to be a saviour?
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Lida K commented 2025-04-19 21:46:44 -0400They lie and they spin it as always. Time to defund. We need honest, merit based, independent reporting only!
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Robert Pariseau commented 2025-04-19 20:14:57 -0400What guy? That poltroon that calls himself a commissioner.
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Nicola Timmerman commented 2025-04-19 19:40:07 -0400My household just resubscribed to Rebel News. I seem to remember Ezra said the Commissioner asked to talk to him before the debate and said he would be given one question after and Ezra agreed. Nowhere in the legacy media have I heard this fact. But despite the agreement the scrum was shut down and everyone blâmes Rebel.
But it was a stich up as the Brits say so Carney would face no more difficult questions. And now they say the Commission should ne completely revamped because of the last minute dumping of the Green Party, the inability to see the clash with a hockey game, etc. In reality to make sure never again independent journalists are allowed in.
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Donna Rivet commented 2025-04-19 19:12:46 -0400What guy?
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Robert Pariseau commented 2025-04-19 18:12:32 -0400Does the guy see his duty as to the public or as to the government?
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Donna Rivet commented 2025-04-19 17:56:59 -0400Wow. The CBC is going down, and they know all about it! That’s why I don’t the CBC. They are jealous. They are going insane.
